{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-12", "file": "debates1971-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "1cd77faa9b667723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-12a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "al opposition in any way to the candidature of the right hon. and learned Gentleman. I have no personal animosity towards him at all, and he will have my loyal support if and when he takes the Chair. But I do believe that we ought to question whether the Speaker ought to be selected from among senior Ministers whether past or present. There are two reasons for this and I will set them out briefly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-12a.8.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-12", "file": "debates1971-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "1cd77faa9b667723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-12a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "eve his ears when he was put in his place by Mr. Speaker simply because he had been a back bencher. I would gladly have moved that the hon. Member for Burton (Mr. Jennings) should have been the Speaker. I did my modest best to persuade him. I do not think he is present. Perhaps, at the last moment, he withdrew from the fight—it may be, promised a knighthood in the next Honours List. I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-12a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-12", "file": "debates1971-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "1cd77faa9b667723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-12a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Burton (Mr. Jennings) should have been the Speaker. I did my modest best to persuade him. I do not think he is present. Perhaps, at the last moment, he withdrew from the fight—it may be, promised a knighthood in the next Honours List. I do not know. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I am merely suggesting a possibility. I do not know what the objection is. It is a quite proper suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-12a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-12", "file": "debates1971-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "1cd77faa9b667723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-12a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "of the nurses. I do not know what her attitude at that time was, but certainly if any question of an incomes policy comes up within the next three or four years and the right hon. and learned Gentleman happens to be in that Chair I shall be at pains to refer to what he said on those occasions when he was saying that nurses should not have in any circumstances whatever more than 2½ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-12a.17.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-13", "file": "debates1971-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "2062cd2a722d0f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-13a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gourlay", "preceding_text": "Before I ask my Question, Mr. Speaker, perhaps I may be allowed to extend to you my warmest congratulations on your election to the Chair. As a former Deputy Speaker, I think I can appreciate better than most Members the onerous task you have now undertaken, and I wish you good health in performing your duties in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-13a.38.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-13", "file": "debates1971-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "2062cd2a722d0f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-13a.60.7", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "I am entirely aware of the concern that is felt within the inshore fishing industry and I repeat my assurance that we have entirely reserved our position about fisheries. I am sure that my hon. Friend will not expect me to declare our negotiating position in advance while these difficult negotiations are going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-13a.60.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-13", "file": "debates1971-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "2062cd2a722d0f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-13a.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "MINISTER'S HOME (EXPLOSION)", "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": "e devices employed. The police are making widespread inquiries, but clearly I cannot yet express any views about the precise origin of the explosions or the motives of those who planted the devices. Arrangements made for the protection of members of the Government are being urgently reviewed. I am confident that every Member of the House would wish to join in unreserved condemnation of this crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-13a.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-13", "file": "debates1971-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "2062cd2a722d0f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-13a.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "CHANNEL SHIPPING ACCIDENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the number of deaths and accidents occurring in these waters is ever increasing and that United Kingdom seamen, whose union I represent here with my constituents, are increasingly concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-13a.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-13", "file": "debates1971-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "2062cd2a722d0f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-13a.128.3", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not a dry lower deck.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "tton (Dr. David Owen) had responsibility in this matter, and he carries the odium of having taken the decision. Though the rum ration was abolished for the lower deck, strong alcoholic drink was still available in the wardroom. My right hon. Friend talks about equality in the Forces, but we did not get equality in the Royal Navy when we made it a \"dry\" lower deck and still left the wardroom \"wet\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-13a.128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-13", "file": "debates1971-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "2062cd2a722d0f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-13a.128.3", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mutiny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "king (Mr. Driberg), in a remarkable and compassionate speech, dealt with some of the problems affecting individuals in detention, and, in passing, he referred to the occasion a short time ago when a number of seamen were charged under the Act and were sentenced to imprisonment for being drunk—I think the charge was conduct to the prejudice of good order and naval discipline, or whatever it may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-13a.128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-14", "file": "debates1971-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "0be2687ea687cfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-14a.252.2", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, if it remains at roughly 5½ per cent., expert statisticians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-14a.252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-14", "file": "debates1971-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "0be2687ea687cfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-14a.255.7", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "In view of the excellent trade figures published today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-14a.255.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-14", "file": "debates1971-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "0be2687ea687cfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-14a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CANADA AND UNITED STATES (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "Was the Prime Minister able to explain to President Nixon the point of view that the Simonstown Agreement was, above all else, a gentleman's agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-14a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-14", "file": "debates1971-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "0be2687ea687cfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-14a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURTS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": " 12 or 20 hon. Members. I cannot forbear from placing it upon the record that their score was, if anything, a little higher than ours. It should be a matter of concern to us that hon. Members who are not members of the legal profession look upon measures of law reform not only as not their business but as a positive intrusion into the time of the House which ought to be spent on discussing things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-14a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "In view of the situation in cucumbers last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE (FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the House will need to debate in full this dismal and reactionary document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "POST OFFICE WORKERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "erous to the union? Then, as he told us this afternoon that the Post Office had authority enabling it to waive the monopoly provisions under the Post Office Act, can he say what he envisages as a result of that permission? A sort of national pirate post office operating its own services? Is he going to issue stamps for this pirate post office? How is it going to guarantee the security of the mail?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.523.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "POST OFFICE WORKERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "For 60 hours.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": " it is prevented from continuing its services. As for the payment of postal workers, there is in the community an enormous amount of good will for postal workers on the part of many people who realise that, in many respects, our postal services are the best in the world, but it certainly cannot be argued that postal workers are among the lowest paid. The average earnings of postmen in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.524.2", "colnum": "524", "heading": "POST OFFICE WORKERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "—is at the moment £25 3s. 8d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.524.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.524.2", "colnum": "524", "heading": "POST OFFICE WORKERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "—is at the moment £25 3s. 8d. [ Interruption. ] If I am allowed to continue, under the 8 per cent. offer which has already been made those average earnings would be for postmen £27 4s. and the average amount of overtime—since this point has been raised—is 7½ hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.524.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "POST OFFICE WORKERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles R. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles R. Morris", "preceding_text": "se proximity, he has not so far found time to talk with the leader of this responsible union? May I make a plea to him, even at this late stage, to invite Mr. Jackson and the chairman and officers of the Union of Post Office Workers to get round the table with the Minister and representatives of the Post Office Board to try to resolve this very difficult and contentious issue? Is he further aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "POST OFFICE WORKERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles R. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles R. Morris", "preceding_text": " with the Minister and representatives of the Post Office Board to try to resolve this very difficult and contentious issue? Is he further aware—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—that this afternoon he spoke of serious financial difficulties facing the Post Office Corporation but that those serious financial difficulties have in some way arisen because of faulty financial forecasting of the Post Office Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "POST OFFICE WORKERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "r aware that his statement about arbitration is nothing short of humbug? The lower-paid workers have taken to heart the words which the Government have uttered since the election. They will stand on their own feet and fight for a decent wage for lower paid workers. If one forgets the percentage, what these people are talking about is between £2 and £3 a week on wages of between £14 and £17 a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "POST OFFICE WORKERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, the union has ruled out arbitration altogether, and there have therefore been no discussions of that kind, but I believe that the majority of those involved would have considerable confidence in my right hon. Friend being able to choose a fair chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.528.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.532.8", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "I beg to move Amendment No. 367, in page 1, line 10, leave out from 'of' to end of line 11 and insert 'orderly and freely conducted collective bargaining on a voluntary basis'. May I begin by saying how glad we are that the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Employment is fit to be with us this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.532.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.539.3", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "t hon. and hon. Member knows that this was not the argument on which the election campaign was fought and won, and it would not have been won if it had been. We had a very different line of argument then by the right hon. Member for Bexley, who said: You cannot blame workers for asking for wage increases. Why? Because the wicked Labour Government had put burdens on them as a result of devaluation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.540.3", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "promote good industrial relations, this is a vital starting point because, against the background of the treatment of the Scamp inquiry, and against the background of what is happening over the Wilberforce inquiry, how can anybody in the House wonder that the Post Office workers are refusing to go to arbitration? They would be fools to do it, because they would be going into an arbitration system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.540.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "o pay their taxes and the salaries and wages of their employees. If irresponsible arrangements are entered into which increase costs to such an extent that goods cannot be sold either abroad or in Britain, there is mass unemployment. It is, therefore, in the interests of both sides to conduct their negotiations responsibly. We need not define \"responsibly\". We know what it means amongst ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "No. What the member of any party says at a General Election is entirely irrelevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.556.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with the Clause.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "I read that matter with interest and I hope that the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West will go before the tribunal. There are certainly some contradictions involved. Not long ago that same right hon. Gentleman was telling this House in the last Parliament that trade unions were irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.569.5", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "e Clause and its very tone and arrogance are examples of the manner in which this Government are trying to deal with the trade unions. They are doing so by attacking them centrally on wages. The strength of the trade union movement is such at present that it is improving wages, but there is a great illusion about so-called \"mad\" inflation. Professor John Hughes, in an article in Tribune this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.569.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "In view of the Minister's passionate support for \"In Place of Strife\" at least that is a step in the right direction—can he say why he and his supporters did not vote for it, instead of merely abstaining and dodging the issue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ange of 2½—4½ per cent. increase in a year if this aim of greater price stability is to be achieved. Those were her and her Government's words to the country. Let us consider the case of the Post Office workers. After the right hon. Lady had made that statement in her White Paper the Post Office workers received a 12 per cent. increase. They have now been offered another 8 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.596.3", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ing charitable in using those terms. For example, I am sorry that the chairman should have been an ex-Conservative candidate. However, it is wrong to suggest that because Mr. Ray Brookes has contributed to the Conservative Party through his company he is too tightly tied to the Tory colours. I do not think he is anything like as out-and-out a Tory as some Labour hon. Members would have us believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.596.3", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "h his company he is too tightly tied to the Tory colours. I do not think he is anything like as out-and-out a Tory as some Labour hon. Members would have us believe. [ Interruption ]. I am probably the only person in this House who has personally approached him in his capacity as chairman of G.K.N. In my capacity as the treasurer of a political party, I approached him for cash but was turned down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.601.6", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crowder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crowder", "preceding_text": "I am not saying anything about trade unions. I do not see why an hon. Gentleman opposite, who is protected by privilege, should be entitled to libel Lord Cromer in that way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.601.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.619.4", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "£20,000 a year as a result of the second increase in 12 months, when their own case has to go to an independent tribunal headed by a Conservative Party candidate at the last election who himself gets something like £13,000 a year and who very generously does not intend to claim the 18 guineas per day allowance to which he is entitled. That is what people who serve on arbitration tribunals receive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.619.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "es, as I am sure they do, and if the Government are anxious to reduce prices, they should recognise that this is a marvellous opportunity, because if these words were in the Bill it would be possible for the workers at the factory of Messrs. Price, the candle manufacturers, to have a discussion and say, \"We do not think that the price of these candles should have risen by 1,500 or 2,000 per cent.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ay, but workers must not be free to compete for the highest wages they can get. The Government say that there can be a 20 per cent. increase in fares, resulting in the cost of living rising dramatically, without doing anything to condemn or control it. If, on the other hand, a worker asks for more than 10 per cent., they set up an independent tribunal with an ex-Conservative candidate as chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.651.2", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "er, having made that point, I say to my hon. Friend on my left—geographically speaking, not politically—my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, North (Mr. McNamara), that I support all progressive Amendments which are moved from this side of the House. Life becomes a little difficult, because the Whips are going around telling us they want us to speak on one Amendment and not on another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I recall that when I was a trade union official the York Memorandum presented many difficulties. It should have been done away with long before we were born.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " they are against the old established conciliation machinery in what was the Ministry of Labour, or the conciliation officers, who do a wonderful job, or the conciliation machinery which is in existence, but because of the happenings of the last six months or so whereby the Government have deliberately tried to \"cook\" the position by ensuring that the tribunals were fixed before they went to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "House, and when we raised Questions about high and unjustified price increases they answered them. But what has happened? Since 18th June this Government have deliberately refused to take any action whatever on any price increases. If the hon. Member had been here when I spoke previously—I do not think he was—he would remember that I gave chapter and verse of prices having risen by 1,500 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "s, the hon. and learned Gentleman made an interesting point. He said that the Amendment was an appeal to the heart and not to the intellect. I have heard remarks like that before. I always get a little worried when people appeal to intellectuals in any discussion of industrial relations. I am not opposed to intellectuals. I have myself sometimes been accused of being a sort of pseudo-intellectual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "f my hon. Friends and I did not object to the setting up of the Commission on Industrial Relations at the time of \"In Place of Strife\". We recognised that there are certain cases which raise very difficult problems. The C.I.R. was the blob of oil which could lubricate the wheels and help overcome the problems. My hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster (Mr. Harold Walker) gave a good example earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "hat those responsible for management are just too busy—and one has some sympathy with them. They have other things to attend to, such as production and maintenance. But those who suffer are confronted with a situation every moment of their working day, day after day and week after week. For the management, it is too easy to forget these matters; for the workers, it is too difficult to forget them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": " every moment of their working day, day after day and week after week. For the management, it is too easy to forget these matters; for the workers, it is too difficult to forget them. [ Interruption. ] Then, of course, one day tempers simply explode and then there is industrial action. Frequently, the matter is rectified with a remarkable expedition which might have been applied very much earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.677.2", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Robert. I have been considering the stage that we have reached in our deliberations today. I must confess that the progress that we have made has, I am afraid, been pretty slow and disappointing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.677.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "We of course accept this Motion, though we are willing to go on if the right hon. Gentleman wants us to go on. We believe that this is a very important piece of legislation indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The mess you made.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The Minister must not shake his head like that. If he can tell us of any other lives taken in the curfew area by other than the troops, we shall listen with care when he speaks. My purpose is not to say anything against the troops. They were English and Scottish troops—not Irish troops—sent to clear up the mess caused by the Northern Ireland Tories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-18", "file": "debates1971-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "233a262755a113e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "Gentleman made a great deal about the legality of curfew. He has corresponded with me about that subject. However, I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman remains determinedly unconvinced about what I said. It is true that the restrictions were described by General Freeland as a curfew, for the simple and understandable reason that \"curfew\" is a word which everybody understands. In a battle situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-18a.688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for making that statement and for his promise to keep the House informed by making another statement tomorrow. May I, at the outset, inform him of how glad we are that he has yielded to the request which I made last night that he should come out of his hibernation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "is my duty to do, as to when to see the sides in this or any other dispute, whether to see them separately or together and what to say to them. I can only assure the House that I will use that discretion without any preconceived prejudices one way or the other. I hope that the right hon. Lady will take care not to prejudice the position by, for example, inciting one side not to accept arbitration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "y right hon. Friend to suggest to the parties, when he meets them, that it would be sensible for them to yield to the commonsense decision of allowing an arbitrator to come in, as was laid down by the procedures, bearing in mind that one of the most dangerous things that is happening in this country today is the suggestion, fostered by people of some eminence, that we have nobody impartial enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to be in a helpful mood. I really believe that the House would be well advised not to enter into a discussion of this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that hon. Members in all parts of the House are anxious that there should be a settlement of this dispute? However, so that the situation may not be prejudiced, could he not prevail on his right hon. Friends to engage in a self-denying ordinance not to make prejudicial statements about the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "res of any kind, because the right hon. Gentleman knew that a further 2d. on the stamp would bring in £50 million, whereas even if the claim was met in full it would involve only an additional £18 million on the offer already made. So I say to the right hon. Gentleman very seriously that it is this sort of prejudicial statement which is standing between the unions and an acceptance of arbitration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "SCOTLAND (AGRICULTURAL SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of Slate for Scotland (Mr. Gordon Campbell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of Slate for Scotland (Mr. Gordon Campbell)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement about proposed changes in certain agricultural services in Scotland.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.731.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "SCOTLAND (AGRICULTURAL SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Will they be announced?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "It is not a sorry business. Discussions have taken place with the colleges and are continuing. Charges are a matter for further consultation with the colleges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am sure that there would be a lot of gratitude if the House did adjourn—certainly before we got to the Industrial Relations Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "on.\" But the Home Secretary did not say that. The nearest he got to it was to say that in practice such a condition could not be enforced. The right hon. Gentleman did not say, \"And, what is more, he has not endeavoured to abide by it.\" As far as I can see, this fact is hotly disputed. I shall argue in a moment that in my view—these are matters of judgment—Dutschke broadly kept to his undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " warned about it. I should have expected somebody to have said to those sponsoring him, \"Look here, this man is having discussions in his study on political questions. He is sitting quietly at a meeting. We regard this as going beyond the bounds of the undertaking which he gave. If he is going to stay here, he should observe strictly the requirements which were laid down.\" But not a word was said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.743.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about Tariq Ali?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ot to be here at all, and there are many people who think that they should not. There are about 24,000 foreign students studying in this country, but are any conditions laid down for them? I expect and hope to hear the Home Secretary say \"No\". We are, however, entitled to expect a certain reticence from foreign students living in this country in relation to our domestic affairs and there would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.743.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.749.2", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "It is a slightly more complicated question than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.749.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.750.4", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way. The hon. Member is from Cambridge.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "This is a very short debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.750.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.750.5", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not care a damn whether he is from Cambridge or Oxford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.750.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": ". Indeed, it was that dreadful character—as the hon. Member would probably view it—Tariq Ali, who said: He has now considered the situation carefully and has decided that the legal conditions on which he was allowed to enter Britain do not permit him to take part in any political activity. Though he regards 'Black Dwarf' very favourably, he must therefore decline to come on to the editorial board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "a good deal of cynicism and talk of extra-parliamentary activity nowadays, but there always has been. If anybody really wants to measure the strength of the revolutionary movement in this country, he should examine the handful of questions which the Attorney-General put to Rudi Dutschke—for reasons that are not quite clear to me—about his visit to Swansea, when he passed the steelworks at Llanwern", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "the revolutionary movement in this country, he should examine the handful of questions which the Attorney-General put to Rudi Dutschke—for reasons that are not quite clear to me—about his visit to Swansea, when he passed the steelworks at Llanwern[ Interruption ]—and I have no doubt that he passed the works at Port Talbot as well. He was going to stay with an international revolutionary Socialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Judith Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Judith Hart", "preceding_text": "orrectly, he said that it was not a trial in a court of law but a tribunal. The implication is very clear, that if it is not a trial justice does not matter, that totally different approaches can be used if it is not a trial with a possible prison sentence at the end. According to the Home Secretary, the question whether the methods used are just is apparently irrelevant. That was the implication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You passed the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "se I did not wish to mislead Mr. Dutschke in any sense. The right hon. Gentleman said, \"I will consider what you have said if you wish, but I think that you must take it as final. I do not think that it will make any difference to my decision.\" He never mentioned to me any question of the Appeals Tribunal or that he had rights under it. Nor did I mention it because I did not know that he had them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ildren, let us remember, was born in this country—are going to be harried from one country to another, are they not? For are there countries much more secure than we are which can withstand these perils? The Home Secretary and the Tribunal have brought about a lamentable state of affairs. They have committed an outrageous defamation of character against Mr. Dutschke, a form of judicial defamation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Garibaldi, Kossuth and Alexander Herzen would have been excluded, and the list includes some of the most famous names of that century, people now honoured in their own countries from which they had been driven at that time. It is my belief that, thanks to the folly and worse with which the right hon. Gentleman has dealt with this case, the name of Rudi Dutschke will be added to those famous names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDI DUTSCHKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House. I have only four or five minutes to speak if the Home Secretary wants 10 minutes in which to reply. This debate has been disquieting in some ways, but in other ways valuable, too, because, even in the intemperate speech of the right hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. Deedes)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.797.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.816.3", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It does not make any difference.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": " some difficulty, as the hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) pointed out. I want first to take up a technical point on the Amendment. I am sure that it was not intended to lose the word \"and\". As printed on the Notice Paper, the Amendment reads … leave out from 'associations' to end of line 20. I am sure that that is not the intention and that the \"and\" should have remained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.816.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "ll be that a query can be raised about the words that the Opposition are trying to delete: … so organised as to be representative, responsible and effective bodies …\". We can see the point. Perhaps because I am not a master of words, I share the view of the hon. and learned Member for Northampton. I, too, do not see the necessity for the words, and I do not know quite what they mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "employers' associations should conduct their affairs with responsibility, not irresponsibly, having regard to the great importance and effectiveness of trade unions and employers' associations in any area, particularly in good industrial relations with which the legislation is concerned. Again I do not want to be tendentious but if I may take an example from the paragraphs in \"In Place of Strife\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.830.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.854.5", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "I will answer my hon. Friend the Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) and also the point put by the hon. Member for Rochester and Chatham (Mrs. Fenner). I made the point to the Secretary of State last night that the trade union movement right across the board, irrespective of its point of view, was completely opposed to this Bill. The membership is also opposed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.854.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.855.3", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "both countries, and say that our industrial relations over the last decade have begun to approach those of West Germany so far as the achievement of productivity and happy relations are concerned. I put this as an illustration of the point that the debate is coloured by the experience of people in trade unions and by the anti-trade unionism attitude taken by right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "preceding_text": "I enter the debate briefly to deal with the Amendment and its possible effect on the pre-entry closed shop practised in the coalmining industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.859.7", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "s exist between trade unionists and good employers. I emphasise \"good employers\", of whom there are many in this country. They recognise the benefit of conducting negotiations with trade unions. There are, however, a lot of bad employers, too, and I suggest, from the speeches made today and yesterday by backbenchers opposite, that hon. Gentlemen opposite appear to represent a lot of bad employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.859.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.859.9", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "inst the strike and 45 per cent. voted for it. I would remind the Committee that if the Bill had been in operation as an Act of Parliament, we would now have been in the midst of the biggest industrial struggle we have had since 1926. That in itself proves the inadvisability of bringing in a Bill of this character. The Amendment was moved with the sole and very good intention of improving the Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.859.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Solicitor-General is a committed political advocate, too\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "dderburn's denunciation of the American aspects of this proposal is to be taken as gospel foundation for not accepting it is to disregard Professor Wedderburn's skill as a committed political advocate as much as it is to pay respect to his skill as an academic student of this branch of the law. He is a committed political advocate in these matters, and one should not be too much persuaded by that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ies of getting an agency shop on a building site and I acknowledge that point. That is why there is special reference to the construction industry at the end of Clause 8. It will be seen, in Clause 15, that the changing population of workers on a growing site would enable a subsequent application for an agency shop ballot to be held, even if an adverse vote had been recorded on the first occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "he chooses to work outside the agreed procedure and is not mandated by his union, he may find himself in a different situation. It would be a considerable distortion to accept the statement made by the hon. Member opposite as being a fair assessment of what the Bill contains. Thirdly, he spoke about the need for winning the consent of trade unions and trade unionists for the Bill. How right he is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": " being a fair assessment of what the Bill contains. Thirdly, he spoke about the need for winning the consent of trade unions and trade unionists for the Bill. How right he is. [ Interruption. ] But although many trade union leaders may have expressed opposition to the Bill, as have many hon. Members opposite, a majority of ordinary trade unionists up and down the country are in favour of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.889.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "fter the debate and draw his attention to the sort of participation in the steel industry resulting from the steel nationalisation Act. In every case in the nationalised industries or under the Transport Act where there must be worker representation it has been not participation of those who work in the industry but appointments by Labour Ministers of outside trade unionists from other industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.890.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eddie Griffiths", "preceding_text": "l industry as an employee of John Summers and Sons. In April, 1968, I was appointed a worker director of the British Steel Corporation, and in June, 1968, I was elected as Member for Sheffield, Brightside. Therefore, the hon. Gentleman makes a completely untrue assertion when he says that the employee directors, or part-time directors, of the British Steel Corporation were not from the shop floor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.891.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Penistone made a charge against my hon. Friend. Whatever mistake my hon. Friend may have made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.900.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.926.4", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " be taken at a high level and the art is a pretty skilful one. I know that there are bad managements and bad directors who do not deserve to be in office, but in modern industry the large majority of people involved are professionals and are in the job because of their abilities. I think that in some respects a worker-director might find himself a fish out of water, perhaps with divided loyalties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.926.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "industrial society. 1.30 a.m. That is why we have put down this Amendment. We do not see it as something remote, something which is not real in industrial relations. It is at the very heart of industrial relations in a modern industrial society. That is why I hope that the House will accept the Amendment. I should like to comment on one or two of the points which have been made during the dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.927.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "van favoured. The powers set out in Clause 90 are so immense and so unjustifiable that the proposal can derive no legitimacy from the Donovan Report. It is a spurious monster, deriving from the arid legalistic mind of rigid and obstinate lawyers who are industrially illiterate, cloistered in the Temple, and without any experience of work on the shop floor. Clearly, they are far more familiar with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "his country. All these powers are to be covered by the umbrella of the Clause. The serious consequence of this Clause, particularly this subjection, is to devalue the one body recommended by Donovan and set up under the aegis of my right hon. Friend—the Commission for Industrial Relations. I do not want to bore the Committee by reading from the Employment and Productivity Gazette of February, 1969", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "ive means then it certainly will not be done by legislation. The emphasis in that interview with George Woodcock was on the word \"voluntary\", because he knows the experience in other countries, like Australia, like Ireland, like the United States, of this kind of legislation—soaring strikes and days lost through strikes, acknowledged in answers by the Secretary of State to Parliamentary Questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "nal effect on industrial unrest and productivity, and which ignores almost completely the establishment of a constitutional relationship between employers and employees within individual companies, which is considered by those experienced in industry to be the key factor in improving our industrial relations. Therefore, the code should be the most important part of the Bill, but we do not have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ightheartedly. Instead of going out of their way as a priority to bring both sides of industry together and try to win their co-operation, the first act of the Government was to throw down the gauntlet to the trade union movement by saying that a priority measure would be the publication of this Bill. And they then added further insult by snubbing the T.U.C. and being arrogant to the trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.984.2", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle) and my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone (Mr. John Mendelson) may be giving hon. Gentlemen opposite the wrong idea. There will be no cosy chat between the trade unions and the Government on this matter. Hon. Members are under an illusion if they do not appreciate the bitterness that exists in the trade union movement over this proposed Code of Practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "artedly to deal with issues after the unions have gone into the struggle. The result has been that, since last June, the consultations have been negative. They have yielded no positive results. Consultation as envisaged by the right hon. Gentleman is a waste of time and I am sure that Mr. Feather and the General Council will consider it as such. A few days ago, we had a national demonstration day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same goes for the Post Office workers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "e sense. It means that the T.U.C. or other interested parties would trot along to the Ministry—there would be no tea and cakes at midnight at Downing Street for them, because there is no hostess there to entertain them—and, after spending hours of boredom listening to the Secretary of State, they would come away having learned nothing because the right hon. Gentleman could not teach them anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": " are surely entitled to some information. Or is it, as I am beginning to suspect, that no matter how plausible—I put it no worse than that—or how reasonable Government spokesmen on the Front Bench are, they are afraid to give any indication that they are willing to consult anyone? Will their backbench Members stand for it? They are all howling for blood. Will their supporters outside stand for it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.994.2", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "do not think I shall embark on that because I should be out of order. I was not at that moment expressing any view of the percentage of trade unionists who support the Bill, although there is a great deal of evidence, whatever may be the views of the executive committees, delegate conferences, and so forth, that the majority of the rank and file trade unionists do support it, or something like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.994.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply for the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has suggested that we on the Opposition Front Bench should think very carefully before we follow the advice given by my hon. Friend the Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme). We accepted that my hon. Friend should oppose the Amendment in order that we could get very clearly from the right hon. Gentleman precisely what he and the Government have in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "st (Mr. Orme). We accepted that my hon. Friend should oppose the Amendment in order that we could get very clearly from the right hon. Gentleman precisely what he and the Government have in mind. [ Interruption. ] As far as we are concerned, we are not arguing against the concept that those who manage undertakings should accept primary responsibility for the promotion of good industrial relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "st the concept that those who manage undertakings should accept primary responsibility for the promotion of good industrial relations. [ Laughter. ] We have argued that for many years. We have consistently argued that too many managements in the past have not accepted their responsibility for good industrial relations. Many speeches made by my hon. Friend have equally made that point in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "cept that some of them only rarely attend industrial relations debates and have not heard what my hon. Friend has been saying on this subject over the years. What we are advising is that we should not vote against the Amendment, but if any of my hon. Friends feel so disposed themselves to do so, there is nothing that I or any Front Bench speaker on this side of the Committee could do to stop them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "much better spirit of independence in our party than the Tories have in theirs. I wish to make clear that we accept the concept of worker management. We have argued this in earlier debates on the Bill. We feel that we could well put down an Amendment at a later stage giving a definition of management and managers, so at this stage we are advising our hon. Friends not to vote against the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-19", "file": "debates1971-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7526b0bb44fd04c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1034.5", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (WIDOWS' PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about hon. Members opposite?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "preceding_text": "Certainly—as many as my hon. Friend cares to bring along. I shall be delighted if my hon. Friend the Member for Tynemouth comes along, too.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-19a.1034.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1062.6", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for that extremely detailed reply. Does the right hon. Gentleman appreciate that back benchers will be extremely disappointed with his reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1062.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ok into the status of hon. Members' secretaries? The position at the moment is most unsatisfactory, and many hon. Members feel that their secretaries should receive emoluments, and have conditions of work, similar to Civil Service conditions, but that their secretaries should be appointed by hon. Members themselves, obviously on the basis of the right type of secretary that the hon. Member wants.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blacklegs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend and the Government ensure that those Post Office employees—and there seem to be a fairly large number of them—who wish to continue working are not prevented from doing so, or are otherwise molested,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles R. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles R. Morris", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman caution his right hon. Friend, and certainly the Post Office Board, in regard to the forecasts which appeared in the earlier editions of the Press this morning about the effectiveness of this industrial dispute with regard to the nation's telephone services? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the latest figures available indicate that, as far as telephonists are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles R. Morris", "preceding_text": "earlier editions of the Press this morning about the effectiveness of this industrial dispute with regard to the nation's telephone services? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the latest figures available indicate that, as far as telephonists are concerned—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—the strike is 94 per cent. effective? As far as the membership of the Union of Post Office Workers is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "TRANSPORT (LONDON) AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to empower the establishment of further transport users' consultative bodies within Greater London. Before I turn to the reasons for the Bill and its proposals, the House should know that, throughout London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "TRANSPORT (LONDON) AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "ithin Greater London. Before I turn to the reasons for the Bill and its proposals, the House should know that, throughout London—[ Interruption. ]—and particularly in my constituency of Acton, there is great concern about the services provided by London Transport and relations of that body with the travelling public. We are all aware of the difficulties faced by London Transport, particularly due—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend indicates that that is what worries him. But this betrays a failure to understand what the Community is about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": ". In reminding us that … high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more he was identifying another respect in which paradise differs from the House of Commons. There are others too numerous to mention. Here in this House we cannot allow that formula to justify any slackness in the organisation of healthy terms which will permit a healthy on-going relationship when we get in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I do not want to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why do we not join the Soviet Union?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "nd by and let this danger rear its head. It would be crucially damaging to us if Europe were to plunge into this kind of attitude of autarchy and inwardness, neglecting the responsibilities which I think we have for the rest of the world. I do not go along with the idea that, if that danger exists, the remedy is to shut ourselves away, turn up our overcoat collars and hope to get along on our own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "The Soviet Union has not invited us so far to a federal and democratic merger with them. The House must not misunderstand me. I regard interdependence and its cost as being based on a view of the interdependence of all human beings on earth. It includes the people of the Soviet Union and of China. I am not responsible for the views that they hold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "the world, nor do I want to see poverty among any of the peoples of the world. I feel my interdependence with them. I may be wrong in the way in which I seek to achieve the protection of the world from self-annihilation, and I see this more as a way of achieving greater accommodation with the dangerous areas of the Soviet Union, the Far East and the like. I may be wrong, but my purposes are clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1106.4", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " us shall win will be a matter for history which will be decided if and when we go into Europe. I have a good deal more self-confidence about this matter than have some of my hon. Friends. I believe that the peoples of Europe will move forward, not backward. The British people would never think of going backward, apart from the events at the last General Election which were a temporary aberration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1106.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is a matter of common knowledge that all eight nominated Front Bench spokesmen in this two-day debate are committed, in greater or lesser degree, to Britain's entry into Europe; in other words, they are marketeers. I ask you to take into account the fact that on this side of the House about three-quarters of the back benchers take a contrary view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I have replied to that question on, I think, two occasions, and I am quite prepared to answer again, but this is obviously not the level at which we want to argue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ted to send to the Community was 11¼ per cent. That is not my figure; it is the official figure. Since then we have had the Kennedy Round, which will finally reduce those tariffs by 37½ per cent. on 1st January next, some 11 months away. I do not know what 37½ per cent. off 11¼ per cent. amounts to, but I believe it is something in the region of 7 to 7½ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What is the alternative?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "apist's dream. Our Empire has contracted, our rôle in the world has grown less. Therefore, some people say let us have a little legerdemain, a little conjuring, and we shall get it back. If we go in we will be a great power again or we can at least share in being a great power. But the world does not work like that. One cannot take up a sort of Adriatic Republic attitude on the world stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": " the defensive; but either way, in favour or against, Members in this House are mostly committed. Those against are against on principle. They are absolutely and firmly committed against entry and will, therefore, find any argument, economic or political, with which to attack the proposal. I hope that all who are in favour of entry can still reserve their judgment until the final terms are known.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-20", "file": "debates1971-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7876b98ae6065f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "nal Institute, that even that article said: At the minimum, the formation of the Community has resulted in greater movement of labour. It is likely that the confidence which it has generated has led also to a greater willingness to invest, to employ resources in research and development, than would otherwise have been the case. It makes these points, and goes on to deal with the question of growth", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-20a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that it is a scholarly work based on research, and comes to the conclusion that to accept the heavy burden of impact effects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that it is a scholarly work based on research, and comes to the conclusion that to accept the heavy burden of impact effects—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] I am paraphrasing the conclusion by reference to the document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1274.2", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. The business for next week will be as follows: MONDAY, 25TH JANUARY—Consideration of a Timetable Motion on the Industrial Relations Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1274.4", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1274.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "Instead of using—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1277.5", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I am a director of no company, so far as I know, that has ever had a strike on its hands, so perhaps you, Mr. Speaker, could ask the hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1278.6", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only to the Tory Party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "As for the form of words which I used at the start, I am sticking to that. I have the duty to this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1278.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1278.8", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he is doing that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House is putting the Chair in a difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1278.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On Monday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman, who claims that there are precedents for guillotine Motions—as there are, of course, in all Governments—give the precedent for imposing a guillotine Motion in a wide-ranging, constitutional Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1282.5", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "It is not really for me to say, though I have noticed that the Opposition do not seem to be very satisfied with what I am proposing now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1282.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1282.6", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "verage of one hour per Clause to discuss the fundamental rights of millions of workers is acceptable? What effect does he think this will have on the trade union movement, which will not be allowed to have its case adequately discussed in Parliament? Is he aware that any future industrial action arising out of this proposal will lie at the door of the Government? You have thrown the gauntlet down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1282.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Speaker. The Government have thrown the gauntlet down. This is an extremely serious matter for Parliament and the constitution. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that one of the major constitutional Measures of the century will not be properly discussed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1283.3", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that the majority of the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1283.5", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I apologise at once, Mr. Speaker. If hon. Gentlemen opposite will shut up I will speak up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1283.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1284.2", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "You come and do your job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1284.7", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not be arrogant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Because, in all the circumstances, and having considered all the facts, as I am entitled to do, I decided that I was right to proceed in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1284.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1284.9", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We have now had half an hour on this point. These matters can be fully discussed on Mon day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1284.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1285.2", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "On that point of order, Mr. Speaker", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1286.3", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ated by your predecessor, when it was the constant practice almost every Thursday when the Government party was the Opposition for the exercise to be pursued sometimes for nearly an hour. On the issue now before us, there are millons of people outside who are most deeply and sincerely involved in a highly controversial matter, and for you, Mr. Speaker, to try to inflict on us a kind of Guillotine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1286.3", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "practice almost every Thursday when the Government party was the Opposition for the exercise to be pursued sometimes for nearly an hour. On the issue now before us, there are millons of people outside who are most deeply and sincerely involved in a highly controversial matter, and for you, Mr. Speaker, to try to inflict on us a kind of Guillotine—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"]—is simply not good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1287.2", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": " who have something for him to consider in those discussions should have an opportunity to say it now, because Monday will be too late. May I therefore, since this is a matter of order affecting the House, ask the Leader of the House to consider this point? The nature of the Bill, as those of us who have studied it know, is rather unusual. The first four Clauses deal with broad general principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1287.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Bench. One of the difficulties is that the half hour to which you referred has been taken up almost solidly by the two Front Benches—and I do not object to that. This is one of the difficulties which arose in discussing the Industrial Relations Bill on Monday, when the Chief Whip admitted there was no filibustering; when he went round to keep quiet some of his back benchers who were filibustering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1289.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Yes he did. On Clause 1 the Government took 62 minutes and the Opposition 53 minutes. My Front Bench asked me not to move a number of my Amendments and I agreed, but I had a number of Amendments on the Order Paper which I did not move, but I had 11 minutes of the debate. Now the usual channels will work and that means that I will not have even that opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1290.2", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ho will not have the opportunity either of taking part in the \"usual channels\" negotiations or of putting their points here. This is on the question of a Bill which is supposed to say to workers and trade unions, \"Get together and have voluntary negotiations\". Here are the Government telling the trade unions to have voluntary negotiations but refusing to negotiate with the Opposition and you, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1290.7", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which Harold?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "May I seek your guidance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1290.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1291.2", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may be an exception. He is a distinguished exponent of the view that we should not go into Europe. He can refute it later if he wishes. I think that it is the view of the House that what I have said on that particular issue is broadly correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "During the last election, the Conservative Party promised, amongst other things, to reduce food prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"That is dumping.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I understand that they do not destroy butter. They may have to underwrite cheap exports of butter to other countries.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman a more fitting or more deserved compliment than to say that the clarity and cogency of his argument today and his devastating presentation of the economic facts of the case in particular are fully worthy of anybody enjoying that unique qualification. As this is the first time we have debated the matter in the present Parliament, perhaps I might briefly identify my position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1348.0", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "By whom?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "preferences, the higher food prices, and the payments across the exchanges. The White Paper of last February admitted that it is impossible to quantify the so-called dynamic effects. But the matter goes even further. Even their existence cannot be proved. The right hon. Gentleman referred to the study by the National Institute Economic Reiew, referred to at Question time today as a scholarly work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1358.0", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": ", which for obvious reasons employs its special brand of special pleading, in the way they ought to be dismissed. But here again it is reasonable to say to many hon. Members on both sides of the House who are against joining the Common Market that they ought to have a pretty good think about the fact that they are saying exactly the same thing about not joining it as the Communist Party is saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "g that we should enter the Community on any terms. My right hon. Friend suggested in his category I, or whatever it was, that a substantial number of hon. Members and a large number of people in the country are in favour of going in no matter what the price, but I have to tell him that I do not know of one single hon. or right hon. Gentleman on this side of the House who falls into that category.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1361.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1363.4", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way any more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1363.7", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Denmark is also doing well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "another former colonial Power and, like Portugal, it is a small country. Industrial production in 1969–70 was up by 9·5 per cent. Incidentally, ours was up by nothing. The Netherlands has a sharply rising standard of living. Wages are going up at a steady pace. Unemployment is very low. It has had a much greater say in world affairs since becoming a members of the powerful Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1363.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1374.0", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ll enjoy influence, control\"—that is a word which has been used more than once by my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—\"and even leadership\"—though I find it always grits one's teeth a little when one hears the British, with their rather characteristic insensitivity to other nationalities, talking about becoming the leaders in a new European Economic Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1406.2", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "I have been listening with some interest for some elaboration of a much earlier remark which the right hon. and learned Gentleman made. As this elaboration has not yet come, and considering the time, I thought that I would ask him this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1406.2", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "lier spoke of economic arguments and then of overwhelming political considerations. He went on to define what he meant by \"political\". He has defined certain matters. As I am extremely worried because what he said and what my right hon. Friend said seemed to paint such a gloomy picture if we were to stay out of the Common Market, I should like him to define what he meant by \"overwhelming\" because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1414.8", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "STANDING ORDER No. 80 (ESTIMATES COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": " is all totally unrealistic. There is an obsession with off-the-job training. I agree that with certain jobs it is necessary to take people from their normal place of work, but is it necessary for someone to be sent 200 miles away to learn how to unload a vehicle and how to stack things so that the top box does not fall off? The industry did not do so badly in the old days—I speak from experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1414.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "STANDING ORDER No. 80 (ESTIMATES COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Backfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Backfield", "preceding_text": "and utter lack of training. It would certainly be welcome to me if, every time I want on to a garage forecourt, I could find a petrol pump attendant—call him what one will—who knew where the dipstick was, knew how much the space marked on the dipstick was supposed to represent, and knew the quality and quantity of oil and petrol which my car needed. I often have to tell the attendant those things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "STANDING ORDER No. 80 (ESTIMATES COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Clark", "preceding_text": " depends upon it. We all know of the small garages and the terrible criticism to which garages are subjected. I certainly have my criticism. Garages, however, are changing. When I take my car to the garage to be serviced nowadays, there are probably 130 or 140 cars being serviced on the same day. It is a highly sophisticated operation. I gather that a computer is used to check some of the engines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-21", "file": "debates1971-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "aa83a63ae7467df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "STANDING ORDER No. 80 (ESTIMATES COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul B. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul B. Rose", "preceding_text": "ted programme of training as a central feature of Conservative economic policy\". Admittedly he did not claim to do that at a stroke, but the Labour Government had had a remarkably good record in regard to training centres. Indeed, they had achieved the largest expansion in industrial training in our history, and I hope that hon. Gentlemen opposite—I say this in good faith—will continue our policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-21a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-22", "file": "debates1971-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "484828c4c4e1b497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1463.3", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-22", "file": "debates1971-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "484828c4c4e1b497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Small", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Small", "preceding_text": "pport. My hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Robert Hughes), who is the sponsor of the Bill, and I have travelled the road many times in terms of engineering profiles and we understand each other in that we can read blueprints and talk in thousandths and micro-measurements. But I do not share my hon. Friend's views on divorce technology. This does not make me in any way a reactionary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-01-22", "file": "debates1971-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "484828c4c4e1b497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1509.4", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "we can have some assurance that the wife and family will get what they are entitled to under the settlement. Many of them do not at the moment, and for a variety of reasons the deserting husband, even when he is, in the conventional terms of my hon. Friend, the guilty party, makes little provision at all. I am anxious that that shall be done. I am sure that I carry the sponsor of the Bill with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1509.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-22", "file": "debates1971-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "484828c4c4e1b497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1549.6", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OWNER-OCCUPATION (HELP FOR PRIVATE LANDLORDS' TENANTS TO PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1549.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-22", "file": "debates1971-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "484828c4c4e1b497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1549.12", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 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/1971-01-22a.1549.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-22", "file": "debates1971-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "484828c4c4e1b497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1550.2", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHARITABLE CAUSES (MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DISABLED PERSONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-22", "file": "debates1971-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "484828c4c4e1b497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1550.6", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL INSPECTION (EVIDENCE OF DRUG TAKING) (SCHOOL PUPILS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1550.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-01-22", "file": "debates1971-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "484828c4c4e1b497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1550.10", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POWERS OF ATTORNEY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-01-22a.1550.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I find this constant reference to the word \"speculators\" deplorable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.27.9", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "ubt he could tell him that the West Germans work very hard in Eastern Europe and, even at a time when their relationship with the Soviet Union was less favourable than now, were in fact doing a great deal more trade in all the Eastern European countries than we ever did. Will the right hon. Gentleman, therefore, bear in mind that this is a very profitable and expanding market for British industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.27.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "LAOS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": " beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration; namely, the now confirmed military incursion into Laos by South Vietnamese forces with United States support, such representations as have been made and are being made by the British Government in this matter, and\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "LAOS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "y submission also the danger of British involvement in a general conflagration in South-East Asia under South-East Asia Treaty Organisation and the Treaty of Manila. Last week, I made a similar application concerning unconfirmed reports. Next day, I think that the House was grateful that you allowed a Private Notice Question, although the matter might still have been held to be a hypothetical one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "LAOS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "y of Manila. Last week, I made a similar application concerning unconfirmed reports. Next day, I think that the House was grateful that you allowed a Private Notice Question, although the matter might still have been held to be a hypothetical one— [Interruption.] You will recall that, at that time, the Foreign Secretary told the House that he had been unable to obtain corroboration of the reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.38.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Since this is a short debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Since this is a short debate, and you have already rightly implied, Mr. Speaker, that I have taken rather longer than I should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.50.5", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "That remark may have been worthy of the hon. Gentleman, but I very much doubt that it is worthy of the seriousness with which the entire House wishes to debate the position of Rolls-Royce. Shortly after the war, Lord Tedder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.50.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "By the Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones (Burnley)", "preceding_text": "And which was virtually forced upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "nt. The comparison we made in the case of A 300 B as compared to the Lockheed was a comparison based on orders. I beg the House to remember that, regardless of the figures given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, we are talking here of engines for which there are already nearly 600 orders. By contrast, the Concorde, on which we in Britain have spent £250 million, has still not had a single order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.66.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So are we.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " the Harrier with a Rolls-Royce engine for their Marine Corps against a great deal of criticism from the American aircraft industry? What about the M.R.C.A.? The cost of this decision could be so enormous that the Chancellor, far from saving his Budget and the taxpayer, could be costing the country far more. No wonder Mr. Haughton, when he came to London, was shocked and appalled at what he heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.70.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "t the financial cost of going on with this engine and developing a more advanced version, whether it be the —61 or the —50, we must ask ourselves what can now be the prospect of such an engine being available in time to compete with versions of the CF6 and JT9 which are already in production and which to all intents and purposes equal, if they do not exceed, the estimated performance of the RB211?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.99.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.100.5", "colnum": "100", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "Mr. Sheldon rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.100.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Yes, without hesitation; and I regard the proposition which my right hon. Friend has just put to the House as humbug.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.103.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.118.5", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. I have answered the hon. Gentleman's point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.118.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has missed my point. In England regularly it was 5d. increase. I believe that it is now less than 2½d., or slightly more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": "I cannot say how much is being paid in rates, but I can tell the hon. Gentleman that the grant to that factory by the Highlands and Islands Development Board was £180,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "I shall give way later to my hon. and learned Friend. He has only recently come into the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "This has a lot to do with the Bill since the Bill seeks to allow derating for factory farms. Is my hon. Friend prepared to give an undertaking tonight that if the Unicar unit comes to this country—it is, I understand, being experimented with in Sweden—it will be banned here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "hamstow, West (Mr. Deakins) quoted some words of Chamberlain, but he quoted them rather derisively, almost suggesting that that situation was a long way back and could never return. The hon. Gentleman the Member for the City of Chester (Mr. Temple) said that agriculture is not the depressed industry it was in the 1920s. I am bound to say that, if it is not, it is only a question of a fine balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": " Minister of Agriculture came down to Cornwall and Devon recently and told us that this was not so. I do not think that he had then read the speech of Mr. Plumb, the President of the National Farmers Union, when he spoke of the real danger of a rural slump. My experience—I am sure that it is the experience of many hon. Members in the South-West—is that that is only just round the round the corner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": " is the experience of many hon. Members in the South-West—is that that is only just round the round the corner. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is no good hon. Members thinking that because farmers have cried \"Wolf\" for so long we need not believe them. In fact, the wolf is really at the door. Injecting a few million \"quid\" of taxpayers' money every year at the Price Review will not change the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "This is rather on a par with the impetuous nature of the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "sense and logic. I am sorry that at this moment his Scottish sense and logic have deserted the Under-Secretary, because otherwise he could see that this is really an industrial process. I appreciate that the present Bill originated from a promise in the Conservative Party election manifesto. I am never certain about instant election promises, any more than I am about instant government. After all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON CASTING INDUSTRY (RESEARCH LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "preceding_text": "I think we require very much more information on this Order than we have had so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON CASTING INDUSTRY (RESEARCH LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "e way in which they think and act is to be seen in their attitude towards employment and productivity. One of the first things they did when they recast the Ministries was to drop the word \"Productivity\" from the name of the Department of Employment. This is the clue to their thinking and to their absolute barrenness of thought about the basic problems of British industry. I could speak at length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON CASTING INDUSTRY (RESEARCH LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "r absolute barrenness of thought about the basic problems of British industry. I could speak at length— [Interruption.] If the hon. Member wishes to intervene, I am prepared to give way: there is plenty of time. I am concerned particularly about the problem of the small and medium firms for which the research association caters. About 50 per cent. of British industry is comprised in this category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-08", "file": "debates1971-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d6f19caceb553b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON CASTING INDUSTRY (RESEARCH LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Seventy five to 80 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "k at length— [Interruption.] If the hon. Member wishes to intervene, I am prepared to give way: there is plenty of time. I am concerned particularly about the problem of the small and medium firms for which the research association caters. About 50 per cent. of British industry is comprised in this category. [An HON. MEMBER: \"More than that.\"] I wish the hon. Member could give me a precise figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-08a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.269.7", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " I am sure, wish to imply, or to have the House under the misapprehension, that the Prime Minister of Canada agrees with or accepts any part of his argument. Will he at least correct the record in that regard? Does he not accept that we are very surprised that the Prime Minister does not wish to keep in closer contact with those whom he regards as his chief allies in the defence of the free world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.269.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.269.7", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "he Prime Minister of Canada agrees with or accepts any part of his argument. Will he at least correct the record in that regard? Does he not accept that we are very surprised that the Prime Minister does not wish to keep in closer contact with those whom he regards as his chief allies in the defence of the free world—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—by visit ing Mr. Vorster, whose anti-Communism is such—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.269.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that the right hon. Gentleman had learnt from his experience yesterday of his daily increasing danger of boring and wearying the House with his charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.270.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.273.5", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY COUNTRIES (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Take him with you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "rose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.273.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.273.7", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY COUNTRIES (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I am always prepared to travel in good company. In view of the need to evoke a general political will in Europe if the present negotiations to enlarge the E.E.C. are to succeed, and since my right hon. Friend is liberally endowed with that quality—enough for six, if not for ten—will he reconsider this decision?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.273.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "LAOS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Does the Foreign Secretary's reply imply that he thinks that the Secretary-General of the United Nations is talking nonsense when he calls the American action deplorable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On a voluntary basis.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "ties or practical facts of particular cases and that we should make the provision for enforceability universally applicable. We have not done that. We have proceeded from the premise, as the Donovan Commission pointed out—and there is no room for argument about this—that most of our troubles spring from the inadequacy of procedure agreements and that the urgent need is to improve those agreements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " changed their minds. Indeed, some hon. Members opposite are entitled to say, \"We have never agreed with our right hon. Friend anyway.\" But we are entitled to say that in this paragraph a sensible diagnosis was being made and that it is consistent with the duty of the present Government to follow that diag- nosis and to produce the solutions we have here. It is unrealistic for hon. Members to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.335.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Not many.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I agree. This machinery should operate. We must also remember that not all unions, including well-established unions which hon. Members opposite regard as highly respectable, are affiliated to the T.U.C. There are some areas where, for various reasons, some unions are not affiliated to the T.U.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.360.2", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "It will not be handed down by a High Court judge with no knowledge of working conditions, because the whole basis of our system involves the establishment of specialised courts which, in addition to a lawyer, shall include two people of industrial sophistication, knowledge or experience. So the judgment will be given only by these people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.360.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "nst the charges made by my hon. Friends. My hon. Friend the Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme) complained bitterly about the inadequate definitions in several subsections of Clause 41. But even more fundamental is the fact that the Bill does not define what is meant by \"recognition\". This is extremely important. Recognition per se is insufficient. It is not enough for an employer who has refused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.364.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.399.4", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What rights?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "It lies ill in the mouth of the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) to denigrate the rights, benefits and privileges which are the object of this legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Dudley Smith)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Dudley Smith)", "preceding_text": "There are perhaps some misunderstandings about the idea that employers should be entitled to apply for a reference to the N.I.R.C. The Government feel that it is right and proper that there should be provision for employers to be able to apply for references alongside trade unions and the Secretary of State. This is a means of getting problems sorted out by an independent body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Dudley Smith)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Dudley Smith)", "preceding_text": " to the N.I.R.C. The Government feel that it is right and proper that there should be provision for employers to be able to apply for references alongside trade unions and the Secretary of State. This is a means of getting problems sorted out by an independent body. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) laughs, but the C.I.R. is designated as an independent source.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "preceding_text": "That would lead to a political decision and we do not think that is necessarily right. The various parties enumerated should be able to go to an independent organisation like the C.I.R.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I thought the hon. Gentleman gave way twice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I thought the hon. Gentleman gave way twice. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".] At any rate, he refused to give way to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has not such a right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "bargaining agency, and I quoted to him the definition of \"sole bargaining agent\" in Clause 41. Of course, the purpose of a trade union is to safeguard its members and, if it is to do so properly, obviously it has to be independent of the employers. Short of that situation, it cannot safeguard those rights. What right has any employer to be the arbiter as to who should be the sole bargaining agent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "l try to explain the situation for hon. Gentlemen opposite. Clause 42 says An application under this section may be made to the Industrial Court by any of the following parties that is to say— ( a ) one or more trade unions…\". That is the issue. If the employer makes an application and the Industrial Court agrees, it means that the employer is the arbiter, as I argued in the first instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with Clause 42, which is three Clauses before Clause 45. I have been in this House for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "points that arise on the Bill. I should like answers to the points which have been raised by my hon. Friends and which have not been satisfactorily answered. I ask my hon. Friends to vote for these Amendments, because the Amendments are absolutely right. In his Amendment my hon. Friend the Member for Kensington, North (Mr. Douglas-Mann) says that we should eliminate the employer. I agree entirely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ng about the words \"an employer\", which the Amendment proposes to delete. It should be removed because as long as it is in the Bill there must be the suspicion in the mind of the entire trade union movement that it is possible for an employer to make an application for a tame union, a house union or a company union, whatever it may be called, which is acceptable to the employer and to no one else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.418.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wasting time.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "May I say that it is, with all due respect to you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.423.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.424.10", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "If I may put the question, notwithstanding the intermittent observations of an occasional visitor from Cardiff, South-East. In reply to the hon. Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme), it is the case that the last Government's Bill recognised the right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.424.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ideal bargaining unit and the ideal bargaining agent or group of organisations for that unit—the C.I.R. has examined the situation and made a recommendation, there has been a ballot and the vote of the workers has been obtained—and the result is a panel consisting of a registered and an unregistered union, then that ideal bargaining unit must collapse if the unregistered union refuses to register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "place to another firm or ensure that there is insufficient management left in the factory to keep the place going. The U.K.A.P.E. virtually says, \"No strikes\". We had representatives of the organisation visit this House about a month ago, when some of them said that they were proud that they could keep works going and that it was their public duty to maintain them while an official dispute was on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.433.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-09", "file": "debates1971-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "391994db9c627ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.435.7", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Dame Irene Ward rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-09a.435.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.518.4", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "The Chairman of the Kitchen Committee has been singularly unsuccessful in both his aims. Is he not aware that the standard of food has decreased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.518.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.518.4", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "The Chairman of the Kitchen Committee has been singularly unsuccessful in both his aims. Is he not aware that the standard of food has decreased—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and has deteriorated to the same extent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.518.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What do you think?", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that most hon. Members who are sane think that my hon. Friend has made a great improvement in the food?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.519.5", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Will the Chairman of the Kitchen Committee explain why it is that, although it has no costs for heat, rent, rates, light, furnishings, cleaning or anything of that description, which form part of the heavy overheads of any private concern—accepting that wages should go up—that it is still possible to go across the road and to get food cheaper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.519.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "The present procedures in this matter have been followed by successive Administrations of both parties, and I believe that they have provided widespread satisfaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.523.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.524.8", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that answer. Would my right hon. Friend say when this can be installed for the benefit of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.524.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (WILBERFORCE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " the figures which I have given, and I do not for one moment accept the figures which the right hon. Lady has given. Her figures are not right. They are a most irresponsible contribution to the major overriding need of this country to bring inflation under better control. How they can be uttered by a right hon. Lady who left her Department with a White Paper saying that price increases should not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (WILBERFORCE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "As for the percentage figure, it is correct that it is not in the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (WILBERFORCE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "As for the percentage figure, it is correct that it is not in the Report. [HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"] It is entirely up to the Committee to decide what it does or does not put into its Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (WILBERFORCE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which paragraph?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "s view percentages would be misleading. As a general method of calculation, it is difficult to decide how best to present the effect of any settlement in any industry. Anybody who likes to present the figure as a higher percentage cannot then claim that the employers' offer was 9·7 per cent. What is incontrovertible and absolutely accepted by the Court, which is the figure it had before it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (WILBERFORCE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " difficult to decide how best to present the effect of any settlement in any industry. Anybody who likes to present the figure as a higher percentage cannot then claim that the employers' offer was 9·7 per cent. What is incontrovertible and absolutely accepted by the Court, which is the figure it had before it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Which paragraph?\"] I did not write the Committee's Report for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (WILBERFORCE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " the figure it had before it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Which paragraph?\"] I did not write the Committee's Report for it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"] I can only report what is true, which is that 10·9 per cent. was the figure which the Committee had before it before signing the Report and which it accepted as being the effect of its recommendations. I have the Committee's authority to say this to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (WILBERFORCE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "., or 9·7 per cent. as I said to the House. The Committee's additional recommendations add £1·905 million to the employers' offer, making a total of £16·996 million, which is 10·9 per cent. of the last September wage bill of £155·9 million. This is the basis of calculation of the employers' offer and the comparable offer put forward by the Court and is therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (WILBERFORCE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " of the Report, is as was stated by my right hon. Friend earlier? If the right hon. Gentleman is not satisfied with that calculation, may I ask him to present the figures to the House in a White Paper, or in some other way, so that we can do our own calculations without the benefit of cosmetics? Secondly, since the right hon. Gentleman made this very moving plea, which really impressed some of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (WILBERFORCE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I think that before the right hon. Gentleman criticises the use of percentages, he must accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.535.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (WILBERFORCE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "and most accurate way of putting these matters forward. Secondly, the right hon. Gentleman must know that, despite these difficulties, the Labour Government consistently used percentages as the basis of their criteria, that their criteria for 1970 was between 2½ and 4½ per cent., and that we are here dealing with something of the order of 10 per cent., which is a long way above that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (WILBERFORCE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " my statement that this represented a 10·9 per cent. addition in the year from September. The wage year in this industry runs from September to September. Therefore, this is a perfectly fair and normal thing to do. If the right hon. Gentleman and the House want to know what the annual rate is, I shall certainly tell them. It is not what the right hon. Lady said. It is 11·3 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Stanley Atkinson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "end. Why is Schedule 3 separate from Clause 61? Why does one have to look at Clause 61 for part of the required trade union rules and at Schedule 3 for the balance? Why should they not all be in one place in the Bill, which would make it so much simpler for mortals to understand? Someone has said that trade union rule books are more confusing than the law. There was a lot of wisdom in that remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is arrears.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "lowing rule becomes operative—that the member can appeal. But before he can appeal, if the appeal is against a fine, … no member shall have the right to appeal without previously having paid the fine within 28 days. So having insulted these highly sensitive gentlemen—these officers or members of the union—the member is liable to a fine of £20 and has to pay it before he can make his appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"YOU know nothing about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "e he can appeal, if the appeal is against a fine, … no member shall have the right to appeal without previously having paid the fine within 28 days. So having insulted these highly sensitive gentlemen—these officers or members of the union—the member is liable to a fine of £20 and has to pay it before he can make his appeal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is arrears.\"] It is nothing to do with arrears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "hat hon. Members opposite are restive. The Committee is beginning to understand that some aspects of trade union rule books require looking into. The hon. Member for Tottenham said that there was difficulty for trade unions in bringing their rules into line with the Bill. The hon. Member for Norwood (Mr. John Fraser) spoke about jumping through the hoop. Do trade union rules require modernisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": " for trade unions in bringing their rules into line with the Bill. The hon. Member for Norwood (Mr. John Fraser) spoke about jumping through the hoop. Do trade union rules require modernisation? [Interruption.] The hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) keeps interrupting from a sedentary position. [HON\" MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman will not give way.\"] He has not asked me to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Mr. J. C. Jennings)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Mr. J. C. Jennings)", "preceding_text": "Order. This is getting noisy. If hon. Members want to interrupt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Mr. J. C. Jennings)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Mr. J. C. Jennings)", "preceding_text": "Order. This is getting noisy. If hon. Members want to interrupt— [Interruption.] —let me finish, please—they can at least try to persuade the hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mr. David Mitchell) to give way. If he does not, then he must be allowed to go on with his speech, and must not be interrupted from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.564.4", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "When I was a member of the Transport and General Workers' Union, I do not recall its meetings normally being conducted in the parliamentary manner the hon. Gentleman has just described. Clearly, in the last six or seven years since I ceased to be a member, there has been a substantial change in the way in which business is conducted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.564.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.564.4", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "just described. Clearly, in the last six or seven years since I ceased to be a member, there has been a substantial change in the way in which business is conducted. [Interruption.] 5.30 p.m. We have to consider whether trade union rules in fact require modernisation. Recently, one of the most exhaustive studies of trade union rules ever made disclosed a need for all unions to examine their rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.564.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.565.5", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What kangaroo courts?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "h the responsibilities of shop stewards, as does the Bill. Very rightly, the T.U.C. saw the need for all unions to look at their rules about discipline. I ask hon. Members to look at the kangaroo courts and the way in which, by ensuring that charges are in writing and that there is a fair hearing and that the result is given in writing, the Bill will ensure that kangaroo courts cannot be repeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.565.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.566.2", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I use the phrase \"kangaroo court\" in the colloquial sense in which it has been used in the headlines of the newspapers in recent weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.566.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.566.2", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I use the phrase \"kangaroo court\" in the colloquial sense in which it has been used in the headlines of the newspapers in recent weeks—[ Interruption .]—newspapers which from time to time support the Government, but also those which support the Labour Party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.566.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.567.5", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I have been on my feet for rather longer than I intended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.567.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Mr. David Mitchell rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.568.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " when I say that to him the Bill and the provisions in it about the registration of trade unions are an outrage and an insult. They seem to him totally unnecessary and cast a reflection on institutions which are as dear and sacrosanct and as much above criticism to him as are the Brigade of Guards and other similar institutions in the hearts of some of my hon. Friends. I ask hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "ord, West, I do know that they are sincere and that in debating the Bill we are, in a sense, beyond reason and beyond argument. I do not think that that is altogether dishonourable and undesirable. However, I hope that it will not be thought quite intolerable by hon. Members opposite if I say with great respect that there is another point of view about this matter. It may be wrong and unfair, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "y of his union or of any other union would be in any way impugned if the way in which it conducts its affairs, now voluntarily, were backed by legislation such as this. I do not see why hon. Gentlemen should think it so outrageous. Why should not trade unions register according to certain guiding principles for organisations of workers such as are set out in Clause 61, to which we shall be coming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "I concede that it will raise problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Repealed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": "acious way of doing it. The hon. Member for Norwood (Mr. John Fraser) did not do justice to his Amendment, since he dealt with it rather superficially, compared with the hon. Member for Tottenham. He spoke of \"legal claptrap\". That is no way to treat Clauses which, after all, if the Bill is passed, will govern the relationship of the trade unions on registration until at least the Bill is changed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": " standard rules, which Schedule 3 would provide and which would give the registrar, who will clearly be an important personage under the Bill, powers to amend or change the rules if they did not suit the circumstances of particular unions. Few trade union rules make much mention of shop stewards. Shop stewards have grown up as a movement within unions without having official status in many unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.617.4", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "he centre—and I do not wish to be placed in any category since I am not concerned with labels but with realities. This should be a significant fact to the right hon. Gentleman, who is almost punch-drunk from the consequences of his own folly in bringing forward this monolithic piece of legislation. He has only himself to blame for being duped by all the academic boffins who have been advising him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.617.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only one is in the Cabinet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "; even if we disagreed with him, we liked his tone and manner—that the abuses referred to in passing by Donovan were very small in relation to the generality of trade union conduct, which is not under criticism. We have one of the Law Officers of the Crown with us this evening. Indeed, we are honoured to have two senior Members of the Cabinet sitting on the Government Front Bench at the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "Government have much expertise and many boffins behind the scenes, propagandists and advocates specially trained to run round the country delivering these turgid briefs. It is no use hon. Gentlemen opposite coming here with their turgid briefs and putting them forward. They may put them forward to the Primrose League or sometimes to Tory women's organisations in the backwoods of the county shires—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "andling, on a national scale, the legal activities of the union. I have spent many hours ploughing through rule books to see what they mean. For anybody to suggest that a trade union, which may be a composite body consisting of many other unions which have amalgamated, ought to have some kind of regimented, rubber-stamped, standard rule book handed down on a plate from the Mount of Olives by some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "One wonders whether there is any other institution, or set of institutions, in this country in respect of which so many words could have been uttered over so many hours asserting the one simple proposition, \"Leave us alone. We are untouchable. Parliament should do nothing whatsoever to affect us\".—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "The Solichtor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solichtor-General", "preceding_text": "Almost every—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " blamed for making a debating point of some value in the course of a debate. What in fact are we attaching to the concept of registration? In essence, requirements as to the rules of those bodies, protection and remedies for the members of those bodies against the unions themselves and responsibility by the unions to conform to standards which arc to be laid down by the House for a modern society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "non-unionist. What we say is that the members in a factory who have by their organisation, their combination, their subscriptions and their fees, worked and obtained the conditions which they have may say to a worker, \"We will not work with non-unionists\". They have the right to say that that person, if he wants to remain within the industry, should be a member of the union. It is not forcing him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Clause 57", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I agree he said that on occasions it happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Clause 58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "n to examination by a reference to the C.I.R. Also, we draw attention to the suspension tactic, which is not prevalent in just one industry. Just before Christmas, there was the case of Mr. Terry Devey, reported in The Times and covered in full in my local newspaper, the Sheffield Morning Telegraph. I give credit to the investigation which it made. Terry Devey is a shop steward who was paid £3,000", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Clause 61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "ons should be restricted like this. They should be the ones to decide who should or should not be admitted. I do not see why they should be tied to a restriction on whether a person is reasonably well qualified, or qualified at all. They should decide, in the same way as I am sure the Institute of Directors would not admit my hon. Friend. He would rightly say that he would not want to be admitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.680.2", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Clause 61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\"'.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " the A.E.U., which is a craftsmen's union? Here is my ticket\". By law, he will have to have a ticket, even though he may not be qualified. Another illustration which is vital to the safety of life and limb concerns repairs to cars and other vehicles. When I take my car to a garage I know that the engineer is qualified and that the car will be dealt with properly and will be safe to go on the road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.680.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-10", "file": "debates1971-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3635ae724b38dc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Clause 61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "or section, as the case may be, is intended\". It is \"the description\". That seems to me to say that irrespective of age, if under paragraph ( b ) a person is deemed to be reasonably well qualified, he can say \"I can produce evidence of having served the requisite number of years in a fully-skilled trade. I therefore demand admission into section 1 of the A.E.F.\" That is what it seems to me to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-10a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the police have been disarmed and the local militias disbanded as a result of the Hunt Committee's Report, will my hon. Friend make sure that the Army is prepared without hestitation to protect people and property when firearms and explosives are used by seditious elements in their efforts to disrupt the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that we on this side of the House have been very patient with him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.792.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "e said about it being a matter for his discretion, or that of anyone holding his position, to decide when to intervene? Is the right hon. Gentleman also aware that, contrary to some views which may have been expressed by some of my hon. Friends, I have every confidence that he will use that discretion to intervene, as he has done on six previous occasions, whenever he sees Vic Feather on the move?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.795.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.795.4", "colnum": "795", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Did not the stupidity of that last supplementary—…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.795.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.796.5", "colnum": "796", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Of course I shall, because I know, as well as anybody on either side of the House and the public, how urgent it is to bring the dispute to an end. I appeal to hon. Members to realise that there was once a tradition in the House that we did not press these matters too hard, because, on the whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.796.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman rearrange his timetable in order to investigate why increasingly larger amounts of external mail are being delivered to this House, which is an unwarranted interference in an honest industrial dispute, and, to use his right hon. Friend's words, in order to show that he does not want to harden the views of the two sides?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.804.4", "colnum": "804", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member will realise that, through no fault of him or me, I did not hear his concluding remarks. I do not know anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.804.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.804.4", "colnum": "804", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member will realise that, through no fault of him or me, I did not hear his concluding remarks. I do not know anything—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I do not know anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.804.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "OLD BAILEY (MR. SPEAKER'S EVIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. You will recollect, Mr. Speaker, that I have given you private notice of a matter which I feel that the House should be in the knowledge of. Can I ask you whether you are able to say when and if you will be able to make a statement upon the subject, which is within our knowledge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "OLD BAILEY (MR. SPEAKER'S EVIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. You will recollect, Mr. Speaker, that I have given you private notice of a matter which I feel that the House should be in the knowledge of. Can I ask you whether you are able to say when and if you will be able to make a statement upon the subject, which is within our knowledge— [Laughter.] —which I think you would like to know a bit more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "OLD BAILEY (MR. SPEAKER'S EVIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "aker, that I have given you private notice of a matter which I feel that the House should be in the knowledge of. Can I ask you whether you are able to say when and if you will be able to make a statement upon the subject, which is within our knowledge— [Laughter.] —which I think you would like to know a bit more— [Laughter.] —which I feel that you, Mr. Speaker, would like to reveal to the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "OLD BAILEY (MR. SPEAKER'S EVIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "l that the House should be in the knowledge of. Can I ask you whether you are able to say when and if you will be able to make a statement upon the subject, which is within our knowledge— [Laughter.] —which I think you would like to know a bit more— [Laughter.] —which I feel that you, Mr. Speaker, would like to reveal to the House — [Laughter.] Mr. Speaker, only you and I know how serious this is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "OLD BAILEY (MR. SPEAKER'S EVIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "a statement upon the subject, which is within our knowledge— [Laughter.] —which I think you would like to know a bit more— [Laughter.] —which I feel that you, Mr. Speaker, would like to reveal to the House — [Laughter.] Mr. Speaker, only you and I know how serious this is— [Laughter.] I repeat that only you and I, Mr. Speaker, know how serious the matter is. For that reason, I have left it to you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.4", "colnum": "806", "heading": "OLD BAILEY (MR. SPEAKER'S EVIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is something even his best friends will not tell him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "upon the subject, which is within our knowledge— [Laughter.] —which I think you would like to know a bit more— [Laughter.] —which I feel that you, Mr. Speaker, would like to reveal to the House — [Laughter.] Mr. Speaker, only you and I know how serious this is— [Laughter.] I repeat that only you and I, Mr. Speaker, know how serious the matter is. For that reason, I have left it to you— [Laughter.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.5", "colnum": "806", "heading": "OLD BAILEY (MR. SPEAKER'S EVIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "—to make a statement on this, which I regard as a very important subject which I do not wish to reveal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.7", "colnum": "806", "heading": "OLD BAILEY (MR. SPEAKER'S EVIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to you for making that statement, Mr. Speaker. You will recollect that when I raised this matter with you—it is not a laughable matter; it is a serious matter—I then pointed out to you that when you went to give evidence at the magistrates' court you were Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, but subsequently you ceased to be such—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.806.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I hesitate to detain the House longer. Mr. Speaker, you have introduced a new custom—one understands why—that all Members who wish to ask business questions are not necessarily called to ask them. The result has been that in the last three weeks you have excluded one or two Members from asking business questions. This is a change which I think that we must accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, and waiving our rights, surely if the hon. Lady wants it now, should not she have it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.813.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Thank Harold.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "I do not think I agree with the hon. Gentleman on that. I believe if we are to make any progress at all in collaborative programmes, using that term in its widest sense, we really have to get away from what I would call the nationalistic \"Buggin's turn\" theory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.821.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the anxieties of hon. Members and their constituents in regard to sub-contractors and redundancies, but, with all due respect, this is not part of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. With great respect, that is not sufficient for the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.824.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.824.5", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "If I may make what, I hope, is one final remark, I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman and the House realise that these matters are at the moment the responsibility of the Receiver——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.824.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "—but, I have, of course, anticipated that——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.825.4", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Whatever the feelings of the House may be, it clearly cannot help the debate to take attitudes such as are being taken up at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.825.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And major firms.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Boardman (Leicester, South-West)", "preceding_text": "here is equal concern on this side of the House for the position of the firms involved but the problem is that my right hon. Friend cannot deal in the Bill with the point of so much concern. The Bill does go part of the way. It goes to the extent of providing immediate action to enable the continuation of those parts of the business that it is in the interests of these small firms to be continued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "I have been speaking today to small firms that can now continue with their orders because of the decision to introduce the Bill. But for the Bill they would not have been able to do so. The Bill does not meet the point raised by hon. Members about the past liabilities and the grave concern about them. Surely, the starting point must be to get the Bill through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.828.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "who can continue those parts of the business. Then I hope that we shall very quickly hear from my right hon. Friend what can be done on the other very urgent problem. But we cannot ask him today to distinguish between the many cases which cause us great concern and the other cases where there may be less reason for the Government to be generous or to make ex gratia payments. Therefore, I believe——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.828.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that it must be plain to the whole House that the Minister had completed his speech. I do not think that it serves the purpose of the Bill, those concerned with it, or the House not to get on with the Second Reading, which is why we are here this afternoon. I ask the House to accept the situation and to agree that I should call the next speaker in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It should be earlier.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "the Treasury who will be concerned in ensuring that no apparent assurance is given about the acquisition price that in the event may not turn out to be what happens. Something must be done, and it would help if the Leader of the House could tell us that at the end of the debate, in addition to the speech by the Parliamentary Secretary, to which we look forward, we shall hear the Solicitor-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.833.6", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "My point is that if the Government do not keep these sub-contractors alive, the whole point of the Bill is totally vitiated. Can the Minister give, just as an order of magnitude, what return in the pound there will be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.833.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.846.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "This is a maiden speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies (Isle of Thanet)", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend allow me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Impossible!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "preceding_text": "arded for the future. Last night I had a gigantic, monumental nightmare. The whole Government, including those who are not at the moment on the Front Bench, were run over by a proverbial bus. Our Conservative majority was decimated, and, most disquieting of all, right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite had changed places with us and were sitting on this side of the House. But my nightmare got worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aviation Supply (Mr. David Price)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aviation Supply (Mr. David Price)", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman does not intend to misquote my right hon. Friend, who made it clear that where the engine was behind was in time and delivery dates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "or Rolls-Royce that its overdraft limit had been exceeded or was likely to be exceeded? My information is that they were not. What information have the Government now on the cost over-runs on the most profitable aircraft, the JT9D? In the interests of British technology and British reputation, this should be known. This is no isolated case, and the comparisons must be made on a much broader front.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan (Glasgow, Craigton)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan (Glasgow, Craigton)", "preceding_text": "We have just heard an extremely interesting and courageous speech from the hon. Member for Portsmouth, Langstone (Mr. Ian Lloyd)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan (Glasgow, Craigton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan (Glasgow, Craigton)", "preceding_text": " that after 22nd January the directors would have been in default under Section 332 of the Companies Act if they had carried on the business of Rolls-Royce. I state as dogmatically as I can that that is absolute nonsense. Any suggestion that the directors would have been liable under Section 332 if they had attempted genuinely to renegotiate the Lockheed contract does not bear serious examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.873.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "er for Epping told us that we should go into business contracting for whelk stalls and picking up tenders for Coca-Cola stands. If we have any future at all as a nation, with our tradition of aerospace technology, of advanced engineering design, that future must lie in projects like this. We were sorry to hear the Minister of Aviation Supply say in the House on Monday that the RB211 was inferior——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.896.3", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "te the contract and made the announcement to the House on 1st April, 1968, did not actually see the contract between Rolls-Royce and the Lockheed Corporation until August that year is a condemning indictment of his responsibility. The right hon. Gentleman committed this country, Rolls-Royce, the jobs, the savings, the reputation, and all that goes with it, to what was, in effect, a monster gamble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.896.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.908.4", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Dealing with the last point first, the required range of knowledge of the Solicitor-General is ample, but I am afraid that it does not extend to the position under New York law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.908.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.908.7", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the Solicitor-General here for?", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "If I may continue, I understand hon. Members would wish me to say something further on that, but I would hope they understand the circumstances under which I rise to intervene in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.908.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "will answer questions as they are put. The re-entry of Government money is one of the factors relating to the future of the Rolls-Royce undertaking and what may emerge therefrom which suppliers are entitled to take into account. But the re-entry of Government money is limited to that which was stated by my right hon. Friend today; and to that extent and end it is a factor to be taken into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.911.0", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Will the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "oyce are said to be by the Solicitor-General and the Minister under Section 332. I do not accept the Solicitor-General's interpretation on Section 332, but what he has said means that hundreds of sub-contractors will, very likely tomorrow, have to take a decision in the same way as Rolls-Royce did. The responsibility rests on the Government to make a political decision. This is what it amounts to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that both sides of the House are genuinely disturbed about the position that many sub-contractors will find themselves in? But will he take it that those of us who are concerned think that some of the questions so far have been irresponsible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.912.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Several Hon. Members rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.915.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "rection was made, which the credi- tors of Rolls-Royce were not in a position to receive or to be informed of. They could well have made a decision to have carried on supplying goods to Rolls-Royce on the basis of a statement made in this House and countermanded by private letter. This is an important matter, and the Minister or the Solicitor-General must state to the House what they intend to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.915.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.917.2", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "e favourite word of the Prime Minister has been \"incompetent\". He has thrown the word \"incompetent\" across from this Dispatch Box time after time. I can only say to the Leader of the House, who today has been as helpful as any Leader of the House could have been, that the Government's handling of the consequences of their own decision to let Rolls-Royce go bankrupt has been absolutely incompetent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I am talking about the decision to acquire. I said on Monday—there is no question about it—that after the bankruptcy it had to be renegotiated. I am talking about the decision to acquire —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "is sold back will be able to survive for five minutes without public money after it has gone back into private hands. We do not have to say on this side of the House in this case that we would acquire Rolls-Royce back without compensation. All we have to say is that a private Rolls-Royce would not get launching aid again because of the experience of the last few years, and it is a nonsense to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.928.5", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Minister has now only 12 minutes left to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.928.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.928.8", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " under the Bill. The Government are determined that the company shall remain in British ownership. So, if the unlikely event of a foreign bid occurred—a foreign bid that was higher than seemed to be the negotiated price between ourselves and the receiver—the Government would have to raise their old price to a level which would enable the Receiver to fulfil his obligations to the debenture holders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.928.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins (Birmingham, Stechford)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"High finance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins (Birmingham, Stechford)", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman moves on, we must give him the opportunity to tell the House—because we can hardly believe it—whether his statement a minute or two ago is or is not the position of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.930.4", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "Possibly in the noise the right hon. Gentleman did not hear me. I was saying that the Government are determined that the new company which will result from the Bill shall be British owned, but the Government cannot give orders to the Receiver. This is a point of law, and, therefore, the Receiver is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.930.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.930.6", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What if it, is a genuine bid?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "respond to the right hon. Gentleman. The Receiver is under a duty to get the best return for the debenture holders taking all the factors into consideration. For instance, I understand that if there was a higher bid from a company whose purpose was simply to put the Rolls-Royce assets out of business—to buy out a competitor, as it were—the Receiver would not at law have to accept that higher bid.,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.930.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "ecessary, I can commend it to the whole House with conviction and expectation. I commend it with conviction because it is the only right way open to us to secure vital national interests. I commend it with expectation because the new and reconstructed Rolls-Royce will have the opportunity to be heir to all that is best in the traditions and achievements of the old Rolls-Royce aero-engine business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.930.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": " insert for a limited time which shall expire on 31st December, 1975, save as is provided in subsection (2) of this section\". No. 5, in page 1, line 19, at end insert: (2) The period during which a Minister may carry on any undertaking acquired under section 1 of this Act may be extended for further periods of 12 months by resolution which shall be subject to the approval of the House of Commons\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. May I finish what I have to say and then I shall be glad to listen to the hon. Gentleman. The Amendment we are to discuss reads: In page 1, line 15, after \"on\" insert \"on a permanent basis\". With it is the much longer Amendment for discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "\". First, it must be made absolutely clear that in dealing with a terminal date for the acquisition we, on this side, are just as interested in and concerned as hon. Gentlemen opposite for those people who are creditors, sub-contractors and small shareholders. It would be quite wrong, because this is and has to be a limited debate at this hour and because I have been asked to keep it fairly short—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "te for the acquisition we, on this side, are just as interested in and concerned as hon. Gentlemen opposite for those people who are creditors, sub-contractors and small shareholders. It would be quite wrong, because this is and has to be a limited debate at this hour and because I have been asked to keep it fairly short— [Interruption.] I have been asked by hon. Members opposite to keep it short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ent by edict or by governmental statement. Therefore, I believe that it makes sense to have the assurances which have been given by the Government incorporated in the Bill. Unless the Minister persuades me that there is some specific reason for not doing this, it would seem that it is to the benefit of the Government and, indeed, to the benefit of what many of us stood for at the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "I was trying to address my remarks to you, Sir Robert, which I have always believed was the correct way of addressing the Committee. I believe that by accepting the Amendment the Government will be, first, carrying out what they told the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.944.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Sir Robert, which I have always believed was the correct way of addressing the Committee. I believe that by accepting the Amendment the Government will be, first, carrying out what they told the country— [Interruption.] —secondly, ensuring that this is a temporary caretaking operation; and, thirdly, ensuring that people outside, not just those who have attempted to make fun of part of this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.944.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.945.2", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "I am asking the Minister whether he can give the type of undertakings which the Amendment demands. May I say to him personally that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.945.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.946.2", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Is it the pleasure of the Committee that the Amendment be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.946.6", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the House for long. I have waited for a long time to speak, and I shall speak from knowledge and experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.946.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.946.8", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "e the previous Minister, but the fashionable worship of technology which we heard in his day is, I hope, a thing of the past, for unless technology can be harnessed to business enterprise it is useless. There are always dangers for private enterprise firms where Government money appears to be on tap, and this non-competitive element must have entered into the thinking of both managers and workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.946.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.949.3", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "r the classic phrase in the Plowden Report about there being no predestined place for an aircraft industry in Britain. I believe that there is a future for our aircraft industry, as do the many fine people who have lobbied us today. That is why my right hon. Friends have had the courage to overcome ideology and bring forward this Bill. We are not the only country to renege on our responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.949.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too late!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "own. We must not take a great leap in the dark in technology. That is another point all too often forgotten by the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East, whose enthusiasm I admire but whose judgment I do not always respect. In order to make profits, it is essential to produce a policy of product improvement. The trouble with Rolls-Royce is not only that the RB211 is too far ahead of its time——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.949.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.950.2", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too late!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "It is a great money spinner——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.950.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.950.4", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too late!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "It is ahead of its time compared with its American counterpart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.950.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman. The company had two choices: either it liquidates and the unsecured creditors get very little, or it tries to keep going as a viable proposition, in which event, if it is able to renegotiate, the creditors get as much as they would have got under the liquidation and possibly get paid in full. To say that that was an intent to defraud is a nonsensical way of reading Section 332.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.1014.2", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "omes out of this exchange, it is the need for an urgent conference of potential purchasers. I have heard nothing this evening to say that such a conference will take place, and so I ask the direct question: what plans have the Government for a conference of purchasers, preferably behind closed doors? Certainly no one on this side of the Committee would make any trouble and ask about what was said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.1014.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-11", "file": "debates1971-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7007fa4bf9743908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "g loans to any company. What would be the basis? Would there be any restriction? Would there be interest charges? If so, how much would they be? Would the loans be specified in amount and purpose? Could the sums borrowed be used to obtain the securities of the company? Could the loans be used to help unemployed workers? The Clause is loosely worded, and I should like to ask the Solicitor-General——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-11a.1032.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-12", "file": "debates1971-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "0e4cc3478433b90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1060.4", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYED PERSONS (SAFETY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Buchan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-12", "file": "debates1971-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "0e4cc3478433b90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYED PERSONS (SAFETY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "ted and continued over the years, and it has fulfilled a useful, a vital, purpose in the life of the country. But in law responsibility rests upon the employer. It is he who has to answer before the courts in the last resort for failure to implement the provisions of the Factories Act and regulations made under it. What the Bill seeks to do is to bring, as it were, a pressure group into existence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-12", "file": "debates1971-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "0e4cc3478433b90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYED PERSONS (SAFETY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the force of that. Of course there are bad managements. But the Bill will not improve that situation. Where there are bad managements, there will simply be more interference by these committees which will not have any power to do anything about these matters. I am going round in circles making the same observation again and again", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-12", "file": "debates1971-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "0e4cc3478433b90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYED PERSONS (SAFETY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Yes, and I accept also that a large number of people will have been killed or injured on the roads at the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-12", "file": "debates1971-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "0e4cc3478433b90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYED PERSONS (SAFETY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "e Factory Inspectorate is adequately equipped for its inforcement and advisory duties. In this connecton, I remind the House, and also reassure my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North (Mr. Miscampbell), who particularly raised this point, that recruitment to the Inspectorate has improved dramatically during the past year, and we now have a total of over 700 Inspectors in service. I am sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-12", "file": "debates1971-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "0e4cc3478433b90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1157.5", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAVEL AGENTS AND TOUR AND CHARTER OPERATORS REGISTRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1157.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-12", "file": "debates1971-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "0e4cc3478433b90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1160.2", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned Debate on Second Reading [ 29th January ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-12", "file": "debates1971-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "0e4cc3478433b90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1160.6", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "DIVORCE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned Debate on Second Reading[22nd January.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1160.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-12", "file": "debates1971-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "0e4cc3478433b90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1160.10", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "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/1971-02-12a.1160.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-12", "file": "debates1971-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "0e4cc3478433b90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1160.16", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "CHARITABLE CAUSES (MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DISABLED PERSONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1160.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-12", "file": "debates1971-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "0e4cc3478433b90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1160.20", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "SALE OF TICKETS (OFFENCES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-12a.1160.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1197.3", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "That does not arise on this Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1203.3", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that my hon. Friends and I are delighted that the Union of Post Office Workers and the Post Office are negotiating again, even if it had to be on their own initiative?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1203.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1205.4", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1205.5", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I must put this to the right hon. Gentleman because he now seems to be correcting what he said in reply to me earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1205.5", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I must put this to the right hon. Gentleman because he now seems to be correcting what he said in reply to me earlier. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, indeed. I think the right hon. Gentleman was perfectly aware that what I was asking him was whether all the members of the Court had been consulted about this figure and whether, sitting as a court, they had approved it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1205.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1206.2", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "How could that be on a truly comparable basis with the Electricity Council's offer, considering that the Wilberforce recommendations contained two items, holiday pay and lead-in payments, which were never offered by the Electricity Council? Is not the right hon. Gentleman therefore deliberately misleading the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1206.5", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "rised by the Court to quote the figure I gave. The holiday payment question was considered by the Court and—speaking from memory, but I am almost sure speaking rightly from memory—was mentioned in its Report, and it was indicated that three odd days to be taken by the staff, not collectively all at once but individually as was convenient within the year, would not add to the costs of the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1206.5", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "king from memory, but I am almost sure speaking rightly from memory—was mentioned in its Report, and it was indicated that three odd days to be taken by the staff, not collectively all at once but individually as was convenient within the year, would not add to the costs of the industry— [Interruption.] —because the time off would be absorbed without any overtime payment. Here again I am quoting —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady cannot have understood the employers' offer. The employers' offer was quite clearly expressed as being an estimate of 10 per cent. on the wages bill, the earnings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1207.2", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "when the right hon. Gentleman informed the House on these matters last week, did he not say that 9·7 per cent. was on the average earnings? He was not talking about the wages bill of the industry but about average earnings. Is he now saying that with the so-far undefined wages policy of the Government he is perfectly happy about any wage settlement provided that it is expressed in holidays?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I made it absolutely clear that I was comparing 10·9 per cent. with 9·7 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I made it absolutely clear that I was comparing 10·9 per cent. with 9·7 per cent.— [Interruption.] The right hon. Lady and the right hon. Gentleman can nit-pick as much as they like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " and, of course, these would have had an effect on the individual earnings in the industry quite regardless of this year's settlement. The lead-in payment was entirely concentrated on trying to speed up implementation of this process which was already going on, and the 10 per cent.—or, to be exact, the 9–7 per cent.—was quite clearly regardless of the effect of the incentive bonus payments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "what happened, and neither did their many friends in the R.U.C. who must have known who had been involved in what took place at the Devenney household on that tragic evening. Why should people in Northern Ireland have great confidence in the R.U.C.? People in Catholic areas look at an R.U.C. man and say,\" That is possibly one of the men who beat the brains out of Mr. Devenney with a police baton\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson (Penistone)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson (Penistone)", "preceding_text": "ome away from any visit to Northern Ireland, particularly since the troubles started in 1969. with a one-sided picture. If the hon. Member will forgive me—I do not want to raise the temperature—I thought that, although there was a lot of sound sense in what he said, he did not follow my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt) in a firm public condemnation of extremists on his own side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1546.0", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER KING'S RETIREMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "increase, as Members of Parliament should have had. Old-age pensioners and others on welfare benefit are entitled to be considered, perhaps not before, but certainly at the same time as Horace King. Last week or the week before, the Government said that they could not and would not increase old-age pensions until the autumn review, and they suggested that we had to await the outcome of the review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER KING'S RETIREMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is coming.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "rate went up by 25 per cent. and the others were based upon that, there would be a case for them to argue that they should, in fairness, have the same treatment. I have mentioned the Lawrence Committee, and the Leader of the House interposed. The fact is that the Leader of the House months ago said that he would set up a review body to consider the salaries and conditions of Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-15", "file": "debates1971-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b4a013670cc9cc20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER KING'S RETIREMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "that I have answered all the relevant questions of the hon. Member for West Ham, North. I think that he recognised that most arguments could equally well have been put on Second Reading or in Committee rather than on the Resolution. We have had what I think one newspaper described as one of the longest runs in the Westminster farce in the last few weeks by trying to get this Resolution introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-15a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1587.4", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Look who is talking!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Those remarks go very much wider than the original question, which is about alleged evidence given to the Wilberforce Court of Inquiry. With great respect, the hon. Gentleman should get his facts straight before putting down a Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1592.7", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that these figures will be published at the normal time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1592.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1594.0", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "Yes. My hon. Friend has made it quite clear that this Govern- ment have promised to take off selective employment tax——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1593.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1594.2", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "—and will do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1600.0", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "circumvention of estate duty liability, as being inconsistent with the traditional hostility of the Conservative Party to the scrounger who is by definition circumventing his obligations to the community? Is this not yet a further instance of the class bias of the Conservative Party inasmuch as tax avoidance by the rich is condoned as a wife hus- banding of assets, while obtaining extra benefits——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1599.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1603.7", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL POLICY REVIEW STAFF", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Industrial Relations Bill has been debated for many days, and several days still remain for it to be debated. The hon. Gentleman will, therefore, have several opportunities of being informed on this matter. It is, of course, a serious one. I have always believed in having a strong trade union leadership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1603.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1605.3", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister finally gets round to visiting the regions, will he have the decency to apologise to the unemployed people for the promise he made on 16th June to cut unemployment \"at a stroke\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1605.6", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. I shall be going to the North-East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1605.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1606.3", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s absolutely no reason for firms not to understand what the position is in relation to investment grants or investment allowances. This has been made perfectly clear, and, as I have repeatedly told the House, the differential benefit to the development areas—taking free depreciation and the special arrangements under the Local Employment Acts—will be the same at least as under the existing scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1609.3", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER KING'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "But, surely, Mr. Speaker", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1624.1", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "First of all I would say that neither of us should presume to interpret the word \"induce\". That is a matter for the courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1636.0", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Crowder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Crowder", "preceding_text": "ory to begin to understand the 150 Clauses in the Bill and how they affect his personal rights? I do not like the word \"induce\", and I ask the learned Solicitor-General whether the word \"induce\" is as good as \"a nod is as good as a wink\". I am a little worried about the situation of the Government in relation to the Rolls-Royce contract. Can they be said to have induced a breach of that contract?