{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.20.10", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "But will the hon. Gentleman recognise that this is an extremely serious affair, and that no previous incident has ever brought such bitterness as that which arose on the occasion to which the Question refers? It was an orderly meeting, a proper and normal protest meeting, which was exacerbated by the vicious business of letting loose dogs on protesting working men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.20.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "On the latter point, I must add that Mr. Chapman Pincher knows more about them than I do, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "RHODESIA (PEARCE COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Get to the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Commission so far to stand up to the pressures put upon it by the Smith regime? I refer particularly to its refusal to meet the Rev. Sithole and the withdrawal of the written forms on which the Africans might express their views only two days after circulating 6,000 such forms? Could he say why these forms were withdrawn after a meeting between Mr. Smith and two members of the Commission? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "RHODESIA (PEARCE COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "a substitute person to take the place of somebody who has resigned since, on precedent, it has never been thought inadvisable before? If the right hon. Gentleman is not prepared to replace Sir Frederick and if, as he has asserted, it is a British interest, does he not agree it is somewhat disquieting that a distinguished lawyer like Sir Dingle Foot has been banned entry into Rhodesia by Mr. Smith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.36.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.39.7", "colnum": "39", "heading": "RHODESIA (PEARCE COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "It has not been raised unless the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey), to whom I shall be talking later this afternoon, raises it with me. I think that if there is to be any official delegation to Rhodesia it would be much better on an all-party basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.39.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must not seek to present the facts other than as they were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.73.3", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "No. The N.F.U. says: \"It can be envisaged\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.73.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is a long time ago.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " men who served on those committees worked well together. We also had committees at a district level. Why are they to be scrapped? Is it for doctrinal reasons; to save money; because they have failed? Is it that the industry has not responded? I never felt that, even when sometimes the county committees were critical of the policy for which I had a responsibility. I always found from 1964 to 1968—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "preceding_text": "ive them better conditions, but they do not have the cash to do so. Some of the conditions of farmworkers are deplorable. The miners who are on strike have turned down a 12 per cent. increase and are demanding an extra 15 per cent. to 20 per cent. In 1970–71 miners earned on average £27·5 a week. When they come out of the pits they receive free hot pit-head baths and other amenities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "t think of all the hours spent on it by officials labouring over its provisions. My hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Alfred Morris) said that there would be a long Committee stage. I am sorry that I shall have to deprive myself of the opportunity to serve on the Standing Committee. I am already serving on the Committee which is considering an important Scottish housing Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "er centralisation, further transport charges, about which the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Kinsey) was so worried. This is one of the most ill-considered and reactionary decisions ever made. Why was it done? It was not asked for by the trade, the local authorities or the farmers. It is pure Tory dogma. It has no other justification. At a time when we should he raising our standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs and Agriculture, Scottish Office (Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs and Agriculture, Scottish Office (Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith)", "preceding_text": "ensing should be approached with care. I agree, and this has been done in past schemes. Some hon. Members asked why there are differences in treatment between bulls and boars. The changes which we are proposing are being introduced after full consultation with the industry, for which this is a matter of some concern. The difference in treatment shows that we have not acted in a doctrinaire spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-17", "file": "debates1972-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "805bae92095e4a45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "ntends to adopt a constructive approach to this subject—I am sure that we can go into the matter in depth in Committee. The right hon. Member for Workington made a number of points about slaughterhouses and his remarks were echoed by many of his hon. Friends. To some extent he revealed a misunderstanding that exists over this issue and the reason why the Government have introduced these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-17a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.190.5", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that these figures represent a total disgrace to the Government, and to his Department in particular? Is he further aware that the 46 Derbyshire miners' wives who have been to Downing Street and Hobart House today, some of whom are in the Gallery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.190.5", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that these figures represent a total disgrace to the Government, and to his Department in particular? Is he further aware that the 46 Derbyshire miners' wives who have been to Downing Street and Hobart House today, some of whom are in the Gallery—[ Interruption ]—could use, and have used, more colourful language than that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.208.5", "colnum": "208", "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 commend to the hon. Gentleman, to his right hon. Friend, the Leader of the Opposition and to their colleagues the words of Mr. Herbert Morrison, as he then was, on 10th March, 1949.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": "r own shores and the outlook for these secure sources of highly competitive fuel is suddenly looking rather bright. Gas, too, has been found in substantial quantities and coal-gas is becoming rapidly a thing of the past. Nuclear power, after the inevitable uncertainties of the early days of a revolutionary new process, will now be settling down to sustained and ever more economic power generation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " miners. I am simply seeking to establish the realities facing the industry. As for access to oil supplies, the hon. Gentleman will, bearing in mind the area from which he comes, not have failed to note the intention expressed by the B.P. Company not long ago relating to a very large resource of oil in the North Sea. That will be exploited as from now on at a high cost, and this will be available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "stituted a ballot of its members with a view to calling a national strike. That ballot commenced a month later, and on 2nd December the result was announced which gave the executive discretion to call a national strike by a vote of 58·8 per cent. in favour, a proportion which, in parenthesis, I should point out would not have been sufficient before July of last year to give such discretion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "idays, and including a special productivity arrangement. It should be noted that the last offer was never the subject of a ballot, and it is at least open to question whether, with the narrow majority giving the executive discretion to call a strike at the lower level, there would still have been the requisite majority not merely to give discretion but actually to implement a strike at the higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "as dockers. I have seen and heard references in the Press and elsewhere to cases of individuals taking home as little as £13. The Board has circulated to Members information which shows how misleading those reports are. When cases have been investigated it has often been found that deductions for rent and National Savings were comprised within the figures to arrive at the figure for take-home pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am not able to deny it, but that is because I do not have those facts before me. I will readily and willingly look into that question. The Board has worked out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " I have mentioned about the offer and the level of pay in the industry, such a step would have been manifestly irresponsible. The final offer compares favourably with many recent settlements in both public and private sectors, and to subsidise an increase in it would be flying in the face of all the efforts that the Government are making to contain inflation and reduce the damaging rise in prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "s to be a long-life area. Yet 11 years ago there were some 22 more pits in existence than is the case today. What this Government and the Coal Board have done is to turn many of those engaged in the industry into industrial gipsies. They are floating about from pit to pit, dependent on the charity of the Coal Board and the Government as to whether they will work in a pit for 12 months or 12 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Wainwright", "preceding_text": "s the industry is profitable in terms of the law of supply and demand, the N.C.B. will not have the money to pay decent wages to miners. Quite a few kind words have been uttered by hon. Gentlemen opposite in this debate. Having expressed sympathy and admiration for the miners, the Secretary of State made a threatening speech in which he as good as told them that there was no hope for the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Robert Carr)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": " things that are controversial, that the offer put forward by the Coal Board would lead to an improvement of the miners' position and not the reverse. Any holder of my office in any government is in a difficult position in participating in a debate about a dispute while that dispute is going on. As Secretary of State for Employment I may well have to be involved in the settlement of that dispute.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] Hon. Gentlemen must be fair. The hon. Member for Chesterfield was not interrupted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.339.6", "colnum": "339", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "made up overwhelmingly by private sector settlements, we could not produce such figures if the de-escalations were taking place only in the public sector. This is the basis of more stable prices, and for everyone, from pensioners right through the working population, it is the most urgent need. It is the basis of the growth and expansion which alone can bring this country to full employment again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.339.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.340.8", "colnum": "340", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Rhondda, East (Mr. G. Elfed Davies) expressed the fear that any relative improvement won by the miners would be overtaken by further settlements. If the Opposition are saying that the miners are to get relatively more do they realise that they are saying that others must get less?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.340.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.340.10", "colnum": "340", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Dearne Valley (Mr. Edwin Wainwright)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.340.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Grant", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The right hon. Gentleman is asking us whether we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Grant", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The right hon. Gentleman is asking us whether we—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] The right hon. Gentleman is asking us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-18", "file": "debates1972-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e13e3784c83f546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL AND OTHER SALARIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "f my Amendment is not accepted, we could have a situation where the present Leader of the Opposition, when he becomes Prime Minister again, is offered £37,500 worth of roubles because he has done a good job in getting peace and understanding with Russia. if that happened, would my right hon. Friend be entitled to receive it? If he did, I can imagine the screams that would come from the Tory Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-18a.369.