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Next one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "I assume that, if it has been selected, Amendment No. 753 is on the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1703.0", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "cal point in that assessment is: At what figure did they start? If they were but teeny-weeny meetings with which the hon. Gentleman started, a very small addition to them would not be highly significant. All I know is that the one manifestation against the Bill in my constituency has been a considerable flop, and, from what I hear, that experience is paralleled in a good many parts of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "f registration. The Clause takes account of both these things. One of the most important consequences of registration is that certain acts will be lawful for registered trade unions and their officials acting within the scope of their authority, but will be unlawful for others. If we went back on that, we should reverse the whole pattern of the Bill in this context and undermine its basic purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1721.0", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "I wonder how realistic is the scenario which the hon. Gentleman has just narrated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "f them real, some of them not so real, some of them imaginary, of years gone by. We should be looking forward. Hon. Members opposite are haunted by the past, but we cannot afford in this country to be haunted by the past. We on this side—I hope that I speak for all my hon. Friends—are just as firmly attached to the ideal that an employee should have the right to strike. It is embodied in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1728.1", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "That is a simple trick. The hon. Gentleman is trying to catch me out. The Minister of Labour in the Coalition Government, as is well known, was Ernest Bevin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1739.3", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "duce another person to break a contract to which that other person is a party … Once the Clause is passed and I go to my Ford workers and say to them as a shop steward, \"I am telling you that you must not strike\", what will happen if I know that on the following day all the directors of the company will be going on strike, or its equivalent, since they will be away attending Ascot or Epsom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1739.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1739.3", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "teward, \"I am telling you that you must not strike\", what will happen if I know that on the following day all the directors of the company will be going on strike, or its equivalent, since they will be away attending Ascot or Epsom? [ Interruption. ]—What happens if I then tell the workers, \"Do not come out on strike and do not let us go and discuss the matter with these people at Ascot or Epsom\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1739.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1741.7", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. I am not giving way. This is the trouble with hon. Members opposite. They just will not listen. \"I am not giving way\" means that I am not giving way. I am explaining that there are 101 ways in which this Clause can be interpreted and evaded. I oppose the Clause because it is punitive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1741.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1742.0", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"And you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "present, admitted that if a journalist—it may be my hon. Friend the Member for Barking or my right hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Cross-man), or one of the radio or television commentators—happens to get an unofficial striker on to television and happens to use words Which could be called an inducement to him and his colleagues to break contracts, he can be liable under this Clause", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1742.0", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "his; I think that you should take action\", and they then come out on strike? I did not mean them to come out on strike; I meant them to go through the usual procedure. However, as I suggested that they should take action, I suppose that I could be reported under the Clause because I, or any member of the public, suggested that they should take action which resulted in the furtherance of a dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1742.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1746.2", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Then let us consider the penalties. If, on visiting an industrial estate, I am asked by some workpeople in a factory \"What do you think of our job?\" and I reply \"I would not work here for three times the money you boys get\", would I be inducing them to strike?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1746.3", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1746.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1747.6", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Was my right hon. Friend here earlier when the Solicitor-General admitted—this could apply to him—that if he were to write in his union journal—the New Dawn, I think it is—that others should join workers who were on strike, or that others in other industries should join them, he could be liable for just writing that article?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1747.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1759.1", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And they break.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "with all the points which have been put, so I shall come to it. For example, the proposition that due notice should be given within the limited range of the Clause by unofficial unregistered strike leaders is not unreasonable or out of tune with what was said by the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer). He said that in many situations the causes of tension build up over a period of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1761.1", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " of that contract; that he should have the intention to procure the breach of that contract, and that he should have brought persuasion to bear with the result of producing that breach. In other words, he must be shown to have acted purposely to secure those breaches with the intention of causing them. Without deliberation and intention the point of the effectiveness of the Clause would not arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1763.3", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "The point was dealt with by my hon. Friend the Member for Paddington, South. No employer will be concerned to create a great sleuth-like organisation of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1763.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1766.0", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "en treated once again by the hon. and learned Gentleman and his hon. Friends to this ambivalent approach which says: \"You are taking these things to extremes. This is only to deal with extreme cases; it will not hurt anyone.\" But outside the House they parade up and down the country persuading their own supporters that they are going to murder the unions. It is time that they made up their minds——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1768.1", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I must comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1768.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1774.2", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the Clause stand part of the Bill. As many as are of that opinion, say \"Aye\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1774.4", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Hughes", "preceding_text": "Mr. Mark Hughes (Durham) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1774.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1775.2", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Question is, That the Clause stand part——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1775.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1775.6", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "s I understand it, this Bill is not usually debated at this stage and that this is a most extraordinary procedure, and as I further believe that this Bill enables the Government to pay the salaries of hon Members on both sides of the Committee, and while we are not really interested in the other side losing their salaries but are concerned on this side, I beg to move, That the Question be now put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1775.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "ities on which the Treasury spending of money can be discussed, and it would be wrong to give the impression to the public that the £3,000 million with which the Bill is concerned can be discussed only on this occasion. That is not true. My difficulty is that we have had a Second Reading debate already. I am not aware that any representations were made through the usual channels, or in other ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1784.2", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Lewis", "preceding_text": "This is the point I was coming to. He was very knowledgeable about these matters and year after year on this Bill asked for an explanation from the Treasury Bench as to what each word meant. I am asking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1784.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1784.2", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Lewis", "preceding_text": "This is the point I was coming to. He was very knowledgeable about these matters and year after year on this Bill asked for an explanation from the Treasury Bench as to what each word meant. I am asking—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"] I am on a point of order. Do not tell me what to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1784.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1784.5", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "it would be better if he seeks to catch my eye and we will see how we get on. I would have thought on the whole that the Committee did not want to carry this discussion beyond the limits of endurance of all of us. We have a lot of work to do. We had a late night last night. Indeed, we shall have another tomorrow night. I would have thought that, on the whole, we have had an interesting discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1784.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mark Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Hughes", "preceding_text": "In view of your Rulings, Sir Robert, I shall, with diffidence, miss out various parts of what I was going to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1788.5", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member should not address me on that subject. He knows that it is not a point of order. When the Chair has endeavoured to clear up these little difficulties, they are best left there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1788.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1789.0", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We heard them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "If I had heard any such remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I suggest, with the utmost respect, that perhaps you may not be correct in your interpretation of this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1796.4", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I know that I have been trying to speak for 20 minutes, but that is quite different. In any event, the hon. Member for Rutland and Stamford (Mr. Kenneth Lewis) has taken more than his fair share of that time. If we in this House want our procedures to be respected, we must see that they are expressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1796.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I can accept that Motion at the moment. In any event—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-16", "file": "debates1971-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e62268c67dd16a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1798.1", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "ael Stewart) gave in his speech was that the House had already resolved that certain things from which this Consolidated Fund Bill emanated would take place. Because we had passed a Resolution to the effect of the purposes contained with the Consolidated Fund Bill we could not consider in detail these matters. It must be open to this Committee to consider in detail, if not those words in Clause 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-16a.1798.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1836.0", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Squalid.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The present system has led to the existence of a cosseted and privileged class in our society—the council house tenant. These people are jealous of their privileged position—because a council house is a prize hard to come by. … Charge the rich man £1,000 a year rent—that'll sort the problem out\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1835.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1836.5", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the reduction in housing starts has occurred largely in the local authority sector? On Monday the Minister went to my constituency. Will he also go to boroughs like Croydon where a woman has to live in a car because of the cutback in council housing and make sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1836.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1840.0", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. EMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "yielding attitude of the Corporation has only succeeded in stiffening the determination of the postal workers to continue their action, and that the country, therefore, now faces an indefinite strike, with increasing dislocation of private and commercial convenience? Is he also aware that Mr. Ryland has made it pretty clear that he is prepared to pay more, if only somebody would tell him to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1840.0", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " Association of Post Office Executives, has made it clear that it has gone to arbitration in a very different situation, where the pay claim was being dealt with on a Civil Service basis, and that the association has made it clear that it supports the Union of Post Office Workers, the postal workers, in refusing to go to arbitration where no clear criteria have yet been laid down? In view Of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1840.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I think it would be better—I would like to say this to the House—if we did not indulge in questions and comments which involve criticising or praising one side or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1841.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1841.2", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1844.2", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ion meant by its mediation proposal and suggested that the union should meet the Post Office again to make sure that it did understand, Mr. Jackson said that he completely trusted me and would prefer me to convey that understanding. I cannot believe Mr. Jackson would have done that in the presence of six fellow members of his executive if the charge made against me by the hon. Gentleman were true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1844.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nothing at all.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman now tell us what he proposes to do to end the deadlock?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1850.1", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "ADJOURMENT DEBATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Where were you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "ill, made certain inquiries about the progress of business, and discovered that we were likely to spend several hours on the other matters. However, the Committee having completed its discussions on the first Bill, the Government, without any warning to me, withdrew without notice the rest of the day's business, whereupon the House adjourned, I not being in my place to open the Adjournment debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1852.8", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James A. Dunn (Liverpool, Kirkdale)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James A. Dunn (Liverpool, Kirkdale)", "preceding_text": "g could be brought into play. Even a meeting called to discuss an industrial dispute and a decission to make a collection to send to some special fund to alleviate hardship could come under aiding, abetting or financing. I have no doubt that with the versatility of those engaged in the legal profession, including the hon. and learned Gentleman, even procuring might eventually appear in the charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1852.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1852.8", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James A. Dunn (Liverpool, Kirkdale)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James A. Dunn (Liverpool, Kirkdale)", "preceding_text": "rely. I hope that this will be taken on board and looked at very carefully. 4.15 p.m. Any direct or indirect support or any observations intended perhaps to be advisory could be caught by Clause 86. Even Members of Parliament who might be asked to attend a strike meeting in relation to the Post Office workers, if they advise that under the circumstances, because of statements made from both sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1852.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1863.3", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "If this is the interpretation of the Clause, some of our complaints can go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1865.0", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I hope that I shall be thought to be doing my best to help the Committee in interpreting the Clauses, and I want there to be no misunderstanding about this. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme) has raised a question about Clause 87. Clause 87 imposes a specific narrow restriction on secondary strike action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1870.2", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson (Penistone)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson (Penistone)", "preceding_text": "efeat staring them in the face, to feel that there were fellow workers who would show solidarity with them. No false distinction between unofficial and official disputes is involved here at all. The way the Bill is drawn means that both official and unofficial action can constitute an unfair industrial practice. The distinction is between unfair industrial practices and other industrial practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1870.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1885.7", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I asked the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Waddington) to reply to an intervention which was in fact a point of substance. We may have been confused in thinking that a point of order may have occurred. I am quite prepared now, in view of the representations made, to consider a point of order. The Chair can always come back to a point if one has made a mistake—and I admit it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1885.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You have just said it is out of order.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "\"Hell\" in certain contexts is neither unparliamentary nor——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1886.2", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "Let the Chair finish a sentence, for goodness' sake. There is a list of proscribed words in Erskine May—I think round about page 712. The word \"hell\", to my memory, is not included, but when the word \"hell\" is used in the context in which the hon. Member used it I think it exceeds parliamentary politeness and decorum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1886.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1886.3", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. As you know, Mr. Jennings, in the many years you and I have been here I have always had a high regard for the Chair. I am a little concerned about the Ruling which you have just given, because in the heat of the moment, a week ago, when I was talking about this Bill, I said that the Government were in a hell of a mess and the country was in a hell of a mess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1886.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1899.2", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "h is a phase more easily uttered than defined. We are not seeking to do any such thing. We recognise the importance of the trade union movement and to workers in their own organisations to be able to rely upon and to invoke the assistance of borrowed strength. We merely suggest that there are some areas and some situations where that is either not necessary or not desirable to proceed in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1901.1", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I am reluctant to be drawn into answering that question precisely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1908.0", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker (Doncaster)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker (Doncaster)", "preceding_text": "m sorry that the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Waddington) is not in his place. I understood, after listening to his speech, why there were only 20 people at his meeting in Doncaster last Friday evening. I could not help recalling while listening to him some words that Christ addressed to the lawyers. I am not given to quoting the scriptures, but it seems so very apposite on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1914.2", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "It is not the strike that remains an unfair practice. The point is that the original inducing by the unofficial leader of the first strike, if that be the case, is unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1914.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends in earlier debates, and my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone again today, raised the spectre of the corporate State. Let there be no mistake. The road on which the Government are embarked, as exemplified in these Clauses, is the path that has been trodden by every Fascist dictator this century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1923.6", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "ly Clause 87, and I am here concerned with subsections (2) and (3), is the death policy for certain traditional and basic rights which the trade union movement regards as essential for the legitimate conduct of its affairs. As with all insurance policies, the small print of the document must be read. I have said before that the clear intention of the Tory Party is to maim the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1923.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1942.1", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awdry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awdry", "preceding_text": "Those of use who have attended these debates realise that some hon. Members adopt some parts of Donovan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1944.3", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding (Newcastle-under-Lyme)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding (Newcastle-under-Lyme)", "preceding_text": "be able to take advan- tage of the returns from 19 factories. That is not equality of bargaining. It is precisely because of the existence of inequality of this sort that 19th century employers decided that trade unions should be granted some immunity before the law. The issue before us is clear. This is an attempt completely to change the balance of power between the trade union and the employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1944.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1950.4", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "perfect. That is why we share minds and experiences within the general framework of the Bill to make it as good and acceptable as possible. I have a complaint against the Member for Putney (Mr. Hugh Jenkins). He used the very example that I wanted to use. It is well founded, and I hope that my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General will heed it. My Amendment No. 462, which I shall not move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1950.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1951.0", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They are excellent.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": " it as good and acceptable as possible. I have a complaint against the Member for Putney (Mr. Hugh Jenkins). He used the very example that I wanted to use. It is well founded, and I hope that my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General will heed it. My Amendment No. 462, which I shall not move—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] On further consideration, I do not think that the words I put down are good——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1950.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1970.1", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "am certain that lawyers on the other side of the Committee will be only too keen to put me right. This part of the Bill, like most of the Bill, is based upon the Taft-Hartley Act. There is no question about that. I have a copy of that Act. Section 8 (b) (4), dealing with this matter, is headed, Unfair labour practices\". That Section is taken out almost word for word, though put in a different way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1970.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1973.3", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "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/1971-02-17a.1973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1974.3", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman wags his head. If, when I sit down, he is still wagging his head, I shall have failed to make any impression on him. But that should not deter one from trying. I do not challenge his sincerity, but in his peroration the hon. Member for Walton got a little carried away. He said the Clause is intended to tilt the balance wholly in favour of an employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1979.1", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "if the Under-Secretary could answer some of the points which are of considerable concern to us. We started with a situation in which we had a primary employer in a dispute with a trade union, and we put forward a number of cases concerning lines 36 and 37 of Clause 86 and the interpretation being placed on line 4 of Clause 87. We said that if pressure were put on an employer directly to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1986.0", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "I do not think that any members of the M.G.W.U. present tonight would be inclined to agree with the hon. Gentleman's reference to its being a tame union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1986.0", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "ise. I have known of staff associations, for instance, which have been and would be the type of organisation to which one would refer as \"tame\" and to which employers can say, \"There is no need for us to recognise you as another bona fide union because we have one.\" I accept that point. To return to my point, the hon. Gentleman was either suggesting or inferring that the M.G.W.U. was a tame union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1999.1", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Poland?", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I have not very much time. Whatever hon. Members opposite may say, I am not seeking to advance a system of industrial relations comparable to that which prevails east of the Iron Curtain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1999.1", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Spain and Greece?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I have not very much time. Whatever hon. Members opposite may say, I am not seeking to advance a system of industrial relations comparable to that which prevails east of the Iron Curtain. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Poland?] The hon. Gentleman talks about Poland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.1999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.2005.11", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd (Portsmouth, Lang-stone)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd (Portsmouth, Lang-stone)", "preceding_text": "deed, I have raised only one point of order in the last six years. On this occasion I do so because it seems to me that until this point the Committee has for nine and a half hours behaved in a proper, constitutional and acceptable way to ourselves and the country. We have reached a point in time where we have passed from that region of responsible behaviour to the region of utterly irresponsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.2005.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.2011.7", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ervice. If some of my hon. Friends want to know who \"Ted\" is, it is none other than the Prime Minister. Had hon. Members opposite known that the Prime Minister was about to sack \"Clegg\" without any reason, obviously interfering with industrial relations, that would surely have affected their voting on this Clause. I ask that the vote should be held up until we have Ted here to give an explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.2011.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-17", "file": "debates1971-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6597d5b6d8d8a5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.2011.9", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is in bed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I do not know where he is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-17a.2011.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2120.7", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE (STAFF)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have stated that the estimate will be published in the customary way at the proper time. There is no question of there not being an estimate. The second part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question is not strictly relevant, but I am prepared to deal with it. Professor Hugh Clegg's term as an arbitrator was due to expire on 10th March, and he has not been reappointed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2120.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2121.2", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE (STAFF)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2121.2", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE (STAFF)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman did answer my first question; he dodged it. He did not say why he did not object at the time. Nor did the right hon. Gentleman answer my second question. Has he not yet studied the subject sufficiently to know that when three judges are appoin ted to a tribunal or a court—if the trade unions are consulted, as they were by the Government—they act as judges and not as advocates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2123.7", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "Yes, but since my Question dealt with the aspect of public relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2123.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2126.1", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "As to the question about arbitration, I note two things: first, that the Civil Service side in the central pay negotiations have been quite content to go to arbitration, in spite of knowing the decision first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2126.1", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"He did not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "uite content to go to arbitration, in spite of knowing the decision first— [Interruption.] They knew the position when they took their decision. The second thing is that the refusal of the Union of Post Office Workers to go to arbitration completely antedates this decision. I should like to add that this matter was not mentioned to me in the slightest way by Mr. Jackson in talking to me yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2128.0", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLaren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLaren", "preceding_text": "Would it surprise my right hon. Friend to hear that postmen in my constituency have been to see me to say that they think the Post Office offer to be fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2128.1", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I am interested to hear that. It underlines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2128.3", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "No. the last part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question is the complete opposite of the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2128.3", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "r things, financial targets. As I believe is well known, the Post Office is at the moment running into deficit. To cure that situation, it has had to apply, as from this week, very large increases in postal charges—increases far larger than ever before. In spite of this, it has made an offer, a substantial one, to its employees. However, it has said, and the House must accept this, that it cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2131.2", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I shall, of course, ensure that my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Employment and the Prime Minister note what the right hon. Gentleman has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2131.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2139.0", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (LONDON DEMONSTRATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "hat vehicular traffic in Oxford Street and Regent Street should be banned on Sunday, 21st February, when over 100,000 of Her Majesty's loyal subjects who are active trade unionists will be marching, the Home Secretary thus failing to take full and adequate precautions to prevent interference with the demonstrators, and bearing in mind the disorders that will take place as a result of this refusal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2138.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2139.1", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (LONDON DEMONSTRATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes. I intended to move my Motion formally, Mr. Speaker, but as you have decided upon it without hearing it I want, as is customary, to submit a few points. First, I submit that the Motion is most definite and most specific. It is urgent and it is of public importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2139.1", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (LONDON DEMONSTRATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes. I intended to move my Motion formally, Mr. Speaker, but as you have decided upon it without hearing it I want, as is customary, to submit a few points. First, I submit that the Motion is most definite and most specific. It is urgent and it is of public importance. [Interruption.] There is no doubt that there will definitely be a demonstration of 100,000 people in London on Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2141.2", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins (Birmingham, Stechford)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins (Birmingham, Stechford)", "preceding_text": "d persuade himself that we deliberately engineered it for electioneering purposes, which is, quite frankly, just childish. If elections were the cause of inflation there must have been an awful lot of other Governments in the world who were under the mistaken impression that they were facing an election in 1970. The dates of elections are not normally matters about which Governments make mistakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2147.1", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They should read the Economist. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "force Inquiry told the Government that they cannot ignore prices in dealing with wages, Fifth, it produced an award which, so far from being a guide line—under a different name—for the future, has been differently interpreted by nearly everybody who has studied it, but hardly anybody, except the Secretary of State for Employment and a few of his colleagues, believe that it is 10·9 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2147.1", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "tly interpreted by nearly everybody who has studied it, but hardly anybody, except the Secretary of State for Employment and a few of his colleagues, believe that it is 10·9 per cent. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"They should read the Economist. \"] It is not only the Economist. Many other commentators in almost every paper of every shade of opinion have said so. So where do the Government go from here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2152.3", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will not be\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well, for my right hon. Friend has dealt with that point time and time again. I would say this to the right hon. Gentleman. His right hon. Friend's speech this afternoon would have been a little more convincing if it had not been totally belied by his performance as Chancellor. The right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor for three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2152.3", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not as fast as now\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "been totally belied by his performance as Chancellor. The right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor for three years. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You will not be\".] During that time the standard of living of the British people rose by less than 1 per cent. a year. At the end of that period there was a full abandonment of all remnants of an incomes policy and prices were rising faster than at any time for 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2153.1", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ion? Only a few minutes ago the right hon. Gentleman accused the Government of shuffling off their responsibilities. Does he not remember that just six months before the General Election, as Chancel lor, he came to this House to speak in support of the then Government's White Paper which laid down a norm for pay settlements of 2½ per cent. to 4½ per cent.? That was in December, 1969.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2154.1", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister nods approval—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2154.1", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " actually happened—in every single month between then and the election the rate of price increases was higher than during the month when the right hon. Gentleman spoke—every single one of them. When the right hon. Gentleman handed over the reins of office in June of last year pay settlements were running at the rate not of 2½ per cent. to 4½ per cent—his own figure—but of 9 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2154.4", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "t now, in rather mixed capacities. In talking about the price increases in those early months of 1970 would he recognise that the one on which he went to town, with his right hon. Friend, on I think 20th May was a 2·1 points increase in the cost of living at the seasonal peak of the year, made up partly by seasonal food price movements but mainly by Tory councils increasing rents and rates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2154.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2155.1", "colnum": "2155", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman cannot avoid the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2155.2", "colnum": "2155", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "low the present rate of cost inflation to continue. There can be no dispute that the continuation of cost inflation at the present rate would have the most serious consequences both domestically and externally. At home it would lead to an arbitrary and haphazard redistribution of income with the main sufferers, as always with inflation, being the poor, pensioners and those living on fixed incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2155.2", "colnum": "2155", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "turn, this would be bound to have a cumulative effect on those employed in other industries and services. The present level of unemployment is, as the right hon. Gentleman indicated, as wasteful in economic terms as it is in human terms, but there can be no doubt that one of the principal causes of the increases in unemployment has been the excessive increases in pay settlements. It is, I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2160.1", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "There are those who believe that the policy of the last Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2162.6", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "we could then bring about a much better use of resources and sustain a higher pressure of demand throughout the economy as a whole. This is accepted on both sides of the House. Since we came to office we have been making a further and thorough-going study of regional policy. The first results of our thinking were contained in the White Paper on Investment Incentives which we published in October.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2162.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2164.3", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Many right hon. and hon. Gentlemen have particular interests and no doubt in due course will wish to bring them forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2166.5", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ctober 1 explained that the incentive to industry to go to the regions was not any less than it was previously under the régime operated by the right hon. Friends. What we have now done in the light of our consideration—I thought the right hon. Member for Stechford would welcome it—is to designate a number of other and additional areas as special development areas and as intermediate areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2166.5", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "an it was previously under the régime operated by the right hon. Friends. What we have now done in the light of our consideration—I thought the right hon. Member for Stechford would welcome it—is to designate a number of other and additional areas as special development areas and as intermediate areas. [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister now asks me another question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2175.1", "colnum": "2175", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have not tried.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "preceding_text": ") made a speech which, whatever else it was, was not lacking in courage. First of all, he appeared to regard it as a grave indictment of the present Administration that in the period of eight months they have failed wholly to cure the results of the preceding six years' economic maladministration, and went out of his way, with a most dramatic gesture, to say that they had failed to cure inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2179.1", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ice stability is to be achieved. Is that view accepted by hon. Gentlemen opposite? It comes, as they will recognise, from their White Paper \"Productivity, Prices and Incomes Policy After 1969\", Cmnd. 4237 of December, 1969. It is these same right hon. Gentlemen who were responsible for the clear, wellset-out statement of the case for restraint who now seem to support any wage demand, however high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2223.1", "colnum": "2223", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Horam (Gateshead, West)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He might be, very soon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Horam (Gateshead, West)", "preceding_text": " all three sides of the industrial equation. We remember when the Prime Minister was Minister of Labour, and, perhaps in wiser days, he restrained himself from bringing in a trade union Bill. The membership of the Front Bench opposite has changed a little, but not all that much. The right hon. Member for Barnet still sits on it, now as Home Secretary. In many ways, we wish that he were Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2223.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2237.0", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies (Isle of Thanet", "preceding_text": "on the one hand secure a policy of gradual disengagement and on the other hand be able to draw the attention of the Department to the best places to direct its efforts. So far as the Isle of Thanet is concerned, Margate has today unemployment of nearly 9 per cent. and Ramsgate of nearly 7 per cent. In the summer the figure is still 5 per cent.—in excess, I am told, of anything in the Principality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2242.1", "colnum": "2242", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I will say more about the Post Office strike in a moment, although we are to have a full debate on it on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2242.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2246.0", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e would have this small-time spite, scarcely to be dignified even with the name of malice, this obstinacy masquerading as courage, particularly, as I say, associated with the right hon. Gentleman. The right hon. Gentleman's difficulty—it applies to his Government, too, but most of all to him—is that he knows, and the country knows, that his Government were elcted on a lie. Shall I quote the words?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2242.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2246.2", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "\"At a stroke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I have not mentioned prices before. What was the pledge? \"We will reduce prices\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2247.0", "colnum": "2247", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ll. \"We will reduce prices when we consider it may be suitable or convenient, or about five years after we have entered the Common Market, whichever period happens to be the longer.\" Was that the tocsin on which he gathered in the housewives' vote at the election? We know what happened to the right hon. Gentleman. He tries to pretend that he is so tough, but he loses his nerve at critical moments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2247.2", "colnum": "2247", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "This debate has been built up by right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite as a major Motion of censure on Her Majesty's Government. Those of us who have listened to most, or a great deal, of the debate today must have been astonished at what has been taking place. Seldom have I heard the right hon. Mem- ber for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins), fluent as he is, so unconvincing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2247.2", "colnum": "2247", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "Never has it been more clearly described than in the words of the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale. He was determined that his own Government were going to abdicate their responsibilities and he did his utmost to ensure it. Hon. Members opposite have clearly demonstrated tonight, as, indeed, they have demonstrated day after day and night after night in these last few weeks, how they behave in opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2247.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2250.3", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2250.6", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "BD; per cent. and 4½ per cent. He did not get it. He was quite incapable of getting it—so that he has no voluntary incomes policy to put before the House, either. The right hon. Gentleman announced a programme of industrial relations as the counterweight to abandoning his statutory incomes policy, but within two months he was jettisoned by his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2250.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2250.6", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s as the counterweight to abandoning his statutory incomes policy, but within two months he was jettisoned by his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition— [Interruption] —and, as a result of that, he had no incomes policy, no policy for the reform of industrial relations and he got a wage explosion. The proof of that inflation is the escalating rate during the last years of that Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2250.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2250.6", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t. [Interruption.] In 1968 we had an index of average wage earnings which was 7½8 per cent. up on the year before. A year later, in 1969, it was 8½2 per cent. up, and by June, 1970, when the right hon. Gentleman went out of office, it was 11·9 per cent. up. That shows the very rapidly accelerating rate, reflected in the rise in prices and working through the system since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2250.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2250.6", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n the year before. A year later, in 1969, it was 8½2 per cent. up, and by June, 1970, when the right hon. Gentleman went out of office, it was 11·9 per cent. up. That shows the very rapidly accelerating rate, reflected in the rise in prices and working through the system since then. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it now?\"] I am pointing out to the right hon. Gentleman what the position was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2250.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2251.6", "colnum": "2251", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2251.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2252.0", "colnum": "2252", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman must take the calendar year. What I am pointing out is the increasing rate of acceleration under the last three years of Labour Government. It is with that that this Government are dealing, and dealing now. The right hon. Gentleman has criticised us because of the increases in prices in the nationalised industries. He was doing that in a popular, well-paying newspaper last Sunday", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2253.1", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "wever skilled, can survive, whether as a firm or in secure jobs, on unprofitable and loss-making ventures. Nor can these long be disguised by Government subventions and Government subsidies on the scale of modern industry. This, therefore, is the lesson which everyone here must learn and which the nation as a whole must learn. It is a lesson which must be learnt by all sectors of British industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2253.1", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "learn and which the nation as a whole must learn. It is a lesson which must be learnt by all sectors of British industry. [Interruption.] If hon. Members opposite are not prepared to learn these lessons, then they will continue to support industries which will not be strong enough to make their own way in the competitive world outside. The Government have today announced further regional policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2253.1", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "S: \"Oh!\" His claim shows how out of touch he is. What have the Government done socially? They have improved the benefits for those who most need them. They have provided more money for primary schools and for hospitals. They have provided more money for the widows and more money for those who are retired and over 80. Those policies are not divisive. These are policies which are uniting the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2257.1", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that hon. Gentlemen opposite wanted to have a serious discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2257.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2257.4", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme (Salford, West)", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2257.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2258.5", "colnum": "2258", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull, North)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2259.2", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara (seated and covered)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara (seated and covered)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In fact, I have two points of order which I wish to raise with you, Mr. Speaker. On the first point, Mr. Speaker, you have called me for a point of order and 1 was attempting to make that point. I was apologising to you for having to raise my voice because of the hubbub from the pposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2260.0", "colnum": "2260", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "My second point of order is this. I think that this must be placed on the record. The Leader of the Opposition alleged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-18", "file": "debates1971-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "31fbb163b761cdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2265.4", "colnum": "2265", "heading": "GREECE AND SPAIN (SHIPPING CONVENTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Before dealing with these Orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-18a.2265.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2310.1", "colnum": "2310", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward (Tynemouth)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward (Tynemouth)", "preceding_text": " to ensure, so far as possible in a very difficult world, that our region in future becomes prosperous. In recent years, with the rundown in mining, the mining community has behaved magnificently. It was a very difficult decision for the Chairman of the Nationalised Coal Board to take, and the mining community co-operated in a remarkable way. Sometimes I fight the miners, sometimes I support them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2313.1", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "instead of always thinking of south to north and north to south communications we occasionally looked at the east-west position. One has to be pretty strong to undertake a train journey from Manchester to Newcastle. It would be of great assistance to the unemployment situation in our part of the world if the Government were to get rid of the selective employment tax. We have had a lot of promises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2340.3", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliott", "preceding_text": "ch today as when I used to receive his statistical matter. I should like to make one or two comments on the hon. Gentleman's speech, because some of his points were somewhat remarkable. The hon. Gentleman suggested that the Hailsham Plan was a panic measure. The Hailsham Plan is still the basis on which regional development, not only in the North-East but in other development areas, is proceeding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2344.0", "colnum": "2344", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliott", "preceding_text": "rivate and in public industry, there is very little future for it. I am afraid that the criticisms made this morning have a hollow ring from the Labour Party. It is necessary to repeat some statistics. In 1964, 40,267 people were unemployed in the Northern Region; in 1970, the figure was 67,573. Yet we are given the full responsibility after just seven months in office for this fantastic increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2355.1", "colnum": "2355", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": " bypass is opened later this year and it will take much of the remaining traffic out of Kendal. Most of the traffic which formerly used Kendal has disappeared with the opening of the M6. In terms of an improving environment the Government can do much to help with the improvement of Kendal as a tourist centre. People remember Kendal as a place of delays, traffic jams, exhaust fumes and frustration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2356.1", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had been here when I began my speech he would have heard me say that my family also comes from Sunderland, a fact which perhaps he did not know. I hope that the Government will think, if they get the opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2377.0", "colnum": "2377", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Urwin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Urwin", "preceding_text": ". The right hon. Member referred to £1,000 million injected between 1965 and 1969; it is a matter for conjecture whether his Government, in a similar situation, would have been as generous as that. The plain fact of life is that, by 18th June, 1970, there was a new feeling abroad in the Northern Region. There was a buoyancy, a new spirit beginning to develop, despite the high unemployment figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2394.0", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I wanted to tell the Minister that the whole of my constituency has been a special development area for three years. It has three new advance factories without tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2394.0", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I wanted to tell the Minister that the whole of my constituency has been a special development area for three years. It has three new advance factories without tenants—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote.\"]—so that the hon. Gentleman's suggestion is wrong. The kind of prosperity which hon. Gentlemen opposite have talked about is…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2394.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2394.9", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [12th February].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2394.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2394.13", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2394.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2395.16", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2395.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2395.20", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [29th January].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2395.19"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2396.6", "colnum": "2396", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2396.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2396.12", "colnum": "2396", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2396.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-19", "file": "debates1971-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbbc7258a19aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2396.16", "colnum": "2396", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-19a.2396.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.4.4", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman is joking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, despite the speech of one of my right hon. Friends last week, the only way in which the Government can get Britain into the Community is by relying upon some support from this side of the House, where there is, perhaps, more support than some may have supposed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.4.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's quotation seems to suggest that the policy of the Russian Government does not change, and I am glad to say that in 89 years the policy of Her Majesty's Government has not changed either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.31.4", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "No, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.31.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SUPPLY OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "There are various quotations and letters in the White Paper which may have been studied by the Law Officers of the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications should study with care the letter which was circulated only two days ago by the Association of Post Office Executives, which is one of the unions that the Secretary of State for Employment has quoted approvingly because they have been good boys as compared with what he calls the bad boys of the U.P.W.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " because the old Civil Service understandings had been breached, without any alternative having been put in their place. We are now told that the criterion—a criterion which the Government have used and quoted time and again in this House—is exclusively what the Post Office can afford without putting up postal charges or altering them in any way. Of course we accept that agreements should be kept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ce. We are now told that the criterion—a criterion which the Government have used and quoted time and again in this House—is exclusively what the Post Office can afford without putting up postal charges or altering them in any way. Of course we accept that agreements should be kept—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—provided, first and foremost, that they were agreements which the union was making consciously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.65.6", "colnum": "65", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "—whose speech I have read, rests hard on arbitration, and I believe that he is right to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.65.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.65.6", "colnum": "65", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "—whose speech I have read, rests hard on arbitration, and I believe that he is right to do so— [Interruption.] Does the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.65.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I agree with the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I agree with the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—when he says that there was a genuine misunderstanding between the two sides about arbitration.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "standing between the two sides about arbitration.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"]—I am answering the question by quoting what the right hon. Gentleman said last week; not what he is saying this week. I agree with the letter in The Times making it clear that the union was prepared to nominate the chairman of the arbitration tribunal and the Post Office was not until after the dispute began.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "So it is not true to say that arbitration is impossible because of the slowness to put forward names—I admit slowness—on the Post Office side. I do not know the reasons and I do not wish to judge the reasons for that relative slowness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"YOU are frightened of a court.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "What would have been infinitely preferable to a strike would be to honour an agreement on arbitration. Fourth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.73.3", "colnum": "73", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "mparable basis. These are matters of principle which the Government regard as of first importance. The appointment of a further inquiry, which would inevitably have to traverse this ground again within two weeks of the Wilberforce Report having traversed it and reported on it, would be both superfluous in the national interest and gratuitously damaging to the authority of the Wilberforce findings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.73.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "rose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "ions of the nation. They have among their numbers people who go out in all sorts of weather and in all kinds of terrain—from the Highlands and Islands to the rural and urban areas—to deliver the mail. They man our telephone exchanges, which serve isolated communities, and Post Office counters throughout the nation. They are basically decent people who seek nothing more than to serve the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Are you aware, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that there has been heckling from hon. Gentlemen opposite for some time while my hon. Friend has been speaking and that you have taken no notice of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.78.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.78.4", "colnum": "78", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "You should control hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.78.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.85.7", "colnum": "85", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Clegg?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " parties. What could be fairer than that? It follows very closely the well-established practice of the Industrial Courts Act, 1919. Surely there can be no great difficulty in finding a suitably independent Chairman to preside over the tribunal? Surely there must in the great resources of this country be at least one just man? Otherwise we should be an even worse case than the Cities of the Plain.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.85.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Lord George-Brown.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " discussion about that. The Government were clearly within their legal entitlement not to continue his appointment. Whether he was right to accept nomination as a trade union representative in view of his position as an indepenment Chairman, whether the Government were wise to dispense with his services and in the manner in which they did it. are matters which can be discussed on another occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "Like the right hon. Member for Blackburn, I have no time to give way. No series of speeches opposite can obscure the plain fact that we have all been finding out in the past few days from our constituency postbag—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "rkers or its leader. I was careful not to be drawn in a radio broadcast on Friday, and I will not be drawn now. I do not believe that Mr. Jackson realises the full effect of his strike on innocent people. I am not, as the hon. Member for Watford (Mr. Raphael Tuck) said, using the unions as a whipping boy. That is not my purpose. I want to put these facts to Mr. Jackson—he was sitting here earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.102.3", "colnum": "102", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "to work which would gradually undermine the union, but they were wrong. In last Wednesday's Guardian, Mr. Keith Harper wrote: Try as it will, the Post Office has completely failed to break the backbone of the strike. Young telephone girls have walked side by side with middle-aged postmen in the many demonstrations which have been arranged throughout the country by the Union of Post Office Workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "at the strike has made many people decide to leave the service. The rest have hung on, hoping that the dispute may bring long nursed grievances to a head. Why does Tom Jackson, the ebullient postal workers' leader, persist in making this stand when he knows that the Union's claim will not be met? The answer is that he has ben pushed by his 205,000 members into action. That is Mr. Harper's opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a distortion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "preceding_text": "argument to which we have listened. The right hon. Lady suggested that she did not want to get involved in the detail of the case, but it would have been difficult to listen to her speech without thinking that what she was urging on the Post Office Board was a much higher offer and that what she was criticising the Government for was not having forced the Post Office into that higher offer before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "rose >—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "s been achieved so far was an agreement in January, 1970. It was a condition of the January, 1970, settlement that the direct linkage of pay and conditions of service hitherto existing between staff of the Post Office and those of the Civil Service should be broken. There is therefore no question, by means of a White Paper or anything else, that the arrangements prevailing then should now prevail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "But the Government sacked the man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You sacked him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "It is depressing that right hon. and hon. Members opposite have so little faith in their case that they have to resort to chanting on these occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "It is depressing that right hon. and hon. Members opposite have so little faith in their case that they have to resort to chanting on these occasions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You sacked him.\"] That arbitration took place in the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "ions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You sacked him.\"] That arbitration took place in the—[ Interruption. ] The noble Lord, Lord George-Brown, said only yesterday that if he were in the same position he would take exactly the same decision—[ Interruplion. ] But, as right hon. and hon. Members opposite know that that was never the reason advanced by the Union of post Office Workers for not acceppting arbitration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "I cited that award because it happened to be a high one. There were special circumstances in that case where differentials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.111.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "e Government is now running at a reduced rate of increase. It is less than that of the previous Government, as published in the White Paper, and as the position stood at the time of the last election. This is true both taking charges into account and ignoring the effect of them. Reductions in expenditure on the direct use of resources are not solely due to increased charges, as has been suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "eal resources, though rising faster than public expenditure as a whole, have been slowed down, is a factor which is being ignored. If hon. Members are seeking to find in this some prospect of forecasting the Chancellor's Budget judgment, then I must remind them that we are in agreement in saying that such a use cannot be made of this White Paper. The prospect of tax reductions depends not only on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.126.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.126.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "ls, roads and the basic fabric of the community services. One has only to look at the capital expenditure of the Post Office, which is now becoming a big spender—£461 million next year, nearly £2 million a day. One must ask whether there are ways of providing some of that money from the private sector. I believe that there are. First, one must split off the postal side from the telecommunications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.174.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "£10 million.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "er £4 million to Yarrow. I do not complain. I am merely pointing out other items that would come on the Contingency Reserve. I.T.V. is being given a £10 million cut in its levy. There will be a very considerable increase in the fuel bill, as we see from the new negotiated settlement of the petroleum companies. We shall be giving an extra £25 million to the development areas —if it ever gets there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.229.3", "colnum": "229", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "te Paper is \"very similar\" to the growth in the previous White Paper. Fourth, they say that it accounts for a rising share between now and 1974–75. Fifth—this is their second article—they say that the net burden of taxation will have to move upwards rather than downwards, taking the period as a whole. I draw straight away a clear distinction between the first four propositions and the last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.252.5", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER KING'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " I have been in the House for just on 26 years. If I were to retire tomorrow, what do you think my pension would be, Mr. Deputy Speaker? It does not take long to tell you. It would not even be one new half penny. I would not even get one half penny after 26 years if I retired tomorrow. If I died tomorrow—I would not like to, of course, but at least my troubles would be over—what would my wife get?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.252.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER KING'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ame the Treasury. How can the Minister now come along and say \"Let us hurry up this Bill, which we may get through on the nod\", and yet at the same time not seek to do anything about these other thoroughly deserving Members of this House? I turn to deal with a different point that is relevant here. I confess that I feel sorry at having to keep up the officials of the House over the last few weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-22", "file": "debates1971-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcddc399267622be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "BUS FARES (MIDLANDS)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Eldon Griffiths)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Eldon Griffiths)", "preceding_text": "us companies and alongside the passenger transport authorities, which were also the Labour Government's creations, without the recourse to rate subsidy that is available to all these other bus undertakings. They also expected the National Bus Company and its affiliates to compete with these other undertakings in the labour market, but still to operate on a viable break-even basis, without subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-22a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.297.4", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. Paranoia is a well known, though rare, condition closely associated with schizophrenia. It appears in varying degrees of severity and a wide range of treatment is available.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.297.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.310.4", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And for Kenya.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the Commission has found that there is a prima facie case against this country over the Kenya-Asians, and is not this an exceedingly serious matter for the good name of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "ABORTION AND FAMILY PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "as, according to the hon. Lady, published my statement in advance. I referred as long ago as October to a pending Government announcement about family planning and I have answered a number of questions tabled by my hon. Friends about abortion, with the promise of an early statement. Therefore, it is not surprising that some decisions on this matter should have been expected. Certainly the inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.317.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.324.5", "colnum": "324", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Sir Robert. I shall be very brief. I have completed my first comment. My second brief comment is that during last week's debates one or two hon. Members on the Government benches suggested that trade unionists were not behind the Opposition to the Bill but were behind the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.324.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barney Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barney Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "e subjected to any of the other penalties outlined in the Amendment merely because he has failed to do any work or attend at any place for the purpose of doing any work. But if anyone induces others to take unfair action, it is possible under other provisions of the Bill for action to be taken against him. Obviously the hon. Gentleman and I may disagree about that but, dealing with the Amendment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "We have had many references to Clause 90 in our debates, as the hon. Gentleman, who has been reasonably assiduous in his attendances during the Committee stage, will recall. It is not one of the Clauses which unfortunately has been omitted from all discussion under the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "entence of imprisonment passed as part of the criminal jurisdiction in a very important respect. If a person is awarded a criminal sentence, that is a fixed term which he must serve. But a person committed as a last resort for defiance of an order of a court under its inherent jurisdiction of contempt is committed only for so long as his contempt endures. When he purges his contempt, he comes out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "Of course it does. Contempt applies in the divorce court as well. If a person goes to prison for contempt, no criminal conviction is recorded against him. Some of our great martyrs have been imprisoned for contempt of court. They may be right: this is one way of challenging the principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.342.4", "colnum": "342", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "is Amendment rather than his right hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle). It would have been very difficult for her, in view of what she said should be the situation in \"In Place of Strife\". Paragraph 62 of that document said that a new industrial board —will have power to impose financial penalties on an employer, union or individual striker —\". No such penalities appear in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.342.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because it is embarrassing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "preceding_text": "We are getting tired in the Committee of hon. Members constantly reading out chunks of \"In Place of Strife\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.356.7", "colnum": "356", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "asion that a man goes to gaol for being in breach of these regulations, there will be a worsening of industrial relations not only in the unit in which he was employed but throughout the rest of industry. It is claimed that the Bill is necessary because we lose too many days in industry through strikes. We must be very careful about including provisions which will increase the number of days lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.356.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "eed against individuals taking part in the strike. The conciliation pause provisions in \"In Place of Strife\" involved trying to proceed against individuals who were taking part in the strike. We have confined ourselves to remedies against organisations or individuals calling, procuring or organising. [Mr. J. C. JENNINGS in the Chair] 6.0 p.m. I come back to the point made by hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman knows very well that I was referring to the Bill which was presented after the normal process of democratic discussion in what was then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.387.2", "colnum": "387", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "The Solicitor-General—I am sorry. Dame Irene Ward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.387.8", "colnum": "387", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "s of the individual. It is important that adequate legal aid, when it is required, should be available to help the ordinary man through the intricacies of this complicated Bill. I shall not take up too much of the Committee's time, but as a speech was made from the other side in support of the case for legal aid I thought that for once the Opposition might be pleased to know that both sides agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.387.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": " sides and big concessions by one party or the other. In other words, if the parties elect to make an agreement binding and subject to this procedure, there will be a considerable concession by one of the parties. The serious nature of the matter arises from our domestic economic problem, which is to fulfil our engagements in the markets of the world. We read today of the reaction of British Ford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. An agreement made now, before the Bill comes into force, is not affected by the Bill. The presumptions contained in Clause 32 about intended enforceability or non-enforceability do not affect them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Brown", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Mallalieu. Are we not in a difficulty here? The Chairman has selected an Amendment and, therefore, we must debate it, but the Opposition have said that the sense of the Amendment as printed is different from their intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.485.6", "colnum": "485", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "That picketing of a person's home means that individual colleagues of a worker can station themselves outside his home. That is what picketing means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.485.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.486.3", "colnum": "486", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "All of us dislike having our wives and families involved in political difficulties. It is one of the hardships which a Member's family has to accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.486.9", "colnum": "486", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Scott", "preceding_text": "ket a man's home? While there is not much danger from the possibility of violent picketing, the privacy argument carries much weight, and even in terms of the simple communication of information, the language used in a picket line for communicating information may be acceptable on the shop floor, but might be frightening in the context of a man's home, which may be occupied by his wife and family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.486.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": " us to give examples, and I will give an example of a court case which arose from picketing. I refer to the now famous Roberts Arundel dispute. In that case the people who had to make restitution to the pickets were the Stockport police. Compensation was paid by the police for violence carried out on certain strikers, who proved their case at common law and were awarded damages against the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.488.5", "colnum": "488", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "e to alter the law as it now stands only shows that he does not understand the basic philosophy behind what trade unionists do when picketing in an industrial dispute, and why they publicly exercise their right to display the fact that they are in dispute, encouraging other workers not to go into the place of employment. In many instances they are people of great courage who do this sort of thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.488.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "I was rather surprised at the hon. Member for Doncaster (Mr. Harold Walker) should press the matter so hard. He said that there was very little violence in picketing. There is some violence in it sometimes. The hon. Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme) mentioned the Pilkington case, where there was some violence, and we have seen it from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.490.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They still do.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "r Salford, West (Mr. Orme) said that the Government were wrong to specify the places at which picketing could properly take place. There is no attempt to do that. All we have done is make one narrow exception. We have said that picketing may take place anywhere except in a person's home, and that is not rigidly specifying the law. When people lived in terraced houses or streets near to each other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "In my constituency, when people lived almost entirely in those conditions, it was rather different. Today they live in flats, great tower blocks, tenements and even in caravans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "bers' arguments was that the Donovan Commission's Report made exhaustive studies about picketing? Could he tell me how exhaustive these were? I cannot find them in the Report. The Commission studied it but the Report appears to consist of a review of the previous law on the subject and a few reports submitted by individuals, including the T.U.C. and the Society of Labour Lawyers. Surely the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "preceding_text": "I could talk on this for a great deal longer than the few minutes we have left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.494.5", "colnum": "494", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "That is one part of the right hon. Gentleman's memoirs to which I will look forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.494.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.494.5", "colnum": "494", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "be persuaded on the point. I should be the last to defend the invasion of the privacy of the home of anyone, whether he was on strike or a strike-breaker. But I should have thought that hon. Members opposite would have some sympathy for the person involved in a strike, such as the postman who has to go back to the privacy of his home and meet his wife and children in almost a state of destitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.494.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-23", "file": "debates1971-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dc6437bacc5da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.505.3", "colnum": "505", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, throw the hon. Gentleman's point over to the Minister. If the situation has worsened since the publication of the Report, what is the Minister's estimate of the amendment by which it has worsened? If we knew that, we could form a judgment as to whether the overall figure of £10 million is correct. This is a serious matter. The Minister treated it in a somewhat flippant manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-23a.505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman did not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": " aware that unemployment was standing at over 90,000 then, at the height of the summer. I have seen the S.T.U.C. since then, and we have kept in touch about the matter. The S.D.A. was the quickest method to be brought in because, contrary to what the right hon. Gentleman said, but in accordance with what I said on 3rd February, legislation was not required and it could be designated straight away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "Again the hon. Gentleman is wrong. The Prime Minister was replying to a question put by the Leader of the Opposition referring to the remark about its being a Marxist Measure.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.567.6", "colnum": "567", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "eaker, that it is within your power to deal with the matter raised by the hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles (Mr. David Steel) about the number of supplementary questions put by what are termed privileged right hon. Members—Privy Councillors and Front Bench spokesmen on both sides of the House. We know that the custom is for Mr. Speaker to give privileges to Privy Councillors in debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.567.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.569.6", "colnum": "569", "heading": "TEACHERS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": " the Management Committee, in which her representatives have concurred, are utterly unacceptable to the teachers because they divide up the teaching profession? How does she reconcile her support for this new structure, which would further widen the gulf between primary schools and secondary schools, with her professed desire to close this gap? Finally, how does she reconcile this miserable offer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.569.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "nstead of calling on him at an unearthly hour, they decide to wait outside his house until he comes out or comes home so that they can inform him of something that took place at two o'clock in the morning. This would then begin to be the process of persuasion, because what is the purpose of imparting such information? It is an implied appeal to the sense of solidarity of those about to go to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Therefore, the onus of proof is on the Government. I can hardly think that the Solicitor-General is very pleased with his so-called support he has received from the hon. and learned Member for South Fylde and other Members behind him. They just want to hit at picketing; that is what they are after. They want to discredit the general idea of workpeople having the right to persuade their colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Obviously, I shall not reply to that delightful intervention. There is a serious point here. Is it no longer possible for one side of the Committee to talk to the other about anything?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "bers tried to say, but I want them to understand that in the aftermath of a strike there will sometimes be hurts. I have lived in a mining area all my life. After a strike is over, what happens? Women and children are hurt, because at school others will say, for instance, \"That is John Macdonald, the son of blackleg Macdonald\", or \"That is Mary Macdonald, the son of blackleg Macdonald\", and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.600.5", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "There is something astonishing in a proposition for an express licence for posting outside somebody's home and conducting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.600.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.601.2", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " a) and (b) and the word is \"or\", and they may attend at any other place where a person happens to be, and the only restriction or qualification is that correctly identified by the hon. Member who drafted this Amendment, that is not being a place where he resides\". The only place where the law is being altered is, if persons are outside that place where somebody resides but where he does not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "There is no change in the basic law save in just one respect. For, in order to qualify for consideration for the possibility of prosecution under the 1875 Act, one has to be shown to be watching or besetting with a view to compelling somebody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.602.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about Pilkington?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "13 times. The hon and learned Gentleman and his hon. Friends must explain to the Committee why it is considered to be essential that the law should be changed and to tell us what proof they have. We have had many emotive speeches, with talk of violence, and so on, but nobody in this Committee has given any concrete evidence why this Clause is necessary and why the Amendment ought not to be agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "r Midlothian (Mr. Eadie), in a moving speech, described the hardship which inevitably results from a strike. The Opposition's view is that essentially this is a matter of group freedom and that, although distress may be caused to an individual if his home is picketed, he must bear it in the interests of the freedom of the group. That is basically the view put forward by this side of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.634.7", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "The police have not taken proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.634.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.660.5", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I was picketing the place of employment of the hotel workers involved. Nearby and adjacent to the hotel was the place where they resided and which was their home. It was impossible to picket either their home or their place of work without picketing both at the same time. Therefore, what I was doing was quite legal, although eventually I was arrested for other reasons, as hon. Members will recall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.660.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.665.5", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haffer", "preceding_text": "er. In other words, we are giving greater powers to the Secretary of State than the people of America are prepared to give to their President for the imposition of a cooling-off period. Nor is there any suggestion in this Measure that there should be a board of inquiry first. I have no doubt that in discussing this matter our attention will once again be drawn to the document \"In Place of Strife\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.665.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman did not think that I meant to imply anything adverse to him, for I meant no such thing. I was merely saying that I had a little experience and that, although I could not claim a lot of knowledge, I felt that I was entitled at least to claim some.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Fletcher", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Fletcher", "preceding_text": "t a cooling-off period would, in fact, be a hotting-up period and that many strikes would be more difficult to settle rather than easier to settle. The next point which the hon. and learned Gentleman made was that if the Secretary of State made application to the court, the court would have to be satisfied that it was a legitimate application. Surely, the courts are the creature of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman intervenes as though the rest of the world remains static. We are living in a dynamic society. In 1906 we did not, for example, have 25 per cent. American investment in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "is one of the lowest standards of proof that I know of anywhere in English law. In civil law it is necessary to prove matters on the balance of probabilities, and in criminal law it is necessary to prove them beyond reasonable doubt. This Bill spills over into criminal law, because if the worst comes to the worst it will result in criminal sanctions being imposed upon persons who do not accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.691.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Under the guillotine procedure we are discussing at the moment Clause 124, which I regard as very bad for the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "y do they want to say that the instruments at the disposal of Her Majesty's Government are insufficient, and that further measures must be introduced; for example, a cooling-off period? The second point is one which causes many hon. Members on this side of the Committee great concern. It is the loose drafting of the Clause which contains, among others, the phrase \"any irregular industrial action\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "the working people. I cannot understand hon. Members' reluctance to come clean, since they often represent employers' federations and say that they are keen to see these powers reduced. That is not an insult. This House would have been meaningless in the past without the representation of interests, and I do not see why hon. Members opposite should be offended if I say that that is their interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "d not to create that suspicion—conciliation, courts of inquiry, assessors, tribunals and so on. When I argued it with him, the Secretary of State himself did not dissent from my general proposition that he should always be in a neutral position. Like the Lord Chancellor, he is in a special position. He could not perform his function properly, if he were seen to be leaning on one side or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "The basic case for these proposals is to be found in the analysis made by many people but put most succinctly by Mr. Andrew Shonfield in his addition to the Report of the Donovan Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.719.0", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "y could see that this procedure had not worked in North America. He has now, I understand, suggested that the reason why the procedure has been successful in North America is that the whole of the rest of the system is different there. He cannot have his argument both ways. Does the hon. Gentleman think that conciliation is something known only in St. James's Square in this country? Of course not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "rnment or individual Labour Members proposed. I am concerned about the effect of this Bill on industrial relations as from now. While the Solicitor-General might think that he is scoring debating points, he is not impressing me with this line of argument. I recognise, as I am sure every hon. Member does, that there are serious problems when one small group of people can hold the country to ransom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "or society inevitably mean that a few key people in any group of industries have a power held by no group of comparable workers 50 or 100 years ago. The answer is not to ask: What small group of workers can we try to bring. under legislation to deny them the right that other workers have? This is a problem that we must all face up to. That solution denies the principle that all men are reasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.721.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He did not read that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "but one of 24 cases in which injunctions were granted, a stand-still period was successfully imposed. In sixteen cases a settlement was reached during or shortly after the stand-still period, but in seven cases stoppages did take place or were resumed after it. The last sentence reads: There has not been a single case in which a vote has gone in favour of acceptance of the employer's latest offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-24", "file": "debates1971-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "23d56158f16933c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " own measures that they have to go to such lengths to pretend that they are the same as mine. 11.45 p.m. This evening we had even the remarkable spectacle of the Solicitor-General, introducing a major piece of legislation on which the Government have spent a great deal of thought and initiative, pleading with me to spell out the terms of an interim Bill which I never even introduced to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-24a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.828.7", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Civil servants are quite capable of defending themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.828.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.832.5", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is a change.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that of course the whole House welcomes his efforts to get the two sides together, and that we would certainly not wish in any way to do anything to jeopardise the talks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.832.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.832.5", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "e proposals put forward by the Post Office on the ground that it is being offered nothing more than the original 8 per cent., and that, on the productivity side, all that the corporation has done is to come forward with some general, vague talk but has not laid any concrete proposals on the table nor put any specific figure against its proposals? I want to say urgently to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.832.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Yes, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Yes, but—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.849.14", "colnum": "849", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"j—with the result that he must do it in this way? [Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ed, except by means of the Notice Paper? Is he aware, for example, that tonight the House is being asked, at rather short notice, to take a Motion relating to Scottish legal aid, though we recognise that this is necessary and urgent? Is he aware that it would be better—I press it no further at this stage—if the Leader of the House prevented the Government's affairs from getting into such a muddle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.849.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "The answer to the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary question about Tuesday's business is that I think it will be seen by the House that many of the Orders which are down for Tuesday night will be ones which hon. Members will want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "on of Amendments in Committee in addition to an arbitrary decision by the Government to take a Bill upstairs instead of on the Floor of the House, Members who are sent here to speak for miners are deprived of their rights. I hope that you will take my representation into account, Mr. Speaker, because some of us are not prepared to see the situation where representatives from mining constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ake into account the inaccurate statement of the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) that all mining constituencies are held by Labour Members, except for one or two minor exceptions? As always, the hon. Gentleman is grossly inaccurate. For example, will you bear in mind, Mr. Speaker, that my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock (Mr. Cormack) represents a very important mining constituency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a temporary aberration.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) that all mining constituencies are held by Labour Members, except for one or two minor exceptions? As always, the hon. Gentleman is grossly inaccurate. For example, will you bear in mind, Mr. Speaker, that my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock (Mr. Cormack) represents a very important mining constituency? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] My hon. Friend who represents Cannock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "on. Friend who represents Cannock—[An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a temporary aberration.\"] No, it is not. The electors of Cannock hurled out the former incumbent of the seat and put in my hon. Friend. It was the biggest turnover of votes in the country. Will you also bear in mind, Mr. Speaker, that my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Dover (Mr. Peter Rees) represents several thousand coal miners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I expect they have gone for a cup of tea. I might point to the fact that there are 250 Labour Members missing this afternoon from the benches opposite. We all know that we have duties outside this Chamber, but there are important coalmining constituencies occupied by Tory Members today. My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Dover (Mr. Peter Rees)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "—includes within his constituency boundaries the Betteshanger collieries. My hon. Friend the Member for Belper (Mr. Stewart-Smith)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.870.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.870.6", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the Amendment?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "—is a splendid successor to the noble Lord, Lord George-Brown, now in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.870.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.872.6", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "may he on an issue of this kind: coal is continuously being priced out of the market by the exorbitant figures now demanded by the National Coal Board. I will give the House figures in extenuation of this simple proposition which I have put to hon. Members on all sides of the House as a reality. Between 1950 and 1970, a brief period of 20 years, the output of coal in this country has dropped from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.872.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": " Con-cannon) would concede the point. However, I do not say that much would be gained by refusing this principle. If the rent were suddenly to be pushed up at a time when a person was redundant, in most cases I suppose the extra rent would still come from public funds, from another source. Presumably the person concerned would receive increased supplementary benefit to pay for any additional rent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.891.2", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "te, which comprises 230 houses. Twenty-nine occupants there were over 55 but under 65 when the William Thorpe pit closed in March of last year, and as a result became beneficiaries under the old scheme. Their properties are now being dealt with by the Rent Assessment Committee, the rent officer stage having been completed and a recommendation that they be put on a fair rent basis having been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "s would not receive the benefits to which my hon. Friend the Member for Mansfield referred—of rent increases up to the limit of 7s. 6d. per week. If, in his wisdom, the rent officer fixes a rent of 10s., that will be 30s. over three years and those who have become redundant will not be able to afford this. They will be asked to pay the full economic rent, which will be their present rent plus 10s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "re any danger of the burden being lifted off the taxpayers' shoulders? In order that hon. Members opposite may judge the position for themselves, let them refer to the last published Report and Accounts 1969–70 of the National Coal Board, Volume II, Accounts and Statistical Tables, page 46, which records that in the year 1968 to 1969 the Coal Board lost—I repeat, lost—£8·881 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.902.3", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "trading at a profit, or whether the dismal losses of the last few years are being continued this year and are being projected into the future. I believe that the Board is continuing to lose money on a large scale. The answer to the hon. Member for Mansfield is that the Board must have an increase in its cumulative deficit in order to accommodate the continuing losses of this nationalised industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.902.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And Concorde.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kelley", "preceding_text": " that there had been losses and quoted figures like £8½ million. It has been mentioned that these are simply a shortfall in interest payments. They are not actual losses at all. Let us examine what might have happened to the taxpayers' money. It might have gone into Upper Clyde Shipbuilders or Rolls-Royce and we might have found ourselves deeper in the mire as far as the RB211 is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "e proposed grand larceny of hiving-off these sections of the economy that they will not admit it. If we go to the next stage of the show trial beyond the point where the Secretary of State, under inspiration from above, has decided that the time has come to ask the Board to submit to him the report for which he can call unless this Amendment is accepted, which is possibly a very vague possibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "recognised unions in the industry when finances are down, then it has as much right to meet those trade union representatives when part of the pit or the industry is making a profit. If the consultative machinery is to operate with a modicum of success, as it has done since nationalisation, then more stress has to be put upon the consultative committees. I hope that the Minister will look at this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "lisation, then more stress has to be put upon the consultative committees. I hope that the Minister will look at this. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Bedford (Mr. Skeet) can say \"No\". I am pleased, and I imagine that the country is pleased too, that the hon. Member is not a Minister because the House would have sunk to a very low level indeed. I therefore address my remarks to the Minister. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "ill do so. That is what we are debating tonight. We are debating whether the money earned by British industry should be distributed thinly amongst men taking home £12 or £13 a week or should be added to the already luxurious lives of a few who work —who do not work—in the City of London. This has been clear over the last twelve months. The election of 18th June was fought over the issue of wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.972.5", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": " kind of bunk which we have heard in the last few minutes I hope also that very few hon. Gentlemen will associate themselves with the unfortunate proposal put forward by one hon. Gentleman, that any industry which it taken from public ownership into private ownership will be taken over again without compensation. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have the most remarkable ideas about what is right and wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.972.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.972.5", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "proposal put forward by one hon. Gentleman, that any industry which it taken from public ownership into private ownership will be taken over again without compensation. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have the most remarkable ideas about what is right and wrong. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] In their view—they are entitled to think this—all in State ownership is virtuous and good; all in private ownership is bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.972.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It started to rain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "t, after the event, find a realisation that there is some considerable omission. There was just such a considerable omission in the Standing Committee concerning what is to happen to the proceeds of the operations of the N.C.B. to be hived off. I imagine that it is like the rising and the setting of the sun. At high noon, we were really flaying each other and gradually enthusiasm for debate waned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "Charter Act of the Board and various subsequent enactments, and it is that the proceedings of the hiving-off, should that come about, will be paid into the joint stock bank of the Board. They would presumably be accounted as capital receipts and would flow from the joint stock bank to the clearing account in the Bank of England, and that clearing account in the Bank of England would automatically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Write your memoirs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that. In my pocket, I have always had no revenue and lots of capital losses. I understand not the subtle difference but the major difference between revenue and capital. For 23 years, while the hon. Member was sitting on his backside studying, I was doing my stint in the pit and on a local authority. I understand the difference between capital and revenue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-25", "file": "debates1971-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3df5cb33db5ef6a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.1042.3", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Do not flatter him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "ster for Industry. I accused the Minister of being the father and mother, the saint of all saints, in connection with Clauses 6 to 8. This is his godchild. It is not the Secretary of State's godchild, I am certain. I do not think that the Secretary of State is intelligent enough to think about it. The Minister is intelligent and vicious enough in his political philosophy to think and act about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-25a.1042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-02-26", "file": "debates1971-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c94536b280bce4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1079.9", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of interjection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1079.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-26", "file": "debates1971-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c94536b280bce4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1180.2", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYED PERSONS (SAFETY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned Debate on Question proposed upon 12th February, That the Bill be now read a second time:——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-26", "file": "debates1971-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c94536b280bce4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1180.6", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAVEL AGENTS AND TOUR AND CHARTER OPERATORS REGIS TRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1180.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-26", "file": "debates1971-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c94536b280bce4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1180.10", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE OF COUNCIL HOUSE BUILDING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1180.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-26", "file": "debates1971-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c94536b280bce4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1180.14", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question proposed upon 29th January, That the Bill be now read a Second time:—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1180.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-26", "file": "debates1971-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c94536b280bce4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1180.18", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 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/1971-02-26a.1180.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-26", "file": "debates1971-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c94536b280bce4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1181.2", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHARITABLE CAUSES (MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DISABLED PERSONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Seconding read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-02-26", "file": "debates1971-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c94536b280bce4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1181.6", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALE OF TICKETS (OFFENCES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-02-26a.1181.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-01", "file": "debates1971-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea6266f56da3fb63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that that is totally untrue. If anybody looks at my list of engagements in Wales, he will see that, bearing in mind that nobody has been able to leave this House for the last few weeks from Monday to Friday, my visits to Wales from Friday onwards have been pretty consistent. I have visited all parts of Wales since I have become Secretary of State.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-01", "file": "debates1971-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea6266f56da3fb63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1216.5", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman defer one of his immediate engagements in order to visit Swansea, where we should like to discuss with him the loss of 680 jobs at the Imperial Smelting Corporation? Does not he think that this should be a priority engagement of such merit that he should bring proposals for job restitution? As a Welshman on St. David's Day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1216.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-01", "file": "debates1971-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea6266f56da3fb63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANNEL SHIPPING ACCIDENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "and that the next day the \"Brandenburg\" was in collision in the same area when 21 more men died, and now we have the loss of the Greek vessel \"Niki\", which collided with one of the previous wrecks, with the loss of another 22 dead, a total of 64 deaths in 4½ months? How many deaths will there be in the Channel before the Government give the matter the urgent consideration which it deserves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-01", "file": "debates1971-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea6266f56da3fb63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1224.5", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANNEL SHIPPING ACCIDENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1224.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-01", "file": "debates1971-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea6266f56da3fb63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1244.9", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "tack on the Land Rover in which he was travelling. Our Servicemen are doing a job which is probably one of the most unpleasant which the Army has been called to undertake for many years. It is dangerous, thankless and exhausting. It means for the men a further separation from their families, yet they have done their job of work with a courage, friendliness and restraint which is quite outstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1244.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-01", "file": "debates1971-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea6266f56da3fb63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomson", "preceding_text": "l timetable of the Labour Government. But the Foreign Secretary appeared to be doing his best to obscure that fact from the House. But how can one explain the delay in getting even this far? The party opposite had, as one of its election pledges, the intention to reverse Labour's withdrawal plans. Presumably, that was one promise which they decided to break very quickly after the General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-01", "file": "debates1971-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea6266f56da3fb63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomson", "preceding_text": "ay in getting even this far? The party opposite had, as one of its election pledges, the intention to reverse Labour's withdrawal plans. Presumably, that was one promise which they decided to break very quickly after the General Election— [Interruption.] How else can one explain the acceptance in October of Labour's ceilings on defence expenditure, leaving no extra money for remaining in the Gulf?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-01", "file": "debates1971-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea6266f56da3fb63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Walters", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Walters", "preceding_text": "The Labour Government had intended to withdraw completely, without making any alternative plans whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-01", "file": "debates1971-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea6266f56da3fb63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colin Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "at this is true. What is the minimum military strength for B.A.O.R. to be credible in this strategic concept? Can the withdrawal of troops from B.A.O.R. to reinforce Northern Ireland be equated with a continuing credibility in the central sector? If the answer is \"No\", the strategy behind the White Paper is merely the mixture as before and, to my mind, we have no right to criticise the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-01", "file": "debates1971-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea6266f56da3fb63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has it got one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": "we are now a second-grade military power. We can make a great contribution to Western defence if we look after our particular sector of the world. We should make a greater contribution to N.A.T.O. It is through N.A.T.O. that our contribution should be made. I wish that the Government had realised that and taken a more realistic view of defence. I am no longer the spokesman on defence for my party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-01", "file": "debates1971-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea6266f56da3fb63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "That was not my understanding of the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-01", "file": "debates1971-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea6266f56da3fb63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambton", "preceding_text": "I am not my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon), and I am not saddled with anything he said in opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-01a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1371.0", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "The policy of competition is working as well as can be expected", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman drinks a bad bottle of beer good luck to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman cannot have heard my question clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1394.6", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "Since the Minister of Aviation Supply misled this House on 9th December when he said that the £42 million would be given to Rolls-Royce irrespective of the report of the accountants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1394.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1406.3", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I will certainly consider that, but in the light of the conclusion I reach as to the practicability of instituting an inquiry under Section 165 of the Companies Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1406.5", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "That is clearly involved with any inquiry that I might make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1417.1", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor will you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "communications became as rapid as they are today. But under the policy of the late Administration it did not provide a deterrent on the spot. What that Administration was going to do was to send our reinforcements from within the general capability if circumstances demanded it. Presumably they intended doing this if trouble arose; so they were not going to have a deterrent to stop trouble arising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": " do so, wishes to forget all that was said over that six-year period, but today he will not be allowed to forget that. He has cynically broken pledge after pledge in the defence area and if there were any reason for us to doubt this, the assembled mass of his own backbenchers, who listened with ever-increasing gloom as he wriggled on the issue of the Gulf, is certainly confirmation of our beliefs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1429.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1435.3", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "It is a total distortion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1435.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1435.4", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ridiculous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I said, in one particular field that has been so prevalent in recent months\". Does the Minister deny that one of the major sources of criticism from the Press and informed military correspondents has been about recruiting? I did not say I was speaking about his whole policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1435.4", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ark Royal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "e have the Secretary of State, no politician, making statements in another place where we cannot even listen to them. For instance, we hear no more about prolonging the carrier life of H.M.S. \"Eagle\" and H.M.S. \"Hermes\". Nowhere do the Conservative Government say they will prolong the life of existing carriers. We hear no more about the folly of accepting fixed defence budgets for the years ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1440.2", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " was withdrawal from the Gulf far more than from the Far East. It is the Gulf area which is the most likely place for any interference with Western shipping—the Gulf and its surrounding areas to the Indian Ocean. Can anyone seriously believe that the Western Alliance, if confronted with a persistent threat over a period of a few days of the Russians interfering with our merchant fleet, would take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1446.1", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "nd on the Prime Minister's time schedule the opportunity will be open to us—we shall ignore the time phasing laid down by the Prime Minister and his Government for the Far East and the Middle East. We shall support our country's friends and allies and we shall restore the good name of Britain.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 18th January 1968; Vol.756, c. 1971.] Again, in March, 1968, the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1446.3", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ways envisaged training exercises continuing, if they wished them and would make available space. The fact is that there is no difference in policy. The right hon. Gentleman has however not been able to come to the House and tell us so. On Far Eastern policy, at one time the right hon. Gentleman was talking of £100 million plus or minus £10 million. This has come down to £5 million or £10 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1446.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1448.3", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I denied it at the time, and said so in Singapore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1449.3", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "The question can be posed in circumstances which we have had to face. In 1969 in Malaysia, there were severe racial riots. We were, or could be thought to have been, under A.M.D.A., bound to intervene. Would a British Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1456.1", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. de Freitas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "e cost of our contribution to N.A.T.O. in Europe. They will be much relieved by what was said yesterday. Again, the Americans did not seem to realise the difficult problems raised by the fact that Greece is in our Alliance. Not all hon. Members opposite share my belief on this, but unfortunately the existence of Greece in our Alliance undermines a great deal of what N.A.T.O. originally stood for.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1456.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1500.0", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Minutes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "n times as many, especially if the Suez Canal were to be reopened. Such gunboat diplomacy is out of date, although I recognise that the former Secretary of State for Defence under the previous Administration, the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey), in some grandiose sabre rattling, once said that he would be able to send the Soviet fleet to the bottom of the Mediterranean within hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "he White Paper. He was obliged to, and it was high time. Hon. Members opposite tried to laugh this off earlier today, but one of the serious disadvantages from which we suffer is having the Secretary of State for Defence in another place and not in this House, because he is head of one of the main spending Departments of the Government and it is this House which is responsible for raising revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": " to advance the argument that a Berlin settlement is a sine qua non of an approach to a security conference. They should change their policy and we should press them as strongly as we can to change it. To the extent that anybody on my side of the House might be echoing the views of the right hon. Gentleman the Foreign Secretary, they are equally mistaken, and I want to warn them off any such echo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "sed, particularly as I listened to the speech of the hon. Member for Chigwell in dead silence. He should understand that I was doing that not because I thought it was the last word in foreign policy, but merely as a matter of courtesy to him, and he should return it. I turn to my last point which concerns another item which has been discussed in the debate. I refer to the position in the Far East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1516.2", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "or Penistone (Mr. John Mendelson) and the hon. Member for Salford, East (Mr. Frank Allaun). I heartily congratulate my right hon. Friend the Minister of State on providing a statement on the Defence Estimates which puts Britain's defence first. It must be harder for those hon. Members opposite who share an ideological affinity with those whose interests are contrary to those of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1516.6", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "No. It is not for me to make distinctions between the relative degrees of Socialism. I cannot do that. All that I will say is that I have no doubt that the hon. Gentleman said what he did with sincerity and on behalf of his constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1516.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1524.3", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1524.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1575.4", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "A new point of order, a point of order arising from what you have just said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1575.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1579.4", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I must repeat that I am completely in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1579.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernle Money", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernle Money", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Member For West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) has now raised the question of the welfare services. May I address to you, Mr. Speaker, a point of order which I raised with Mr. Deputy Speaker, some 10 days ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1597.0", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "ovided. Some discussion was stimulated by the hon. Member for West Ham, North and other hon. Members, including the lion. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, West, as to the options between glass containers and plastic containers. I am happy to tell the House that in this significant little dispenser we have been able to combine the two. We have here a plastic top and a very satisfactory glass bottle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1597.0", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": " to tell the House that in this significant little dispenser we have been able to combine the two. We have here a plastic top and a very satisfactory glass bottle. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am also happy to tell the House—again reassuring the hon. Member for West Ham, North—that if one empties the complete contents of one of these bottles down a baby's throat, it will do it no harm whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1628.4", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Barnes", "preceding_text": "d by the decision to exclude from subsidy horned cattle in Northern Ireland? Will this affect supplies of animals for fattening in Great Britain? Naturally, we are also concerned to know how the subsidies may be affected by Government policy, and what will happen to them in the event of Britain's successfully negotiating entry into the E.E.C. What will the future of the Scheme be if Great Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1628.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1659.2", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I entirely share the hon. Gentleman's sentiments about the staff of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1659.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1659.5", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "In urging you to exercise your duty to protect hon. Mem-Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1659.7", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "I accept that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1659.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1659.7", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "I accept that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".]—and I have every confidence in your desire and ability to discharge that responsibility, and I was about to say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1659.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ision, and The CHAIRMAN stated that he thought that the Ayes had it; and, on his decision being challenged, it appeared to him that the Division was unnecessarily claimed, and he accordingly called upon the Members who supported and who challenged his decision successively to rise in their places, and he declared that the Ayes had it, eight Members only who challenged his decision having stood up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1661.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1662.4", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. This might assist your aim of trying to maintain the dignity of the House, Sir Robert.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1662.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-02", "file": "debates1971-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e64ea610d798b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1663.0", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "the Government would be prepared to consider taking the Second Reading of the Hydrocarbon Oil (Customs and Excise) Bill [ Lords ], on which there would be only a minimum number of speeches from this side, and then not proceed to the consideration stage of that Bill. I think that that is a perfectly reasonable proposition. If the Government are prepared to accept that sort of reasonable suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-02a.1662.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1679.4", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The question of allowing supplementary questions is a matter for me, and I will rule on it when the time comes. The practice of points of order during Question Time is very much to be deprecated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1679.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1706.3", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Arthur Lewis. Next Question. Sausages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ry question put by the hon. Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton) on Question No. 36. I think you will find that it contains a filthy innuendo which is damaging to Parliament if allowed to stand unanswered. The hon. Gentleman stated specifically in his supplementary question that hon. Members on one side of the House, on matters to do with commercial radio and the sale of licensed premises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1707.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1708.8", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1708.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1711.0", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles R. Morris", "preceding_text": "ff working days have been lost. Against that background, does the right hon. Gentleman accept that it is a matter of growing concern that the dispute should be brought to an acceptable end? Will he also bear in mind that in the discussions one of the important factors is to re-establish relationships between the management of the Post Office and that section of the staff represented by the U.P.W.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1710.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the French?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "hat in every issue, issue after issue that comes up at the United Nations, Britain, the British vote, and the British representative will be corralled, humiliatingly confined, in a small minority—colonialist oppressive Portugal, South Africa, and Britain—hardly any more, on deep issues of international morality. Is that what hon. Gentlemen opposite want? It is what they will be voting for tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1729.0", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Dr. Verwoerd and Dr. Vorster? Yes, Sir. We fulfilled the terms of the Simonstown Agreement but we did not stretch those terms to supply arms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1729.0", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ll give an undertaking that there will be no arms shipments beyond the helicopters referred to in the Amendment—he will have ended a desperately unhappy and totally unnecessary chapter in Britain's history of overseas relations. He will have done more: he will have created a more hopeful basis for the future of the Commonwealth. We are not concerned about the votes in the House or debating points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1733.1", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "preceding_text": "arned Friend the Attorney-General why he felt it right to advise Parliament that to supply the limited number of helicopters fitted to frigates built under the Simonstown Agreement for the South African navy was a legal obligation on the British Government. The Opposition Motion has, perfectly properly, widened the debate, but the Government Amendment brings it back to the matter under discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1734.1", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "May I finish the sentence? I am entitled to say that the main topic which we are discussing this afternoon is whether there is a legal obligation to sell helicopters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1737.4", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "What I said was that I accepted that the Prime Minister said this. He told us in the House of Commons, and we accepted that fact, that he reserved his position and was not bound to defer an arms decision till after the Working Party had finished its work. He said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1737.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1740.4", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "oked for a few things that President Kaunda and President Nyerere had said about the right hon. Gentleman. The House will no doubt be interested to hear them. President Kaunda in 1967 said: I have reached a state of total disillusion with the Labour Party in Britain. On 5th October, 1967, he said: They have deceived and cheated us all. President Nyerere on 15th December, 1967, said: If Mr. Wilson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1740.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1742.3", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Would it be in order to ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1743.2", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "an on the spot should be given the last word. The second point was that he could find no moral principle involved in the debate. Having heard his speech, I entirely agree. Had I been in this House 35 years ago and had the noble Lord, Lord Dunglass then been at the Despatch Box, I would not have expected to have heard a very much different speech from that which the Foreign Secretary gave us today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1743.2", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why does not the right hon. Gentleman go and live there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "RS: \"Cheap.\"] As I shall seek to show, this policy will not be \"cheap\", but will be likely to be very expensive for the interests of this country. The right lion. Gentleman raised certain criticisms that had been made of the former Prime Minister by President Kaunda and President Nyerere. I would say in passing that I would rather be a white face in Zambia than a black face living in South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1743.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1750.2", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Prime Minister has gone.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " Majesty's Government arising out of the Simonstown Agreement. If they cannot read, I give up hope even for this Government. That is what we are debating and that is the basis of their argument. Therefore, I ask what is the legal basis and whether it is binding on this country. It is no good the Prime Minister looking at his watch. If he has to go, he has to go. This is a debate which will affect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1759.4", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ha, ha, ha.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "preceding_text": " United Nations resolution which is non-mandatory we are, having accepted it, in duty bound to honour it. This resolution was accepted by Sir Patrick Dean, no doubt on the instructions of the Foreign Secretary. The Foreign Secretary of that day was a man by the name of Lord Home, possibly a relation, but obviously a very distant relation, of the right hon. Gentleman who now occupies that position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1759.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1759.4", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Mussolini.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "preceding_text": " Government expressing horror and indignation at the way in which South Africa is treating her coloured population, but agreeing to sell her arms at the same time to condone her acts. I seem to remember a similar case in the 1930s, when a Conservative Government expressed horror and indignation at the way in which Hitler was treating the Jews, but lent him money and sold him arms at the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1759.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "n 1966 could not have been supplied under the Simonstown Agreement. They were the complement for the frigates. The complement for the frigates is one on board plus 2·5 back-up. So the three frigates needed 11. Therefore, the provision of helicopters in 1966 was not, and could not have been, partially completed by the four Wasps which were in fact provided for the two Royal Naval destroyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1773.6", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "On this occasion, no. I have already given way many times. It is not correct for the right hon. Gentleman to claim that those four helicopters were supplied under the Simonstown Agreement, because they could not have been delivered at that time for that purpose because the ships were not fitted to take them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1773.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1795.0", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Irvine", "preceding_text": "I mean no discourtesy —I hope that that goes without saying—when I say that that is a party point.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ty of separate development in the modern world. It was possible for a pastoral society to have job reservation and restrictions on residence, but these cannot stand up to the growing forces of economic progress. As I saw for myself, one must add, I am glad to say, the strong influence of the younger generation of Afrikaaners. I do not want to mislead the House and I agree that this will take time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And justice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "h order, which is a more respectable concern—order in Southern Africa, in a great investment area, in our third biggest trading area, in the area most capable of expansion. I do not believe that this is a disreputable interest. Under international law, the community of nations is obligated to respect the right and to recognise the duty of all Governments to maintain order within their territories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "other power such as France. Where is the moral? If the sailors are in a British ship that becomes immoral, but if they are in a French ship it is all right. The right hon. Gentleman will not be surprised if I ask him to clear up a point that has been troubling many of us for a long time. It refers to the memoirs of his noble Friend a former Foreign Secretary. I wish I had time to read more of it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1826.1", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " 11th December, 1970, says of the four helicopters: Subsequently a letter from the Foreign Office … explained that these helicopters were being supplied because they were regarded as integral parts of the anti-submarine equipment of the frigates which had already been supplied as part of the Simonstown Agreement. That is the view of the Ministry of Defence under the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1826.1", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "equipment of the frigates which had already been supplied as part of the Simonstown Agreement. That is the view of the Ministry of Defence under the Conservative Government. [Interruption.] I am referring to the second draft sent to me on 11th December. The Government were obviously embarrassed to know that the Ministry of Defence took a different view, so last night they sent me a further letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "South African Government that Her Majesty's Government would not entertain their shopping list, and this was confirmed in writing at the beginning of 1968. These details do not appear in the White Paper, but I am not responsible for the document. The right hon. and learned Gentleman is responsible for that. I simply add my plea to that made by my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1829.3", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ere conspiring in Salisbury with rebels against the British Crown to put forces into British territory against the express wishes of the British Government. And they did it as their first contribution to the International Year Against Racial Discrimination. It is not surprising that Mr. Vorster now regards the present Prime Minister with almost as much affection as he regarded Hitler 30 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1833.3", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did not quote the word \"four\" but he quoted the arguments related to the word \"four\", because he was basing himself on the supply of four helicopters. The purpose of the letter last night was to say that the undertaking was not limited to four helicopters. It is no good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1834.0", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. We want to hear the right hon. Gentleman's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1834.4", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "My point is that a moral judgment cannot afford to be selective. I yield to no one in my abhorrence of apartheid —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1834.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1836.1", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "is not a weapon to used to express political detestation of a régime in a particular foreign country. We trade with many countries in which the policies pursued by the Government for the time being in power are in our opinion misguided or worse but there is nothing dishonourable in this. If trade had to be dependent on satisfying a political test … world trade would soon wither away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-03", "file": "debates1971-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2543b12532080b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1836.1", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "he fact that he was closely associated with it, and if he were, then for him to get up on the basis of moral fervour, as he tried to do, is the sheerest humbug, and he knows it. I would add that I do not think it helps him particularly when his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition springs to his defence, as he did on Monday last week. I do not wish to be rude to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-03a.1836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1881.2", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "We are dealing with figures, and I must be precise, The Question referred to universities. Without adopting the figure, which I also saw, I know that the hon. Gentleman will realise that a higher fall-out rate in an institution dealing with both degree and sub-degree work is to be expected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1897.5", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot, I regret, accept the thesis put forward by the hon. Gentleman. What divides the nation is when one section is determined to pursue its own interests regardless of the interests of others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1897.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1897.7", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—and perhaps those who are putting in inflationary wage demands, incited by hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1897.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1898.1", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "After all these cliché—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1898.1", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "After all these cliché—[ Interruption. ]—will the right hon. Gentleman now turn to words of his own, which he did not intend as a cliché, when he spoke in Leicester during the election about the effect of rising prices on old-age pensioners? In view of his responsibility for rising prices over the last nine months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1898.2", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will have learned from his own bitter experience in office that the Prices and Incomes Board and the Consumer Council were not able to influence prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1898.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1899.1", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will be aware of the concern both in the House and far more widely about the statements made by members of the Government regarding Rolls-Royce, which are widely regarded as having, whether intentionally or not—in the absence of evidence to the contrary, I should say unintentionally—misled the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1899.1", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Business question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "terruption. ] The House has, nevertheless, been misled. Will the Leader of the House undertake therefore to lay on the Table all the communications made by Ministers in their discussions with the City and with Rolls-Royce, all the statements made in the House by them and the private corrections of those statements made in letters to hon. Members which they then refused to make public in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1899.1", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "therefore to lay on the Table all the communications made by Ministers in their discussions with the City and with Rolls-Royce, all the statements made in the House by them and the private corrections of those statements made in letters to hon. Members which they then refused to make public in the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Business question.\"] I am asking the right hon. Gentleman to do this next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1899.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1904.6", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I have promised a White Paper on the Rolls-Royce position, and I shall stand by that promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1904.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1910.4", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The whole House will agree with what the right hon. Gentleman said about his own officials. Indeed, some of us would have hoped that their services might have been invoked a little earlier in the dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1910.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1910.4", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman aware that what we said about even the present vulnerable situation and the need for a return to work means that we should all of us do better not to go further into the present situation in order to allow the parties to do what they can to get the new Committee at work for the future, with its very welcome terms of reference? Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that he recognises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1910.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1911.0", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I certainly reiterate the tribute I paid to both parties and specify quite happily and fully the part which Mr. Tom Jackson has played as the general secretary of this union. As to the rest of the right hon. Gentleman's remarks, I can only say that I am glad he associated himself with the tributes to the work of my officials, but I think it a pity he made the other remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1918.2", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "preceding_text": "owerfully argued in another place by Lord Beswick and Lord Kings Norton, and it is probably the option which is preferred by most of the airlines. We should have to assume a more intensive use at all the existing South-East airports. This would involve Heathrow expanding its growth up to capacity. It would involve at Gatwick possibly a second runway but certainly computerised air traffic control.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1927.1", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "very near London or as near London as Roskill assumed. This is an extremely important point because, on the basis of traffic forecasts, it is clear that this next runway will be mainly for charter and inclusive tour flights, which makes it possible to put it considerably further away from London. I do not want to go into the question of individual sites. I have to watch the time with extreme care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "ticular. I hope the Cublington lobby will put its case in as moderate a fashion as it can, bearing in mind that it is not only the people living in Cublington who dislike noise, have houses that may be knocked down and care about their environment. I will go no more into Cublington than that, except to say that, despite Professor Buchanan's intensely moving and almost poetic memorandum of dissent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1951.1", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "preceding_text": "of Trade's Working Party. As the right hon. Member for Grimsby (Mr. Crosland) said, figures for the year 2000 and beyond must be open to doubt, but there is a remarkable similarity between the growth curve for the years affecting the decision on the third London airport. They show a tremendous upward curve and demonstrate two things. First, there is clearly a need for the airport at an early date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1951.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1954.0", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "By 1976 or 1977.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "r the Government to decide whether that timing is acceptable, or whether they can do something to alleviate the suffering of those in the noise shadow now, by taking action rather sooner than was envisaged by Roskill. I cannot believe that they will be insensitive to this problem. I understand that the consortium at Foulness has said that it could produce the first runway by 1975 rather than 1980.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1968.1", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": " look very foolish indeed if we were to sink vast sums into the development of huge new airfields and spend millions of pounds on road and rail links only to find, at the end of the day that much of the new infrastructure was outmoded and unnecessary. If these wider considerations are to be ignored and if Foulness is to be thrust on my constituents, then there are many safeguards they will demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1968.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1981.0", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And Foulness.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Benyon", "preceding_text": "ct is the Commission's suggestion that Foulness might not be economically viable. If the Government mean to alleviate the intolerable conditions of the existing London sites, they will have to impose restrictions, especially on night flying. That must apply to Cublington as well as to the existing sites. What is sauce for the inland Heathrow goose is equally sauce for the inland Cublington gander—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1988.1", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": " that area. These people may not comprise the majority of local inhabitants—although they do represent the majority of workers in the locality—but their views should be heard. They say: As far as we know, we are the only spontaneous group to emerge in favour of an inland site for the Third London Airport. On this issue, at least, we are not a sleepwalking, unrepresentative minority in a rural area", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.1988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.2006.1", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Harrison", "preceding_text": "tance. We have had public relations firms organising Press conferences in London and there have been emotive campaigns throughout the country to move the noise to somebody else's area rather than accept the recommendation of a very skilled Commission. It was accepted that the right answer to this problem would be found by the Roskill Commission. Millions of pounds were spent on the Commission and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.2006.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.2025.2", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "preceding_text": "right hon. Member for Grimsby (Mr. Crosland) say that he would recommend that the airport should be on that site. In this at least he is consistent in that he accords with what was said by his noble Friend Lord Greenwood in another place. We have listened to and read the speeches in another place, and out of 41 only one recommended Thurleigh. All the rest recommended that it should go to Foulness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.2025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.2035.3", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "re accuracy is not possible. The Commission on Metropolitan Terminals, appointed on 8th April, 1846, which reported on 27th June the same year, stated: We have stated that the advantages to the public of such accommodation as would be afforded to them by bringing the railway stations further into the City appear to us exaggerated. Then, missing out a bit, it goes on: \"it is manifestly impossible\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.2035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.2043.1", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "preceding_text": "uffer. I hope, therefore, that others will accept that we in North-East Kent are extremely interested in this matter. We have heard little of the economic arguments in the case. My right hon. Friend's difficulty is to balance the environmental considerations with the pure economics of the matter. Let us be frank about it. What we are proposing for a third London airport is a huge economic concept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.2043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-04", "file": "debates1971-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "430cd713c3a6f692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.2069.1", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (ROSKILL COMMISSION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very wise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "blington and say that Foulness is the easy way out. My right hon. Friend put it very clearly this afternoon. I was not in his Department, as I was later fortunate to be, at the time he made his decision to set up the Roskill Commission and, not in his Department, I was uncertain whether it was the right decision to make. I had become a little impatient with my Gov- ernment in a number of respects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-04a.2069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-05", "file": "debates1971-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "634ab6ce43bbfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2150.4", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "I would agree that there have been important developments, but I cannot accept that this is something which is primarily to the credit of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2150.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-05", "file": "debates1971-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "634ab6ce43bbfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2165.1", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stuttaford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stuttaford", "preceding_text": "or them, and of having some education from an early age. We must also think in terms of education in a slightly different way. I do not think that we should concentrate on having children stay on at school for an extra year at the end of their school careers. The additional money which is available should be spent when children are three or four years of age. That is the time to make improvements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2165.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-05", "file": "debates1971-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "634ab6ce43bbfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2185.4", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Bill committed to a Standing Committee pursuant to Standing Order No. 40 (Committal of Bills).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2185.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-05", "file": "debates1971-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "634ab6ce43bbfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2185.6", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, \"That the Bill be now read a Second time.\" Those in favour say \"Aye\"; to the contrary \"No.\" I think the \"Ayes\" have it. The \"Ayes\" have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2185.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-05", "file": "debates1971-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "634ab6ce43bbfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2185.12", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "EMPLOYED PERSONS (SAFETY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [12th February].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2185.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-05", "file": "debates1971-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "634ab6ce43bbfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2185.16", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "TRAVEL AGENTS AND TOUR AND CHARTER OPERATORS REGISTRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2185.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-05", "file": "debates1971-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "634ab6ce43bbfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2185.20", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "FINANCE OF COUNCIL HOUSE BUILDING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2185.19"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-05", "file": "debates1971-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "634ab6ce43bbfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2186.2", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [29th January].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2186.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-05", "file": "debates1971-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "634ab6ce43bbfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2186.6", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "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/1971-03-05a.2186.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-05", "file": "debates1971-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "634ab6ce43bbfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2186.10", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "CHARITABLE CAUSES (MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DISABLED PERSONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2186.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-05", "file": "debates1971-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "634ab6ce43bbfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2186.14", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "SALE OF TICKETS (OFFENCES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-05a.2186.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-22", "file": "debates1971-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a890be09b941a68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-22a.103.2", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "e Bill, but when my right hon. Friend explained that its purpose was just the opposite—namely, to bring them within the scope of the Bill—they criticised him on entirely different grounds. I should have thought that there were historical reasons why these bodies have tended to be somewhat different in character from other bodies which operate solely as trade unions. There is nothing wrong in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-22a.103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-22", "file": "debates1971-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a890be09b941a68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-22a.103.2", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "ese bodies have usually made a wonderful contribution to that life, in their own terms. For the hon. Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme) to suggest that they are somehow a means of creating two nations is utter tommyrot. State registered nurses and members of the Royal College of Nursing come from all kinds of homes. We are not talking about two nations—one of workers and one of privileged people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-22a.103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-22", "file": "debates1971-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a890be09b941a68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-22a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "selves having to tear up their charters and their company status, and one of their primary aims very often is not regulation of industrial relations as such. If, in particular, Amendment ( nnnnn ) were accepted, it would make the first register entirely redundant and we would then have a situation in which all the parties concerned in the Bill would be able to get admission to the second register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-22a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-22", "file": "debates1971-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a890be09b941a68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-22a.144.2", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ether they will remain so. They take a rather different view of the Bill from that taken by some other unions. I again emphasise that unless the T.U.C. and hon. Members opposite representing the large unions within that organisation are prepared to accept differences which must be recognised between some of these other unions, most of which are smaller than the unions which have large memberships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-22a.144.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-22", "file": "debates1971-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a890be09b941a68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-22a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-22a.208.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Danish bacon.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be glad to know that the price of bacon is cheaper now than it has been for three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.242.6", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "preceding_text": "I share my right hon. Friend's opinion that competition is the housewife's champion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.242.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.245.5", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What I am aware of, and what those with whom I have discussed the matter are fully aware of, is the rising wage-cost inflation which we inherited from the Labour Government. The fact that the escalation in these claims has now been halted, and that there are signs of de-escalation, can be the basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.245.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.248.4", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister think that it is an insult to the elected Members of the House of Commons that the head of the biggest spending Department in Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.248.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.248.4", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister think that it is an insult to the elected Members of the House of Commons that the head of the biggest spending Department in Government—[An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"] It is the biggest at present, I think, spending £2,500 million. It is one of the biggest, in any case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.248.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "—does he recall that during the election campaign he called for an intellectually honest approach to politics, at the same time mentioning certain prices in the shopping basket? Will he please reconcile these two points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.252.2", "colnum": "252", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that we, too, would have preferred a somewhat earlier debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.252.2", "colnum": "252", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paper tigers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that we, too, would have preferred a somewhat earlier debate—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are we?\"]—but we appreciate the difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "Perhaps this is a convenient moment for the hon. Gentleman to give way. I wanted to ask him about his use of the word \"embarrassing\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "ed that some of the blue-collar unions and their members are more traditional bastions of Conservatism than their leadership might indicate. I commend the hon. Gentleman to bear that point more in mind. He will be surprised, as the polls have shown, how widespread is that support. Sometimes the polls, short of the ballot box, are the only way of discovering how people think on issues of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "s the wording of the 1871 Act, but under that Measure when an organisation applied for registration it was able to get benefits from being registered; from, for example, the income tax point of view if it provided benevolent grants and other payments. Under these provisions, however, there will be disadvantages for such a union. For example, its rules will, in essence, be written by the Registrar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "o let cats out of the bag. To mix my metaphors a litle further, he has introduced a new kind of bogey man. Instead of the \"Red under the Bed\" we have the \"Tory under the desk\". The tale goes that, wherever the Registrar goes, he will be followed by \"Big Brother\" from industry wearing a silk hat and carrying a microscope, and that in this way we are stifling the just activities of the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "whether they want to be registered. At the risk of incurring the wrath of the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer)—because it is like a red rag to a bull to him—I should like briefly to go back to the proposals which the Labour Government brought forward with a great flurry of trumpets and which were a do-or-die affair for them. I wish to quote from paragraph 109 of \"In Place of Strife\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "fted and at every stage in its gestation, that if the T.U.C. were prepared to discuss with the then Government ways and means of tackling the disorder which undoubtedly exists in industrial relations we were prepared to modify our policy. The Tory Party has never fully acknowledged that. Indeed, I do not think that the Tories understand what happened in the summer of 1969 when the T.U.C. accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Of course I know what I am talking about. If the hon. Gentleman waits he may learn something himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a lawyer's argument.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "I support that decision. But when we come to the separate fund—for such it is or should be, and I believe it to be—of the provident benefits, the privilege of tax exemption should be available. It can be made available only if the body is identified clearly—otherwise it will become an abuse—and if it is registered in some way. It is essential if there is to be a tax exemption of the type required—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.375.3", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "aw because the unions thought that it would be better from an administrative point of view to reverse the procedure. I do not want the hon. Gentleman to think that trade unionists never contract out. Throughout discussions on the Bill an atmosphere seems to have been created that trade unionists are fools, morons and mugs who do what their shop stewards tell them to do, just like a bunch of sheep—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": " that light and to ask why the Labour Party has particularly selected industrial relations for the big debate when the people generally are far more interested in, for example, cuts in the social services and the different approach to the social services which the Government have announced. First and foremost, we must remember that the Labour Party is the political arm of the trade union movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "Nevertheless, the Labour Party is the political arm of the trade union movement, just as the Tory Party is largely the political arm of capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "preceding_text": "a changing pattern of political thought. But we should not be talking about that tonight, and. I am only sorry that such matters have been introduced. I suppose that, in one sense, my whole political being would urge me to support the new Clause, but I reject it as wrong and out of context with the great matters which we are debating now. This House should be rising above such petty party matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.385.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.386.4", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "gain the analogy is totally false. The trade unions are composed of individuals, as is the Labour Party. It is another method of organisation among exactly the same people within our move- ment. There is no difference between Johnnie Smith who attends the Labour Party conference on behalf of the Transport and General Workers' Union and Johnnie Smith who attends on behalf of his local Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.386.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "nservative position does not seem to me particularly acceptable. However, we are digressing. The fundamental point here is that we know that the political contribution made to a trade union is frequently made for reasons of apathy or disinterest and sometimes—we all know that this is true—because of communal pressure within the union which makes an individual member very reluctant to contract out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.397.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.424.10", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. As the names of right hon. and hon. Members on both Front Benches appeared on the Notice Paper, I took it that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.424.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-23", "file": "debates1971-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "048a9a78d82b1986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.428.8", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman has raised. I would hesitate before doing anything to interfere with the good temper and good humour which has been shown throughout the night. Having said that, I would ask hon. Members of the Opposition to guard against anything which might possibly be construed in any way as dilatoriness in the Lobby. I do not think that anything of the kind has occurred intentionally on their part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-23a.428.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:, \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I ask leave to present a Petition on behalf of the Trades Union Congress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.508.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.508.3", "colnum": "508", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! Where are the Tories?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": ", and deprive workpeople both collectively and individually of rights which are fundamental in a free society. As I hope to catch your eye in the debate on the Third Reading later today, Mr. Speaker, I need not enlarge on the Petition of the T.U.C. against the Bill, except to quote the conclusion, which reads: Wherefore your petitioners pray that the Industrial Relations Bill should be withdrawn\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "That is a disgraceful reply. Outside the House the figures are being freely discussed. The Minister must be aware that there are many who think, while recognising that Concorde could never be an economically viable proposition on the basis of an individual line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "That is a disgraceful reply. Outside the House the figures are being freely discussed. The Minister must be aware that there are many who think, while recognising that Concorde could never be an economically viable proposition on the basis of an individual line—[ Interruption. ] The Minister will be aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "That is a disgraceful reply. Outside the House the figures are being freely discussed. The Minister must be aware that there are many who think, while recognising that Concorde could never be an economically viable proposition on the basis of an individual line—[ Interruption. ] The Minister will be aware—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] The Minister is aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.514.5", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "e economically viable on the basis of the whole cost, but might well be economically viable on the basis of the costs yet to be paid? Will he therefore recognise that there are many who would be prepared to accept the whole project? He should therefore specifically tell the House, and especially my hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Mr. Sheldon), what further commitments have been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.514.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that sixpences are hardly ever given out in change?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "HOUSE PURCHASE (LOCAL AUTHORITY MORTGAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give us a figure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "eenwood and that the Labour Government transferred support from the idea of rationing by category to rationing by ceiling. The right hon. Gentleman asked me three specific questions which I will do my best to answer. He asked me, first, whether this will lead to an increase in lending. I should be surprised if it did not lead to a dramatic, perhaps spectacular, increase in local authority lending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.539.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.545.2", "colnum": "545", "heading": "HOUSE PURCHASE (LOCAL AUTHORITY MORTGAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.545.6", "colnum": "545", "heading": "HOUSE PURCHASE (LOCAL AUTHORITY MORTGAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not want to be unauly unfair or strict with the hon. Member. I am in the hands of the House on this. The Chair can only be as strong as the House will allow it to be, but I have had it impressed upon me again and again that I must try to stop points of order which are not points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.545.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "r of the Exchequer, made the position very clear in his Budget speech on 15th April, 1969, when he said: Moreover, no observer of the British economy can doubt that the present climate of industrial relations is a serious obstacle to the attainment of our economic objectives and that the improvement of that climate should be a major aim of policy. He went on: In particular, we need to facilitate\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.551.5", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I think that is a very dangerous Ruling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.560.3", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ves his purposes. On television and in speeches in this House and outside it, the right hon. Gentleman has spelled out those aims. He spelled them out again today. They always sound impeccable. In the initial stages of the right hon. Gentleman's speech, my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) turned to me and said, \"If the Bill was really like that, we would be voting for it\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "e result might have been different\". Is he so out of touch as not to know that that strike, too, was the product of pressure from below, not the result of inducement, or incitement, or financing, or procuring by any of the leaders in that movement? Of course in the end the ballot was against the strike continuing, because the Government had set out to drive the Post Office workers into the ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Bridgwater (Mr. Tom King) made a point about that. I thought that it was so infantile that I would not refer to it. I say that for one good reason. There is not a single, honest Member in this House who does not know what went on last night. We were deliberately allowing certain hon. Members to go home, and we did it on a rota basis. Everybody knows that. This is a disciplined party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.582.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " nurses. They would not strike, but the doctors threatened to do so. They are both in the same National Health Service, but the doctors got the cash. There is much injustice and unfairness about the Bill. Wild exaggerations have been made on both sides about the Bill. I concede that the Measure has some good parts which we would want and which would be in legislation passed by a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Mawby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which union?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Mawby", "preceding_text": "n the report is your goodself. In view of the fact that the disclosure of the business of the Union to any outside source is a breach of the Rules of the Union, it will be necessary to refer the facts to the Executive Council for their attention. The member's comment on a matter of public knowledge had appeared in that newspaper, and he received this letter from the general secretary of the union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "xtremes —first, the paeans of praise. I pay my tribute to the Secretary of State, the Solicitor-General and the Under-Secretary. I am sure that everyone will agree that this is for them a moment of personal triumph of the first order. But that apart, the Bill has in some ways received a little too much adulation. This is dangerous, because it can lead people to regard it as a panacea for all ills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "this is for them a moment of personal triumph of the first order. But that apart, the Bill has in some ways received a little too much adulation. This is dangerous, because it can lead people to regard it as a panacea for all ills—[ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh. It is important that we should make clear to the country where the Bill fits into the overall strategy. I speak mainly as a lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.611.5", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "Let the hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) not get too worked up. I withdraw immediately what I said. The hon. Gentleman is right. On that occasion, I was not here. What I should have said is that we have had an opportunity to discuss the provisions among ourselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.611.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has been converted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "the right to break contracts to take action for such reasons as stopping arms for South Africa, and so on. In other words, the Liberals have been selective in their approach. Tonight, they have arrived at a form of opposition to the Bill, though, having listened to the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe), I cannot see why he does not intend to vote with the Conservatives on Third Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.625.11", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which union is he in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "vided that the arrangements should be imposed by order of the Secretary of State upon those workpeople. It has been interesting to note that the closer her proposals came to those in the Bill, the greater the hysteria with which she has spoken from the Front Bench. As I was tramping through the Lobbies last night, I happened to read a short piece from Voltare which seemed particularly appropriate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.625.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ords Amendments will be guillotined when they come to us for consideration. In that way, we shall have imposed upon us, the democratically-elected representatives of the people, the wishes and desires of another place. Then the Government have the audacity to tell the unions that they carry out undemocratic procedures. What a lot of hyprocrisy and dishonesty on the part of this crooked Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": " type of impartiality is much rarer than is generally supposed, and its rareness lies at the very core of the problem posed by this Bill. How are working men to view the judicial function proposed by this Bill as other than a political one? How are they to construe that function as other than protection for the employer? It has ever been the experience of working men of this country in the courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.646.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Opposition?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, because he is one member of the opposition whose views I always respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady may object to the way in which this has been done in the Bill, but the parties to an agreement in industry will know from the commencement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "preceding_text": "elsewhere in the world. Let them remember that the trade unions and the working class of this country did not reach the stage which they have reached through laws passed by Tory Governments or by any Government. The eight-hour day, the 40-hour week, the end of child labour, and the like, were not won through arbitration. They were won through the only final weapon of the working class, the strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "dismissal, over union recognition, over the problems arising from the closed shop. In each case a modern civilised procedure will remove the root cause. I give the Bill a wholesale welcome, but in doing so I give three warnings and I hope that I shall carry my hon. Friends with me. First, the public expect far too much to be achieved by the Bill—more than could possibly be achieved by legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.671.7", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": " is to wind up the debate has half an hour in which to reply and if he cannot reply to a speech of mine lasting a couple of minutes in half an hour, then God help him. Let me repeat what I said. Consistently from the Tory Party we have had anti-union propaganda saying that the unions are undermining the economy, that they are responsible for the inflation from which the country has been suffering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.671.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member has said that already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": " By making those noises, and interrupting, all that hon. Gentlemen opposite are doing is preventing one of their own people from having a go in this debate. When the hon. Lady the Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) spoke she promised to speak for five minutes, and I do not want to be longer. The Conservative Party has been saying for a long time that inflation has been caused by the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": ". Lady the Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) spoke she promised to speak for five minutes, and I do not want to be longer. The Conservative Party has been saying for a long time that inflation has been caused by the trade unions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member has said that already.\"] Many times have Members of the Tory Party said it. This Bill is a political exercise and a political diversion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite regard their union bashing as something to giggle about. They regard attacking decent, ordinary working men who are shop stewards as something to sneer about and to be amused about. What the Bill does is precisely to attack that sort of person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "ntry on the trade union movement. They do not want to face the electors about it. By their very propaganda they themselves have caused industrial strife for which they blame the unionists. All the industrial strife we have had over the last six months has been against the background of their propaganda and of their blaming the unions and of this Bill. Every capitalist newspaper which one picks up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.673.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "the ground that it is incomprehensible. At the same time, there is a note of truth in the criticism which should be heard and acknowledged. It calls for a constructive response which I am sure will be forthcoming from my hon. and learned Friend. The Bill's principles are not incomprehensible. Clause 1, for example, is easy to understand. But the Measure as a whole is difficult for people to grasp—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " factory who wrote to me, and to the shop stewards who came to see me. Coming, now, to this code of practice, it is absolutely vital that my right hon. Friend should consult abut this, that he should be seen to consult about it and that he should consult the right people, making special reference—the right hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn said something about this—to employers' unfair practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "o try to consider the anxieties which are expressed and constructive suggestions which are made. I thought my right hon. Friend was very wise to say that there is no magic cure in this Bill. Frankly, I am a little frightened at the hopes which seem to be placed on it. I have never maintained that it is possible to establish good industrial relations by an industrial relations Measure of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": ", the point is made. This Bill is merely, in principle, doing what she did. We may argue about the details, but what we are not arguing about is the fact that legislation has a proper part to play in industrial relations at the proper time, and the time had already come when the right hon. Lady wanted to introduce it. Therefore, I have no apologies for the Bill, and I do not expect too much of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "oolly received. That should be noted in the House for two reasons: first, because dissatisfaction with the parliamentary process for dealing with a Bill of this length and complexity, and containing such contentious proposals, goes far beyond the T.U.C.; second, because I think that we are seeing the first signs that the trade unions are joining the revolt of youth against politics and Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "experiments have proved successful. We must seek a remedy for the frustrations and disadvantages of dealing with a Bill in this way. Now a word about the mandate and the General Election. For the Government to claim a mandate for the Bill from the marginal result of the General Election last June is to claim the right of one half of the people to impose objectionable legislation on the other half—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": " responsibilities towards each other. This is industrial relations by the book, giving little encouragement to positive effort to live together. The petition which I presented to the House today and which was signed by hundreds of thousands of trade unionists asked the Government to withdraw the Bill. Should it become law, we on these benches will surely one day have the duty to decide its future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": " consequences of not having any. It is my duty, speaking on behalf of the Parliamentary Labour Party, to refer to this question of repeal. The recent Croydon congress approved a recommendation of the Trades Union Congress that the General Council should seek from the Parliamentary Labour Party an explicit and unconditional assurance on the repeal of the Bill. We on these benches take note of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": " a better Bill if the Government had done the same. I can only refer to my speech on Second Reading at col. 1152 of 15th December, 1970, which put the position of the Parliamentary Labour Party on the record. It is still our firm intention and desire to develop our constructive alternative to this Bill so to provide a firm basis for its repeal. That is the policy of the Parliamentary Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.693.4", "colnum": "693", "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. and learned Gentleman should really not try to mislead the House and the country. The two particular Amendments, so far as the Opposition Front Bench were concerned, were not divided upon, and the hon. and learned Gentleman knows that. I would, if I may, make just one other point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.693.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.693.4", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ry. The two particular Amendments, so far as the Opposition Front Bench were concerned, were not divided upon, and the hon. and learned Gentleman knows that. I would, if I may, make just one other point. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes, because hon. Gentlemen a little earlier today had a parade in this House and tried to give the country the impression that the Government had scored a great victory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.693.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ision of some remote body. We agree, but we also put forward the argument that it is not only the employing organisation which, in today's society, can exercise the sort of threat she has in mind. It must be acknowledged, because it is plain from our experience, that a person's livelihood and job can be as effectively threatened by the unfair decisions of trade unions and collective organisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "n from our experience, that a person's livelihood and job can be as effectively threatened by the unfair decisions of trade unions and collective organisations—[ Interruption. ]—I hope hon. Gentlemen opposite will listen to what I am saying. We agree, of course, as my right hon. Friend has repeated time and again, that membership of a trade union is something to be encouraged, and we applaud this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "nd has repeated time and again, that membership of a trade union is something to be encouraged, and we applaud this. [ Interruption. ] As we were asked several times for this to be made plain, we voted last night for an Amendment in which my right hon. Friend has made it plain that an employer should be free to use his best endeavours to encourage union membership among all those who work for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "mployer should be free to use his best endeavours to encourage union membership among all those who work for him. [ Laughter. ] It is no good hon. Gentlemen opposite seeking to laugh this off or brush it aside. The Government believe—and hon. Members of the Liberal Party also believe, as do people of liberal conscience throughout the country—that individuals' freedoms also deserve to be preserved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.696.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where's Ted, where's Ted?", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen opposite who argue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ted's in bed; Ted's in bed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen opposite who are fond of arguing in support of the voluntary system must support this as well, for if voluntaryism as a principle is to be preserved and encouraged, as indeed it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen opposite who are fond of arguing in support of the voluntary system must support this as well, for if voluntaryism as a principle is to be preserved and encouraged, as indeed it is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ted's in bed; Ted's in bed.\"]——then it is a principle which deserves to be encouraged in the context of an individual's decision whether or not, in the last resort, to join a trade union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "which are applicable to him. The Bill requires employers to have regard to the rights of their employees not to be unfairly dismissed. Finally, on a point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford, North, the Bill contains provision for the code of industrial relations practice. I am glad to be able to affirm that the code will be published in its draft form, as the House was told last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Driberg", "preceding_text": "We have just listened to one of the most deceitful and evasive speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.700.4", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "We have just been forced to listen to one of the most deceitful and evasive speeches ever made in this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.700.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.700.4", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "We have just been forced to listen to one of the most deceitful and evasive speeches ever made in this Parliament. [ Interruption. ] The next Labour Government will have to repeal this shameful act pretty damn' quick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.700.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.700.8", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Drunk, drunk!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The House proceeded to a Division —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.700.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-24", "file": "debates1971-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a2c0e7ae170f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "preceding_text": "they have so far put off the implementation of the 50 per cent. conservation grant. I said, in response to the parsimonious attitude of the Treasury, that we should not even have a decent trial scheme on which to erect a national policy. National policy is of crucial importance. Too many ancient and historic cities are disappearing at too great a rate, precisely because we have no national policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-24a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.855.6", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spying.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman has referred to that matter again, may I be allowed to raise with you, Mr. Speaker, the point on which I sought your guidance at the time? In the course of a supplementary question to my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Gentleman referred to what he described as spying activities in industry, or industrial espionage—I forget the exact words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.855.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.856.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.857.4", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You are dodging about.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.857.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.858.6", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Can", "preceding_text": "I assure my hon. Friend that this is the case. He might also like to know that Mr. Woodcock in his statement has expressed his belief that eventually the C.I.R. will again be widely accepted as a body. It might also interest the right hon. Lady, her hon. Friends and the whole House to know that in his statement he says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.858.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.872.4", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — T.U.C. AND C.B.I. (PRIME MINISTERS' TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That will, of course, depend on a considerable number of factors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.872.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — T.U.C. AND C.B.I. (PRIME MINISTERS' TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is up to the Leader of the Opposition to re-establish control over his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — T.U.C. AND C.B.I. (PRIME MINISTERS' TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I intend to answer. However, my supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.874.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.887.3", "colnum": "887", "heading": "DIVISION NO. 335 (POINTS OF ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "one, and the less attention that we pay to them the better.\" Unfortunately, although the House accepted your advice, certain newspapers and the B.B.C. have not. As a result, an allegation about my right hon. Friend the Chief Whip has been put about. I should have much preferred the hon. Member for Ealing, North to have felt inclined to make a personal statement today. I recognise that he is under—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.887.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "BUSINESS STATEMENTS (QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "untry and undermine our relations with the United States which are of such great importance. I want to quote from two speeches he has made and which we cannot be sure that he will not repeat while the House is in recess. Yesterday, the Daily Mail reported him as talking about …Britain's determination to stick to its diet, strip the fat from flanny industrial management and curb union greed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.891.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "BUSINESS STATEMENTS (QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " reliance on the State. These are the sentiments of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. They are not the sentiments of the country as a whole. I come back to Lord Cromer's maiden speech last month as Ambassador. He was addressing the extremely influential National Press Club in Washington. He said that the present Government were creating a fundamental restoration of freedom in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "BUSINESS STATEMENTS (QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Rolls-Royce?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ss. We do not get enough time on the Floor of the House to discuss the very pressing Scottish problems. We could use the whole of the Easter Recess week to discuss separate Scottish problems on each day. The unemployment figure in Scotland is 122,000, and it is likely to go up in the Easter Recess. Unemployment does not often increase in the course of an Easter Recess, but it will do so this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "BUSINESS STATEMENTS (QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "whether sad or splendid isolation; most of the time he looks sad—on the Treasury Bench. In view of the subjects which have been so profoundly raised by my hon. Friends, I should have expected the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, and a representative of the Foreign Office to have been summoned to sit with the right hon. Gentleman on the Treasury Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-25", "file": "debates1971-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d6c85b90ac969bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "BUSINESS STATEMENTS (QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "entral (Mr. Clinton Davis) raised the question of statements made by Lord Cromer, and indeed by Lady Cromer. The first point that must be made is that an ambassador is the representative of the British Government abroad. Some hon. Members have suggested that he is a representative of the British people, but that is not the position. Constitutionally an ambassador represents the British Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-25a.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am by no means complacent. I am very anxious to see the figures in Wales considerably improved, and I have every confidence that they will be. But the hon. Gentleman, who has a facility for bringing forward selected figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "I have already told the House that I am concerned about the high level of unemployment in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "I have already told the House that I am concerned about the high level of unemployment in Wales—[ Interruption. ]—as I am about the high level of unemployment in the United Kingdom. I have no doubt that the Government's policies will have the effect of bringing down this high rate of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1136.2", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "The proper place for such a debate is in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1136.2", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "The proper place for such a debate is in this House—[ Interruption. ]—or in the Welsh Grand Committee, and there will be an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1136.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1142.6", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roderick", "preceding_text": "am rather surprised at the Minister's reply, because I have been receiving representations from all quarters both on the subject of increased charges for spectacles and on the whole range of increased charge for health services. The Minister received a letter from me last week from one authority, but I have others which will arrive on his desk in due course. The Minister and his right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1142.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "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 this ill-considered report was very fiercely contested within the Welsh Council by our leading Welsh industrialists—I know my facts on this—and that this report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1153.2", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "preceding_text": "ch a rate as to cause hardship\"? That could mean almost anything. Fifth, has the right hon. Gentleman at any stage discussed with employers the difference between those who pay within the first week or two weeks when a man resumes work and those who do not pay for a longer period? In other words, has he made any endeavour to get this on the same basis throughout all employment? May I ask him next—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the Supplementary Benefits Commission would have thanked the Government for consulting it about a matter which must be for the Government to decide, and which is distinctly political—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1155.3", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Go on.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "This is not the year, following a year in which strikes were more numerous than in any year since 1926, to relax the grade and class conditions to which the hon. Lady referred. I confirm that single men will not be affected, because they are not entitled to supplementary benefit when on strike. Section 13 will remain for hardship payments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1156.3", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "It will be worked as it is at present; for every spell that lasts for more than 12 benefit days the three waiting days now paid retrospectively will not be paid once the Bill is passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1156.4", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the general public will be pleased with the way in which he is proposing to deal with the scrimshankers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1156.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "This is one of the most vicious and mean acts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1157.5", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "While entirely accepting the principle that the State should not have to pay strikers when on strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1157.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1158.3", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I will do better than that. The proposal about disregards has been made by the hon. Gentleman's right hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1271.1", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Anthony Grant)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Anthony Grant)", "preceding_text": "eman raised the question of the route transfers. They are subject to the negative resolution procedure, and therefore take place on the date in the Order to which the right hon. Gentleman referred, namely, 1st April. He also asked whether this was to be a once-for-all transfer. As I thought my right hon. Friend the Minister for Trade made clear, it is, so far as the initial operation is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "is power is heavily qualified. The Secretary of State has to be satisfied that the exercise of the power is consistent with the performance of the Airways Board's general duty; consultation with the Airways Board is required; and it is subject to the negative Resolution procedure. It is wholly reasonable that such a power should be available to the Secretary of State if occasion should require it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-29", "file": "debates1971-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "127150794342e368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "erience of the staff and management of the Corporations. I must stress that no substantial change in group organisation may take place without the consent of the Secretary of State, as I have described on the contrary argument. It is easy to gain the impression from looking through the Bill that the Secretary of State will be intervening at every turn, but I ask the House not to be misled by this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-29a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1335.5", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am sure the House would be impatient if I delivered the hon. Member a lecture upon the difference between capital and revenue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1335.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1355.2", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hat suggestion. I was invited to have lunch with the Scottish Economic Council. I did so, and we had a discussion afterwards in which the Chairman, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland, invited all to express their views. They did so freely, and it was extremely valuable. At the end I answered many of the points. With great respect, I know of no one walking out from that lunch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1355.5", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "man whether he prefers to accept a Press report—and no representative of the Scotsman or any member of the Press was present at the lunch—or the reports of myself and others who were present. The position is as I have stated it, that no one left that lunch. The only person who left slightly before the end was the Press Officer from No. 10, because he wished to get into contact with people outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1364.4", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "To sum up, when we took office the outstanding short and medium term debt stood at £1,461 million. Including the repayments I have just announced, we have made a total repayment of £778 million; and the debt therefore now stands at £683 million. So the debt has been more than halved since we took office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1364.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1364.4", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "up, when we took office the outstanding short and medium term debt stood at £1,461 million. Including the repayments I have just announced, we have made a total repayment of £778 million; and the debt therefore now stands at £683 million. So the debt has been more than halved since we took office. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The debt now stands at £683 million compared with £71 million in October, 1964.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1364.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " cost inflation. I have already said a good deal about this basic problem, and I would only add this. The Budget by itself cannot provide the answer to the problem of cost inflation. Nothing that has happened over these past few months has weakened my conviction that the only way in which we can deal with cost inflation is by means of a progressive and substantial de-escalation of pay settlements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1375.1", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " for a married couple will be increased from £8.10 to £9.70. Other National Insurance benefits and war pensions will be correspondingly improved. The basic scale rates of supplementary benefits will go up by smaller amounts because of the interim uprating in November, 1970, but the increase from November, 1969, will be the same as for pensions. These increases will take effect from 20th September—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1375.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1395.0", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "in the coming months with trade and professional associations and with other interested parties so that legislation can be drafted. As I have said, the Bill will be introduced next Session. The Government arc pledged to abolish S.E.T. I must tell the House that my regret is that this tax which, as I said, is so disliked, but which now yields some £500 million a year, cannot be abolished this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1393.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1395.4", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1395.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1395.6", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "I will wait until you are ready. May I congratulate the Government on having half kept a promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1395.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " Chancellor, when he seeks to catch the eye of the Chair tomorrow, and by others of my right hon. and hon. Friends who will be speaking both from this bench and from the benches behind me. My first impression is that, judged against the opportunities open to the Chancellor and the clear priorities which he should have followed, this Budget fails to rise to the occasion with which he was presented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the S.E.T. reduction?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "nt intolerable and rapidly-growing unemployment, which under the right hon. Gentleman has now reached 750,000, so often forecast by the Prime Minister for us. The right hon. Gentleman should have attacked this by soundly-based policies for growth, of which we saw no evidence in his speech this afternoon. Second, he should have announced measures designed to stabilise prices, which we have not had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "you cannot push it. The right hon. Gentleman may find that he is pumping money into the economy which industry cannot use because of its lack of confidence in the future. The Chancellor should have addressed himself to the question of prices, but we have heard nothing from him on this. We have not seen a fulfilment of any of the pledges given in the General Election campaign by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "lfilment of any of the pledges given in the General Election campaign by the Prime Minister. [ Interruption. ] Certainly not. The Prime Minister no doubt does not want to be reminded—and unless he wants to be reminded I will not remind him—of the words on which he won the General Election, when he promised to break into the price-wage spiral by acting directly to reduce prices. He has not done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "the man who drafted this statement is now paid a high salary in Her Majesty's Treasury. I now come to S.E.T. Before the Election, the Prime Minister pledged an incoming Conservative Government to abolish S.E.T. in the first Budget. He has not done so. That is another of the pledges on which he was elected on which he has now once again defaulted. He has defaulted on prices, unemployment and S.E.T.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "h he was elected on which he has now once again defaulted. He has defaulted on prices, unemployment and S.E.T. [ Interruption. ] Right hon. and hon. Gentleman may cheer now, but the country will realise that on everything on which the Prime Minister was elected he has defrauded the electorate once again. The Prime Minister laughs. Does he deny that he said that S.E.T. would go in the first Budget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ive trade—he could not have done so. I turn briefly to the Chancellor's direct tax proposals, which my right hon. and hon. Friends will examine more closely tomorrow in the light of the documentation now available. These proposals start from his mini-budget, his 2½ new pence reduction in the standard rate of income tax, that jolly, jolly sixpence we all read about in the Press the next day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Again?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "tleman will, by this means, ease the lot of a few hundred surtax payers, but by his other measures, and particularly by his refusal to tackle prices, he will worsen the lot of many millions of other tax payers and, with the increase in the stamp, he will worsen the lot of tens of millions of tax payers. Undoubtedly this Budget will appeal to his friends in the City and the hard-liners in industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "f many millions of other tax payers and, with the increase in the stamp, he will worsen the lot of tens of millions of tax payers. Undoubtedly this Budget will appeal to his friends in the City and the hard-liners in industry. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Again?\"] I wanted to say it again to give hon. Gentlemen opposite a chance to cheer. It will no doubt also stimulate the flow of funds to the Central Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And savings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": "fort and incentive. The latest is one of the most revealing because, when a range of executive types who are supposed to respond to these reductions were asked how much tax they paid, not one of them had the slightest idea. We know the purpose of the hand-out: it is merely to increase the income of the friends of the Chancellor of the Exchequer rather than to increase incentive to work and effort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-30", "file": "debates1971-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "e104a9e5ef334775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "price would be £1·70. Out of that the Treasury would get only 13½p. With value-added tax on the same article, as it is charged on the price at which the article is sold, the £1 would become £1·50 with the shopkeeper's profit margin. With the value-added tax added to that at a rate of 13⅔ per cent., it would total 20p, so that the selling price would be exactly the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-30a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1486.6", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": " hon. Member aware that next year completions will be 800, the following year 600, and that there is no adequate programme for the years to follow, and nothing like a 10-year plan? Is he aware that there has been a deliberate refusal on the part of the local Conservative authority to implement compulsory purchase orders—in fact there is almost a conspiracy by Hackney? Is he also aware of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1486.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1488.2", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must know that that answer is no great encouragement. Will he recall that in London the rate of housing reached a level of about 30,000 about three years ago in one year but has now dropped over these last years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1488.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1488.2", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must know that that answer is no great encouragement. Will he recall that in London the rate of housing reached a level of about 30,000 about three years ago in one year but has now dropped over these last years—[ Interruption. ] That is right. Since the Conservatives won control of the town halls in May, 1968, the number has dropped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1488.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1488.5", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I can well understand the Labour Party's sense of guilt about the situation which London housing is in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1488.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1488.5", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Starts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I can well understand the Labour Party's sense of guilt about the situation which London housing is in. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"] I will indeed answer the question. The facts are that in 1970 completions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1488.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1495.2", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": " to Greater London but is being experienced in every large town and city? Will he consider the recommendation contained in the 1968 Report of the Estimates Committee for the setting up of a house building corporation or association to build houses in all parts of the country where the local authorities are either unwilling or unable to do so for whatever reason? Further, may I remind the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1495.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1515.2", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "FAMILY LAW REFORM ACT 1969 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "such teaching, sometimes deliberately, leads children to believe that they will not receive understanding or sympathy from their parents. Whereas this is true in the minority of cases, in the majority of cases—I believe that good parents are in the majority—it is not. I particularly deplore any inference that poor or deprived parents are necessarily bad or inadequate ones. I have done social work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1515.2", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "FAMILY LAW REFORM ACT 1969 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "rly deplore any inference that poor or deprived parents are necessarily bad or inadequate ones. I have done social work—[ Interruption. ] I have done social work for some years in one of the most necessitous parts of the country, in which I met these families, and among them I met more good parents who loved, understood and cared for their children than anyone else. After all, who but the parents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1517.1", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "FAMILY LAW REFORM ACT 1969 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "are some family relationships which will make it undesirable, even in the case of some children under 16. It is for this reason that I have added the words \"in some cases at his discretion\". Naturally I accept that confidentiality must be respected in the vast majority of cases. The opponents of this Amendment will say that it will result in girls being scared to consult their doctors and clinics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1517.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1531.0", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "At a stroke.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " scale the Government should not have produced a bigger impact—they have produced no significant impact—on the vital prices front. They could have done so. There are two taxes which are to be abolished in 1973 —at a price—purchase tax and S.E.T. If they had chosen to cut purchase tax instead of S.E.T. this year, they could have had an effect at least three times as big upon the retail price index.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1561.3", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "e inescapable consequence of imposing disproportionately large increases upon the higher earners. The right hon. Gentleman referred to people with incomes of £50,000 a year. There is progress in this House. You, Sir, will remember that the late Mr. Gaitskell took exception, on a previous Conservative Budget, to the effect that it might have on a bachelor with an unearned income of £100,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1561.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "oyees makes on the average a probably higher contribution to the British balance of payments than workers in almost any other industry. Yet, under this impost devised by right hon. Gentlemen opposite, under the guidance of impractical academic economists, the tax fell in full on them while it was refunded to any manufacturer, even if he were a manufacturer of gaming machinery, for the home market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Tugendhat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "es in taxation which had just been put on, and I envy my successors who have an opportunity to write about reductions. The second characteristic of a Tory Budget is that it reforms. This Budget is launching what is probably the most enormous reform programme in our taxation system since Mr. Gladstone himself. The third characteristic of a Tory Budget is that it helps all sections of the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-03-31", "file": "debates1971-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "95dbdaf21bba12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1623.1", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "s, given the geographical situation of Ross and Cromarty, there must be considerable central Government incentives. No aluminium-using industry, by the nature of the technology, can possibly make a profit in year one, year two, or probably in year three. Profit may come in year four or year five. Therefore, what advantage to such an industry is any favourable response to tax allowances on profits?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-03-31a.1623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1671.0", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. HENRY FORD (DISCUSSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Grylls", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Grylls", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend not agree that the threat by the Labour Party to nationalise Rolls-Royce —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will certainly look into the matter. I was not aware that the Question was changed at our request. Nor did I understand the hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) to say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": " by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, I may have misled the House. I have been informed that the original Question was in almost identical wording, apart from the fact that it included the name of Mr. Batty, who is Managing Director of the Ford Motor Company. That name has been taken out of the Question, and it is without the name that the Question was returned to the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": " of the Ford Motor Company. That name has been taken out of the Question, and it is without the name that the Question was returned to the Order Paper. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Gentlemen opposite do not know, Mr. Batty is, as I said, Managing Director of Ford. I mention this point only to show that there was a slight change from the original Question. Nevertheless, the principle remains the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1679.0", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "A similar arrangement was made under the Labour Government by the then Chairman of the Catering Sub-Committee without even referring it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1679.5", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman take a cool hard look not only at the present problem but at the continuing one which has existed in the 22 years that I have been here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1679.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1680.4", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "as correctly said that this is not the first time that professional consultants have been called in. May I suggest to him, with all due respect to those of our colleagues who work hard on the Catering Sub-Committee, that perhaps the time has come to consider the philosophy of hiving off in this connection and whether it would not be a good idea to consider placing a contract with outside caterers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1710.1", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": " available for the further industrial investment which is so vital to our economy. The effects of the further cut of 2½ per cent. in corporation tax will not be felt until January, 1972. With the previous cut announced, the total cut will be £145 million. Selective employment tax is to be halved, but the benefit will not go to manufacturers except by way of the reduction of the forced loan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1717.1", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "med as a great reform will result in the majority of the close trading companies paying more tax than they do now. The shortfall system, which the Chancellor said was a great concession, will apply to 7 per cent. of trading companies with profits above £100 a year. The final major reform which the Chancellor referred to was the abolition of S.E.T. No serious case has ever been made against S.E.T.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1719.1", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "progress even further. A major debating point that was being made by the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames and by the Financial Secretary was that my right hon. Friend wanted to do something on these lines and did not. My right hon. Friend was working within a balanced Budget, whereas even the Chancellor's best friends would never accuse him of having produced this week a balanced Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1729.1", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": ". In fact, they have much more time off than British workers. The four weeks holiday is general in German industry, and they have four or five more bank holidays every year than we do. In this sense, more time is lost in Germany in a year than by all our unofficial strikes put together. But the great advantage from the German point of view is that this lost time comes on predictable, known dates —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1732.1", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piers Dixon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piers Dixon", "preceding_text": "rried, had a daughter and bequeathed the representation of the Port of St. Mawes to his son-in-law. In those days there were no inheritance taxes or death duties and the world was a much simpler place. However, I leave the financial problems of 1771 for those of 1971. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has produced what I believe to be a splendid Tory Budget in the classic style.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1743.1", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": " the City of London. It is noteworthy that since my right hon. Friend's Budget on Tuesday, and including the drop in Bank Rate of 1 per cent. today, the Financial Times index of equities has risen by 24 points, as measured at 2.45 this afternoon. I draw that to the attention of my hon. Friend as a stockbroker, because he knows as I know that what is good for the City of London is good for Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1746.5", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "free of estate duty to another person. That was arranged 30 years or more ago, and the £500 is now grossly out of date and ought to be £1,000. In exactly the same way as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer very kindly followed my contribution in the London Evening News of 29th March on the following day, and I am delighted with him for doing so—he could not have been more spot on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1750.1", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "mera is taxed at 55 per cent. Who invented this fiscal gibberish—fiscal gibberish—how euphonious the term—of taxing motor cars, our biggest export, at 36⅔ per cent. and liqueur chocolates at 22 per cent.? So I could go through the whole gamut of fiscal absurdity. In case anybody is in any doubt about the amount of money involved in the Budget, and in case people think I am playing the fool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1750.1", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "eryone who has a shirt or a garment laundered pays an extra 15 per cent. on account of S.E.T. I could go through the whole gamut. I rejoice that my right hon. Friend is abolishing S.E.T. and abolishing purchase tax and putting in their place an overall low level value-added tax which is no more than a general sales tax, as the Green Paper spells out. This is what I wrote in the Weekend Telegraph —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-01", "file": "debates1971-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "1260efa18eaa0eb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "ing that the conclusions they will reach will on the whole not only be unfavourable to the Budget itself, but gloomy as to its impact on the economy and on the outlook for the economy as a whole. I say, with regret, that I believe those feelings of gloom to be justified. That takes me, not frankly pursuing the Financial Secretary through the trivialities of his speech, and it was a trivial speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-01a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-05", "file": "debates1971-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a42fc1235f04a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.16.2", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that our exports of shoes to, for example, America, West Germany and the Soviet Union demand that our sizing system compares with theirs? What is being done to improve the sizing of shoes in this country? As very few manufacturers and retailers cater for men and women with either large or small feet —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.16.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-05", "file": "debates1971-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a42fc1235f04a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I have promised to give all the statistics I have in response to any Question put down about the figures previous to nationalisation and subsequently; I shall not try to anticipate those.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.35.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-05", "file": "debates1971-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a42fc1235f04a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the money to come from?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "As to the hon. Gentleman's first question, what I seek to see is an efficient steel industry. I hope that that means an expanding steel industry, but it must be first and foremost an efficient steel industry. As to the second part, the whole question of price levels is fundamentally involved in the review into the Corporation which I am currently undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-05", "file": "debates1971-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a42fc1235f04a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.40.8", "colnum": "40", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "king, it does appear that the intervention is one which has come from the Cabinet on the basis of information which gives no foundation at all for such action of this nature. On this side of the House we are all in favour of proper price control, but we are not in favour of price control applied to only one industry in the country, and applied to it in the most discriminatory and arbitrary manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.40.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-05", "file": "debates1971-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a42fc1235f04a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Perhaps, Mr. Speaker, I may be daring enough to enlighten you by suggesting to the House that I was on a point of order already before the hon. Member opposite intervened. The hon. Member, therefore, had no right to intervene in what I was saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-05", "file": "debates1971-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a42fc1235f04a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "really be reduced. The only possible interpretation of the measures announced by the Chancellor was that although he was not prepared to see unemployment rising to some of the worst extremes of the forecasts, neither was he prepared to bring unemployment down. The first judgment, therefore, which the party opposite were cheering was that the level of unemployment which we now have was about right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-05", "file": "debates1971-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a42fc1235f04a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unemployment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": " depends upon the Government being able to finance their expenditure without the risk of resorting to inflationary expedients. The will to do so, given the knowledge—I am saying nothing different from my right hon. Friend—that inflation is our greatest single enemy, the one on which we have to concentrate first and foremost, is the will to use the powers which are in our hands to combat that evil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-05", "file": "debates1971-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a42fc1235f04a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.102.3", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "ts work force as a result of the statement in the House. Every week there are statements in the Press about new redundancies and more people becoming unemployed, all in firms which are household words throughmout the country, leading firms in engineering and leading firms of suppliers to the building industry. We now have 4½ per cent. unemployment among the male population in Wolverhampton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-05", "file": "debates1971-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a42fc1235f04a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Coombs", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Coombs", "preceding_text": "ew, would have given an incalculable but extra boost to business confidence, apart from encouraging personal savings. To tax investment income at the present rate—usually the fruits of somebody's labour which in many instances has already been subject to income tax and surtax—is to my mind a diabolical imposition. In no other comparable country is there such wide and blatant class discrimination.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-05", "file": "debates1971-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a42fc1235f04a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "dity, and the reform and reduction of personal taxation will contribute to savings and improve incentive throughout the economy. The right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East and the hon. and learned Member for Lincoln referred to the figure of 0·5 per cent. as the forecast growth in private investment in the Budget report. That figure represents a cautious view, but I would certainly hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-05", "file": "debates1971-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a42fc1235f04a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unemployment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ear at 1963 prices the volume of exports was up by 3·6 per cent., but the volume of imports was up by 6·3 per cent. These are the facts that we have to take into account in exercising caution for the future. Throughout the debate, I have been struck by the number of hon. Members on both sides who have referred to the economic record of our country over the years. If we are realistic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-05", "file": "debates1971-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a42fc1235f04a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "f the fact that for two decades or more our national performance compared with our principal competitors has been, to put it mildly, inadequate. A number of hon. Members opposite have referred to unemployment. They have made the point that the Budget does not hold out the prospect of a fall in unemployment. We are all agreed that unemployment is too high. But there are two points that I must make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-05a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-06", "file": "debates1971-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32997cd7fe533815", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady need not be hypocritical about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.236.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-06", "file": "debates1971-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32997cd7fe533815", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "MAURITIUS (GIFT OF A MACE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "e processes of democratic discussion. At the same time I feel it is my duty, and I know that the hon. Member for Battersea, South would agree with me here, to tell the House that we were left in no doubt as to the seriousness of the problems which will face Mauritius, overwhelmingly dependent as she is on the sugar industry, if the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement arrangements are weakened in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.247.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-06", "file": "debates1971-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32997cd7fe533815", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Mahon", "preceding_text": "There are at the moment 69,000 licensed guns in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-06", "file": "debates1971-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32997cd7fe533815", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "preceding_text": "der of the Opposition, though he will find that much of what he said may well be covered in the course of my speech. I very much share the right hon. Gentleman's hope—and I rather liked his note of hope—that this will be the last Northern Ireland debate called in an atmosphere of emergency. I refuse to be drawn into discussions about the relative merits of King William III or any other Irish hero—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-06", "file": "debates1971-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32997cd7fe533815", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "sals. One can only draw a straw in the wind and wonder what is to happen. A few weeks ago we had the promotion in the R.U.C. of a person who was formerly known as District Inspector Meharg. He has now been appointed Assistant Chief Constable, a position of very senior rank. Hon. Members may recall that on 5th October in Derry this man ordered a batton charge against defenceless women and children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-06", "file": "debates1971-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32997cd7fe533815", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "As the Leader of the Opposition said this afternoon, much darker forces are at work today, not just in Northern Ireland but in the South as well. These constitute the real danger, far more than schoolboys saying in the Falls Road area, \"I am the colonel of the I.R.A.\" These people, whether they operate in the North or in the South, are political thugs and potential murderers, and must be put down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-06", "file": "debates1971-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32997cd7fe533815", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "m of provocation. I believe that this is being looked into by the new Prime Minister of Northern Ireland; the question of the marchers, the modifying of the impact of \"Ulster 1971\". These matters are of importance. Secondly, as was said by the hon. Member for Belfast, West, it must be seen on the ground that reform is really becoming effective. This is true. Here I speak to my Catholic colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-06", "file": "debates1971-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32997cd7fe533815", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Hear,hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "preceding_text": " On 17th August, 1969, when Bombay Street was burnt down, when there was a pogrom against the people in the Catholic ghetto areas of Belfast, what had he to say when asked a direct question at a Press conference about the \"B\" Specials and the police opening fire on the civilian population? He replied: The 'B' Specials returned fire. What do you expect them to do when they are shot at and killed? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-06", "file": "debates1971-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32997cd7fe533815", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman; I remember well not only that telephone conversation—I made the call from Bogside—but the 74-word telegram which I sent to him days beforehand warning him of what was liable to happen. I did not ask for his military Army; I asked for his police, and if he goes back over his little tape recorder, which was humming merrily in the background at the time, he will find that that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.341.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-06", "file": "debates1971-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32997cd7fe533815", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There will be.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ike to see its authority build up, but it will build up only on two conditions: first, that it is representative, and, second, that there is the prospect of changing the Government. One of the weaknesses of the Northern Ireland system is the single-Government system under which it has laboured for 50 years. Just think what it would be like after 50 years of Conservative Government in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-06", "file": "debates1971-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32997cd7fe533815", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All or none.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "If the Government felt that a certain march should be banned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-06a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-07", "file": "debates1971-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "df6695293df4130e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-07a.426.2", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "But the houses to be completed in 1970–71 are the houses that were started a year or two before that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-07a.426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-07", "file": "debates1971-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "df6695293df4130e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-07a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he has got his priorities upside down? Is he further aware that to put the interests of the brewers before those of the Welsh people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-07a.455.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-07", "file": "debates1971-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "df6695293df4130e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-07a.455.2", "colnum": "455", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "While I do not wish to enter into the merits at business question time, I think that I might reasonably refer to this Bill, in which I have a particular interest which practically no other hon. Member in this House has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-07a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-07", "file": "debates1971-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "df6695293df4130e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-07a.459.3", "colnum": "459", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the private.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "preceding_text": "In view of the continuing public concern about price increases in the nationalised industries and the public sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-07a.459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-07", "file": "debates1971-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "df6695293df4130e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-07a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "DEBATES (CALLING OF MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "as I have no coloured constituents in Down, North, I should join the end of the queue. Yesterday during the debate on Northern Ireland, I sat in the Chamber for six hours of the debate anxious to take part. I left the Chamber for only ten minutes or a quarter of an hour to get a cup of tea. Two other Ulster Unionists took part in the debate and three hon. Members from Northern Ireland were called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-07a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-07", "file": "debates1971-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "df6695293df4130e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-07a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 11", "cue_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "rmitted to add one further note of congratulation: I know that the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Attorney-General will take no umbrage if I do so. I want to congratulate the Under-Secretary on the outstanding work he has put in at every stage of the Bill through this House. It is a most happy thing that these last stages here should come on a day on which the Under-Secretary has taken silk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-07a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-08", "file": "debates1971-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f7971f472b8b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-08a.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "Well, Lady Fox is the head lecturer in archæology at Exeter University.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-08a.666.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-08", "file": "debates1971-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6b3f7971f472b8b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-08a.670.2", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Let us have an answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "This is not a point of order for me. I am not responsible for Minister's answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-08a.670.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.920.2", "colnum": "920", "heading": "MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "(3) the discharge of the appointment by the High Court of a Receiver of rates of the Board on behalf of the Crown.—[ Mr. Patrick Jenkin. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.922.6", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "We must get clear what happens when we have intervention. This time last year it could be assumed that we had intervention under the Labour Government, but at that time, in the three months from January to March, the cost of food index went up by 2·2 per cent., whereas this year it has gone up by 1·6 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.922.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is questioning the words which his right hon. Friend used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.947.3", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BATHGATE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made plain, as many Ministers have done in both Governments, that there are difficulties at any time in forecasting the movement of unemployment, particularly at a time when there is obviously a considerable increase in redundancies because employers are standing men down on account of wage costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.947.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.947.3", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BATHGATE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nd the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made plain, as many Ministers have done in both Governments, that there are difficulties at any time in forecasting the movement of unemployment, particularly at a time when there is obviously a considerable increase in redundancies because employers are standing men down on account of wage costs. [ Interruption. ] There can be absolutely no doubt about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.947.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "PAKISTAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": " have come on top of the devastation caused then. Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of refugees are on the march in East Bengal and about 100,000 are reported to have crossed the Indian frontier in the last three days alone. We are in the midst of a tragedy and, unhappily, one in which the next stage may be even worse than the one gone before. On 5th April, the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. In giving your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, will you bear in mind the fact that it has always been laid down that the Leader of the Opposition is an exceptional person?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "While not disputing the submission made to you, Mr. Speaker, by the right hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. C. Pannell) that the Leader of the Opposition is an exceptional person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "uting the submission made to you, Mr. Speaker, by the right hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. C. Pannell) that the Leader of the Opposition is an exceptional person—[ Interruption. ]—th e trouble this afternoon was that not only the Leader of the Opposition but the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins) were conducting a duet, no doubt on the principle of healthy competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE (MEMBERS' LETTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "mally have imagined that the Prime Minister, if he was intending to release a letter to the Press, would have done it through his Press Office and probably, but not necessarily, would have informed me of his intention. I was surprised therefore to learn that he had done it through his party machine, particularly as I had written to him as Prime Minister and not as Leader of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE (MEMBERS' LETTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "ndly did, and the letter from Mr. MacKenzie to the Hull Daily Mail briefly stating the nature of the correspondence enclosed, the last paragraph of which stated: I am asked by Mr. Douglas Hurd to indicate that there is no objection to the publication of any part of this reply. A number of questions immediately arise from this paragraph, which is the nub of the situation and the principle involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.955.4", "colnum": "955", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE (MEMBERS' LETTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it not an abuse of the privilege which an hon. Member has in this House to try to embroil an impartial Chair in what is obviously a spiteful party wrangle?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.955.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has no need for any approaches to be made to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.984.3", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " of the Iron and Steel Realisation Agency would go a long way to achieving that. Unless these changes are made and unless the disposal is taken out of the hands of Ministers, this affair has all the makings of a nasty scandal, with talk of the friends of the Conservative Party plundering the assets. There are others ripe for the picking. Thomas Cook is just waiting for a similar sort of operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.984.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "I am talking about some of the rules which have been in practice —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.990.3", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not get in, did he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ngly oppose such an idea for several reasons. As a former accountant of a brewery, I recognise that the State Management Scheme is comparatively successful, with modern plant and spare capacity, and a capable management. Denationalisation would mean its being bought out by one of the large combines and private monopolies\"— and he was opposed to that. That was written by him in the Cumberland News.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.990.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ith businesses in the premises are becoming a little alarmed and have even been to see me about the matter. The scheme has another important feature which the private breweries do not have. It has certain sporting facilities. Every Tuesday and Thursday in the winter five divisions of the Carlisle and District State Management Darts League play their matches. In summer, we have the bowling greens.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " to people in Carlisle. He is showing his ignorance and upbringing. I am concerned about my people and about supporting the facilities they have. It is all very well for him to laugh and shake his head. The summer months see the bowling greens attached to a number of our pubs as hives of activity for league games and friendly matches. This will all go by the board if the private brewers take over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1006.9", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "f the Tory Party. It is rather interesting. A profitable State enterprise like this the Government flog off to their friends. A private enterprise that is going bankrupt—Rolls-Royce—is taken over into public ownership. Where is the morality, the sense, the honesty of that allocation between State enterprise and private enterprise? There is no morality in it. The Bill ranks with the Profumo affair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1006.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1017.2", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Such as Rolls-Royce.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": ". There has been an expenditure of about £100,000 a year towards this type of capital expenditure over several years, and I think it will be found that that is part of the subsidy which has been paid. I do not believe that it is the job of the State to run a brewery. In fact, it is not the job of the State to run anything which can be run as efficiently, or more efficiently, by private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "s. It is a little odd that everybody is worried about the loss of jobs in these hotels. In fact, the hotels will not be bulldozed away. They will merely be transferred from State management to private ownership, and the staff will be required in exactly the same way. It is said that profits from the hotels will no longer go to the Government. They will go to the Government, but in a different way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ey announce in their manifesto that they would do it, and why do they come before us so apologetically, trying to justify their denationalisation Measure as saving the taxpayers' money, or in terms of competition? Why do not they honestly say, proudly, that they owe a debt to the brewers and are prepared to pay their debt? At least we could give them credit then for being honest in those respects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "preceding_text": "s of a State licensed house will have the chance at least to become a tenant in the new system of enterprise being created. Funds should be made available to enable these people to do so, and I look forward to seeing my right hon. Friend's intentions in this connection. It is right that the breakdown of the present State monopoly should give the small people in our society a chance to participate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Cupar sugar factory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " Hamilton) was right to ask whether this was the sort of Measure which the Government proposed to deal with the problems of Scotland—the abolition of State management in Gretna and Cromarty Firth! The hon. Member for Fife, East had an answer to that. He said that this was worth while. It is a wonder that he did not suggest that we could have been better employed discussing local government reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1060.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "rt. I hope that they will recollect that they have a past in this. It is not a new situation for them to be accused of being connected with brewers or with vested interests. We know what to expect when the Tories return to power, a party of great vested interests added together in a formidable confederation: corruption at home and aggression to cover it abroad, trickery of tariff juggles …?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1066.4", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "l shorten the trunk road by eight miles. In addition to hearing favourable comment on those matters, I was thanked by a number of residents for the fact that the Government were already carrying out the pledge in the Scottish election manifesto to bring an end to State monopoly. Why should a housewife living in the Invergordon area be unable to buy a bottle of sherry when she shops at the grocers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1066.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ervative Party and the contributions made by the brewers to the Conservative Party are a disgrace when legislation such as this is introduced. I hope that before the right hon. Gentleman concludes he will give an assurance that he and the Home Secretary will divest themselves of the responsibility for valuing and disposing of these assets and will hand them over to an independent statutory agency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-20", "file": "debates1971-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6b0e07c2e55ebd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1073.0", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "rust with public funds and that no such trust would be viable. Of course, if anyone were to come forward with a privately financed trust we should certainly consider that. The right hon. Member for Kilmarnock recited the number of pubs in most of the rest of the country outside the three districts. He sounded as though he wanted to alter that rather than what was in the Bill. The Bill is a reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-20a.1073.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-21", "file": "debates1971-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e2e93986b365265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "—when quite a number of hon. Members were stranded here late at night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-21", "file": "debates1971-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e2e93986b365265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ers were stranded here late at night—[ Laughter. ]—which I do not regard as a matter for hilarity—because public transport had ended and they had no motor cars of their own? Surely if persons on the staff of the Refreshment Department can be provided with tax-free and cost-free transport home in the early hours of the morning, it is not unreasonable that legislators should be carried home as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-21", "file": "debates1971-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e2e93986b365265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1172.3", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinn", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman, who is one himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-21", "file": "debates1971-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e2e93986b365265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "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": "ff, and to the conference on the Mentally Handicapped, which was held at Bristol. At every one I received an extremely warm welcome as a member of a Government who are doing a good deal for education. One would not have thought, from parts of the right hon. Gentleman's speech, that he and his Government had put up the price of school meals by a greater percentage than I did, and on two occasions.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-21", "file": "debates1971-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e2e93986b365265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1207.5", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "referred to this and was quite critical that some of the public schools had a selective entry. So in the sense that merit is measured by an ability intake, one certainly cannot go to such a school without passing the common entrance examination if it be a common entrance school. I understand from the right hon. Gentleman that he is rather anxious to abolish independent schools, or to license them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1207.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-21", "file": "debates1971-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e2e93986b365265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Peanuts!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "generous remission scales will take effect this month. When he was very critical of how the Government are handling the fortunes, if I may put it that way, of the other people not so well off in our society, he might have remembered that, for the first time, we have a family income supplement to try to help those who are just above the income level and that the supplement may be up to £4 per week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-21", "file": "debates1971-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e2e93986b365265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1221.4", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. On the last two occasions when we have had Questions in this House on education matters, I put supplementary questions to the right hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-21", "file": "debates1971-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e2e93986b365265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "wo successive years to minor works, particularly those arising from the need to do more to the primary schools. We have revised the number of primary schools that were built, pre-1903, which need replacement. The reason for that is that as more local education authorities realised that for the first time there was a genuine possibility of replacing their schools they found an extra certain number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-21", "file": "debates1971-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e2e93986b365265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": " my right hon. Friend. The right hon. Lady does not do a service to herself or her cause by counting everything she has to say, especially in education, in absolutely party political terms, as she has done this afternoon. There was the reference to me: \"The hon. Member for Small Heath does not usually come to our discussions\", she said. That is a gratuitously insulting thing for a Minister to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-21", "file": "debates1971-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e2e93986b365265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "l meals should be borne by parents. Since 17p does not reflect the inflationary agricultural policy which the Government have adopted, it is obvious that the increase in food prices and, therefore, in school meal prices, will be formidable. I regard with absolute horror the right hon. Lady's suggestion that schools might, to meet this situation, provide what I thought she described as \"half meals\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-21", "file": "debates1971-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e2e93986b365265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Lady's suggestion that schools might, to meet this situation, provide what I thought she described as \"half meals\"[ Interruption. ] She said they could supply partial meals. The suggestion that youngsters should be in school from nine in the morning until four at night, nine hours, and not have a full meal is astonishing and apppalling. That is what I understood the right hon. Lady to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-21", "file": "debates1971-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e2e93986b365265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. William van Straubenzee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. William van Straubenzee)", "preceding_text": "e of teacher training we have a full-time group of distinguished men and women who devote their time entirely to this purpose and who intend to report at the end of a year. There is also the Open University. The Government have asked the Open University authorities to consider what contribution they can make to qualified school leavers in Open University terms. Next month they will be coming back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-21a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1333.7", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for consideration, as amended, read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1333.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1345.5", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that it was inadvertance. But is not the situation rather serious? Surely the Yippies are well known to the Home Office. They have stated, \"We are going to make them\"—that is, Britain—\"regret letting us in\". That was over a year ago. They further stated that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1345.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1358.0", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows, because he was in power at the time, that the programme of redundancies in the steel industry announced yesterday by the British Steel Corporation was considered and worked out while he was in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1363.3", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman has announced the unemployment debate, for which we have allotted a Supply Day. Is he aware of the deep concern in all quarters of the House about the further prospective redundancies in the steel industry, speeded up as a result of Government policy, despite the Prime Minister's attempt to disclaim responsibility today? In view of this, would he recall that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1364.0", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "ough the usual channels how the Motion which the right hon. Gentleman tells me is to be tabled might be handled in future. As for the steel industry, the matters to which the right hon. Gentleman referred can most properly be discussed very simply, provided that the Opposition Motion—as I understand it—allows that to happen, in the debate on unemployment. I understand that that is their intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1365.0", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Get On with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "There should be no misunderstanding: I heard Lord Melchett too. Is the Leader of the House aware that, while the noble Lord said that this was not due to Government policy in relation to the intervention on prices, he said that it was due to the falling off of demand, and if that is not Government policy no one in the House knows what it can possibly be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1365.0", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "stion. With regard to the business for next Thursday, on which he also pronounced obiter dicta, is he aware that we who will be responsible for the Motion would feel that a debate on unemployment obviously would not rule out the question of redundancies in steel? But it is not principally about steel. When 7,000 redundancies for the coming month are compared with a 48,000 increase in unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1365.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1374.3", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "VEHICLE AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Scandalous.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "occurred about the Departmental attitude to the company? Does the right hon. Gentleman recall that in his statement to the House on 2nd March, he made no reference whatever to the leak? Indeed, he said that one reason why he had not acted earlier was that he was afraid that if anything go: out the company might collapse, although at the time he knew that something had got out three months earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1375.1", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "VEHICLE AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Gentleman seeks into some massive consideraton of confidence, which it absolutely does not justify. As regards the revelation of this situation, which the right hon. Gentleman ascribes to his hon. Friend's persistence, I understand his point of view, but I must say that from the Departmental point of view it would not have seemed a matter which would have benefited greatly from revelation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1376.0", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "VEHICLE AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am very conscious of that. I am certainly not trying to conceal anything in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1377.4", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "VEHICLE AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I simply ask the right hon. Gentleman to use his imagination On that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1377.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": " competitive and viable as possible. Also, we are a maritime nation. Our defences are completely dependent on the seas. Certain economists have advocated that since our foreign competitors are prepared to subsidise their yards, since capital and labour are scarce, we should buy the ships which they are offering at low prices, allow the shipyards to decay and redeploy the men into other industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1475.3", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "f State said that this was not to be the case and that the Government could do what they liked as far as I understood it, resting on a prerogative view of Government which is unusual. He cited other cases about the Shipbuilding Industry Board which are not on all-fours with this. He then said that it would be possible, with the authorisation of this Bill, to give credits of more than £700 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1475.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1485.1", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman appears to be making fun of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1485.3", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "I gathered that that was the meat of the argument. The right hon. Gentleman is wrong to accuse me of taking this matter lightly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-22", "file": "debates1971-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e291fbf05b189029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1488.4", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "shed to raise it to £700 million. Precisely the same parameters and considerations apply to the £700 million as applied to the £200 million and the £400 million, precisely the same considerations whether it be de minimis or, possibly by means of virement, possibly by means of the matters mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth, West (Sir J. Eden) which would apply to the new figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-22a.1488.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1594.4", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1594.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1594.8", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1594.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1594.17", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members wish to object I wish they would do so audibly. Objection taken?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1594.16"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1595.2", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1595.6", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [2nd April].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1595.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1595.10", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1595.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1595.14", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1595.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1595.18", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1595.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1595.22", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1595.21"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1596.19", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1596.18"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1597.2", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF PENSION RIGHTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1597.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1597.16", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAVEL AGENTS AND TOUR AND CHARTER OPERATORS REGIS- TRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1597.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1598.7", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 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/1971-04-23a.1598.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1598.11", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHARITABLE CAUSES (MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DISABLED PERSONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1598.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-23", "file": "debates1971-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4388ac4c65729b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1598.15", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALE OF TICKETS (OFFENCES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-23a.1598.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-26", "file": "debates1971-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "957f67a4f8b71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.11.3", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "No one has any doubts about the advantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.11.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-26", "file": "debates1971-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "957f67a4f8b71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "osen to make a statement so that we can question him thoroughly, and will he indicate to the Leader of the House that this is an urgent reason for a debate on these matters? Secondly, by what criteria will developing countries be defined for the purpose of pre-investment help and official budget aid for infrastructure as outlined in the White Paper? Will they be the countries to which we give aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-26", "file": "debates1971-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "957f67a4f8b71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.30.8", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I regard that as totally unworthy of the right hon. Gentleman. Lord Cromer is a representative of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.30.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-26", "file": "debates1971-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "957f67a4f8b71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.42.5", "colnum": "42", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State realise that I am absolutely appalled by this decision of the Government? Who do the Government listen to these days —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.42.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-26", "file": "debates1971-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "957f67a4f8b71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I should like to reassure my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury (Mr. Crouch) that the amount of time which the Cabinet and other bodies in Government have spent on this is very considerable, and has now lasted over months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-26", "file": "debates1971-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "957f67a4f8b71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.44.7", "colnum": "44", "heading": "VEHICLE AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "statement about the Vehicle and General matter? It must surely be the Government's view that last Thursday's statement in no way quietened public anxiety; on the contrary, it greatly increased it. There is some surprise that there is no statement today. Can we at least have an assurance that there will be a statement tomorrow touching grave matters of public concern far wider than the prosecution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.44.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-26", "file": "debates1971-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "957f67a4f8b71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "VEHICLE AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is the Leader of the House aware that since last Thursday I have received upwards of 100 telephone calls, some of which contained the most wild and speculative rumours concerning the leak? How can the House have any confidence in the remarks of the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-26", "file": "debates1971-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "957f67a4f8b71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.75.3", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "ill be no re- fund to be taken into account, and the same will be true during most of April. It may be that as a result of the Bill T. S. Eliot's remark that April is the cruellest month will come true, because it will be the one month in which people can strike without fear of the Government's seizing their tax refund as a way of avoiding their obligations under the supplementary benefits scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.75.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-26", "file": "debates1971-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "957f67a4f8b71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.86.2", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "ch led the Ministry of Social Security, as I think, quite rightly, to reject the idea of making all supplementary benefits paid during a strike equally subject to repayment. There are complications which may need further scrutiny. I am not convinced that the proposal in the Bill as it stands necessarily fully meets the position. My view has always been, perhaps, a rather crude and simplistic view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.86.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-26", "file": "debates1971-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "957f67a4f8b71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "uth Angus has said that one objection was that even employers who got the refund had for some months had to make a loan, as it were, to the Government. I am sure that I have heard the hon. Gentleman on this matter. If not, I should be very surprised. But hon. Gentlemen opposite are saying that, despite the fact that the money is due to them, they will not get it; it will be cut off in another way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-26", "file": "debates1971-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "957f67a4f8b71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Curran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Curran", "preceding_text": "e whom he will not dismiss as a Tory stooge, or as a Fascist hyena, or a spokesman for the military-industrial complex, or any other such person. Like most of us, I imagine, I have been reading with great interest the reminiscences of the gentleman we still call George Brown. I hope that I am not out of order in calling him George Brown. That is the name by which posterity will know him, as we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-26", "file": "debates1971-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "957f67a4f8b71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "MINISTRY OF AVIATION SUPPLY (DISSOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "count to hon. Members, on both sides, in very difficult circumstances, of matters which might well have taxed any of us, however experienced and however self-confident we might hold ourselves out to be in any sphere of conduct, whether parliamentary, business or any other. They have had a basinful and they have conducted themselves very honourably. I hope that the House will agree with me in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-26a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Mr. Leonard Woodcock explained to me and to the members of the T.U.C. who were present that they were able to get high wages because they had three-year contracts which they observed, with the result that there was very little industrial unrest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.232.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.236.9", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.236.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.243.4", "colnum": "243", "heading": "VEHICLE AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Whether this is a point of order or not, I think the right hon. Gentleman at the end of his statement mentioned that this will come up for approval, that an Order will have to be tabled for tomorrow, and, of course, it is then subject to debate. I do not know whether, Mr. Speaker, you regard it as a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.243.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.243.6", "colnum": "243", "heading": "VEHICLE AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is debate.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen, if they will listen, in a moment can form their own view, and so will Mr. Speaker. This point is concerned with helping the progress of business in the House tomorrow. If it is not a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.243.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.243.8", "colnum": "243", "heading": "VEHICLE AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If it is not a point of order, may I ask whether the right hon. Gentleman is aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.243.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": "se can be remedied. The Corporation also has interests in a wide range of diversified and ancillary activities. Now that we have taken the main decision on bulk steel making we will have urgent consultations on the future status of these activities, and on the scope for introducing private capital. Furthermore, we would welcome any new private sector steelworks developments and in this connection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.247.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Shall I repeat that—we would welcome any new private sector steelworks developments, and in this connection it would not normally be my intention to use my statutory powers of approval in any restrictive way. The decision I have announced today will help to provide the industry with a greater sense of stability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The precise definition would take an exceedingly long statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Osborn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Osborn", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that his statement will be welcomed as a milestone in establishing a healthy steel industry, both public and private? When will he be in a position to publish an agreed plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.254.5", "colnum": "254", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "As regards the sources of finance, of course it will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.254.5", "colnum": "254", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "As regards the sources of finance, of course it will be—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—Replying to the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.254.5", "colnum": "254", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "As regards the sources of finance, of course it will be—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—Replying to the question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—I am replying to the question on finance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Tom Stuttaford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Tom Stuttaford", "preceding_text": "is sort of prescribing increases the problem of bathroom cabinets filled with half-empty bottles, the danger of drugs finding their way on to the black market and the increased danger of suicide—all perhaps indicative of a weakness on the part of the medical profession, but one which is difficult to avoid when charges of this type are imposed. Although I can support this increase in charges today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.350.2", "colnum": "350", "heading": "MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "e way towards satisfying him. The right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Dell) made a certain essay into melodrama, into which I do not wish to follow him. I appreciate that we can throw these epithets from one side of the House to the other. We can talk about calculated pettiness and about dishonesty being the trade mark of the Government. I do not believe that that sort of thing helps in what is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.356.4", "colnum": "356", "heading": "MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has sat down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.356.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-27", "file": "debates1971-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5950712d045d341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Percival to move his Instruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-27a.369.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.399.7", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware of the communiqué which my right hon. Friend and the French Minister of Transport Industries issued after their meeting in London. I think that that speaks for itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.399.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "Can we look forward to the Minister's answering some questions in the House in a less neurotic state than he appears to be in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I would not want the right hon. Gentleman to overstrain himself. If he thinks that there is an average level of rents for a three-bedroom house —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "s. They result from a basic failure to fulfil the purposes of the system in a modern mixed economy by giving effect to the accepted ideas of social justice and what is required by social justice, with the movement forward of these necessary purposes to provide economic progress in a mixed economy. All these things have not been dealt with in any of the changes proposed by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "owever, it is a reflection on the state of our fiscal machinery that these simple reforms—which, as I have explained, are not new, and which have been advocated from both sides for a considerable time—should have produced a hallelujah chorus of praise from the newspapers, radio and television, with the right hon. Gentleman being called the greatest Chancellor since Gladstone in his reforming zeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "7 a week who are subjected de facto to a high rate of marginal tax: the Chancellor has done nothing about that. The Chancellor, with his selective vision, is rather like the Character in Dickens of whom the author said that he had got one eye and the popular prejudice ran in favour of two. The Chancellor has one eye—one eye for the rich, high earner. I am not unsympathetic to him having fair play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "It is fairly easy, but I beg the hon. Gentleman to attend in private seminar if he is curious, rather than force me to inflict on the great audience here a lecture on monetary policy, what it means and how it works. It is the principle of how it works out that I was stating. It does not matter about the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "culiarly repulsive to me in the kind of doctrine that we should take for granted that any inflation trade-off with unemployment must be a justifiable policy. The Chancellor is moving desperately near that position, even on his Budget projections, and he has moved in a reactionary way since then. He has announced that in the fight against inflation the shock troops are to be our 800,000 unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "er cautiously, so that a least there is a constructive message of hope coming from the House and the Government to those out of work. Then he will start to create business confidence because he will be committing himself to growth. At the moment even the growth he has pledged himself to in the Budget he has begun to hedge around with all kinds of qualifications. Until he commits himself to growth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.463.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to extend this debate by making a defence, nor would I want to make a defence, in every detail, of the success of the previous Government's policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.491.4", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "May I be allowed to continue my speech? The net result, taking our two Budgets together, is that a married man, with two children, earning an average wage of £28 a week is 34p a week better off. The same man, as a result of six years of Socialist rule, was 62p a week worse off. These figures are to be found in HANSARD.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.491.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "ts, doubled the value of stocks and the value of work in progress. He also increased the company's profit substantially, but because of the rate of expansion the profits never appeared as cash in the bank and were never represented by cash in the balance sheet, but that his overdraft was rising. The assets were fixed assets or assets in stocks and work in progress. They were not money in the bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "d a rapid increase in turnover. That was an arrangement caused entirely by Socialist tax levels, especially corporation tax at 45 per cent. But it also meant that work was being done in Germany which should have been done in Lancashire by men and women of Lancashire. Another client of mine could be described as an entrepreneur. He is the type of person whom I regard as rather vital to the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "preceding_text": "s growth target and what the economy can do. This leads me to raise questions about the right kind of reflation. Is consumer spending high enough? I hope I shall be forgiven for chiding the hon. Members for Honiton and St. Marylebone for the extravagant use of the concept of a £1,000 million injection. They will appreciate that that is a global sum and that consumer injection is considerably less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "for them. Why on earth hon. Gentlemen opposite should have cheered this Budget, which will help a few of their constituents but will make most of them worse off, and why they should have cheered its proposals to tax everything, is beyond me. Consider the value-added tax. We have had no assurances whatever from the Chancellor that he does not intend to tax, for example, food, newspapers and housing", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.550.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "imed at restoring confidence, it will help the whole nation. Take the cut in selective employment tax. Almost every day we read in the Press of price cuts because S.E.T. is coming down. Moreover, they are cuts now, not next July. Two days after the Budget the Daily Mail announced: Two more chain food stores announced S.E.T. cuts yesterday. So did a big dry cleaning company and a chain of chemists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.557.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.557.4", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "should jeer. The Sketchley dry cleaning company has 550 branches, and the paper says that it has made reductions of up to 30 per cent. The Daily Mirror announced: Four big supermarket firms plan to cut some food prices now that Selective Employment Tax is to be halved… Sainsbury's, Tesco…Pricerite and Fine Fare are all hoping to pass on some of the money they may save to customers.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.557.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "If Labour hon. Members do not want the price cuts, let them say so. On 5th April it was reported that beer price increases scheduled for later this year had been shelved because of the Government's decision to cut S.E.T. One of the directors of Bass said: The importance of the S.E.T. change is that it will enable us to hold beer prices as they now are.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.557.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-28", "file": "debates1971-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e57c76c552fb4fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Reading Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": " almost archæological law. We ought to get rid of it, however picturesque it may be; and this Bill gets rid of much of it.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, House of Lords , 25th January, 1971; Vol. 314, c. 717.] I ask the Solicitor-General whether the existence of these statutes has been a nuisance to anybody. It seems to me that the Members of the Law Commission who, I presume, are paid for their pains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-28a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.709.7", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "eaker. I gave you notice of my wish to raise a point of order on Question No. 2. May I now draw your attention to the fact that there are some eight obviously sponsored Questions and that, although I refer to Question No. 2, the same remarks apply to each of those Questions? It is a rule of the House that an hon. Member may not put down a Question asking for information which is readily available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.709.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, who follows these matters more closely than I—my recollection comes from Cabinet discussions on the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did not hear what I said. I was talking about a statutory as against a voluntary policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "and other major companies. In the industrial training field, an expanded programme is necessary to deal with the problem of longterm unemployment for those lacking skills to re-enter production. The Labour Government did not succeed entirely in getting unemployment down to the level which we thought right. But we had a balance of payments problem which, compared with the record of this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.734.2", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": "ham (Mr. Harold Lever) took a more balanced view than he does, but said that he thought that the present Government had varied the order of priorities as between inflation and unemployment in the terms of their economic management. I reject absolutely his assertion in this respect. The Government are deeply perturbed at the present level of unemployment and are determined to do something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.734.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.742.2", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is terrified of giving way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "No; I think I had better get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.742.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "preceding_text": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer (Liverpool, Walton) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.744.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.744.5", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.744.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e amount about this. I see that, in a debate on this subject last year, he made an association between unemployment and regional problems. I think that to a large degree he is right in saying that this is where the problem is at its bitterest and bites most deeply. I believe that between the Opposition and the Government there is really not a profound difference in ends as regards regional policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "rrect to say that the general package which the Government have produced is unattractive. On the contrary, industry is more and more becoming of the opinion that it is an attractive package. May I quote somethting which is of some interest. In the first quarter of this year the number of inquiries by industrialists about investment in the assisted areas was twice the level of what it was last year", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.750.5", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Is it not an unparliamentary remark for the hon. Lady to suggest that the speech of my right hon. Friend is a shambles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.750.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger White", "preceding_text": "cause I was on other business in the House. I trust that he will understand that no discourtesy was intended. I join others in congratulating the hon. Member for Liverpool, Scotland (Mr. Marsden) on his maiden speech. It is always a frightening experience, and we commend him for his performance today. I want to speak about what I term the \"Cinderella\" area of the country—the South-East of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " not been for the Labour Government's doctrinaire pursuit of nationalisation, Lancashire Steel would not be on its way to the knacker's yard today, nor would 4,500 men and their families be faced with the misery of unemployment and hardship. As a private company, Lancashire Steel would have been faced with having to take the necessary steps to modernise the Irlam Steel Works or go out of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "e fraudulently misleading the country, are following irresponsible policies and creating an atmosphere in which they hope their proposals will seem more acceptable to their supporters and others. They intend to sell off some of the most profitable sections of the steel industry to private owners, thereby once again paying off their political debt to those who put money into their election machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends wanted to see Lord Melchett on his own and they wanted to see the right hon. Gentleman on his own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " on his own and they wanted to see the right hon. Gentleman on his own. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I do not represent a steel constituency, but I am the spokesman in the House for the Scottish Labour Members, and they are very concerned about the situation from the Scottish point of view. We shall not be fobbed off with the kind of meeting which the right hon. Gentleman seems to think we would attend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.828.5", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "y new policies at all. It seems that they are not prepared to take action irrespective of the heights attained by the unemployment figures. For how long are the unemployed expected to wait? It was all going to happen quickly at the time of the General Election. Industrial relations were to be improved. Have they been improved? I warn the Government that one cannot make war and then hope for peace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.828.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The end of the road.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ent has become part and parcel of their policies. Commentator after commentator has told the Government that their policies are not working, that they are wrong, and that they should be changed. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister do their Nelson act, with the telescope at the eye which does not see. In the days of Mr. Macmillan, it used to be the gleam at the end of the tunnel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.828.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Priced out of the market.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " announced yesterday by Burroughs Business Machines at Cumbernauld, Dunbartonshire, for 120 employees. In February, 500 workers were dismissed. On the same day, the Daily Telegraph told us: A clear warning of more trouble is that the Reyrolle switchgear concern is to make redundant about 12 per cent. of its Tyneside labour force, witth 900 jobs to end in the next few months. This is still to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "man. He has the admirable reputation of creating uncertainty and probably of creating more lame ducks than we have ever known in industry. Nationalisation has been touched on. The dogmas of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite relate to anti-nationalisation. But when it comes to the point they have to intervene, although no Government in the world has been so opposed to intervention as this one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.831.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "as been so opposed to intervention as this one. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman should tell his hon. Friends to keep quiet. What are they doing now? I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will pay some attention to what is happening. These are the dilemmas which we get. We can have a stock market which is buoyant and booming but at the same time is prepared to accept 1 million unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.831.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shut up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "preceding_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.832.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I say to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. Gentleman has said is a lie.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.833.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with the debate.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. Gentleman has said is a lie.—[ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.833.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.834.10", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Well, then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.834.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.834.12", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "If anyone suggests that, in the 12 days between the election and the end of June, we could have done anything to alter that figure, we are open to suggestions. I want to state categorically that the Government regard it as one of the most vital functions of Government to maintain a high and stable level of unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.834.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " first priority of policy in tackling our unemployment problem. In the mid-1970s, when this Government came to power, earnings were increasing at an annual rate of 12 per cent. and output per head was increasing at an annual rate of 2 per cent. The present position is now about 14 per cent. in regard to earnings and 2 to 3 per cent. in regard to productivity. That gap must be substantially closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.837.7", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "nconditional extent as was proposed by the T.U.C.—the T.U.C. talked about a target of 5 per cent. annual growth, but 5 per cent., growth compared with 14 per cent. increases in earnings would still be an intolerably large gap. It would still be totally unsafe in regard to expansion. That is why the level of settlement must come down. Restraint in incomes is our only guarantee against unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.837.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.837.7", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " cent. increases in earnings would still be an intolerably large gap. It would still be totally unsafe in regard to expansion. That is why the level of settlement must come down. Restraint in incomes is our only guarantee against unemployment. [ Interruption. ]. Let me repeat that statement, because it is at the basis of our problem. Restraint in incomes is our only guarantee against unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.837.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.837.9", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Those are not my words, but the words of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.837.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.838.9", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "preceding_text": "Mr. Heifer rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.838.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.840.2", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "When we have reduced the present level of pay settlements, on the foundation of my right hon. Friend's Budget we shall be able to give a green light to expansion; because we are determined to reverse the trend which was left by the previous Government and which, had it been allowed to continue, would have made this country the poorest country in Western Europe by the end of this decade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.840.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.840.6", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Lawson rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.840.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-29", "file": "debates1971-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "c137860d4a289178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.840.8", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shut up!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-29a.840.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "l, 1971; Vol. 815, c. 1578.] This Measure is intended to protect the citizen, not to be his wet nurse. I also believe that social legislation in this matter would be welcomed by the public and would be socially acceptable. The public would have far more trust in and far more respect for a law passed by Parliament than in a gentleman's agreement between the Minister and the faceless tobacco moguls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " other method, and I share their concern to limit and where possible avoid the incursion of government into the lives of citizens. I respect the views of my hon. Friends and I should like to make specific mention of one of them, my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-West (Sir D. Kaberry) with his long practical experience, whose wise counsel and sage guidance I value very much in all matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ronald Kaberry", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"To seduce the hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ronald Kaberry", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hertfordshire, East (Sir D. Walker-Smith) forgive my responding to that wonderful flattery which I feel somehow was intended to secure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.906.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.970.7", "colnum": "970", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.970.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.970.11", "colnum": "970", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.970.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.970.15", "colnum": "970", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.970.14"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.970.19", "colnum": "970", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.970.18"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.971.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.971.6", "colnum": "971", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.971.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.971.10", "colnum": "971", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 23rd April ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.971.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.971.14", "colnum": "971", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.971.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.971.18", "colnum": "971", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.971.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.971.22", "colnum": "971", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.971.21"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.972.2", "colnum": "972", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.972.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.972.6", "colnum": "972", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.972.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.972.10", "colnum": "972", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.972.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.972.14", "colnum": "972", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.972.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.972.18", "colnum": "972", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.972.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.972.22", "colnum": "972", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.972.21"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.973.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-04-30", "file": "debates1971-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "2528643701dc4fdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.973.6", "colnum": "973", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-04-30a.973.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-03", "file": "debates1971-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a536957182481068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.987.5", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "It is true that it has had great success in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.987.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-03", "file": "debates1971-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a536957182481068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "It is about time that the hon. Gentleman realised precisely what responsibility he has for the situation in Wales. He was a member of a Government which abandoned the 2½to 4½ per cent. plan in their White Paper for the containment of wage rises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-03", "file": "debates1971-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a536957182481068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1002.4", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "I have discussed many matters with Lord Crowther.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1002.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-03", "file": "debates1971-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a536957182481068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "Because the right hon. Gentleman knows that he is not proposing to move the benefits on to an earnings-related scale", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-03", "file": "debates1971-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a536957182481068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Crossman Bill?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "ch a thing as relative poverty. In accepting the Bill, we are straightforwardly admitting as a country that we are still prepared to see pensioners fall into a position of growing relative poverty. I believe very strongly that this position would have been altered, though I admit that it would have taken some time, by the last Government's Bill, and I am extremely sorry that it has been abandoned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-03", "file": "debates1971-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a536957182481068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ich man, like the poor, to exercise his right and claim his benefit because he has contributed to it. That has been the strength of the scheme. One draws, as of right, without a means test qualification. It is wrong to break the link of the man who says, \"I have paid for my pension\", though he has on retiring paid nothing like the full amount, but has paid all that the State has asked him to pay.