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.435.6", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Vulgar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that considerable amounts of land are tied up and that until the Post Office gets its fingers out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.435.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.462.7", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "May I pay a sincere tribute to the Leader of the House? I do not object to the fact that it has taken 12 months to get it. I know that the right hon. Gentleman is aware of this problem, because we have seen this pile of papers and tried to carry it and both of us together could not carry it, it is so heavy. Is he aware that some hon. Members, particularly hon. Members of the opposite sex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.462.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.462.7", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman is aware of this problem, because we have seen this pile of papers and tried to carry it and both of us together could not carry it, it is so heavy. Is he aware that some hon. Members, particularly hon. Members of the opposite sex—[ Laughter. ]—opposite to me—want a conveyance to carry them away? How can we collect these papers to take them away? Not all hon. Members have cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.462.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.462.7", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "seen this pile of papers and tried to carry it and both of us together could not carry it, it is so heavy. Is he aware that some hon. Members, particularly hon. Members of the opposite sex—[ Laughter. ]—opposite to me—want a conveyance to carry them away? How can we collect these papers to take them away? Not all hon. Members have cars. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh. This pile is that high—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.462.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am the Vice-President of the Vale of Evesham Asparagus Growers' Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I shall make another statement as early as I can. As I said, Mr. Philip Mansfield, the head of the Rhodesia Political Department, flies out tonight. I cannot very well promise a statement tomorrow, but I will certainly make another statement as soon as I possibly can. As to the names of the Africans arrested, I will ascertain those and convey them to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "onditions in which normal political activities can be carried out. The duty of the Pearce Commission is to take opinion from the great body of Rhodesians, African, Asian and European. I suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that the Pearce Commission has to look beyond and beneath the attitudes of the minorities, of the right and the left, who are both dedicated to trying to destroy this settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I have emphasised time and again how terribly dangerous it is to condone violence in any part of Africa and most of all now in Rhodesia.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " able to operate in conditions which are satisfactory to the Commission. I think that the right hon. Gentleman cannot quite have heard what I said. Of course the function of the Commission is to assess the opinion of all the people in Rhodesia. All that I was saying was that there have been minorities on both sides who have been out to wreck a settlement. This is not the concern of the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "No, I am not saying that. I have not the facts on which to make any such statement. What I am saying is that it is the job of the Pearce Commission to ascertain the opinion of the people of Rhodesia as a whole. When I say that there are some minorities on the right and on the left opposed to the settlement, I know this to be true; I talked to them and I know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "n of the people of Rhodesia as a whole. When I say that there are some minorities on the right and on the left opposed to the settlement, I know this to be true; I talked to them and I know. [ Interruption .] The right hon. Gentleman asks how I know that they are minorities. They were minorities when they were talking to me, because the great mass of people were prepared to consider these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is—and this is not unusual—being less than fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Rhodesia without power inside Rhodesia. History made Rhodesia a legal and moral British responsibility, but as history has turned out we have been denied the physical power to control events on the ground … \".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd October, 1968; Vol. 770, c. 1096.] What I am trying to do is to make the most of the remaining influence that Britain has and keeps, and through that influence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.475.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.476.3", "colnum": "476", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman is twisting it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman referred to the minorities whom he saw, how does he know that some of them were not a majority? How does he know that they were only minorities? Is he suggesting that minorities have no rights to express their opinions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.476.5", "colnum": "476", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I have no reason to think that should Mr. Garfield Todd wish to see the Commission any obstacle would be put in the way. I hope that right hon. and hon. Members opposite will not over-emphasise this business of minorities. I do not know what is a minority and what is not in Rhodesia, any more than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.476.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.534.3", "colnum": "534", "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": " briefed myself, but anyone can look up these facts if he wants to. I want to deal briefly with the position of Prince Philip. Since 1950—and this is in the report, which can be read but does not seem to have been read by hon. Members opposite—he has carried out over 100 major foreign tours, in addition to the tours carried out with the Queen. These are tours which are extremely tiring and taxing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.534.