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-03", "file": "debates1971-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a536957182481068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "ributions system, the Bill is limited to essentially tactical and short-term objectives. Despite superficial resemblances to the national superannuation plan introduced by the last Government, it has none of the latter's strategic sweep, and with only one or two exceptions that I have been able to find, it bears all the marks of the Secretary of State's commitment to the marginalities of tokenism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-03", "file": "debates1971-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a536957182481068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "llow. We also had a most eloquent speech from my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ashley). He recognised that there are important new propositions in the Bill which make it an extremely important Measure from the point of view of all who are chronically sick and disabled. All of us marvel at the way in which he is conquering—not to say has conquered—his own severe disablement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-03", "file": "debates1971-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a536957182481068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "I stand corrected—four true widows. This is a highly complex matter, as I think the House has gathered. The intention is that in the regulations which will eventually be submitted to the House the test will be whether a marriage which was once polygamous ceased to be polygamous when the woman concerned became a widow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-03", "file": "debates1971-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a536957182481068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "NORTHERN REGION (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I am taking up what the hon. Gentleman said, and I hope that he will be fair. I have been in the House for very much longer than he has, and I know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-03", "file": "debates1971-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a536957182481068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "NORTHERN REGION (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " may not be the people in the local village for them to employ. The Government constantly asks for greater productivity and yet will not provide the tools for it. This approach is so silly that it nearly drives me mad. The Under-Secretary is having a private conversation with the hon. Member for Houghton-le-Spring. I should like him to listen to what I am saying and I shall wait until he does so.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-03", "file": "debates1971-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "a536957182481068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "NORTHERN REGION (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " for it. This approach is so silly that it nearly drives me mad. The Under-Secretary is having a private conversation with the hon. Member for Houghton-le-Spring. I should like him to listen to what I am saying and I shall wait until he does so.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am addressing my remarks to my own Minister and it would be a jolly good thing for the Opposition to listen to what I have to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-03a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-04", "file": "debates1971-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e6f8842a42a08792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The charges made by local authorities for services of this sort are entirely within their discretion within the rules laid down. I am aware of a fractional difference caused by decimal conversion by the local authority concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-04", "file": "debates1971-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e6f8842a42a08792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1164.6", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Mr. Speaker. May I draw your attention to the fact that a week ago the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Mr. Sheldon) asked my right hon. Friend a virtually identical Question in the following terms: when he next intends to take the chair\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1164.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-04", "file": "debates1971-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e6f8842a42a08792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1168.2", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They are certainly operating in a competitive market, and, where they are not, it is possible for the Government to take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1168.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-04", "file": "debates1971-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e6f8842a42a08792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1169.2", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-04", "file": "debates1971-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e6f8842a42a08792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1252.0", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Driberg", "preceding_text": "allowed to go to sea with 41 (Independent) Royal Marine Commando, and to do landings on the shore with them from rubber dinghies. I then wrote, lectured and broadcast in praise of that Commando and received a letter of personal thanks from the Commandant-General of the Royal Marines. More recently I had the even greater honour of being invited to the only reunion that that Commando has so far had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-04", "file": "debates1971-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e6f8842a42a08792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": " will fit into this pattern of development we do not yet know. I accept what the hon. Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Wilkinson) said about Russia's might, but what is its impact on us? Every defence White Paper for the last 20 years or so, not to speak of virtually every after-dinner speech by our admirals and generals, has warned us of Russia's strength, but these warnings are really meaningless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-04", "file": "debates1971-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e6f8842a42a08792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "allant Member for Carshalton, with whom I am prepared to debate defence at any time—he has no reason to snigger at what I am saying because it is vital for our future—and despite the unreal world in which he lives, in which he believes that we can play a major rôle in any future war, that there will not be a maritime war. If we are ever involved in such a conflict, it will be a nuclear war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-04", "file": "debates1971-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e6f8842a42a08792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1293.5", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Squarebashing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "preceding_text": "tention Quarters at all, although, in fact, the ticket worker represents less than one-sixth of the total population of D.Q.s. All the discussion centred on that. If it had been a programme about D.Q.s, much more, for instance, would have been shown about life in the D.Q.s. But virtually the only thing which was shown was people going round the assault course and scampering up and down the stairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-04", "file": "debates1971-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e6f8842a42a08792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1293.5", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "preceding_text": "t the detention quarters to recommend discharge direct from the D.Q.s, the number of discharges for that reason had gone up eight times in the last 12 months, all these points which I made to the producer of the programme were cut out, and the impression left by the programme was that the Navy was complacently sitting back saying. \"We have got the place here and we shall not do anything about it\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-04a.1293.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-05", "file": "debates1971-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c903655ca2a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1367.7", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "This is a matter between us and the Norwegian Government. On the overall negotiations on the Common Market, we shall be very closely in touch with the Norwegian Government over these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1367.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-05", "file": "debates1971-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c903655ca2a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1388.0", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INVESTMENT AND BUILDING GRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I am very interested in what my hon. Friend has said, and I thank him for giving way. Is the Chamber of Shipping satisfied? Representatives of the Chamber telephoned me yesterday and asked me if I would speak today. Unfortunately, I shall not be able to try to catch your eye, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-05", "file": "debates1971-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c903655ca2a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INVESTMENT AND BUILDING GRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": "nd Belgium were 9·6 per cent., 8·7 per cent. and 8·3 per cent. respectively. Those statistics were given in a Written Answer on 8th March. As an hon. Member who represents a great—indeed, the foremost—seaport in the United Kingdom, I do not for a moment suggest that the removal of investment grants—as all other Members will say who are affected—should apply to my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-05", "file": "debates1971-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c903655ca2a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INVESTMENT AND BUILDING GRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I had intended to deal with that point, which the hon. Gentleman made from a seated position. Further orders are bound to be affected by the stoppage of investment grants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-05", "file": "debates1971-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c903655ca2a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INVESTMENT AND BUILDING GRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bray", "preceding_text": "large amounts of Government aid. That company appeared to look on that money—as indeed do other companies—as a method of helping itself. I would not use the term \"lame ducks\", but that is what companies become if they are over-reliant on outside support. That is the picture as I see it. In respect of shipbuilding, I see the reason for the continuation of grant because it involves long-term policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-05", "file": "debates1971-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c903655ca2a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INVESTMENT AND BUILDING GRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "s of the grant, the decline continued. Indeed, it accelerated. The fact is that twice as many jobs were lost twice as fast. The clearest evidence lies in the White Paper published by the Labour Government in January, 1966, the notorious White Paper called, \"The Scottish Economy 1965–1970. A Plan for Expansion.\" This forecast an increase of between 50,000 and 60,000 jobs in Scotland by 1970—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-05", "file": "debates1971-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c903655ca2a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1507.2", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING VESSELS (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. James Prior)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. James Prior)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Fishing Vessels (Acquisition and Improvement) (Grants) (Amendment) Scheme, 1971, a copy of which was laid before this House on 20th April, be approved. This is a short Scheme and, in itself, straightforward. It gives effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-05", "file": "debates1971-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c903655ca2a76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING VESSELS (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "rn to some yards in the North East of Scotland. This was made clear at a launching from the yard of Jones, at Buckie, whose Member I do not see in the House. The evidence is multiplied throughout the country. In the Aberdeen Press and Journal of Wednesday, 28th April, it was said Broch man hits at fish policy\". It went on: 'I know what I am talking about', said Mr. Cowe in regard to boat building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-05a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1625.2", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the Conservative Association and the Monday Club in Southampton University are still being prevented from having their just share of student union funds, are still being denied the use of union premises for their meetings, that the Left-wing president of the Students' Union, to his great credit, has resigned because of this injustice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1625.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1625.3", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "onservative Association and the Monday Club in Southampton University are still being prevented from having their just share of student union funds, are still being denied the use of union premises for their meetings, that the Left-wing president of the Students' Union, to his great credit, has resigned because of this injustice—[ Interruption. ]—which hon. Members opposite do not recognise to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1642.0", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I do not think anyone will accuse the Prime Minister of being insensitive to unemployment because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1642.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1656.0", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "S.E.T.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "preceding_text": "h with the level of wages. So we know what to expect so far as the public house building programme is concerned. I am concerned today with rents. Millions of our citizens live in council houses, and their rents are a matter of urgent and widespread public concern. The Labour Government introduced two Measures to keep rents at a reasonable level during a period of exceptionally high interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1654.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1663.0", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "nt. of our dwellings are owner-occupied. If and when the Government produce new proposals on this front we shall examine them with great care. I give only this warning. Some Ministerial statements about housing have a strong whiff of ideology about them. They show a strong emotional commitment to the owner-occupier and a certain contempt for the council house tenant. They certainly seem to ignore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1661.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1667.0", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Will you bring it back?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "ing sensible that can be said about the Government's Amendment. It is almost wholly irrelevant to the Motion. In fact, I am surprised that it is even in order. It makes no mention of the increased cost of housing, or the increased burden on the ratepayer, to which our Motion refers. It refers to the huge bonanza which the Government are giving to land speculators by abolishing the betterment levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1673.3", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I am talking about the lot and I am addressing my remarks to the Amendment as well as to the Motion. Our second objective is to ensure that housing subsidies from public funds go to those who need them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1673.3", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "opposite would do well to remember that many owner-occupiers are a great deal worse off than people living in council houses. As I was saying, we want to ensure that housing subsidies from public funds go to those who really need them. Those who cannot afford the fair rent will get a rebate or allowance. The Labour Party advised local authorities to give rebates, but we are making sure they do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "It was in Birmingham. I do not know whether there was one in Small Heath", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "It was in Birmingham. I do not know whether there was one in Small Heath [ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman appears to be misleading the House. There does not appear to have been a campaign in his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "vement month in Small Heath. I am glad that the hon. Gentleman accepts the criticism which I have ventured to make. A central feature of our policy has been the extension of home ownership. The Labour Party paid lip-service to this cause but did not do much about it. Indeed, hon. Members opposite often talked as if home owners were a minority. In fact they represent half the households of Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1682.1", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about completions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "tor starts are up by 37½ per cent., giving a total increase of 20½ per cent. The March figures are even more dramatic. They show that the public sector is up by 31 per cent. compared with March last year and the private sector is up by 56 per cent., the overall increase being 28½ per cent. I think that these figures will receive a widespread welcome on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ect him greatly for it. The hon. Member raised an interesting point about the number of bankruptcies in the construction industry. He may recollect that I asked the Minister this very question not long ago. In 1969, the number of bankruptcies was 857, and in 1964, it was under 600. So that is another creditable achievement of the Labour Party—they managed to increase bankruptcies in that industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": ", which hon. Gentlemen opposite have to forgive because they have to live with them whenever they are in office. It is extraordinary how words can be used so that they change their meaning. The right hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman) established fair Tents which according to hon. Gentlemen opposite were fair rents. Ours, on the other hand, are not fair rents but \"so-called\" fair rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1745.1", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Everyone turns up on Judgment Day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " the ratepayers. As every Minister knows, anyone who is trying to keep down the rates faces the dilemma of providing good services and making sure that the local government employees—the teachers, policemen, nurses, road men, water men and sewerage men—are not subsidising the ratepayer in their wages. The Labour Government tried to deal with this dilemma, first, by their prices and incomes policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1755.1", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have not done your homework.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "We are talking about the whole range of local government finance. We are talking about the effect of the Government's policies in both capital and revenue terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1756.3", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I will tell the House why the hon. Gentleman is able to make that interjection. At Waltham Forest—can meanness go any further than this?—the daily charge for day nurseries has been increased by the council from 11s. 6d. to 28s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1759.0", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "the housing list. I turn now to the general housing programme. I do not want to say too much about this because of time, but the dramatic drop in the building of local authority houses can be traced from the moment that most councils went over to Conservative control—and they were doing exactly what right hon. Gentlemen opposite asked them to do. We all know the speeches of the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1761.4", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "after election broadcast, who said that this was a disgraceful cost of living which they would reduce. The right hon. Gentleman has sold the pre- sent mortgage holders down the river in his negotiations with the building societies just as he has sold the ratepayers and the municipal tenants down the river. This debate has revealed a massive indictment of this Government and their housing policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1761.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1762.3", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Development (Mr. Graham Page)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Development (Mr. Graham Page)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Birmingham, Small Heath, (Mr. Denis Howell) can always be guaranteed to entertain the House, and today he managed to do that and keep in order at the same time, though he did not mention a word about his party's policy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1764.0", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " and sell his house he will have to part with part of the proceeds. Thank heavens the Land Commission levy has gone. We have killed that tax on moving home. It was the previous Government's invention for increasing the price of houses and increasing the cases of hardship. Would the Opposition, if they were the Government again, which heaven forbid, bring back the Land Commission and the land levy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1766.1", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "He would be relieved of that under capital gains tax and he had to pay the betterment levy if there was an increase in value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1766.3", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTS AND RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course, if there was a development value in the house, as in many cases there was. The whole point of the levy was that there should be a tax on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1766.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1793.0", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN PENNINES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD (DISSOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"He never had a chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stradling Thomas", "preceding_text": "I should declare an interest. I agree wholeheartedly with one matter that the right hon. Member for Anglesey (Mr. Cledwyn Hughes) referred to, and that was his tribute to Mr. Tom Cowen, the Chairman of the Board that is to go out of existence. He is a personal friend of mine and if anyone could have made a success of this he could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1793.3", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN PENNINES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD (DISSOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "rred to nationalisation, and who was greeted with hostility from the other side of the House, was not so far away from the truth as was thought. It is not pleasant for a man who owns his land to find himself in the situation that his freehold is eroded, perhaps inadvertently, by the imposition of a legal charge put upon it by statute. That is a substantial point which should be met in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-06", "file": "debates1971-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb821e4d213559cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1794.3", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN PENNINES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD (DISSOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were whipped up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I was present at the meeting and it was immensely hostile. Dr. Phillips was heckled and badgered. People in the area disliked these proposals though not the objectives of the Board. The fact is that they deeply resented these charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-06a.1794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1907.0", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (HEALTH HAZARDS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " the Member for Hertfordshire, East (Sir D. Walker-Smith), and it may be summarised in a few words: the cost to the National Health Service. I remind my right hon. and learned Friend that, when I introduced the Bill on 15th December last, the occasion was curious, since it was the beginning of the second day's debate on the Second Reading of the Industrial Relations Bill, and the House was packed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1907.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1913.6", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF DISEASES DUE TO SMOKING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1913.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1913.10", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1913.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1913.14", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF PERSONAL INFORMATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1913.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1913.18", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEAD TEACHERS (TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1913.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1914.2", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORTING OF INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1914.6", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PASSENGER FARES (LONDON) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1914.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1914.10", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MECHANICS OF PAYMENT OF ALIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1914.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1914.14", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNCIL HOUSE (TENANTS REPRESENTATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1914.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1914.18", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALE OF GOODS (FRAUDULENT OR MISLEADING GUARANTEES OR WARRANTIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1914.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1914.22", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAB BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1914.21"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1915.2", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OWNER-OCCUPATION (HELP FOR PRIVATE LANDLORDS' TENANTS TO PURCHASE) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1915.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1915.6", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1915.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1915.10", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 2nd April ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1915.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1915.14", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL CLAIMS COURTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1915.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1915.18", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH WATER CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1915.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1915.22", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ATTACHMENT OF EARNINGS (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1915.21"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1916.2", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTCHARGE ABOLITION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1916.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1916.6", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLOSING OF PRISONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1916.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1916.10", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF PENSION RIGHTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1916.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1916.14", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAVEL AGENTS AND TOUR AND CHARTER OPERATORS REGIS- TRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1916.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1916.18", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE OF COUNCIL HOUSE BUILDING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1916.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1916.22", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 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/1971-05-07a.1916.21"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1917.2", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALE OF TICKETS (OFFENCES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1917.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1917.6", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARE OF THE ELDERLY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1917.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-07", "file": "debates1971-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ded7c30b44703cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1917.10", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGE LEVEL OF EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-07a.1917.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-10", "file": "debates1971-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7426ca2c6355783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "BASIC FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that if the Minister were to say that it would be far more relevant than when he said, \"Let them eat peaches instead of oranges\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-10", "file": "debates1971-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7426ca2c6355783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.94.8", "colnum": "94", "heading": "BASIC FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I will deal with the points raised by the hon. Member for Brentford and Chiswick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.94.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-10", "file": "debates1971-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7426ca2c6355783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "BASIC FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So they were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "es and Incomes on food distribution. I think we all know why that inquiry was set up. It was, of course, no more than a political gimmick to try to take some of the steam out of the situation before the election last June. It was, at the same time, a useful stick to try to show that the big retailers were taking advantage of their position to increase their profits at the expense of the housewife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-10", "file": "debates1971-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7426ca2c6355783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "BASIC FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "expenditure, on the other hand, reflect what householders actually spend, and this, of course, reflects the extent to which housewives take advantage of special offers and switch away from seasonally expensive items. In the last few years, about one-fifth of the increases in prices has been avoided by intelligent shopping. Put another way, one-fifth of the effects of rising prices has been beaten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-10", "file": "debates1971-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7426ca2c6355783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "BASIC FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "tional Board for Prices and Incomes bears all this out. Its survey of housewives showed that they are for the most part ready to take advantage of the scope for getting a good deal. This is well illustrated by what is happening with regard to meat. For reasons of supply, beef is now very expensive but pork is relatively cheap. Many housewives have swapped from one to the other. That is good sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-10", "file": "debates1971-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7426ca2c6355783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.99.3", "colnum": "99", "heading": "BASIC FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Of course it does. But we have an official food index, which has been supported by both parties, in all Administrations, and it shows a slightly lower figure than the figures which have been shown by this particular exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.99.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-10", "file": "debates1971-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7426ca2c6355783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL WORKINGS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must know as well as I do that that would be impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-10", "file": "debates1971-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7426ca2c6355783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRIAL DERATING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "s industrial plant are valued. I must be careful not to trespass beyond the bounds of this Order or into what is essentially the task of the assessors. One thing we cannot do is to start taking on the job of amateur assessors. The C.B.I, has made representations, fairly similar to those of the hon. Gentleman. We are considering this carefully and we will also consider what the hon. Gentleman said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-10a.148.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-11", "file": "debates1971-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2825c98d09b1d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-11a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BASIC FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " prices of food and related subjects and the acceptance by the Government of the need to reconstitute some watchdog over rising prices? May we have an assurance that either of the right hon. Gentlemen will tell us, either today or tomorrow, when a statement will be made giving the Government's intentions in order to carry out the Motion which hon. Gentlemen opposite yesterday accepted unanimously?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-11a.205.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-11", "file": "debates1971-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2825c98d09b1d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-11a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption ,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "ed and out-of-date weapon which I hope will never be used again to release personal consumption. We do not want consumption-led growth in Britain, but export-led growth coupled with an ending of inflation. I am convinced that our Common Market priorities are paramount now. I understand the problems completely, but these negotiations must be out of the way, one way or the other, by the end of June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-11a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-11", "file": "debates1971-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2825c98d09b1d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-11a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker (St. Marylebone)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is£500 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker (St. Marylebone)", "preceding_text": "present parity with the dollar. The Government should lose no chance of stressing what an opportunity it is to increase our exports. I calculate from what the hon. and learned Member for Lincoln (Mr. Taverne) said that the net effect on consumer demand of Amendment No. 13, which I believe is to decrease the regulator by 15 per cent. for six months, is about£125 million to£150 million in injection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-11a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-11", "file": "debates1971-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2825c98d09b1d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-11a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption ,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "lt comprehensively with the speech of the hon. and learned Member for Lincoln (Mr. Taverne). In the past six weeks we have had a succession of economic debates, and rightly so in present circumstances. My hon. Friend the Member for St. Ives (Mr. Nott) said that the Budget debate was over-subscribed and that he had not had an opportunity of getting in. I managed to get into the Budget debate twice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-11a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-11", "file": "debates1971-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2825c98d09b1d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-11a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Roper", "cue_text": "Interruption ,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Roper", "preceding_text": " benefiting the surtax payer. Let us take the case referred to earlier of the man with two children who earns£10,000 a year. First, he will get increased child relief, perhaps£80. He will pay a lower rate of income tax. He will get additional earned income relief. Then he will be able to contribute to a personal pension scheme a further£750 a year, raising his total contribution from£750 to£1,500—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-11a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.373.5", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "In view of the present system whereby two tickets are sent to us every so often, and we may be on a parliamentary delegation to Timbuktu at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.375.7", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order. Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "May I, as a more zealous shop steward for the absurd institution along the way than my hon. Friend, put in a request—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.375.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "As I indicated in my original reply, the details of the amending agreement will remain confidential until their publication later in the year. I hope to go to Brunei in October to sign the agreement. When it is signed we will put a copy in the Library so that the hon. Gentleman can have answers to all his questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "I do not think I have given any indication that anything has been obliterated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND BILL OF RIGHTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the powers of the Parliament and Government of Northern Ireland and to make other provisions for equating the civil rights of citizens of Northern Ireland with those of other citizens of the United Kingdom. I fear that there are suspicions that a Conservative Whip is to be applied against this proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND BILL OF RIGHTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. F, Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. F, Deedes", "preceding_text": "Motion, embodying, as it does, what the hon. Member for Paddington, North (Mr. Latham) has described as fairly modest proposals for the Government of Northern Ireland. I oppose it not least because what the hon. Gentleman suggests would be wholly out of line with the declared policy of the parties on both sides of this House, rehearsed and agreed only a month ago in the debate on Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND BILL OF RIGHTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. F, Deedes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. F, Deedes", "preceding_text": ", in use. The most suggestive is, I think, the proposed Clause 5( e ), regarding the punishment of prisoners by flogging. The Stormont civil servants are unable to cite a single case of the flogging of a prisoner as a punishment. I accept that the power of search without warrant is still being exercised. Arrest without warrant, imprisonment without trial—these powers exist, but are not being used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "dicator about industrial investment. Government strategy about cuts in corporation tax have been ill thought out. First, we had the doctrinaire approach in regard to measures available to them in association with the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation, more effective use of investment grant and the use of what might be called a pragmatic approach to the problem of money supply and bank lending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have not been in Government for two years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "Mr. Cooper) said that he did not expect his Government to promote miracles overnight. I am prepared to accept that. However, I should have hoped that they might have done something in two years. I should have thought that two years, being approximately half the average length of a Parliament in recent times, would have been sufficient for them to have done something about the level of investment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " you enjoy our Finance Bill Committee deliberations as much as we have over the years. Clause 10 demonstrates the fundamental difference between the two sides of the Committee on taxation methods. The attitude on this side of the Committee is one of equity, fairness and social justice, whereas the attitude on the other side involves the desire positively to assist those who wish to avoid taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I am taking this to be a typical example, because the type of cases presented to that Committee—apart from the compassionate cases referred to by the late Iain Macleod, which were met—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or family allowances.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": " was made between the Tory Party and its rich supporters that the £15 million a year tax arising from these aggregation provisions would be returned to them. We are told that the party opposite always keeps its election promises. It certainly keeps those promises which it makes to the rich. It is not so particular about promises relating to the reduction of prices or the reduction of unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "eir promises were given in the election prospectus, financing their children's privileged education at other people's expense. This is the essence of the argument. The argument is not being put forward that we are in favour a banning public schools. Perhaps it should be, but that is not the argument. The argument is that we should give them tax relief, that we should help to pay for these schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.471.5", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": " Member for Nelson and Colne; I will come to my own point in a moment. We see how they argue for these backwoods arguments: the Treasury Bench backs the defence of the public schools. I did not say that there was any objection to people paying for their own children's education but only to other people financing that education. As to whether it was introduced for this reason, of course it was not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "ncession to the rich taxpayer. It is for this reason that we object to it. We do believe in equality on this side of the Committee. Our great regret was not that we introduced measures like this, but that we did not succeed in going further with redistribution. There has been plenty of redistribution by the Tories, but the other way round—in favour of the rich and from the poor. What a distortion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must realise two points. First, this Bill is, I hope, only the first instalment of many measures to reduce tax. When making a start one does so in those categories which bear the heaviest burden of tax. I do not find anything particularly odd about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "ty—that the wealthier people ought to pay a much higher proportion of their income in tax than the not so wealthy. We believe in much more progressive taxation. Hon. Gentlemen opposite do not. They believe in more regressive taxation, and this device is an example of that. Because of the careful husbanding of resources by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Setchford (Mr. Roy Jenkins)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "quer said that there was £1,000 million to dispose of, but how did the right hon. Gentleman dispose of that sum? The answer is, not to the lower paid taxpayer, but to the wealthy taxpayer, by means of the cuts in corporation tax, S.E.T., and all these other devices. No one will persuade me that the housewife will get the benefit of the cut in S.E.T. It will go into the profits of the distributors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.499.3", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "I want to come to the real belief of the Conservative Party in aggregation. They have two rules in this—one rule for the rich and one for those who are not so rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.499.3", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "I want to come to the real belief of the Conservative Party in aggregation. They have two rules in this—one rule for the rich and one for those who are not so rich. [ Laughter. ] Before the hon. Member starts grinning, let me remind him of the attitude of the Tory Party to the means test in the 1930s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.499.3", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "come to the real belief of the Conservative Party in aggregation. They have two rules in this—one rule for the rich and one for those who are not so rich. [ Laughter. ] Before the hon. Member starts grinning, let me remind him of the attitude of the Tory Party to the means test in the 1930s—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not again.\"] They do not like being reminded of this. Let me tell them my own family's case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "preceding_text": "All right. I thought that it was the hon. Gentleman, but I remembered wrong. The Tories used to chide the Labour Government for not giving pensions to the over-80s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.502.3", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "preceding_text": "Just a moment. I am finishing on this. The late Iain Macleod has been mentioned so often today that I half expected someone to go round with a plate. He has almost been sanctified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.502.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " exception which allowed income from compensation paid in satisfaction of a claim for injury to the child. It never went any further. The hon. Member for Heywood and Royton was wrong to say that we covered all the cases where the compensation goes to the parent. We never covered the case where the parent was killed and the child received the compensation. That still remains covered by the Section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.514.5", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Misleading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "No, I am answering the point which the hon. Member put to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.514.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "mounts which are provided for poverty and which are provided in tax concessions in this case. The tax concessions in this case are £15 million to £20 million. For family income supplement, they amount to some £7 million. We were reminded by one of my hon. Friends of the pledge of the late Mr. kin Macleod to spend £30 million on family allowances. That money has gone to this kind of relief instead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DRIVERS' HOURS (PASSENGER AND GOODS VEHICLES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "ull regard to the ability of the bus industry to provide adequate services for the travelling public. We need no further justification than what is contained in that White Paper. What we are proposing will bring back viability to many bus companies which are at present in dire straits. My hon. Friend mentioned the National Bus Company. I am more concerned with many dozens of smaller bus companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DRIVERS' HOURS (PASSENGER AND GOODS VEHICLES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "e, any operator who drives his men and machinery to the sort of limits suggested by the hon. Member for Leicester, North-East is a fool, and it is impossible to legislate for such people. If they are prepared to break the law, they will break it. What we must do is see to it that we have sensible laws which can be enforced. I welcome the simplification behind these modifications. They bring sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.539.3", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DRIVERS' HOURS (PASSENGER AND GOODS VEHICLES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "ave had in the past from hon. Gentlemen opposite who come from the South-West. It was Tory Members of the House who, when they were in Opposition, claimed that Cornish lorry drivers must drive 12 hours non-stop or else the whole of the Cornish fishing industry would grind to a halt. That is the kind of argument we have heard before, the kind of argument for sending children under 14 down the pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.542.2", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DRIVERS' HOURS (PASSENGER AND GOODS VEHICLES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "preceding_text": "I, too, congratulate the Minister on having brought forward this Instrument and for making it effective from the 29th of this month, which is just before the Spring bank holiday. The effect of last years' Socialist legislation on holiday business has been extremely serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.542.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-12", "file": "debates1971-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8c59dc54fd47ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.542.7", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DRIVERS' HOURS (PASSENGER AND GOODS VEHICLES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "I have a letter from a gift shop saying that there was a 25 per cent. drop in business last year because of this legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-12a.542.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-13", "file": "debates1971-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6b155621c6ff390c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-13a.615.4", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DESERTED FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "This may not be the most tactful day on which to raise the question of tracing people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-13a.615.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-13", "file": "debates1971-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6b155621c6ff390c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-13a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 47", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Concannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Concannon", "preceding_text": "o support the amendment. On page xviii of the report it will be seen that I voted against the recommendation that the Ministry of Defence should give early consideration to substituting for the next quinquennial review a common Act applicable to all three Services. I did that for two reasons. One was that I was the first one who had to register a vote and did not know whether to say \"aye\" or \"no\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-13a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-14", "file": "debates1971-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "081f55b591175ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-14a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "EAST PAKISTAN", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Thompson", "preceding_text": "know what to do with them. I accept that this was a well-intentioned mistake. However, it is important to see that the right kind of aid goes in, and initially it must be designed to restore communications, rebuild railways, culverts and bridges and so on. As for a political settlement, I am firmly on the side of those who say that there is no conceivable viability in an independent East Pakistan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-14a.788.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-14", "file": "debates1971-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "081f55b591175ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-14a.849.2", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PASSENGER FARES (LONDON) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-14a.849.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-14", "file": "debates1971-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "081f55b591175ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-14a.849.6", "colnum": "849", "heading": "SALE OF GOODS (FRAUDULENT OR MISLEADING GUARANTEES OR WARRANTIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-14a.849.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-14", "file": "debates1971-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "081f55b591175ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-14a.849.10", "colnum": "849", "heading": "TRANSPORT (LONDON) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-14a.849.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-14", "file": "debates1971-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "081f55b591175ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-14a.850.2", "colnum": "850", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 2nd April ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-14a.850.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-14", "file": "debates1971-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "081f55b591175ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-14a.850.6", "colnum": "850", "heading": "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/1971-05-14a.850.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.855.4", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend will see, we have made some progress regarding horticulture in the last round of ministerial meetings. I have said that we shall have to bring up the fisheries question at the appropriate time. I am sure that my hon. Friend will be able to judge in a few weeks how far we have got.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.855.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": " the right hon. and learned Gentleman has so far failed to give any clear answers to the many Questions tabled on this matter, will he make a genuine attempt when he is next at the Dispatch Box to give some indication that he is prepared to defend vital British interests in these negotiations and not act like a weak limpet and give away all our vital interests to our trading competitors in Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I have no reason to suppose that the Community would in any way depart from the spirit and intent of their declaration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the overall progress made at Brussels carries forward the policy of the previous Government and will be welcomed by a decisive majority of hon. Members in this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.890.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.890.4", "colnum": "890", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the new methods that he has outlined for the payment of the financial contribution have a number of obvious advantages? But will he say more about the period of time over which the rebates under this scheme are to be paid? Will it just be five years, or will six, seven or eight years be possible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.890.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.892.5", "colnum": "892", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "xtremely difficult negotiations, may I ask him a further question about sugar? Does not he feel that any realistic person who understands the problem will think that the offer of a long-term association coupled with a categorical declaration by the Community of their intention to safeguard the interests of sugar producing countries represents as fair and as reasonable a solution as can be reached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.892.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.892.5", "colnum": "892", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " sugar? Does not he feel that any realistic person who understands the problem will think that the offer of a long-term association coupled with a categorical declaration by the Community of their intention to safeguard the interests of sugar producing countries represents as fair and as reasonable a solution as can be reached—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Is there any good reason to doubt the good faith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.892.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "matter urgently; it needed only a sentence or two to clarify the position. As a result of the discussions which we had, we got this strong commitment. Many people have taken the view that all that we did was change the words from \"bearing in mind\" to \"take to heart\". That is not what happened. The translation of the French is not simply \"take to heart\", which is a very strong expression in French—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "tion. As a result of the discussions which we had, we got this strong commitment. Many people have taken the view that all that we did was change the words from \"bearing in mind\" to \"take to heart\". That is not what happened. The translation of the French is not simply \"take to heart\", which is a very strong expression in French—[ Interruption .] This is not unimportant. It is a strong expression—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "On the translation, the right hon. Gentleman, who has some experience of international negotiations, knows that it is important, for the avoidance of misunderstanding, that there should be clear understanding of what words mean in both languages. That is why I was concerned about clarification on that point. Clear language of that kind is, in my view, a bankable assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.897.3", "colnum": "897", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I was wishing to raise a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.897.3", "colnum": "897", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I was wishing to raise a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—under Standing Order No. 9 to consider an urgent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.897.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.897.7", "colnum": "897", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " that has been made to date? Is he aware that the interests of this country and, indeed, of the Commonwealth, do not depend on small print or phrases but on whether there is trust between the partners in Europe, and whether there is genuine enthusiasm for a united Europe? Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman take comfort from the fact that, apart from those who now choose to sit on the fence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.897.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.909.4", "colnum": "909", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY (TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend clear up a point which has been nuzzling me a little? Does the fact that the Government are engaged on this individual and national study of tariffs mean that they have decided, after all, not to go into the Common Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.909.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.909.5", "colnum": "909", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY (TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "This has nothing whatever to do with the question of our entry into the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.909.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.909.6", "colnum": "909", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY (TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give the House an undertaking that the only circumstances in which he will move in this House, which is the right place to do it, for a reduction in the tariffs of the British motor car industry is as part of an agreement with the other countries concerned, who have their own motor car industries, both Europe and the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.909.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY (TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The plain fact is that the Government have complete autonomy in this matter and can act as they feel inclined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.910.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.910.4", "colnum": "910", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY (TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Wait to be called.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.910.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.910.6", "colnum": "910", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY (TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "No, I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.910.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.910.10", "colnum": "910", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "ted this matter on only four occasions in the last six years. The last Common Market debate took place on 21st and 22nd January of this year. However, we were then debating the subject from a point of view quite different from the one in which I am raising it now, for I am now asking Parliament to become alert to the sort of attitude which the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry is adopting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.910.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": ", our laws and our constitutional rights, the House of Commons and not the Government is supreme. Parliament has been patient long enough. The language of negotiation has altered dramatically, even in the last few days. The pursuit of terms and safeguards on matters affecting Britain and the Commonwealth has changed course in terms of the language used when speaking of promises and understandings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.912.3", "colnum": "912", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "I accept your request for me to be brief, Mr. Speaker, but, with respect, I must remind you that it was not my fault that certain Ministers had to waste the time of the House. The matter which I am raising is of great importance to the nation. I am anxious not to delay the House, but, after all, I have been speaking for only two or three minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.912.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: But with \"powers of the Consumer Council.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "is a further difficulty arising from last week's Motion. The Motion by the hon. Member for Norwich, North spoke of an organisation for consumer protection with powers to scrutinise and check prices of essential services\". The Motion today, in the name of the Leader of the Opposition, speaks of \"an organisation for consumer protection\". It is not speaking of \"powers to scrutinise and check prices\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wallace", "preceding_text": "cretary of State. Apparently, there is now a move to set up a consumers' union. I have been approached in this connection and it may be that other hon. Members have. Such a body could become quite a militant one, and there is a danger in this. I remember the Housewives' League, which put out the Labour Government of 1945–50 and became almost a subsidiary of the Conservative Central Office —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-17", "file": "debates1971-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "76314effe43ffdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.999.7", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY COUNCIL BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is piloting it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "for a period of three hours or more between midnight and 6 o'clock the following morning. What other assemblies are held in the open and continue for a period of three hours or more between midnight and 6 o'clock the following morning\"? I would never charge the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight with sponsoring the Bill, because it is essentially a Private Bill, but he has a primary interest in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-17a.999.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1051.7", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for consideration of Lords Amendments read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1051.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1051.16", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1051.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1061.5", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, since that date, the electors have delivered their verdict on the answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1061.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1061.5", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, since that date, the electors have delivered their verdict on the answer? [ Interruption. ] Is not he aware that the rejection of 81 Conservative candidates out of 99 in the City of Manchester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1061.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1061.6", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, since that date, the electors have delivered their verdict on the answer? [ Interruption. ] Is not he aware that the rejection of 81 Conservative candidates out of 99 in the City of Manchester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] —and 2,800 Labour gains in the rest of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1061.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1066.8", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman is considering tax reductions, will he think again about the imposition of a meat tax on cheap goods coming from New Zealand which will shortly have a detrimental effect on the cost of living?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1066.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COATBRIDGE AND AIRDRIE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of the particular difficulties of the hon. Gentleman's constituency. Unfortunately, unemployment in North Lancashire is not a new phenomenon. What the Government have done is to make the hon. Gentleman's constituency part of the West Central Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH TOUR", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The President of France is well aware of the close connection of Britain with the Commonwealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about last Thursday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "must be, \"No\". If another Government, should there be one that held such a philosophy, wanted to do that, nothing that we could do in our reform could prevent them from doing it. No question of tying it up legislatively to make it more difficult would be likely to have the slightest effect. The real answer is that the people must not elect a Government who would want to do anything quite so silly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": " for them to justify a change in the fiscal system which has operated since 1907 by which there has been discrimination in favour of earned income. That is the point we are debating. It is no question of introducing a new form of discrimination against investment. The proposition being advanced by Conservative hon. Members is that we should now introduce a new discrimination against earned income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1145.6", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "It all depends. There are ways and means of employing one's wife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1145.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1145.6", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "all depends. There are ways and means of employing one's wife. [ Laughter. ] I am sorry that there is such hilarity in the Committee. I repeat that there are ways and means of employing one's wife. For example, a doctor employs his wife to answer the telephone, pays her £200 a year for her services and sets that off as a charge against net income for the purpose of computing income tax and surtax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1145.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1163.2", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "I sometimes wonder about the hon. Member for Heywood and Royton (Mr. Barnett), because he is an accountant and auditor by profession and, I believe, a reasonable man when thinking about these matters. But what we should realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to be discourteous, but if the Opposition want a private meeting, there are rooms outside the Chamber where they can have it. Fundamentally, the Clause deals with the differentiation between earned and unearned income.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend. Some Government should consider our moral responsibility for paying post-war credits. I cannot stand in a white sheet of innocence because, like my right hon. Friend, I was a member of the Labour Government and we did not repay post-war credits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. His intervention substantiates abundantly the example I was giving. There are distinctions. I do not believe that people got the type of investment incomes that hon. Members opposite are thinking about by the sweat of their own brow. They got it largely by a casino society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "that this provision would provide a real incentive to saving. We want to encourage as many families as possible to save, first, because we believe it gives a family security and secondly because it gives independence. I see no reason to apologise for the fact that savings and possessions give the pleasure of ownership. I can see nothing wrong in that. In any event, savings are good for the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1220.3", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I find it odd for the right hon. Gentleman to be accusing us of doing something less than we are doing in another respect when his Government did nothing at all. This is not discriminating against service industries. We have removed the discrimination nationally and given an additional incentive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-18", "file": "debates1971-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "712cd1604c8a9089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1226.0", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "I want in a few curt, brief sentences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-18a.1226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-19", "file": "debates1971-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfdaed7d2c6ad6ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1267.9", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Lewis", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman speed up his consultations and con- sult the Carlisle Council, since I understand that one of these shady customers is seeking to establish one of these super sex markets there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1267.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-19", "file": "debates1971-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfdaed7d2c6ad6ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1270.2", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-19", "file": "debates1971-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfdaed7d2c6ad6ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1270.6", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Will tomorrow's Motion include the names that have been suggested for membership of the Select Committee? If so, the House might feel that it would be abundantly desirable that any hon. Members on either side of the House who have been nominated for service on this very important Committee should not express views in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1270.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-19", "file": "debates1971-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfdaed7d2c6ad6ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1271.10", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "I was really raising the principle concerned in this issue. I was not necessarily referring to the content of the reply. May I continue to address you?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1271.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-19", "file": "debates1971-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfdaed7d2c6ad6ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1271.10", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "nt of the reply. May I continue to address you? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The junior Minister concerned clearly gave the House to understand—he certainly gave me to understand—that he had no information on the subject. While that was not surprising, it turned out from his reply to my supplementary question that he in fact did have some information about numbers in connection with Wolverhampton staffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1271.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-19", "file": "debates1971-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfdaed7d2c6ad6ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order raised by my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-19", "file": "debates1971-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfdaed7d2c6ad6ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1272.5", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Whereas all hon. Members wish to prevent fraudulent points of order from being raised", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1272.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-19", "file": "debates1971-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfdaed7d2c6ad6ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1272.5", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": ", Mr. Speaker. Whereas all hon. Members wish to prevent fraudulent points of order from being raised[ Interruption. ]—is it not a fact that it is perfectly in order for my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs. Renee Short) or any other hon. Member to raise the question of whether Ministers in their replies are seeking to avoid their responsibilities in the sense of suggesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1272.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-19", "file": "debates1971-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfdaed7d2c6ad6ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "ist, which I believe the right hon. Gentleman intends to do; secondly, to encourage the establishment of urban parishes or neighbourhood councils—partly because authorities are becoming larger and larger, and partly because we are seeing a huge growth of one-purpose pressure groups which are normally middle class in composition and do not always influence their local council in the right direction", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-19", "file": "debates1971-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfdaed7d2c6ad6ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "to be a satisfactory solution. Thereafter, we shall have the boundary commission to determine the initial district boundaries, to redetermine ward boundaries and to determine future changes in all other boundaries—county and metropolitan districts. We must know more about this boundary commission. We have never had a boundary commission for local government before. It will have exceptional powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-19", "file": "debates1971-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfdaed7d2c6ad6ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ut the Question, I wish to express my appreciation to the House for the way in which right hon. and hon. Members on both sides have responded to my appeal for brief speeches. According to my calculations, in the four hours eight minutes available for back-bench speakers, 28 hon. Members were called—an average of just under nine minutes a speech. I think that they were none the worse for that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-19a.1403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1508.4", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "is a matter that gives rise to considerable public concern and that is why I want to get the full facts before coming to a conclusion. This is a complicated matter. I am having a full analysis made of the latest publication on this subject and I shall then have to determine whether it brings out any new factors not previously known. I cannot make a decision on that until I have been fully advised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1508.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1511.6", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Vouz avez, avez-vows ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1511.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1511.10", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I accept your Ruling, Mr. Speaker. I was trying to explain to the House, particularly to those hon. Members who are pro-European, that as a result of the Prime Minister's meeting with M. Pompidou last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1511.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1518.6", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "place in the Library or to circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT a copy of the highly important text of the broadcast by President Pompidou a couple of nights ago in the French original and in the best Foreign Office or Home Office translation into English? In this, would he give some guidance to the House, which is so far very deficient, whether the translation of President Pompidou's word \"rupture\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1518.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must make his own arrangements with his own surgeon in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1519.8", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1519.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1522.0", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "undertook last week to find out from my right hon. Friend whether he would be able to make a statement before the debate. I also appreciated that the House did not wish a statement to be made in the debate. I made this position clear to my right hon. Friend. He is not in a position to make a statement this week. Therefore, in accordance with my undertaking, no statement will be made in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1522.3", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes. I must tell the right hon. Gentleman that I was told last week, categorically, that unless a statement could be made in time, before the debate, if my right hon. Friend was not ready to do it, it was not to be made in the debate. That is what I was asked to do. In any case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1523.0", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "ould investigate the matter, and I found that my right hon. Friend would not be ready to make a statement before the debate. I have, therefore, made the position clear. He will not be ready to make such a statement until after Whitsun. The Opposition will be able to press their points in the debate, as I am sure they will wish to do, and I know that my right hon. Friend will answer them skilfully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1523.1", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " week so that we know the Government's policy on what we are debating, rather than have it announced afterwards?\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 13th May, 1971; Vol. 817, c. 624. That was perfectly clear. We wanted it before the debate. However, I did not say, as he will understand, that it should not otherwise be made. In these circumstances, and since the Government have failed to make up their mind in time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1524.0", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I think the best way to help the right hon. Gentleman in this matter is to give him the assurance for which he asked in the last part of that supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1525.4", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I did not say that I would make a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1525.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Without commenting on the first part of the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary question, I think it is true to say that my right hon. Friend answered some Questions on this issue earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1539.0", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "CIVIL LIST (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " greatly respected and a senior Member of the House. He will be very useful in the Committee. I support his nomination because he does not happen to be either a newcomer or a Privy Councillor. My hon. Friend is a senior Member of great knowledge and experience, and I suggest that he is the only back bench hon. Member who is truly representative of the overwhelming majority of Members of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1539.3", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "CIVIL LIST (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And their claims.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "It may be that other hon. Members might have been recommended by back benchers. I suggest that in future an opportunity should be given to all hon. Members to put forward their views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1550.0", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "CIVIL LIST (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": ", and as a result I resigned from that Committee—on which, incidentally, I enjoyed working. In the course of that debate the hon. Gentleman said: What the Committee was discussing was a very secret, and in some respects very sinister, research establishment. I do not want to equate that passage with the Royal Household, though it may well be that the hon. Member for Fife, West would wish to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1595.1", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "5 million—I would ask the Committee not to press me on this—some estimate of the effect of some \"locking in\", because it would be foolish to deny that this would happen. But there are many factors which weigh with elderly people as to whether or not they sell or retain investments to the ends of their lives. The experience which we have gained as a result of the £5,000 exemption has not suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1597.0", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "This would to some extent be so, although the gap is narrowing, but it is very difficult. One could concoct figures on a comparable cost of living index—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He still does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I will come to the question of tax avoidance shortly. It was not only the right hon. Member for Manchester, Cheetham who took that view. A gentleman by the name of William Baxter, who used to represent West Stirlingshire-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I will come to the question of tax avoidance shortly. It was not only the right hon. Member for Manchester, Cheetham who took that view. A gentleman by the name of William Baxter, who used to represent West Stirlingshire-[HON. MEMBERS: \"He still does.\"] I apologise to him. Let us say that we have missed the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1604.0", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " the capital gain element in the £1 million estate. It is no use his giving us these irrelevant figures. I turn now to the question of hardship to the small close company. The hon. Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne) was kind enough to quote what I said in the 1965 debates and the fact that I was making a plea not necessarily for myself but for smaller professional firms and their goodwill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-20", "file": "debates1971-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "68976c4006c264ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1616.6", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "time has now arrived for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor to examine the restrictions on production which are thrust by artificial, Government action on the motor industry. The first of these are the draconian hire-purchase restrictions impressed by the right hon. Member for Stechford directly after the devaluation of sterling. They have not been changed since. They are still at the same level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-20a.1616.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-21", "file": "debates1971-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9baef60d19e47551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1685.2", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "CHRONICALLY SICK AND DISABLED PERSONS ACT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers", "preceding_text": "th visitors, we might be able partly to solve the problem. I congratulate the hon. Member for Eccles (Mr. Carter-Jones) on his luck in winning the Ballot, and I also congratulate the hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Alfred Morris) not only on his Act but on his understanding speech at the Harding Award, which I read with interest. I think we should remember today Mrs. Megan du Boisson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1685.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-21", "file": "debates1971-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9baef60d19e47551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1686.0", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "CHRONICALLY SICK AND DISABLED PERSONS ACT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers", "preceding_text": "iven enough slaves very few places are totally inaccessible to the disabled but it would be of help if the people and bodies concerned could take steps to make life easier for us and preferably remove them. That is a rather clever suggestion—remove the steps that make life difficult. I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, South (Earl of Dalkeith) will be able to return to this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1685.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-21", "file": "debates1971-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9baef60d19e47551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "CHRONICALLY SICK AND DISABLED PERSONS ACT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": " the Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dame Joan Vickers) made a number of valuable points to which I shall recur. In particular, she brought out, as others did, the importance of travel and access for the disabled. I, too, hope that we may soon welcome our hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, North (Earl of Dalkeith) back to the House, where he will have a chance to test our improved arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-21", "file": "debates1971-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9baef60d19e47551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1759.4", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF DISEASES DUE TO SMOKING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1759.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-21", "file": "debates1971-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9baef60d19e47551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1759.8", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1759.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-21", "file": "debates1971-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9baef60d19e47551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1759.12", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENTCHARGE ABOLITION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1759.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-21", "file": "debates1971-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9baef60d19e47551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1759.16", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (REFERENDUM) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1759.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-21", "file": "debates1971-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9baef60d19e47551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1759.20", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PASSENGER FARES (LONDON) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1759.19"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-21", "file": "debates1971-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9baef60d19e47551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1760.2", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-21", "file": "debates1971-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9baef60d19e47551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1760.6", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 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/1971-05-21a.1760.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-21", "file": "debates1971-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9baef60d19e47551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1760.10", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPLANT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1760.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-21", "file": "debates1971-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9baef60d19e47551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1760.14", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTEMPT OF COURT (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-21a.1760.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-24", "file": "debates1971-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c65cb134267d066f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ctual arrangements, to be satisfactory, must not place an unbearable burden on the balance of payments or across the exchanges, and that was accepted. On New Zealand, I did not enter into a discussion about the actual words used on television. I discussed the nature of the arrangements which can be made to produce a satisfactory arrangement for New Zealand, but this will be dealt with in Brussels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-24", "file": "debates1971-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c65cb134267d066f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ealand, but this will be dealt with in Brussels—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not now?\"]—because they have to be settled with all the members of the Community. As it has been known that the French negotiators have hitherto taken a certain negotiating position on New Zealand, what satisfied me was that the President's response was positive in respect of obtain- ing a satisfactory arrangement for New Zealand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.37.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-24", "file": "debates1971-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c65cb134267d066f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have always made it plain that it is Parliament's responsibility to decide——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-24", "file": "debates1971-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c65cb134267d066f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—this issue, as it is to decide every other issue of international relations", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-24", "file": "debates1971-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c65cb134267d066f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have said that we fully accept the need to discuss through the usual channels with Her Majesty's Opposition the way in which this matter should be handled on the Floor of the House. I have undertaken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-24", "file": "debates1971-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c65cb134267d066f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.44.2", "colnum": "44", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "hat a matter to be left until after we get into the Community? Finally, may I express—I am sure on behalf of all hon. Members—a deep personal gratitude to the Prime Minister for the way in which, at some personal sacrifice, he gave in person to the French people and Government a warning of the dire consequences which will follow from excessive insistence on the need to preserve linguistic balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.44.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-24", "file": "debates1971-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c65cb134267d066f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to give an undertaking at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-24", "file": "debates1971-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c65cb134267d066f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ferent points of view in this House. I hope that the Leader of the Opposition will take the opportunity of considering the position quietly when we are able to provide a White Paper, so that he can then come to a conclusion as to the best way of handling the matter. It is not reasonable to ask me to give a decision at this stage of the proceedings about what is to happen before the Summer Recess.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-24", "file": "debates1971-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c65cb134267d066f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "It is right that this vastly important matter should be decided in a calm atmosphere. It is right that there should be discussions between the two sides. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the reason for our anxiety, which was not allayed by the terms or the tone of his last answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-24", "file": "debates1971-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c65cb134267d066f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "s between those concerned in Irlam, the unions and the British Steel Corporation. If the hon. Gentleman turns to further questions of what would be the attitude of the Opposition or anyone else to propositions for maintaining the works or for fresh investment in different parts of the industry, I would not think it right for me to pronounce on any individual project without looking at the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-24a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-25", "file": "debates1971-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c9b1ab7a6026582e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-25a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "All these Amendments are of a formal nature, making no change of substance in Standing Orders. They are necessary either because of recent changes in the responsibilities of Government Departments or following the introduction of decimal currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-25a.204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-25", "file": "debates1971-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c9b1ab7a6026582e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-25a.210.6", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend realise that we have a very good ombudsman as it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-25a.210.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-26", "file": "debates1971-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "812e1cceb4cb7c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.365.4", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of the great welcome in Scotland for the halving of S.E.T. in July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-26", "file": "debates1971-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "812e1cceb4cb7c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "ELECTIONS (VALIDITY OF NOMINATION PAPERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "ds: that commercial broadcasting is to be condemned because it distorts—that is the phrase—the purpose of broadcasting by reason of the fundamental purposes for which the vehicle is used—not broadcasting for its own sake but its use as a medium in which advertisements can live.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, House of Lords; Vol. 176, c. 1349.] I should imagine that the hon. Gentleman will not agree with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-26", "file": "debates1971-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "812e1cceb4cb7c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "ELECTIONS (VALIDITY OF NOMINATION PAPERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": ", to impose on local stations demands which will escalate costs. We must not impose unnecessarily heavy I.B.A. charges and too many rules as to the method of operation. I did an interview in the United States. At the end of the programme the interviewer switched to reading the advertisement. In fact, he made it up as he went along. I believe that it will be important to encourage such informality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-26", "file": "debates1971-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "812e1cceb4cb7c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "ELECTIONS (VALIDITY OF NOMINATION PAPERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "tions on the pattern envisaged in the White Paper. It is clear from estimates such as that to which my hon. Friend the Member for Derby, North (Mr. Whitehead) referred that it is possible to set up a commercial radio station, with all the necessary equipment, for £5,000, failing which Pye will supply a caravan in which it will be possible to operate with one man and a dog for much the same figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-26", "file": "debates1971-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "812e1cceb4cb7c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "ELECTIONS (VALIDITY OF NOMINATION PAPERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "We were a Top 40 format station. It takes a whole day to play the top 40 records three times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-26", "file": "debates1971-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "812e1cceb4cb7c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "ELECTIONS (VALIDITY OF NOMINATION PAPERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackenzie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackenzie", "preceding_text": "nd we have not been able to seriously consider them in this debate. No alternatives are available to us because the Minister has been plugging ahead in a defensive way on a local commercial radio tack. We have tried to tell him that he could have commercial radio as well as local radio, but we do not believe that the two can go together. That has also been the message from hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-26", "file": "debates1971-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "812e1cceb4cb7c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "ELECTIONS (VALIDITY OF NOMINATION PAPERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "e nice to have some stations run by the local authorities. This is a waste of precious frequencies.\" But what the Opposition want to do with the frequencies we do not know at the end of the debate. All we know is that we have found the frequencies for an additional broadcasting service. It is additional to all the services available now from the B.B.C.; we are not taking anything away from anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-26", "file": "debates1971-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "812e1cceb4cb7c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "ELECTIONS (VALIDITY OF NOMINATION PAPERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "e do not know at the end of the debate. All we know is that we have found the frequencies for an additional broadcasting service. It is additional to all the services available now from the B.B.C.; we are not taking anything away from anyone. [ Interruption .] Except money, says the right hon. Gentleman, because he is afraid that people will want to listen to what is presented by commercial radio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-26", "file": "debates1971-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "812e1cceb4cb7c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "ELECTIONS (VALIDITY OF NOMINATION PAPERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": " additional to all the services available now from the B.B.C.; we are not taking anything away from anyone. [ Interruption .] Except money, says the right hon. Gentleman, because he is afraid that people will want to listen to what is presented by commercial radio. [ Interruption .] He says that he is not afraid of that. If they do not want to listen, there will be no money taken away from anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-26", "file": "debates1971-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "812e1cceb4cb7c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame !\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "3 is a technical one concerning the identity of the drug Hydrocodone. Since the Bill began its progress through Parliament, \"Hydrocodone\" has become the name approved for this drug by the British Pharmacopoeia Commission. In these circumstances it is unnecessary further to identify the drug by its chemical definition—which I do not attempt to pronounce to the House—in the list of controlled drugs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-26a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-27", "file": "debates1971-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "bb5848fb36459f53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.553.2", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "I was pleased to hear what the hon. Gentleman said about the success of the Engineering Industry Training Board. Perhaps that might be the answer to some of his hon. Friends who are knocking the training boards, which are doing such a magnificent job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.553.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-27", "file": "debates1971-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "bb5848fb36459f53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.556.2", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Minister gave it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "May I have an answer to my request for a copy of the Secretary of State's statements to be placed in the Library?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-27", "file": "debates1971-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "bb5848fb36459f53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.578.5", "colnum": "578", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "While wishing the right hon. Gentleman personally an enjoyable recess, may I ask whether he is aware that many hon. Members on both sides of the House, particularly younger Members with young families, are finding it difficult to plan their arrangements for the following recess?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.578.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-27", "file": "debates1971-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "bb5848fb36459f53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I note what the right hon. Gentleman says. I am grateful, because it helps me to know his feelings on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-27", "file": "debates1971-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "bb5848fb36459f53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I have made it perfectly clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-27", "file": "debates1971-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "bb5848fb36459f53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I have made it perfectly clear—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am sorry; then it is my fault. I will try again. What I have said is that the first thing is that we none of us know when the White Paper can be published. Until one knows that, one cannot conceivably know anything about the timings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.582.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-05-27", "file": "debates1971-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "bb5848fb36459f53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In August?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "Rather than leave the whole decision over until the autumn, may I, most tentatively, suggest a programme for my right hon. Friend? When the White Paper appears, we should have a debate to take note in this House, but no vote. We should then adjourn for four weeks, during which time hon. Members should go to their constituencies and explain to them what it is in aid of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-27", "file": "debates1971-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "bb5848fb36459f53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.585.5", "colnum": "585", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Would the Leader of the House answer four brief questions? First, when will the names of the members of the committee which will inquire into so-called top salaries be announced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.585.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-05-27", "file": "debates1971-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "bb5848fb36459f53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or a General Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " already. He was led to the conclusion that we must have a referendum. I am only suggesting to the Lord President, the spokesman for the Government today, that if there is any attempt to create frustration among back-bench Members of Parliament and a feeling in the country that political leaders are not carrying the people with them, inevitably there will be more and more demands for a referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-05-27a.637.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.833.6", "colnum": "833", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND PARLIAMENT (FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have to inform the House that I have received an invitation from the Speakers of the Senate and of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland to attend the ceremonies later this month in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of that Parliament. I hope that the House will approve my decision to accept and will grant me the necessary leave of absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.833.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "prices over the period amounting to about 8·5 per cent. is the cause of the gravest anxiety and that it is contrary to the undertakings given by our party at the last General Election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.846.2", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend know that South Worcestershire is contiguous to Bromsgrove and that I am feeling excessively uncomfortable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.846.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.846.3", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I am certain that as our policies are seen to come into operation they will then have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.846.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.846.4", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I am certain that as our policies are seen to come into operation they will then have—[ Interruption .]—considerable effects on the cost of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.846.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.855.7", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As to the moderation of price rises, the action which we took over the nationalised industries prevented prices rising as fast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.855.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "EAST PAKISTAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "hout the country, regard this in terms of sheer scale as the worst human tragedy that the world has known since the war, apart from war itself? While certainly not at this stage wishing to approach this matter in anything of a censorious way, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he is aware that there is some feeling in the country that there seems to have been a lack of urgency over this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "EAST PAKISTAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There will be a debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " weeks that have elapsed? The right hon. Gentleman is now talking about waiting, on an important aspect of this, until 17th June. Will he make urgent representations, preferably here and now from the Government Dispatch Box, to the Leader of the House to discuss through the usual channels within a matter of hours whether the House can be given an opportunity to debate this urgent subject tomorrow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "EAST PAKISTAN", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ed because the right hon. Lady the Member for Lanark (Mrs. Hart) had asked me about a request from India. I understand that that is the date on which such a request is likely to be made by India in the consortium which will be meeting then. If between now and then anything extra is sought, we will supply it. I hope that instead of concentrating on criticism of this country, which is not justified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "EAST PAKISTAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "hat when I have deliberately quoted all that Her Majesty's Government are already doing many constituents of all political and religious persuasions have asked whether there could not be more urgency and whether there has not been too much delay. It is the duty of hon. Members to raise this matter here and the Foreign Secretary should welcome the opportunity to reply and not be irritable about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "preceding_text": "ep order impartially and justly. I do not agree with many of the things which have been said by hon. Members representing Northern Ireland constituencies, but it is patently clear that the minority people for whom they speak would not trust such a body on a permanent basis because it would lead to that same domination by the Protestant majority and the fears of oppression of the Catholic minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.987.2", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "machina , that they had started negotiating with the French—as if this were something quite new—it was some surprise to them to know that the naval staff had been engaged in discussion, with the blessing of my right hon. Friend and myself, for some time on this very important issue. The hon. and gallant Gentleman may not know that in this field there have been a substantial number of difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.987.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "system with the Russian Shaddock missile. It is true that Exocet is not a counter to Shaddock and is a horizon range weapon only, but, as hon. Members on both sides of the House recognise, there are other methods of dealing with missiles of the Shaddock type. First, there is the option of attack on the ship which launches the missile. The attack can be delivered by aircraft, whether carrier-borne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.992.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-08", "file": "debates1971-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9caef13533665a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.1009.6", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "MARINE SURVEY FEES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Do not be silly.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "On a point of order——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-08a.1009.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-09", "file": "debates1971-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5577c0355ac54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-09a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "In view of what the hon. Member for South Worcestershire (Sir G. Nabarro) said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-09a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-09", "file": "debates1971-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5577c0355ac54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-09a.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "May I pursue the matter of sterling? Clearly an important change in the rôle of sterling was envisaged. I believe that this can well be very beneficial to this country and, on the whole, may even be more welcome to many of my hon. Friends, whatever their view about the E.E.C., than perhaps to some hon. Members opposite. But what he does, I regret to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-09a.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-09", "file": "debates1971-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5577c0355ac54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-09a.1054.3", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I recognise the right hon. Gentleman's difficulties in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-09a.1054.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-09", "file": "debates1971-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5577c0355ac54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-09a.1054.3", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I recognise the right hon. Gentleman's difficulties in this matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am not being difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-09a.1054.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-09", "file": "debates1971-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5577c0355ac54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-09a.1058.6", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "It would have been rather an insult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-09a.1058.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-09", "file": "debates1971-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5577c0355ac54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-09a.1151.0", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "OVERSEAS AID", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You have done your best.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "ing increasing production, and upon education. These are the questions we should debate in an overseas aid debate. We must not be frightened of breaking a little the conventions of bilateral agreements between both sides of the House on these matters. I am not sure that it would not be healthy for public enthusiasm for aid if we had some rather sharp disagreements such as I have expressed tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-09a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1224.3", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, particularly in areas such as Sheffield and the West Riding, there is considerable apprehension on the part of teachers about the possibility of the raising of the school-leaving age?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1230.3", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the country is extremely grateful to him for the great improvement which he has brought about in Anglo-French relations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1230.6", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "A full statement was issued last night and printed in the Guardian today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1230.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have dealt categorically with all the allegations that have been made about the negotiations with the Coal and Steel Community, and there is nothing more to be said about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1234.0", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, not again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1233.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1234.2", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman appears to be working himself up again, particularly as he never even read the document himself. The fact that S.E.T. is being halved has cut prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1234.4", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let Roy have a go.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Is not the intervention of the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1234.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1251.3", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Thomas)", "preceding_text": "recess. I hope that hon. and right hon. Members from Wales will forgive me for not keeping my word. I thought that, given the choice between waiting for the House to reassemble and having that all-important weekend in which to study the Report, Members would want me to put the document out. I hope that all hon. Members who represent Welsh constituencies received copies of the Report last Saturday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1251.3", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Thomas)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Thomas)", "preceding_text": "oing on in many fields of public activity to improve the environment of Wales and create the conditions in which Wales will be able to seize to the full the opportunities for future development. I will try to avoid the jargon of phrases like \"infrastructure\"—and perhaps even \"environment\" is becoming an overworked word. However, I want to review the things that make up the ambience of our society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not mean it seriously.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": " obviously have to spend more time on Conservative constituency organisation. But I must remind him again: a part-time Secretary of State for Wales is a luxury we cannot afford. It is an insult to our national pride that, of the Ministers in the Cabinet, the Prime Minister believed that the right hon. and learned Gentleman was the one with the most time to spare to organise the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": " state of our economy. It was hard to believe, in listening to the right hon. Gentleman, that we were talking about the same problem. When the Conservative Party took office in Wales they had at least three massive advantages—they inherited a first-class and expanding roads programme, which will carry through the '70s, in direct contradistinction to the programme we inherited in 1964, a programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1270.3", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "I do not see what relevance that has to what I have been saying, but this is one of the facts of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "on. Friend of making. The right hon. Gentleman blamed my right hon. Friend for taking credit for the building of certain new roads which, he said, were planned during the Labour Government's term of office. The right hon. Gentleman will recall that his predecessor at the Welsh Office, in the early days of the Labour Government, similarly claimed credit for roads which had been devised and planned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1326.5", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "preceding_text": "Market was rather sketchy. He did not mention anything except sugar and he forgot to mention the disadvantages there. Clearly there will be many problems for industry as a result of harmonisation. There are 3,000 to 4,000 items of case law in existence in the Community. If Welsh industry has to go into the E.E.C. it will have to become familiar with this case law. We will have a lawyers' paradise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1326.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Edwards", "preceding_text": " avoiding repetition of the frequent debates we have recently had on this subject in the Welsh Grand Committee. Secondly, the source of our inspiration is based upon this document \"Wales: 1970\". If that were the only source it would be a barren prospect, so barren that one is bound to ask what is the purpose of a document of this kind. I am not blaming this Government for its obvious shortcomings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1364.3", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "at other firms with a different \"mix\" of investment as between plant and buildings could be better off. What I am certain of is that it is quite wrong to attribute the present situation in Wales to the change in incentives. The fact is that there has been a decline in the amount of mobile industry, due to falling profits and a general lack of confidence attributable largely to wage-cost inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-10", "file": "debates1971-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0243c9fc3bffff8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1366.1", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "as we are of our singers, actors and instrumentalists. While we read and talk today of 1970, our minds think of the plans that have been made for 1971 and far beyond. This record is something to be looked at. As my right hon and learned Friend looks back at his stewardship over the last 12 months, I hope he will be reassured by the personal successes which he has had in dealing with Welsh affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-10a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-11", "file": "debates1971-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c68ed90c39003168", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-11a.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "his stage, notwithstanding the Departmental Committee's recommendations that the advisory committee should be reconstituted in advance of any other changes, it seems to the Government inexpedient to take any action on these matters before it can be seen what general direction any generally acceptable reform of the 1876 Act would be likely to take. I am afraid that my speech has been somewhat long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-11a.1409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-11", "file": "debates1971-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c68ed90c39003168", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-11a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elystan Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elystan Morgan", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary of State spoke for about 50 minutes, but I am sure nobody would begrude him a minute of that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-11a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will understand that while we are studying the matter it would not be proper for me to comment. However, I am sure that it will be regarded as wholly proper if I congratulate him, on behalf of the whole House, on his recent honour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.6.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame. Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": " the former Government, is unlikely to achieve a state of stability and prosperity without having repeated recourse to Government aid. Only such a state will ensure the confidence in the future that is needed by workpeople, customers and suppliers alike. The Government have decided, therefore, that nobody's interest will be served by making the injection of funds into the company as it now stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.31.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Disgraceful. Bloody disgraceful. You are a disastrous Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The Minister has announced to the House a massive and wholly characteristic betrayal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.33.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ich the Government bear a heavy part of the responsibility by denying payment of the creditors from November to February, without any statement in the House whatsoever? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the House will want an immediate debate and is only grateful for one thing—that he did not venture any expression of sympathy? For had he done so it would have been an act of odious hypocrisy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.33.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "In face of the outrage that has been announced by the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ain, I stress at the outset that if there is a medical need in the primary schools children will receive free milk whatever their parents' income. We believe that this was the right way to tackle special needs which may arise concerning individual children. For those parents on social security payments the withdrawal of free milk occurs within a short time of increases in social security benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " the total public expenditure for which central Government have responsibility. The second point is that when rates go up in any area, from whatever cause, local authorities tend to ask for more rate support grant and to blame the Government if more is not forthcoming. The Government, therefore, would indirectly have to provide more central moneys to counter the rise in rates, from whatever cause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the misleading answer which the right hon. Lady gave to my first point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": " would be stretching matters too far if I were to attempt to examine these questions further under the heading of this Bill, but I was anxious to make this contribution because it would be quite wrong for this small Bill to be regarded as being aside from the whole question of the financing of the social services in future. I do not think that this Bill represents the final solution to the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.84.4", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "I can understand the sensitivity of the hon. Gentleman who has just intervened, but he has only to look back through HANSARD over the last 12 months to see that this has been a sort of pattern of events when these great social issues have been raised. During the last four years of Labour Government expenditure on education actually decreased", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.84.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.84.4", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "not be laid at my door that I know nothing about the educational matters. The right hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central and many other Labour Members—though I do not label them all with this fault—have a soup kitchen mentality. Everybody has got to have the same, no matter what the income. We have to pile up public money to help everybody whether rich or poor. Our philosophy is different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.84.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "It is in my own writing. Our philosophy for many years has been to help those in greatest need. We think that it is ridiculous that people earning between £3,000 and £5,000 a year should be in receipt of subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "tories and elsewhere, are well capable by themselves, without Government support or guidance, of looking after the nutritional requirements of their children. Indeed, it would be impertinent for the Government to intervene on the nutritional requirements of those children. Personally, I love milk. I consume alcohol hardly at all, but two pints of milk per day has been my habit for many years past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.106.6", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "from Bolsover, Derbyshire, North and Derbyshire, North-East to Derbyshire, South-East. This is not a Derbyshire debate, but Derbyshire seems to have been prominently associated with this controversy. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central (Mr. Edward Short), opening for the Opposition, purported to quote my hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire, South-East (Mr. Rost).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.106.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not in the Bill.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ed out carefully what would be the effect of removing free milk in primary schools on a family with two children getting milk free at the present time. The extra charge would be of the order of 16½p per week, or 3s. 6d. in old currency. If there were three children in the family the extra cost would be 25p a week, or 5s. If the parents cannot afford it, there will be provision to help them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.108.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.109.6", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In the Bill?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I wonder where the hon. Lady has been in the last few months. I wonder whether she has read the legislative provisions of my party. We have brought in family supplementation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.109.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.109.7", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Not in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.109.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am glad to see my hon. Friend nodding assent. There are ample provisions for the family that cannot afford to pay an economic price for welfare milk in schools to be helped by State provisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will have heard that apposite inquiry, and no doubt will deal with it later if any further correction or emendation is required. In deference to your views, Mr. Speaker, and as I have been speaking for more than 50 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.114.6", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman appreciated that few of his hon. Friends wished to offer any defence of the Bill. By taking up more than 50 minutes of our time he has shielded those of his hon. Friends who are much more deeply embarrassed by the provisions of the Bill than they would care to admit in open debate. The Bill is regarded as extremely serious.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.114.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Government are not interested.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Brown", "preceding_text": "h the Government have completely lost by their dishonest dealings with the people. Let them agree that the nutrition survey should take place on Tyneside, on Clyde-side and in the valleys of South Wales. If it is to mean anything, that is clearly where the survey should take place. The Newcastle Journal of 2nd June, under the headline Tories rebel over school milk—angry councillors warn Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "Oh, then the right hon. Lady cannot be forgiven. I was going to forgive her, but now she cannot be forgiven. Those of us who have taught know, as I know, that young children—and it is true of older children also, come to that—will eat in school what they will not eat at home, and that they will drink milk when in a community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Lady is being rather rude.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": " a community. [ Laughter .] Do not let hon. Members laugh about this, because it is a very important point. Everybody concerned with the nutrition and diet of children knows this to be a fact. Most parents know it to be a fact. If the right hon. Lady has taught in school she should have known that this provision is worth preserving. Nothing she has said indicates that she has any experience of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about surtax?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " with interest to the speech of the hon. Lady the Member for Eton and Slough (Miss Lestor). It is interesting that whenever we come forward with a plan of any sort involving cuts in public expenditure or a reduction in services, the Opposition say that it is wrong or outrageous. On the other hand, whenever we ask for suggestions as to where the money is to come from, they are reluctant to tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get back to your brief.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "teresting that whenever we come forward with a plan of any sort involving cuts in public expenditure or a reduction in services, the Opposition say that it is wrong or outrageous. On the other hand, whenever we ask for suggestions as to where the money is to come from, they are reluctant to tell us—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What about surtax?\"]—I will deal specifically with the tax question a little later.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "d the Member for Canterbury (Mr. Crouch) mentioned one of his constituents who had experienced difficulty in a child taking drinks to school and packed lunches. I was surprised to hear this, but if he would send details of the case to my right hon. Friend, I am sure she will be only too glad to look at it. My hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro) referred to two points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "It is not an impossible task. We have asked for this to be done. As the hon. Gentleman himself suggested, it should be done. We have asked for a full survey of the effects of the withdrawal of milk. This we are doing. Once the evidence comes forward, of course we will consider it very carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-14", "file": "debates1971-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "708b495963aa5ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ucation but throughout the social services, we have been arranging for help to be given to those in need. For example, supplementary benefits will go up on 20th September; unemployment benefit is to go up, sickness benefit is to go up, widows' pensions are to go up, and allowances are going up. For those on very limited incomes, the family income supplement is being provided to help the very poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-14a.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Without wishing to follow the hon. Member for Banbury (Mr. Marten) on this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.211.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.230.4", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEW ZEALAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman is not going to visit Bolsolver, or Bromsgrove, or Macclesfield, or New Zealand, where is he going? Does he recollect that when Mr. Ian Smith rebelled against the Crown some of his right hon. Friends and hon. Friends talked about the Rhodesians as our kith and kin, a phrase which is much more accurate when used about the New Zealanders than it ever was in relation to the Rhodesians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.230.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": "s communicated by a member of the Shipbuilding Industry Board who sits on the board of U.C.S., informing the board—the board informed the Government—that the prospects of this company were again so questionable that it must be a matter for concern as to whether the Government were within their rights to continue to maintain shipbuilding credit guarantees to new shipowners who were wishing to pass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "No. That is not so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Government time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "Although the debate is on the Motion for the Adjournment, my right hon. Friends and I regard it as a Motion of censure on the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.242.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.242.2", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And on you, too.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "Although the debate is on the Motion for the Adjournment, my right hon. Friends and I regard it as a Motion of censure on the Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"In Government time?\"]—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "at he had, at best, little confidence in the capacity of U.C.S. to survive. When he says that the figures changed from day to day—and that is a very real problem for a Minister—he knows very well that figures change as confidence changes. When it is thought that the Government will allow a company to go bankrupt people demand their money, and that is why the figures alter from one week to another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The point about going to Clydeside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "e shipbuilding industry is not very good. The responsibility for the management should be decided in the yard, and I must say I find it hard to understand why the Government should deny £5 million to keep 27,000 Scottish shipbuilding and engineering workers going, when they are preparing to pay hundreds of millions of £s to keep the French farmers going under the Common Market agricultural policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.253.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.254.2", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "—and as a result allow British steel workers to become redundant so that they can be recruited for the German steel yards. I come to what the right hon. Gentleman said yesterday about the \"odious hypocrisy\" of which I am guilty. I want to read what the right hon. Gentleman said yesterday. He said: I really think that the odious hypocrisy comes from the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.254.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Did the right hon. Gentleman check the quotation personally?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.254.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.255.2", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I checked the quotation and the words were used on 2nd December, not about Upper Clyde Shipbuilders but about the Beagle Aircraft Company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.255.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.255.4", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.255.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.255.7", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.255.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman has made his point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I always believe that when I see the right hon. Gentleman I should say, \"Get thee behind me, Satan.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "e had to proceed through the S.I.B. and its representative on the Board. I do not accept in any sense that it is a censure on Mr. Mackenzie or upon my right hon. Friend that the communication between them is as it has been. That it is unsatisfactory must now be evident to the entire House. But I believe that they were both operating within the framework which this House decided in its legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.307.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "To them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "stified in the circumstances in which you find yourselves. I hope that the Leader of the Opposition will take his impetuous right hon. Friend on one side and have a chat with him. When he says that they should regard it as their yard, I should have thought that the right hon. Gentleman, above anyone, would have known that 49 per cent. of it belongs, through Her Majesty's Government, to the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "preceding_text": "coming a lame duck under the Tories. Perhaps £6 million is a lot of money, but it is only a drop in the bucket compared with the £750 million wasted on that empty social lunatic project called the Concorde, which will never pay, even if it is adopted by the world's airlines, which, if it is, will only be a curse to the human race. In any event, all the work on that project was provided in England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "enn) gave the coup de grace with the truth about that quotation that I began to realise just why the right hon. Gentleman was under a strain. I am convinced that he knew that the quotation he used yesterday was wrong, but he decided not to get up and make the kind of statement that he should have made and apologise to the House. The hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) is quite right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "w now. These men have been through it all before. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Hill-head (Mr. Galbraith), who was a Minister at the Scottish Office, spoke today rather scathingly about this whole issue of giving assistance. He said, in effect, \"It is not fair or sensible to sign blank cheques.\" They were interesting remarks and he was the only Scottish Tory hon. Member to contribute to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "swers for it. He knew that the unemployment situation would be made worse by this decision. Then the position was that the Government could not or would not because of their political outlook and because of all that had been said about lame ducks prop up industries. The \"lame duck\" speech was one of the most expensive speeches from the point of view of Britain's reputation that has ever been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ment situation would be made worse by this decision. Then the position was that the Government could not or would not because of their political outlook and because of all that had been said about lame ducks prop up industries. The \"lame duck\" speech was one of the most expensive speeches from the point of view of Britain's reputation that has ever been made. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Ask Rolls-Royce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A good job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "at they have done. If the Secretary of State for Scotland listened to these discussions in Cabinet and did not oppose this, he is not fit to be Secretary of State for Scotland. Feelings in Scotland are pretty high. The Secretary of State for Scotland said in the Scottish Grand Committee this morning that he had not had time to read the Scottish papers. It is a great pity that he has not read them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "ation then. This was no secret to the shipbuilders or the Press. U.C.S. had been in existence for only a year and a half, and it estimated that it could reach early viability provided that it was helped during the first two years. It was reasonable that the Government should have given it a chance. I now come to what the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) was saying at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.351.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.353.6", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.353.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "ears ago. In criticising my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, the right hon. Gentleman referred to social and regional policies. Did he have social considerations and regional policies in mind in Glasgow in June when he said that this was the final offer? He was having to face then a somewhat similar situation, but in the early days, when there was hope of viability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "When the former Minister of Technology made statements to the House, he underlined the importance of discretion in these matters and we cooperated with him, but his own style of operating in this instance with the maximum of personal publicity does little to help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are worse than Davies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "When the former Minister of Technology made statements to the House, he underlined the importance of discretion in these matters and we cooperated with him, but his own style of operating in this instance with the maximum of personal publicity does little to help. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the debate.\"] It has been suggested that U.C.S. had made progress in productivity during the past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a farce!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "aving the management, their colleagues in other trades, and their union officials to pick up the pieces. That was only last October. Therefore, it is misleading to speak about a completely changed situation during the past year. The right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East even raised the question of using the I.R.C., as if the Government were in some way to blame because it is not now available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.356.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.359.7", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.359.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-15", "file": "debates1971-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5e2fb9315ddbfaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "IMMIGRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crowder", "preceding_text": "I ask my right hon. Friend: what is harmful in people who are skilled in putting a case in its best possible light assisting him and his Department in this matter? Why deny it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-15a.395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-16", "file": "debates1971-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "8f99670fc7708612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-16a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "What he was admitting in that exchange of correspondence is that he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-16a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-16", "file": "debates1971-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "8f99670fc7708612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-16a.586.0", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "oining the Community means the free movement of labour. It means that people living in other countries of the Community will be able to come here free of restriction to seek work. At present, under the legislation of the Labour Government, there is a restriction on Commonwealth entrants. Thus, one cannot reconcile the position of the Community with the legislation enacted by the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-16a.586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-16", "file": "debates1971-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "8f99670fc7708612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-16a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "tempting to assimilate these two conditions will be destroyed and we shall have to come back to the question of citizenship. It may be that as a matter of machinery he will not need to come before us with a new Bill, but it is clear he will have to come before us with new regulations and rules, which will be subject to negative procedure and we shall have to accept them holus bolus or reject them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-16a.593.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-17", "file": "debates1971-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "3ba2ae69bb532aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.611.6", "colnum": "611", "heading": "DEATH OF A MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I regret to have to inform the House of the death of James Eugene MacColl, Esquire, Member for Widnes and I desire, on behalf of the House to express our sense of the loss we have sustained and our sympathy with the relatives of the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.611.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-17", "file": "debates1971-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "3ba2ae69bb532aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister made it perfectly clear, following his discussions with President Pompidou, that there had been no Anglo-French nuclear arrangements discussed as part of our negotiations for entry into E.E.C. or, indeed, in any other context. However, I believe it would be wrong to rule out the possibility of some collaboration some day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-17", "file": "debates1971-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "3ba2ae69bb532aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman aware that what he just said about the proposed arrangements will be welcomed, certainly by many of my right hon. and hon. Friends on this side of the House, and, I believe, by many right hon. and hon. Gentlemen on the other side? Even if we may for a moment feel that it is a pity the Prime Minister did not respond a fortnight ago and so avoid anxiety, we welcome the announcement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-17", "file": "debates1971-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "3ba2ae69bb532aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles (Mr. David Steel) that, as my hon. Friend undertook in Committee, his proposed modification has been carefully looked into. I am glad to be able to advise the House to accept the insertion of the word \"knowingly\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-17", "file": "debates1971-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "3ba2ae69bb532aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "may feel that merely to assert \"My watch was five minutes slow. I am therefore not guilty of remaining beyond the required time\" would not and should not be a good defence. One can visualise all sorts of excuses that could be advanced, without the need to consider extreme cases. But what if the seaman was unconscious because he had just had his appendix removed and was under deep narcosis therapy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-17", "file": "debates1971-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "3ba2ae69bb532aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": " still to come. They will understand the opprobrious deportation laws that the Bill involves. They will understand the impact of deportation of families. They will be the relatives of those who will be subject to the humiliating probationary terms which the Bill imposes. Most of all, they will all feel the effect of registration with the police and the sort of pass law system which will be set up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-17", "file": "debates1971-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "3ba2ae69bb532aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "te conditions upon which citizens are admitted on a working basis for permanent settlement. This is the extent of the change being made, and, as my hon. Friends have pointed out, it is in accordance with undertakings which we gave at the General Election. I still feel somehow, despite a certain scepticism on the other side, that there is a certain merit in carrying out one's election undertakings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-17", "file": "debates1971-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "3ba2ae69bb532aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "f immigration on a scale, at a speed, and in a concentration which inevitably brought with it difficulties and social problems and social tensions such as we recognise in this House and are recognised in the country. This Bill has been criticised in many ways inside and outside the House—criticised often, abused often—and I have seldom known a Bill which has been criticised on such flimsy grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-17", "file": "debates1971-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "3ba2ae69bb532aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I am sure that a Member of this House would not be deported, though I sometimes think that a few of them might be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-17", "file": "debates1971-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "3ba2ae69bb532aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " some people who are genuinely devoted to the cause of community relations should be saying things about this Bill which are totally untrue, the saying of which by them is calculated to do great harm to community relations. Consider the question of harassment. It has been said time and again that the immigrants already here will be subject to a new harassment by the police as a result of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.769.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-17", "file": "debates1971-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "3ba2ae69bb532aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.836.0", "colnum": "836", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Paul Dean)", "preceding_text": "g chronic sickness and disability. The contributions from hon. Members on both sides will be of real value to us in planning our future policy. I reiterate, as I have been asked to do, that we regard this step in disability legislation as no more than a first step, and it will be followed by further measures. I take this opportunity to pay tribute to the staff of our local social security offices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-17a.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-18", "file": "debates1971-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7e3421ae5f505d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "COURTS OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "That category exists, and it is alarming that it should exist to such a degree. I am sorry to say that one has an uneasy feeling that some courts tend to use denial of bail for the purpose, so to speak, of teaching a lesson before the trial has taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.874.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-18", "file": "debates1971-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7e3421ae5f505d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.946.6", "colnum": "946", "heading": "MINEWORKERS' PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for consideration ( not amended in the Standing Committee ), read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.946.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-18", "file": "debates1971-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7e3421ae5f505d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.946.10", "colnum": "946", "heading": "CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1876 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for consideration ( not amended in the Standing Committee ), read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.946.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-18", "file": "debates1971-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7e3421ae5f505d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.946.15", "colnum": "946", "heading": "TOBACCO (HEALTH HAZARDS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 23rd April ], on Consideration of the Bill, as amended ( in the Standing Committee ).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.946.14"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-18", "file": "debates1971-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7e3421ae5f505d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.946.19", "colnum": "946", "heading": "SALE OF GOODS (FRAUDULENT OR MISLEADING GUARANTEES OR WARRANTIES) BELL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.946.18"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-18", "file": "debates1971-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7e3421ae5f505d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "PROTECTION FROM EVICTION (COUNCIL TENANTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.947.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-18", "file": "debates1971-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7e3421ae5f505d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.947.6", "colnum": "947", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.947.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-18", "file": "debates1971-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7e3421ae5f505d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.947.10", "colnum": "947", "heading": "ELECTIONS (VALIDITY OF NOMINATION PAPERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.947.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-18", "file": "debates1971-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7e3421ae5f505d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.947.14", "colnum": "947", "heading": "COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.947.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-18", "file": "debates1971-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7e3421ae5f505d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.947.18", "colnum": "947", "heading": "HISTORIC CHURCHES PRESERVATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.947.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-18", "file": "debates1971-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7e3421ae5f505d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.947.22", "colnum": "947", "heading": "TRANSPORT (LONDON) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-18a.947.21"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.968.3", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": " Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary a few minutes earlier, when he categorically stated that we would maintain the six-mile limit? Had it been my good fortune to catch the eye of the Chair, I would have asked whether that was merely for the transitional period or for perpetuity, because this matter is of great importance to the inshore fishing community. To revert to the question under discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.968.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "ssion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long!\"]—it has been said that if they enter the E.E.C. the Norwegians are prepared to surrender those rights they are now demanding for themselves on maintaining the 12-mile limit and that they will go back upon the pledge they have already made that they will ban trawling within that 12-mile limit. If that is so, is not the offer being made to the British deep-sea fleet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.968.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am trying to be, but I am being interrupted by hon. Members opposite. These points are of interest to those of us who represent fishing constituencies, and they need further enlargement than we have had from the Government. The point I was trying to make was this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.993.4", "colnum": "993", "heading": "MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES (ADMISSION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": " that the Minister responsible for the arts would go out of his way, as he did in another place on 16th December, to press himself eagerly forward as the one person responsible for this imposition. Viscount Eccles has somehow acquired a reputation as a connoisseur of the arts when, in fact, he is merely, as most of us know, who know something about him, a commercial collector and part-time dealer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.993.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.993.4", "colnum": "993", "heading": "MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES (ADMISSION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "]—\"cheap\" is an appropriate adjective for the noble Viscount. If hon. Members wish to dispute this, perhaps they will refer to a better authority than myself—Denys Sutton in the April issue of Apollo . He is better known. I suggest that Apollo as bedtime reading would do hon. Members a world of good. Viscount Eccles is better known to his colleagues inside and outside the House as \"Smartie Boots\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.993.