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"SO what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I did not say that. When I am a Minister, I have a Ministerial car, and I do not have it for any other reason. These people should have the equivalent of a Ministerial car lent to them when they are being Royal in public, just as I have a Ministerial car only for my Ministerial work and not for my private life. They have them for their private life as well. There is all the difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-19", "file": "debates1972-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "e25e4963d2fbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "er-Secretary of State for Scotland arrives. He may not arrive at all, in which case I should not like the Lord President to be embarrassed by having to answer specific questions raised by my hon. Friends. When I sit down he might be kind enough to say a few words. I am asking him not for factual answers but simply to make some essential points to back up my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-19a.587.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-20", "file": "debates1972-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0374ac2c0f1454e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-20a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never mind them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "in all sincerity. Is it not the case that successive Speakers have protected the rights of individual Members so as to make sure that all of us who consistently rose from beginning to end to put a business question, possibly about other business, are allowed to do so. As least three hon. Members on this side—that is not very many—are in my position, and perhaps one on the other side of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-20a.672.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-20", "file": "debates1972-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0374ac2c0f1454e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-20a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (TREATY OF ACCESSION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It went out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "nacted nothing and effected nothing. Unfortunately, the impression was given that the vote on 28th October was a decision to enter. It was a patent fallacy, but it had wide currency. Some of the blame for that must attach to those enthusiastic advocates of entry who sought to invest this occasion with a kind of pathetic euphoria. They even got Mr. Macmillan to light a bonfire, but for some reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-20a.748.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-21", "file": "debates1972-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f603d70e7da3e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-21a.857.5", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (FAMILY PLANNING) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "ng up. I am not smearing his motives. What I am saying is that I feel that I have a duty to alert the House to the fact that, in their appraisal of the evidence in deciding what should or should not be in the Bill they must take into account the established fact that there is a campaign which is being conducted by the same movement which has now metamophosised itself as the birth control campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-21a.857.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-21", "file": "debates1972-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f603d70e7da3e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-21a.868.5", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (FAMILY PLANNING) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "age guidance counsellor counsel a husband to have this operation. Suppose that the man is then persuaded that out of kindness to his wife he should have the operation, has it and then his wife is killed in a motor car accident, he remarries and wants children. Should the State set up such organisations which will be responsible for the future ethical lives of the people? I will have no part of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-21a.868.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-21", "file": "debates1972-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f603d70e7da3e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-21a.925.4", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARE OF THE ELDERLY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Miss Harvie Anderson)", "preceding_text": "The Question is that the Bill be now read a Second time. Those of that opinion say \"Aye\", to the contrary \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-21a.925.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-21", "file": "debates1972-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "7f603d70e7da3e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-21a.925.15", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIGARETTES (PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-21a.925.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend accept the congratulations of most of us in the House upon the signature of the Treaty of Accession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soref", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soref", "preceding_text": "e from hon. Members opposite, may I ask whether my right hon. Friend recalls the word of Mr. Nkomo in 1961: I will not rest until the rivers of the Zimbabwe run red with the blood of every white man, woman and child and every African who supports them\"? Also, will he confirm that the Rev. Sithole was found guilty of plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister of Rhodesia and some of his colleagues?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the miners believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.973.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.975.3", "colnum": "975", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kelley", "preceding_text": "The House has been allowed insufficient time to consider a matter of urgent national importance. You, Mr. Speaker, have terminated questions on the coal industry dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " about the denial of normal political activity, and is this not the breaking by Mr. Smith of a promise made personally to the Foreign Secretary? Does the Foreign Secretary recognise that he cannot, like Pontius Pilate, wash his hands of this matter, because the events to which I have referred are a direct result of his personal agreement with Mr. Smith? They constitute a promise made by Mr. Smith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.977.