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES (ADMISSION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We thought there would be a twist in it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Gentleman in his maiden speech from the Opposition Front Bench, and I am only sorry that his translation has not altered his performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES (ADMISSION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Gentleman in his maiden speech from the Opposition Front Bench, and I am only sorry that his translation has not altered his performance. [An HON. MEMBER: \"We thought there would be a twist in it.\"] We are all entitled to make our own points. Is not the important point being made by the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES (ADMISSION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "al ploys of what will be a very short-lived Government. Many hon. Members on both sides of the House interpret the trustees' rôle as one of prime responsibility to their institutions and to the public use of them, and their duty to be to resist the political pressures of any and every Government, whether the Minister for the Arts is Lord Eccles or the hon. Member for Smethwick (Mr. Faulds)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES (ADMISSION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "arges.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, House of Lords , 16th December, 1970; Vol. 313, c. 1393–4.] What do we find in his White Paper? Children under 16 have to pay. It is true that they will pay only 5p, but to a host of children who now wander round in wonder and delight that 5p will debar them. It must be remembered that the inquisitive child of today is the Henry Moore or the Roy Strong of tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES (ADMISSION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "ke prior arrangements will deprive them of the sudden decision to get up and go. Some hon. Members on this side of the House can remember being students. Perhaps the elderly hon. Gentlemen slumped on the benches opposite cannot. No wonder every educational body is deeply opposed to the charges. Then there is the exclusion of old-age pensioners from the free categories. What a disgraceful decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES (ADMISSION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": " can remember being students. Perhaps the elderly hon. Gentlemen slumped on the benches opposite cannot. No wonder every educational body is deeply opposed to the charges. Then there is the exclusion of old-age pensioners from the free categories. What a disgraceful decision. [HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"] It is even more disgraceful that we do not hear a few \"hear, hears\" from the benches opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES (ADMISSION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Political grocers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "he Government have not an atom of understanding of the point. Her reason for rejecting the suggestion was the slide-rule analysis and the impossibility of implementing it. That is what Paul Jennings meant when he referred to … mealy minds, whose souls of dust and ash Chafe for the chance of turning art to cash. That is precisely what the right hon. Lady and the Conservative Party are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-21", "file": "debates1971-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3d7e2f9b0513a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "he reactions of former members of the Board to some of the blanket charges, expressed in very strong terms, against them. I should like, without adding heat to the debate, to express agreement with my hon. Friend. There is something very unfair about people who do not deserve it being condemned and not having any opportunity of answering the condemnation when it is gratuitously bestowed upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-21a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1199.6", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "preceding_text": " Measure. It is admired not only here but in many other countries. So we must consider whether it is right for the industry and the consumer to change this system. When I was chairman of the Ministerial Committee of O.E.C.D., I met other Ministers in Europe and I remember how often they expressed their admiration for the present British system, which is now waiting to be butchered by the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1199.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1207.8", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I believe that the main argument I put forward is valid, that the Prime Minister made speeches about reducing prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1207.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1207.8", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I believe that the main argument I put forward is valid, that the Prime Minister made speeches about reducing prices—[ Interruption .] The record is there. Everyone in the country believes it. I am saying that the right hon. Gentleman believes in high prices to consumers. Not only that, but the Government have also destroyed bodies which affect the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1207.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. James Prior)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. James Prior)", "preceding_text": "ere are two major causes: cost inflation and rising world prices. I shall deal with these two points, but before doing so I turn to the right hon. Gentleman's remarks about \"at a stroke\" and my remarks in 1966 about food prices. As the right hon. Gentleman knows only too well, when he talks about \"reducing prices at a stroke\", this is a complete misrepresentation of what my right hon. Friend said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "—was that we would reduce the rise in prices. The record of pledges that we have fulfilled in our first year of office is an outstanding one. Hon. Members should know that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister keeps his word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "much more worried about that than they are about anything else. The Opposition display it. They are a little nervous. We are told by right hon. and hon. Members opposite that it was this statement that won us the election. This statement was issued on 16th June. From all the noise this afternoon and over the past few months it might be thought that it would have made banner headlines on 17th June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "the Sketch , the Daily Express , the Guardian , and the Daily Mirror —there was no reference whatsoever to this statement. The Telegraph mentioned it but did not put in anything about strokes. The Yorkshire Post used Reduce the rise in prices\". The Glasgow Herald made no reference to it. This statement has been misrepresented, taken out of context, and taken out of time. It is a typical statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1214.3", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "ol the level of wage settlements. While, as I pointed out, we have no control over world commodity prices, we can hope before long that the situation will have eased. These factors, together with the reduction in S.E.T. and the other tax changes, the pressure on nationalised industries to restrain price increases and so on, all point to a period when the rate of increase in prices will be reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "as a result will be very small; and, third, that such effects will be felt only gradually over a period of time. What would hon. Gentlemen opposite have done had they been in office? The right hon. Gentleman said that he would have kept the Consumer Council and the Prices and Incomes Board, but despite the existence of the P.I.B. a number of food prices under Labour rose very significantly indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "n, they have no grounds for thinking that. Furthermore, if one looks at the newspapers, one sees virtually every day many signs of vigilance on the part of the Press in picking out any firm or action which leads to a rise in prices. This is far more effective than the old P.I.B. It is this sort of pressure which operates in a free society, and it is far more effective than anything the P.I.B. did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I have dealt at some length with the question of food prices because this is obviously a very important issue. Food has to come from the land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": " and I have good grounds for thinking, as I have gone round the country, that it is working better today that at any time since the war. It is a very different position from the one I found on taking office. This time last year I found an industry bereft of confidence, seething with discontent, bordering on despair and with no hope in the future, and hon. Member on both sides know that to be true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": " shaking his head. We had to sit through wearing debates discussing Socialist policies which we know in the long run would force up the price of food. The Labour Party must bear the blame. I tremble to think what would have been the effect on food prices if a Socialist Government had regained power. It would not be about 10 per cent., but would far more likely amount to an increase of 20 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1243.3", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "ement should, for its unequalled degree of cynicism, qualify for inclusion in the Guinness Book of Records. Having led the public into believing that the Conservatives would control and stabilise prices at a stroke, they have been responsible for the biggest-ever increase in prices. I have a further charge to level against hon. Gentlemen opposite. They have deliberately set out to increase prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1243.3", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "ing British housewives to read the Prime Minister's statement of 18th June, 1970, in conjunction with his own statement of 29th July, 1966. We know the Minister to be an old opponent of the cheap food policy. He is a declared antagonist of lower prices. His speech today was not persuasive, whereas the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mr. Peart) was powerful and persuasive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "iew that statement is neither more nor less than rubbish. For my part, I regard it as a very important statement about the feelings of the industry on this matter. The debate began with an assessment of the value of the 1947 Act over the years. By common consent the right hon. Gentleman's policy is a major departure from the principles of that Act. Indeed, he made claim that his principal purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": " reduce taxation. He leaped to his feet and as quick as lightning, said, \"Take agriculture and food\". He got no further because he was howled down. That was long before the right hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Godber) made any announcement of future Tory policy on agriculture. The words of the present Prime Minister show that what the then Opposition were looking for was to save money and taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1289.1", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Mr. Mudd) will forgive me if I do not comment on his remarks. The comments by the hon. Member for Torrington (Mr. Peter Mills) on the tractor industry in particular were most inappropriate and a little irresponsible at a very time when that industry, both at home and overseas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": "r system we have controlled production and prices and increased efficiency where their system has failed. However, we are not debating the Common Market tonight and my final word on this issue is to tell the Minister that a bad mistake has been made in abandoning a successful policy in advance of the negotiations on agriculture with the E.E.C. The Minister came to a good inheritance 12 months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I agree there has been a decrease. I readily admit that mutton and lamb production was a problem during my period at the Ministry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "tton and lamb, but this did not seem to have the desired effect at the time. The results may be working through now. These pages are worth studying because they show that expansion was going on. I agree that growth in agriculture does not progress uniformly year by year. There are hazards, like the weather and disease. My right hon. Friend the Member for Workington had the foot-and-mouth epidemic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which waters? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "ions being able to fish inside the six-mile limit. I met the deep-sea fishing interests in Scotland a week ago. We understand that we must balance the question of the limits, the interests of our inshore fishing industry and any advantage which the deep-sea industry may get in the waters of other members of the E.E.C. I certainly take the point made by the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1971–72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "eans that we are less dependent on food from abroad and that we are not quite so much the victims of price rises overseas. In today's debate, right hon. and hon. Gentlemen have set themselves up as the champions of the consumer. What has been interesting is the way in which, after one or two references from the benches opposite about something to do with \"strokes\", my right hon. Friend exposed it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "INVESTMENT AND BUILDING GRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "t his seat will be forfeited as an expression of lack of confidence in the North-East. I wish the hon. Gentleman no personal harm. However, the Government should recognise the consequences of not accepting the Amendment. People in the North-East believe that they are subject to severe political prejudice. I heard today, in answer to a Question, that the value-added tax office is to go to Southend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1369.3", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "INVESTMENT AND BUILDING GRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I will not detain the House long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1369.3", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "INVESTMENT AND BUILDING GRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I will not detain the House long. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—I am glad to have the acclaim of hon. Members opposite. I hope that I shall have a similar reception when I sit down.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "INVESTMENT AND BUILDING GRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "that this is not a significant proportion, but added to that a further five firms said they had cancelled projects because of uncertainty generated by the change and by the lack of decision by the Government about the future of regional policy. This adds up to a substantial total of 17 per cent. of firms who said they were cancelling projects because of the kind of measure we are debating tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-22", "file": "debates1971-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b56aaf3386df839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "INVESTMENT AND BUILDING GRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " firms who said they were cancelling projects because of the kind of measure we are debating tonight. [ Interruption .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite are buzzing among themselves. That is just about the busiest thing they will do; they are talking up their sleeves. The fact remains that a significant proportion of firms which have cancelled projects have done so as a result of current Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-22a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1401.0", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Guard Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman need not be in doubt much longer. A statement will be made tomorrow. He will appreciate that this is a matter which is the concern of the Home Department as well as of our own, and, indeed, the incident which gave rise to current concern occurred in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1404.2", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Economic Surveys (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I do not myself know anything of a survey of the kind described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1429.3", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "in another place his Department has been refusing to give answers on what is involved in the increase in price which the Gas Council has agreed to pay, and when the Government have refused to intervene on, or even to survey, an increase in price which has taken place in that area—as I say, perhaps involving millions and millions of pounds over the years? Does he not think that it is all the worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1429.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You cannot hide behind that.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "preceding_text": " which is that I seek to limit these statements to those occasions when I believe that they are rightly and necessarily required by the House. My judgment may be wrong. I am responsible for my own judgment, and I am very ready to stand up and face criticism on it. I told my hon. Friend the Minister for Industry to put the responsibility on me, because it was my decision not to have this statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1434.3", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "You have made a pronouncement to the House, Mr. Speaker. I would point out that you are the servant of the House in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "e of a licence. I expressed my surprise. I should have thought that I spoke for all in saying that they have no right to take it for granted that they will be able to get licences. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will support us in a provision to ensure that there is no proliferation of licences following this deal. 7.0 p.m. We are dealing with a situation which has been settled for about 60 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "with a Bill which will come after the next election. It might have been better if the hon. Gentleman had confined himself to the Bill, but to be relevant might have destroyed his argument and robbed him of the opportunity of making a speech. I visited Carlisle with some of my hon. Friends. I do not know how many public houses I went into within about three hours. The only other day, Mr. President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ase I have heard today was that used by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Kinsey), who said that the Minister's proposals were fair, just and above suspicion. There are no proposals in the Bill. There is nothing in the Bill which one could call a proposal. There is only a power given to the Government, and how they carry it out I do not know. I would like to think they would be fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1523.0", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Lewis", "preceding_text": "I support the Clause which has been so ably moved by my right hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross). Up to now, we have not been able to extract one concession from the Government which will be of any benefit to employees. The Clause provides the Government with an opportunity to prove that they mean business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1535.13", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "erjection by my right hon. Friend, the right hon. Gentleman gave an undertaking. He said: I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that it is our intention to obtain an independent valuation to assist us in this operation.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 20th April, 1971; Vol 815, c. 969, 972, 1073.] If that intervention had not been made by my right hon. Friend that commitment might never have been entered into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1535.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1542.5", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ill be, and what we shall be having sold there, the article says Watney's Red is less bitter and sweeter than Red Barrel. It is a darker colour which leads some people to assume wrongly that it is stronger-bodied and more alcoholic; it has a creamier froth which laces the side of the glass as the beer is drunk. This is the effect of the legislation that the Government are now spending two days on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1542.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1543.4", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Mr. Carlisle rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1543.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-23", "file": "debates1971-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b189ca6e4d6cc068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1548.3", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary charged me with coming into these proceedings at a late stage. I remind him that I attended a number of Committee meetings to acquaint myself with the progress of the Bill. I further remind him that I have been in the Chamber almost all day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-23a.1548.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1580.7", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "What hon. Members and the public outside have said is that there should be stricter control of the people in charge of them. We pay tribute to the way in which the police look after their guard dogs, but there are some organisations and persons who should not be in charge of any dog, let alone a guard dog. Would the right hon. Gentleman consider some system of special licence so that these people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1580.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1585.2", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that when his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy emerged from the tough talks and was described as tired and bleary-eyed but also as saying that he had broken the back of the negotiations, many people felt that he might have broken the back of the British Commonwealth of Nations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1587.5", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend did not say that promises should not be kept—exactly the reverse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1587.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1587.6", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that on the day he made that speech, 16th June, 1970, we were told Heath puts his shirt on the housewives but that the very housewives on whom he put his shirt have seen through his mendacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1587.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1587.6", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that on the day he made that speech, 16th June, 1970, we were told Heath puts his shirt on the housewives but that the very housewives on whom he put his shirt have seen through his mendacity—[ Interruption .]—on that occasion, as is evidenced by the local elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1587.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1587.6", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": "Minister aware that on the day he made that speech, 16th June, 1970, we were told Heath puts his shirt on the housewives but that the very housewives on whom he put his shirt have seen through his mendacity—[ Interruption .]—on that occasion, as is evidenced by the local elections— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and all the by-elections that have taken place? Is the right hon. Gentleman also aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1587.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman explain how \"at a stroke\" he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1588.12", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that some of us, like Mrs. Dale, are getting a little worried about Jim, and we all remember what happened to him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1588.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1588.13", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a Jim. He has every right to be worried about him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1588.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "Not really, Mr. Speaker. I gather that the Prime Minister did not hear my supplementary question. May I take the liberty of repeating it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1589.6", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants prices to go on rising, he had better say so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1589.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1589.7", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "hes to dispute what he said at the General Election, would he care to tell the Scottish people what he said on that occasion about unemployment? Is he aware that it has been announced today that the unemployment figures for Scotland have increased yet again—and this in summertime, which makes the position scandalous and disgraceful? Will he do the honourable thing and resign and go to the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1589.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1590.1", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend help us further on the question of the election date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1590.1", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "lp us further on the question of the election date—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—and tell us how he reconciles the statement in the memoirs of the Leader of the Opposition—incidentally I trust that he has not been abducted—that the election date was fixed in 1966 with the statement of his never-to-be-forgotten though never-to-be-seen colleague the right hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1590.2", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Cross-man) revealed what we had known all along, that the decision to have the General Election was taken at the moment when hon. Gentlemen opposite thought that wages increases were highest but had not worked through to price increases. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have been so annoyed because they failed in that manoeuvre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1590.2", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "lemen opposite thought that wages increases were highest but had not worked through to price increases. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have been so annoyed because they failed in that manoeuvre. [ Interruption .] As the Leader of the Opposition himself recently revealed, it enabled him on the night of Friday the 19th to sit down and work out the chapter headings for his memoirs, and then to fill them in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1590.3", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman realise that there are over one quarter of a million unemployed people who are not interested in his smug repartee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1590.3", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman realise that there are over one quarter of a million unemployed people who are not interested in his smug repartee? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] When he said on 16th June that unemployment would be \"cut at a stroke\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1591.2", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Davidson", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister consider it time for the Government to issue a revised list of promises —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1591.7", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Government will pursue the policies we set out at the General Election. The fact that we have done so in foreign affairs, without the reform of industrial relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1591.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1592.0", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The country wants to see the policies which we are operating carried through to fruition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1592.2", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What we said was that we would cut S.E.T.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1592.2", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What we said was that we would cut S.E.T.—[ Interruption .] I am glad to have confirmation that the party opposite does not want S.E.T. cut and that they do not want the nationalised industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1592.7", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I could not hear you call me, Mr. Speaker. I am grateful to you for calling me on this point of order. It will be within the hearing of the House that the hon. Member for Hackney, Central (Mr. Clinton Davis) accused the Prime Minister of mendacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1592.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1592.7", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I could not hear you call me, Mr. Speaker. I am grateful to you for calling me on this point of order. It will be within the hearing of the House that the hon. Member for Hackney, Central (Mr. Clinton Davis) accused the Prime Minister of mendacity. [ Interruption .] As this is merely a pompous, legalistic latinism for lying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1592.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1599.2", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1616.1", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ainly it helps—to have some guarantee on cheese, albeit that it is phasing out. At the time when the review takes place in 1975, the quantities would be 88 per cent. of butter and 60 per cent. of cheese. These will decrease, but the position of butter will clearly need to be considered again in 1975 in terms of the quantity that will be required. But there is no guarantee of a particular quantity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1622.2", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that most of those who genuinely wanted the negotiations to succeed will regard the outcome as satisfactory and acceptable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1622.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "the terms that he has brought back are an absolute disaster, and that the love-in that we have seen in the House this afternoon will not exist when they are known to the British people? Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman tell the British people that during the next five years they will have to pay out millions of pounds extra for New Zealand products which now enjoy Commonwealth preference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Incomers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "ays. Those who live there would deplore that. We attract tourists because the conditions up there are very different; and long may they remain so. There has been much reference to the brewers. Let us look beyond my constituency to Aviemore. I remember Aviemore when it was a desolate little village. It is now a thriving concern providing employment for hundreds of people. It has flourishing hotels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Owen", "preceding_text": " of the matter is that there has been a considerable growth in Carlisle, and the peripheral areas, of working men's clubs, political clubs, social clubs, British Legion clubs. The brewers have been able to offer a facility that the resources of the State management scheme could never offer and that is loans for the construction of clubs at relatively low rates of interest, almost free of interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "esting to note that in the year 1952, when the Tories took office after the 1945–51 Labour Government, one of their first acts was to take away similar powers from the new town corporations. How responsive they are. It may be a coincidence, of course, that what they do is what the brewers want. They have been wrong about the Bill. I remind them of what Lloyd George said on 29th April, 1915.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1726.2", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (SUPPORT PRICES AND IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I am in some difficulty. I do not want to be awkward just for the sake of being awkward. I have been in the House for 11 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1736.1", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (SUPPORT PRICES AND IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": "ility, they will inevitably increase the cost to the consumer—and this additional cost will be in excess of the rapidly rising cost of foodstuffs which is now going on. We also take the view that to take these steps outside the Common Market is totally unnecessary. Under the Labour Government we had reasonable control over the imports of food into this country without increasing the price of food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1740.1", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (SUPPORT PRICES AND IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "to support us tonight. With agriculture, one has only to look at the past to see the problems we have had through heavily subsidised imports sometimes causing chaos. It is absolute nonsense for the right hon. Gentleman to say that all was well in the past. We have suffered for years, but the present Government are determined to do something about it. These Orders will certainly help the consumer.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1745.1", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (SUPPORT PRICES AND IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "ich can be said of the hon. Member for Torrington (Mr. Peter Mills) is that he deserves to be at least a P.P.S. in view of the vigour with which he leaps to defend his right hon. Friend the Minister whenever he presents the indefensible to the House. I was amazed that the Minister did not say one word about the response of such organisations as the meat importers, meat retailers or of any foreign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (SUPPORT PRICES AND IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "ve been present during the debate initiated by my right hon Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services. The Government are doing more for pensioners than any other Government have done. The hon. Member for Gloucestershire, West (Mr. Loughlin), who blabbers on about things that he does not understand, says that \"good sources\" have calculated that the effect of the Order will be to put on 3p.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-24", "file": "debates1971-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4f2c99427c43d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (SUPPORT PRICES AND IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "intervene in his speech. He would not give way because it was a bogus calculation, and he knew it. The hon. Member for Erith and Cray-ford (Mr. Wellbeloved) attacked my right hon. Friend for bringing forward the Orders at this hour of the night. Can he tell me at what hour of the night it is usual to bring forward Orders like this? This is the time at which such Orders always come on, as he knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-24a.1749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "We undoubtedly have high unemployment in Wales, but it started in July, 1966.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "The decisions which the Government have taken over school meals and milk are examples of the determination of priorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.17.2", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Priorities.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "I understood that this question was about meals and school milk and education services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.17.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.30.7", "colnum": "30", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": ". In another instance, I asked him to take personal action. Surely it is wrong and means that a Question cannot be answered properly if the Minister, in this case the Prime Minister, deliberately switches the Question to another Minister who has neither the power not the opportunity to take action which has been requested. To give an illustration, if I want to put a Question to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.30.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eddie Griffiths", "preceding_text": "hat they should share in an existing plant? Third, the right hon. Gentleman referred in his statement to Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds. Is that a case of giving unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, in that in a statement on steel he found it necessary to mention only that one private steel firm? It is well known in the House that that firm has been a very good contributor to Conservative Party funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "That was a prices and incomes strategy which certainly was not perfect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " usual channels. Any future debate is also a matter for discussion through the usual channels. I was saying that before I turn to the wider considerations which have to be taken into account in any assessment of the present position and any consideration of the future, I hope that the House will allow me to make one preliminary personal observation. I have been a Member of this House for 20 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.53.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.62.2", "colnum": "62", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Stechford referred to the Bill which is now going through Parliament. When he criticised that Bill in the way he did, he did not do so with very much conviction. The interesting thing is that already, before the Bill has been passed, the firm stand which has been taken by the Government and most of industry during the past year is beginning to show results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.62.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.62.2", "colnum": "62", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about strikes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ill in the way he did, he did not do so with very much conviction. The interesting thing is that already, before the Bill has been passed, the firm stand which has been taken by the Government and most of industry during the past year is beginning to show results. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] We are now beginning to reverse the impression that has grown up in recent years that militancy always pays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.62.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.62.2", "colnum": "62", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "emains so today. Whatever view hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite may take of the policy which we have been pursuing, there can be no doubt that the policy of de-escalation has already checked the rise in the level of pay settlements. We mean to continue with that policy, because the biggest single cause of unemployment and the rise in prices has been the excessive increase in pay settlements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.62.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.62.2", "colnum": "62", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "r a lasting solution to our problems. I remember well what happened when, in 1951, we last took over from a Labour Government. By 1952, after we had been in office for only one year, as now, prices were rising at 7 per cent. a year and unemployment was twice as high as the year before. But we stuck to the policy which we knew to be right, and that policy led to 13 years of rising living standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.62.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.62.2", "colnum": "62", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ar and unemployment was twice as high as the year before. But we stuck to the policy which we knew to be right, and that policy led to 13 years of rising living standards—[ Interruption .]—at a rate the like of which the British people have never experienced either before or since. It will happen again, because we are resolved not to be diverted from the overall strategy on which we have embarked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.62.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "We have not increased it at all. They increased the duty on wines and spirits four times, and that put up the cost of living. They increased the duty on beer three times, and that put up the cost of living. They increased the duty on tobacco three times. They invented selective employment tax, and then increased it twice. During our period there has been no increase of direct taxation of any kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "se in the context of the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West, involves risks. The question is how to mitigate them. My fourth proposal is such a method. The great Mr. Disraeli—my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is rightly fond of quoting him—once remarked: The Conservative Party is a national party or it is nothing. It is not currently so understood to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "preceding_text": "rime of human talent and lives that was inherent in unemployment, and he made a number of suggestions. At least his speech had the merit of being somewhat constructive, and he had the grace to demonstrate that what the Government were doing now and what they had done was either wrong or insufficient. The Government have done more harm in the last 12 months than any British Government this century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "preceding_text": "egional development policy. They will stimulate long-term growth in the less prosperous areas by increasing their economic attractions and improving their amenities. So much for their intentions. So much for Conservative promises. The majority of the electorate in West Derby, Liverpool, on Merseyside and in the great industrial areas of the North-West, the Midlands and London did not believe them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.110.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.141.0", "colnum": "141", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Signor Colombo.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "uctivity should be winding up the debate tonight. Certainly it is true that this is a censure debate. In a censure debate on the Government's mismanagement of the economy, one would normally expect the Prime Minister at least to have attended, if not to have spoken in the debate. We were informed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by way of excuse, that the Prime Minister was seeing Signor Moro——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "nservative Party during the election is positively obscene. Those who have been careful students of what was said by the Prime Minister and others of his colleagues during the election campaign are quite wrong in thinking that it was only prices which were to be brought down at a stroke; they were quite wrong in thinking that this was just a casual phrase thrown off as a bribe to silly housewives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "f Industry in Dusseldorf he said something that he would never have dared to say in the House; he pointed out that control of wage settlements in Britain by tougher competition is one of the prime purposes of entry from the Government's point of view. The tragedy we are highlighting is that the Government in 12 months have wasted the achievements and the sacrifices of our last two years of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "rifices in obedience to the type of masochism demonstrated by this Government. We wanted that surplus for a purpose. We wanted it as a basis for growth. What have hon. Members opposite been doing with it? Counting it? And while they have been counting it it has been slipping through their fingers. On the basis of that surplus we could have entered into a new dialogue with the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "No. I think that the loss of working days is seriously high. But, as the right hon. Lady herself once used to point out, and as the Donovan Commission pointed out, the number of strikes is a better and more meaningful indicator of the state of industrial relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "e of Strife\". If the right hon. Lady cared to look at the Department of Employment Gazette, published today, she would there see the detailed strike record. She would find that not only has the number of strikes fallen dramatically, as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor pointed out in detail, but the working days lost in industry category by industry category, excluding the Post Office and Fords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.154.4", "colnum": "154", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. Gentleman for not giving way, but I have already done so many times. Before dealing with the more detailed arguments about the problems and actions required to deal with them, I wish to reaffirm at the end of the debate, as a Chancellor did at the beginning, that the Government are absolutely determined to halt and then reverse the upward trend in unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.154.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.154.4", "colnum": "154", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Investment grants.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "was forecast or could have been forecast on experience of the movement in recent previous years in relation to the levels of production and demand, and so forth. Any suggestion which right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite are fond of making that we took any decisions deliberately to put unemployment to this level are, let me repeat, lies. Unemployment moved much faster than the forecast indicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.154.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "iled to tackle the underlying causes of the trend and, still more, if we aggravated them by excessive short-term measures, the trend would soon reassert itself, and a quick fall in unemployment would be followed by a steeper increase afterwards. So, as I said in the unemployment debate on 29th April, we are determined to get unemployment down and keep it down, with the emphasis on keeping it down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Which votes were right hon. Gentlemen opposite buying when, during the election, they attacked us for opposing a 30 per cent. increase for the doctors and described our opposition as \"an outrage\"? How can the right hon. Gentleman now say that he believes in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.158.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.172.5", "colnum": "172", "heading": "PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down then.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "This is an Adjournment debate and I do not wish to take very much time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.172.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tedious repetition.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "On principle, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I never speak to Whips. Finally, it seems strange that those Members of the House who are well known to be against the concept of Britain joining the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.172.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-28", "file": "debates1971-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "159f953e2e29e315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.173.7", "colnum": "173", "heading": "PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "cers whch must be seized. This is the end of the quotation of the text of what, as I understand it from our Embassy in Paris, was said by President Pompidou in his constituency of the Cantal. The is no inconsistency between the terms of the Luxembourg Agreement on New Zealand and President Pompidou's speech as I have read it. The President merely set out the advantages of the agreement for France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-28a.173.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-29", "file": "debates1971-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "a7384e248094ecfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-29a.200.6", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "As a land-based sportsman of somewhat little consequence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-29a.200.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-06-29", "file": "debates1971-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "a7384e248094ecfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-29a.200.7", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "As a land-based sportsman of somewhat little consequence— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—I can understand the Prime Minister's desire to get away from it all. As far as I am concerned, he can sail all week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-29a.200.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-29", "file": "debates1971-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "a7384e248094ecfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-29a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "ing my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Leslie Huckfield). It is not possible to co-exist in a competitive system. The very use of the words by the hon. Member is contradictory. Hon. Members might be a little more honest and follow through the logic of their thinking, if they are creating a second force, which must expand and develop mainly at the expense of the publicly-owned enterprises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-29a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Is it not equally important for radio listeners and television viewers to be protected from political interference by radio and television reporters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Colne Valley", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the Minister is not coming to Colne Valley since I hoped that he would have the opportunity to meet representatives of the urban district because, as he knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.387.5", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — House Building", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Although the statistics are all up, rent and rates are up as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.387.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.387.6", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — House Building", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "What I can tell the House, as I said a moment ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.387.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The Chairman of the Corporation is absolutely aware of the problem which the hon. Gentleman raises and will be anxious to ensure that those interests are looked after. I would find it difficult to give an absolute guarantee on his account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am sure that Sir Matthew and the other gentlemen to whom I have referred will find it quite possible to be of great positive value to the Corporation in any circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ut Joint Steering Group No. 2? That is still in operation, or so I understand, and is to continue in operation until the Government have completed the study of the long-term programme. The right hon. Gentleman said in his peroration that he would tell us about the long-term programme, and if the study is as brief as was his peroration Joint Steering Group No. 2 ought to come to an end pretty soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "preceding_text": "s happened is that the go-ahead has been given in principle. Rationalisation between Firth-Brown and the old English Steel Corporation has been talked about for years, even before nationalisation. To have two forges of similar size competing with each other has proved to be illogical in the last decade, and in fact even since the war. Rationalisation between those two organisations is the logical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "—yes, consultants on scrap supplies. On every ton of scrap which goes into steel works they draw, or used to draw, 9d. a ton for giving advice. I do not know what it is now. How does the advice work out? Again, one of the Minister's colleagues gave me the figures. I can quote them from memory. The amount of steel scrap, some of it low grade scrap, for which we paid high grade prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "put. To make a proper comparison one has to go back about 10 years, when those 14 companies were operating fully as non-publicly owned major companies in the private enterprise sector. Those 14 companies in the year 1960–61 made a profit of approximately £100 million before tax: this year the same companies make a loss of £100 million after depreciation. That is a true and valid comparison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rivate capital and the private investors if the British Steel Corporation owns a majority of the shares in the new Companies Act companies, as they are now called, which are constructed. No private investor will put money into a company of this kind, a sort of hybrid, if he feels that the return on his capital will be overlooked by a character like Lord Melchett. I do not approve of Lord Melchett.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": " the new Companies Act companies, as they are now called, which are constructed. No private investor will put money into a company of this kind, a sort of hybrid, if he feels that the return on his capital will be overlooked by a character like Lord Melchett. I do not approve of Lord Melchett. [ Interruption .] I am glad that there are many hon. Members opposite who do not approve of Lord Melchett", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sir David Barran?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ave listened to his leader in this debate for 38 minutes and to my own leader in this debate for 38 minutes—76 minutes combined, in response to Mr. Speaker's invitation for brief speeches. I do not approve of Lord Melchett as Chairman of the British Steel Corporation. I should have preferred the Chairman of the British Steel Corporation to be a person versed and experienced in the making of steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "We have given our approval in principle to the proposals as announced in the joint statement, and I think that it is in the general interests of our steel industry that rationalisation at the boundary between the two sectors should take place. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) took me to task for my failure to consult the unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "I was quoting what was said to me today by representatives of the steel committee of the Trades Union Congress, who regard this as a breach of faith. That is what they authorised me to say, and if the Minister looks at the undertaking he will see that that is the case. But would the Minister now, in an attempt to repair the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I do not think that that would be a right or a sensible way of proceeding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-06-30", "file": "debates1971-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "876213912cc38fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "eration involves £1,000 million in investment and this will set the pattern and the course of the industry for a decade and more ahead. These decisions must not be taken lightly. We must go into them as carefully and as thoroughly as we can taking into account international developments, the technological developments, and the nature of competition with which the Corporation is likely to be faced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-06-30a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.558.6", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I very much regret that the T.U.C., when sending out a copy of the Code to each of its affiliated unions, accompanied it with a recommendation that the unions should not enter into consultation with the Government on the proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.558.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.559.4", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the right hon. Lady is aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.559.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.560.3", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "hing about her changes of attitude on this subject over the last few years, we might get things a little straighter. She knows as well as I do that the arrangement of parliamentary business is not for me but for the Leader of the House and must be discussed through the usual channels. That is true, as she knows, and Leaders of the House on her side as well as ours have always maintained that view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.565.6", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "Much of the crash programme of which the hon. Gentleman speaks has already been undertaken or is being undertaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.565.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "I shall be very surprised if my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made a promise that he would cut unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN MOVEMENT (SPEECHES BY CIVIL SERVANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will no doubt produce the evidence of any Press reports about it. Will he stick to the question which I put to him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.577.5", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRECONSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roderick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roderick", "preceding_text": "I think that it is a pity, because the Prime Minister could help me to explain to my constituents a problem which has arisen due to Answers which I have been receiving from a couple of his Departments. Is the Prime Minister aware that when I asked the Secretary of State for Wales for the number of notified redundancies from 1st January—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.577.5", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRECONSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roderick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roderick", "preceding_text": "st January—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] I have to read, because there are figures involved. Is the Prime Minister aware that the figure which I was given for notified redundancies from 1st January to 5th March was 52 and to 29th March 715? On 18th May the Question was transferred to the Department of Employment and the figure was reduced to 99. Will he explain to my constituents why this should be?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.577.7", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRECONSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that I think he is a very wise man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.577.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I do not think that there is any point in commenting on the first part of the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker, on how we in the House can protect ourselves from being held to ridicule. We are getting accustomed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker, on how we in the House can protect ourselves from being held to ridicule. We are getting accustomed—[ Interruption .] I am talking about the behaviour of the whole House and not just of mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.651.6", "colnum": "651", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CONSULTATIVE DOCUMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Participation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": " for the district are genuinely involved in appraising and criticising. There is no doubt that, in the new system and with the list of powers and rights which I have read out, the councils will not only have access to the plans which the area authorities are proposing, but will have access to the officers and will have power to visit hospitals. They will represent all the district local interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.651.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CONSULTATIVE DOCUMENT)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now that there is not time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Tempting though it is to pursue the right hon. Gentleman into the blind alleys and the paths and trails into which he led the House in his excellent debating speech, in the few minutes remaining to me I must try to answer one or two questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.654.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "BRISTOL CORPORATION (WEST DOCK) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "preceding_text": " in the Chamber who represents South Wales interests. The hon. Member for Barry (Mr. Gower) after a similar debate three years ago this month voted against his Conservative colleagues. However tonight, presumably following the change of Government, he feels that he can absent himself from the Chamber. I would also draw attention to representatives of Her Majesty's Government from the Welsh Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "BRISTOL CORPORATION (WEST DOCK) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment will recall my initiating an Adjournment debate when I said that Swansea handled over eight million tons. We should like to better that. We have the highly professional management, the workers and the facilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "BRISTOL CORPORATION (WEST DOCK) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is truthful and I do not doubt what he says. But the right hon. Member for Taunton did not say how much he would invest in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "BRISTOL CORPORATION (WEST DOCK) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "preceding_text": "ng in Cardiff, he will be aware that I have written to him about this matter, pointing out that I felt that this was nothing more than a political gimmick. On the question of the rate of return, as I see it there are three sides to the triangle. We went into it very deeply in 1968. First, there is the estimate of the discounted cash flow from Bristol; secondly, the estimate from the Ports Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "BRISTOL CORPORATION (WEST DOCK) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "ople of Wales and you yourself have commented, as have other hon. Members, that we have had two speeches of 35 minutes from the Welsh side of the Channel. However, they were the only two speeches allowed in opposition in an unusual debate. It is of genuine concern to us—and I say this seriously—that on a matter which is regarded as of the greatest importance in Wales we have been partially gagged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.712.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.731.2", "colnum": "731", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "as asked that. It is the second time he has asked. His hon. Friends with him were not here then. I apologised then in a way for having to raise these new matters here. The first reason is that I did not initially regard it as a party political matter, though I am beginning to have doubts. Second, I am on the Environmental Planning Committee, which has no powers in the matter. I wrote to the clerk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.737.3", "colnum": "737", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "all me to order as that is not the Bill before us. The Bill before us is a Money Bill, and is required by law to be presented to Parliament. When the Money Bill comes to us we receive a letter from a gentleman called Mr. H. Wilson—not, I hasten to add, my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, but Mr. H. Wilson, the Solicitor and Parliamentary Officer of the Greater London County Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.737.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-01", "file": "debates1971-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c0d0c695076718cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Eldon Griffiths)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Eldon Griffiths)", "preceding_text": "Department. My hon. Friend the Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Kenneth Baker) made some extremely important and constructive points about the finance of local government. I cannot tell him exactly when the Green Paper on Local Government Finance will be available, but I can assure him that it will be available as soon as possible. The hon. Member for Acton (Mr. Spearing) asked about the Fleet Line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-01a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-02", "file": "debates1971-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c18d6e7208e1028", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-02a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "The only true answer to this argument, quite apart from what anybody says, lies in the Division Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-02a.834.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-05", "file": "debates1971-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7177ea9a16af0ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.898.7", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RB211", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "It now appears that the American Congress is unlikely to support the bank loan for Lockheed. Bearing in mind that the proposed legislation which the American Government are trying to put through Congress may not be concluded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.898.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-05", "file": "debates1971-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7177ea9a16af0ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.904.7", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Steel Industry (E.E.C. Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. If all the documents which are part of the negotiations were published, it would make negotiation exceedingly difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.904.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-05", "file": "debates1971-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7177ea9a16af0ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Limited", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Here is an issue of almost life and death—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-05", "file": "debates1971-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7177ea9a16af0ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "New Clause 35", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "2–73 surtax which is attributable to his earned income and interest is to be charged on any surtax so deferred from the normal due date, 1st January, 1974. I think it is recognised on both sides of the House that in many cases Clause 21 as it stands will provide no particular difficulty and that in many cases also the taxpayer in any event would not wish to defer the payment of this surtax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-05", "file": "debates1971-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7177ea9a16af0ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "The authors to whom my hon. Friend is referring are cited in the Atkinson article. It would be a pity to get too deep into an academic disquisition on all the sources and footnotes in the Atkinson article—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-05", "file": "debates1971-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7177ea9a16af0ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "preceding_text": "d by productivity. That is a truism that everyone will accept, though some may make qualifications. The only way to overcome this state of things in any kind of democratic society will be by obtaining the co-operation of trade unionists. How can any Government obtain that cooperation when there is this obvious gross difference of enormous wealth and luxury and ostentatious high living on one side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-05", "file": "debates1971-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7177ea9a16af0ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": "nuinely paid out for professional advice, whether to an accountant, a bank manager, a solicitor, or whoever may advise the taxpayer on his tax liability. I utterly refute the hon. Gentleman's argument about putting a bit of balance into the Budget and giving a little more to the small man rather than to the so-called rich. I remind him that the reduction in S.E.T. goes right through the tax range.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-05", "file": "debates1971-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7177ea9a16af0ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": "E.T. I understand that they amount to £1·20 for the male adult assistant in shops and 60p for the female assistant. The minimum sales per male operative are about £120 a week in the distribution industry. A more realistic figure would be about £150. We do not need to be mathematicians to work out that the unit of distribution can concede to the consumer at best one new penny per £ of sales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-05", "file": "debates1971-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7177ea9a16af0ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "preceding_text": "faced with six races, to decide that he will have a bet on only one, two, three or four of them and leave the others alone. In my youth, the man who could leave a race alone was regarded as a man apart, a cut above the rest of those of us who, being at the races, had to have a bet on each of the six races. Unfortunately, if one has six bets and if one's judgment is like mine, six times 10s. is £3.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.1058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-05", "file": "debates1971-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7177ea9a16af0ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "preceding_text": "o go into a stand, because in my youth most working-class people assumed that they would go on the course and see nothing except the jockeys' caps. That to a very large extent, is true today. If one watches at the Roodee at Chester as one of the \"plebs\", one sees a colourful scene but relies upon rumour to find out what won—and the Roodee is one of the finest racecourses in the country for viewing", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-05a.1058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-06", "file": "debates1971-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f35a4087c54302ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1119.2", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that some manufacturers are apparently putting pressure on retailers not to reduce their prices? Is my hon. Friend aware that I have a telegram from a constituent who says that retailers are not being allowed to pass on this benefit unless they put their prices up to the manufacturer's retail price?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-06", "file": "debates1971-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f35a4087c54302ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1121.2", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMPANY LIQUIDATIONS (DEPARTMENTAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Question No. Q1 to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-06", "file": "debates1971-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f35a4087c54302ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1122.4", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WOMEN AND THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Would not the right hon. Gentleman agree that last June he took advantage of the British woman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-06", "file": "debates1971-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f35a4087c54302ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1220.2", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I stick to the possibility that some firms are talking in terms of the economic reality and possibility of bringing gas from much further afield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-06", "file": "debates1971-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f35a4087c54302ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "t price inflation was running at 5½ per cent. and that it merited the increase. With present inflation running at the rate of more than 10 per cent., how much more is this Amendment worthy of support. In a different society, in different times, with a different government we could have had a philosophical debate about leisure and the need for those over 65 to enjoy a well-earned retirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-06", "file": "debates1971-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f35a4087c54302ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1263.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Robert Grant-Ferris)", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Lady have the leave of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-06", "file": "debates1971-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f35a4087c54302ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "been given. I have faith in the promises which have been made, but my hon. Friend did not say that this case would be met. All he said was that they would all be reviewed. I should like my hon. Friend, with his great charm, to tell me why he has not answered these points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-06", "file": "debates1971-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f35a4087c54302ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1264.8", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, I understand my hon. Friend was begging leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1264.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-06", "file": "debates1971-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f35a4087c54302ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1264.11", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-06a.1264.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1319.5", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The May starts this year were an improvement on the April starts, and the April starts were an improvement on the March starts. The total showed a marked improvement. The only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1319.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1323.0", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "ster City Council, to propose to the Greater London Development Plan Inquiry that the G.L.D.P. should be amended so as to make Westminster responsible for the preparation of the action area plan for Piccadilly Circus. I hope that as a result of that progress will be made with the developers and the local authorities. It is their job in the first instance, and I hope that they will proceed with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1323.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1325.2", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is Question No. 66.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I much prefer to take points of order about Questions at the end of Question Time. I will look into the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1326.2", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I am afraid it is rather more than I should like to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1329.2", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "On the second point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1339.0", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "e House. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will agree that, from that moment, we in this House and the country can have the great debate based on substance for which we have all called. It is a debate which could not really get off the ground until the terms of entry were known. Since we shall now be able to argue on the basis of facts which were not, and could not be, available until today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1342.2", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "that the right hon. Gentleman will take an early opportunity of clearing up the discrepancy between the statement he has now made to the House and the statement which his Department handed to me about ten minutes ago which, in many respects, is quite different from the statement which he has just, made to the House? The right hon. Gentleman can clear up the matter, but he gave a different account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1342.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1342.3", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " the statement he has now made to the House and the statement which his Department handed to me about ten minutes ago which, in many respects, is quite different from the statement which he has just, made to the House? The right hon. Gentleman can clear up the matter, but he gave a different account. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] The right hon. Gentleman can clear up the matter in his own Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1342.5", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "rocedure which, so far as I know, is quite unprecedented in this House; namely, when a Minister comes and make a statement in different terms from that which has been handed to the Opposition only a few minutes before. I suggest that I might take up this matter with you, Mr. Speaker, to see whether we can avoid such questions in future. First, we do not accept the right hon. Gentleman's statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1342.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1342.5", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "rms from that which has been handed to the Opposition only a few minutes before. I suggest that I might take up this matter with you, Mr. Speaker, to see whether we can avoid such questions in future. First, we do not accept the right hon. Gentleman's statement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We do not accept his statement because there is a plain conflict of testimony between what he said when he claimed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1342.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1342.5", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "o the Opposition only a few minutes before. I suggest that I might take up this matter with you, Mr. Speaker, to see whether we can avoid such questions in future. First, we do not accept the right hon. Gentleman's statement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We do not accept his statement because there is a plain conflict of testimony between what he said when he claimed—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] We do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1342.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1343.2", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I should certainly apologise to the hon. Gentleman for the fact that my statement was not couched in the precise words of the statement which he had. However, I think that he will agree that the sense of what I said was identical with what was in the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1343.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Mr. Foot rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1345.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1345.3", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman now tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1345.5", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I know that hon. Gentlemen opposite do not care by what backstairs methods people are sacked from their jobs. Will the right hon. Gentleman now tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1345.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1346.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1345.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1346.2", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1346.3", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since, presumably, the matter is not going to be left where it is, will the right hon. Gentleman say, in the light of the meeting which he thinks took place on 27th May, whether the Minister made any complaints about the officer of the Corporation who has been incontinently sacked?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1346.3", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since, presumably, the matter is not going to be left where it is, will the right hon. Gentleman say, in the light of the meeting which he thinks took place on 27th May, whether the Minister made any complaints about the officer of the Corporation who has been incontinently sacked?—[ Laughter .] This is no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1446.7", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This Amendment is consequential upon the acceptance in Committee of new Clauses, now in the Bill as Clauses 6 and 7, dealing respectively with relief from pool betting duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1446.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1450.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "s from time to time a little confused. We have covered all the relevant passages and points, and some were more relevant than others, if I may put it like that, and, without undue lateness, we have been fairly thorough. I am bound to admit that when debates were protracted, the blame for such protraction, if that is the right word in this context, could be fairly evenly divided between both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "increased in a way which will reflect itself in escalating prices in the months ahead? The hon. and learned Gentleman referred to a bias in the Budget judgment in favour of the wealthy. I say simply that one cannot help the poor by pulling down the rich; that one cannot help the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer; that one cannot create full employment by kicking the employer in the teeth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TOO late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman sits down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": " million to certain strata of society if at the same time they change the system of income tax levies so that more tax is paid indirectly than directly. That is what the Government are doing. If the 10 Orders which we discussed last week—and I protested that we had only one-and-a-half hours to discuss them—as a consequence of which the housewife has to pay a greater amount of tax over the counter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell the other half.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "h the housewife has to pay a greater amount of tax over the counter—[ Interruption .] I know that the Chief Secretary is not interested in indirect taxation. He is not interested in the housewife or in the average person. He is solely interested in people who have made contributions to the Conservative Party and who are now getting the payoff. The point is that this Bill tells only half the story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-07", "file": "debates1971-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f78dbe0be70f81d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "tion. He is not interested in the housewife or in the average person. He is solely interested in people who have made contributions to the Conservative Party and who are now getting the payoff. The point is that this Bill tells only half the story. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell the other half.\"] If the hon. Gentleman wants to intervene, I do not mind; we have all the time in the world. There is no point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-07a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The White Paper has set out as clearly as we can all the arrangements which have been reached in the negotiations. I think that the comments of practically the whole of the British Press today have shown that it believes that the matter is set out fully and clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1519.2", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHEND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have explained to the right hon. Gentleman, as I thought he knew from his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer, when this matter was investigated, that as the Customs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1520.2", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHEND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I remember that the Leader of the Opposition when he was Prime Minister said that, as the Community had adopted V.A.T., this was one of the tax measures he was prepared to accept if we were to go into the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHEND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We set out in the election manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHEND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We set out in the election manifesto—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—that we were not committed to V.A.T., and I said so on television. That was our position, and it was absolutely clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHEND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We set out in the election manifesto—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—that we were not committed to V.A.T., and I said so on television. That was our position, and it was absolutely clear. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have answered the right hon. Gentleman, if he would listen. This is precisely what I said on television, and it was precisely what was in the election manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1521.5", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHEND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The gentleman concerned was not sacked at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1521.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1524.14", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh !", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I intend to propose that the House should adjourn on Friday, 6th August. If, however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1524.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1528.3", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "n under the original Motion, when the Bill is received back from another place. When I do so I shall take fully into account the number of Amendments to her own Transport Bill, and the amount of time allotted by the previous Government for Lords Amendments on that Bill, and the number of Amendments that came back from the Lords. The right hon. Lady, and the right hon. Gentleman who is enjoying it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1528.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1533.0", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman. The only reason I was not announcing dates was the very point that he put to me, that some of the actual days might have to be changed—not the number of days but the day when the debate started. However, in view of what the right hon. Gentleman has said, I undertake, in the first instance, to see whether it is possible to give dates, which I hope we can keep to, next week.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1557.2", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "o take part in consistent short-time working. I am not an economics Minister, but there are implications for the method of management of a firm which finds itself relying regularly upon the National Insurance Fund contributor to subsidise his workers. My job on behalf of the public is to find money from the taxpayer and from the contributor for the highest social priorities. I have made no secret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to adopt that attitude. The House must recognise that unless it wishes National Insurance contributions to increase by another £3 million, which would be a perfectly logical alternative, within the National Insurance Fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1577.2", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "peech. I am arguing against the blanket statutory provision which the Government are introducing. I say that the greatest injustice will be done to those genuinely inadequate people who for some reason or other leave their jobs. If that type of individual is not caught by this Clause as it stands, I shall be very surprised. We are slightly more advanced in Scotland than is the rest of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1598.0", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "aid—rather than continue to claim subs which had to be repaid to the employer and came out of taxed income. The strategy of the Government is to make supplementary benefit broadly unavailable except in conditions of hardship so as to restore the original practice—the normal habit until recently—of leaving employees to look to their employers for an advance of earnings during those first two weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1653.0", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to be able to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Fernyhough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-08", "file": "debates1971-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9801b68eb98755f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1662.0", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The Labour Party has every reason to be ashamed and infuriated that its Ministers failed to introduce this legislation until the sixth year of their successive Governments. Total taxation increased under Labour, yet these commonly accepted improvements were not carried out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-08a.1662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-09", "file": "debates1971-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "27e1be42e4d832af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-09a.1745.7", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "wer was loud and clear. The hon. Gentleman said: Yes, I can give that assurance. That is the position. My understanding is that that is exactly the situation. It is an increase of £46 million …\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd July, 1971; Vol. 820, c. 842.] In short, there will be an increase from £1,644,000 in the present year to £6,644,000. We do not propose these Amendments in a light-hearted way", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-09a.1745.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-09", "file": "debates1971-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "27e1be42e4d832af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-09a.1758.0", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The Committee has before it an Amendment designed to increase the proportion of grant from 75 per cent. to 90 per cent. I assume when I look at Amendments tabled by the Front Bench opposite that they are serious proposals made in a serious attempt to improve the Bill. I believe that this one is entirely frivolous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-09a.1758.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-09", "file": "debates1971-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "27e1be42e4d832af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-09a.1776.6", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "RECOGNITION OF DIVORCES AND LEGAL SEPARATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for consideration, as amended (in the Standing Committee), read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-09a.1776.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-09", "file": "debates1971-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "27e1be42e4d832af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-09a.1776.10", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "MINERAL WORKINGS (OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for consideration, as amended (in the Standing Committee), read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-09a.1776.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-12", "file": "debates1971-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a8b2eef869df9b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-12a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "t there, but what I am inviting the Under-Secretary of State to embrace is the fact that coal is no longer in a restrictionist market, that it is entering a phase of expansion, not expansion necessarily in Great Britain but expansion in wider markets. That being so, the economics of this Order and the Bill to come, and our whole generating system in this country, are affected by the new situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-12a.152.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "Is it not utter nonsense to make a comparison between the position of those who are deprived of the ability to earn their living by the community and the position of those who voluntarily decide to withdraw their labour from employment, usually for material gain to themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "e think this will have on incentives about which his party is always talking? Thirdly, what does he estimate the effect of this will be on the rate of council house building at a moment when, despite all the constant, misleading and optimistic statements of the Government, council house building faces a bleaker future than for a long time? Lastly, while I am strongly in favour of owner-occupation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ilding, my announcement that the slum clearance subsidy will be retrospective to the beginning of this year will give a considerable momentum to tackling slum clearance, whereas the subsidy system operated by the Labour Government resulted in large numbers of towns and cities, particularly in some of the older industrial parts, almost stopping their slum clearance programmes. This will now change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.217.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " subsidy will be retrospective to the beginning of this year will give a considerable momentum to tackling slum clearance, whereas the subsidy system operated by the Labour Government resulted in large numbers of towns and cities, particularly in some of the older industrial parts, almost stopping their slum clearance programmes. This will now change. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"] Socialist councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "On the first point, the figure will be kept at present levels and will not increase to the levels originally estimated under the old subsidy scheme ; but as the previous Government were carrying out a review of housing finance, presumably they had something like this in mind too.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.223.5", "colnum": "223", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has three times made accusa- tions about the previous Government's policy, contrary to the usual convention of proprieties as to what papers were available to a previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.223.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.223.5", "colnum": "223", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"] Will he produce his evidence that any right hon. Member on this side of the House when a Minister had approved any such policies? Is he aware that I can categorically state that all my right hon. and hon. Friends in the right hon. Gentleman's former Department will confirm that no policy whatever was decided by those former Ministers on the lines of what has now been put forward?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.223.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.225.2", "colnum": "225", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I categorically state that I know of no conclusions reached by the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.225.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. The hon. Gentleman is good at interrupting everyone else's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.231.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that I had done the same thing in respect of Murco. That is not true. Let him read the reports and he will find that they do not compare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.239.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.239.4", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that I had done the same thing in respect of Murco. That is not true. Let him read the reports and he will find that they do not compare. [ Interruption .] I can assure \"Mr. Europe\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " that I have been seeking an interview with him about the position of Kilmarnock, Ayr and South Ayrshire. My hon. Friend the Member for South Ayreshire (Mr. Sillars) has been discussing this with me too. The people of Livingston are concerned about it, as are the people of Dundee and Glenrothes. If I were a member of the Highland Board, I would be concerned about it too. It has become nonsensical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "rdian . He is the mildest of men, and when he gets angry with a Tory Government something must indeed be wrong. There is no indication that his words are being heeded. The whole question of confidence is at issue. The people of Scotland have a Government for whom they did not and would not vote. Hon. Gentlemen opposite dislike the people of Scotland for their political loyalty to the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I will come to that shortly. During the past year the Government, for this and other reasons, have made it one of their main tasks to do all within their power to curb inflation and its effects on costs and prices by tackling this at its source—inflationary wage settlements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.244.3", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "ully used. The Government are determined to put this right and the policies and measures which we have introduced, some of which are only now beginning to have effect, are designed to promote soundly based growth, with special emphasis on regional development. Let us examine the situation in the middle of last year, when inflationary wage settlements were threatening to cripple trade and industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Who told you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "There are a number of factors. A very important factor is that the cost of an average house is likely to be reduced by £50. A number of other factors, for example, inflationary wage settlements, could have the opposite effect. But the cutting of S.E.T., we are told, is the equivalent of £50 off the average price of a house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I have given way a great deal and I must move on, otherwise I shall take up too much time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": " been passed. They are not great results yet, but the halving of S.E.T. and the reduction of corporation tax by 5 per cent. must give extra liquidity to companies in Scotland. It will be interesting to see, come September, when we have all the pension increases, the increase in the retail trade as a result of more money jingling in pockets. This will be a minor inflationary injection for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "preceding_text": "lenging situation arising from our entry to the Common Market, because the price of its raw material—cereals—will increase. Another difficulty is that countries will be very much guided by what we charge when it comes to setting their own spirit duty. This would be a very appropriate time to reduce the duty on whisky, and I hope that my right hon. Friend will give this point serious consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " on two or three occasions and have had absolutely no encouragement, because every bit of business that leaves Glasgow and Edinburgh to go into Europe in order to promote Scottish industries must go through London. Nothing can be done as between Glasgow and Western Europe without first getting the permission of London. That is one powerful reason in my view why we should support the Common Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "The problem of prices has been gone into fully today, and my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Sproat) made a very interesting comparison in figures showing how the Government already have started to get on top of the problem. We appreciate that it cannot be solved overnight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Send it to Foulness.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "preceding_text": "nothing about these problems. I was sorry that the Secretary of State for Scotland mentioned, with approval, that we were getting various defence installations in the West of Scotland. We have far too many of these now. We have the Polaris base which Norway, although a member of N.A.T.O., refused to accept. It is time that this was taken out of Scotland, particularly from a heavily populated area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "Government have failed. I am helping the right hon. Member for Argyll. He must defend the success of the S.D.A., and he will, no doubt, tell us of the upturn in the I.D.C. figures. The Secretary of State almost pre-empted the argument by saying that one cannot judge on six months. He is right, but that is the point at which poor Argyll has been asked to defend the Government's performance tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "Now we have it clearly at last. The right hon. Gentleman revels in all his plans. For example, when in Opposition he could say that the Conservatives would have not investment grants but investment allowances. He admitted today that when they came to power they abolished investment grants without examining our report and seeing what the officials thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"He is too unimportant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "ents, shows that they prefer grants to allowances. Again, I appeal to HANSARD. I ask hon. Members to look at the Prime Minister's answer today when, pressed on whether he would accept grants rather than allowances, he said that in certain circumstances he might. The right hon. Gentleman was privy to a plan about allowances and grants. Is he now telling us that he was not privy to the Ridley Plan?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.340.3", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "Every one is entitled to his opinion. It is a free House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.369.7", "colnum": "369", "heading": "SCOTLAND (GRANT-AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "We have the problem of working this out for Scotland. I am saying that over a period of years this is the way I would do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.369.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.369.9", "colnum": "369", "heading": "SCOTLAND (GRANT-AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of being generous. Do not be so patronising. The gentlemen's party opposite fight for privilege and want to keep that privilege, but they now want other people to pay for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.369.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.370.6", "colnum": "370", "heading": "SCOTLAND (GRANT-AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "It might be for the benefit of the House if a different voice is heard on educational matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.370.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "SCOTLAND (GRANT-AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Perth and East Perthshire has in mind? I suggest that the enthusiasm that is shown by hon. Gentlemen opposite for these schools would soon dwindle if fees were not involved. It is interesting also to note that these schools are located, in the main, in Glasgow and Edinburgh. It seems strange that if variety is so important in this respect it has not been taken up by other areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "SCOTLAND (GRANT-AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "example, my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Wood-side (Mr. Carmichael) thought he was referring to the Scottish Council of the Labour Party. It was a far cry from education for the hon. Gentleman to call in aid an organisation which is responsible for the development of industry. One would have imagined that he would have preferred to quote the experts who formed the Public Schools Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-13", "file": "debates1971-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d1b3f589132328a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "a complete answer but the Act gives local authorities the power to insist that repairs are done and if certain statutory processes are gone through the tenant can carry out the repairs and make the landlord pay for them. That is certainly a step forward. It is probably true that what the hon. Gentleman said about the working of the fair rent system and the rent officers represents a minority view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-13a.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.482.4", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that his party had this hospital in its election manifesto in 1955? Is he further aware that architects and consultants are paid on a percentage basis and that their fees up to now exceed £2 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.482.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "It is all right having appointed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "The fair rents system was brought in by the last Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"What about the owner-occupiers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "es should be brought together in one standardised form. The right hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) asked me earlier about the amount of subsidy involved. I have explained to him many times in the House that the amount of subsidy from the Government, it is intended, will remain the same. But had the previous system continued, much more money would have been spent indiscriminately on subsidies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if I have misunderstood the position. The right hon. Gentleman will accept that we should naturally have wished to have had that debate after this statement. Nevertheless, I was able to outline our policy clearly during that debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.508.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.508.7", "colnum": "508", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "It is a matter for the Leader of the House. I said that it would have been better for the housing debate to have been held later, because a Government statement was imminent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.508.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.508.8", "colnum": "508", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "What effect will these proposals have on the house-building programme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.508.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AND INTERMEDIATE AREAS (INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "considerably from the substantial tax reductions which have come into operation this month and the considerable injection into the economy that will result from that. Far from being a palliative, this is a very considerable injection. It is far greater than has ever been made previously in a similar approach to this problem, and is certainly far greater than anything done by the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Nott (St. Ives)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"It is no joke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Nott (St. Ives)", "preceding_text": "I am not clear whether the right hon. Gentleman is trying to make a joke or is being serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I do not believe that that power would allow them to provide milk as such, for that would be covered by these provisions ; but, equally—and I seek confirmation on this score—I think that it might be possible for them to provide breakfast, refreshment of some kind, which was clearly nourishing, but not milk itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.555.5", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "hat will be released as a result of this Bill? If, as we are told, £9 million is being saved in this way, what will happen to that £9 million worth of milk? This country has the most efficiently organised system of milk production in the world. If anyone goes to Europe, to any of our prospective partners under the new marriage licence which is being sought for consummating a union with six others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.555.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.555.5", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "r consummating a union with six others—[ Interruption .'] The right hon. Lady knows quite well what I mean, and I do not need to spell out a simple joke—they will not find there, or even in North America, the clean, wholesome, tuberculin-free milk which we enjoy. That state of things is a credit to those who organised the Milk Marketing Board, with the encouragement of previous Labour Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.555.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "preceding_text": "I speak for many hon. Members on this side. We have to be very canny about these matters. We try to think that it will not happen again, but it will, and we shall get a reactionary Government—I want to be honest and blunt about it—which will use this kind of argument to add further to the misfortunes of the poor. We are talking about the children of the poor. I want to get back to my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER : \"Like Sir William Alexander.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "e has been no decline in the health of British schoolchildren. The medical officers of health have been very critical. Their favourite word in discussing the Government's proposal has been \"retrograde\". It has appeared in the headlines of the educational and general Press time and again. A whole section of moderate opinion people who have no political axe to grind have expressed their disapproval.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Tory controlled\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " in the headlines of the educational and general Press time and again. A whole section of moderate opinion people who have no political axe to grind have expressed their disapproval. [AN HON. MEMBER : \"Like Sir William Alexander.\"] There is a \"Red\" for you! Some terrible, divisive, Kremlinlike organisations like the Association of Education Committees and the Association of Municipal Corporations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.618.2", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "re is the crystallisation. An intellectual exercise—my word! The right hon. Lady comes her dressed up like a pirate of Penzance. We are talking about £9 million. The right hon. Lady is taking advice from the brewer behind her. He has had his whack. The brewers have had their whack. Now it is the schoolchildren who are to pay for that. It makes me almost speechless with despair that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.618.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Taylor", "preceding_text": "nts and accusations about promises allegedly broken by this Government, I thought back to my first years in the House when the only promise which that Government kept was the one made by the former Member for Belper who, speaking at Grantham in October, 1964, said, \"Vote for the Labour Party and I promise you will be mightily surprised by Christmas \". Let us come to the meat of what has been said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "t. We are providing a great deal of information. We have the annual reports of the medical officers and we have three departmental reports. We have three special surveys. We are having monitoring. If the hon. Gentleman suggests that we cannot come to a conclusion unless we have full details of the numbers and classes of children who buy from vending machines at every school throughout the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.631.4", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "posal. There is much talk in the air of referenda, but it is to do with the Common Market. We accept parliamentary democracy and local democracy, but the Government are resisting it, and we can well understand why. We are putting them to the test and suggesting that we ask parents and ratepayers whether they are willing to end the supply of free milk, or give local authorities power to provide it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "as I am sure the right hon. Lady will concede. I suggest that it is a long time since many hon. Members opposite visited primary schools to see what goes on. When I suggest that teaching should be associated with pleasant experiences, I am perhaps delving into the philosophy and the ideological concept of teaching. But what could be better in the break up of the school day than the break for milk?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "It is over total public expenditure that the Government must retain control. Of course we believe in the maximum possible freedom for local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"They do not have hearts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "nces\"—in other words, in plain English, to explain why the Government have broken one election promise after another. We all know that over the last few months this little man has been working overtime. My hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Marks) quoted from the Conservative manifesto. I will quote it again because it should be engraved on the hearts of the Government Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.644.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Taylor", "preceding_text": "Do hon. Members believe that local authorities should also have the freedom to withdraw all milk from all children in their schools if the local people decided on this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-14", "file": "debates1971-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec4c8bb67117d798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.651.4", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MILK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I shall move the Amendment briefly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-14a.651.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (LETTERS TO THE PRIME MINISTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have made no remarks about the right hon. Gentleman's hobbies. I will choose my own time to describe them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.718.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.718.3", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (LETTERS TO THE PRIME MINISTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have told the right hon. Gentleman that there is no complacency whatever in this Administration about that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.718.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not even then.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milne", "preceding_text": "f the Leader of the House on this subject of the dissemination of propaganda by the Government over entry of the Common Market, may we seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker, on what protection the House has, since this propaganda is being spread despite the fact that neither the House nor the Government will have come to a decision on the question until next week's \"take note\" debate on the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.726.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Further to the question of the White Paper, would not my right hon. Friend agree that it is a recognised constitutional function of Government to inform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to follow what my right hon. and learned Friend has said on this matter any further than I have done, save to say that I have not undertaken to make a statement next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly look into the matter. The reason why I said no more than that I would look into it is that I was not exactly sure who is the responsible Minister and who should make the statement. If I am that person, I shall, of course, make it. I undertake that there will be a statement. The right hon. Gentleman should not try to be unfair to me. I was not prepared to say that I would make it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I did not say that I would make a statement because I was not sure whether I was the proper person to make it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robin Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robin Turton", "preceding_text": "er, directly you have made your Ruling to ask for a Committee of Privileges to be set up to look into the matter. This is a very important question. It is a question of arm twisting, with financial implications. We may all have different views on different forms of arm twisting, but in these circumstances I should not like the country to think that we were sweeping this complaint under the carpet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.740.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.741.0", "colnum": "741", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robin Turton", "preceding_text": "Committee of Privileges to be set up to look into the matter. This is a very important question. It is a question of arm twisting, with financial implications. We may all have different views on different forms of arm twisting, but in these circumstances I should not like the country to think that we were sweeping this complaint under the carpet—[HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"] That might be misinterpreted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. We cannot make rules as we go along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.746.2", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMELESS PEOPLE (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "With respect, the point I make is not about publication. The Minister has rightly given an answer on this in December. I am saying that there was a denial of the existence of the report by the Department concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.746.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMELESS PEOPLE (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Julian Amery)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Thirteen years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Julian Amery)", "preceding_text": "lied in kind. The Amendment draws attention to the legacy we inherited. Of course both parties are legatees of history in the problem of London's housing but clearly if there is to be any choice or balance as to where the heaviest responsibility lies, it is a little hard to deny that it lies more heavily on those who had six years in which to tackle the problem than on those who have only had one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMELESS PEOPLE (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I am a great deal younger than the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMELESS PEOPLE (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I am a great deal younger than the hon. Gentleman. [ Laughter .] That was the first time I started taking a really detailed interest in the subject. I think that is probably true of the country as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMELESS PEOPLE (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "onference in September. I agree that conferences are no excuse for inaction, but they can help. People can come to understand each others' problems and we can discuss them and put forward proposals. Those present can consider them and make a positive contribution. I was sorry that the hon. Member for Willesden, East raised the hoary old controversy about the publication of Professor Greve's Report", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMELESS PEOPLE (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " while we were in power. It deals with conditions when the Labour Party was in power throughout London. It is an indictment of the policies of six years of Labour rule in London. Labour hon. Members should be hanging their heads in shame. The London Labour Party controlled London for 30 years, and the citizens of London should regret it. We have shown that we will tackle the problem energetically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMELESS PEOPLE (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Motion reveals cynical political opportunism, preying on the misfortunes of a minority of people in London. The Labour Party had no real concern for them when they were in power. The hon. Member for Willesden, East was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "SPORT AND YOUTH SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "oke—one respect in instant action can apparently be taken—with no consultation with any of the bodies whose purpose is to advise him. When asked for the reason, he said : I had all the necessary consultations with the Sports Council on matters on which it could properly advise me.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th July, 1971 ; Vol. 820, c. 1328.] In other words, the expenditure of 50 per cent. of its budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "SPORT AND YOUTH SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " he is glad that he has more money for his new independent Sports Council. We welcome that. I am delighted about it, although I am not so delighted about the source from which the money came. The Under-Secretary of State is part of a very big Ministry and therefore this money has come from another sector of it. What the hon. Gentleman is saying is that he has obtained money for sport from housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.815.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.820.2", "colnum": "820", "heading": "SPORT AND YOUTH SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What is wrong with that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "jected it. The Minister did his best, but everybody consulted has rejected this policy. If we want to know why he went on with the policy in the face of the very considerable rejection of it, the Amendment which is to be proposed gives the game away. It tells us perfectly clearly that the decision to have an independent sports council was taken in furtherance of the Government's election promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "SPORT AND YOUTH SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"ear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " hundred thousand pounds, but although the area also needs a youth centre the education authority could not get from the Government a decision on the provision of capital expenditure on that project at the same time as they got a decision on the allocation of capital funds for the school. This is typical of the difficulties which have been created. I apologise for taking more time than I intended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "SPORT AND YOUTH SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "gements, it was £40,500. In 1965–66, the first full year of the hon. Member's conduct of sporting affairs, it was 28,000, a drop of more than a quarter. Over the remaining years of his Government the hon. Gentleman raised the grant to £72,000 in 1966–67, cut it to £62,000 in 1967–68, moved it up to £100,000 in 1968–69, and cut it back again to £75,000 in 1969–70.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-15", "file": "debates1971-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c8ee20f042c1b108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS LEVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "course of events. The Regulations are placed before the House in circumstances in which the Under-Secretary of State has become a monster in the eyes of the British film industry. He is quoted in the today's \"Cinema\"—dated Friday, 19th July—as saying that it is not the Government's policy to put money into industries, especially industries like this which have no strategic or defence implications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-15a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-16", "file": "debates1971-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "f912980b5219a0ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-16a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGUILLA BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "We have not yet settled how that will be done. We have considered that possibly a referendum might be suitable, but I think we shall leave it flexible so that we can discuss with the Anguillans how this should be done. I would suggest to my hon. Friend that what happens on that island has no bearing on what happens in other parts of Her Majesty's Dominions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-16a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1020.4", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "It is certainly possible to give an assessment of the effect on differing industries. For instance, Mr. Ezra, of the National Coal Board, has said that the coal industry will benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1020.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1048.2", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "Does the Chancellor of the Exchequer realise with what satisfaction his statement has been received today, particularly his statement about the repayment of international debt, most of it incurred by the Labour Party? Secondly, what will be the cost to the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1048.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1051.5", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "ill find out the date and let the right hon. Gentleman know. Perhaps it will help if I read the next sentence which says : Britain has applied to join the Common Market. Why? What benefits would it bring? If we join customs officers in the Common Market countries would not put charges on our goods, our goods would then be cheaper over there and sell better. These countries are getting richer and\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1051.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he has not answered my main question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1052.2", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": " the Department. There was also a short version of the Geddes Report on the shipbuilding industry, Cmnd. 2937, published in March, 1966, when the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) was President of the Board of Trade. It was sent to all in the shipbuilding industry, but the resultant Shipbuilding Industry Act was not enacted until 1967. The policy had not been approved by Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1052.4", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "By you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, by saying that the document in question, which was issued free of charge——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1052.5", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Yes, after the approval by Parliament of the application. It stems from that date. This White Paper has nothing to do with the application—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1052.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1052.5", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Yes, after the approval by Parliament of the application. It stems from that date. This White Paper has nothing to do with the application—[ Interruption .] This White Paper includes the Government's conclusions on entry and is propagandist in tone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1052.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1052.5", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e application. It stems from that date. This White Paper has nothing to do with the application—[ Interruption .] This White Paper includes the Government's conclusions on entry and is propagandist in tone. [ Interruption .] The right hon. Gentleman once said—in September, 1969, when he was manoeuvring for Daily Express support—that our application was a disaster, so he has nothing to say on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1052.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that it is a rule of government, confirmed by a former head of the Information Service in The Times this morning and followed by all previous Governments, that no White Paper involving controversy can be issued free unless it has been approved by the House? Is he aware that when the previous Government wished to publish a free version of the superannuation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I reject that absolutely. We considered all the precedents, and in the circumstances of the case we believe that we are right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1053.6", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman address himself to the issue itself, which is bound to be of considerable constitutional importance, instead of merely reading out quotations? Does he admit that there is now a majority in the country opposed to these terms of entry? In those circumstances, how can he justify—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1053.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman saying that, because they think that Britain must enter the Common Market, the Government are prepared to ride roughshod over any constitutional issue in order to publish propaganda on it? Is that what he is telling the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1054.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "g Order No. 9, as revised, on a matter of urgent, definite public importance, namely, the Government's decision to issue party political propaganda through the free services of the Post Office. In moving this Motion, Mr. Speaker, I wish to submit three points, and they are all related to the constitutional, procedural aspect of the matter and not to the substance of the issue of the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1057.3", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"On Wednesday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "All right, but it is for Mr. Speaker to decide despite that interruption. The issue I wish to submit is based upon three propositions, first, that this matter has to be raised now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1057.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1059.5", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "No. In view of what my right hon. Friend has just said, I feel——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1059.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"You can withdraw it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Am I not right in saying—I am advised on these matters, and I do not act from my own knowledge—that if Mr. Speaker rules that the matter has precedence, I have no alternative but to do what I have done. You ruled on Friday, Mr. Speaker, that the matter had precedence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Is it a point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "May I raise a point?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "on. Member for raising a question because in the opinion of another hon. Member it was not a very important question. It is the right of every hon. Member to raise a question of privilege without the danger of incurring censure from fellow Members. On the other hand, it is up to the Committee of Privileges whether or not it passes some judgment. I suggest that the debate has been unduly prolonged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1070.2", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "So do you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "arty had developed a coherent policy for housing finance over the past six years. That brings me to question the position of the Labour Party. There is no doubt that, in electoral terms, right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite would have considerable advantage if they were able to point out to anyone whose rent had been increased as a result of our legislation what the Labour Party would have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1089.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "preceding_text": "We lost two hours from the beginning of this debate and I regret to say that we have now lost another half-hour from the time which might have been spent on serious discussion. I timed the right hon. Gentleman. Fifteen minutes of his speech were spent on the proposals in the White Paper, ten minutes on highly selective and amusing quotations from newspapers, almost all of them Tory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": " proposals will be bad, not merely for equity or for the tenants, but for the total rate of house building. There are individual proposals in the White Paper which we welcome, such as the private rent allowance, greater concentration of help in the areas of need, and paragraph 35 dealing with security of tenure for council tenants. I certainly accept the need for a total review of housing finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "I will tell you on another occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "We greatly enjoy the winding-up speeches of the right hon. Gentleman on a subject like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1167.4", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I understood the right hon. Gentleman to say that he thought it was unfair, and did I not think it unfair, to means-test the private and public tenant and not to do something similar to the owner-occupier?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1167.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1185.5", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL WORKINGS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "That is a legitimate observation to make, but, in the context of what we are dealing with here, although the Department has overall responsibility, the fact is, as we all know, that this fund has not been treated with, perhaps, the surveillance which we would all have wanted, by either Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-19", "file": "debates1971-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "97cbd724ba2745d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1216.9", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL WORKINGS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I must say that I view with slight regret the giving of so many Amendments to the Opposition if they take so long to accept them as they have done tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-19a.1216.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1236.3", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Rubbish !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "That must be very recently, because the hon. Gentleman may not be aware that the Hops Marketing Board told me three weeks ago that it had not had any contacts. As his right hon. Friend has just quoted the Brewers Society with approval, does he know that that Society said a few months ago that the effect of these proposals of the E.E.C. will mean the end of British beer as we know it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I shall give the hon. Member anything but a joke answer now. The halving of selective employment tax and the reductions in purchase tax, together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1244.2", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "No, I think that the cuts are being passed on to the housewife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "That is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DERBY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"TSR 2.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Coming back to the reality of the Derby situation, does the right hon. Gentleman agree—I think he does—that we on this side of the House, while totally disagreeing with the original decision of the Government on Rolls-Royce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH-WEST (INTERMEDIATE AREA STATUS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1255.9", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that in order to ask him a supplementary question about the Central Policy Review Unit, I had to ask this Question about his speech in Bexley and, worse still, I had to read the dull document? Will he suggest to the Table Office that his \"think tank\" is supposed to be engaged on matters of public importance and that Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1255.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1276.5", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Whose fault is that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "placency in the Chancellor's speech, that we were on the threshold of great things, which would have made it difficult for someone who was not aware of the facts to realise that the right hon. Gentleman was speaking against the background of probably the year of fastest price inflation in our history and certainly in the year of highest unemployment for 30 years, within the lifetime of most of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1276.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1276.6", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "The Conservative Opposition must realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1276.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will be kind enough to remain where he is for not very long, I shall come to that point and I shall be glad to have his support on my treatment of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1281.2", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Robert Carr)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is maintaining that an injection which I think is at an annual rate of about £1,400 million a year is insufficient now, will he explain why he felt it was not right to inject a great deal over a year ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1283.0", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ion a month—a deterioration of a further £12 million a month—what I said was that the balance of trade was deteriorating, and that is undoubtedly true ; in the fourth quarter it improved ; it was plus £18 million a month, but it did not go back to what it was in the first quarter. If the right hon. Gentleman wishes to refer to the balance of payments, in the first quarter it was plus £215 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1283.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And would melt away.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the second quarter £144 million, which is a deterioration of £71 million ; in the third quarter it was £76 million, which is a further deterioration of £68 million ; and in the fourth quarter it came back to £196 million and was still, therefore, £19 million below the first quarter. I want to get those figures on the record, because what I said was that the balance of payments was deteriorating——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Melting away\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "m, and I have faced them on the basis that anybody who knows anything about balance of payments affairs knows that there is always a considerable variation from quarter to quarter, and that nobody except the right hon. Gentleman and one or two of his acolytes now believes that when he said in June on the publication of the May, 1970, trade figures that this was a real deterioration he was at best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1284.3", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman now face the fact that there were three successive quarters—nine months—in which there was a deterioration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1284.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1284.5", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Yes\" or \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I also face the fact——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1284.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1285.2", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Let us deal with one point at a time. It then followed that 1970 turned out to be an even better year. If the Prime Minister wants a session of question and answer, will he tell us what measures he took in the first quarter of 1970 to retrieve the position for the year ending with the fourth quarter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " good, but there is no doubt out of whose balance of payments surplus they have done so. The £417 million remaining is small, only about 12 per cent. of the total outstanding, and could probably be paid off earlier than need be if that is desired. I hope that we will hear nothing more about the crushing burden of debt which this Government inherited. We incurred debt, there is no doubt about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "of wasted opportunities on an almost unprecedented scale. It was the one year in our recnt history when we had an absolutely secure balance of payments accompanied by substantial reserves of unused capacity. They have not been brought into use. Both men and machines have been increasingly under-employed. Inflation has been exacerbated and not moderatd. Every major election promise has been broken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "s much as it might have done. That sort of thing happens at this time of the year. But there has been a diminution in the rise in the price of manufactured foods—foods in cans. Those Members who expected huge cuts in food prices as a result of the cut in S.E.T. were sure to be disappointed. That tax amounted only to ½p in the pound on all food products, and the Government cut off ¼p.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ch was necessary for people moving between jobs would be about right. My right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins), a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, has said that if he were asked—I shall come back to this, because the House cannot dodge it ; no more can the hon. Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne) by making party points—whether the level of unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1376.2", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Government. How long is the sunshine going to last? What will influence those who will be taking investment decisions is whether they believe that this period of growth is here to stay, or whether this is a sudden boom, as it is being described, that will evaporate in the course of a year or two. When I heard the Chancellor yesterday, in some ways it was like seeing an old film coming round again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1376.2", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "s dismissed as frivolous. In one of the semi-heavies last Sunday, it was said that this was a frivolous proposition. But if the Chancellor comes forward with the aid of the C.B.I. and says, \"Let us go for 4½ per cent.\", that is the acme of statesmanship. That only goes to show how litle notice we need take of the criticisms that now appear in Conservative newspapers on a number of subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1385.5", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I mean the former. I do not mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1385.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Indeed ; I can look this up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1386.5", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Indeed I can. I apologise to the House for having temporarily mislaid the paper. I have now found it amongst my notes. I am sorry that it got stuck to another paper. In October, 1964 the unemployment figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1386.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1386.7", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "months of the right hon. Gentleman's period of office as Chancellor. This is why we are taking the action we are to correct it. It would have been much better had the Labour Government taken action as we are doing, when the figure has risen by that amount in a year. As for growth, on which the right hon. Gentleman is so keen, he achieved a growth rate of 17 per cent.—surely Mr. Stagnation himself!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1386.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-20", "file": "debates1971-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "029456f193296d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1386.7", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"What was it in 1964?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "s why we are taking the action we are to correct it. It would have been much better had the Labour Government taken action as we are doing, when the figure has risen by that amount in a year. As for growth, on which the right hon. Gentleman is so keen, he achieved a growth rate of 17 per cent.—surely Mr. Stagnation himself! [ Interruption .] As to the balance of payments figures of 1967–68—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-20a.1386.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1421.1", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"That makes a change.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "While totally rejecting any political interference of any kind with the B.B.C—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1432.0", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"What about dog licences?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "I think it would be expensive to make any more exceptions. Of course, it would be administratively possible to offer refunds throughout the year in respect of any portion of a licence, but we must balance the interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1449.0", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "It does not quite follow. I should like to make it perfectly clear that I would not wish to make any comment one way or the other. I realise the feelings that have been expressed on this matter. The last thing I would wish to take up is any party political position on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "culty in the course of the negotiations. The Conservative Government of 1961, the Labour Government of 1967, and the present Government of 1970 have all accepted it. It meant accepting the common agricultural policy of the Community, whether it was approved by many in this House or not, with any such adjustments as were considered necessary and desirable for new members over a transitional period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " meant accepting the common agricultural policy of the Community, whether it was approved by many in this House or not, with any such adjustments as were considered necessary and desirable for new members over a transitional period. [ Interruption .] I am saying exactly the reverse. Perhaps I may elucidate. I am saying that to enter into negotiations meant accepting the common agricultural policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1457.0", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recall that both in this House and during the General Election what my right hon. Friend, the Leader of the Opposition now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1457.0", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recall that both in this House and during the General Election what my right hon. Friend, the Leader of the Opposition now—[An HON. MEMBER : \"Which one?\"]—put to the House was the question of entering into negotiations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It has long been recognised that we could apply to enter into negotiations with the Community, but that unless we accepted the common agricultural policy negotiations would not begin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "and I have many friends and connections there. I have the greatest admiration for what Australia is achieving today. We have arranged that, instead of a phasing out period, there is the assurance that if there is any disruptive effect on its trade action will immediately be taken by the Community, of which we would be a member. We believe that this is a satisfactory safeguard for Australian trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nce that if there is any disruptive effect on its trade action will immediately be taken by the Community, of which we would be a member. We believe that this is a satisfactory safeguard for Australian trade. [ Interruption .] It is for the British Government and Parliament to decide, having weighed the merits of the case. For New Zealand dairy products we have made arrangements which will ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rrectly that the New Zealand Government have described our arrangements on these matters as a whole as \"highly satisfactory\". They were described by Mr. Marshall as \"very satisfactory\". The phrase \"highly satisfactory\" was used by the New Zealand Prime Minister to describe the review procedure—the review after three years and the commitment to continuing special arrangements for butter after 1977.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1462.0", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about Morocco?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n to continue a satisfactory arrangement after 1977, and when this is described as a unique arrangement which New Zealand has for five years, that is so. I cannot recall, nor do I think that the right hon. Gentleman with his experience at the Board of Trade and as Prime Minister can recall, any trading agreement in the world which gives such undertakings as New Zealand gets under this arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1461.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1463.2", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " world food prices and Community prices remain unchanged. This seems to us to be the right neutral assumption to make in a situation where it is at least as likely that the gap will be further reduced by rising world prices as it is that the gap will widen again. On this assumption the rise in the cost of living resulting from entry will be about half a new penny in the pound a year for six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1463.3", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ese aspects we have an assurance from the Community or a provision in the Treaty which defines the Community's obligations. The fundamental question for the House is really this : do we believe that the Community is now, and will be when we are in it, the kind of body that will approach these matters in a positive, constructive and reasonable manner? The answer must be—in my view—undeniably \"Yes\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1463.3", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sat through these last Parliaments can doubt that this is a question of immense concern to the House. At different times we have all faced calls for action from different parts of the House—action by Britain on Vietnam, on Biafra, and on Bengal. One can think of many other instances in which the British Government have been called upon by Members in all parts of the House to exert their influence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "is example and also quote a number of my statements. In the 1970 election manifesto, we said : These will be pressed with determination\"— referring to the negotiations— with the purpose of joining an enlarged Community provided that British and essential Commonwealth interests can be safeguarded. This year, unlike 1961–1963, Britain will be negotiating from a position of economic strength\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " might quote not just the selected piece that he quoted but a rather longer piece. We read on page 28 : If we can negotiate the right terms, we believe that it would be in the long-term interest of the British people for Britain to join the European Economic Community, and that it would make a major contribution to both the prosperity and the security of our country. The opportunities are immense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "e. We read on page 28 : If we can negotiate the right terms, we believe that it would be in the long-term interest of the British people for Britain to join the European Economic Community, and that it would make a major contribution to both the prosperity and the security of our country. The opportunities are immense. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear hear.\"] Economic growth and a higher standard of living\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "that it would be in the long-term interest of the British people for Britain to join the European Economic Community, and that it would make a major contribution to both the prosperity and the security of our country. The opportunities are immense. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear hear.\"] Economic growth and a higher standard of living\"— [HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear hear.\"] would result from having a larger market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "in the European Economic Community, and that it would make a major contribution to both the prosperity and the security of our country. The opportunities are immense. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear hear.\"] Economic growth and a higher standard of living\"— [HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear hear.\"] would result from having a larger market. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear hear.\"] But we must also recognise the obstacles No cheers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "the ranks of the Labour Party committed supporters of entry and committed opponents, both of them within the limits I have described, regardless of the terms. the official position of the party, since 1962, at the time of the application in 1967, and at all times since has been support for entry given the right terms, the necessary conditions and the essential safeguards on which we have insisted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1473.3", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is speaking for himself, he will no doubt be able to explain later precisely what he means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1473.3", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is speaking for himself, he will no doubt be able to explain later precisely what he means. [ Interruption .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite were seeking short-term advantage in 1969 when they thought they would get more votes by playing it cool on the Market. Perhaps that was the group about which the hon. Member for Woking (Mr. Onslow) was speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1473.7", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "He was so reported and I wish that he had issued a denial at the time, though I do not think that that would have suited his book then. I have referred to the right hon. Gentleman's question. I do not propose, for the benefit of the House, to go through the whole list of quotations that I could use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1473.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1473.7", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "t terms. No reference has been made to the necessary conditions and the achievement of acceptable terms. This charge can be fairly made about the quotations in the White Paper from me and also in the Conservative Political Centre's devoted publication, which I note with interest is being distributed at a cost of 25p and is not being issued, like other Tory propaganda, free through the Post Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1473.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " is to be taken, the disadvantages for Britain appear excessive in relation to the benefits for Britain which would flow from British entry, the Government clearly would not propose to Parliament that we should enter the Communities. If, on the other hand, the costs, after negotiations, appear acceptable in relation to the benefits, the Government will recommend entry…. We have made clear\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "hand, the costs, after negotiations, appear acceptable in relation to the benefits, the Government will recommend entry…. We have made clear\"— [ Interruption .] I trust that hon. Gentlemen opposite are bearing with me. I have still quoted far less of what I have said than the Prime Minister quoted of me. They must listen to what I am saying. They have spent enough party money falsifying it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " we believe that this will be advantageous for Britain, for Europe, and for Europe's voice in the world. Equally, we have made clear that if the conditions which emerge from the negotiations are in the Government's view not acceptable, we can rely on our own strength outside the Communities\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th February, 1970 ; Vol. 795, c. 1083–4.] It is on that basis that we approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "g system and of the ban on delivered price schemes, on those substantial and vital parts of the coal and steel industries which are located in the development areas of Scotland, Wales and the North, to say nothing of the intermediate areas? Would help such as that which was given by the Labour Government for the new aluminium smelters in Anglesey and in Northumberland and Invergordon be permitted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "tistical and other, that the Committee might require. It should also have power to sit in the recess and perhaps be asked to produce a report by 30th September. In view of the very special importance of this question—and most hon. Members are taking this issue seriously—it might be worth considering that Mr. Speaker be invited to preside over the Select Committee or, failing him, some experienced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1485.0", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "his afternoon, he seemed a little surprised, but there is a certain parallelism here. On that occasion France received a clear assurance that she could continue her existing arrangement with Morocco to the end of time if there were no adequate acceptance by the Common Market as a whole of her Morocco commitments on the negotiation of which she would have a veto. I come finally, of the four issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1485.0", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ou can get it …if there has to be a choice we are not entitled to sell our friends and kinsmen down the river for a problematical and marginal advantage in selling washing machines in Dusseldorf.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd August, 1961 ; Vol. 645, c. 1665.] I said that 10 years ago. On Saturday I said that I would not have recommended the Labour candidate—I mean Cabinet—to make the application—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Obviously, the hon. Gentleman was not listening, because I said, and I repeat—I do not want to weary the House by going through the quotations several times—that the arrangements for New Zealand products must be permanent if we were to use the transitional—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "While that laudable aim is certainly our view on this side of the House, the right hon. Gentleman is totally misrepresenting what I said. When I gave way to the right hon. Gentleman I did so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1494.0", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And accepted by New Zealand.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "on acceptable terms, and the clearly announced decision of our Government that we should decide in favour of entry only when the terms were available, and only if they were acceptable in accordance with the criteria we had laid down which I have just read to the House. I have proved in the last few minutes that the terms produced by Her Majesty's Government on this important issue of New Zealand——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1493.