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "rect result of his personal agreement with Mr. Smith? They constitute a promise made by Mr. Smith—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—to the Foreign Secretary and transmitted to this House as the whole basis of this agreement. Has not the Foreign Secretary learned from experience that it is a mistake to allow a dictator to break his promises and to break an agreement even when that agreement was intended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.977.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.979.5", "colnum": "979", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Todd?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Longden", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.979.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.981.7", "colnum": "981", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What did he say?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I think that that is more in the hands of hon. Gentlemen opposite than in mine. I have said that I would ask my hon. Friend to read Lord Pearce's statement, in which he says that he has been in touch, of course, with Mr. Smith on these matters. So have I. The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.981.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, who is usually fair in these matters, is perfectly entitled to his point of view. I am also entitled to mine", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " which are set up in this country to which cases are put by adversaries, be they lawyers and others; and does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the Commission should not be involved in trying to sell the particular subject on which it may have to rule? Will the right hon. Gentleman also take up with Mr. Smith the fact that beyond doubt his broadcast on Friday tried to trick the Rhodesian people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.984.2", "colnum": "984", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ime that under that constitution there can be repression, and the answer to repression will be violence, and there will be an endless vista of bloodshed unless a settlement of this sort is made. I will look into the question of television and radio to which the Leader of the Opposition referred. When the right hon. Gentleman asks me, as he did, in effect, the other day, to withdraw the settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " that the right hon. Gentleman would not wish to misrepresent what I said in that statement. I in fact said that if he could not get satisfaction on the point an which he had insisted—freedom of political activity, a point about which he has made a great thing—then, in those circumstances, he would have to withdraw it. We have said that the last thing we want is for the Commission to be withdrawn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has been working against this settlement from the start.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.986.2", "colnum": "986", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman recall that in his original answer, which was presumably a prepared one, he did not rely on physical inability to control Mr. Smith but said \"I cannot question his right\" to do something? What statutory right does Mr. Smith have?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.986.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.986.5", "colnum": "986", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I do not know why Mr. Smith should have gone to all the trouble of signing the settlement if he did not want it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.986.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "in existing conditions it is not allowing normal political activity. What the House wants and what it has not yet had is an assurance from the Foreign Secretary that he will press Mr. Smith to honour those parts of his agreement which, according to Lord Pearce, he has broken. This is one of the main matters which we shall wish to pursue with the Foreign Secretary when we come to debate the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.994.6", "colnum": "994", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Harrison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I briefly bring to your attention an article in the East Anglian Daily Times , which may represent a breach of privilege of this House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.994.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.997.5", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "its of the Alf Garnetts of his party especially in the A/B category, to say nothing of the sycophants of the Tory Press, by the cheap jibes about lame ducks, the admonitions to their fellow-citizens to stand on their own two feet, has not got the guts to stand on his own two feet, to stand his corner, after more than 19 months, for the consequences of his own policies. In my innocence I asked him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.997.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "at, since last March, unemployment, far from meeting the half-million test which he used to use, has not fallen below three-quarters of a million. Let him tell us tonight when, on his analysis, it will fall even to three-quarters of a million again, let alone 500,000. I shall take the right hon. Gentleman now on a tour through the unemployment figures for the regions. He does not see much of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1006.5", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has entirely misquoted that speech. What happened in the 2½ years following devaluation was that unemployment barely rose by about 25,000, compared with the 300,000 it has risen under the Tory Government. I want to give some more figures to the Prime Minister because I know that he is a willing learner when he has the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1006.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1006.5", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " quick profits, smart profits, slick profits, however earned, were to be the mainspring of the economy. In the right hon. Gentleman's philosophy a quick pound earned by property speculation, land speculation, merger speculation or some swift manoeuvre in the unit trust society counted just as much as a pound earned the hard way by exports, technological innovation or by sheer hard work. Above all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1006.