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1498.0", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why debate the position of the Labour Party?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "l expenditure. Again, in paragraph 44 they went further : In all other fields we accept, as I have already made clear, the obligations of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and the regulations, directives and other decisions taken under it, subject only to a transitional period and, of course, to developments in the Community in the mean time. I suggest that the Labour Party——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I am asked why debate the position of the Labour Party—because this is a great national issue and this is one political party of this country that has not expressed an opinion. I will tell the House what the advantages are, but I think that we are entitled to know from the Opposition where they stand on this great issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": " payments has never been so good. So who can turn round and say that if we do not go in we shall virtually perish or not prosper? It is nonsense to say that. I recall that in 1961 some of my hon. Friends, who are in the House now, quite seriously said that if we did not join the Common Market by 1970 we should merely be an offshore island of the commercial status of Portugal. Were they right then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1506.5", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "ve monetary union and probably a common currency with a federal reserve bank in Europe. We are told that we must go in for defence reasons ; in other words, to relieve the Americans of some of their burden, presumably, of conventional weapons in Europe. We shall have to take over part of that burden. If we do that the sensible thing is to integrate the European armies under one European commander.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1506.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1532.1", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "This is the herring catch, which is confined in many cases to the inshore waters. I am talking about the total catch, demersal, pelagic and the lot, of which 70 per cent. is outside the limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1532.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Lady did not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1554.3", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ginsburg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ginsburg", "preceding_text": "our Government. I venture one other important argument which arises here, namely, the price level in this country. If we had been successful in going into the Common Market in 1967 this would still have been a comparatively cheap country with a level of prices significantly lower than in Europe. That would have meant very serious adjustment problems. But by 1971 our prices have risen considerably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "It might be very well if I began by saying that I am speaking from the Opposition Front Bench and I intend to express my personal views in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"We know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "It might be very well if I began by saying that I am speaking from the Opposition Front Bench and I intend to express my personal views in this debate—[HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"] I will explain why this is in a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1573.0", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Yes, please.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": " this country In the years when we are in surplus on current account we can, of course, make good with a net outflow of capital. I hope that none of my hon. Friends will remain in terror about the outflow of capital. Quite apart from the safety clauses, they are thinking in terms of 18th and early 19th century mercantilism. They imagine that if I write a cheque for £10 million to invest in Paris——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "t of the electorate so that one is allowed to continue to make more changes. The first thing that will gain the assent of the electorate is to make a success of the mixed economy. At the same time one must see that its products are not directed in the way adopted by the present Government with its weighted tax reliefs and so on, but directed to the poorer people and the working people of our land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "d Power bloc —or a fourth Power bloc ; there are three in being at present. I prefer to call it a grouping rather than a bloc . \" Bloc \" has a sinister connotation. I always use words to give a meaning to the surrounding area that is consistent with my thoughts. That is why, when anyone talks about a referendum over the Common Market, I always talk about plebiscites. Of course, I am against them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1582.5", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "The objective, therefore, in the negotiations was to agree on reasonable transitional arrangements. The White Paper, in paragraphs 91 to 96, sets out what has been agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1582.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may be thinking about cheese. In respect of cheese it will be recalled that we made arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "g of this month : In 1967 the British Labour Government 'without reference to us and without our approval' limited its claim for a special case for New Zealand to butter. Fortunately that application did not succeed. New Zealand was then able to persuade the Conservative Government to include cheese in its statement of claim. I would not accept any limitation on the transitional period for butter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ards diversification of its economy and exports. The Community will seek to pursue a trade policy which will not frustrate these efforts. In the light of this examination, the Council, on a proposal by the Commission, will decide on suitable measures for ensuring, beyond 31st December, 1977, the continuation of the derogation system for New Zealand, and for determining the details of this system\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "man has accused me of being evasive, but I have throughout reported to the House exactly what happened. What has happened is that we have obtained an agreement with the Community, we have consulted the developing Commonwealth countries concerned and we have written into the record of the conference the understanding of what that agreement means in practical terms. The Commonwealth sugar producers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-21", "file": "debates1971-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1b032f793209e3ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ive, but I have throughout reported to the House exactly what happened. What has happened is that we have obtained an agreement with the Community, we have consulted the developing Commonwealth countries concerned and we have written into the record of the conference the understanding of what that agreement means in practical terms. The Commonwealth sugar producers—[ Interruption .] Yes they have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-21a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1657.3", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "s defence on his acquittal? I should have thought that that would have been refunded. Is the hon. and learned Gentleman also aware that the general situation is completely unsatisfactory, as the Court of Appeal found, because in effect the Lord Chief Justice reconvened the court on a second occasion after finding the evidence unsatisfactory, which was the ground on which I had proceeded all along?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1657.3", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ourt on a second occasion after finding the evidence unsatisfactory, which was the ground on which I had proceeded all along? [HON. MEMBERS : \"Too long.\"] I am sorry. This concerns one individual, and I will make myself heard. Eighty per cent. of the Questions asked in the House are asked by 30 per cent. of the Members. I do not know when I last asked a Question. I do not expect to be interrupted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1657.3", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "eeded all along? [HON. MEMBERS : \"Too long.\"] I am sorry. This concerns one individual, and I will make myself heard. Eighty per cent. of the Questions asked in the House are asked by 30 per cent. of the Members. I do not know when I last asked a Question. I do not expect to be interrupted. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"] This House is useless unless it can defend the position of men who have been wronged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1670.6", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend observed that since the publication of the White Paper, and since the arrière pensée of the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1670.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1678.2", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It was delivered at the weekend and it was put in the Library directly afterwards. As far as a stroke is concerned, the hon. Gentleman looks as though he might have suffered that fate recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1683.0", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "of the Consolidated Fund Bill being the time when hon. Members can raise any subjects that they wish. On his point about the Lords Amendments to the Industrial Relations Bill, it is fair to point out that as far as I have been able to check, the five days sittings for those Amendments to that Bill are considerably in excess of any time given for Lords Amendments in the whole history of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1685.2", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "he general wish of the House to have such a debate I would provide time. Having said that, I will fulfil my undertaking. What surprised me was the fact that when I announced the results of the report of the Services Committee last week I received the unmistakable impression from the House that it did not desire such a debate. Therefore, I took the view that perhaps it did not desire such a debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1687.1", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"As long as this one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "If I can help the right hon. Gentleman, of course it is also a matter for the House, because one can speak twice only with leave of the House. Perhaps it would also help him and his right hon. and learned Friend if I were to say that, given leave of the House, I would expect the statement to be extremely brief—hardly any longer than the rather long question of the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1696.4", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER : \"AS a result of your policies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "to know the extent to which they accept that analysis. Still more important, I want to hear a clear answer to the comment made by my hon. Friend the Member for Cheetham last night. The economic object of this exercise is additional growth. It will be nullified unless they pursue policies totally different from those which we have seen in the past year. With today's disastrous unemployment figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1696.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1696.4", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER : \"With borrowing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " the past year. With today's disastrous unemployment figures—[AN HON. MEMBER : \"AS a result of your policies.\"] No, I do not agree, although I admit that successive Governments and Chancellors of the Exchequer have not had a very inspiring growth performance. That is the basis on which we start. However, I did not sit on a balance of payments surplus of £600 million without doing anything with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1696.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1717.1", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "d at a loss price would be regarded by the Community as a concealed subsidy to our exports. Again, penalties are out, if not strictly by the law none the less by its results. If we impose on our manufacturers taxes which are not imposed on the Continent, that will put them in an unfair trading position, and, in practice, we shall be not able to do so. In practice, redistributional taxation is out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1717.1", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : It was Aneurin Bevan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "taxes are not imposed, I think that we are a little naïve to expect them to stay here. In practice it will not happen. The third exclusion is quotas and controls. I take this to mean that Socialism is out. A lot of hon. Members opposite and people outside the House may think that an excellent thing, but I think it was Herbert Morrison who said that priorities were the language of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1730.1", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "That is reassuring up to a point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1761.0", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "r in favour of the Motion and one against. I know that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, are in some difficulty. I ask that Mr. Speaker be confronted with the facts. The facts are in HANSARD. I waited to hear the right hon. Member for Taunton (Mr. du Cann) speak, because I have seen a number on the benches opposite who are against going into the Common Market. It is grossly unfair to find that 13 speakers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1761.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1785.0", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is irrelevant.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "erybody said that that was a ridiculous range and the Government should be able to make a more accurate estimate of the cost involved. But this Government have not even attempted such a calculation in their White Paper. It was significant that this afternoon my right hon. Friend did not spend any time at all on the value-added tax. He did not deal with the issue of selectivity versus universality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1785.1", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "etitive world. Britain can survive, and whether it might not be possible for her to develop an economy on the lines of some of the smaller countries, such as Austria or Sweden, or Japan in the Far East. I do not advocate the economic and political system of Japan, but if she can obtain that degree of growth in that type of country, we, with a democratic Socialist Government, could obtain the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1785.1", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": " situation. I want the sort of society in which we can help one another, through economic competitiveness, wherever we live. This is an important issue. I do not see how the British people can be consulted. The arm-twisting has already started. The pressure is on for Members of Parliament to express a point of view. I have not come across these problems on this side, but I do know that they exist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1789.3", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "preceding_text": "ntry joining Europe. One cannot say that television and radio are biased against our entry. Indeed, they have made up their mind, having exercised their judgment in the matter. Nevertheless, public opinion is emphatically against Britain joining the E.E.C. and I deplore the Government's campaign to change the minds of the British people in this matter. Outside the Community we are doing very well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1789.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1808.0", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "preceding_text": "epresentatives? I imagine that the breakdown in the present Parliament would be 18 Conservatives, 17 Socialists and one Liberal. I think that that would be a proper proportion. Will they be appointed by the patronage of the Whips, in the same way that delegations to the Council of Europe are appointed? Or will we somehow elect them from the House in those party proportions? Will peers be eligible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1811.3", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Members that I have been able to call. About 150 back benchers wanted to speak. I was able to call 12 yesterday and about 16 today. On Monday I am disposed to try an experiment. I will have to call the Front Benches, and there are four Privy Councillors, two on each side, differing in their views. After that, I am disposed to call only hon. Members who will guarantee to speak for under 10 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1811.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1811.4", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ll the Front Benches, and there are four Privy Councillors, two on each side, differing in their views. After that, I am disposed to call only hon. Members who will guarantee to speak for under 10 minutes. [ Interruption .] I have no power to impose a sanction. I am the servant of the House. I have therefore said this as an indication of what I think would be the overwhelming view of hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-22", "file": "debates1971-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "620a1a4a033e0c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman diverts me into forecasting. One can look at the areas where the tariff will be drastically reduced. There is no provision for anyone to bring his anxieties to this Parliament before we are asked to vote. It is all done on hearsay, and on C.B.I., Economist and Financial Times estimates. There is no provision at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-22a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-23", "file": "debates1971-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "caa569ff3f82dea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1849.3", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"There are more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "needs of our inshore fisheries and those of the deep sea fleet. I hope that the House will recognise the importance of what I have just said. This is not just a matter of the inshore fisheries ; it is a matter of the deep sea fisheries, too. There are just as many important fishermen in Hull, Grimsby, Fleetwood, Aberdeen and Lowestoft, my constituency, as there are in other places round the coast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1849.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-23", "file": "debates1971-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "caa569ff3f82dea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1863.0", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John E. B. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John E. B. Hill", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is objecting to the C.A.P. as a whole. Is he aware that the principles of the C.A.P. are broadly acceptable and that his right hon. Friend was objecting to the working of a particular part of it? There is no permanency about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-23", "file": "debates1971-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "caa569ff3f82dea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "cent. must give farmers confidence to invest, and they must try to attain this target. Entry into Europe will present a challenge to the agricultural industry. It will provide a great opportunity for British agriculture to do what it should have done under previous administrations, both Tory and Socialist, and that is to produce more of our own food instead of being at the mercy of growers abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-23", "file": "debates1971-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "caa569ff3f82dea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1878.1", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "preceding_text": "already been descheduled by the actions of this Government, that would be a decision of the British Government and not of the Community. It has been said that entry into the Community on these terms would represent a national economic disaster. In other words it is not just a matter of asking : \"Are these terms more or less good, have we adequate guarantees for New Zealand and the sugar islands?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-23", "file": "debates1971-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "caa569ff3f82dea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "ndoubtedly be created in Western Europe. Then the leaders in the Kremlin, however reasonable they may be, will not be able to stand up against hard-line Communists in Russia who will tell them, \"Here you see the divided bourgeois world. It is the duty of a Communist regimé to exploit those divisions.\" In such a situation, our safety can lie only in promoting further unity in Western Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-23", "file": "debates1971-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "caa569ff3f82dea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1895.3", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "preceding_text": "increasing during the whole period. The right hon. Lady claimed that she was an imperialist. I am not. But I am not a free trade liberal either. Here I agree absolutely with the brilliant speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Dell), even though he pinched some of my arguments. I was going to refer briefly to the common agricultural policy, not because I like it—nobody does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-23", "file": "debates1971-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "caa569ff3f82dea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1895.3", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "preceding_text": "d more anti-German feeling than anything else, and it was also one of the causes of the first war. I am not one of those who take an easy view of what will happen if we do not join the Common Market. Instead, I take a grim view about it because I believe that if we now refuse entry whatever Government are then in power will find themselves with no foreign policy at all and no friends in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-23", "file": "debates1971-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "caa569ff3f82dea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1907.1", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) will forgive me if I do not comment on the remarks he made in his most sincere and moving speech. I am not faced with the problem of having to convince myself on this issue, for I convinced myself 10 years ago and I have not moved one jot either way since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-23", "file": "debates1971-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "caa569ff3f82dea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "on? I turn now to a matter in which even he cannot interrupt—fisheries. I speak as a Member for Hull, which has a fish dock. What are the fears of the men there, whether sailing in the North Atlantic or in the middle waters? They have two fears. The first is that the North-East Atlantic is over-fishea. The second is expressed in the view that \"All foreigners are poachers, they are cheats, but we—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-23a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.6.5", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pathetic or prophetic?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that that is an extremely pathetic answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.6.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "not, and it worries me. Is the Minister aware that in recent months the new Chairman of the Coal Board, Derek Ezra, has been issuing, or has allowed to be issued, propaganda suggesting that 40,000 extra mining jobs will be created if we join the E.E.C.? While that is hypothetical conjecture and sounds very rosy, perhaps the Minister will help us. I am not too concerned about the 40,000 extra jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman leaves the car industry, would he accept from me that car workers in the West Midlands are very concerned about the inroads made by car companies in the Six into the British home market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "he next five to 10 years, the Community is likely to be spending proportionately much less on agricultural support and more on regional policy, industrial development and so on, from which we should benefit on an equal footing with other members. As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has pointed out, as a member of the Community we shall be sharing in the control and direction of these funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I apologise for interrupting my right hon. Friend yet again, but would he say at what date harmonisation is due? I understood that it was originally 1973.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "be able to meet the costs of entry. I have already explained why I believe that joining the Community will lead to an increased growth rate. It is this which will make it possible not only to pay for the costs of entry but also to provide for a more rapid improvement in our standard of living. As we have stated in the White Paper, if the rate of growth were to rise by only half a percentage point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "een special regional problems, they have all managed their economies at a very high level of employment. This indicates the high priority which they attach to this objective of economic policy. In October Parliament will decide whether we go in or whether we stay out. I have never sought to exaggerate the difficulties of staying out. There would be no sudden cataclysmic disaster if we do not join.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " Select Committee to examine these details of fact. There is, for example, the question of the missing £500 million, which the Chancellor says was absolute nonsense, but which the Economist and most other newspapers have quoted and which can be worked out, as it was worked out by my right hon. Friend the Member for Battersea, North. Indeed, my right hon. Friend puts the figure considerably higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ical as well as economic consequences, and the political consequences could be serious indeed for Wales, for Scotland, for the North-East and for Northern Ireland. It would be a strange irony, but not an impossible outcome, if the measure which is designed to solder us more closely within the European Community had the effect of splintering the United Kingdom. But I believe that that could happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "dinary people have been better protected under this Parliament than in most other countries. We do not want to see those liberties taken away from us, particularly by a Government who are not even explaining the matter to us. It was a great Frenchman, greater even perhaps than M. Pompidou, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who said: Liberty diminishes where the State enlarges. That may very well be the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ho said: Liberty diminishes where the State enlarges. That may very well be the case. [ Interruption .] Yes, indeed, and that is why some of us on this side have argued for the strengthening of industrial democracy and the rights of ordinary people in their factories and local government and elsewhere to exercise their democratic rights. That is why we say above all else, and will continue to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.62.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "It is in HANSARD. The record is there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.68.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey de Freitas", "preceding_text": " entry to the Common Market. For footwear, I am content to accept the view of the Director of the Federation of British Footwear Manufacturers who has seen the British industry which was first 10 years ago, overtaken by the Italians and by the French, and now says: The question is, not ' Shall we survive in the Common Market?' It is, rather, 'Shall we survive if we do not enter the Common Market?'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roland Moyle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roland Moyle", "preceding_text": "he transition period. It is not good enough. I think that M. Pompidou saw us coming. Our criticism on this side, I believe, is that the Government played a weak hand weakly. It was a weak hand at the beginning because, at the outset, we were trying to get in, and because this Government are led by a Prime Minister who is determined to take this country into Europe, no matter what the price may be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " Home Secretary, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer at one time, will answer this point. The resource cost is not even mentioned in the White Paper. In my view, the effect on the cost of living is underestimated, because it is unrealistic to believe that common agricultural policy prices will not rise faster in the next few years than world prices. Indeed, it is likely that world prices may fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "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": "ht of something which refers to the attitude of his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition to the E.E.C. He reminds me of the: … young man of Brent, Whose foot was unhappily bent. To save himself trouble, He bent it back double, And instead of coming he went. I must apologise for this frivolity. That is a chestnut which has been adapted. I now come to the basic issues of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "ca and Canada, an outward-looking body and trading organisation. But somehow impetus in the O.E.E.C. ran out. With the elimination of quotas, there was not much more for it to do. Tariffs were the business of G.A.T.T. Thus, at that time, the six countries of the Community felt that they should make a further move forward in economic cooperation and integration. We at first were sceptical about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.155.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "Mr. Shore rose —;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.165.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.165.7", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "Mr. Shore rose —;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.165.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.165.10", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ided to accept the Treaty of Paris in its entirety, requiring only a transitional period, and what we have got is a transitional period—once again precisely what his Government thought would be suitable. If that be so, and it is true that the leaders of the coal and steel industries emphatically say that in their belief entry into Europe on these terms will be in the interests of their industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.165.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-26", "file": "debates1971-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "515e008bf1df93ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Curran", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Curran", "preceding_text": "wards. For more than 50 years it was the unvarying rule of the House that any Member who put down a Question had to get up and read it. In the end, one of your predecessors in the Chair decided that he had had enough of it. The date was 1880, and your predecessor was Mr. Speaker Brand—a very strong, tough-minded Speaker, who, as we remember, put an end to the practice of parliamentary obstruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-26a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-27", "file": "debates1971-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "781c54c009f83ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.207.8", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLDHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I regret that, because the Prime Minister would be able to explain to the people of Oldham why South-East Lancashire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.207.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-27", "file": "debates1971-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "781c54c009f83ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.207.8", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLDHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I regret that, because the Prime Minister would be able to explain to the people of Oldham why South-East Lancashire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"]—which has the highest proportion of unfit housing in the country is rigidly excluded from any assistance with extra improvement grant under the present Housing Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.207.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-27", "file": "debates1971-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "781c54c009f83ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.207.8", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLDHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "—which has the highest proportion of unfit housing in the country is rigidly excluded from any assistance with extra improvement grant under the present Housing Bill—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"]—just because it is outside any development or intermediate area, even though unemployment in the Oldham area has more than doubled in the last month. Will the Prime Minister explain to the people of Oldham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.207.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-27", "file": "debates1971-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "781c54c009f83ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "SOUTH-EAST WALES (UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mr. Gibson-Watt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mr. Gibson-Watt)", "preceding_text": "f reasoned and courteous speeches and I shall do my best to answer as many as possible of the points which have been raised. I shall not be able to answer in detail the three points raised by the hon. Member for Aberdare (Mr. Probert), but I shall be pleased to answer him in correspondence. Nor shall I answer the speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for Kensington, South (Sir B. Rhys Williams)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-27", "file": "debates1971-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "781c54c009f83ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "SCOTLAND (UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "preceding_text": " our area. The Secretary tried to persuade me to play down the bleak prospects. When we find that Chamber of Commerce is worried things are really bad. I ask the Government to treat Dundee as they have treated other areas with comparable unemployment and with prospects not as bad as ours. They have given those other areas special development status but have refused to accord the same status to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-27", "file": "debates1971-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "781c54c009f83ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "SCOTLAND (UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "lling us anything. We have to drag things out of them. We do not know what the report of the advisers will produce tomorrow or the next day. But, whatever it produces, whatever condemnation it might contain of the previous Government, this House and the country have a right to know where the trouble started, who started it, and the people who caused it ought to be brought to account in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-27", "file": "debates1971-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "781c54c009f83ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "SCOTLAND (UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "l us whether it is a fact that the other yards on the Clyde, Yarrow's and Lower Clyde, are crying out to recruit labour, and, further, whether it is a fact that there are elements among the trade unions on the Upper Clyde who have indicated to any present employees of U.C.S. that if they should consider applying for jobs with Yarrow's or with Lower Clyde they would do so at risk to their families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-27", "file": "debates1971-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "781c54c009f83ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "SCOTLAND (UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "yde, Yarrow's and Lower Clyde, are crying out to recruit labour, and, further, whether it is a fact that there are elements among the trade unions on the Upper Clyde who have indicated to any present employees of U.C.S. that if they should consider applying for jobs with Yarrow's or with Lower Clyde they would do so at risk to their families. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] These reports are circulating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.352.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-27", "file": "debates1971-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "781c54c009f83ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.354.2", "colnum": "354", "heading": "SCOTLAND (UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the right hon. Gentleman. What I asked hon. and right hon. Gentlemen to refute was that Yarrow's and Lower Clyde were seeking to recruit employees and were unable to do so. I asked how they explained this situation in a condition of serious unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.354.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-27", "file": "debates1971-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "781c54c009f83ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "SCOTLAND (UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "preceding_text": "riod ahead, either short-term or long-term. Economic forecasting is one of the most dangerous sciences in which we can indulge. I can give the right hon. Gentleman a few figures, however. The number of unemployed in Scotland has risen from 93,000 at the last General Election to 134,500. This follows a steady loss of jobs during the years 1966–70, when over 80,000 jobs were lost to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-27a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"School milk?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I would think it wholly wrong if any local authority were to interrupt a contract which was already in the pipeline. I would think it very regrettable if any local authority were to suspend the policy of selling council houses. For the time being, I would rather leave it to the judgment of the local authority. I find it very difficult to interfere in their local judgments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.548.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.550.5", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would not wish to misrepresent the Government. We have said \"between £100 million and £200 million\", and I am not at all sure that we shall save more than £100 million by the middle of the decade——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.550.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.550.6", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why say it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer said between £100 million and £200 million. We do not know, because we do not know how many people will apply for the rebate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.550.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "The net effect of this will be a doubling of council rents on average, an increase of council rents for three or four years ahead of virtually 25 per cent. a year, means-testing on a mass scale for the first time and a large saving in Government subsidies. The right hon. Gentleman must be able to estimate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has given us his estimate. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor said that it would be between £100 million and £200 million savings by the middle of the decade. We do not know within £100 million what it will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has given us his estimate. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor said that it would be between £100 million and £200 million savings by the middle of the decade. We do not know within £100 million what it will be—[ Laughter .]—nor do we pretend to know. We are not putting forward this reform as a means of saving money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.556.8", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "Bearing in mind the exemptions that have already been made to the 1968 Act, would my right hon. Friend consider discounting waiting time at the docks as part of the 10-hour working day, and thereby at a stroke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.556.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.572.2", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I am advised that it is a characteristic example of what might be called the Mellish-Silkin period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.572.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I proposed five days for consideration of this stage of the Bill because I accept that there are a number of Amendments, 343 in all, many of them Amendments proposed by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.577.9", "colnum": "577", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Mr. Whitelaw Certainly, but they are perectly good precedents for what I have done. In view of all that was said inside and outside the House, I am surprised to find hon. Members objecting to a sensible procedure for voting and Divisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.577.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The most endearing quality about the right hon. Gentleman is that he loves to be loved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "mocratic right to vote on Amendments which were to be embodied in the law. When that stage was over, the murmurs began. I heard them from a number of hon. Members opposite. It was said, \"What is all this old-fashioned nonsense about proposals not becoming law unless Parliament has had a chance to vote on them? We have stopped them debating. Do you mean to say that we cannot stop them voting, too?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.586.3", "colnum": "586", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "It is well within my recollection that many excellent, constructive speeches were made by the right hon. Lady's colleagues and by my hon. Friends. But it is also within my recollection that for sheer propaganda purposes others wasted time in order to delay the passage of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.595.2", "colnum": "595", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "We seem to be embarking on a self-elongating exercise in that every speaker provokes two from the other side into replying. I can only endorse what was said by my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Sir Harmar Nicholls).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.595.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady also mentioned Amendment No. 301, which is certainly interesting and important. But I am sure that my hon. Friends will not interfere if right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite wish to have practically the whole of one day on a particular Clause within the guillotine Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "ef Whip is in the Chamber now. I would say to him and to anyone else who is in the next Labour Government that, no matter what precedents are settled this afternoon, the next Labour Government should not be tempted to operate this provision. I give my right hon. Friend notice that it, at any time, we attempt to introduce a Motion of this sort, I will vote against it. I regard it as very important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. R. Kinsey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. R. Kinsey", "preceding_text": "t to vote, and my record in this matter is there for all to see. On the last night of the Committee stage of the Industrial Relations Bill I voted on every Amendment. I walked through the Lobby throughout the night and during the following morning. We should bear in mind the tactics of hon. Gentlemen opposite on that occasion. It was a propaganda and disruptive exercise on which they were engaged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.605.3", "colnum": "605", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "preceding_text": "We were, but even when we are working one-quarter of the time, that looks like double time compared with hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.612.4", "colnum": "612", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Certainly not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.612.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "This has never been done, except in regard to Lords Amendments. But it has been done before on Lords Amendments, and we are doing it again. I notice that the right hon. Lady is wriggling away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "e on the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, of the first postwar Labour Government and the Transport Act, 1968, introduced by the right hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn. Both these examples show that the amount of time we are providing for consideration of Lords Amendments is more generous than has ever been the case in parliamentary history. I have only three minutes to make my final remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " question is whether the Amendment is acceptable. It is acceptable to all parties. We could have by now been dealing with the fifth or sixth Amendment. There are over 300 Amendments and it will be to the advantage of the country if as many of them as possible are properly debated. I appeal to hon. Gentlemen opposite not to waste the time of the House on Amendments which are wholly unexceptionable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " fifth or sixth Amendment. There are over 300 Amendments and it will be to the advantage of the country if as many of them as possible are properly debated. I appeal to hon. Gentlemen opposite not to waste the time of the House on Amendments which are wholly unexceptionable—[ Interruption .] Wasting time on Amendments which are entirely acceptable and because of that we do not get on with matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Curran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Curran", "preceding_text": "most of them have been a good deal better than that. His speech was a classic example of how to drop bricks without having the straw to make them with. His grievance, as far as I understand it, is that the Bill gives a worker the right to join as he may choose, but the hon. Member would like him to have that right provided he chooses in accordance with the wishes of the Labour Party or the T.U.C.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We on this side have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "For years we in the House have been talking about the transferability of pensions from firm to firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I am getting a little worried about this interchange. I was not able to listen to the introduction to the discussion, and I am probably stepping off on the wrong foot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You should come and listen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I am getting a little worried about this interchange. I was not able to listen to the introduction to the discussion, and I am probably stepping off on the wrong foot. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am always perfectly willing to declare that I do not know something. The Opposition would be far better if they learned a little more sometimes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The House comes first.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "ried about this interchange. I was not able to listen to the introduction to the discussion, and I am probably stepping off on the wrong foot. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am always perfectly willing to declare that I do not know something. The Opposition would be far better if they learned a little more sometimes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You should come and listen.\"] I had other business to attend to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What a question !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": ", because I will just stand here until I have said what I want to say. In fact, I am rather enjoying standing here, because I can have a good look at all the hon. Members opposite. Where I am is a very good observation post. I want to know for certain that this provision will not affect the right of the professional engineers now involved in the C. A. Parsons dispute, many of them my constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not miners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I am rather enjoying standing here, because I can have a good look at all the hon. Members opposite. Where I am is a very good observation post. I want to know for certain that this provision will not affect the right of the professional engineers now involved in the C. A. Parsons dispute, many of them my constituents. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What a question !\"] I can stand up for them if I want to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.696.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.696.4", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. and learned Gentleman the leave of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Almost.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "ion in due course, but he does not have a union card at the time of starting work. In such a firm as that, one often finds that there is an agreement between the trade union and the employer that if either side finds someone unsatisfactory his employment will be terminated. In many industries the very fact that a man holds a union card almost guarantees that he has the necessary skill for the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. R. Kinsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. R. Kinsey", "preceding_text": "We cannot allow this part of the debate to pass without a word from these benches. I was surprised to hear the hon. Member for Liverpol, Walton (Mr. Heffer) talk about the situation working happily. One of the greatest forms of tyranny that the trade unions exert is. the denial of the right to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "preceding_text": "hing he says, and I follow him with great interest. This arrogance on the part of the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) in saying that the N.U.M. will demand membership from everyone because it cannot encourage people to join by its example of what it does for its members is the most outrageous conduct I have ever known from a trade unionist and it must be refuted from this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "preceding_text": "st. This arrogance on the part of the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) in saying that the N.U.M. will demand membership from everyone because it cannot encourage people to join by its example of what it does for its members is the most outrageous conduct I have ever known from a trade unionist and it must be refuted from this side of the House. [ Interruption .] The collier is a skilled man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Clause is a Eunuchs' Charter. It is a device whereby over the years men with a large number of wives have protected their interests, by castrating those who are caring for them. This is emasculation taken into industrial relations. It is making quite sure that those who can come in under the Clause shall be harmless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "tely abortive. It is no use any Legislature in the world producing what may well be in the legalistic sense perfect legislation unless the terminology used in that legislation is understandable to the ordinary people to whom the legislation applies and there is a high acceptability factor in the law. I return to the hon. Member for Bridgwater. He made a claim to which we should pay some attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "irms which will not have the expertise which might be necessary—and I use \"might\" deliberately—to enable them to keep within the confines of the legislation we are proposing. I should like to know how many ordinary employers, not workers, would be able to follow through the Amendment as it is laid down. For the benefit of those who may want to look at it, it is on page 3 of the list of Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " might have been taken originally, I find it difficult to understand how the Opposition can refuse the Amendment once the principle becomes law. It is said, secondly, that the main provisions are a recipe for anarchy. All one can say is that we had a number of synthetic speeches from the members of the miners' union, who have now mainly left the House having delivered themselves of those speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.726.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is a reflection on the Chair.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "g members of a union which is not prepared to uphold the law of the country. For how long are we to go on abusing the ordinary constitutional processes of the House of Commons? I have sat here since 4 o'clock this afternoon. From 5.30 until 11 p.m., because this is an industrial Bill, we heard speech after speech which was manifestly a Second Reading speech, and wholly irrelevant and out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-28", "file": "debates1971-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f741b19764c3ee55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker, but as you would not accept that the others were not Second Reading speeches, I take it that exactly the same conditions will apply to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-28a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.761.5", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adam Butler", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adam Butler", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that paragraph 6( c ) on the first page of the consultative document says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.761.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it needed a major debate on the Industrial Relations Bill in Committee to get words into the Bill to prevent it from actively discouraging workers from joining trade unions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ns? [ Interruption ] Hon. Members opposite have not taken part in these debates and do not know. It was the hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mr. David Mitchell) and others who had to point out to the right hon. Gentleman that as it then stood the Bill actively discouraged workers from joining a union. That is why the Government had to move an Amendment. Then we awaited the Code of Industrial Practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "s and do not know. It was the hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mr. David Mitchell) and others who had to point out to the right hon. Gentleman that as it then stood the Bill actively discouraged workers from joining a union. That is why the Government had to move an Amendment. Then we awaited the Code of Industrial Practice—[ Interruption .] I am sorry that hon. Members opposite do not like the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "o had to point out to the right hon. Gentleman that as it then stood the Bill actively discouraged workers from joining a union. That is why the Government had to move an Amendment. Then we awaited the Code of Industrial Practice—[ Interruption .] I am sorry that hon. Members opposite do not like the facts—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] I have asked the right hon. Gentleman whether it is not a fact —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I am answering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.762.5", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.762.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The message of hope I have for the hon. Member's constituents is that the careers officers locally are not unduly worried about the position there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.775.8", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "ave any mandate whatever from the British people, who in every area are against entry into the Common Market, and as he himself said at the general election that the only commitment was to negotiate, how has the Prime Minister the face to state that a vote of this Parliament, whether with writs or no writs, will reflect the full-hearted support of the British people, without which he himself said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.775.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.777.4", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEST MIDLANDS (OFFICIAL VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister try to reserve some time for informal discussion with ordinary people in the Black Country who would like to talk to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.777.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I have no sense of shame—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.788.5", "colnum": "788", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Has the Leader of the House seen Early Day Motion No. 666, which he will appreciate represents the only way in which I can raise the subject with which it deals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.788.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "With characteristic exaggeration, the right hon. Gentleman seeks to cloak his own manifest responsibility for the situation. He criticises this Group, which is both expert and impartial —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " have been some figures before the Cabinet when it reached a view as to how many redundancies would be involved and what the cost to public funds would be. Will he tell the House what figures the Cabinet had? Will he also tell the House why the Advisory Group's report has been published without a single figure in it anywhere? If the right hon. Gentleman believes that responsibility lies elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.795.3", "colnum": "795", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "But is it not time that both the House and the country recognised that neither of the right hon. Gentlemen opposite is wholly responsible for this tragic situation? Was it not very fully predicted in the D.S.I.R. Report on the industry, published in 1960, and does the Minister not agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.795.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must warn the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.799.3", "colnum": "799", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The responsibility for this event lies squarely on the Front Bench opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.799.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.799.5", "colnum": "799", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I cannot allow this to continue. This is a matter which ought to be debated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.799.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.799.8", "colnum": "799", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, in view of the callous and unfeeling attitude of the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.799.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "—which has been endemic in Government policy since the right hon. Gentleman's maiden Ministerial speech nine months ago, does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that it is not from him that we want to hear and that in the debate that must take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman not acknowledge that this is the purpose of the exercise? Suppose a large union makes a claim for an agency shop and there is a small union whose claim to represent the workers in the shop has not yet been disposed of. If the C.I.R. saw that by going ahead with the agency shop ballot it would be excluding the small union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.845.5", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The same observations must apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.845.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "widely as possible as quickly as possible. There is no time limit in the Amendment, because if I knew how long it would take, what the case load would be in advance, I should not have to have these flexible powers; powers could be written in. It is because nobody can forecast that it is right to have flexibility. We will start by making these provisions available to companies above a certain size.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "ion, we decided that those who got the benefit should face their responsibilities. What did we do? The answer to that question is the short answer to the right hon. Gentleman. We considered which two departments were of so much significance to the factory that if we stopped them the whole factory would stop. By coincidence, the two departments concerned were almost 100 per cent. trade union shops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "It depends. There are a variety of situations, as the hon. Gentleman knows as well as anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "It depends. There are a variety of situations, as the hon. Gentleman knows as well as anybody. [ Interruption .] My assertion did not justify the anxious grunt that it provoked from the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "It depends. There are a variety of situations, as the hon. Gentleman knows as well as anybody. [ Interruption .] My assertion did not justify the anxious grunt that it provoked from the hon. Gentleman. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The hon. Gentleman grunts as eloquently as anybody in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Bidwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a blue book.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Bidwell", "preceding_text": " union officials to sit down and interpret this kind of twaddle as it affects industrial relations. It will simply upset the workers if they try to do so. I said earlier that it was not the thoughts of Chairman Mao, but the thoughts of Geoffrey Howe. After this addition to Clause 16, we shall have to have a few more pages attached to that little book. I do not know whether it is a little red book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-29", "file": "debates1971-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "e233421158bd6e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.959.5", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwynoro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynoro Jones", "preceding_text": "se? The future prosperity of Carmarthen and of West Wales depends on this infrastructure improvement. Tourism depends on it. Industrial development depends on it. I am glad to see two hon. Members opposite have come to listen, as has my right hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, West, who was actively concerned in the preparation pool schemes, and especially with the southern by-pass of Carmarthen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-29a.959.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-07-30", "file": "debates1971-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "eabcfd7e6ef4789a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-30a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "FARM CAPITAL GRANTS (ORCHARDS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "he success in future of British growers is concentration on first varieties be they dessert or culinary. In my own constituency, we have a fairly heavy concentration of apple production in two villages, Haddenham and Wilburton, in the southern part of the Isle of Ely and up in the north around Wisbech both of dessert and culinary varieties. Incidentally, I prefer to call the culinary ones cookers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-07-30a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1063.7", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs, St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs, St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. and learned Friend observed that this massive swing in public opinion in favour of entry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1063.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1066.6", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. and learned Gentleman then deny, in the light of what he has said, that the Prime Minister has been pursuing plans for some time to create a joint Anglo-French nuclear command, which would be a third nuclear command?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1066.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1066.6", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "een pursuing plans for some time to create a joint Anglo-French nuclear command, which would be a third nuclear command? [ Interruption .] I know that it has the support of some hon. Members opposite. Would the Minister admit that this plan is still in the mind of the Prime Minister and that the Government have failed to put any of these ideas before the House in the debate on entry to the E.E.C.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1066.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "These questions have been put from time to time to the Prime Minister and he has answered them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1084.2", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "Clyde Shipbuilders. If what was said in the Advisory Group Report were true, and it is not, then the Government could lay all the responsibility on the Labour Government, which is what they wish to do. The wording of the Advisory Group's recommendations bear a very striking resemblance to a pamphlet published two or three weeks ago by Aims of Industry and was clearly inspired by the same thinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1084.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1084.2", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "y called the Three Wise Men—made no attempt, and I have checked this, to investigate the conditions that prevailed at the time of the formation of U.C.S. The Advisory Group had one hour-long interview with Sir William Swallow, but he was asked no questions as to the conditions at the time when U.C.S. was formed. The Group also made no attempt to interrogate me about the part I played at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1084.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Looking back over the years of U.C.S., and with the benefit of hindsight, I have no doubt in my own mind that it would have been better if the previous Government had taken the whole industry into public ownership at the time we launched our programme. We should have re-equipped and rationalised and swept aside the old owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1089.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The steel productivity figures have been higher since the work-in was announced in June, and the first figures which are available to me show that in the two weeks following the announcement of the work-in the steel productivity figures were the highest ever achieved in U.C.S. Absenteeism has been cut by 50 per cent., pilferage has almost gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1095.5", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) for his courtesy in referring in the terms in which he did to the recent distressing events which took place at my home. I should like first to refer to one matter which has distressed me greatly in the last few days. It is that in any sense I personally have lacked sympathy for the situation which has arisen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1095.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1095.5", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Davies", "preceding_text": " the situation are another. I should like to do two things today. The first is to elucidate what practical steps are available, to say how they were devised, why they were devised, and to give the reasons the Government decided to adopt them. Secondly, I wish to review some of the background causes of this industrial disaster so that responsibility can be fairly attributed where it correctly lies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1095.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "First, I should like to deal with the practical steps and with what has happened in recent days. With regard to the expert Group which has advised us, I was astonished to see some of the remarks which have been attributed to the right hon. Gentleman and others about the attitude and comportment of this group of people. They are from any point of view a fine lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "onsiders to have been a longstanding intention of the Government which they have deviously followed through a variety of different steps in order to ensure the downfall of U.C.S. Nothing could be further from the truth. The so-called Ridley report to which the right hon. Gentleman referred was, so far as I was concerned, heard of for the very first time last month. I have never heard of it before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What is the right hon. Gentleman going to do for them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "rred—I understand their emotions of dismay and shock which have obviously taken place—I am sure that they are making a fatal mistake. I am sure that they are doing things which unfortunately will lead in the end to their own great disadvantage. I greatly deplore what the right hon. Gentleman has been doing in trying to foster and incite them to do so, because this is not in their interests at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Davies", "preceding_text": "It may interest right hon. and hon. Members to know that my intention is to go there to-morrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Davies", "preceding_text": " forward is the best proposal in all the circumstances. I know, too, that there have been a great many questions as to why something special could not be devised all of a sudden to try to mop up what is a very serious situation. Unfortunately, the trouble is—I am sure that hon. Members on both sides of the House realise this—that what we are faced with at the moment is an inadequacy of investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Davies", "preceding_text": "le from this dreadful disaster. It is to that need that we should all address ourselves. I am convinced that the Report before us is a conclusive and practical document which we should be wise to implement. I intend to devote my own efforts entirely to that, and I enjoin right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite and everyone who has any influence in these matters to weigh in to try to bring it about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Brussels.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "hieve an unemployment rate of about 20 per cent.? Where will they be redeployed? In the Glasgow area? Certainly not, because the unemployment situation there is the worst since 1940. Across the river in Govan and Dunbartonshire where the Plessey troubles have occurred? No. There is nowhere in that area where any local authority could be of assistance in the redeployment of these redundant workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "sed to build frigates, and there was even the prospect of an aircraft carrier before certain changes were made in our defence policy. The future level of naval orders in Yarrow's is crucial to the redeployment of manpower. Will the Government make clear that there is no question of their turning away any naval orders which might be available to this country, from whichever country they might come?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian MacArthur", "preceding_text": "nt about who was or was not responsible does not help the present very much and contributes nothing to the future. But right hon. Members opposite, and particularly the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) have been so busy accusing the present Government and have done so much to whip up feeling on Clydeside, that it is worth while remembering his own participation in this tragedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "op stewards. Will he see where they work? Their conditions are a disgrace. Their office is quite unsatisfactory. They are disgraceful conditions for the educated lads who today have to perform this particular work. They have no obvious usable sanitation. The men who work there, as has been emphasised by every speaker from either side of the House in the debate have a responsible and big job to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Gordon Campbell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are you going to do about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Gordon Campbell)", "preceding_text": "the Advisory Group, it is clear that jobs are likely to be lost or changed in numbers which will create anxiety and difficulty for many families. I am acutely conscious of the effects of a reduction in jobs upon the men who may be affected and their families. It is an additional misfortune that this liquidation should have happened at a time when unemployment rates are so high in the Glasgow area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Mr. Ross rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1141.4", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "e total force. This would have been universally welcomed. What it has done is to set out clearly the facts as it found them and to propose the only workable future reconstruction which it considers feasible, and it depends upon certain conditions. Would those on the Opposition Front Bench if they had been in government have repudiated the findings of this Group of advisers and its recommendations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I rise on a point of order because, when the report in the Glasgow Herald was brought to my attention and I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1144.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1144.4", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Campbell rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1144.5", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am referring to column 353 of the HANSARD issued on Wednesday, 28th July, 1971. If it is incorrect then I withdraw until I see the correct version.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1144.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1144.5", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "SARD issued on Wednesday, 28th July, 1971. If it is incorrect then I withdraw until I see the correct version. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I have withdrawn until I see the correct version. In the wider context of the situation and the difficulties in West Central Scotland, this area on Clydeside has been singled out for very special help. Since February it has been made a special development area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1144.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "petitive world of today? Or is he simply acting as a demagogue vainly trying to retrieve some plausibility, having himself been responsible for setting up U.C.S., the company whose failure is causing so much anguish in Scotland today? We understand that the Leader of the Opposition is going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "is paralleled by the right not to belong to a trade union. The little bit of paper will make clear that there is to be no right to a 100 per cent. union shop. Instead, as the subsection shows, we are to have written into the bit of paper the provisions for an agency shop agreement. Equally, by this Amendment it is to be made clear in the little bit of paper that there is no right to a closed shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "It is evident that the Government are feeling so anxious that if they think that they have left a loophole anywhere they quickly take action to close the door or batten down the hatches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "rate act of policy. This provision would have been inserted in the Social Security Bill but for the fact that the Government knew that they could introduce it at a later stage. So they brought it in shortly after midnight in the House of Lords when few peers were about and when the only exchange that took place on the subject was between Lord Drumalbyn—that is an unusual title, if ever I heard one", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "on would have been inserted in the Social Security Bill but for the fact that the Government knew that they could introduce it at a later stage. So they brought it in shortly after midnight in the House of Lords when few peers were about and when the only exchange that took place on the subject was between Lord Drumalbyn—that is an unusual title, if ever I heard one [ Laughter. ]—and Jack Diamond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1215.0", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Heffer", "preceding_text": "e their heads, but I can tell them that the Government have done similar things in the past few months. In social security they have brought in a Bill abolishing the three waiting days, which means that millions of workers will be adversely affected. They have brought in a provision that workers on short time will not receive unemployment benefit for the first six days that they are on short time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1217.2", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a slander on the medical profession.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I have a doctor friend in Liverpool, a member of my party, who has told me that when the occasional worker has come to him trying to swing the lead, he has never given him a certificate. I am sure that that is the position of most doctors in this country, and anyone who suggests otherwise does not understand the profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1217.4", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Heffer", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The doctors are accused of incompetence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Heffer", "preceding_text": "If it is not a slander on the medical profession, I do not know what is it. But it is up to hon. Members opposite, not us, to argue about that with the medical profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "in my own part of the world and while I was there some employees put to me an example of what they regarded as unfair dismissal. I assume that if these provisions had been law, the employers concerned would have had to justify those dismissals. At this moment, I am firmly on the side of the employees in this matter and perhaps for once the Opposition will be inclined to support me on that account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The question whether reinstatement should be in the Bill has been debated extensively both in this House and in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1249.10", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I agree that we did not reach this set of Clauses in our discussion in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1249.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1249.10", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " of progress towards these Clauses. There would have been ample time for us to have discussed these and many other Clauses in the time available, and it is significant that the Bill was discussed from end to end twice in another place, where these Clauses were examined. Notwithstanding that, the issues with which we are now dealing, reinstatement or not, have been raised many times in our debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1249.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "ghout as if their bill were law …\". That seems to me to amount to a gross contempt of Parliament. No private promoter of a Bill has the right to assume that it will go through on the nod, as, of course, did the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight, who believed that few of us would oppose it on Second Reading, and that no substantial Amendments would be made to it in another place. I remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1259.5", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1259.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1262.5", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I shall have to seek your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have very little experience of this kind of Measure. Although you say that the terms of Lords Amendment No. 4 are narrow, it is a very long Amendment. Then there are Amendments to it in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Crayford (Mr. Wellbeloved), whose absence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "I am obliged for your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Therefore, I shall deal briefly with the first of my Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": " council having shown itself obtusely hostile to the whole question of having a pop festival in the Isle of Wight, the rural district council has taken a somewhat more moderate and reasonable view, greatly to the annoyance, I am sure, of hon. Gentlemen opposite, particularly the hon. Gentleman who is in charge of the Bill. I do not think that I need say very much more about those three Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1265.0", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "The Whips are on, are they not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "rs are necessary and why the present legislation cannot be exercised to deal with the matters he referred to. It may surprise the hon. Gentleman to know that I have a great deal of sympathy for the point he has taken up. But I hold the view, along with the Home Office, that this is not the way in which these matters should be dealt with. I will give a few examples which lead me to that conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1276.0", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members below the Gangway had earlier behaved a little better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1276.0", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": " directed by the Chair to do so. It is about time that Government supporters realised that we on these benches are as much entitled as anyone to discuss Private Bills and to make speeches without ill-tempered accusations from the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight and interruptions from below the Gangway. My hon. Friend the Member for Barking is as much entitled as anyone to discuss a Private Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Handing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Handing", "preceding_text": "—what objection does he have to my hon. Friend's Amendment? He cannot have it both ways. He cannot say the Amendment is wrong because it would require consultation and at the same time say that consultation must take place under the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Handing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Handing", "preceding_text": "mmittee, for the Government to agree with the principle of an Amendment, particularly one tabled by the Opposition who do not have the services of well-paid parliamentary draftsmen at their disposal, but reject it on the understanding that they will introduce a better worded Amendment later. My hon. Friend has made a reasonable proposition, although I will not be in the Lobby later to vote for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Handing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Handing", "preceding_text": "d by the Opposition who do not have the services of well-paid parliamentary draftsmen at their disposal, but reject it on the understanding that they will introduce a better worded Amendment later. My hon. Friend has made a reasonable proposition, although I will not be in the Lobby later to vote for it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"]—because there is agreement between the two Front Benches on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1280.5", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "We shall have to wait until the day after tomorrow to see in HANSARD whether Mr. Speaker did say what I did not hear him say, that separate Divisions would not be allowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "rticularly distasteful to the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight since it was the chief constable who paid a glowing tribute to the behaviour of most of the young people who attended last year's pop festival. Their conduct in general was good. None the less, that did not lessen the prejudice of the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight and the county council against their relatively innocent enjoyment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": " of the arduous and rigorous conditions laid down by the county council. If it says that there must be a mile of urinals and there is a mile minus a furlong or minus half a furlong, there is a £1,000 a day fine. This is a ridiculous idea. One would like to know how much the county council may reasonably require under subsection (3). Hon. Members can read it for themselves. I take it they can read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are the hon. Gentleman's Friends?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "That is a matter of opinion. The hon. Gentleman's opinion is naturally echoed by a few barks from his friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Barking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": "d is now being mimicked in this country—so much of the youth movement of this country is a kind of organised mimickry of what goes on in America—I ask them to remember that the Americans have more space in which to do it than we have here. If somebody wants to stage and mimic Woodstock in this country, will they do it on Salisbury Plain or on Dartmoor? There are open spaces, even in these islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ebbw Vale.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": "I ask them to remember that the Americans have more space in which to do it than we have here. If somebody wants to stage and mimic Woodstock in this country, will they do it on Salisbury Plain or on Dartmoor? There are open spaces, even in these islands. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Barking.\"] I do not know whether the hon. Member for Barking puts forward Barking as a suitable place for a British Woodstock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Howell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member for doing so, if only for my education in this matter. Having listened to hon. Members on the Government benches, it would be a reasonable reaction for people to think that most hon. Members were completely opposed to assemblies of young people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Howell", "preceding_text": "ent benches, it would be a reasonable reaction for people to think that most hon. Members were completely opposed to assemblies of young people. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] That is the impression that one has in coming fresh to these matters and listening. Clearly, large numbers of hon. Members opposite are opposed to the principle of young people assembling for the purpose of enjoying themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I could illustrate my point with other examples, but I think that I have said enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "my previous Ministerial experience in these matters that not a week passes but he has to deal with some event of public disorder of one kind or another arising out of our sporting preoccupations. It is very rare, on the other hand, that we have to deal with public disorder arising out of what one might term, in a loose sense, cultural pursuits, which I believe pop festivals to be in their own way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-02", "file": "debates1971-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b4dc3279981a72b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "arge assemblies. Balancing those two matters, one comes again to the inescapable conclusion that the Government's advice at an earlier stage in these proceedings is right, that this is a matter for the Government and not for any one local authority to deal with by a Private Bill. Even though we pass the Bill tonight, as undoubtedly we shall, in view of the forces assembled on the benches opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-02a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1309.4", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw !", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, since that question seeks to impugn an individual, I must say that Mrs. Proops had every right to ask for a fee for her advertising, but she voluntarily forwent a fee and is doing the service for nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1311.4", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Derisory?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "In view of the derisory results of this scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1311.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1323.2", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TOO long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "atic exemptions for children under 15; people aged 65 and over; people receiving supplementary benefit or family income supplement; patients suffering from specified medical conditions; expectant and nursing mothers; and war pensioners for their accepted disablements. The number of exemption certificates issued in Great Britain in the 13 weeks ended 22nd June, 1971, to people who applied for them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sink tank!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree—I am sure that he does—that it is a difficult estimate to make, in view of all the difficulties which his Department seems to have, which is understandable, in finding all the people whom we are anxious to help? Would it not be rather a good idea to ask the Prime Minister's think tank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1387.3", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I wondered when someone would get round to that. Again, the order for reinstatement provided for in Clause 38 of the Labour Bill allowed, in the alternative, for the reinstatement order to be made in a different position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1387.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1388.3", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's courtesy in wishing to interrupt me as little as possible, but I trust that he will listen for a moment to what I am saying. The order for re-engagement under this Measure, on such terms as the tribunal considers reasonable, includes the concept of reinstatement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "So be it, but it is an approach which the House, almost in its entirety, rejects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1444.3", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ago to solve the very problems with which we are dealing. It is unconvincing, to say the least, to hear her denouncing this kind of provision, when she proposed to take powers for the imposition of cooling-off periods, and the imposition on individual workpeople of an obligation to return to work when some situations arose. I know—I do not want to reopen the whole debate—that there are variations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "preceding_text": "power station where I used to work and talk to the chaps on the shopfloor about the Bill, one of the things I tell them about is legal enforceability. When they first heard about it, they regarded it with amusement, but afterwards they regarded it with disbelief, and then with anger. From then on, they called the Secretary of State names that I cannot repeat without using unparliamentary language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1465.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "May I say to my right hon. Friend that——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We know a good deal less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": " do not have to sit and listen to the same speeches again and again from hon. Gentlemen opposite. I get a rest by listening to my own voice. The hon. Member for Swansea, East (Mr. McBride) indicated that we know very little about this matter. I assure him that, having listened to the debates in the last few days, if we did not know anything at the beginning, we certainly know a good deal more now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1485.7", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are doing our best with the right hon. Gentleman's Bill\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "not, the principle of legally binding agreements. We have discussed this twice this evening, in two successive debates, and goodness knows how many times in the past 400-odd hours that this Bill has been before the House. All right; if that is what hon. Members wish to debate over and over again, they are at liberty to do so. We have arranged the procedure to give the Opposition every opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1485.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1487.1", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Like the Upper Clyde, for instance.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": " so aggrieved that, despite the whole of public opinion and the law, they took that step. What I was trying to explain to the right hon. Gentleman is that there will be occasions when, despite any legally enforceable agreement, men will be so outraged and so frustrated that they will not consider what the consequences may be; and there will be consequences—they have been spelled out—if they do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-03", "file": "debates1971-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "318594d8e5d7e7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1487.2", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "tical hon. Members may be of things like public opinion polls—and we can all, thank goodness, be pretty sceptical of them—we have had opinion poll after opinion poll, taken by all sorts of different people and organisations, all of which have shown that the ordinary people of this country including the ordinary rank and file trade union members and industrial workers, all approve of this proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-03a.1487.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his elevation to the Front Bench and hope that he will have some happy years there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his elevation to the Front Bench and hope that he will have some happy years there—[ Interruption .] I can promise him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1579.0", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chafaway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chafaway", "preceding_text": "These Factsheets were, as the House knows, published in accordance with past practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1579.0", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chafaway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chafaway", "preceding_text": "These Factsheets were, as the House knows, published in accordance with past practice—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—Factsheets were produced by the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1588.2", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "ROLLS-ROYCE (RB211)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I ask for your guidance, Mr. Speaker? I wished to put a question to the Minister for Aerospace, but I was not called. There is a Rolls-Royce factory in my constituency. I was the only Member with such a factory in his constituency who was not called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1603.0", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are you complaining about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "preceding_text": "If I may have the leave of the House to speak again, I was taken aback for a moment that no other hon. Member opposite wishes to say anything on these Amendments,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1603.0", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "preceding_text": "If I may have the leave of the House to speak again, I was taken aback for a moment that no other hon. Member opposite wishes to say anything on these Amendments, [HON. MEMBERS: \"What are you complaining about?\"] I am not complaining. I was merely expecting hon. Members to repeat their well-known speeches on this and other subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1603.0", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "preceding_text": "ious employers and various employers' associations. It is not my fault if the trade unions had nothing to say one way or the other to me on this subject. They could have come along, but did not. I suspect, however, that many trade unions do not share the wholehearted enthusiasm of the hon. Gentleman, and apparently of the Official Opposition, for chucking all national bargaining out of the window.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is nit-picking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "But it was indirect as far as Mr. Woodcock was concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "But it was indirect as far as Mr. Woodcock was concerned. [An HON. MEMBER: \"This is nit-picking.\"] If it be nit-picking, hon. Members are accusing Mr. Woodcock of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Waddington", "preceding_text": " statement, that he would not have resigned only because of the functions assigned to the C.I.R. by the Industrial Relations Bill. It was the trade union boycott that had decided him. He had hoped that when the Bill became law most references to the C.I.R. would be by the consent of the parties and not require the use of compulsory provisions. But to help employers and unions in voluntary reform\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1632.3", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curran", "preceding_text": "an is using that phrase, then by all means let them do so. I do not have the smallest objection, and neither have the Government. Suppose such people do not want to join. Are they still to have their present freedom? Apparently not. There will be freedom one way but not the other. The hon. Gentleman seems to think like Henry Ford, that they can have it in any colour they like as long as it is red.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1681.6", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "e Leader of the Liberals there—Lord Beaumont of Whitley—who said that he saw no reason why the obligation should not apply to every firm. He described the obligation as the absolute basis of good industrial relationship no matter what the size of the firm. The noble Lord having been so anxious to reduce the numbers, we had hoped on this present occasion to have the support of Liberal hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1681.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1730.2", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I do not think I can, should or need identify any action that motivated it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1730.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1731.1", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "and wish of the overwhelming majority of fair-minded people that it is not right for someone who declines to take part in industrial action on the instructions of an organisation in pursuit of an objective to be disciplined for his failure to take part in that action. It is to make that clear in response to representations from many parties and people, in line with the Opposition in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: [\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "—the danger is that it is the first step. It means that the Govern-men are moving in the direction of building a totalitarian State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "much beyond the Taft-Hartley Act; it is not just American law but much more. It is typical class legislation. It is designed as part of the overall class strategy that this Government are adopting in their fight against the British working people. It is no good hon. Members opposite suggesting that that is not so. This is one prong of the attack. Attacks are being made on thinks like school meals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1746.3", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "ow, as I have said, that some of the most vehement opponents of the Bill are the most vehement exponents of the corporate State. It is absurd for the hon. Member for Walton to advance as one argument against the Bill that if it becomes law we shall have taken one notable step towards the corporate State. The Bill, to my mind, is a most remarkable advance towards greater freedom for the individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1746.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1750.0", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that that is not the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1750.0", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": " did not have the grace or honesty to admit that this arises out of the 1st and 18th March demonstrations against the Bill. It is not far from here to a corporate State situation. After all, reference has been made to action taken by workers which could have political overtones. One can think of the \"Jolly George\" and the action of the Lancashire cotton workers. What about the American revolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1752.0", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " those agreements upon them, as if, to use the tendentious words of this Bill they were \"a contract freely negotiated.\" This is the level of debasement we have reached in the language of industrial relations. We talk about the sanctity of contract, about the extension of freedom. The hon. and learned Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Waddington) talked about the extension of freedom under the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1752.0", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ny a long year. What a commentary it is on this Bill that as part of its grand finale we should find it necessary for the first time in our history to be legislating about political strikes; what a commentary that is on the Government's policies; what a commentary on their unemployment policies; what a commentary on their \"lame ducks\" policy; what a commentary on their industrial relations policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-04", "file": "debates1971-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "83c36d973a01cf66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "First I have to put the general Question and then put the Question afterwards on each designated Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-04a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-05", "file": "debates1971-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "ff15fc98e7c5cea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1843.6", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH-WEST REGION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "rial Development Association? Is he aware that with one breadwinner out of 18 in the North-West unemployed, with 42,000 redundancies declared in the past year in the North-West, with a further batch in my own constituency only last week, with what yesterday's Manchester Evening News described as a \"crisis in youth employment\", with the Government ban on new industry coming into greater Manchester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1843.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-05", "file": "debates1971-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "ff15fc98e7c5cea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1848.4", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1848.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-05", "file": "debates1971-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "ff15fc98e7c5cea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1854.2", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that in another place there is a civilised habit, which makes for good debate, whereby the Chair, with the aid of the usual channels, arranges the order of speeches for the day. May I suggest to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1854.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-05", "file": "debates1971-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "ff15fc98e7c5cea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1871.3", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "t of my thinking over the last few years—the South must be brought into the picture much more than hitherto. It is on this basis that I want to put some views to the Home Secretary. I would very much like to suggest that, instead of leaving the visit of Mr. Lynch to this country until October, when I understand he is to talk about the Common Market, he should be invited to come here straight away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-05", "file": "debates1971-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "ff15fc98e7c5cea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1880.1", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of the considerations involved in this issue, but I believe that it is for the Northern Ireland Government and not for the British Govment to take the decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-05", "file": "debates1971-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "ff15fc98e7c5cea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "ng and the refuge of people who do not believe in the Parliamentary process at all. The right hon. Gentleman spoke of the Deny march on 12th August. I shall not go into the merits or the history of it. All I say to him is that experience has shown that it is much more dangerous to impose a ban upon a perfectly legitimate operation which has gone on for many years than it is to allow it to proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-05", "file": "debates1971-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "ff15fc98e7c5cea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1887.1", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": " soon as possible. Secondly, will he please say that the principle I have enunciated, that the Ulster people should play a greater part in their own defence, may be conceded and that some kind of constructive thought is taking place on this subject—whether it be a permanent battalion of the Ulster Defence Regiment, whether the Ulster Defence Regiment in a different form, and doing a different job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-08-05", "file": "debates1971-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "ff15fc98e7c5cea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1906.1", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It has already been asked.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I do not wish to speak in this debate, but we are considering the Motion for the Summer Adjournment which, by tradition, is a debate in which hon. Members raise a number of subjects——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-08-05", "file": "debates1971-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "ff15fc98e7c5cea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1907.1", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": "ctance and intransigence of the Unionist Party to initiate reforms which would ensure civil rights and social justice for everyone. This afternoon, yesterday and last week we had the representatives of the Unionist Party blackmailing the Home Secretary. They have told him that if he does not take steps to introduce more repression on the minority in Northern Ireland they will call for his removal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-08-05a.1907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.9.3", "colnum": "9", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "e the advisory committee. But it is widely accepted that the bulk of them are members of the I.R.A. The I.R.A. have admitted that about 160 of them are members of the I.R.A. If people say that internment should stop at once, do they really say that we should now release a large number of avowed members of the I.R.A. to join their organisation which is conducting this campaign of terror and murder?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.9.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "y there can be assured to the minority and majority communities alike an active, permanent and guaranteed part in the life of public affairs of Northern Ireland. I have already had useful talks with the Northern Ireland T.U.C., the Northern Ireland Labour Party and the Alliance Party. I shall soon be seeing the Liberal Party and the New Ulster Movement, and many others outside the political world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.14.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "nister of Cabinet rank to act in a liaison capacity with the situation in Northern Ireland until the reforms are implemented—was frowned on by the right hon. Gentleman, from what I have read in the Press. I think it would be useful in the present situation but, of course, the appointment of a Minister must be a matter for the Government of the day and it is not integral to the Commission proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "gures. We all know—this House has passed legislation of a very penal character—that shotguns no less than some of the other weapons the hon. Gentleman mentioned can be used by dangerous men with dangerous ideas. I have also seen comparable figures for south of the Border, and I can tell the hon. Gentle- man that category by category there is a much higher proportion in the North than in the South.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "occasion. The Lord President, winding up the debate, although he had listened very carefully to all that had been said and I have no doubt passed everything that was said on to his colleagues, was of course able to add nothing to what had been said by the Home Secretary. Within four days it became clear that the internment decision was being taken literally while the House was debating that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"] It matters not whether the final decision was taken while the House was sitting or an hour or two after the House adjourned. Nor would anyone seriously suggest that the decision should have been announced in the House days or even hours before its implementation. Had that been done a phrase once heard in this Chamber centuries ago would have been true—the birds would have flown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "them. Thirdly, who drew up the list for internment? Who were the officials responsible? Fourthly, who approved the decision? Which Minister in Northern Ireland approved the decision? Did Mr. Faulkner personally examine each case and justify it, as he stated this week he had done in the decisions to make formal internment orders, or did Mr. Taylor have the main responsibility, as is widely thought?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "oved list. One allegation I have heard is that the authorities went to arrest a young man and, finding he was not at home, said to his old father, \"You'll do\" and arrested him without warrant or apparent justification. Is this fact or legend? None of us can know. The important thing is that these things are believed. I have quoted from the \"Insight\" team which has interviewed the people concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a contradiction.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "and a country which, at one and the same time, profess to be maintaining the integrity of the United Kingdom against armed attack upon one of its provinces and at the same time, by every practical act, are engaged in declaring that there is and ought to be no perceptible difference, no frontier, political or physical, between that province and a foreign country which aims at the annexation of it?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " that the Red Cross does not publish these matters, but there are precedents for such reports being published when the host Government have agreed to publication. On the basis that justice must not only be done but manifestly be seen to be done, I hope that however distinguished may be the judiciary in Northern Ireland, the judge who presides over the question is a member of the English judiciary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " believe that it is important that there should be the maximum degree of confidence in tribunals of this sort among all parts of the community and, while I have every confidence in the integrity of Sir Edmund Compton, who was the Commissioner in the United Kingdom—I have confidence in him from personal experience—it is unfortunate that the person in charge of this inquiry into alleged brutalities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.63.4", "colnum": "63", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were brought down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "s not too frightened to speak his mind. There is a man of real courage. There are still plenty of men of courage and dedication on both sides in these difficulties which we face. The last two Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland and their supporters—I do not think the House realises this—were asked to show a kind of courage which is not generally asked of politicians in this country in this century", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.63.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "preceding_text": ", none of his family would ever vote for the Labour Party again. They are in a difficult position. They see some hon. Members opposite—I mean only some hon. Members opposite: I know there are hon. Members on the Labour benches who support Northern Ireland—they see some hon. Members of the Labour Party who are anxiously trying to get the Republican vote in England and they regard it as mischievous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "preceding_text": " there has been a reduction in the number of elected representatives. It is therefore vital to increase the size of the House of Commons, because that is to where the power has shifted. Protestants are attacked in Northern Ireland. Yet, all that they want is a life which is peaceful, prosperous and decent. They want it not only for themselves, but for their Roman Catholic fellow citizens as well.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rafton Pounder", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Properly armed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rafton Pounder", "preceding_text": "police stations. The Army guards were withdrawn from one station in the centre of Belfast five days ago and last night it was bombed. That is intolerable. If the U.D.R. cannot do the job, why not use the police reserve? I can well see the argument for releasing the Army, but that must not mean that we have unguarded stations as a result. The guards must be provided by the U.D.R. or police reserve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. W. Stallard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. W. Stallard", "preceding_text": "ties. One of my other demands would be the immediate calling in of those guns, to whomever they belong. I will not argue whether they are Catholic of Protestant guns. If they are guns, they should be called in. I know that it is not a popular point of view, but in the long term I believe that we must accept that the only permanent solution for the problems of the unhappy Province is reunification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about witnesses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ter faith—the hon. Member for Londonderry (Mr. Chichester-Clark) touched on this in a moving speech—in the Northern Ireland judicial administration than the hon. Gentleman has. I believe that in that Province, as in other parts of the United Kingdom, there are people who are prepared to stand up for law and order. The hon. Member for Londonderry mentioned one or two, and I believe that they exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.145.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is sorry now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful. My hon. Friend has talked about the gross nature of that mistake. It was of a gross nature. Should not the question of the Border be brought up and be properly examined, with examination of the attitudes of various people one way or another, being discussed as a matter which may or may not be at issue but must be decided?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.147.4", "colnum": "147", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At the moment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "No, I do not regret giving way, because it gives me the opportunity to reiterate again—for the third time in my speech, and twice by the Leader of the Opposition—that it does not seem to us that the Border is an appropriate subject for discussion at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.147.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has missed the point. I think it is well known in both Government circles and elsewhere that these proposals have been discussed and threshed over for a long time. I think it is also well known that there has been delay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-22", "file": "debates1971-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a54ac568aca3a76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has missed the point. I think it is well known in both Government circles and elsewhere that these proposals have been discussed and threshed over for a long time. I think it is also well known that there has been delay—[ Interruption. ] I do not think the situation in Northern Ireland calls for the sort of frivolity there is among hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-22a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.180.4", "colnum": "180", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "A lot of people in my part of the country work on the Clyde. Will my right hon. Friend accept that a lot of sane people in the British Isles are very grateful to him for all the effort that he and the Government have made to try to meet this very difficult problem of Clydeside and that they wish him and all those who want to see the Upper Clyde prosperous every success? Good luck to you all!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.180.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.193.2", "colnum": "193", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.194.5", "colnum": "194", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. With great respect, I think that if the right hon. Gentleman gives way he does temporarily yield up the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.194.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.195.4", "colnum": "195", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "her or not one agrees with the intervention made by my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, North (Mr. Stratton Mill), the fact is that the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) gave way, and since my hon. Friend had begun his intervention he had possession of the Floor. Whether or not one agrees with what he said, I feel we are entitled to ask for your protection of a minority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was asked to do so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "not have dreamt of rising again to my feet had it not been for the nature of the hon. Gentleman's introductory remarks. I am trying to get the Social Democratic and Labour Party, which comprises the opposition which has withdrawn from Stormont, to state its position. I did not want my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, West necessarily to state this in the course of my speech, but he has done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.198.6", "colnum": "198", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ich the House may feel is laughable. Yet I do not think that in the long run it is, because I am trying to look ahead. It is extraordinary to look at the history books in the Catholic schools and to contrast them with the history books in the Protestant schools. When I see how we are attempting to rewrite the history of only two years ago, I begin to wonder what value the history books are anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.198.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.198.6", "colnum": "198", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "their country. This is a small problem, but in many ways in the long run it will be very important and large. I believe that if the situation in Northern Ireland had been different, if we had been discussing a purely domestic question, I should certainly, and so would my right hon. Friends, have recommended that the Government's inept handling of the situation should have attracted a vote tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.198.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "That is why you do not understand the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"B Specials.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "early there are many people who are prepared to stand up against intimidation, and recruiting now is at five or six times its normal level. Last week the Ministry of Defence announced its decision to establish a number of additional units to widen the geographical spread. This will make it much easier than at present for men to serve closer to their homes, especially guarding vital installations.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Internment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": "s taking part in discussions with a man who represents one section of Unionism. The only people who can bring any lasting peace out of what is happening in Northern Ireland today will be those representatives who have at present withdrawn from the system. We cannot participate in any discussions until the terrible road blocks are removed and the terrible impediment of partition has been withdrawn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Crossman", "preceding_text": "description of a battle, and he said that 4,000 tons of debris had to be removed after a battle. That is very striking. If we decide that there is a war between us and the I.R.A., a war which justifies internment, then we have a policy to justify internment, but then we cannot still talk of reform or proportional representation as though that will lead to the end of the war against the terrorists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "ns and problems. For our part, we must ask for a recognition of the constructive rôle of Unionist Government in trying genuinely to meet community problems over the last couple of years. I do not wish to raise the temperature, but one must ask—as people are asking—to what extent some members or parts of the Social Democratic and Labour Party are riding along on the coat-tails of the gunmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "has not been all that much trouble. The Government are enlarging the recruitment; they are increasing the number of troops; they are depending on local knowledge and are encouraging transfers from the Territorial Army. They are raising the age limit to 50. They are going to have local officers in local command. Whether the Government like it or not, this is seen as the B-Specials in another guise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "interviewed on the programme, \"24 Hours\", he said: There are no I.R.A. in Belfast. The myth of the I.R.A. was created by the Unionist Party to collect votes. I welcome—and I say this as sincerely as I can—the hon. Gentleman's outright condemnation of present I.R.A. activity. As a person moving in Northern Ireland, I know what it has cost him to make such a statement, and I welcome it as we all do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Well deserved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ative and winning the battle in Northern Ireland today'? There are two reasons. The Irish Republican Army was defeated in the past because there was an armed police force equipped to meet the snipers and equipped to meet those who would attack it. There was also the Ulster Special Constabulary, that most maligned body of men who have come in for some of the worst slanders in the present situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I will do my best to be as brief as possible, but I remind you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that in the last debate I had only three minutes to put my case to this House, and surely in this important debate my voice, on behalf of the people I represent, should be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "n known as the Graves Association. The function of this association, which may seem ridiculous to some people in this House, is to go around the graves of those people who gave their lives in various struggles in Ireland's history to see that they are well maintained and that, when commemoration parties are being held on their anniversaries, the place is properly looked after. That is all they do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.303.4", "colnum": "303", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomson", "preceding_text": "vernment to the searchlight of criticism is that its position is subject to misrepresentation. We have had some share of this—I do not complain unduly—in this debate. The hon. Member for Belfast, North (Mr. Stratton Mills) made the disgraceful assertion that hon. Members on this side of the House had been riding on the coat-tails of the gunmen; I think that was the provocative phrase that he used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": " keeping of our soldiers was the paramount consideration in the internment decision. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition asked yesterday, among a number of other very searching questions to which we await answers from the Prime Minister, whether the military authorities recommended internment on military grounds. The Prime Minister was not able to be here throughout the debate today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is paid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "as an employee of the Northern Ireland Government. Sir Edmund considers this a very damaging statement, because his position is the same as the Ombudsman here. He is not in the employment of either the United Kingdom or the Northern Ireland Govern- ment, His status as a Parliamentary Commissioner is similar to that of a judge. I think that the House will agree that his capacity is that of a judge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "leman the Leader of the Liberal Party, the subject of this debate is unemployment in Scotland and many hon. Members wish that we could have had more time than is available in which to discuss this matter. Many hon. Members wish that we could have had a full day in which to discuss this issue. So far as we are concerned, the announcement today that the jobless total in Britain had reached 929,000.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.330.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.332.3", "colnum": "332", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brewis", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-09-23", "file": "debates1971-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a385aa14d9353b3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "is the question of the special development areas which was talked down by the hon. Gentleman. There is the amount of money announced two months ago—£33 million. The hon. Gentleman is not on a good wicket this evening because this is the second time that he has put his foot in it. He says that the money has not been spent. It is supposed to be spent over the next two winters to reduce unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-09-23a.339.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-18", "file": "debates1971-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "535a5423a507dc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": "Mr. McManus rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-18", "file": "debates1971-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "535a5423a507dc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.385.5", "colnum": "385", "heading": "CODE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PRACTICE", "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": " related to the Act, can stand on its own. We are convinced on this side of the House that the code would lack a great deal of the beneficent influence which we think it can have unless it was operating within a framework. But even those who take a different view of that surely can still judge the code on its own merits, and it is on those merits that I believe the country expects it to be judged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.385.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-18", "file": "debates1971-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "535a5423a507dc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "CODE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PRACTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "rouble at the moment is that there is too big a gap between the small advance guard in industrial and human relations and the large and somewhat straggling rearguard among employment establishments in this country. This emphasis on the practical nature of the code is fundamental. It is reflected in the drafting, which is meant to be clear and easy to understand, and it is reflected in the content.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-18", "file": "debates1971-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "535a5423a507dc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "CODE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PRACTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "ble in evidence when proceedings are brought against trade unionists? Secondly, whatever the right hon. Gentleman might have attempted to do to obscure the issue, the code reflects the Act's whole philosophy, and it is impossible to amend the code without amending the Act. Today we have had a display of the right hon. Gentleman's ritual reasonableness combined with hypocrisy. He is extremely good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-18", "file": "debates1971-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "535a5423a507dc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "CODE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PRACTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "ent is finally produced and my right hon. Friend frames his new proposals upon it. Even if paragraph 30 says: This part of the code will be amended to give fuller guidance\". It is a pity that the code has to be amended at all. It would be much simpler merely to say that disclosure of information will be dealt with in a separate document. This has been rather a long jumble of different suggestions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-18", "file": "debates1971-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "535a5423a507dc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "CODE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PRACTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " best way of making a cut in the labour force. My hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, West referred to the question of occupational pension and sick pay schemes. I disagree with his view on this matter. It should not be part of the code. The code requests companies to accept an additional wage cost. It requires managements to run pension and sick pay schemes which will affect their total wage bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-18", "file": "debates1971-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "535a5423a507dc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "CODE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PRACTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simeons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simeons", "preceding_text": "The point I am making is that we want more women to be connected with industrial relations, and I am certain that every housewife will agree. It is the housewives who are the bosses, not the unions. The husbands do as the housewives tell them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-18", "file": "debates1971-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "535a5423a507dc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "CODE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PRACTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": " to this Code of Industrial Relations Practice. It is equally obvious, if one looks at the state of this honourable House at this honourable moment, that the pious faith in the importance of this document that the right hon. Gentleman holds is not shared by many other hon. Members. The state of the Government benches is not exactly an advertisement for British democracy on such an important issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-18", "file": "debates1971-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "535a5423a507dc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "CODE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PRACTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "t up this machinery and the methods that are advised in this consultative document. In other words, there will be works councils, and there are all kinds of obiter dicta and advice given in this document as to how those bodies shall be conducted. My right hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle) referred to \"some of her friends\"—and I am included among them, in a political sense, anyhow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-18", "file": "debates1971-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "535a5423a507dc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "CODE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PRACTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " is to reveal a fundamental ignorance of the driving spirit of trade unionism. I will tell the House what is set out as the first objective of my own union. Its first objective is nothing to do with the terms and conditions of employment, wages and interests of members. The first objective of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers is the control of industry in the interests of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-18a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-19", "file": "debates1971-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "31e3c60ad4b4d29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.527.6", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seedless\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "It, too, is interested in trying to develop the female hop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.527.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-19", "file": "debates1971-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "31e3c60ad4b4d29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.541.2", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he will be increasing the cost of living by handing over millions of £s to the French farmers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.541.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-19", "file": "debates1971-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "31e3c60ad4b4d29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " taxpayers who feared that they might be called upon to pay an exorbitant price for the very cheap memoirs of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition? But more to the point, can he confirm or deny rumours that the Downing Street copy of those memoirs is, in fact, in the right hon. Gentleman's own personal style—that is, that the backing is spineless to make it more easily reversible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-19", "file": "debates1971-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "31e3c60ad4b4d29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "pay an exorbitant price for the very cheap memoirs of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition? But more to the point, can he confirm or deny rumours that the Downing Street copy of those memoirs is, in fact, in the right hon. Gentleman's own personal style—that is, that the backing is spineless to make it more easily reversible? [ Interruption ]—or even that it is in loose leaf form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-19", "file": "debates1971-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "31e3c60ad4b4d29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "cheap memoirs of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition? But more to the point, can he confirm or deny rumours that the Downing Street copy of those memoirs is, in fact, in the right hon. Gentleman's own personal style—that is, that the backing is spineless to make it more easily reversible? [ Interruption ]—or even that it is in loose leaf form—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—to allow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-19", "file": "debates1971-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "31e3c60ad4b4d29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.545.2", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Question is about Rhodesia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ywhere else expect that the Prime Minister will stand by his declared principles on the question of Rhodesia when he has shown himself such an easy push-over on the question of the Common Market? Does he now stand by the statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer about 48 hours ago that the vote on 28th October would be an issue of confidence, or does he stand by his statement in July that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.545.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-19", "file": "debates1971-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "31e3c60ad4b4d29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.547.4", "colnum": "547", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme) in protesting that it is a totally inadequate inquiry, but, while Sir Edmund Compton's Committee is sitting—we are told that it will report some time next month—and while all that is going on, people continue to die on the streets of Northern Ireland. chiefly as a result of internment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.547.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-19", "file": "debates1971-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "31e3c60ad4b4d29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.547.4", "colnum": "547", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": "en Point, who was arrested over a week ago, has still not been produced, no one knows where this man is, and, judging from allegations and statements made as late as last night by one William Shannon, who was produced at the last moment, there is fear in Northern Ireland that Mr. Rogers is suffering the same treatment as Mr. Shannon and others are alleged to have suffered? Will the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.547.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-19", "file": "debates1971-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "31e3c60ad4b4d29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "be adequately inquired into. If this House has any concern for the lives of the special branch of the police and the security forces in the north of Ireland, should it not take into account that those lives will continue to be at risk until the allegations are refuted? Will the Home Secretary not agree, therefore, that it is in the interest of his own security forces, if in no one else's interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-19", "file": "debates1971-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "31e3c60ad4b4d29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "he hon. and learned Gentleman for this; his Department cannot be held responsible—that at every stage we have wrung from the Government the very minimum of concessions, but invariably we have wrung them from them only after their protestations that what we were proposing was impracticable. Then, at a later stage, the Government have made what can only be regarded as the very minimum of concessions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-19", "file": "debates1971-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "31e3c60ad4b4d29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.642.2", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Clause 29", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, may I say that congratulations from the hon. Member for Hackney, Central (Mr. Clinton Davis) are rare indeed, though no less welcome? I should be out of order in saying timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes, but the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-19a.642.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-20", "file": "debates1971-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "77ffea2c32ef7256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-20a.723.8", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "This is a very important and serious question. I accept it in that sense. I notice that whenever this subject is raised and I make a hopeful comment about an early decision there are nasty noises all around me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-20a.723.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-20", "file": "debates1971-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "77ffea2c32ef7256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-20a.723.8", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "This is a very important and serious question. I accept it in that sense. I notice that whenever this subject is raised and I make a hopeful comment about an early decision there are nasty noises all around me. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] When I say that the matter might be delayed a little longer there is a great deal of applause around me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-20a.723.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-20", "file": "debates1971-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "77ffea2c32ef7256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-20a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE (SHIPBUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "It is very clear that the right hon. Gentleman's observations were written before he listened to my statement, because in practically every respect the statement dealt specifically with the points he raised. The loan to the liquidator, as the right hon. Gentleman must have just heard me say, is in considerable part reimbursable in any case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-20a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.898.5", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AEROSPACE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Hastings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.898.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Before you rule, if you do not mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.905.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEBATE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Would it be humanly possible to limit the speeches of right hon and hon. Members to 15 minutes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEBATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "at an official Opposition Amendment would be tabled. Therefore, the only possibility was that a back-bench Amendment would be tabled. One of the main reasons for my being described—and as I have described myself —as a luke—warm pro-Common Marketeer is precisely that our entry to the Market will undoubtedly decrease the power of back-bench Members of this House in relation to that of the Executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.909.4", "colnum": "909", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEBATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "her on entry into the Common Market compared with the power of the Executive. In these circumstances, as the situation is unique and historic and will affect private Members more than others, it would appear to add up to a powerful case for allowing the Amendment to be debated or at least voted upon. Moreover, there is a powerful additional reason for so judging. There are precedents. It has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.909.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.912.4", "colnum": "912", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ed debate, instructed, first, a Conservative Government and, second, a Socialist Government to negotiate terms of entry into the Community. Unless—it is an unworthy thought which I reject—hon. Members are relying on time to provide them with an alibi, the assumption must he that the votes then given were recorded with the conviction that, in principle, Britain should enter the European partnership", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.912.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "or could possibly have been in any doubt that, had the Socialist Party been elected, it would have resumed the negotiations with the European Community where it had left off. The Conservative manifesto was explicit. It said: If we can negotiate the right terms, we believe that it would be in the long-term interest of the British people for Britain to join the European Economic Community …\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.912.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I did not wish to take too long, but I shall read on— …for Britain to join the European Economic Community, and that it would make a major contribution to both the prosperity and the security of our country\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.913.6", "colnum": "913", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask and find out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "d that a Conservative Government, if they secured the right terms, would recommend entry, we have now, after a year of negotiations, actually got the terms which we think we can recommend to the House What is more, according to those Ministers in the Socialist Government who were closest to the negotiation, these terms bear a marked resemblance to what the Socialist Government would have accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.913.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Wriggling.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "he last debate I quoted, in accordance with the right one has in this matter, exactly what was put to the Cabinet by my noble Friend, Lord George-Brown, and myself on the terms which we would require as a Cabinet to satisfy the Cabinet. Also, I quoted word for word what was said to the Six. The right hon. Gentleman knows that it is on record in HANSARD. Does he say that he got those terms, or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.915.8", "colnum": "915", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "On the point about whether we would earn respect, there was a round-up on a B.B.C. programme at 10 o'clock last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.915.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was proved right.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I will not rehearse the terms of the July White Paper, because everyone is very familiar with them. The right hon. Gentleman and many in the House and outside have had many legitimate apprehensions in the past. I confess that some years ago I feared that the Community would be protectionist and exclusive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. I am coming to that point in one moment. On the defence side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "d force reductions, and in doing so have been pushing the United States into bilateral negotiations with the Soviet Union. President Nixon's decision to fly to Moscow next spring is a direct consequence of American impatience at the failure of the European members of N.A.T.O., led by the United Kingdom Government, to allow adequate progress by multilateral negotiations, in mutual force reductions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "at inside the Community—then it would be well worth while. But whether it leads to that sort of growth depends on the price that we must pay for joining, on the state of our economy when we join and on the policies we pursue in the economic and social fields when we are members. On ice-cold shower of competition might be a bracing tonic for a healthy man, but it can Rive a sick man a heart attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "e disagree, I ask them to give their own estimates. The estimates I shall use are not those compiled by opponents of our entry into the Common Market. I shall draw exclusively on estimates made by economists who have been quoted with approval by newspapers and journals which approve of our entry—the only exception, which is not in favour of entry on the present terms, being Her Majesty's Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I was about to come to that very point when the hon. and gallant Gentleman intervened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "o meet the impatience of hon Gentlemen opposite. The estimates made by the British Govment were given to the Brussels Commission last July. They were confirmed on 16th December in a note accompanying the British proposals for the budgetary contribution on that date. They were published in the news agency reports of the Brussels Commission itself, and they are available in the Library of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "e this estimate to the House on 16th December last, when he said that the cost would be of that order in foreign exchange due to the changes of tariff on industrial goods. If, next, we accept the common agricultural policy, not only do we give the Six access to the largest food market in the world, but we must pay high prices for our food instead of the low prices we pay now for Commonwealth food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member will attempt to make this paint if he catches your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, later in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "That is a matter of opinion. I believe that those who have changed their minds have done so in an honest and reasonable way. They are entitled to change their minds after considering all the facts. There is only one person in this House who has been completely consistent in his attitude, and that is my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hornby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hornby", "preceding_text": "tween one place and another; regional policies came back into their own and are, I believe, there to stay. There will be the utmost sympathy for our own regional policies there. As for the fears of the North-East that it will be removed from the commercial centre of this new Community, I would argue that it will be just as removed from that European commercial centre if we stay out as if we go in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": " I have received a large amount of mail on the Common Market—not necessarily from constituents but from people who feel strongly on it. One letter went roughly as follows: \"Both Mr. Heath and Mr. Wilson have tried to sell the country down the river at different times. You Liberals are different: you have been consistently honest. You have tried to sell the country down all the river all the time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": " having to import labour. Some parts of those prosperous areas are suffering from a considerable labour shortage. Alas, we in Scotland have no labour shortage. I find that there are now industries waiting, in this period of uncertainty, to see whether we intend to go into the E.E.C. before coming to investment decisions. Once we decide to join, there will go ahead with their investment programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "pursue? In asking these questions, one is questioning what Europe will be like in 10 or 20 years' time. That is the way in which my party and colleagues consider the matter. I feel that it is inevitable—I hope that this will happen—that the European Community will take on board decision-making and defence policies, and I disagree with some of the theorising that has been indulged in about defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "ub not interested in the problems of the third world. Neither we nor the E.E.C. members have done enough, and I hope that inside Europe we shall do very much more. In all the opinion polls on the subject of the Common Market I have noticed one very significant feature and it is that there are more in the age group under 35, unlike the rest of the country, wanting to go in than wanting to stay out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "onomic and social life of the nation. That is the point with which I am concerned. I genuinely believe that Brussels will override this House. I genuinely believe that on the commanding heights of the economy—a piece of rhetoric used by the late Aneurin Bevan which I have always admired enormously; both the man and the quotation—the power will be transplanted from the House of Commons to Brussels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ghtly—and tenuously at that—to the issue of national sovereignty. So much so that the well-known Conservative—I spoke at his eve of the polls meeting at Golcar in the Colne Valley by-election on 20th March, 1963—and I am glad to see the present Member for Colne Valley (Mr. David Clark) indicates recalling the event—Mr. Andrew Alexander, a senior feature writer on the Daily Telegraph took my point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tut, tut\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "gument. I can understand why the upholders of the capitalist society on the Government benches want to go into the Community, even without Labour Party support. They think that to do so will strengthen the powers of the private enterprise system. I understand their case. Nobody will convince me that the Foreign Secretary genuinely wants any rapprochement with the Communist countries. He never has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "why in the long-term interests of the Labour movement I hope that it is still not impossible for some of my colleagues who feel like me in their approach to Europe to find it possible to vote against this Government. This will not mean a General Election but it will add to the confusion, to the lack of credibility, that exists about the Government, and the sooner we can get rid of them the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "n in agriculture centres around the fruit growers. They are worried, and they have good grounds for worry. I hope that my right hon. Friend will be able to assure them that if we enter the Common Market we shall try to rationalise European production in such a way that surpluses, particularly of Golden Delicious, are not dumped in this country. This is a genuine and justifiable fear among growers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.989.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1016.5", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1016.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1024.2", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "he will not disagree that what he read about our ability to affect the ultimate working out of the agricultural policy has been affected by the fact that it was completed in the three years since the speech he read. No one in 1967 thought that it would be three years before the negotiations would begin. The right hon. Gentleman must know that the changes made in those three years were fundamental.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1024.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1024.2", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "of the agricultural policy has been affected by the fact that it was completed in the three years since the speech he read. No one in 1967 thought that it would be three years before the negotiations would begin. The right hon. Gentleman must know that the changes made in those three years were fundamental. [ Interruption. ] I do not think any hon. Gentleman in his soberer moments would deny that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1024.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1024.2", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "tion. ] I realise that hon. Members opposite do not want to hear what I have to say. The right hon. Gentleman will now, I hope, quote from column 1070 in the speech from which he has read. He will read in that column of the same speech what I said about the common agricultural policy, which was a quotation from the White Paper itself, which was column 312 on 2nd May. Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1024.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1025.6", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I have read out what the right hon. Gentleman said. I have no intention of reading any more. One of the most encouraging features of the public debate this summer has been the overwhelming support of the agricultural community for entry on the terms negotiated. The National Farmers Unions in England, Scotland and Wales, as well as the Country Landowners' Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1025.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "y, too. One thing which has held back progress in agriculture over the last few years has been the lack of expansion in the industry. Nothing has been more damaging to the interests of the agricultural workers than the failure of the industry to expand in the last few years. So it is quite clear that agricultural workers and the whole industry have a considerable amount to gain from British entry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": " would like me to deal tonight in answer to some of the points raised today which are still causing considerable concern and worry. I should like to start by taking again the subject of food prices. In particular, I draw attention to the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro). As one would expect, the effect of entry on food prices has been widely discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1045.3", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "t majority of people in this country are opposed to entry. We have heard tributes paid to the Prime Minister, that he has been consistent about Europe throughout recent years. But I can remember a newspaper headline during the last election: \"Heath Blows Cold on the Market\". The British people were carefully conned into believing that the Conservative Party was no longer keen on the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1045.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "ers can do the job at the European Parliament and at Westminster as well. I cannot discover any reason why the European Parliament should meet at Strasbourg, which, I understand, has a particularly rotten airport which is difficult to get to. As each of the Six has within its borders agencies for the Common Market, I suggest that we might offer to have the European Parliament stationed in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Laurie Pavitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Laurie Pavitt", "preceding_text": "omic plan. It will be disastrous to India. By having G.S.P. instead of Commonwealth preferences, she will lose twice as much as she gains. No hon. Member has yet dealt with the effect of the National Health Service. There has been much talk about the harmonisation of family benefits and social security. It has been said that they will be as good as or comparable with those that we have in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-21", "file": "debates1971-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "26c04db7144f83a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you judge?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "arketeers were saying constantly and confidently that as soon as the terms were known and their campaign was able to get under way there would be a massive swing of public opinion behind the Government. It has not happened. Some may argue that it does not matter, or that the answers may be interpreted in different ways, but the fact remains that the British people are overwhelmingly against entry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-21a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "me future date, come before the House, and that the House shall have minority reports and access to any information given to the Committee by the Inland Revenue and other Departments, this House cannot consider in detail the many aspects of the Royal finances now being discussed by the Committee. Perhaps, Mr. Speaker, you would care to comment on this, in order to give some assurance to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1088.0", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1088.