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1006.5", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "today. In August I took up this business and asked for his intervention. The response to me was just the same as the response to Plessey's—the right hon. Gentleman ostentatiously washing his hands. All I got was a passed-on message from the then management. It is bad enough when, this afternoon, we had the Foreign Secretary whose highest ambition seems to be acting as a dragoman for Mr. Ian Smith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1006.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ferred to the Chancellor's misconceived mini-Budget of 1970. The House will recall the Budget of last spring, the euphoria on the benches opposite, the waving of Order Papers. Hon. Members may not recall my comments on that occasion immediately after, but they will get them again now. I said: My first impression is that … this Budget fails to rise to the occasion with which he was presented", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " 19 months of the present Administration. I agree that losses of output through strikes during our period of office were too high, but the man-days lost in 19 months of the right hon. Gentleman's Administration represent more than the total man-days lost under the Labour Government from October, 1964, to June, 1970. The Prime Minister used that as his great stick for beating the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ut it, the Leader of the Opposition has, no policy for dealing with unemployment. I do not know where he has been all these months when my right hon. Friends and I have been setting out what needs to be done. Why has not the right hon. Gentleman heard it? Perhaps we should have put it in French and then he might have got a copy. To put the matter in English—and I intend to conclude on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have made clear, as my right hon. and hon. Friends have made clear, that we accept the full right to work and will frame our policies on that basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that we created the situation for full employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1018.3", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "more on it—they must accept, as I am prepared to accept on behalf of my party, the nationalisation of the investment responsibility, public and private, and the need to take all necessary measures to this end. This must mean non-discrimination between the public sector and the private sector in the provision of public funds for capital investment, with no double standards in Government accounting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1018.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1018.3", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " an I.R.C. for Northern Ireland, they should now set up development authorities for comparable areas in Great Britain—the Clyde, the Tyne, the Tees, the Mersey, Cumberland, Wales, the South-West and all other areas, be they scheduled development areas or not, where employment problems cannot be solved except by combined economic and social development. Ninthly, in every area of heavy unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1018.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1018.3", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "t should require prior notification to the Department concerned, and before action is taken the Department should prescribe a local inquiry, with representatives of the unions and management, under official—or in very special cases Ministerial—chairmanship, together with representatives of the appropriate regional development authority and planning council. Eleventhly a special employment council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1018.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I think that that was covered in my 12 points and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " Incomes. But the points were made adequately by my right hon. Friends earlier. As I have said, I am now in injury time. I do not agree that the Government will not take seriously some of the proposals put forward this afternoon and others that will be put forward from both sides during this very grave debate. I want Conservative hon. Members to know, especially those who will speak in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Leader of the Opposition for the kind words he uttered at the beginning of his speech about me personally. Later he said that he did not wish to impute to me that I desired to see unemployment. I should have thought there was one thing the House could agree on, however great may be the difference between us on economic policy, that no one here wanted to see unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The important factor at present is that all three aspects are existing together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "f slow growth has also had its consequences for unemployment, because looking at the graph of unemployment one can see how, in the cyclical picture, every time there has been slow growth over the past 15 years unemployment has risen from a higher level than the year before. This is not a characteristic of one Government or the other, but a characteristic of both Governments over the past 15 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " action. I come on to another aspect, the increases in public expenditure, amounting to £750 million, which since January, 1971, we have announced to stimulate the economy over the years 1971–72 to 1974–75. They have been designed not to produce overloading later, so that British industry can have confidence in putting in its own private investment to meet the demand which must come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ivity has also been slowed down. This had the effect of cushioning unemployment to a certain extent. In the last year productivity rose by the exceptionally large amount of 5½ per cent., with the result that employment in manufacturing fell by an unprecedented 4½ per cent. In other words, slightly more was produced using only 19 workers for every 20 who had previously been employed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ould not set aside adequate sums for investment. That, too, is well known, and must be well known to the right hon. Gentleman who is to wind up the debate for the Opposition. Between 1964 and 1970, company trading profits as a proportion of total incomes fell by a very large amount indeed, and companies throughout the country, big and small alike, did not have the wherewithal to invest. Therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And by you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "epend upon restraint in the growth of incomes.