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will accept that 1967 is going back a few years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "But the Minister did not answer this question. I again ask: are we to leave this until after entry? He must answer in view of his remarks on a previous occasion. Perhaps he has changed his mind. If so, I do not object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "But the Minister did not answer this question. I again ask: are we to leave this until after entry? He must answer in view of his remarks on a previous occasion. Perhaps he has changed his mind. If so, I do not object. [ Interruption. ] It is no good hon. Gentlemen opposite trying to dismiss this. It is a vital issue and we want to know if there are to be full negotiations about it Before entry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "erhaps he has changed his mind. If so, I do not object. [ Interruption. ] It is no good hon. Gentlemen opposite trying to dismiss this. It is a vital issue and we want to know if there are to be full negotiations about it Before entry. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"] It is clear that the right hon. Gentleman does not intend to reply, and I am sorry about that. His attitude is bound to create uncertainty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "the C.A.P. has played its part in encouraging the drive towards protectionism in other parts of the world. If great traditional supplies of food are cut out from one's own markets, there will be reactions. That is what is happening. It is for these reasons that I strongly condemn the existence of the C.A.P. Before concluding on the question of the C.A.P., because I must now come nearly to a close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "nt to speak but today, when it was known to the Opposition that the Government proposed to put before the House through me some of the social service implications of joining the Common Market. I shall not try to comment with my half-knowledge on a number of the points which the right hon. Gentleman has made. I know enough, however, to recognise that the picture which he presented was very partial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1125.3", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": " will be. We have heard that it may be anything between £800 million and £250 million. The reason why it will be high to begin with is that we are large importers of food. We buy half our food and, naturally, we shall have to pay. But, again, we shall get great benefits from entering the Common Market in terms of our industry, and those benefits will make up for the levy that we shall have to pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Marples", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It consumes it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Marples", "preceding_text": "It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Enfield, East (Mr. Mackie). He makes robust speeches full of common sense. He always did so when in Government, and he does so in Opposition, too. I congratulate him on his speech. But Enfield has not got everything. It does not make wine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1160.2", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brocklebank-Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brocklebank-Fowler", "preceding_text": "iament. As I had not myself attended the last meeting of the executive committee I was not able to disagree with the right hon. Gentleman. I did, however, then leave the Chamber and telephone the offices of the Africa Bureau, and confirmed my suspicion that this document is the work of the Director of the Bureau supported by a research assistant, was at no time examined by the executive committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carol Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carol Johnson", "preceding_text": "sed by both sides, and the percentage of support and opposition has varied from time to time. But it is interesting to note that there has been one almost constant factor; that in all the opinion polls which I have seen the majority of people—over 80 per cent., whatever their personal views whether we should go in or stay out—believe that Great Britain will join. That is a very significant factor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1182.0", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "The former Ambassador.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "thing about their history in this century. I raise that point particularly in relation to an article which appeared in The Times under the name of the French Ambassador in London, M. Massigli, on 17th July, the day of the Labour Party special conference on the Common Market. In that article, which was as notable for its candour as for what some people might regard as its insolence, the Ambassador—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "he part of France, and a desire for a genuine fair partnership with this country, there would have been no technical difficulty about doing that. Every Minister who has negotiated with the Six in the last decade knows that in seeking solutions to our problems he has not been up against technical difficulties but against the insistence of the French on screwing out of us the maximum possible price—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ated with the Six in the last decade knows that in seeking solutions to our problems he has not been up against technical difficulties but against the insistence of the French on screwing out of us the maximum possible price—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".] The conditions we have been asked to approve, prove this—why should anyone be surprised at that? That is how the French operate. They are not Englishmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-22", "file": "debates1971-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e0226be376a34c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CENTRAL ADVISORY COUNCILS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": " teacher training. But that is only an illustration of a broader question. I would also sympathise with her that there were criticisms of the way in which some of these committees worked in the past. They were not altogether successful, and some of their work may have been discouraging to those in the Department. But the solution was not to dissolve the committees but to evolve a better machinery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-22a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "With guns.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "preceding_text": "shots were fired from the van? Is the hon. Gentleman aware that photographs published since then, and statements made from the scene of this terrible tragedy, show clearly that these women were dressed in gaily coloured blouses, and that one was dressed in white slacks? In fact, they were dressed in the same style as thousands of young women in this country would dress for an ordinary evening out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1227.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1234.6", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "he development and influence of the Community now is, of course, mainly economic, but politically it has the opportunity of great influence throughout the world, including by association agreements with the developing nations. The overriding case in favour of entry is that it is a natural development. Europe shares common interests and problems. We in Britain share the same interests and problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1234.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1239.2", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us how.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I have seen that. I am afraid that it has the history wrong; but, more important, it has the figures wrong as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "e end of paragraph 44, which states: \"They\"—that is, the Community— have reached agreement in principle on arrangements for meeting the cost, but their application in a reasonable and equitable way to our situation must be a matter for negotiation, as has always been recognised. Indeed, that was the matter for negotiation—the steps by which we moved up towards the payment of our full contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1248.2", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way in the middle of a sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "One particular point which was seized upon was that I said we could have an overall improvement in our balance of payments of £1,700 million by the end of the period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "upon was that I said we could have an overall improvement in our balance of payments of £1,700 million by the end of the period. [ Interruption. ] They also quoted plus £1,700 million as well as minus £500 million. I have talked so far mostly about the terms, and that is natural. I negotiated them and they have their place in our discussions. But I think more and more people are coming to realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1252.9", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition, when Prime Minister, dealt with that particular difficulty. The policy was not negotiable in the context of the negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1252.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Walker.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Which right hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1257.2", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "esser nature, are involved. In other words, if we enter we may have to accept a whole series of decisions which we dislike intensely for fear that another nation will threaten to destroy the Community if we do not accept them. I believe this to be a possibility. Hon. Members opposite may say, \"Why should you worry about these theoretical possibilities; why frighten yourself with such a scarecrow?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1257.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1260.4", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ion from the sovereignty of this House in dealing with such matters as taxation, coal, steel, the levels of unemployment, and regional policy. I turn to my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Dr. David Owen) who interrupted me, since I promised I would come to his point. Of course, I understand the argument that it may be desirable or necessary to have an erosion of essential sovereignty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1260.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "want the Community to work, the Commission must perform an important rôle. And if we want the whole affair to be democratic there is ultimately no alternative to a Parliament. I agree with that, too, but in the meantime these great decisions that are to be taken in Europe will be taken by undemocratic bodies. That is the situation as defined by Lord Gladwyn and there is no getting round it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about your own argument?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "imately no alternative to a Parliament. I agree with that, too, but in the meantime these great decisions that are to be taken in Europe will be taken by undemocratic bodies. That is the situation as defined by Lord Gladwyn and there is no getting round it. [ Interruption. ] If the Prime Minister will listen a little more carefully, I will tell him what Lord Gladwyn says at the end of the article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should have been a little more diligent before putting that question to me. If he will do me the courtesy of consulting my own election address—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1267.2", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "So I say to hon. Members that when they come to vote, both—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1271.1", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Were they in yours?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "evious Administration and ourselves.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 21st October, 1971; Vol. 823, c. 892.] But that goes exactly counter to what his right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said in reply to my question of 29th July. The right hon. Gentleman cannot have it both ways. Either the details are in the White Paper—I suggest that they manifestly are not: it is too brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I will explain it to the hon. Gentleman in a moment. If there is extra competition in Europe, there will be less opportunity for someone somewhere else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Explain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I will explain it to the hon. Gentleman in a moment. If there is extra competition in Europe, there will be less opportunity for someone somewhere else—[ Laughter. ] Of course hon. Members laugh. They do not understand how difficult it is for a man who is thrown out of work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brocklebank-Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brocklebank-Fowler", "preceding_text": "nderstand their wish that we should have a united Europe. Some of us were not materially affected by the last war except that my parents' lives were disrupted to a certain extent and business suffered, and so on. But we were not the victims of action in war. We simply saw the war as young children. I suppose we enjoyed it because of its excitement. However, my generation does not want another war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Stechford has told us the tale of how as Chancellor of the Exchequer he went over to Europe and was kept in an ante-room while others discussed what they would do with us. If we enter the enlarged Community, we shall gain an accession of sovereignty, not lose sovereignty. We shall no longer be the sick man of Europe. I feel that I have spoken too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1345.3", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Much larger.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "erse is the case: that high price levels are basically and intrinsically in jeopardy in the future development of the C.A.P. We have already seen in Europe in the last three or four years how price levels by and large have been kept steady while world prices and prices in this country for foodstuffs have risen at a fast rate. Our contribution to the C.A.P. will be the second largest after Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "After that, I will certainly not give way again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "After that, I will certainly not give way again—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—to that hon. Gentleman. Nobody who takes the economic consequences seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "lish E.F.T.A. and the Commonwealth preference area and merge into one continental unit and there is no export case for the location of factories in the British Isles. The natural thing, therefore, would be for a firm to locate a single unit in Belgium or Holland. There would be bound to be less industrial investment in the British Isles. This quite evident fact was confirmed by a striking article—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": " would get the same benefits without paying anything for them. This is the grotesque situation to which we are now being brought. Not merely are the E.F.T.A. non-candidates now being offered all these benefits without the burdens, but it is now clear that General de Gaulle at the time of the Soames affair offered a very similar situation to us and it was our own Foreign Office that turned it down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "It would certainly have been my intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1357.2", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend accept that there is nothing embarrassing in the question which was asked? More than one member of the then Labour Party said in unmistakably clear terms that once the negotiations had been finalised they would be first submitted for endorsement or otherwise by the annual conference of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1357.2", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "uestion which was asked? More than one member of the then Labour Party said in unmistakably clear terms that once the negotiations had been finalised they would be first submitted for endorsement or otherwise by the annual conference of the Labour Party. [ Interruption. ] I can well understand, because hon. Members opposite are so devoid of any understanding of the meaning of the word \"democracy\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1357.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1360.2", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That has already been quoted.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "his opposition to membership of the Common Market. At least I felt he had been constant in his fervent support of the three-line Whip, but I happened to look back at the speech he made in this House on 8th May, 1967, when he concluded with these words: I say that we must not be 'whipped' into the Common Market. I certainly do not propose to be.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th May, 1967; Vol. 746, c. 1123.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer dealt with these matters at great length in his speech.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1369.2", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "y from the point of view of full employment, growth is paramount. The opposition to joining seems to us, and I believe to the country, to be coloured by three dominant characteristics. First, it is negative. No alternative is offered. If this is not the best way to get better growth in future, what is? The opponents do not make that clear at all. They certainly have not succeeded outside hitherto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1371.0", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's Government, of which he was a leading member, made it clear that this was not objectionable when they made their application.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1371.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1373.2", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about productivity?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": " ammunition. Time and again the Prime Minister has stood at that Dispatch Box and said that it is the high wage cost of British industry that is holding us back. The Minister has just admitted that hourly wage rates are higher in Europe than they are here. If that be so, right hon. Gentlemen opposite can never again say that our problems are due to the high wages being demanded by British workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1373.5", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "circumstances? Every time that this country has been in difficulties, under whatever Government, we have pulled out the crystal ball and seen in it Europe as the panacea, the place where there would be no difficulties. But I should like some consistency from the Government. This year's Defence White Paper said: Britain's political and trading interests are world-wide. And we are going to cut back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1375.2", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "was the highest for any month since foreign cars have been coming into the country. We compete in the American market on the same basis as E.E.C. countries compete there, and those countries have exactly the same barriers to jump as we have. Bearing that in mind, would any hon. Gentleman opposite care to explain why the Germans sell three times as many cars to America as we do? I will explain why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1375.2", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "o the country. We compete in the American market on the same basis as E.E.C. countries compete there, and those countries have exactly the same barriers to jump as we have. Bearing that in mind, would any hon. Gentleman opposite care to explain why the Germans sell three times as many cars to America as we do? I will explain why—[ Interruption. ]—and it has nothing to do with a bigger home market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1376.2", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is bigger.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "y will not be overcome if we join the Community. If a large home market is essential and if this country can be viable only on the basis of an enlarged market—if growth, full employment and all the other wonderful things of which the Minister spoke will come about only from such a market—can somebody please explain the progress of Japan, which has a smaller market than we have, including E.F.T.A.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "ave, they do not understand the ordinary basis of economics. It is said that we shall have a lovely time with the free movement of labour and capital, and everyone pretends that there is no difference. The man who has never had to tear up his roots and to walk the streets seeking a job, cannot be compared with a man who has only to sign a cheque to transfer his capital; they are different persons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I want the hon. Gentleman to save his strength and not to get restless.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1378.8", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Does anyone believe that our workers work longer hours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1378.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1378.9", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Then why do hon. Members oppose their wage claims?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1378.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I am talking about world population. Including all the associated States, the Common Market still represents little more than one-twelfth of the world's population. There are 3,500 million people in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": " about world population. Including all the associated States, the Common Market still represents little more than one-twelfth of the world's population. There are 3,500 million people in the world. [ Interruption. ] If the Common Market population was 350 million, it would still represent only one-tenth of the world's population and that would leave nine-tenths in which we would not be interested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1379.5", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": " industrially injured; they take away the school milk. They have got their priorities wrong. Anybody who believes that they are the kind of Government whom I can trust to negotiate for me should have another think. My fear is that they might influence the Europeans to follow their very bad uncivilised conduct. They might induce them to attack the things which are near and dear to their own people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1379.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": " the Leader of the House in the debate on Friday last. It is clear, therefore, taking away what is called the payroll vote on the Government side of not only Ministers but all hon. Members opposite who are recent recruits to this House but hope to become Ministers one day, that they have had their arms twisted so strongly that the question of a free vote is just a joke for many of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1403.3", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "nipulators of the levers of economic power to deploy their capital where it is most likely to produce the highest profit. Without wishing to be unfair to anyone, as I see the proposition it will be more favourable, once there is complete freedom of movement of capital and labour, for many of the great corporations to employ their capital near the centre of the Market and not in this little island—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1403.3", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "he Council of Europe the French did not like any of us, but now they have a new President and they have had to change their minds because the French farmers are holding mass rallies and invoking the sanctions of the Council of Europe—marching on Paris, as the Belgian farmers are on Brussels, and in one case even taking their bullocks into the conference chamber, with a resultant mess on the floor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-25", "file": "debates1971-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "a932fb9a88e7b63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "h modern machinery, there has been an almost spectacular decline because of the unfair competition which has been besetting us from every corner of the globe. It is a fact of history that we deplore. The present situation is deplorable. I remember making a speech at the Council of Europe at Strasbourg, as I am making one now—off the cuff, impulsive, not very academic, but saying what I believe in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-25a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1464.4", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "May I first say how delighted I know the House is to welcome back my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, North (Earl of Dalkeith).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1473.3", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (PRIME MINISTERS' TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman remarked that the Government of the Republic would be publishing their proposals today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1477.5", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman recalls his previous Administration he will know that security matters were not discussed in public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1477.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1478.2", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT, 25th OCTOBER", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me notice of it. As far as I am aware, no one has changed HANSARD. I think that at the time is was a little difficult for me to make myself heard.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1480.3", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "9 right hon. and hon. Members. I know of 187 who still wish to speak, excluding the spokesmen from the Front Benches. Yesterday the Rule was suspended until 2 o'clock. In the three and a half hours after 10.30 p.m. I was able to call only 10 hon. Members, one of whom has not yet finished his speech. The reason there were so few was that five back benchers took, on average, half an hour per speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1485.3", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "First, as a Scottish Member, and as one who has watched his progress towards renewed health, I wish to welcome—I am sure that the whole House joins me in so doing—the presence among us today of the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North (Earl of Dalkeith).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1485.3", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "nch. We had a Division on it. All the great Europeans went into the Lobby in support of the Attlee Government in their attitude. Many have changed their minds since, but I shall go into the same Lobby on Thursday as I did on that occasion. The argument of the Opposition at that time was not that we should actually join but that we should accept the principle in order to discuss, and then come out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "bled by it ever since. The decision to introduce that order was determined by our membership of E.F.T.A. under the terms concerning discriminative treatment of individual firms. We had to impose purchase tax on flexile because of this. My hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) will remember the case well. He came to see me about it. We were going to lose a by-election because of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. I think we are entitled to develop coherent arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1533.3", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": " can go and get new terms. We are deciding whether we go in now or whether we postpone it for another Government in another time and go in five, 10, 20 or 30 years later. We have not got that much time. I believe that, for political as well as for economic reasons, it is essential for the welfare of the British people that we join the Common Market. I agree that the political reasons are decisive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1533.3", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": " not got that much time. I believe that, for political as well as for economic reasons, it is essential for the welfare of the British people that we join the Common Market. I agree that the political reasons are decisive. [ Interruption. ] In saying that, I quote my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. Harold Wilson), who pressed on us many times that the political reasons were important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1533.3", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "nalist, and he is entitled to his opinion. Many of the woe speeches, which see everything black and nothing but calamity, will be conveniently forgotten in five or 10 years' time if Scotland, like so many other parts of the United Kingdom, rises to the challenge of Europe. It is not the case that we shall join a Europe that will suddenly do everything for us. We must do a great deal for ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1543.2", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Lt.-Col. Colin Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lt.-Col. Colin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "ed; we all know that resources are being squandered; we all know that population is exploding. We also know that there is resistance to technical and economic developments of the type we have been talking about in Europe, which are regarded by the great majority of people as being anti-social. To many people, particularly the young, growth and influence mean the same thing as greed and power lust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1589.5", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For a free vote of the people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "We are concerned very much with how hon. Members will vote on Thursday night. I must also say that I regret the decision of my right hon. Friend the Opposition Chief Whip to attempt a whipped vote on this side. There is strong support in the country for a free vote among Labour hon. Members. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1589.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1589.5", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": " the Opposition Chief Whip to attempt a whipped vote on this side. There is strong support in the country for a free vote among Labour hon. Members. —[HON. MEMBERS: \"For a free vote of the people.\"] My hon. Friends may or may not be right about that. What I am saying is that there is strong support among the people for a free vote of Labour hon. Members. This is borne out in a public opinion poll—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1589.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1589.5", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "e is strong support among the people for a free vote of Labour hon. Members. This is borne out in a public opinion poll—[ interruption. ] —hon. Members may sneer but my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Crayford (Mr. Wellbeloved) had an interesting poll in his constituency showing 80 per cent. in favour of a free vote for Labour Members of Parliament. Gallup Poll reporting in the last few days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1589.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1589.5", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "ne out in a public opinion poll—[ interruption. ] —hon. Members may sneer but my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Crayford (Mr. Wellbeloved) had an interesting poll in his constituency showing 80 per cent. in favour of a free vote for Labour Members of Parliament. Gallup Poll reporting in the last few days—[ Interruption. ]—it is no good hon. Members shrugging their shoulders at opinion polls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1589.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "with the Italians, because we have tasted the same cure for unemployment in our areas. When they talk to us about how well the Community has served Italy, I think of the families which have been broken there as their breadwinners have had to leave their homeland and native culture to find employment in other parts of the Common Market. I want to refer to other powers of the Commission at Brussels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman may deceive himself, and perhaps one or two innocents opposite, but he will deceive no one else. I belonged to the Cabinet which took the decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1600.5", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am not surprised in the slightest that hon. Members opposite treat this with such frivolity. I hope that the hon. Gentleman's constituents know his attitude to a mandate from the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1600.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Mr. Emery rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1601.2", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should know me well enough by now to know that anyone who makes fun of my accent does not get me giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1601.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1601.4", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Mr. Emery rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1601.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1601.7", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Mr. Emery rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1601.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1601.8", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "there is no reason why the rest of the British people must capitulate as well. We stand by this that Great Britain is strong enough and rich enough in her ability, her skills and her talents to face the future with her world contacts as they are well established without feeling that utter defeat stares us in the face unless we accept whatever terms Europe offers. I am in my 27th year in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1601.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": " United Kingdom should or should not join the Community because this question goes wider than the remit of the Welsh Council, but it does give a detailed and constructive commentary on the implication for Wales if we go into the Community, and it is important to note that the council's assessment was unanimous. This does not mean, of course, that every member of the Council was in favour of entry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "he interests of Welsh farmers. Indeed, in some spheres of Welsh agriculture entry into the Community would open up bright and prosperous prospects. The Council's report has the stamp of authority about it, partly because of the thorough way in which the question was tackled but also partly because the Chairman went to great lengths to satisfy himself about the facts. He visited Belgium and Italy.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Back in time for supper.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "ich the question was tackled but also partly because the Chairman went to great lengths to satisfy himself about the facts. He visited Belgium and Italy.—[An HON. MEMBER: \"For how long?\"]—He talked to Commission staff, including the Commissioner for Regional Policy, and to officials of the Belgian and Italian Governments. He also visited their assisted areas and talked to people on the spot there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1607.7", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about R.E.P.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The Welsh Council was equally unequivocal and said, and I refer an hon. Gentleman opposite to the book he has, page 7, paragraph 13, that it saw … no reason to fear that entry into the E.E.C. would impair our ability to pursue active regional policies along the lines of those pursued in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1607.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1610.1", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Sell out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "d firmly at this stage, because the precise definition of the United Kingdom areas will be a matter for discussion and joint decision after the United Kingdom's entry, in the same way that the areas now defined as central and peripheral areas by the Community were defined in agreement with individual States. The individual States reached agreement before the matter got to the Council of Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1611.2", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman spoke earlier today for 55 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1611.2", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman spoke earlier today for 55 minutes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and he is trying to make another speech now. It is perfectly clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1612.0", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1612.0", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—[ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1612.2", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "One thing that is quite clear is that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, despite the high office has has held, is not a courteous man. He has come to this debate late, and he has been talking all the time during my speech. I will answer the right hon. Gentleman's question. First of all, I never said what he imputed to me as my words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1612.2", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "during my speech. I will answer the right hon. Gentleman's question. First of all, I never said what he imputed to me as my words—[ Interruption. ] If the right hon. Gentleman had listened to what I was saying, he would have understood that I said that the matter for negotiation whether they be central or peripheral areas is something which would take place between a Government and the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1613.6", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman referred to the Treaty of Rome. Will lie point out where in that treaty there is any power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1613.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1613.6", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "l policy had not been worked out. Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that on the point he mentioned the initiative comes not from this country but from the Commission, and is subject to veto in the Council of Ministers? Therefore, there can be a veto on my constituency, on the constituency the right hon. and learned Gentleman used to represent in Wales, or on any other constituency. Is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1613.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1614.0", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "had anything from the Chancellor of the Duchy about his negotiations, and we are not listening to him now. We are listening to the Secretary of State for Wales. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman thinks that I have been discourteous. I regret that he should think that. I have listened to him for half an hour longer than the Prime Minister has, and I agree with the Prime Minister's assessment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1613.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Shall be elected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ingle parties running right across it, would never be collected. Even if it were, the result would be that the Commission would stay in office until replaced, and all its members could be reappointed. As a method of day-to-day control of an executive by a parliament that is a pretty blunt weapon. I was not going to say this, but it is a nominated parliament. The treaty says that it may be elected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "It is quite an experience to have a ringside seat for the six-day circus act opposite and to watch the effect of the ringmaster cracking his three-line Whip to make his dogs do acrobatics with their tongues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "ms would be negotiated for entry. When I arrived in New Zealand I found that there was a great deal of satisfaction that this long period of uncertainty was over, and then the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition did his somersault and came down flat on his face on the wrong side of the fence, which had a terrible effect in New Zealand, because the people were starting all over again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "se entirely that we should seek entry, that this will give us the best chance of prosperity. They stress that they have had increasing trade with Japan because our delivery dates, they say, are all over the place, and they cannot be certain about the help with spares which they may need. There is also the question of dock strikes and so on. So they have stepped up their trade very much with Japan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1649.1", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Taylor", "preceding_text": "ish text. But it is reported in the Financial Times today that in addition to suggesting a common currency it suggests the centralised creation of liquidity, Community direction of national budgets and other things, including a central decision-taking body for economic policy. If those matters are all included in the report a copy should have been available in our Library for hon. Members to read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wiliam Hannan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wiliam Hannan", "preceding_text": "bour Party had the same power—because there was full employment in that area and the Commission wanted it to go elsewhere. That is a desirable state of affairs. If the Commission has such powers, I should wish to consult it and know what it was about, but I am assured that the regional policies followed by the various national Governments can be continued by those Governments without interference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-26", "file": "debates1971-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "ebfe0d64db3beb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1671.1", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We have about three-quarters of an hour more tonight. I would tell hon. Members that I have noted carefully those who have stayed to this late hour, and even if I do not call them now perhaps their staying up so late will count for virtue later on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-26a.1671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1713.3", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that up to 15 million persons—between a quarter and a third of the entire population—will for the first time be made subject to means test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1719.6", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "ee quarters of this year of about 10,000 in the public sector, and he answered the criticism implied by those figures by saying that we need to concentrate on stress areas. In a recent speech to his party conference his right hon. Friend expressed confidence that there would be clearance of the country's slums during this decade. That implies, on the basis of something approaching 2 million slums—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1719.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Everyone knows, and also the members of the Six knew perfectly well, that the noble Lord was talking about the transitional arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Everyone knows, and also the members of the Six knew perfectly well, that the noble Lord was talking about the transitional arrangements. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] What is clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1747.0", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will have to do better than that. There is nothing at all in what I said there about reserving the C.A.P. for negotiations. What I said was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1747.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1748.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1750.2", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Next question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " with that point, but since the hon. Gentleman raises it, perhaps I might read these words, which are an answer to him: There are such sharp differences of opinion within each party that it would not be possible to decide the issue at a General Election, even if the leadership of the two major parties were taking contrary views. Those are the words of the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1750.4", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I agree with the right hon. Gentleman in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1750.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Mr. Shore), because it is known now, and it was known then, that they had great reservations about the application. I can say what they cannot say, because I am not seeking to claim that I had their reservations; namely, that their positions were wholly reserved within the Cabinet, and everybody knew it. An application was made, but with reserved judgment until the negotiations had been completed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1755.2", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman. That was on 3rd February, 1951. We were both new Members. He had been elected in February and I had been elected in November. He has probably forgotten it but I have not; I have checked. His speech was based upon the importance of the Atlantic Alliance. I found the notes of my speech. I said, \"Democracy means the right to be wrong.\" That is still the argument I put to the House today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1755.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1759.1", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "change without first obtaining the consent preceding the decision. If I were a long-standing European, as is the Prime Minister, I would feel that he had killed my European dream, because visions are realised only when men enter a common enterprise freely. They carry the strain. They are rewarded by their effort. One cannot march a nation into a new era and adventure on the scale—against its will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1761.1", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": ", and every Member of the House knows, that in the 20 years since the Commission was set up there has been an enormous development of our constitution in that our electors are better informed, and they are now beginning to press us more forcibly than they have ever done before. When the demonstrators come here they do not threaten Parliament. They sustain Parliament. It is when the U.C.S. workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1762.0", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " trying to bring us together into the mush of men of good will and no party. The party system preserves choice. What I warn the House of is this. If the people think that by a temporary coalition, which has never been tested at the polls, some Members of Parliament claiming a divine right that we have denied to kings, deny the people the right to decide their own future, we are in serious trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1767.1", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Ludlow (Mr. More). The hon. Gentleman said that he disagreed with his Government on their Common Market policy, and, in the circumstances, as he found his attitude to that policy incompatible with his position as a Whip, he had resigned from the Government. Then he said that, on the basis of a free vote, he would support the Government's policy. I think that that is a fair summary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1767.1", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "e to that policy incompatible with his position as a Whip, he had resigned from the Government. Then he said that, on the basis of a free vote, he would support the Government's policy. I think that that is a fair summary. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I understood the hon. Member for Ludlow to say that he would join the Government supporters in their Lobby, that they would be embarrassed by his presence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1769.5", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "industry worker. If the workers' job opportunities decline, as they would if we brought in masses of foreign motor cars, obviously, the employer would bestrengthened in his resistance to trade union wage claims. So the right hon. Gentleman was plainly arguing that he would deliberately bring in more foreign cars to create unemployment among Midland motor car workers in order to resist wage claims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1769.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1771.3", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "basis upon which we all contest Elections. That is the programme and policy that we put before the British people. If a Government are elected they are committed to pursuing the policy they put before the people, otherwise it is a bogus prospectus. It is the duty of every Labour Parliamentarian to accept annual conference decisions, to accept the policies on which he or she contested the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1771.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1778.1", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And did not get it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "growth of this country and if it were to prevent redistribution of wealth, it would be too high a price to pay. Indeed, if that could be proved to me, even at this late stage I would be prepared to vote in the other Lobby. But for me economic growth is very important, not simply because I fought my own Government from 1964 to 1970 on this matter and, indeed, have fought this Government ever since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "em to deal with our affairs in that way. I cannot trust them to go off and have private discussions on something I know nothing about and then come back and tell the House, \"We have agreed. You can debate it, you can have your say, but at the end of the day this will operate, whether you like it or not.\" I have voted against my party on many occasions, and I hope that I should do so in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " tears are shed. The Government have promised that they might do something if the cost of living goes up, but only £680 is spent on telling old-age pensioners their rights today, never mind when we are in the Common Market. On the other hand. £680,000 is spent on trying to kid, bluff and twist the people into supporting this so-called great dynamic enterprise of entry into Europe. I must be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1837.1", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "is far better than we give them credit for, because they know that we are not being asked to go into the Division Lobbies behind the idealistic vision which inspires so many of my hon. Friends. if it were so, their reaction would be very different. When we from the Opposition Front Bench say, \"No entry on Tory terms\". I believe that the people of this country instinctively understand what we mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's intervention has made me decide not to give way any more. Hon. Gentlemen opposite may run away from the truth, but I shall not do so tonight.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "aing, the French Finance Minister, is proposing that the Finance Ministers of the Six at their meeting next week should try to reach world solutions to the monetary crisis without waiting first to settle their own difficulties. In fact, as we all know, the views of France and Germany on this issue have proved irreconcilable and relations between the two countries are at their lowest ebb for years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "each world solutions to the monetary crisis without waiting first to settle their own difficulties. In fact, as we all know, the views of France and Germany on this issue have proved irreconcilable and relations between the two countries are at their lowest ebb for years. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] It is no good saying, \"Rubbish\". That is the kind of facile evasion which refuses to face the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "no Government of which I was a member would ever have accepted them. Yesterday in another place Lord George-Brown pleaded with us in the Labour Party not in a final frenzy of self-inflicted frustration\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, House of Lords, 26th October, 1971; Vol. 324, c. 567.] to jeopardise the interests of this country. We all know Lord George-Brown as a sincere man, but we also know his capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "argain which President Pompidou struck before he would agree to negotiate at all. He has also struck another bargain, to which Lord Gladwyn referred in that remarkable article in The Times where he wrote: M. Pompidou got a pledge from the Prime Minister that Britain would support France in the strict application of the unanimity rule as it emerged from the 'Luxembourg compromise' of January, 1966.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1849.3", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": "ant still is the fact that, practically without exception, the leaders of our industrial organisations and of our great enterprises are of the same mind. Hon. Members cannot surely fail to be impressed by the extraordinary degree of unanimity with which they have stated their views publicly on these issues. These are, after all, the men and women who are at the sharp end of the economic challenge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1849.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1858.1", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1858.5", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " that level of investment. There are good reasons for that. In the first place, the added buoyancy which will be derived from membership in itself will stimulate our own investment. In the second place, in the exchanges of investment that are likely to flow between here and the Continent following membership the strong probability is that the balance of the flow will be inward rather than outward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1858.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1868.2", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1868.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1869.4", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Boardman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1869.5", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "vance that this does not mean that they hand over their mandate. I hope that they will explain to the Government that many of the allies they will have in the Lobby tomorrow will be only too eager, on the ground that they think they might bring the Government down, to vote against them later. There is no constitutional reason on this issue for handing over the mandate. It was not in the manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1869.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1872.1", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rhodes (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rhodes (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East)", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Member for Peterborough (Sir Harmar Nicholls) will forgive me if I do not comment in detail on what he said, but I should like to direct some pertinent questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and I hope that he does not dash off before I have had the chance to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1877.3", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is a salesman\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "en the new berth being developed which will take 300,000 deadweight ton tankers. The port manager told me that they had just built a 125,000 tonner. I said that on the Tyne we were launching 250,000 tonners. He said, \"Of course, Mr. Rhodes, but we are in the centre of the Community and your big tankers will be using our port, not the port on the Tyne where they are built.\" I hope that he is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1877.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1879.3", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "That is very interesting. When I was in Paris—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1879.3", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "hould have the courtesy to listen to the answer. When I was in Paris the port managers told me that before long there would be one-way traffic through the Channel from east to west. They may be wrong, but when I asked them to name the ports on the United Kingdom mainland which would gain most from the Central pull of the Community and our advance into the Community, they named London, Southampton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1879.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1889.0", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You are voting for them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "preceding_text": "ent have activated the maximum degree of anger and anxiety among the whole community. At this historic moment when conciliatory policies were needed, when an electoral victory should have been used judiciously and generously, they could not resist the temptations of power and, yielding to them, they have pursued policies and irrelevant legislation which has left the nation divided and distrustful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1903.1", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "eelected as Deputy Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party. I am referring to a chronological minority, of course. I happen to be senior in years to my right hon. Friend. Having no money and not being a betting man, I took him on only in pence, and I hope that my right hon. Friend, whom I greatly esteem, will hold the bet open so that hon. Members opposite who feel like taking him up on this may—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1923.3", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "s gone on in the Conservative constituencies throughout the summer. We know about the 100 involved in the payroll vote. We know that the Prime Minister and his colleagues hope to exchange the 30 anti-Marketeers on their side of the House for possibly much more than that number on this side. I hope that my right hon. and hon. Friends realise this and that they do not fall for such tactics. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1923.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1925.3", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tilney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tilney", "preceding_text": "eve that in times of unemployment there is justification in public works. Lancashire has suffered from the absence of a link between the MI and M6, and particularly Liverpool with the uncompleted motorways in North Cheshire and South Lancashire. We compare badly, therefore, with the Port of Bristol. Lancashire, many people believe, is in the wrong place from the point of view of the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-27", "file": "debates1971-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2ec6a6093f70547e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1946.1", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Palmer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Gallup Poll?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Palmer", "preceding_text": "istoric task; it always has been. Whatever view one may take of the opinion polls—my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, South (Mr. Michael Cocks) referred to one which he thought convincing—the one factor common to the opinion polls is that, if people are asked whether they think that the House of Commons should on this matter have a free vote, they are almost invariably in favour of a free vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-27a.1946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2080.1", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "s matter. I regard the Government's deal over sugar as a betrayal. Yes, I know they will quote in aid the acquiescence of Commonwealth representatives, to say nothing of my noble Friend Lord Campbell of Eskan in this context. With whatever shamelessness this Government can muster, this is what they will argue. I would not have accepted, and no Cabinet I chaired would have accepted, any settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2087.0", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "preceding_text": "Could not the right hon. Gentleman, just on this one occasion, abandon this degenerate fondness he has for trivial fallacies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2096.10", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I was hoping to come to that point at a proper moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2096.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " notice that we could not accept the terms negotiated by the Conservatives, and, in particular, the unacceptable burdens arising out of the C.A.P., the blows to the Commonwealth, and any threats to our essential regional policies. If the Community then refused to negotiate, as we should have asked, or if the negotiations were to fail, we would sit down amicably and discuss the situation with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ular, the unacceptable burdens arising out of the C.A.P., the blows to the Commonwealth, and any threats to our essential regional policies. If the Community then refused to negotiate, as we should have asked, or if the negotiations were to fail, we would sit down amicably and discuss the situation with them. [ Laughter. ] Well, neither coffee nor cognac but British beer, at its present standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "olicies. If the Community then refused to negotiate, as we should have asked, or if the negotiations were to fail, we would sit down amicably and discuss the situation with them. [ Laughter. ] Well, neither coffee nor cognac but British beer, at its present standards. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I have been asked the question and I am giving the answer. We should make clear from that moment our posture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2106.3", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of Slate for the Home Department (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of Slate for the Home Department (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "change since last the subject was debated under a Labour Government. Then the speakers supporting the now Leader of the Opposition were the right hon. Members for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins), Fulham (Mr. Michael Stewart) and Manchester, Cheetham (Mr. Harold Lever)—rather different from the team supporting him now. Therefore, I hope that we can take it from what the Prime Minister said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2106.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2107.0", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is the Leader of the Opposition, not the Prime Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of Slate for the Home Department (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "rd (Mr. Roy Jenkins), Fulham (Mr. Michael Stewart) and Manchester, Cheetham (Mr. Harold Lever)—rather different from the team supporting him now. Therefore, I hope that we can take it from what the Prime Minister said—[ Interruption. ]—in reply to interventions that the official position of his party remains quite definitely that it is in favour of joining the Common Market if the terms are right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2107.1", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "past. I shall use some of their statements in my remarks. Let us be clear, therefore, that the Opposition's argument is that it supports entry given that the terms are right. The right hon. Gentleman has himself stressed in the past the enormous advantages of the wider market and the growth of the technological community. He has stressed it often, but he did not stress it very much this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2110.3", "colnum": "2110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "There is very little noise from behind the right hon. Gentleman now. I believe we should know where the right hon. Gentleman stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2110.4", "colnum": "2110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Obviously against the barrage of noise he did not hear what I said. I have not the exact words I used, but I can recall them. What I said was that we could not accept these terms. I said that one Parliament cannot bind its successor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2110.4", "colnum": "2110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "peak up.\"] I said that one Parliament cannot bind its successor, though we recognise what is involved in the signing of the Treaty. I said we would ask for negotiations to be reopened so as to get the right and acceptable terms. If either they refused to do that or if, when the negotiations began, they did not offer acceptable terms, I said that at that stage we should sit down amicably with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2112.1", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I know the right hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Peart) referred to it, but he always does—he knows the subject. I do not think, apart from him, these two problems have bulked very large in what has been said in the House. The reason is clear. They have been solved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2112.1", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I know the right hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Peart) referred to it, but he always does—he knows the subject. I do not think, apart from him, these two problems have bulked very large in what has been said in the House. The reason is clear. They have been solved—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] They have been solved to the satisfaction of the Governments and producers' boards of the countries concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2117.1", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "to its members unless it had been a good way of dealing with the problems of unemployment and regional policy. The trade unions and the Labour Parties of the Six all agree that the Community has been good for them and they agree that our membership will be good for us and for them. This is the real basic issue. The choice is before us, there is no third alternative. There is no possible deferment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2123.1", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I never speak for anyone else but myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2123.5", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Very well, I will read to the end. This form of political masochism is something new to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2123.5", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Very well, I will read to the end. This form of political masochism is something new to me. [ Interruption. ] I went to the Oxford Union three weeks ago where we had a three to one majority. I do not think that it will want me to go back for a little bit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2130.1", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "n our system of Parliamentary sovereignty—that the exercise of Parliament's will must be unfettered, and that it must be the exclusive law-making agency. Both those characteristics would be fatally eroded by entry. In time, the edifice of our Parliamentary system, built by the resolution of our forefathers and sustained by the sacrifice of successive generations, would crumble at last in the dust—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2141.5", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "mmunity whom it is not easy to protect. We know that there are certain short-term disadvantages, but no Government, and no House of Parliament worth its name, takes a decision based only on the short-term effects. Measures of this kind must be thought of not in terms of 10, 20 or 30 years but the next half-century and longer. It is not only the economic development but the steps which will follow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2154.1", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "he great issues of the day. One is tempted to say to him, \"There but for the grace of God goes God\". I have listened to practically every speech in the debate. The House will probably agree that, irrespective of party, one of the most brilliant expositions of the entire situation and of the factual issue facing the country was given to us today by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2160.1", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "rld affairs, and even in our domestic policies, has become a myth. When I hear people in party conferences and parliamentary party meetings talk about an independent Socialist foreign policy, or an independent this, or an independent that, I think to myself, \"We cannot really be independent on anything\". I remember my right hon. Friend, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party until tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2160.1", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "out.\" That is what the Tories said and that is what we shall say at the next election. That is why people are cynical about politicians and they would be more cynical if they felt that we were being whipped into the Lobbies not because of our convictions, but because some big cheese on the Front Bench said, \"You get in there and never mind what your opinions are\". Those days in the House are gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2172.1", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "My first comment will command universal assent. This is not a moment for orations of Gladstonian length and complexity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2178.0", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "f of all the free peoples of Europe. The Economic Community, as its name implies, is concerned only with economic affairs. Its sphere of responsibility cannot be extended except with the unanimous consent of its members. But I am sure that, before long, we shall all see the advantage of working together not only in the economic sphere but also over the whole range of foreign relations and defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2178.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2184.3", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that those remarks are quite out of order and that they should not be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2184.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2185.0", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Not only opposite", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ch might happen somehow sometime but as something on which a decision has to be taken whether it shall or shall not happen now and in these circumstances. It has been the response of the people of this country to that sudden real proposition put before them which is the change that explains all that has happened. It has imposed the most severe gymnastic contortions upon many hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2184.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2194.1", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"You asked him to tell yow\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the right hon. Gentleman before he gets up. I can save him the trouble of an intervention, and he can correct me if I am wrong. Is that not fair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2194.2", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I accept those figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2194.3", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You started it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I have prepared two speeches, the serious one that I hoped to give, and the swapping of insults, if that is what the other side wants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2195.1", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"S.E.T.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "eader of the Liberal Party—who is ready to see a full monetary union by 1980—to the great majority of hon. Members on both sides of the House who would not accept such a concept, whatever their views about entering Europe. The pro-Marketeers justify their general position by saying that no more loss of sovereignty would be involved when we enter than when we sign any other international agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2202.1", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Backwoodsmen!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "d asked the House to take a positive decision of such importance as I am asking it to take tonight. I am well aware of the responsibility which rests on my shoulders for so doing. After 10 years of negotiation, after many years of discussion in this House and after 10 years of debate, the moment of decision for Parliament has come. The other House has already taken its vote and expressed its view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2202.1", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "hen see how we could fit that into the framework of European unity. The Commonwealth has, since then, developed into an association of independent countries with now only a few island dependencies remaining. It is a unique association which we value, but the idea that it would become an effective economic or political, let alone military, bloc has never materialised. It has never become a reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2206.0", "colnum": "2206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "g economically and politically, maintaining its security, and securing for all its people a higher standard of prosperity. All the consequences of that for many millions of people in Europe must be recognised tonight in the decision the House is taking. In addition, many projects for the future of Europe have been long delayed. There has been great uncertainty, and tonight all that can be removed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2212.1", "colnum": "2212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Nor do I believe that the vision of Europe—and the right hon. Gentleman raised this specific point—is an unworthy vision, or an ignoble vision or an unworthy cause for which to have worked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-10-28", "file": "debates1971-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "3514824cd1b6eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2212.1", "colnum": "2212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Nor do I believe that the vision of Europe—and the right hon. Gentleman raised this specific point—is an unworthy vision, or an ignoble vision or an unworthy cause for which to have worked—[ Interruption. ] I have always made it absolutely plain to the British people that consent to this course would be given by Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-10-28a.2212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "he ingenious, sinister talents of the hon. and learned Gentleman the Solicitor-General have been invoked for this purpose, enabling him to crown his achievements in the destruction of industrial democracy by an assault on the central authority of Parliamentary democracy. If that is under consideration, let the Prime Minister realise that this would be a conspiracy against the whole British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Southern Rhodesia Act, 1965. There have been suggestions that the Government will announce this week—I do not know whether it will be today—Ministerial discussions with the illegal rÉgime in Salisbury. I hope the right hon. Gentleman will confirm today that there will not be a precipitate rush to enter into talks, if by so doing there is the remotest danger of betraying the five principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "e to deny milk to seven-year olds and to visit with pecuniary penalties any elected councillor who, pursuant to his concern for the children for whom he bears responsibility, seeks to provide them with milk.\" I think that that one legislative proposal might have redeemed even some of the worst features in this Gracious Speech. I hesitate to go through the rest of the legislative programme set out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ught, expressed by us, which called forth the thunderings of the noble Lord and the condemnation of the right hon. Gentleman the then Leader of the Opposition. I challenge both of them. What is their answer—I hope we shall be told today—to the questionings of a generation. young people for the first time leaving their sheltered school life to meet the challenge and opportunities of a wider world?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Joke coming.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " already announced. I do not know how soon the right hon. Gentleman will be returning. Speaking of the time when I visited South Wales as Prime Minister, the right hon. Gentleman said, with glee, that I had rushed round at 70 m.p.h. and, when asked why, he said that it was because I could not go any faster. I admit the charge; I had to go round at that speed in order to open all the new factories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " the development areas since they came into office. As for what the Prime Minister has seen of industry in South Wales since he came to office, and what he has done to improve it, if he went round opening and inaugurating new factories, he would not need a fast car; he would need a hearse, horse-propelled. Non-development areas today facing unemployment, which had been a stranger for a generation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson:", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, of course, is an authority on these things. I was commenting on one of his which misfired. He knows the difference between the situation in the Welsh valleys today and what it was when we were in office, and the hopes which people there then had. I was about to refer to the non-development areas. Non-development areas, facing unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Laugh at that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson:", "preceding_text": "ime since the war, where no man under 45 can really have known unemployment or known what it was for his workmates to be unemployed, the West Midlands have male unemployment now at 7·4 per cent., virtually half as great again as the male unemployment rate was for Scotland in the month when the Labour Government left office. That is a great achievement. The Prime Minister has not been there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Say that again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson:", "preceding_text": "based industries covered by mathematics, physics, chemistry, including colour chemistry, textile chemistry and materials sciences, and branches of engineering, especially chemical engineering. The 150 principal employers who regularly visit the university for recruitment and who, in 1969 and 1970, provided 62 per cent. of the graduate vacancies, this year had 40 per cent. fewer vacancies to offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.30.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member:", "cue_text": "That figure is for private and public aid.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "1 per cent. aid target we agreed at the Second U.N.C.T.A.D. Conference in 1968, and I undertook that we as a country would do our best to reach it by 1975. We have in fact achieved that target in the past two years. At a time when aid elsewhere, alas, is being reduced, we can be proud of our country's contribution to the developing world. Now we shall take further measures to help in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I have told the House before, we have never tied ourselves to a Government figure of 0·7 per cent. What is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister:", "preceding_text": " told at the time—and I told the shop stewards again when they came to No. 10—that there could perfectly well be a new company providing a firm basis for shipbuilding on the Clyde. That offer is still open. There is no reason why they should reject it. The measures which the Chancellor of the Exchequer took provided substantial incentives to which we are now adding measures to promote competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n in August and September. Average prices of home sales of manufactured goods rose by 0·2 per cent. in August and 0·1 per cent. in September, compared with an average monthly rise of 0·7 per cent. in the first seven months of 1971. At the same time, the figures for retail prices of household durables have barely changed in the last three months for which figures are available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "I am a little bewildered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister:", "preceding_text": " to make the statements that they do. They acted precisely because they saw, dimly and belatedly, the need for a shift in priorities. This is what the real argument is about— priorities. It is not a matter of one party wanting to build up social services and another to destroy them, but first of creating the resources and then deciding the priorities. What we have done is to change the priorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister:", "preceding_text": "previous Administration. And it means that we are putting emphasis on widespread slum clearance. What I put to the right hon. Gentleman is that, first of all, this is not socially divisive, and, secondly, that better primary schools, clearing the slums, better housing is really what is going to stop or reduce social delinquency and not his ranting and raving on public platforms and in this House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": " overtaxed, but at least not grossly so. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made a considerable start in easing the taxation burden both on individuals and companies. The hon. Member for Swansea, East rightly spoke about lack of investment being a disadvantage to the expansion of industrial activity in Wales. But this lack of investment is a legacy from the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.84.3", "colnum": "84", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis:", "preceding_text": "Many of them are also active in large sections of the public service. I do not have to look for them under the bed. They are on the bed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.84.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "There have been so many interpretations of what is to happen. The impression I certainly got was that this is what is to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-02", "file": "debates1971-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8a639450aed31597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": "ority on the subject, that on average rents will be doubled. There is to be no appeal from a decision of the rent assessment panel by tenants of local authorities. All this is to be accompanied by a huge reduction in Government subsidies. I believe that the whole design of these proposals is to create the impression that to live in local authority accommodation is to have a stigma attached to one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-02a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " clear their intention of contesting such legislation. It strikes me that it is utterly pointless and almost a contempt of the House to allocate, with apparent and no doubt well-meaning generosity, time for hon. Members to legislate themselves, to go through the difficulties of preparing Bills, getting them through, whipping them, manning Standing Committees, making sure that they have majorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "less and almost a contempt of the House to allocate, with apparent and no doubt well-meaning generosity, time for hon. Members to legislate themselves, to go through the difficulties of preparing Bills, getting them through, whipping them, manning Standing Committees, making sure that they have majorities—[ Interruption ] Hon. Members whose experience of this place is infinitely greater than mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.174.7", "colnum": "174", "heading": "DEAN OF JOHANNESBURG", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I wish to ask how one is to raise the issue of the conviction and imprisonment of a British subject in a foreign country, a matter which has raised a shoal of protest throughout the world —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.174.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "DEAN OF JOHANNESBURG", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "That is the kind of mischievous nonsense that one gets from the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the I.R.C.? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "That is the kind of mischievous nonsense that one gets from the right hon. Gentleman. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I do so with willingness. I had discussions with the right hon. Gentleman back in 1967 and I recall his enthusiasm then and now see his lack of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ember, 1971 ; Vol. 825, c. 15.] Those rather exaggerated words refer to the specific legislative programme now proposed by the Government. One has difficulty in reconciling what the right hon. Gentleman said yesterday with the facts. It is surely hard to employ the sort of language he employed yesterday in reference to a programme consisting of the promotion of active competition and fair trading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.194.4", "colnum": "194", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "pments could take place. If the Government's measures are effective, unemployment could come down. But the unemployment figures have reached such a high level that it will perhaps be another two or three years before they come down to 600,000. Many of us in the House and many people in the country regard an unemployment figure of 600,000 as far too high and a total we are not prepared to tolerate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": " instance, Thirsk and Malton. If we had an electoral system which made it possible to choose between varying opinions in one party, there might be some sense in having an election when the parties were in disagreement, but not otherwise. What the hon. Member did say which I thought was of great significance was that there were those within parties who differed from their leaders on certain issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. McCrindle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. McCrindle", "preceding_text": "services in general and pensions in particular. The subject of old-age pensions is an emotional one —not always justifiably so. Even after the recent increases, and having done more for the social services in a year than many of their predecessors have done during their time in office, the Conservative Government are still seen as a hard and stony-faced Government in the matter of social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "mportant industry. The Northern Pennines Rural Development Board, which I had the privilege to create—in the sense that I provided the legislation—was supported by the National Farmers Union, the Country Landowners' Association, the Agricultural Workers, and all political factions in that part of the country. I still cannot understand the doctrinaire attitude of the Government on this this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ural Workers, and all political factions in that part of the country. I still cannot understand the doctrinaire attitude of the Government on this this matter. [ interruption. ] Inevitably there will be dangers for this major British industry. My hon. Friend the Member for Durham mentioned grain and cereal prices, and that problem has been highlighted in an interesting editorial in Farmers Weekly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " of the citizens as producers, as workers, on the one hand, and the interests of the citizens, the same people, as consumers, on the other. Without competition the citizen suffers. Without growth within a civilised framework of job changes for the producer, the worker suffers. We could not safely inject more growth early in the life of this Parliament because the riot of inflation left by Labour —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "rs, on the other. Without competition the citizen suffers. Without growth within a civilised framework of job changes for the producer, the worker suffers. We could not safely inject more growth early in the life of this Parliament because the riot of inflation left by Labour — [ Interruption. ]—had to be damped down. Large numbers of people last year literally wage-claimed themselves out of jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.315.2", "colnum": "315", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman surely knows better than that. There is every reason to welcome higher earnings when they go with commensurably higher output, but the trouble with the last 18 months or two years has been that wage increases have gone far be- yond the capacity of higher output—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-03", "file": "debates1971-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a6b82953299d0b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.315.2", "colnum": "315", "heading": "QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "tandard of living. The Gracious Speech refers to improved training, and that is another essential if we are to have humane changes from job to job. But the growth and prosperity that we need will not come without adaptation. Which approach will best serve the elderly, the hard-pressed and the mass of the public better? Is it the siege economy of the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale, freezing the pattern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-03a.315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-04", "file": "debates1971-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b3bfd69e55acf6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.336.4", "colnum": "336", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I much regret any inconvenience caused to right hon. and hon. Members. I do not think it is quite as bad as the hon. Gentleman has suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.336.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-04", "file": "debates1971-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b3bfd69e55acf6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will recollect that over the year I not only wrote two letters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-04", "file": "debates1971-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b3bfd69e55acf6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will recollect that over the year I not only wrote two letters—[ Interruption. ] I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman needs prompting by the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-04", "file": "debates1971-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b3bfd69e55acf6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of that, and I am not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-04", "file": "debates1971-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b3bfd69e55acf6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "t. When Secretary Connally gave clear warning at the International Monetary Fund meeting in Munich last May, not a single European Government took a blind bit of notice. The only response of the British Government to the American demand for more burden-sharing was to refuse to contribute to the European Defence Improvements Programme unless the Germans agreed to refund the money as part of offset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-04", "file": "debates1971-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b3bfd69e55acf6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "ry terms to the Assemblies which we propose to establish to ensure proper parliamentary control over the Executive, the Council of Ministers and the Commission in the E.E.C. This is something which is as necessary, and sometimes, I am afraid, as unwelcome, as it is here to the Treasury Bench. Members of the Assembly will have to be chosen through the usual channels until direct elections are held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-04", "file": "debates1971-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b3bfd69e55acf6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Woodhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Woodhouse", "preceding_text": "ch I agree, though I would not carry that agreement to the extreme conclusions he reached, but before I do so I must first endorse emphatically his opening remarks about the poor attendance at this important debate on foreign affairs. The only comfort I can draw from it is that I am unlikely to have the experience which some hon. Members have had of seeing the Chamber empty as soon as they get up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-04a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-05", "file": "debates1971-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2f07bd8f8e4b9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "n. Friends, in the light of the views expressed by those interests, the possibility of such an amendment. Before I turn to the subjects of further and higher education I have something to say about the direct grant schools. We gave an election pledge to encourage these schools, which give such excellent educational opportunities to pupils from many differing backgrounds. We now redeem that pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-05", "file": "debates1971-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2f07bd8f8e4b9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "o changes will be introduced from next January. First, the capitation grant payable for each pupil in the schools will be increased by £30, from £32 to £62 per annum. This increase restores the cut of £20 imposed by the previous Government and makes a contribution to increases in costs since that date. The necessary statutory regulations have been made, and will be laid before the House next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-05", "file": "debates1971-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2f07bd8f8e4b9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " fees instead of nearly £30 at present. With two children at the school the fees would be £13·50 per term—£6·75 each child—compared with £41 per term at present. These two changes, taken together, will mean that higher Government grants are being paid. But the extra funds will all be applied to the reduction of fees and will not be at the disposal of the schools to use in other ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.501.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-05", "file": "debates1971-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2f07bd8f8e4b9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "How much?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady has paid tribute to it. She said that it was the one thing for which she would pay tribute to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-05", "file": "debates1971-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2f07bd8f8e4b9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "3;74—with no secondary building at all—cannot be justified on educational grounds, and it certainly cannot be justified on social grounds. Indeed, for 1970–71 and for 1971–72 the secondary school replacement programme has been run down to £4·5 million. So in a four-year period all that the right hon. Lady is devoting to the building of secondary schools is £4·5 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-05", "file": "debates1971-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2f07bd8f8e4b9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "The decision about Barnet came through more rapidly than some decisions in other areas. I should like to give the right hon. Gentleman the figures. Between 1st July, 1970, and 30th September, 1971, a total of 2,862 statutory proposals have received my approval. Some which have not yet been dealt with still stem from December, 1970.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-05", "file": "debates1971-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2f07bd8f8e4b9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ly, 1970, and 30th September, 1971, a total of 2,862 statutory proposals have received my approval. Some which have not yet been dealt with still stem from December, 1970. [ Interruption. ] Barnet, which stems from that date, has been dealt with. There are still some outstanding. As I said, 2,862 statutory proposals have been received. This compares with only 27 proposals which have been rejected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-05", "file": "debates1971-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2f07bd8f8e4b9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.522.2", "colnum": "522", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I am astounded. There must be this essential element of perversity in the decision taken by the local authority. The right hon. Lady is nodding her head, so I assume that means that in her view the Surrey County Council was acting perversely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.522.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-05", "file": "debates1971-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2f07bd8f8e4b9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says \"Hear, hear.\" Does he realise what will happen if it is made voluntary? Most of the societies will cease to exist. I suppose he says \"Hear hear\" to that too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.525.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-05", "file": "debates1971-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2f07bd8f8e4b9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.600.3", "colnum": "600", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Question again proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-05a.600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas:", "preceding_text": "I cannot give that decision now, as the hon. Gentleman well knows. There is no question here of being tardy. I fully realise the seriousness of the situation. My colleagues and I are watching the situation very closely, but Cwmbran is not the only place in difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.620.2", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not your Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas:", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The right hon. Gentleman is being very parochial. When he talks of \"cutting a figure\" in Wales, he can think no further than his own area of Cardiff. I have received from the other parts of Wales commendation for my Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.620.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "PROCEDURE (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw:", "preceding_text": "ort in addition to a debate on the Motions. The Government have not rejected the proposal on the compulsory limitation of speeches. They, like myself, simply regard it as not being something on which they should pronounce. If it were the wish of the House that this proposal should be put down for debate and decision by the House, the Government would be prepared at some stage to find the facility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "preceding_text": "tremely bleak. It is precisely here, in the area of greatest need, that an unpleasant note of doctrinaire ideology creeps into the Government's thinking. This was shown in the notorious speech by the Secretary of State at the Urban Research Bureau Conference in June, 1969— the \"for all sorts of seemingly good purposes\" speech. I shall not embarrass the right hon. Gentleman by quoting it yet again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker:", "preceding_text": " of the decrease in the mortgage interest rate and the increase which has taken place in earnings, the reverse has been true. To put it another way, for a young couple wanting to buy an average-price new house, under the Labour Government 8s. in the £ of any wage increases they had went on increased mortgage repayments. Under this Government, however, the increase so far has been nearly half that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Property-owning democracy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": "of Labour Administration and trying to make a comparison with one year of Tory Government, although the percentage figure is lower it does not prove what the Minister was attempting to prove this afternoon. I am surprised that we should have had such a story of success regarding owner-occupiers. I believe in owner- occupation. Right hon. and hon. Gentle- men opposite used to talk about a property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.698.3", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop:", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop:", "preceding_text": "I spoke on this subject when the Labour Party was in office. The Labour Government recommended proposals, but then never went so far as to impose them on local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain:", "preceding_text": "at this was the first council scheme to be built as \"homes for heroes.\" It was said that this scheme would replace the almshouses and would, in turn, be replaced by new housing. Thus the first council scheme came into being. There was nothing wrong with that conception. Hon. Gentlemen opposite keep saying that we in the Conservative Party have some in-built prejudice against council house tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain:", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain:", "preceding_text": " wanted the same chance as them. The one thing which the Opposition have learned during the time that I have had the privilege of addressing this House has been that a change of attitude towards owner-occupiers is needed. This is because they have seen the majority of council-house tenants becoming owner-occupiers. Housing is always much too political. If only we could get politics out of housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short:", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short:", "preceding_text": "overnment Departments now responsible for rebates and means tests of one kind and another. If all the money which they have spent so far on the negative and sterile exercise of putting out propaganda about the present Government's various means tests were added together, quite a reasonable sum of money could be arrived at which could well be spent in a far more constructive way. Now, a brief word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.725.5", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alec Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unfair!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alec Jones", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Tebbit) chided this side of the House about the lack of attendance. I understand that the debate is to be wound up for the Government by the Secretary of State for Wales who has not been seen since the opening speech. He is probably busily engaged as Chairman of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.753.3", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am not surprised to hear that the right hon. Gentleman embarked upon misleading even his own friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.753.3", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am not surprised to hear that the right hon. Gentleman embarked upon misleading even his own friends—[ Interruption. ] I have the right hon. Gentleman's speech somewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " the state of repair of the house. It will mean that every house will have to be visited. If there is to be fair play, every one of the 8½; million houses affected will have to be visited and examined to enable someone to decide what, by the Government's standards, is a fair rent. How does this compare with the Tory promises of just over a year ago? Consider the Prime Minister for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not get the same satisfaction.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "here is to be fair play, every one of the 8½; million houses affected will have to be visited and examined to enable someone to decide what, by the Government's standards, is a fair rent. How does this compare with the Tory promises of just over a year ago? Consider the Prime Minister for a moment— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Only because I believe that he has broken more promises than Casanova—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas:", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment. We have made the option mortgage scheme more flexible, we have removed the money quotas imposed by our predecessors on local authority mortgage lending to priority borrowers. We have declared our intention to introduce legislation empowering local authorities to pay legal expenses, as well as removal expenses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas:", "preceding_text": "ot only stopped the selling of council houses but have gone back on commitments entered into by their predecessors. That is a strange way to encourage owner-occupation and yet another example of a doctrinaire living in the past. Then there were the odd antics on local government lending in which the last Government indulged, when there was \"stop-go\" at its very worst, as my right hon. Friend said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-08", "file": "debates1971-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "08488b62c73588b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham:", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Even at this late hour, is it in order for the Minister, to whom has been posed many important question, including—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-08a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.805.5", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "I am saying that we have done substantially better than hon. Gentlemen opposite did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.805.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.812.6", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, under both Governments, we have had that corny answer year in and year out, that the Whitley Council of which he speaks is practically useless and that we continue to take advantage of young women who enter this honourable profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.812.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.819.6", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The hon. Gentleman and one of his hon. Friends are conducting a vendetta against the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.819.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (CORRESPONDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With permission, I will answer this Question and Question 05 together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (CORRESPONDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With permission, I will answer this Question and Question 05 together. [ Interruption. ] Since becoming Prime Minister I have received about 124,000 letters on issues of Government policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (CORRESPONDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I do not see the association between Questions Nos. 4 and 5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.826.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.826.5", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (CORRESPONDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The same as the hon. Member has.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. What relevance does that have to Question No. 5?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.826.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.827.5", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (CORRESPONDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. If the Prime Minister now refuses to accept any more letters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.827.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "In answer to the right hon. Gentleman's first point, progress has been made, but I do have to find out whether there is a basis for agreement. That will be the purpose of my journey. In answer to the first of the right hon. Gentleman's three questions, the agreement must be honourable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.836.2", "colnum": "836", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why considering?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I shall be considering this matter when I get to Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "All I have said is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "cognise that what matters is not only the basic pay increases, but all payments and changes in conditions which add to labour costs. There can be no doubt that the achievement of more reasonable pay settlements is the only sure foundation for the maintenance of a high rate of growth and for full employment. Both parties are equally, fully and wholeheartedly committed to the aim of full employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.859.4", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "What we have done overall is to stimulate demand to a very considerable extent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.859.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.859.4", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "What we have done overall is to stimulate demand to a very considerable extent—[ Interruption. ] It is all very well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.859.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.859.4", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "What we have done overall is to stimulate demand to a very considerable extent—[ Interruption. ] It is all very well—[ Interruption. ] I am asked to provide specific figures about this, that or the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.859.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "of the effect which automation is likely to have on unemployment, because this aspect has not previously featured prominently in our discussions on this topic. I am glad, too, that selective employment tax has been referred to, because when it was introduced by the Labour Government masses of people were put out of employment. In British Railways now the number of people employed has been reduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "preceding_text": ". Member for Huyton (Mr. Harold Wilson), now Leader of the Opposition, and its principal contractors were the right hon. Members for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) and for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins). Yet today the names of all those three right hon. Gentlemen stand in support of the Amendment. In so far as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor has any responsibility in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "preceding_text": " he did not take immediate reflationary action last summer. However, even if he had done so then, as such measures take about 15 months to become really effective, they would only now have begun to have any effect. Moreover, it is well to remind ourselves that there was no pressure from the Opposition Front Bench spokesmen last July, or indeed last October, for the taking of reflationary measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "t least equally true that if the best is to be got out of a community today there must be policies that create an environment in which labour, too, can give of its best. I say to the right hon. Gentleman that we as a Government did not succeed in establishing the sort of social contract with labour, with workpeople, that would have allowed us to develop the full potential of what I have described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that anyone should think that my hon. and learned Friend is thick, but if one is thick one is usually not sinister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.950.4", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is purporting to answer the questions I put to him I cannot quite understand how he has not dealt with he series I then suggested. First of all, will he tell us whether there is to be a separate Bill about the coal industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.950.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.950.5", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "All I can say to the hon. Gentleman is that I am following exactly the same principle with regard to putting forward legislation as was followed by the right hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman) and the right hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Peart) and all my predecessors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.950.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I will not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, whom I have never thought thick or sinister but always cool—and I hope that he is again cool by this time—will recall that he was purporting to answer what I said on the first day of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " purporting to answer what I said on the first day of the debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] He referred to what I said then. Would he now, instead of talking about precedents when there are no precedents, recall that entry into Europe will mean carrying into our domestic law many thousands of regulations written in a different language, affecting company law, consumer law, commercial law and the rest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.952.7", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I agree, but I hope the hon. Gentleman equally appreciates that I wish to do my best to reply to the very important debate that we have had today on unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.952.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.952.7", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Mrs. Castle) does not want me to do that, I quite understand because I have some very good things to say to her. I am simply saying that I am following exactly the procedure that has always been followed in this House on these occasions. I do not see why I should be criticised for that and if the Leader of the Opposition were on this side replying to this debate he would be doing exactly the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.952.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.953.2", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Of course they must.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.953.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.953.6", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Certainly. The right hon. Gentleman says that I should give a reply about the timing of the legislation. It will be introduced in the New Year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.953.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I have given the right hon. Gentleman a second go. He asked me about the timing and I have answered. Now he asks me about the form of the legislation. No Government have ever said basically what the form of their legislation will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Brown", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House is supposed to be replying to a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I think, Mr. Speaker, that there has certainly been good temper, and there has certainly been moderation in my case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I think, Mr. Speaker, that there has certainly been good temper, and there has certainly been moderation in my case—[ Interruption .] If hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite wish me to talk about today's serious debate on unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I think, Mr. Speaker, that there has certainly been good temper, and there has certainly been moderation in my case—[ Interruption .] If hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite wish me to talk about today's serious debate on unemployment—[ Interruption ]—I must frankly say that they themselves must allow me to do so. I have given way to the Opposition Front Bench far more often—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "will come to the other points later. We must have a somewhat larger margin of unused capacity than we used to try to keep. That is the truth of the matter. On these occasions the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition likes to say, \"Read on\", so I will read on. He always asks for reading on and now he is going to get it. He did not ask for that just now but I am going to give it to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.955.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was making so much noise that he did not hear what I said. I did not say, \"Read on\", but I just asked him, what was the level of unemployment in 1967 and what is it now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "aight deal and the price was so good that by the beginning of this year Rolls-Royce was going to lose £60,000 on every one of the 400 engines completed—when they were completed. When the old Rolls-Royce company went into liquidation this Government stepped in and saved about 30,000 jobs by rescuing the RB211 contract from the disasters which the right hon. Gentleman had so cheerfully underwritten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.957.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-09", "file": "debates1971-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2fd59f9c088f9746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "preceding_text": "ember, following a Question that he put to the Minister dealing with credit support for the sale of wagons to Yugoslavia—and I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving me this information last night—saying: This matter has been under review by E.C.G.D. and other Departments concerned for some time, but it has not yet been proved possible, due to current doubts about Yugoslavia's creditworthiness\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-09a.965.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.989.2", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "The position is governed by Statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.989.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "I think that the House was well aware, yesterday, that the Foreign Secretary's decision to announce an early visit to Rhodesia had a double purpose. There is no doubt that it will succeed in its immediate purpose, which is to secure a renewal of sanctions tonight and to avert or reduce to the minimum any opposition to this move from his own benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "en resolved in a series of meetings between very able officials on both sides, because to negotiate with Smith on the termination of the unilateral declaration of independence has been found by many Ministers in the past to be like trying to pick up mercury with knitting needles. I regret having to say it, but I think it a pity that he has chosen the Attorney-General to accompany him on his visit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "\"… the 'nonsense' of sanctions should be dropped\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1093.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "and the Smith government recognised as the lawful government of Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1093.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has already sat down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman sits down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": " this would be sounded by a Royal Commission. Obviously, my right hon. Friend will have to see representatives of African opinion of all kinds. Unlike some hon. Members opposite. I do not accept that the leaders of Z.A.N.U. and Z.A.P.U. now in detention are leaders of African opinion. They may well be leaders of certain sections of African opinion, but they have never been elected by any Africans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "preceding_text": "I have been round those black African States to which the hon. Gentleman referred in a speech last week. I notice that he included the President of Botswana among the leaders he had spoken to. The President of Botswana wants stability in Central Africa. He does not want a dishonourable settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr.JohnBiggsDavison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.JohnBiggsDavison", "preceding_text": "n Rhodesia. If this is true, who is it that suffers? Is it the white minority? No, it is not. If anybody suffers in Rhodesia as a result of sancztions, it is the African people. It is not shown in statistics when Africans lose their jobs and go off and scratch a living somewhere in the tribal trust areas. I wish some hon. Members would show rather more regard for ordinary human beings in Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1118.3", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "who opened the debate for the Opposition should be ashamed of his meanness. Indeed, the Labour Party should be ashamed of their whole record on Rhodesia. The sanctions to which I have been consistently opposed —and I am on record as having opposed them before they were introduced—are the work of the Labour Party and of the Government headed by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1121.3", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "The dispute in the Appellate Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1123.4", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "ere else, what successive Conservative and Labour Governments have always stressed is the question: Do the people who have power there have effective control? The worst enemies of Mr. Ian Smith and his friends would scarcely deny that they have very effective control over Rhodesia. The Peking Government came to power by massacre and has been preserved by the obscenities of the Cultural Revolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1123.5", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "ghout Africa, from A to Z, Algeria to Zanzibar—if genocide means anything, there was genocide in Zanzibar —there has been speedy recognition of every revolutionary usurpation. Of course, the revolution in Rhodesia was different. It was bloodless. Nobody got hurt. It caused no break in the continuity of parliamentary government and judicial process. It is less of a police state than all the others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Absolute rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "ng of the climate of opinion in Rhodesia. As long as hon. Gentlemen opposite condemn sanctions and any settlement, except on the basis of giving in to Smith, then so long will Smith agree to carry on with his present stand. They stand up and hypocritically wish the Foreign Secretary God-speed. The right hon. Gentleman has to run fast to escape the knives being stuck in his back by his hon. Friends", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "preceding_text": " thinking that we could undertake an expedition of that kind—at any stage over the last decade, let alone now—surpasses imagination. I do not wish to castigate the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North about this. However, the hon. Member for York (Mr. Alexander W. Lyon) exclaimed in an intervention—in which he was now more illuminating than in his whole speech— that British troops should be sent there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1149.3", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ey cleared the swamps, they mastered the tsetse fly and the mosquito, they built the roads, they built the towns. In fact, they made it such an attractive place that the Africans flocked in. Why should they suddenly give everything up for some half-baked, untried theory of the hon. Member for York (Mr. Alexander W. Lyon) of \"one man, one vote\" of which we hear so much from hon. Gentlemen opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In The Guardian. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ry that he is a man of great honour. Nevertheless, it is a sentiment worth repeating, because it is one which most hon. Members on this side as well as on the other side hold. The right hon. Gentleman does not need me to tell him that the man whom he is going to meet next week is one of the most remarkable politicians in the world today. He was described in to- day's Observer by Mr. Peter Jenkins—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "continent. These factors are important. All hon. Members may not think so. But if we get rioting in Zambia similar to that we have already had, hon. Members will realise that these factors are important. I have always said, and still do, that we shall have a sell out. I hope fervently that we shall not have a sell out but that the Foreign Secretary will return and say that he has tried but failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1160.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "nds on a number of factors over many of which we have no control. The hon. Gentleman asks why it has not happened in South Africa. I will tell him why it has not happened in South Africa. The answer surely is that the African section of the population in South Africa do not wish to rule the entire country on a one-man one-vote basis. The Transkei establishment are working tolerably satisfactorily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " that she could abandon it. There are, and have been in the last five years, more motor cars on the race courses of Rhodesia than we see on the clowns at Epsom on Derby Day relative to the numbers attending the two types of races. The petrol, the raw materials, the manufactures and everything that Rhodesia needs for her economy, save only foreign currency, with which I will deal in a moment, flow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I doubt that. I do not want to go over the whole gamut of African States—Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and the remainder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1169.4", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I was talking about the former British and French colonies. I could go wider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1171.3", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "ue in government, in education, in determining where people live and work and the way in which they are treated, and even in regard to what they can say. This is all determined by the \"goodwill\" of the white minority. The inhabitants have to suffer censorship and detention without trial, in total repudiation of the rule of law, because after 30 days' detention without trial they can be rearrested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Hors. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "I support the continuance of sanctions at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Judith Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Judith Hart", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the Foreign Secretary had just one speech which supported him on the Order, because in all the other speeches by hon. Gentlemen opposite they have said either that they could not find it possible to vote for the Order or, indeed, that they might find it necessary to vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "nce with the five principles is, as my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth, West (Mr. Judd) said, that all the political prisoners must be released, that they must be totally free to campaign and that there must be a total lifting of censorship so that they may campaign. Anything short of that—and it must obviously take longer than six weeks—could not pretend to be a test of opinion in Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1179.3", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "tion. There is no longer very much hope that one can prevent Rhodesia from being sucked into the Southern African situation, dominated by South Africa. Indeed, she is already there. That there- fore presents a situation in which one must be very careful in doing anything based on a belief that it is even possible for the white minority in Rhodesia not to move faster and further towards apartheid .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1179.3", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "t it is even possible for the white minority in Rhodesia not to move faster and further towards apartheid . [ Interruption. ] They are bound to do so. Not only in this House, among my hon. Friends, but outside, in Britain, Africa, within the United Nations and throughout the world, the Foreign Secretary starts from a base of mistrust and doubt because of his readiness to sell arms to South Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-10", "file": "debates1971-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "813237f91e499fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1187.3", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERAL EXPLORATION, ETC., BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for stating so clearly the position as it was then. I have been discussing the question of testing opinion in Rhodesia in regard to the fifth principle. Certainly the question of any agreement which is reached will be fully subjected to the test of Rhodesian opinion. This is the most important aspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-10a.1187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-11", "file": "debates1971-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3fb0c50986982781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-11a.1199.8", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": " four of all unemployed. Does the hon. Gentleman realise that, if we take the numbers of unemployed who have been out of work for a year or more, 52 per cent. of these people fall into the 55-and-over category, and, further, a large number, possibly even the majority, of these people will never have employment again? Will the hon. Gentleman, therefore, consider taking action which would restrain —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-11a.1199.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-11", "file": "debates1971-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3fb0c50986982781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-11a.1199.8", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "ther, a large number, possibly even the majority, of these people will never have employment again? Will the hon. Gentleman, therefore, consider taking action which would restrain —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] This is a serious matter. Will the Under-Secretary of State consider taking action which would restrain employers from making redundant people who are 55 years of age and older ; and, second—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-11a.1199.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-11", "file": "debates1971-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3fb0c50986982781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-11a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "We said we would take measures quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-11a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-11", "file": "debates1971-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3fb0c50986982781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-11a.1232.0", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "rder Paper. It was partly for that reason that, very much against the precedents and in a way which the previous Government never did, I decided that it was right to give two days for the Second Reading of this Bill, in view of the Welsh point made by the right hon. Gentleman and the strength of the case. As for the Committee stage, it was my view that it was right to send the whole Bill upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-11a.1232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-11", "file": "debates1971-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3fb0c50986982781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-11a.1244.2", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I regard that as an entirely hypothetical question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-11a.1244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-11", "file": "debates1971-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3fb0c50986982781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-11a.1244.4", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that could be suggested. Everybody knew what the position was on fisheries when we took the vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-11a.1244.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-12", "file": "debates1971-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "62983b7f24067788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-12a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "orporation is prepared to finance this, providing that the idea is sound. Of course, it is getting some hare brained schemes—this is inevitable—but it has a committee to sort these out. If it thinks that the approach is viable or has a reasonable chance of success, this could lead to the beginning of a small new industry, which should be very much in line with the philosophy of the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-12a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-12", "file": "debates1971-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "62983b7f24067788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-12a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": " is getting some hare brained schemes—this is inevitable—but it has a committee to sort these out. If it thinks that the approach is viable or has a reasonable chance of success, this could lead to the beginning of a small new industry, which should be very much in line with the philosophy of the party opposite—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Yes, but again it is public money that will start it all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-12a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-12", "file": "debates1971-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "62983b7f24067788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-12a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": " receive representations from Glenrothes on this aspect. It is important that this extra provision is made in view of, for example, the new Scottish housing Measure. Rents are going up in Glenrothes and it is obvious that, whether or not women want to go to work and whether or not their men are employed, two wage packets will be required in homes in view of the rents that are likely to be charged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-12a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-12", "file": "debates1971-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "62983b7f24067788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-12a.1449.5", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "n noted and will be taken into account. The corporation has been set up, the chairman, members and general manager have all been appointed. They are now pressing forward, and I hope that my hon. Friend will soon see signs of activity and evidence that some of the difficulties of the past to which she referred will be overcome. Matters are now progressing fast. My hon. Friend the Member for Harlow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-12a.1449.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-12", "file": "debates1971-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "62983b7f24067788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-12a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANKING AND FINANCIAL DEALINGS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, I will reply to some of the points that have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-12a.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.19.2", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Some of the current trends are rather encouraging in the textile industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.19.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "means that those local authorities which have the biggest need to provide new houses would of necessity have to put the biggest rent burden upon the tenants concerned. Also, if the Opposition are thinking in terms of doubling rents, I must point out that historic cost rents would, in some of the major boroughs concerned—for example, in some of the London boroughs—mean a trebling of existing rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It is the imagination of the right hon. Member for Grimsby, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is in a minority of one on this. Local authorities of all political persuasions have applauded the scheme, and the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£150 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "using subsidies virtually altogether. That is the first present which council tenants will make to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Secondly, over most of the country again, this additional £500 million of rent payments annually will then pay for the greatly increased cost of rent rebates, including most of the rent allowances now paid by the Supplementary Benefits Commission. That will amount to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.56.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that it will be done by order, and I hope that when he winds up the Minister will tell us also about harassment. Although this Act of 1838 is repealed that will make very little difference in practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "n these tenants are accompanied by three leading Members of Parliament, and particularly when the whole effect of these new rent proposals as set out is authoritarian, and under them tenants will play no part whatever. To deprive them of any representative power, and without even listening to their representations, when a Bill is introduced is a monstrous denial of open government. May I conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And they have never regretted it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "eady increase in the number of people who can make a genuinely free choice, according to their own needs, whether they will be owner-occupiers or tenants. One evil result of the 1957 Rent Act was that a number of people, in order not to be evicted and have nowhere to go, were pretty well forced to buy the house in which they lived, and became owner-occupiers against their will and better judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ed into the accommodation. It should have been possible to have done something about this in the Bill. I have a minimal suggestion. Could we have a more precise and enforceable definition of how much must be put into rooms to make them regarded by the law as furnished premises? It has always mystified me as a layman why this apparently simple problem has apparently baffled the lawyers for so long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "Why were those things done? The hon. Gentleman knows only too well that such local authorities gave money for owner-occupiers because the outcry had they refused to do so would have been such that it would have cost them a lot of votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "What I have said is clear from many speeches that have been made at Labour Party conferences. Indeed, at the recent one a motion was passed demanding outright the abolition of this sort of tax concession for owner-occupiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "Really?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.73.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "In the time of the Labour Government.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Doris Fisher", "preceding_text": "than corporation-owned blocks. How are fair rents to be assessed for flats in those blocks of flats? People living in blocks of flats pay high rents because of the rating attached to high blocks. I have told my constituents that I am convinced that they are already paying the fair rent, because their rents have been increased 300 per cent. from the time they occupied the dwellings eight years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fisher", "preceding_text": "the right of people to get subsidies from the Government through various sources is being loaded on to the local authority. This has been laid on to local authorities such as Birmingham which have tried to rehouse people from slum properties, and Birmingham—which incidentally expects to clear its slum properties in another five years and not 10 years—will not benefit by the Government's subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "ssness, to end squalor, to make sure that as many people as possible have an opportunity to own their own homes and to see that tenants, be they council or private tenants, pay a fair rent according to their means—no more and no less. The definition of \"fair\" in the English dictionary of Synonyms is: Reasonable and proper, equitable and just. It is exactly this definition that the Bill interprets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " and, further, it will encourage potential home owners to take advantage of the opportunities open to them. Even hon. Members opposite, who spend so much time telling people what they should want instead of listening to what they do want, have come to accept, and consider provision for, the indisputable fact that there are very few council tenants who would not rather be home owners if they could—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "listening to what they do want, have come to accept, and consider provision for, the indisputable fact that there are very few council tenants who would not rather be home owners if they could—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"]—and that home ownership is far more desirable to the vast majority of people than any tenancy. Yet the Labour Party still wants to deprive some council tenants of home ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "r, it was bought out by another company, Metropolitan Estate and Property Company Ltd., and in that transaction the promise to the tenants was flagrantly disregarded. There was an utter lack of morality and consideration for tenants, who had been promised in not one but two letters that they could buy their own flats. This is the sort of action which does no good to the cause of private landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.103.3", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": " housing for rent, the Labour Party has to be certain that its supporters do not scupper it before it starts by passing resolutions at conferences which they accept when that is in their interests and which they ignore when it does not happen to suit them. They arouse the fear that if someone ploughs tens of millions of pounds into building flats to rent, one day there will be a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "d a notorious Bill to strengthen the trade unions; on Rhodesia the Foreign Secretary is off to help the coloured people. So it goes on, and it makes one wonder why they are so unpopular. Now in fair rents the Tories are introducing a new concept in housing to help council tenants and other not fortunate enough to own their own property. On this side of the House we might feel ashamed of ourselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "etting. If the Government do not recognise this basic psychological fact, they will continue to stifle enterprise and growth.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 28th November, 1968; Vol. 774, c. 766.] It is clear, therefore, that this is part of the strategy of hon. Gentlemen opposite. They say \"Less money for council tenants and public authority housing, so that more can go into the pockets of our real friends\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It certainly will\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "preceding_text": "the Minister about this, and I hope that he will take action. In Birmingham, we badly need assistance with overspill finance. It is not much good if, as we clear our slums, we find that there is no land available in the city so that we have to move outside, and then we lose on doing just what the Minister asks us to do in defeating the slum problem. The Bill will bring about a change of attitudes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Freeson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Freeson", "preceding_text": " Clause one is lost in obscurity about what is meant, except that everything connected with the level of subsidy will be left entirely in the hands of Treasury Ministers. I regret that apart from the beginning of the debate, there have been no Treasury Ministers on the Government Front Bench. It is a disgrace that a Bill of this kind should have been debated without the Treasury being represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "In London alone, which is one of the stress areas, the figure is that, of the 250,000 G.L.C. tenancies, only about 100,000 receive any subsidy at all. The rest are paying profit rentals. Whatever definitions may be given to the distinction between tax remission and rent rebate, more money is going towards assisting mortgagees than into council subsidies. I am not necessarily quarrelling with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "e owner-occupation sphere, it is not equally right to adopt that principle in the public sector. As for the standard of income of council tenants, let us get rid of another myth once and for all. I am talking about the stories we hear of Jaguars and Rolls-Royces being parked outside council houses. Nowadays we also hear of each household having half a dozen television sets, most of them in colour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "at phrase has virtually been used by hon. Gentlemen opposite time and again in this debate. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Bill, it is clear from a reading of it that nothing of the kind will happen. The vast majority of subsidy will continue to go, I believe rightly—one may query the details of the subsidy but, as a principle, this will be the position, and rightly so—to bricks and mortar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "furniture with them when they do move, and it is quite an operation. In the furnished sector there is a large transient and mobile population, and it is difficult to establish the identification procedures which would be necessary for the payment of allowances. There is the problem of valuation. Our rent officer service is well equipped to value houses. To value furniture is a complicated problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "ivate tenants because on council estates the landlord is a responsible public authority with statutory housing duties. But, at present, council tenants have no right to have their representations about rents considered by their landlord, and Clause 53 confers this right on them for the first time. The right hon. Member for Grimsby said that we were adopting an arbitrary and authoritarian attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.153.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "ich we are depriving them?—the freedom not to grant rebates, the freedom to fix rents regardless of value of accommodation? There are a great many local authorities at present, many of them the most hard-pressed, which have no choice save either to increase rents or rates or not to build at all. Under the Bill, they will have not only the freedom but the incentive to build on a much greater scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I am glad I gave way to the hon. Member, because this is an important point. I have given an assurance that we would deal with this matter, and I hope we shall do so very shortly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "me ownership. What he alleged was denied by the hon. Member for Willesden, East. I have taken the trouble to inform myself of the matter. A Mr. Crawford, of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, one of the paymasters of the party opposite, called for the removal of the built-in subsidy received by private owners through tax relief which exceeds that received by council tenants in rent subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-15", "file": "debates1971-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "78a4ee8433682aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "in fair rents the scarcity element is discounted so that the tenant who pays a fair rent receives a subsidy. This does not apply to owners who buy their houses in a free market where there is no discounting of the scarcity element. Indeed, if I were to believe the right hon. Member for Grimsby, there is exploitation of it. The option mortgage subsidy is, of course, a subsidy but tax relief is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-15a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.189.2", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I always thought that the House and the country were far more worried about whether prices went up rather than whether I was monitoring them—that seems to be the most important point. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, the Government's policy is to reply on competition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.189.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.190.5", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Though the increase is large over the 16-month period, will my right hon. Friend now confirm that:it recent months he has taken short and faltering steps in my direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.190.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.191.4", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I sympathise particularly with old people who find that prices have risen. The Government have taken action by cutting S.E.T. in half—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.191.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.192.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.192.5", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shut up.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "That is not much of an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.192.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "eat deal of study. There are several points of substance that I can put to the right hon. Gentleman. If I understood his summary correctly, it bears out the evidence and allegations that have been reaching many hon. Members—namely, that while the bulk of the Army and R.U.C. have behaved with absolute correctness, there have been a number of cases in which they have fallen below that high standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "I think that the House is at a disadvantage in not having the Compton Report before it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.220.2", "colnum": "220", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "The whole House will regret that there have been occasions when some members of the security forces have descended to methods of barbarism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.220.2", "colnum": "220", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "The whole House will regret that there have been occasions when some members of the security forces have descended to methods of barbarism—[Interruption.]—in obtaining information from people against whom no charge has been levied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.220.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about rents?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "rols. Many of them have resulted in an absurd unnecessary bureaucracy being created. For example, it has been the duty of Ministers in the past to approve ferry fares charged by local authorities and to approve burial fees and the fees of various markets. I do not believe that people in Whitehall are particularly good at fixing matters like this which would be much better left to local discretion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "indeed. For example, the logic of the argument on this topic means that Greater London should be massively increased in size. That must follow if the same planning arguments are applied to London. I accept that if the land is not available within the boundaries of the metropolitan areas it is a duty of Governments to see that their housing problems are met. I take, here, the example of Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I am sure that no one could accuse me of not giving way whenever possible. I always endeavour to do so, but this is a two-day debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "his Measure, at any rate for some time to come, and I will examine it in that light. We on this side of the House will do our best to put some sense into it in Committee and on Report, but because the Bill is as it is I shall be recommending my hon. Friends to divide against it. I want to deal with some of the changes. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned aldermen, and we approve of their abolition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Coleman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Coleman", "preceding_text": " Glamorgan. As I have said, Mid-Glamorgan will be an impoverished county council as a result of the substantial part of the rateable value which would have been available to the formerly-proposed East Glamorgan County Council being given to South Glamorgan. It therefore becomes necessary to give some compensation to Mid-Glamorgan and it is here that the parish of Rhigos provides that compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "preceding_text": "before Committee stage. Almost all the speeches, and I have heard most of them, have raised points of local detail and advisedly so. There are a great many other pressing points of local anxiety and local suggestion, similar to the ones we heard in the eloquent speech by my hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire, North-East (Mr. Swain). I listened to every word of his speech and enjoyed every word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"But not from Members of Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Batley and Morley (Sir A. Broughton). We have to recognise that feeling throughout the country where some old-established towns are merged into others. Despite this obvious fact, we invited comment on our proposals in the White Paper from local authority associations, from individual local authorities, from councillors, from staff, from organisations, and from ordinary citizens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.347.3", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " the districts to look after those roads which are, like residential roads, part of the character of those areas. I was saying that these seem to be functions which will attract the best men into local government. I am sure that one of the achievements which will result from this Measure will be to persuade the public to look on their local councillor as someone who really does govern their lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "preceding_text": "r R. Turton), which has worked very hard and produced a virtually unanimous report, to which we have previously paid tribute. We broadly accept its main recommendations. There are arguments, certainly, about many matters contained in the Report, and I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman has accepted the view that we should leave the contentious matters for another debate, to be announced by him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "That is so, but Standing Order No. 44 specifies conditions with which a Minister must comply before bringing forward a timetable Motion. He must follow certain procedures. It is said in paragraph 14 of the Report that there should be no halfway house and that if the Whips cannot agree about a timetable, the House should impose one. There is no dubiety about what is intended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.370.3", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robin Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robin Turton", "preceding_text": " that if the usual channels want to work a voluntary timetable, the Standing Order is not required: and such a voluntary arrangement can, of course, he broken by any independent back bencher. This was a matter with which the Committee did not want to interfere. We did not make a recommendation but stated the fact that Parliament is carried on only by an oiling of the machine by the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.370.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-16", "file": "debates1971-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6ce113f9b1f5d0b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I suggested to the Select Committee that it might be wise to consider having a \"Clause stand part\" debate on Report if a Clause had been amended. Would not that obviate the need for a Third Reading debate?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-16a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.401.5", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Switch off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "ppointing. Is he aware that this system is inexpensive, effective and administratively simple, and it has been operated by French television for a number of years? Does he realise that it would be greatly appreciated by viewers in this country, who may turn on in the middle of a programme but who might not wish to watch a pro- gramme which contained subject matter repugnant to them or frightening?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.401.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.406.6", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "I note that the hon. Gentleman has put down a similar Question to almost every Department. The average time taken by my Department to reply to Members' letters is between 15 and 21 days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "his is now a matter of the greatest urgency affecting junior Ministers as well as private hon. Members in all parts of the House? Has he deduced from the report that is already in his possession that on an auditor's survey I demonstrated to the Committee that my expenses wholly, exclusively and necessarily as an hon. Member and in my constituency have exceeded £5,000 in each of the last two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ffecting junior Ministers as well as private hon. Members in all parts of the House? Has he deduced from the report that is already in his possession that on an auditor's survey I demonstrated to the Committee that my expenses wholly, exclusively and necessarily as an hon. Member and in my constituency have exceeded £5,000 in each of the last two years—[ Interruption. ] Jolly good value for money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is the Lord Advocate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Lord Advocate has become known as Scotland's mystery man? Is he further aware that despite that Minister's expertise, although hon. Members may have Questions down to him they are never reached and never answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.414.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "COVENTRY TOOL ROOM WORKERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Of course not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "POST OFFICE GIRO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Rolls-Royce?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "preceding_text": "Is not my right hon. Friend's statement an admission, if ever there was one, that the State is not a suitable body to run a commercial enterprise such as the Giro.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.426.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.433.7", "colnum": "433", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.433.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.433.11", "colnum": "433", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.433.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.434.7", "colnum": "434", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.434.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.434.10", "colnum": "434", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "We are discussing a very serious matter. It is a matter upon which I, for one, do not wish to raise the temperature in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.434.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " the ordinary civilian against the campaign of terror and murder. That is my first point—that the information received has been of great and growing value because all information leads to further information. Secondly, it is right to recall the activities of the I.R.A. I am not going to argue—no rational person would—that it can in any circumstances be said that the ends justify totally the means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "jured. These are the facts. These things have been done by the I.R.A. They are being done to prosecute the I.R.A. campaign, and the Provisional I.R.A. has openly acknowledged that it has committed these acts. It says that it is sorry for the injured, for women who have been injured, who are in hospital or who have been disfigured for life, but that it is doing it to further its political campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.442.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear. Shameful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Antony Buck", "preceding_text": ". On the contrary, the treatment was given him for his benefit and in accordance with the prescription professionally given at the time by not one but two medical officers for a condition which they independently diagnosed. Faced with a finding like that, how can the hon. Gentleman, a former Service Minister, say that there is something further which should be investigated? I do not understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.461.4", "colnum": "461", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "I am not against the official I.R.A., its objectives or activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "preceding_text": " who call the Compton Corn-mission a whitewashing operation. I regard it as a whitewashing operation from start to finish, and I can prove it. Brian Faulkner conned, or persuaded by some means or other, the British Government into perpetrating the awful crime of internment against the minority in Northern Ireland. There was an outcry throughout the world and England was disgraced in world opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "preceding_text": "orthern Ireland. There was an outcry throughout the world and England was disgraced in world opinion—[ Interruption. ]—but the Government were not worried. \"The forces of tyranny will win through. We will send one Minister to America and one somewhere else, and some more elsewhere if necessary to explain British policy. The faithful will rally if we make enough misleading statements often enough\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "preceding_text": "use I do not think he has had one for a long time. Nor do I accuse the Prime Minister because it is commonly held that he has never had such a thing. Nevertheless, a Minister somewhere had the bright idea of holding an inquiry. The idea came out in this way: \"Let us get a civil servant with a reputation for fairness and instruct him to bring in a report which will be favourable to the Government.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "preceding_text": "ause it is commonly held that he has never had such a thing. Nevertheless, a Minister somewhere had the bright idea of holding an inquiry. The idea came out in this way: \"Let us get a civil servant with a reputation for fairness and instruct him to bring in a report which will be favourable to the Government.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] Hon. Gentlemen opposite may say that that is an exaggeration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "preceding_text": "n. For example, it was held in private, it was not given authority to summon witnesses and internees were not given legal aid or advice. The Government leaned heavily on the reputation of Sir Edmund Compton. One is bound to say, therefore, that his reputation must arise in our consideration of this matter. He should not have been put in this position, but he was, and his reputation thereby arises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgusting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "preceding_text": "his reputation must arise in our consideration of this matter. He should not have been put in this position, but he was, and his reputation thereby arises. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"] The Government have forced people to reflect on his reputation, so let us do that. The first thing to be remembered is that Sir Edmund Compton is a paid civil servant, so that his first loyalty is to his employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "preceding_text": "tion of this matter. He should not have been put in this position, but he was, and his reputation thereby arises. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"] The Government have forced people to reflect on his reputation, so let us do that. The first thing to be remembered is that Sir Edmund Compton is a paid civil servant, so that his first loyalty is to his employer. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgusting.\"] That is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "preceding_text": "rious lasting effects on Anglo-Irish relations. Although his hands were tied, although he talked to only one internee, although he had no power to summon witnesses—and as a result had to depend entirely on what witnesses the police and Army decided to send him—and although there was no confrontation between accuser and accused, his report reveals that all the allegations have been founded on fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "preceding_text": "perate and why only one approached Sir Edmund Compton. Would any hon. Member, even on the benches opposite, go to a tribunal in the certain knowledge that one cannot have a solicitor or cross-examine the person who has been ill-treating one? Would any hon. Gentleman opposite stand before Sir Edmund, make a statement or allegation and then turn and walk back to one's prison ship or internment camp?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "ar. It is a most horrible thing to have to do. I am not suggesting for a moment that there should be any form of censorship, but I would address a point to the Press and to editors. I am a rather dangerous person to speak on this subject because my grandfather once horsewhipped an editor who wrote and published a foul libel against my great-grandfather. I will not go into what happened after that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.472.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Hon. Members opposite stabbed my hon. and gallant Friend in the back.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hafer", "preceding_text": "And what happened there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.481.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite stabbed my hon. and gallant Friend in the back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.481.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.494.0", "colnum": "494", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is not my intention—has the hon. Gentleman given way? I am sorry that I have taken up so much time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.493.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.494.5", "colnum": "494", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I understood that the hon. Gentleman had given way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.494.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPTON COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": " found no evidence of physical brutality, still less of torture or brain-washing. It did find that certain aspects of the application of the general rules governing the interrogation constituted physical ill-treatment. But this does not mean that any of the men suffered any physical or mental injury. In its report the Committee refers to the evidence of the medical officer stationed at the centre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ey and Merioneth, the non-county borough of Caernarvon, and 40 others, all expressing their opposition. The people who expressed their strong opposition to my proposals for East Glamorgan came from all political parties. My reasons for proposing two counties in East Glamorgan instead of one amount to this. I was convinced by the arguments presented to me, in particular by the Cardiff City Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.510.3", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. and learned Gentleman has changed his mind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; I must get on. In the consultative document in February I set out what seemed to me then, and still seem to me, the strong arguments for dividing the geographical area of Glamorgan into not more than two new counties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.510.3", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "y; I must get on. In the consultative document in February I set out what seemed to me then, and still seem to me, the strong arguments for dividing the geographical area of Glamorgan into not more than two new counties. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. and learned Gentleman has changed his mind.\"] I set those arguments out clearly. I still consider that the suggestion was a good one. I had hoped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "arvon laid great stress yesterday on the need first to identify the communities on which the new local authority areas should be based. I agree with this rule, and have tried to apply it in considering the new counties and districts. Applying it to Glamorgan left me in no doubt that there must be three counties there. It was suggested yesterday that some of my proposals amounted to gerrymandering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "h Measure. There is an incredible story in the Lobbies that the Secretary of State for Wales has no intention of serving on the Committee to defend his own proposals. He can scotch that rumour at once, and I will gladly sit down to give way to him so that he may do so. It will be unbelievable cowardice if he fails to attend the Committee to defend the proposals which are so controversial in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.516.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "That is the only time that I shall give way during my speech for the right hon. Gentleman to say \"Come, come\", because he spoke for 50 minutes yesterday and during the last 40 minutes refused to give way to any of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " houses will be retained by Birmingham or will go to Solihull. It is a vital consideration here that Birmingham, not having been given the land on which to build, will be in a most serious position if it is denied the re-letting of those houses as well. I am not surprised to see that the Conservative leaders in Birmingham, who show a little more statesmanship in this matter than the Minister does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mr. David Gibson-Watt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are those Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mr. David Gibson-Watt)", "preceding_text": "t small villages near Yarmouth going to Norfolk. My right hon. Friend will look at this matter. My hon. Friend the Member for the Isle of Wight (Mr. Woodnutt) made some particular points. I wish to tell him that my right hon. Friend is proceeding with discussions about those problems. Equally, my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North (Mr. Miscampbell) referred to several particular problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "I will certainly accede—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not listen to him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "I will certainly accede—[ Interruption. ]—I should be grateful if the House would listen to what I have to say in conclusion. I wanted to refer to what the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale had to say on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-17", "file": "debates1971-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3156776901989c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too often.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "possible for me to give way now because of the shortage of time. What a difference there was between the speeches of the right hon. Member for Caernarvon and the right hon. Member for Cardiff, West. The right hon. Member for Caernarvon made a thoughtful and philosophic speech and the House could with advantage hear more of him. The right hon. Member for Cardiff, West has spoken often in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-17a.580.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.620.7", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH-WEST INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.620.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA AND PAKISTAN (REFUGEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the great concern which the right hon. Gentleman shows on these matters and the work which he has put in on them. At the moment it does not appear that there is any prospect of such a Commonwealth initiative being succesful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.627.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "g of his intention to make this application. I have carefully considered the matter and have listened to the exchanges on this subject which took place after the business statement a little earlier today. This is only a procedural decision by Mr. Speaker and in no way reflects on the hon. Member's sincerity or on the merits of the matter. I am afraid I cannot give the application precedence today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.635.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whoopee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "ater accuracy, I have obtained a picture of the event. It shows the right hon. Lady only two feet away from Mrs. Habershon, both of them with black stars above their heads. Of course she was there and this is where the plot was hatched to make Rydens School an educationally unviable school. This is where the decision was taken to bring the concept of comprehensive schools in Surrey into disrepute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "chools, while at the same time making a gift of £2 million plus to the direct grant schools, is an affront to decency and is, I believe, so regarded by the vast majority of people, including, to their credit, many parents of direct grant school children. The Government's policy on local government reform, apart from the stark naked gerrymandering with Which it is riddled from one end to the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "'s mistakes in the last debate. I will correct some of them, but I intend to make my own speech relating to the Motion and to the Amendment, which is more than the right hon. Gentleman did. I shall attempt to correct some of the right hon. Gentleman's mistakes in this debate. He referred to a course at Leeds College. He indicated that it introduced the element of a reference to James in its title.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "eman has deduced wrongly that, because it related to a particular structure, it has been inspired by the James inquiry. It has no connection with it whatsoever. The right hon. Gentleman made a number of comments about youth service headquarters grants. There is to be a debate later this evening about this matter. However, the right hon. Gentleman should know that the review will take a long time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "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": "ome credit for our attempting to give fully comparable figures, for seeing that in that table the major school building for England and Wales is expressed in millions of pounds at constant 1971 prices. We have always attempted in this leaflet and in the capital buildings figures to give constant figures wherever there is a conversion factor. I turn to the terms of the Motion and of the Amendment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "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": "ery, education; secondary; and further education. First, primary education. I do not wonder that the right hon. Gentleman does his best to try to take attention away from this matter because his record is bad. He left us with 6,000 very old primary schools and condemns us for trying to improve the conditions in which those children find themselves, or, at any rate, for giving top priority to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.666.0", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "The principle always is that if children need free school meals they should get them. The figures show that the numbers are increasing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.667.2", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "cation places for Great Britain by 1973–74, which was to include 218,000 places in universities and 122,000 in colleges of education. In May, 1966 the right hon. Gentleman issued a White Paper entitled \"A Plan for Polytechnics and Other Colleges\", which created a valuable foundation on which successive Administrations have been able to achieve the remarkable development of the polytechnics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.667.2", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " and in the universities, for Great Britain as a whole the comparable figure has been a 7 per cent. annual expansion. These figures show that expansion of higher education in polytechnics, other further education colleges and colleges of education has been considerably faster than in the universities. But opportunities for young people to enter higher education broadly kept pace during the decade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "No. In not doing so, I am following the example of the hon. and learned Gentleman's hon. Friend the Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Maude). The amount involved was £20 million. The position was changed immediately the present Government came to power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fry", "preceding_text": " suffer from the effects of greater permissiveness, from the unnecessary abortions, from the increased rate of venereal disease and from the debasement of married life into purely animal acts. It is interesting that in the booklet to which I have referred, which is intended to be a guide for teachers giving sex education to young people, the word \"love\" is mentioned only once, and then in passing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " relevant to the needs and aspirations of people today. She is way behind the people, in the same way as the Secretary of State for Scotland. Last year, we spent nearly a whole year returning to Glasgow and Edinburgh the discretion to apply fees in local authority schools—not private or grant-aided schools, but local authority schools—which was abolished in England in 1944. This handful of schools", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "he desirability of raising the school leaving age. I will leave that to the Secretary of State for Scotland, but he will need to improve on his past efforts if he is to persuade even his hon. Friend. I hope that the hon. Lady heard the hon. Member for Galloway (Mr. Brewis), who was congratulating his right hon. Friend because the buildings and teachers were there. Did the Secretary of State do it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "hould know better. It was the Labour Government who did it, and I had the advantage of being Secretary of State for six years. I recall the state in which we found the teaching profession when we took office in 1964. It was that crowd on the benches opposite who decided to raise the school leaving age, but from Scotland's point of view they had made no preparations either in buildings or teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "s country. We have created the expectation that everyone who showed that he or she had the ability to profit by a higher education would get it. Are we now going to say that they will not, bcause the country cannot afford it? That is what the hon. Member for Rushcliffe was saying—that we cannot afford it. We must appreciate another thing. We on this side are concerned about the 970,000 unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Gordon Campbell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Gordon Campbell)", "preceding_text": "nal topics, but the reason for the debate coming within two weeks of the previous debate on education, and the reason for the intemperate terms of the Motion, became evident in the opening speech of the right hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central (Mr. Edward Short). Clearly, the reason was his petulance at the realisation that my right hon. Friend is successfully carrying out her programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.758.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.765.2", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "le over four years the total of the investment specifically for primary school improvements in Scotland will exceed £30 million. In addition a considerable amount of primary school improvement work will be started under an additional public works programme within this financial year and next. This special scheme for extra public works includes £4 million in Scotland for secondary school buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.765.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-18", "file": "debates1971-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "b63fb5bfe9bcecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.768.4", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "hould be as far as possible designed to increase the students' capacity to cope with demands made by a rapidly changing society. The Opposition's Motion is irrelevant, and ignores the fact that we are making real progress in many ways. We are carrying into effect the raising of the school-leaving age, we are getting schools built and improved, and helping and encouraging schools of different kinds", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-18a.768.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-19", "file": "debates1971-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "16a1163243708fad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-19a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "cies that have divided the nation in a way that I have not known since the 'twenties and 'thirties. I remember the 'thirties well. Indeed, that memory makes me the kind of fellow I am today. I shall never forget those days when I lived in the area of Tynemouth. I regret that its parliamentary representative, the hon. Lady the Member for Tynemouth (Dame Irene Ward), sits there asleep in the corner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-19a.887.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-22", "file": "debates1971-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "72908ccdbd6f678a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "I repeat that the acceptance of United Nations observers within the borders of India must be a matter for the Indian Government. It is not one for us. Incidentally, perhaps I might take this opportunity to pay tribute to the Indian Government for their remarkable achievements in administering the aid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-22", "file": "debates1971-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "72908ccdbd6f678a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "How will my right hon. Friend arrange for all local authorities to take advantage of this very good offer which he is making? May I tell him how glad I am, considering the criticisms that have come from the benches opposite, that we have a Conservative Government in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-22", "file": "debates1971-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "72908ccdbd6f678a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "or all local authorities to take advantage of this very good offer which he is making? May I tell him how glad I am, considering the criticisms that have come from the benches opposite, that we have a Conservative Government in power—[ Interruption. ]—who are providing money which we believe is essential for those who require it? Will my right hon. Friend see that advantage is taken of this offer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-22", "file": "debates1971-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "72908ccdbd6f678a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "reary and rather degrading work. However, the House will have noted the kind of work that is contemplated. It includes the construction of adventure playgrounds; clearing beaches and country paths; helping with reclamation projects and restoring canals; and cleaning up churchyards—and, my goodness, how that needs to be done! Most of our churchyards are a disgrace to the living and the dead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-22", "file": "debates1971-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "72908ccdbd6f678a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.1096.11", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL (IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "a manner which did not allow hon. Members to question the Minister closely about it. My hon. Friend the Member for Morpeth (Mr. George Grant) has spent a great deal of time and taken considerable trouble in tabling Questions to the Minister. For that reason, I hope that he will have an opportunity to intervene briefly in this debate. For that reason, I shall not take up the whole of my 25 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.1096.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-22", "file": "debates1971-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "72908ccdbd6f678a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.1096.11", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL (IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "hope that he will have an opportunity to intervene briefly in this debate. For that reason, I shall not take up the whole of my 25 minutes. [ Interruption. ] I say that deliberately, because some of my hon. Friends met the Minister for Industry last week, when they were given the hon. Gentleman's answer. To that extent, it is not all that important that we hear what the Under-Secretary has to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.1096.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-22", "file": "debates1971-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "72908ccdbd6f678a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL (IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": ". The only worry—and hon. Gentlemen opposite must face this—in the minds of consumers of coal is whether there will be a serious interruption of coal production due to a possible strike following the ballot this week. It is right for me to say that the Government are holding the possibility of coal imports open so that they can preserve the markets for coal, even if there were to be a coal strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-22a.1104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Since the Minister is reluctant to give this figure, may I give it to him? It is approximately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1115.4", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This appears to be a matter for debate rather than for question and answer. Sir Derek Walker-Smith, next Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1124.6", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman is on a good point. It would be extremely difficult for local inspectors of taxes to weigh up the prices paid for all advertisements in all journals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1124.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is saying that the increased unemployment is the deliberate policy of this Government, he could not be more incorrect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTRONIC NOISE MACHINE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Exactly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ly on a need-to-know basis. Third, I was told that the Committee of Privy Councillors when set up would be able to see and hear anything of that kind that it wanted. There are two reasons in particular why the matter is urgent enough for the House and you, Mr. Speaker, to consider it now. First, on Thursday we shall be debating the Irish situation, including points in the Compton Report, no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTRONIC NOISE MACHINE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": " you, Mr. Speaker, to consider it now. First, on Thursday we shall be debating the Irish situation, including points in the Compton Report, no doubt—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Exactly.\"]—Perhaps there are hon. Members opposite who do not want to know the nature of the machine which was in use. But I certainly want to know before the debate on Thursday begins. Second, there is the following cause for urgency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1145.2", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "nt., the figure has risen to 4 ·5 per cent. and, as the textile unions pointed out in their memorandum to the Prime Minister, 500 more people face unemployment as a result of mill closures in the Blackburn area alone. In the West Midlands, once this country's thriving industrial heartland, there is no sign of returning confidence. The figure of wholly unemployed is up again by over 400,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "are having this debate today because it gives me the opportunity to express the Government's views in the light of the latest developments. Whatever differences there may be between us—and I will come to them later—I hope that the overwhelming majority of the House can agree on one thing. The determined objective of the Government is the reduction of the present unacceptable level of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wipe away your tears.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "y of the House can agree on one thing. The determined objective of the Government is the reduction of the present unacceptable level of unemployment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] To pretend otherwise is both pernicious and ludicrous. I say that because I am just as concerned as the right hon. Lady about the personal misery, worry and hardship caused by unemployment, and I will not have it said otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh. \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "yment, and I will not have it said otherwise. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Wipe away your tears.\"] The problem which we and the country face, and the consequences for individuals in terms of human disappointment and waste, are such that I do not believe the British people would lightly forgive right hon. and hon. Members opposite if they were merely to use this debate as an attempt to make political capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "nt of this remarkable improvement in productivity has on this occasion been the very large increase in unemployment. Nobody who is in touch with industry has any doubt at all about two things. First, employers generally have been carrying out a policy of economising in labour as far as possible. Secondly, one of the principal reasons for this lies in the very large increases in wages and salaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1163.5", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman knows quite well that none of that whatever is a point or order for me. What the Chancellor does is entirely up to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1163.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I do not want to get side-tracked into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I do not want to get side-tracked into—[ Interruption. ] Anyone in this House knows Merseyside is a difficult area, but they also know that it is the hon. Member's area as well. But I will not let him side-track me. This is a favourite ploy of his. When he says that he is patient, that is a terminological inexactitude. I am trying to make a serious contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "t propose in the few minutes at my disposal to attempt to comment on the various subjects to which the hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) referred, except to assure him that every member of the Conservative Government accepts a policy of full employment. The situation we face today has arisen largely, though not entirely, from the misdemeanours and mistaken policies of the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not 'Productivity'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and those who are reflationary bulls, such as myself. I do not believe that the announcements made this afternoon for the expansion of public expenditure in nationalised industries is likely to make a substantial impact on the rise in unemployment. I feel bound to tell my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ve reacted favourably on the strength of the economy. However, unless we are prepared in the next few weeks to take additional reflationary measures, it is my conviction that unemployment will continue to increase in the few months following Christmas. In my local paper, the Berrow's Worcester Journal, last Friday there appeared these words from the Under-Secretary for Employment and Productivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ill continue to increase in the few months following Christmas. In my local paper, the Berrow's Worcester Journal, last Friday there appeared these words from the Under-Secretary for Employment and Productivity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"] I do not know why hon. Gentlemen opposite say \"Wrong\" when I mention this Ministry. My hon. Friend is the Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "s Worcester Journal, last Friday there appeared these words from the Under-Secretary for Employment and Productivity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"] I do not know why hon. Gentlemen opposite say \"Wrong\" when I mention this Ministry. My hon. Friend is the Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am not parodying his title and I think I have correctly described it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Fletcher", "preceding_text": " must be highly selective, both in the geographic and the technological sense. If confidence is to be restored on both sides of industry—and it should not be forgotten that people on the one side of industry are as important as those on the other—there must be some kind of consistency in the policies pursued in other respects by the Government. My third and final point, and I now have to sit down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1248.3", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "elieve has been approached, certainly not in the city of Birmingham, not merely since 1939 but since much further back in the 1930s, towards the depths of the depression days. It has been a feat of organising genius of which the Chancellor and the Employment Secretary can jointly be proud to produce in Birmingham a near-record of motor car sales and a record level of unemployment at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1248.3", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ne, 1970, whereas with his measures of giving away £1,400 million it has risen by over 300,000 in 17 months. It will be within the recollection of the House that he did not make any serious attempt to answer that question this afternoon. He has now had time to think about it and possibly even to consult his officials. If he would like to give me an answer now, I should be happy to give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1255.3", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "get a spark of investment enthusiasm out of most of the most profitable companies? The Government's policies have produced record post-war unemployment with inexorable speed. Their doctrinaire beliefs have strangled their attempts to deal with this problem. An uncontrolled market economy is as incapable of producing full employment now as it was in the 'thirties. This Government will always hover—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1257.0", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "me back my noble Friend the Member for Edinburgh, North (Earl of Dalkeith) in a speaking capacity, as he was today. I am sure that we all look forward very much indeed to his future contributions. May I tell my noble Friend at the outset that I agreed very deeply with one thing he said; namely, that I, too, would resign if I ever believed that unemployment was the policy of the Conservative Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1257.0", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "my age took an active part in politics, and we shall continue that driving force in our political activities, some in one party and some in others. But our desire is the same, even if we differ about the means. If hon. Gentlemen opposite are either too suspicious or too self-righteous to allow any genuineness of motives to anyone else, at least let them admit that the very base, and basic, motive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1259.0", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "We all appreciate the right hon. Gentleman's exercise in rather unusual honesty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Neither I nor any of my right hon. Friends has ever blamed it all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "is true that we have made changes. We are making changes, and perhaps we shall make some more changes. But we are going to get growth, and when we get the growth we shall have effective incentives to see that a fair share of that growth goes into the areas. If one looks back historically, the time when any Government showed the most signs of solving our regional problems was in the early 'Sixties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "e continued expansion in this country. Second, it will recognise that the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Government have played a leading part in the international negotiations in this field. I do not believe that that can be denied by anyone. The sixth area in which we are acting is the pursuit, now being brought to a successful conclusion, of our negotiations to join the European Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " Government have played a leading part in the international negotiations in this field. I do not believe that that can be denied by anyone. The sixth area in which we are acting is the pursuit, now being brought to a successful conclusion, of our negotiations to join the European Community. [ Interruption. ] We believe, as right hon. and hon. Members opposite believed when they were in Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1263.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Our action in all these six ways adds up to a coherent strategy on which to base a new and prolonged expansion in this country. The Government are creating the conditions for expansion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1263.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Our action in all these six ways adds up to a coherent strategy on which to base a new and prolonged expansion in this country. The Government are creating the conditions for expansion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] Our policies offer a new prospect for British industry and business. We have turned the lights of our economy from red to green.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1263.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1263.4", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-23", "file": "debates1971-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4474ba1254492ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1263.5", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "We appeal to all boards of directors to hasten their investment decisions and have confidence in the future. We appeal, also, to the trade unions to make and press their claims with realism and responsibility. We are determined to have a strategy for growth and expansion. We are committed to this policy absolutely. If I may sum up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-23a.1263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1327.3", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that hon. Gentlemen opposite table a similar Question every month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1352.3", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Transport Industries (Mr. John Peyton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Transport Industries (Mr. John Peyton)", "preceding_text": "s which fleece their customers. As I said then, I was surprised that he felt it necessary to put such a question, and I hope that no hon. Member today will follow such a lamentable example. The House will not require my assurance that any such fears are totally unjustified. Of course the Government will wish to give particularly close attention to the financial standing of the proposed purchasers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1352.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1356.9", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman has just come in.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1356.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Member has an interest.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is splitting hairs. He well knows that in 1939 Thomas Cook was taken over by the railway companies. The decision to nationalise the railway companies was taken in 1947. If the hon. Gentleman wishes to correct me he is welcome to do so, but I think that he and I agree on the matter. Why must we have the Bill at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1378.2", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1378.2", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "here and see their hon. Members. I urge you to order, not to ask, whoever was responsible for giving this order to the police to withdraw it so that we may see our constituents. Nobody should prevent my constituents from coming here to see me. I am very well aware that a number of hon. Members feel the same way as I do about this because they, too, have made appointments to see their constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1378.2", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "see our constituents. Nobody should prevent my constituents from coming here to see me. I am very well aware that a number of hon. Members feel the same way as I do about this because they, too, have made appointments to see their constituents—[ Interruption. ] I intend to refuse to allow the debate to continue until you see to it, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I retain my right to see my constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1395.2", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "on to clear the front of the House because they felt they had not sufficient facilities outside the House, which included the House of Lords car park. In consequence it appeared to many of us that the liaison between the Officers of this House and its custodians and the police outside was virtually nonexistent. Whoever gave the order for police officers to be used against a peaceful demonstration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1395.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1396.3", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1396.6", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "While I was trying to make my point of order, Mr. Speaker, perhaps you did not hear some of the cacophonous cackling by hon. Members opposite. What I was trying to point out was that there has been a massive demonstration in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1396.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "ion of so many companies in the industry, they would never have enjoyed. Before casting aspersions on the travel industry as a whole, the hon. Gentleman should bear in mind that millions of people are grateful for the energy and enthusiasm with which so many companies in the industry have worked over the last 15 years. I was particularly interested in the hon. Gentleman's point about confiscation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "e because of the tensions there and when inflation is running away in this country to an alarming extent, the British Government have nothing better to do than bring forward a piddling little Bill of this kind to satisfy their ideological prejudice against anything which is nationalised. Like me, Mr. Speaker, you have had to endure this sort of ideological debate many times over the last 20 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "ntally, the company was not nationalised by accident. It was nationalised by this House under the Transport Act, 1947. Otherwise the Bill would not be necessary and the change could be made administratively. I know that the Conservative Party must please its friends, the people who give it not only moral and physical but also financial support at election time. We know that when a Tory Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "hey know that what I say is true. Thomas Cook has been well-managed and well-advertised and has had its offices in the right places. It has produced reliable services and has earned for this country a world-wide reputation. I cannot understand the type of mind that believes that because something is nationalised it is bad, and because it is private enterprise it is good. That is complete nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "e been filched, ear-marking in particular those that have been confiscated without compensation. It is the duty of the Opposition in any democratic society to warn the Government of the day that if they overstep the mark—the dividing line between democracy and dictatorship—then we must, on behalf of the people, try to safeguard their interests and, given power, take steps to redress the imbalance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1446.1", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE (SCOTTISH STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not as good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": " public consciousness, the proceedings of the Scottish Standing Committee achieve that end. It is the one Standing Committee which makes the necessary democratic link with the public. Therefore, it is important that the size of that Committee should remain as it is. Anybody who has served on a Scottish Standing Committee, as on any other United Kingdom Standing Committee, will know the difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE (SCOTTISH STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robin Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robin Turton", "preceding_text": "It is quite clear from the speech of the hon. Member for Rendrew, West (Mr. Buchan) that the Scots are a very political body. However, I should point out that the Select Committee on Procedure looked at what is at present a nonsense, and now that it tries to put it right the hon. Member seems to impute to my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House some malevolent party content.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE (SCOTTISH STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Fife, East was so fed up on one occasion at having to sit through a Scottish Standing Committee that he refused to support his own side. We appreciate his desire to get out of that. The other hon. Gentleman who makes up what is called the Scottish representation is the hon. Member for Gla9, gow, Hillhead (Mr. Galbraith), who I do not think will challenge what I have said so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE (SCOTTISH STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like the Labour Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "preceding_text": "onsultation does not mean management and that if the Government cannot have their way through the usual channels, they will exert their right as a majority to have their way. It is a mockery to suggest that the usual channels can solve this problem. Many hon. Members feel that the Government have done great damage to political discussion by using the guillotine indiscriminately to curb discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1475.4", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE (SCOTTISH STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "idence in person to the Committee, the hon. Member for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Galbraith), made a few remarks and has now departed. He is not interested in replies to his points. My first comment about the Select Committee on Procedure is that it did not give enough time to its consideration of these matters. I understand that there was a letter from the hon. Member for Fife, East (Sir J. Gilmour)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-24", "file": "debates1971-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ed5f37ad7cf44a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1475.5", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE (SCOTTISH STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ommittee dealing with Private Members Bills, their Bills can be slotted in. I have seen that Committee deal with as many as four or five in one day. It is wrong for hon. Members, such as the hon. Member for Hillhead, to give a wrong impression of our approach to legislation. When it comes to major legislation, that is an entirely different matter. I turn now to the origin of the Committee in 1906.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-24a.1475.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1515.3", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "t are not only amoral but illegal, will he take account of the views expressed in The Times today showing in detail that those who have committed these acts lay themselves open to criminal prosecution? Will he agree that those who have done so—soldiers, officers and Ministers—lay themselves open, Ministers in particular, to a charge of conspiracy to commit criminal assault? In those circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1515.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1516.4", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have called the next Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1516.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1516.6", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"After Questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I am sorry to take up part of Question Time, but there is an important principle here. This is a matter of great interest not only to the people of Ulster but to this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1516.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1518.1", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "We have already debated this subject in the House and there is to be a further debate today an Northern Ireland. The procedures followed were within the rules of interrogation laid down by the previous Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1529.6", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister realise that his off-hand and arrogant answers to at least some of these Questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1529.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1542.2", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "preceding_text": "Is it in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1542.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1543.0", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I must not test the patience of the House too far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1543.0", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "n of material sanctions, there can be no effective external guarantee if force is ruled out. On his fourth question, the blocking mechanism will consist of all African members of the Lower House; it will be all Africans and no chiefs. As for the Land Tenure Act, this, as the right hon. Gentleman will see, will be examined, and the hope is that it will be amended in certain very important respects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1544.2", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "While warmly congratulating my right hon. Friend on securing agreement to constitutional changes which go incomparably further than almost anyone thought possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1547.3", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "Would it not have been more generous if the principal spokesman for the Opposition had let fall one word of congratulation to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1547.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1551.2", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has asked a question about Mr. Nkomo. I did not insist that Mr. Nkomo should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1551.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1566.5", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Especially as the Africans were carrying the burden of those sanctions, I feel that it was a very remarkable achievement to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1566.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1645.3", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I must go back to my original statement. In 1969, 12 civilians were killed and in 1970, some 17 were killed, and 28 this year, before internment. The number has been rising rapidly throughout the past year and has gone on rising even throughout internment, but the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-25", "file": "debates1971-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "14db1853c194e10b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Russian arms.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": " the same again until this aspect has been dealt with. The tribal loyalties which I noted in the Catholic community areas, because such they were, are always strong enough to support the I.R.A. to some degree on the basis of the past. Now, as we hear time and time again, the people in those areas offer relief and succour to the gunmen. The gunmen could not operate without a wide degree of support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-25a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-26", "file": "debates1971-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "013680da503fe22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-26a.1743.1", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "HOUSING (FURNISHED LETTINGS AND HOTEL USE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Garrett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Garrett", "preceding_text": "followed by other planning authorities. Immediately after the war, this resistance to pressure was fully applied. Now, hotels also qualify for the £1,000 grant per bedroom. Some good hotels have been built in the North-East. If any hon. Member wants to see an area where tourism has not been exploited, he should go to Northumberland, which is probably the only county left of any outstanding beauty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-26a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-26", "file": "debates1971-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "013680da503fe22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-26a.1795.3", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "HOUSING (FURNISHED LETTINGS AND HOTEL USE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " of a policy of rigid rent control in the private sector. On the question of security, the House will not expect me to go further than my right hon. and hon. Friends have done in the past. There is a genuine difference of view between the two sides of the House on this matter. I base myself on the Report of the Francis Committee. The evidence given to that Committee on this matter was very strong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-26a.1795.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-26", "file": "debates1971-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "013680da503fe22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-26a.1795.3", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "HOUSING (FURNISHED LETTINGS AND HOTEL USE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "cis Committee. The evidence given to that Committee on this matter was very strong. [ Interruption. ] That is my view. The hon. Gentleman has a different view. Whether the Committee was right or wrong on this issue, the hon. Gentleman will not contest that it dealt with the subject very fully and issued a solemn warning about the effects of any extension of security of tenure to furnished tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-26a.1795.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-26", "file": "debates1971-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "013680da503fe22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-26a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "HOUSING (FURNISHED LETTINGS AND HOTEL USE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " the furnished sector, too. No doubt we shall consider this matter in Committee when we come to consider the Housing Finance Bill. For the moment, I do no more than refer the hon. Lady to what my right hon. Friend said on Second Reading about this matter which has caused widespread concern and great interest throughout the country. Although there will not be a great many sittings of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-26a.1797.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.23.3", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "May I crave the indulgence of the House to say how sorry we are to hear of the death of Mr. Hugh Stenhouse? It is a great loss to Scotland and to Scottish industry generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.23.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Charge them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "etailed suggestions made by the Leader of the Opposition. But the point of confrontation is the fundamental difference between the normal processes of trial and those of appeal to committees now established and working in Northern Ireland. The alternative, if we are voting on this, is to release here and now on to the streets of Northern Ireland a large number of members of the Provisional I.R.A.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.46.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.48.2", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Deal with security.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "t. The Opposition Motion goes on: Welcomes the initiative taken by the Leader of the Opposition for a solution to these problems; calls upon Her Majesty's Government to respond constructively to this approach\". I have tried to do that in saying that we welcome readily the right hon. Gentleman's proposal for talks between the parties on this crucial issue. Therefore, I cannot see in the Motion any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I am so well aware of what he said that I have marked in my copy of the OFFICIAL REPORT C. 1577 to 1580 which deal with that point. However, that is not my interpretation of what my right hon. Friend was saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I have done that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Others were here before him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "There is a problem. I had intended to give the hon. Gentleman notice this afternoon but I was told that he was lost in a fog, which is his customary posture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "mont and indeed to this House from Northern Ireland is that each becomes in itself a referendum on the Border. The Unionist Party says, \"We are the only ones you can really rely on to keep the Border. Forget all about the gradations of political opinion which you or we may hold. We are the chaps to keep the Border, so elect us\". It is difficult, therefore, for the moderate voice to express itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "d that physical ill-treatment had taken place. In that debate, in which I was not able to take part, the word \"cruelty\" somehow or other got left out. One will find in the interrogation notes printed in the Compton Report that cruelty and torture are coupled together. While there might be a wide division between physical ill-treatment and torture—at least they were not plucking out their toenails—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scandalous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "had a record of epilepsy and of course I have passed that on to the Home Secretary. I assume that steps are being taken to see that he is having proper medical treatment, even if he has not yet been let out of Long Kesh, as many have. The political conclusions to be drawn, I believe, are that the advent of a Tory Government here in June 1970 goes hand in hand with a deterioration in the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.115.6", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Mahon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Mahon", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am sorry to introduce a note of levity, but is this a private fight or can anyone join in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.115.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.115.9", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. I want to come to the important part of my speech. The kernel of the speech made in the House by the Leader of the Opposition on Thursday was that the solution to the problem of Northern Ireland lay in a united Ireland. This is also the objective of the Irish Republican Army—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.115.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "First, something must be done about the tragedy of unemployment. We have thousands of men out of work. There needs to be a massive injection of finance to deliver the people from the plight of unemployment, which demoralises the individual and creates a situation in which it is impossible to have peace, especially in a society in which unemployment is rising, as it is in Northern Ireland now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ave peace, especially in a society in which unemployment is rising, as it is in Northern Ireland now. [ Interruption. ] It has been brought about by the failure of the Stormont Government to grapple with the problem of unemployment. I represent 30,000 Roman Catholic people in my constituency, and not one of them can say that I have not represented them in the way they should have been represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "orthern Ireland? Is every Northern Ireland man who is opposed to Unionism on the wanted list of the Unionist Government and a candidate for internment? That is what it seems to be. This is all in line with a military solution. I was bitterly disappointed that my right hon. Friend did not come out more strongly against internment and that he seemed to accept that there could be a military solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "d did not come out more strongly against internment and that he seemed to accept that there could be a military solution. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps I may amend that. He suggested that until there was a military solution there could be no political solution. I say to him in his absence and to the Government that there cannot be any military solution to the problem which now besets Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "Yes, I saw that, and I was surprised, in view of its terms, though I am not at all surprised that the right hon. Gentleman is not here to vote for it tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "h last Thursday lies. At least it stimulates thought about a political settlement, and I am sorry that the Opposition's Motion today apparently rejects a bipartisan approach despite the Leader of the Opposition's attempt to pre- serve one. It is an odd situation. I wish that some hon. Members opposite would forget the Irish vote in their constituencies and look at these matters in a wider context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What an argument.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "ago, certainly—that they were winning. They told me that the information is at last coming in. Apropos the comments about internment, one of the reasons why it was coming in, they said, was internment. People would not go to a police post or an Army barracks to give information and they would not even give it over the telephone, but now that various men had been interned they feel it safe to talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.140.4", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good government is the answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foley", "preceding_text": "situation, this will be regarded as enough; that once the gunmen are gone it will be felt that there are no problems left. That may be the suggestion emanating from people in the Unionist Party in the North who say, \"Thank you—leave the Army here until we have had the chance to reorganise the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the B Specials, then leave us alone. We do not want the reform of Stormont.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.140.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "preceding_text": "ictory over the I.R.A., let me tell this House; it is simply not on. One cannot do it by declaring that one will root out the last I.R.A. man, by declaring that one will seek a military victory, that one will take on, lock, stock and barrel, the Catholic community from which the I.R.A. comes. What they will have to do to get through and defeat the I.R.A. or ask them to pitch their tents elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "preceding_text": "either wing of the I.R.A. Indeed, I do not believe that terrorism will bring about a solution to the problems of Northern Ireland. Only a Socialist revolution will at the end of the day do that. Nevertheless, when one is forced to take sides, while I have my criticisms of the I.R.A., it is clear that this House takes its side with the British Army, and I, without apology, take mine with the I.R.A.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "preceding_text": " Bench to consider any constructive proposals that might be taken. All I can do is to appeal—not to them or, for that matter, even to the Opposition Front Bench—to those who believe in the rights of the working class, British or Irish, to bring down the Tory Government and put in their place a Socialist Government who will implement the kind of radical economic changes we need. In the last debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "preceding_text": "nister of State for Defence a question, but I was not allowed to do so. I wanted to question him about the Compton Report. Much play has been made of this Report. Is it not a fact that the Tory Government were well aware that the last inquiry ordered by this House on the lines of the Compton Inquiry was the Profumo Inquiry? Following that, a Royal Commission on Inquiries was set up to investigate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "preceding_text": "ly that no future Government should again attempt to use in a highly charged political matter the kind of inquiry that was used in the Profumo affair. Despite that warning, the Compton Inquiry was set up on exactly the same lines. It infringed 12 major points which Lord Justice Salmon had made. It is clear that it was designed not to seek the truth but to prevent it from reaching the light of day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e to see his accuser and determine his credibility, we would be in a fair position to determine it. We have two living ex-Lord Chancellors—Lord Gardiner and Lord Dilhorne. I would like to see them take an active hand in this matter. I believe it could bring at least a lot of satisfaction here. I go on from this to say that it is not the view of the Opposition that all internees should be released.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "he received from my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, and it was fully repeated this afternoon; namely, acceptance of the right hon. Gentleman's initiative, or his request, that there should be full talks. I was very glad that the Leader of the Opposition made that request in his speech on Thursday. I fear that if we had suggested the talks ourselves, he might not have been allowed to respond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOL MILK AND MEALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hornby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hornby", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, South (Dr. Stuttaford) said he was speaking as a doctor rather than as a politician. There is nothing in these regulations that should worry him as a doctor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-29", "file": "debates1971-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1996615c30c1132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOL MILK AND MEALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hornby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hornby", "preceding_text": "meals are there, too. It is natural for each profession to pipe its own corner when a matter of Government policy affecting it arises. Many corners are bound to be piped as policies are produced, and it is up to the Government of the day to decide which final steps to take. It is perfectly in order to say that milk and hot meals are good for children, but both are available under these provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-29a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.244.5", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This policy was, of course, the policy of the previous Administration. The Act was passed by Parliament under the previous Government, and it was the hon. Gentleman's Administration which made the changes of which he is now complaining. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.244.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.250.4", "colnum": "250", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I also need to seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "iate extension of the scheme for heating allowances and an immediate increase in the allowance figure, which is now 75p a week? As everyone knows, the true cost of heating a house or even a flat is very much more than 75p a week. For a group in the community which suffers more from the cold than most of us and which very often cannot get out, it is crucial to try to increase the limits on heating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "pensioners. The hon Lady did not mention a fact that the House will wish to bear in mind: namely, that while a large number of people still do not have occupational pensions, and while many of the occupational pensions in payment are relatively small, no fewer than two-thirds of men now retiring take into retirement an occupational pension, and that is some comfort that will improve the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ement in real terms each year—in the buying power of the pension—of 2½ per cent. On the record, therefore—and I admit that it depends a certain amount on the months in which a Government came to power and left office—in general, the gulf between those two figures is such as to show overwhelmingly that the Conservatives can be trusted to protect the pensioners and improve their buying power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ontributions that matters. Under Labour, taxation of the wage-earner as well as his national insurance contributions—I am referring also to lowest paid wage-earners—rocketed. By that comparison, therefore, the pensioner has not done so badly. The up-rating was necessary in September because of the rise in prices since 1969. It has totally restored the purchasing power and provided something extra.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "tember, 1971, pension will hold its value with the degree to which in the comparable months after the 1969 up-rating the pension then held its value, I wager that there will not be very much difference between them. In other words, the Labour Government permitted just the same diminution of the buying power of the pension between up-ratings as they are now rhetorically begging us to cause to stop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Boscawen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Boscawen", "preceding_text": "ry at his home to see how he was getting on. That is something greatly to the credit of the Department. These officers are at present carrying out the same exercise for the 100 per cent. disability pensioners of the Second World War: that is how I came in. I think that this sort of work, which is done by a few dedicated people, is something which this House should be proud of and should recognise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nobody does any more.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "uth (Sir G. Nabarro), who has spoken in the debate this afternoon. The hon. Gentleman is reported as having made a speech at the weekend in which he suggested that what is needed is an injection of £1,000 million of demand into the economy, or, he prophesied, there would be 1½ million unemployed by the spring. There was a time when I thought I knew something about economics and forecasting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.362.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.374.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.374.5", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.374.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.374.8", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.374.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-11-30", "file": "debates1971-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a7f875fedd6a2294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANKING AND FINANCIAL DEALINGS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": " well. My Amendment limits the number of days that the Queen could name as special days. Whereas she could have had more than six by proclamation, I have limited it to six. I am willing to concede that. But the Minister did not deal sufficiently with the interesting question put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Farnworth (Mr. Roper). How often have we had a proclamation of special holidays?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-11-30a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.429.4", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "The incidence of alcoholism cannot be measured accurately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.429.6", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is absolutely wrong to suggest that I took this matter lightheartedly. I take this extremely seriously indeed. It was his hon. Friends who were laughing at what was a very steady and sensible reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.429.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows that I am not given to making promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES (REPORTS)", "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/1971-12-01a.443.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.443.9", "colnum": "443", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.443.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Can you help us, Mr. Speaker? I know that it is very difficult for you to rule on a hypothetical point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.444.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.444.6", "colnum": "444", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down. We do not want you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.444.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.444.7", "colnum": "444", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I have no desire at all —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.444.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.444.7", "colnum": "444", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I have no desire at all —[Interruption. ] I wish only to point out, Mr. Speaker, that I rise further to a point of order if you rule that it was one. I think that that is the correct position to take. However, having made that point, I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins), because he warned me in advance that he intended to raise this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.444.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.444.8", "colnum": "444", "heading": "ECONOMIC MEASURES (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "f a little belatedly and relucantly, to a point about which I gave him notice and to which he indicated that he would respond. Wil he bear in mind that a serious issue is arising here? For instance, the editor of investors Chronicle said this morning in a radio interview that these reports came from a very high level. Will the right hon. Gentleman make sure that this matter is cleared up tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.444.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "preceding_text": "be forced, in two or three years' time, to concede better terms than those available now to the British Government. I can only say that I could not be, that I would not consent to be, the one who went back to that township and advocated such a delay to the thousands of Africans who are today pleading for work and who, because there is so much competition in the labour market, have to accept wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "y saw towards the South African pattern of life. Until now, among the moderates, both African and European, there has been a certain fatalism as they have watched this creeping advance towards apartheid. Thus the alternative to these proposals is, in my mind, a certain and rapid move to apartheid and that, surely cannot be a thing which any hon. Member in this House wants to see. There is not yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " must be taken with it. I come to the second of the principles. In the proposals there is from the start a blocking mechanism of the elected Africans alone. I repeat that: there is a blocking mechanism of the elected Africans alone. In the event of discriminatory or undesirable legislation being brought to Parliament they will undoubtedly receive reinforcement from the indirectly elected Africans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "s I was able to hear them and talk to them, but it is clearly desirable that the Commission should conduct its business in an atmosphere where it can hear, and be heard, in peaceful conditions. As the House knows, the Commission will consist of Lord Pearce, Lord Harlech and Sir Maurice Dorman, but I am considering adding to the membership. It is important to get the right people on the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Such a non-racial community in the centre of Africa, if it could be established, cannot be over priced or over-prized.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.478.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Peter Rawlinson)", "preceding_text": "ave, in which I said specifically that I called for the negotiations, and in which I said that Conservatives supported sanctions so that Smith should be brought to negotiate. I explained to him that the date which he announced in this House was the date of the Press conference which was reported in the local Press. He has had the courtesy neither to reply to my letter nor to give me the reference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.478.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "When I have answered the question I will give way. The heading of this cutting is: Recognise the Smith regime. Underneath it says: The Tory Member of Parliament for Epsom Division, Sir Peter Rawlinson, wants immediate official recognition of the rebel Rhodesian Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "will not have their cases even reviewed until the test of acceptability is complete. I do not believe that the right hon. Gentleman can consider that that is good enough. Why cannot Mr. Nkomo be released from detention? He is not in detention on a criminal charge, like Mr. Sithole. Why cannot he have the same freedom as African politicians belonging to the legal parties to organise in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "t Mr. Nkomo be released from detention? He is not in detention on a criminal charge, like Mr. Sithole. Why cannot he have the same freedom as African politicians belonging to the legal parties to organise in the country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and to express his views on radio and television? If the right hon. Gentleman would care to reply, I think that the whole House would be glad to hear him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn King", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name the State.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn King", "preceding_text": "the opportunity to see three Heads of Commonwealth States. It is commonly said that if the form of action which my right hon. Friend recommended to the House he pursued, then we shall incur the enmity of the Commonwealth. This statement is not untrue. I do not believe that hon. Members who take that line are yet sufficiently familiar with the second wind of change which is sweeping across Africa.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn King", "preceding_text": "be critical of it?\" He said clearly, \"There are theoretical objections and I think also practical difficulties. It is not for us to urge that British troops should be stationed on former colonial soil. If agreement were reached I for one would be happy to vote what the British Government recommend without comment. Before I went to Cyprus I was in Uganda, where I had an interview with General Amin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "rticular concern. If Britain comes to an agreement with Rhodesia, Uganda will have little to say. My concern is to raise the economic standards of my people.\" He went on to pay tribute—and this surprised me—to the work done by British district commissioners in Uganda in the past, and to the strength which the British connection had given to his country. The third Head of State I met was Dr. Banda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "my sister is married to a white South African who lives in Gwelo in Southern Rhodesia. The letter, from a gentleman named Guest from Pinner, reads: Dear Mr. Faulds, Most of us have already celebrated 'victory for Rhodesia' and continued European rule for all time. That is what the agreement means. You should be pleased as your sister will be safe. Just think of that and stop being a bloody fool.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "tary both really hate apartheid, as they claim? If they do, they have a funny way of showing it. How could they have been willing, indeed eager, parties to its inevitable extension north from South Africa up to the banks of the Zambesi, which is what will happen? What an achievement on the part of the Foreign Secretary, to crown a career which started with the betrayal of Czechoslovakia at Munich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fourth because of the Whips.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "preceding_text": " of the realities of power in Central Africa today; secondly, because I believe that my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary and Lord Goodman have negotiated the best possible terms obtainable in the circumstances; thirdly, because I believe the Africans, as provided in the terms, must be given the opportunity to decide for themselves—something which they have never had before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.555.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.563.13", "colnum": "563", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Was the hon. Member for Ormskirk (Mr. Soref) giving way to someone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.563.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.563.14", "colnum": "563", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soref", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soref", "preceding_text": "Yes, I was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.563.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "The White Paper states that there will be freedom of political activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": " at earlier times. We should remember that the Commission's work and the discussions which it will promote will not be conducted in a vacuum. Those who watch these matters know perfectly well that already programmes in English and African languages are being beamed to Rhodesia from Moscow and Dar-es-Salaam. There is a continuous stream of tendentious, misleading and in some cases lying propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.586.3", "colnum": "586", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "d to the Privy Council, which said he was entitled to his remedy. Following this, an Order in Council was made by Her Majesty which the judges of Rhodesia were bound to obey under the law which they had taken an oath to enforce. What did those judges do? They rejected the advice of the Privy Council and the Order of Her Majesty, and Madzimabuto has been rotting in gaol and in detention ever since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "I have nothing but respect and admiration for Lord Pearce and his opinion in the case, although I do not agree with it, was one to which he could legitimately come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "and Tenure Act and the Land Apportionment Act—to which reference has been made today there has always been discrimination so that the African could avoid European and Asian exploitation by being provided with certain areas into which the European and Asian traders and businesses could not penetrate. That was a principle of the Land Apportionment which for 50 years has been accepted by this House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.596.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.598.6", "colnum": "598", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Paragraph 11 of the Declaration of Rights provides that the Rhodesia Front Government would be unable to introduce subordinate legislation on the pattern of the Land Tenure Act, and therefore that is a very considerable brake on the present extension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.598.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-01", "file": "debates1971-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "61cad8fc976f9779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.600.4", "colnum": "600", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "n more difficult. All who really honestly and sincerely want to assist the people of Africa—and there are many who wish to do that—want to give at least a chance to the people of Rhodesia to make up their own minds. If they reject the proposals, so be it. But it would be criminal irresponsibility not to give the people of Rhodesia, all the people of Rhodesia, the opportunity to express their view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-01a.600.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MULTINATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that that is a most unsatisfactory answer? Is he further aware that his complacency on this and on other matters frightens many of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MULTINATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "nd on other matters frightens many of us—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading!\"] Well, the Prime Minister was reading, was he not? Does the Prime Minister not agree that these organisations, which recognise no rôle other than that of maximising profits, represent one of the greatest social evils of the present day and have already been responsible for factory closures and widespread unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.644.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MULTINATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why is the right hon. Gentleman not in his usual place?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Those who are detained in Northern Ireland are detained because they are members of the I.R.A.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Those who are detained in Northern Ireland are detained because they are members of the I.R.A.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and they are, therefore, members of an organisation which uses violence and is pledged to violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.650.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.651.2", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In Salisbury?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "If resignation is indicated is not it rather indicated for hon. Gentlemen who find a conflict between their political ideologies and the oath that they have taken as Members of this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.666.5", "colnum": "666", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "qual extent? Would the right hon. Gentleman, therefore, recognise that it is wrong in principle, if the usual channels are to function and decisions are to be taken in the name of back benchers, if those back benchers, by deliberate action of the Government, are deprived of the opportunity of attending meetings at which they may confirm or challenge recommendations made through the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.666.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "GROUP OF TEN (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his remarks about the progress achieved at this meeting. As for outstanding points, I think the right hon. Gentleman will understand when I say that it would be unwise for me to say anything about the details or even the principles which were discussed at the meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "GROUP OF TEN (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I thought I had made the position clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "GROUP OF TEN (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the firmness and clarity of his statement will be widely welcomed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "GROUP OF TEN (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Is not this almost unprecedented", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.671.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "WATER SERVICES (REORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "edcliffe-Maud proposals for democratic provincial or regional government. We are bound to ask, in the light of the Local Government Bill now going through the House, whether it is proposed to establish 10 regional authorities not democratic in content and not entirely responsible to the local authorities in the region? This seems to be a great argument for regional government. On the canal system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ernment does not in any way alter the fact that it has to operate under the Companies Acts, and clearly boards of directors must be given the proper degree of freedom to manage the affairs of the company commercially without prejudice to their rights and responsibilities under the law. The right hon. Member for Manchester. Cheetham mentioned companies in which the Government are part shareholders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH RAILWAYS WORKSHOPS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman might have been here when we had the last debate, which was not all that long ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-02", "file": "debates1971-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "55edbdde339f17ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH RAILWAYS WORKSHOPS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "when he came to Scotland in the run-up to the General Election. He then said on television \"What do you want in Scotland—a soup kitchen economy in a soup kitchen country?\" It is this Government which are bringing back the soup kitchen economy—it is they who have the soup kitchen mind, with means testing for school meals, denying the children their milk, and failing to provide the kind of attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-02a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-03", "file": "debates1971-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d687052879240a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-03a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "AUTHORS' LENDING RIGHTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "s—and none of us wants those. It invites inflating costs, municipal cheeseparing—and, my God, with Tory councillors, we can guarantee that that will happen—and ministerial pressures on local freedoms. Public funds must provide for the public service which authors provide; the funds must come from the Government. The Government must meet that extra bill. Our late, great Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-03a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-03", "file": "debates1971-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d687052879240a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-03a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "BROADCASTING COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mrs. Whitehouse?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "able individuals, but whether they are the sort of individuals who are likely to increase public confidence in the communications media is another matter. I should like to see a larger commission and I should like to see a younger commission and certainly I should like to see a woman on the commission. It seems to me a little strange to have three elderly males considering some of these questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-03a.887.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "INDIA AND PAKISTAN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Chinese?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Since the continuation of the fighting is bound to result in slaughter and suffering on a calamitous scale, will the right hon. Gentleman bring home to the Russian Government that the whole world deplores any action which results in obstructing progress towards a cease-fire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "l be changed. Tenants—both council and private—will be able to enjoy broadly the same rent rebate and allowance terms, wherever they live, and ratepayers' and taxpayers' contributions to rent rebates and allowances will be put on a uniform basis throughout the country. The Bill will give substantial relief to Scottish ratepayers. It is now widely recognised that the past system of housing finance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": " the Bill. The right hon. Member for Kilmarnock, far from discouraging these advanced rebate schemes in the new towns, appears to have encouraged them. From what I have said it is clear that there should be no political argument between the two Front Benches on the need for a comprehensive rebate scheme. I hope that there will no longer be an argument about this between the two sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.974.3", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "Yes; but I am not given to making precise estimates of time, which is what I was asked to give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I will not come off it. Hon. Gentlemen have found a new subsidy. Let us follow it through—let them follow it through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "th) talked about the moral fibre of the nation being eroded because people lived in council houses. So they decided to end this. There will be a saving—this is the purpose of the Bill—but not only will less money eventually be spent: it will also be spent on more people. I must congratulate the hon. Gentleman. At least he has the decency to introduce a rent allowance in respect of private tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " with his wife and three children will be paying a certain rent because of the house in which he lives. Another man living in the same area, in a house of the same size, with a wife and three children—I am supposing that the wife in each case works and that the income is the same—will get the same rebate on the basis of their reckonable incomes but one will pay a higher rent at the end of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.986.3", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "n Bill if he doubts me. There may be a ceiling on aggregated costs, and that is one of the things that troubles us because I have never known a Tory Government not to act when they saw a ceiling was being approached. We shall see a very considerable change which, socially, within a town will not be healthy, if we are to have local authority houses regarded as places only for second-class citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.986.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Hors. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": ", planning and aesthetics which at the end of the century is where the real difficulties lie. It is with a wonderful sense of relief that I welcome the Bill. It may produce a bitter party dispute but at least it will be the last of them and will put an end to the arid and sterile debates that we have had on housing in Scotland for the last 50 years. From now on things will never be the same again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.1018.3", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "From an Answer to a Parliamentary Question. If the hon. and learned Gentleman cares to look at the debate in the Scottish Grand Committee in July he will find that these statistics were fairly well bandied about and were not challenged at the time. However, I got these figures in answer to a Parliamentary Question.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.1018.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "Gentleman said, \"There is no need to worry. Look at the number of approvals this month.\" But he can know about only two months, plus the details for this month, which is only five or six days old. He must, therefore, be counting approvals rushed through to 1st December. The right hon. Gentleman said that the number was 3,000 and far better than 1970. I agree that 1970 was a bad year for approvals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-06", "file": "debates1971-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b0852f1284433b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.1065.3", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "t possibly be allocated better standard housing because there is no rent rebate scheme or else there is an inadequate one. That is what he right hon. Gentleman should bear in mind. My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Edward Taylor) made an interesting speech covering a great deal that was important. If I may, I will answer most of his points in writing because of the lack of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-06a.1065.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1102.2", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his information", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1115.9", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "I do not ask for an answer from the paper which the Minister quoted. Is not it a very slick practice for the right hon. Gentleman to quote from a newspaper which he cannot show us to prove his statistics and to use it for the purpose of deceiving a Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1115.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1115.9", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "from a newspaper which he cannot show us to prove his statistics and to use it for the purpose of deceiving a Member—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—who has waited for over half an hour for an answer? The right hon. Gentleman could have told me that when I came into the House today. Does he agree that the figures are available, that the source is in his control in the House, and that the figures show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1115.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1115.10", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "eman could have told me that when I came into the House today. Does he agree that the figures are available, that the source is in his control in the House, and that the figures show—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—that fish, meat and butter are all selling at 8s. a pound? Does he believe that the old folk can become very festive when they have to pay those prices for their food at the festive season—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1115.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1133.5", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It has been set up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "on on that? After all, many of the firms in the development areas in the Northern Region which provide employment are small firms, sometimes employing fewer than 200 people. These small firms have been going through a very difficult period. The Bolton Report suggested that a special section should be set up in the Minister's Department. Will it be effective, and which Minister will be responsible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1133.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "he difference between the two sides. I come to a number of other important matters which should be borne in mind. One is a problem from which all industrial areas suffer, and that is the industrial pollution of rivers. Here again the Conservative Government, my Department, have decided that in this period of substantial unemployment it is right massively to increase investment in these localities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "f rivers. Here again the Conservative Government, my Department, have decided that in this period of substantial unemployment it is right massively to increase investment in these localities. [ interruption. ] I heard an hon. Gentleman opposite say that it has taken a hell of a long time. It has taken us a lot less time to do something whereas the Labour Government sat for six years doing nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "areas that may well have greater dereliction and bigger problems than the development areas have. I hope that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry will try to clarify the position that I have outlined and tell us whether my interpretation of the Clause is right. I have a further suggestion as to how we might get rid of the redundant, dark, satanic mills in our region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1180.3", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "tiveness of some of this expenditure. The Government were very critical of their predecessors' waste and criticised the high cost of creating a new job. Perhaps in some cases they were right. Some of the projects which were announced in a recent package by the Chancellor were magnificently described by the Economist last week as \"boondoggles\". Whatever that means, it signifies my attitude to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1187.3", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "icies that are framed with an eye on Europe. I fear that this House does not know enough about unemployment in the regions to be able to read the figures correctly. One hears all sorts of stories. On the train going home last week I heard of five men who had applied for one job in Newcastle. All refused the job at £21 a week and said in effect \"The job is worth having for another £10 on the side\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "West Regional Economic Development Council is situated in Bristol. Bristol is further from where the real problems are in the South-West than it is from Dover. Penzance, which I represent and where my centre is, is further from Bristol than Dover is. However, the development council is situated at Bristol and it has not been the slightest good to us because it is a powerless creature of Whitehall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I agree with my Government that there will be a major break-through not only in Britain but also, once we take the plunge and enter, in Europe. I should like to deal with some of the short-term policies which could help deal with the rising unemployment. First, I congratulate the Secretary of State for the Environment, who is a very quick-acting Minister with an open mind. He never misses a trick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "The policy of the Labour Party, supported by the Liberal Party, created unemployment when they were first in power in 1931. In a part of my then constituency of Wallsend 84 per cent. of the employable population were unemployed. I have spent nearly all my political life trying to remedy matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The same old stuff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "es, the rate of growth in the less favoured areas in both manufacturing and service industries will be even greater. We all know how that 1971 message has turned out. There is record unemployment, the development areas are even worse off and the Prime Minister is begging industrialists to invest. So we look forward with great interest to what the Secretary of State will put in the Journal in 1972.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Anthony Grant)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Anthony Grant)", "preceding_text": " that hon. Members on both sides of the House were by no means agreed as to the right solution. But it would be wrong if we did not acknowledge that there were no differences between the two sides on the fundamental point that unemployment at the present rate, and especially on the scale suffered in the development areas, is intolerable both in human and in economic terms and causes deep distress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Anthony Grant)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Anthony Grant)", "preceding_text": "nflation and industrial disruption, and years of uncertainty about whether the country would become a member of the E.E.C. This lack of business confidence has led to low investment, stock rundown, unwillingness to expand output and, above all, the unemployment we have been debating today. But for the development areas these national problems made a situation which was already bad that much worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Again?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "I will always accept an invitation to go down to see my hon. Friend, but he must face the fact that there has been a massive advance in road programmes under the present Government, particularly in his area. The right hon. Member for Sunderland, North—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had not been so impatient I should have given him the answer by now. As to the further study about which he asks, I refer hon. Members to the words of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in opening the debate on the Address. My right hon. Friend said: The regional measures that we are using today are not a complete answer\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1252.0", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I have dealt with his point about the study.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1252.0", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREAS (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unemployment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I have dealt with his point about the study. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Gentlemen opposite seem to be obsessed with one point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-07", "file": "debates1971-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "a7b5b0da987b049d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1259.4", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS COMMISSION (GUIDANCE MANUAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": " but are concerned, it may be said, merely with limited charitable extras designed to ease the lot of the poor in certain circumstances. If this is the Government's view, then this is precisely the overwhelming argument for publication; namely, that it would indeed effect the transition from paternalism to rights. It would change the rôle of the poor from subservient and grateful claimants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-07a.1259.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-08", "file": "debates1971-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1d8226f0e78d03e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1275.2", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "preceding_text": "As the Cooper Bros. report on Giro points to serious errors and hopelessly optimistic estimates of business, is it not in the public interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-08", "file": "debates1971-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1d8226f0e78d03e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1292.3", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman and the House be careful about this proposition, because we could get into a situation where some hon. Members, endeavouring to make extremely powerful speeches, might find the effect lost because of the time limit? As one who confines himself to about 10 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-08", "file": "debates1971-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1d8226f0e78d03e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1292.3", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman and the House be careful about this proposition, because we could get into a situation where some hon. Members, endeavouring to make extremely powerful speeches, might find the effect lost because of the time limit? As one who confines himself to about 10 minutes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—10 minutes to a quarter of an hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-08", "file": "debates1971-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1d8226f0e78d03e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Can I tell the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-08", "file": "debates1971-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1d8226f0e78d03e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1306.0", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "COTTON TEXTILE IMPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "king it clear that the Labour Party maintains unchanged its attitude to the liberalisation of trade, and particularly to the important principle that the advanced countries must systematically bring down the barriers to the importation of the industrial products of the less developed countries, a principle from which we will never depart, I am bound to welcome the right hon. Gentleman's statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-08", "file": "debates1971-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1d8226f0e78d03e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "words of New Society of 2nd December, to think \"intelligently about priorities\" both as between and within programmes. A great many rather harsh things have been said about my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science, but in the matter of thinking intelligently about priorities she deserves as much praise as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-08", "file": "debates1971-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1d8226f0e78d03e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "alised industries. There is no reason why they should not hive off part of their activities on the lines of the British Railways precedent. British Railways are to hire their stock from a company set up with a consortium of outside backers. I do not see why that should be conceded gilt-edged status for capital borrowing. It would be a useful discipline if they did have some kind of equity capital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-08", "file": "debates1971-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1d8226f0e78d03e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1381.3", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "That is a shrewd observation. Would the Chief Secretary care to comment on what his right hon. Friend says?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-08", "file": "debates1971-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1d8226f0e78d03e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1381.3", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "That is a shrewd observation. Would the Chief Secretary care to comment on what his right hon. Friend says? [ Laughter. ] We are beginning to talk about quite separate sets of figures which seem to have no business in the same table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-08a.1381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1485.5", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I am asking a question, Mr. Speaker. I am making the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1485.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "ndustrial Training Board, the Chairman of the Local Government Industrial Training Board, the Department of Health, and so on. Although they all have great good will for the institute, they have reached the same conclusion as has my right hon. Friend, namely that the duties and achievements of these centres in the past have now been taken over by other institutions. Perhaps I may give the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1496.2", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep it short.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware how much this decision is regretted by those of us, such as my noble Friend Viscountess Davidson and myself, who were in at the beginning of the establishment of this institute?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.4", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "Will not my right hon. Friend remark on the extraordinary contrast between Senator Kennedy's attitude towards public affairs and his attitude towards private affairs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.4", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "Will not my right hon. Friend remark on the extraordinary contrast between Senator Kennedy's attitude towards public affairs and his attitude towards private affairs? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"] Is my right hon. Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.4", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "Will not my right hon. Friend remark on the extraordinary contrast between Senator Kennedy's attitude towards public affairs and his attitude towards private affairs? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"] Is my right hon. Friend aware—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] He has no responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.6", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Hordern) is, of course, responsible for his own supplementary question, but he should be allowed to ask it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.7", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.7", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware—[ Interruption. ]—his words have angered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.7", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware—[ Interruption. ]—his words have angered—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—very many people in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.7", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware—[ Interruption. ]—his words have angered—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—very many people in this country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"]—and have caused a considerable degree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1502.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1503.0", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "His comments have done absolutely no good at all and should be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1503.0", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "His comments have done absolutely no good at all and should be withdrawn. [ Interruption. ] His attitude is to be universally regretted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1623.1", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "things had been spent on other things. But, if one could chase money round and see exactly where it finished up, one would know more truthfully whether that was so. I am sure that all right hon. and hon. Members read the Business Section of The Times. An article on 26th November bore the heading, The great turnabout on State spending. Not everything that the Jay family does meets with my approval—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1623.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": ". Not everything that the Jay family does meets with my approval—[ Laughter ]— but one must acknowledge the great skill of Peter Jay. In that article, he wrote: Mr. Barber has now restored the whole of the cuts in public expenditure which he announced with so much political trumpetry a year ago. This is the most simple and dramatic message to emerge from yesterday's Public Expenditure White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "s in other expenditure, or at any rate by doing so only to a very small extent indeed. After all, these were to have been net cuts in public expenditure. We have been reminded in the debate that the Government have reduced taxation by £1,400 million in a full year. This has been put to us like some sort of Tory magic—like a master stroke by Ali Baba. It was, in fact, done out of their inheritance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-09", "file": "debates1971-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ef13f4a1a1529dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I am in a much better position to say what another Labour Government would have done than is the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-09a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-10", "file": "debates1971-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "7c765cc32e3c34b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-10a.1726.1", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "PUBLIC OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Holy. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is anticipating some of my later remarks. We will need to be much bolder because we will be faced immediately, on taking office, as we were in 1964 and 1945, with a so-called crisis of confidence, with a flight of capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-10a.1726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-10", "file": "debates1971-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "7c765cc32e3c34b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-10a.1726.1", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "PUBLIC OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The building societies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " there is a Labour Government out goes the capital. The patriots do not want a Labour Government to make the country successful. Next time we will deal with the situation, and if we are to do this we will need to control the financial and economic levers of the country. That means we will have to control the City, bring under public ownership the banks, the insurance companies, the finance houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-10a.1726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-10", "file": "debates1971-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "7c765cc32e3c34b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-10a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "PUBLIC OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ty created such problems for the Labour Government that there was a financial crisis nearly every other week. I hope that we have learned a lesson from what happened then. At one stage things were so bad that even the suggestion that the Prime Minister was going to be ill, or that he was to leave the country, or that he might retire from the House of Commons for a week was interpreted by the City—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-10a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-10", "file": "debates1971-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "7c765cc32e3c34b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-10a.1782.2", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-10a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (SENATOR BARNHILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that since the statement and suggestions made by the Leader of the Opposition there has, in fact, been an increase in the amount of violence in Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "INDIA AND PAKISTAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "In the Security Council will my right hon. Friend be on the side of the Americans in urging a withdrawal of forces and a cease-fire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": " for their 12-mile limit, and I have no doubt that the French Government in 1982 will be no more anxious to have Breton fishermen marching on Paris than we shall be to have our fishermen marching on London. We have obtained the status quo for 10 years with a fair and open review at the end. With regard to Norway, I would have hoped that they would have found these arrangements broadly satisfactory", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that rather than attracting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for what he said in the first part of his question. I can assure him that this is not a suspended sentence, and we shall be able adequately to safeguard our vital fishing interests in the future as we have safeguarded them now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "In the Minister's original—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.57.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Peter Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Peter Walker)", "preceding_text": "re a fairer presentation of the work of a particular Department. By the same token it has been the normal practice for Ministers to instruct their officials to provide the necessary material for arranged Questions. When my Department was first order for Questions on 10th March and again on 31st March there was what I can only call a concerted campaign by the Opposition to pre-empt the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Peter Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Peter Walker)", "preceding_text": "irected towards housing in London, perhaps with the impending London borough elections in mind. Opposition Questions on housing and construction which received an Oral Answer then outnumbered orally-answered Questions from the Government side of the House by 15 to 5. In response to this hon. Members on this side of the House expressed to Ministers their wish to see that this campaign was answered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Peter Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Peter Walker)", "preceding_text": "wered Questions from the Government side of the House by 15 to 5. In response to this hon. Members on this side of the House expressed to Ministers their wish to see that this campaign was answered—[ Interruption. ]—and asked for suggestions as to Questions they might table which would help to redress the balance and present the Government's activities in housing more fairly. My right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members really must allow the Secretary of State to make his statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.69.2", "colnum": "69", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It certainly was not the case that civil servants were used regularly to forestall opposition Questions. They were used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.69.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It certainly was not the case that civil servants were used regularly to forestall opposition Questions. They were used—[ Interruption. ] They were used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.69.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "As to investigations into the practices of this House, in the matters of inspired Questions and placing Questions, it is up to the House to decide whether it wants further inquiries. I am satisfied that in this instance we maintained the normal principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "aborate the case but the essence of privilege is that there should be no interference with or impediment placed on hon. Members of this House in carrying out the parliamentary responsibilities. I submit that we have a situation here in which a Minister, together with his civil servants, has entered into a conspiracy to impede hon. Members of the Opposition from carrying out their responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-13", "file": "debates1971-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "5433a234f8bda2ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT MEDICAL ADVISORY SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "preceding_text": " spent. He suggests that fees for medical examinations will not be very great. I know that many people in the board rooms, particularly of the smaller companies, are frightened by what they regard as any additional tax on jobs such as we have had through the levies from the industrial training boards and S.E.T. I should not like to see anything happening to discourage industry from providing jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-13a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": ", which were very substantial reflationary measures. None the less, is it not now time, perhaps, either now or early in the New Year, to consider additional measures that could be taken, bearing in mind the basic underlying situation of the economy, with a margin of spare capacity that has never before existed, with a labour margin which is at its highest, with stock output ratios at their lowest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": " mind the basic underlying situation of the economy, with a margin of spare capacity that has never before existed, with a labour margin which is at its highest, with stock output ratios at their lowest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—in comparison with this particular stage in the cycle, and on the balance of payments front an enormous surplus, and the promise of trade continuing to be very favourable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.235.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.235.6", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "May I finish by asking whether my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.235.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Are British and American national unemployment problems on the agenda in Washington?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is looking it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wishes to have an answer, I will give him one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.257.7", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that this has been welcomed widely as a constructive new idea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.257.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "POST-WAR CREDITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Whilst obviously everyone will welcome this announcement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, despite the gloss that he has put on it in his statement, this is a deeply disappointing document, on which we shall want an early debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.273.3", "colnum": "273", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "There is an element of irregularity in the whole of these proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.304.4", "colnum": "304", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "Perhaps a Government led by my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton). I believe these to be groundless fears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.304.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "preceding_text": "n's personal wealth, which is a private matter, and the other is the amount which is used directly for the maintenance of her duties as Head of State. This was made quite plain in the evidence. If the hereditary dues were set aside and used for the maintenance of the Monarchy, there would be considerable difficulties. One is that the Monarch could be put in the position of being a direct landlord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "preceding_text": "I have no knowledge whatever of these details. In my view the private life, private fortune and private possessions of the Crown have nothing to do with this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ve gone in the last 10 years. The evidence to the Committee was, therefore, overwhelming—overwhelming in the sense that this is a relevant factor. I welcome it, as I welcomed my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Stechford pressing the point that it was ridiculous to have a situation in which all that Lord Cobbold could do was to guess and say that £50 million was not an extravagant sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "o have allowed the Committee to have the information it felt it required. It was a great mistake to force the Committee to divide on party lines so that only the Conservative side wanted to deny the information or to support the Crown in denying it, while the Labour side had to insist that the information should be given. For this reason I say that we shall be voting tonight largely on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "r irrelevancy of the private fortune exists irrespective of what the tax arrangements may be. The right hon. Gentleman can if he wishes attack the tax arrangements as a separate issue. Historically it has been thought that, as taxes are raised in the name and, indeed, on the express recommendation of the Crown, there would be an element of the ludicrous in imposing them on the wearer of the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "tax arrangements as a separate issue. Historically it has been thought that, as taxes are raised in the name and, indeed, on the express recommendation of the Crown, there would be an element of the ludicrous in imposing them on the wearer of the Crown. [ Interruption .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite may not like it, but it is an argument which our predecessors in this House have accepted for 200 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "could not reach all-party agreement, and we shall have a Division tonight. But the right hon. Member for Sowerby has drawn the sting out of this Division, and that has been not the least of his contributions to the political life of the country. I turn to the very different contribution made by the right hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman) on one of his bi-monthly visits to this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.328.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.328.5", "colnum": "328", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "An Hon Member", "cue_text": "Rome.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "Get back to Strasbourg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.329.3", "colnum": "329", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I do not know why that is so, but it is a particularly unsuitable attitude to adopt, in view, if I may presume to say so, of the unselfishness and the devotion to duty and dedication of Her Majesty in the discharge of her duties. That is all I propose to say about the hon. Member for Fife, West. I might say de minimis non curat lex .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.329.3", "colnum": "329", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Willie?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I do not know why that is so, but it is a particularly unsuitable attitude to adopt, in view, if I may presume to say so, of the unselfishness and the devotion to duty and dedication of Her Majesty in the discharge of her duties. That is all I propose to say about the hon. Member for Fife, West. I might say de minimis non curat lex . [HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate.\"] \"We all know Willie's views.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.329.3", "colnum": "329", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": " the social fabric. So it is no exaggeration to say that liberty under law, which is the most precious fruit of government by discussion, while it is owed partly to the character of the people and partly to the traditions of Parliament, is owed also very largely to the Crown, to the existence of constitutional Monarchy. That should never be far from our minds when we are considering this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "No, I am in the middle of my discourse. The Queen Mother had 211 official engagements in 1970, including 25 luncheons, 47 what are called \"audiences\"—I do not know what they are—seven dinners and six films or concerts. Assuming that she does the same number in 1972, that is an average of £450 per engagement. Georgie Best would do it for less than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.348.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I draw your attention, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to page 415 of Erskine May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.349.4", "colnum": "349", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "f we are paying individuals these salaries—this is what they are—they must accept criticism from us as guardians of the taxpayers' money. The hon. Gentleman made snide remarks about Members' salaries. We will have to defend those in our constituencies and in this House, and if our constituents do not like it, they will kick us out. But that does not apply to these people whom we are talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.349.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.349.4", "colnum": "349", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ack, along with the revenues from it, at the beginning of the reign, but this is simply a nonsense designed for the apologists of the Monarchy. They have always produced this argument, but it does not stand up. Many facts and figures have been bandied about, but the debate does not revolve around facts and figures. Some hon. Members have said that the Monarchy should be above party, but it is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.349.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.349.4", "colnum": "349", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " party, but it is not. [ Interruption .] I mentioned in evidence an incident shortly after the 1970 General Election. The present Prime Minister went to Chequers and arranged for President Nixon to visit him there. He also arranged for the Queen to be there at the same time. They had a photograph taken outside Chequers, and a week or two later that photograph appeared in an official Tory magazine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.349.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": " Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton) was entirely predictable and if there was anything calculated to convert one into a monarchist, it was his remarks. I do not believe that the hon. Gentleman represents anyone but himself on this subject or that the majority of people in even his own constituency share his views, because he was clearly calling for a complete demolition of the Monarchy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.352.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.354.2", "colnum": "354", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give away?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "which may not always be reflected on the Floor of the House. I believe that most people are in favour of the Monarchy and of providing the money that it requires to do its job. The question is whether the Monarchy is expensive. I do not believe that it is. I believe that it is cheap at the price. Earlier today the Chancellor announced that he is to give away about £130 million in post-war credits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": " detailed scrutiny had been made 100 years or so ago, there would have been something of a bedchamber crisis. There certainly would have been if some hon. Members opposite had been in the Government. I appeal to those moderate hon. Members opposite who must still have a spark of chivalry in their hearts that will, I hope, prevent them from prying too deeply into the control of the Royal Household.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-14", "file": "debates1971-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f82417fd0eb0aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.390.5", "colnum": "390", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "It is no disrespect to our Government organisation and the Civil Service to say that it has some inbuilt tendency to expansion. I feel certain that before long a Department of the Crown would be a large organisation. Secondly, I believe that if a Department of the Crown were set up, much of the valuable personal and family nature of the Monarchy would be lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-14a.390.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "It is one of the interesting problems that face the present Administration that we have to have a constructive land policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "It is one of the interesting problems that face the present Administration that we have to have a constructive land policy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"]—whereas the Labour Party when in power was unable even to create demand for new houses. We are tackling this problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.445.5", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "On the second point, the British Waterways Board gave evidence to the C.A.W.C. It was fully informed the whole way through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.445.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Planted Questions.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.460.6", "colnum": "460", "heading": "COMPANIES ACT, 1967 (SECTION 109)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": "the Department who misunderstood the instructions given to her. Appropriate action has been taken both in respect of the officer concerned and to prevent any similar mistake being made again. As regards the document, the managing director of the company acknowledges having received it and says that he sent it to his legal adviser who has, however, informed the Department that it did not reach him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.460.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "tting contrary and more compelling evidence, and the House should have time to consider it. Perhaps the most interesting evidence the House should have time to consider and discuss before this vital decision is taken is that submitted by Mr. Maxwell Stamp in his publication the Moorgate and Wall street Review , a highly esteemed magazine. I have not the faintest idea what Mr. Stamp's politics are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Taylor", "preceding_text": "ld propose to his colleagues in the Cabinet that perhaps the time is now appropriate for a visit to the Upper Clyde yard by a senior Cabinet Minister, perhaps the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry or one of his colleagues. At the time of crisis a visit would not have been appropriate because feelings were strong and it was clear that such a visit might not necessarily achieve a great deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.575.4", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AEROSPACE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. S. Bishop", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. S. Bishop", "preceding_text": "ens of Questions of a helpful and, I think, friendly nature in order to give the Minister a chance to explain and enlighten the House about what he thinks of this vital industry. In some instances we have been brushed aside with a kind of contemptable brevity amounting almost to a breach of Privilege. Tonight we have the chance—and there are many hours before us—to consider this subject in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.575.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AEROSPACE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the very survival of Hawker-Siddeley is at stake?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.673.2", "colnum": "673", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (FISHERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. H. K. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. H. K. Baker", "preceding_text": "ve given precious little and have retained an awful lot in the interests of British fishermen. When one is applying to join a club, one does not normally anticipate altering the rules to suit oneself before actually becoming a member. One waits to become a member before trying to influence them. But the Government have obtained, in real terms, at least 98 per cent. of what I would have asked for.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (FISHERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "t have before this country signs the Treaty of Accession. I stress this because I suspect that the importance of fisheries has not really been accepted by the Government. I am talking about entry into the Common Market and the relative importance of fisheries in the eyes of this Government. This is an important matter for the economy as a whole and, of course, for the communities around the coast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (FISHERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "grees to the contrary, to the existing basic regulation; or whether it is as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster sought to make it in the quotation which I read at the beginning of my speech from his statement in November, namely, that there would be a continuing arrangement by this country subject to review. This is the heart of the matter—the question of which way the veto is to be applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-15", "file": "debates1971-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "20dc970181bf6b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (FISHERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "y would continue to safeguard fisheries as a vital national interest. I went on to say to my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeenshire, East that the arrangements we had negotiated was not a suspended sentence and that we should …be able adequately to safeguard our vital fishing interests in the future as we have safeguarded them now.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 13th December, 1971; Vol. 828, c. 57.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-15a.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-16", "file": "debates1971-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "465b366e25ec33d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "I find that, coming from the hon. Gentleman, difficult to take. Would lie suggest that I put back the regulations to where they were when the Labour Government left office? If so, the students would have nothing like the rights which they now have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-16", "file": "debates1971-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "465b366e25ec33d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John E. B. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John E. B. Hill", "preceding_text": "s desirable that as a result of these discussions student unions should be accountable for such public money as they may receive and that the constitutions of student unions should have within them adequate minimum safeguards to ensure that they are operated in the interests of the majority of students and cannot be abused by militant minorities through defects in procedure? Is it not to be hoped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-16", "file": "debates1971-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "465b366e25ec33d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.846.4", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION CONGRESS (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no need for the right hon. Gentleman to distort what his right hon. Friend said in an attempt to justify it. There is no justification for what the right hon. Lady said.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.846.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-16", "file": "debates1971-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "465b366e25ec33d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION CONGRESS (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Yes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-16", "file": "debates1971-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "465b366e25ec33d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION CONGRESS (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Yes—[ Laughter. ]—Yes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-16", "file": "debates1971-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "465b366e25ec33d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.847.3", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION CONGRESS (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman could refrain from twice reaffirming that his leader has no policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.847.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-16", "file": "debates1971-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "465b366e25ec33d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (ANNUAL REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "preceding_text": "I am sure hon. Members on both sides of the House will be very glad indeed to hear that an- nouncement. The right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister a few moments ago accused my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition of having no policies, but the Secretary of State for Social Services will know that we have been advocating this policy repeatedly for the whole of the past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-16", "file": "debates1971-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "465b366e25ec33d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (ANNUAL REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Marginal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "o advocated this proposal during the last six years of the Labour Government, that this is a very welcome statement? I am sure that the whole House and the country will endorse that. Nevertheless, will he return to this question of the immediate position of old-age pensioners? He said that the increase granted during the early part of the autumn led, I think his words were, to a small improvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.858.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-16", "file": "debates1971-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "465b366e25ec33d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.858.4", "colnum": "858", "heading": "PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (ANNUAL REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he said at the beginning. He should accept as a fact that, despite the rise in prices, pensioners now have more buying power than at any previous Christmas, and pensioners over 80 have considerably more buying power in proportion than ever before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.858.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-16", "file": "debates1971-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "465b366e25ec33d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "my as a whole and the demand for steel. All those factors together have produced a serious situation for the industry but could have produced a catastrophic situation in the country as a whole if the steel industry were now in private hands. But for the fact that we have had a publicly-owned industry fighting to protect is rights and directly contesting the \"lame duck\" logic of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-16", "file": "debates1971-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "465b366e25ec33d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "ted a lot of promises and false horizons with this industry. They have a right to ask the management to get the situation right, and if it cannot, to say that it should make way for someone else. This is fundamental. We must be clear about the objectives and if they are not met we must replace top management or once again we shall see a nationalised industry travelling down that well-trodden path—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-16", "file": "debates1971-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "465b366e25ec33d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " take it one stage further, to another area where a good deal of interest has been expressed about the corporation's plans. I refer to the River Don works. The plans for the open dye forge and the 200-ton casting foundry are very ambitious. Some might say that in the context of world supply and demand it might be a little hard to make a case. I do not know: I am not here to answer my own question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-16a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-17", "file": "debates1971-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fd0eedc0111a110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-17a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRPORTS AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kerr", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful for the correction. I was misinformed, in all good faith, by a friend, and I trust that my apology will be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-17a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-17", "file": "debates1971-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fd0eedc0111a110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-17a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRPORTS AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": " my opinion, to develop a helicopter service from Salmesbury in North-East Lancashire to Ringway airport. I interrupt myself Jo say how pleased I am that the hon. Member for Clitheroe (Mr. David Walder), the Minister's Parliamentary Private Secretary, is here listening to my observations because I am hoping that from his privileged position he will help me by putting pressure on the right quarters", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-17a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1101.0", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman may know at once that my influence will be in the opposite direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1101.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman may know at once that my influence will be in the opposite direction. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, it will. Is he aware that what the Government have done is an affront to natural justice? Will he answer my question? Is he prepared to see these councillors go to gaol rather than deny our children free milk?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1101.2", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am doubly surprised at the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1108.3", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE (APPOINTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "Is not the Attorney-General aware that even the present proposals are politically weighted against the Labour Party and in favour of the Conservative associations?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1108.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "GROUP OF TEN (MONETARY AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ure living standard of this country than any Budget Statement is likely to be? Is the hon. Gentleman aware that whatever value is fixed, even if it is right today, it cannot be right tomorrow or the day after? Is the hon. Gentleman further aware that the decision to fix parity—any parity—is an act of economic madness and wilful sabotage of the future living standards of the people of this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1149.2", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend knows that I have the warmest personal regard for him. He is one of the people for whom I have the closest affection in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend quote any other occupation in which these two things arise: first, that a chap gets three months' redundancy payments in a job that he knows is subject to such risks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1153.4", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman is speaking for himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ns. As my right hon. Friend the Lord President has referred to what is necessary in the eyes of constituents for the performance of the job, may I say that I think that there are grossly exaggerated ideas abroad about the volume of work, particularly of clerical work, which is necessary for most hon. Members to do everything which could possibly be required of them on behalf of their constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1153.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1156.5", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "dently aspired to be a Member of this House has been unable to achieve that ambition. I do not believe that the innovation of 1911, or those which have followed, substantially altered the opportunity for those who desired more than anything else to be Members of this House, or that this House is more truly representative of the people of this country now than it was 100 years ago or 200 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1156.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1156.9", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Would the \"rotten\" Member not make me happier by finding it possible to disagree with me when I look at paragraph 42( b ) of the Boyle Report under which I, as Opposition spokesman on the Arts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1156.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "and for the concern he expressed. I can set the House at rest at once. A salary is not something that I seek for my job, although I shall have a mention or two to make about a third party in a few minutes. The hon. Member for Withington is held in very great affection in all quarters of the House. The House is extremely wise in its choice of him as the Chairman of the Trustees of our Pension Fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "I do not know for certain that he has. Certain privileges go with the holding of office, both at the time and after leaving it, and I ask the Government, when they introduce legislation to impose a means test on council house tenants, to realise that the biggest council house tenants are Ministers. They have some marvellous flats and houses which, I am told, are worth about £5,000 a year tax-free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-20", "file": "debates1971-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de35cc5371e62ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": " explaining about the orders. I assure Friends the Members for Croydon, South (Sir R. Thompson) and Harrow, West that motoring offences are not part of what we have to bother about tonight. No extension of immunity in respect of those is envisaged. As my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, West noted, this matter is struck out of the order where it could have arisen. The others are unexceptionable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-20a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-21", "file": "debates1971-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "bfc70b726ea67f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1294.5", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "It was on that date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1294.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-21", "file": "debates1971-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "bfc70b726ea67f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1303.2", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH-WEST REGION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend convey to the Prime Minister the appreciation that is felt in North-East Lancashire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-21", "file": "debates1971-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "bfc70b726ea67f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1305.4", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (CORRESPONDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is always happy to receive positive suggestions as to how to improve the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-21", "file": "debates1971-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "bfc70b726ea67f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1306.4", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (CORRESPONDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "The Government are responsible for all aspects of economic policy. But we inherited a situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1306.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-21", "file": "debates1971-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "bfc70b726ea67f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I confirm to the right hon. Gentleman that the present plans are that the Treaty of Accession will be signed on 22nd January. Those are the present plans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-21", "file": "debates1971-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "bfc70b726ea67f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1328.3", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "preceding_text": " Member for Fife, West. We were investigating the situation, as it was our duty to do. I was a little surprised, though I may have been quite wrong to have been, by what the right hon. Gentleman said just now. But in any case he can make his position clear when it comes to a Division, if there is one, at the end of this debate. If I may return to my theme, the right hon. Gentleman was kind enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1328.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-21", "file": "debates1971-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "bfc70b726ea67f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "preceding_text": "ose to vote against the Bill on Second Reading. But I imagine there still remains the hard core of 27 hon. Members and at least one right hon. Member who voted against the Resolution last week and who presumably today will once again vote against the Bill. It is to the attitude of these hardliners—none of whom, incidentally, voted against their own pay rise yesterday—that I want to address myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-21", "file": "debates1971-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "bfc70b726ea67f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "preceding_text": "ut I imagine there still remains the hard core of 27 hon. Members and at least one right hon. Member who voted against the Resolution last week and who presumably today will once again vote against the Bill. It is to the attitude of these hardliners—none of whom, incidentally, voted against their own pay rise yesterday—that I want to address myself. [ Interruption. ] There is certainly a parallel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-21", "file": "debates1971-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "bfc70b726ea67f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. However, that does not affect the substance of my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-21", "file": "debates1971-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "bfc70b726ea67f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1428.0", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "ISLAND OF ROCKALL BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "tainly no justification for the phrase \"known as\" to be applied to Scotland—unless it is thought it is better known by such names as Caledonia, Scotia, Strathclyde, Pictland, Alba, or Dalrada. Surely nobody in these modern times would apply such names to Scotland. The land has been known as Scotland for over a thousand years. The \"known as Scotland\" nonsense starts with the present administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1971-12-21", "file": "debates1971-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "bfc70b726ea67f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "ISLAND OF ROCKALL BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ne by a Scots draftsman. The Government probably dug up someone who has been waiting in the Treasury or maybe the Foreign Office, some relic of colonial days, who was dying to use the phrase. 9.45 p.m. I know the difficulties, because we have annexed many places over the years since 1707, but we have never annexed anything to Scotland or, I doubt, to England or anywhere else in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1971-12-21a.1429.1"}