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th April, 1969; Vol. 781, c. 1003–4.] The right hon. Gentleman and his Government tried guidelines, they tried the Declaration of Intent, they had a voluntary policy and they had a compulsory policy. I recognise full well that they were challenged, criticised and opposed by hon. Members below the Gangway in their own party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1035.3", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the miners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have no objection to higher wages with increased productivity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This is a comparison with last year, over the same period, and represents an increase of about half of what it was before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " comparison with last year, over the same period, and represents an increase of about half of what it was before. [ Interruption .] I am sorry that hon. Gentlemen opposite, including the Leader of the Opposition, do not welcome it. For the country as a whole it is good news. We have succeeded in bringing this about without using the machinery of statutory controls which the Labour Government used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " below the Gangway rightly said at the time. However, we have been violently and constantly opposed by the Labour Party. This has been brilliantly shown by the fact that at the same time as hon. Gentlemen opposite have been complaining that prices should be more stable, they have been urging increases in wages, including even greater wages than the National Coal Board has been offering the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y domestic demand should not increase by 4 per cent. to 5 per cent. a year for a good number of years ahead, provided that price competitiveness in international markets is maintained. The Leader of the Opposition claims credit for a balance of payments surplus of £600 million. Very well, and we will stand on our own feet and claim credit for a surplus on our balance of payments of £1,000 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ears ahead, provided that price competitiveness in international markets is maintained. The Leader of the Opposition claims credit for a balance of payments surplus of £600 million. Very well, and we will stand on our own feet and claim credit for a surplus on our balance of payments of £1,000 million—[ Interruption .] We are, therefore, in a position to maintain growth and ahead lies opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "illion. Very well, and we will stand on our own feet and claim credit for a surplus on our balance of payments of £1,000 million—[ Interruption .] We are, therefore, in a position to maintain growth and ahead lies opportunity—[ Interruption .]—to increase growth, and we are getting growth at the moment. Ahead there are opportunities. I know that hon. Gentlemen opposite do not like this or want it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "haos and that the Commonwealth has turned away from us because of our entry into the E.E.C. In fact, the Commonwealth countries are now welcoming the arrangements they are getting with the enlarged Community, which they recognise as the largest trading bloc the world has seen. Every Commonwealth country recognises this and knows that with our support inside the Community, it will get the benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o be the case, then now is the time for investment to be made and for plant to be ordered and built, otherwise British industry will find the demand there, but it will not have the plant and capacity to meet it. This is the immediate problem. It is the problem to which the Government, management and the unions must address themselves, and we are in no way doctrinaire in our approach to this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e on the Gracious Speech when Parliament first met, when he said that this would be a responsible Opposition. In the last 18 months what we have seen has been a continuous retreat by the right hon. Gentleman from responsibility; a retreat from responsibility in industrial relations, and over Europe; a retreat from responsibility on inflation, and now a retreat from responsibility over employment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1047.9", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "op worshipping at the totem pole of sterling. They will not cure unemployment until they have adequate forecasting and proper retraining and until we have public works started to give employment to the unemployed to improve the infrastructure. The Government must do all these things and show a rather greater sense of urgency and intensity than I felt was shown by the Prime Minister this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1047.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way now. I am just coming to my peroration. I believe that the policy outlined by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, coupled with a few of my own ideas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I cannot give them from memory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I cannot give them from memory. [ Interruption .] All I can say is that the unemployment figure for males in Jarrow is higher now by 1,000, probably because of Palmer's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "preceding_text": "o professional connection, which deals to a large extent with classified advertising of vacancies at all levels. Whereas I was talking about management, it is dealing across the board with advertising vacancies of various sorts. It says that the upturn in business in the past three months has been fantastic. It has never known such an increase. That is a barometer of forthcoming economic activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Spring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "preceding_text": "ys that the upturn in business in the past three months has been fantastic. It has never known such an increase. That is a barometer of forthcoming economic activity. [ Interruption .] I should not say that here if I did not have every confidence that it is a repetition of what has been seen before at the beginning of an upswing. It means that after a long, dark winter, dawn is beginning to break.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "preceding_text": "effort, and it would spend more of the ratepayers' money to bring industry to the town, but it is hamstrung by a thing called S.E.L.N.E.C. Transport Executive, created by the last Government under the Transport Act, 1968, which has caused a 5p rate and at the same time is using money which was provided by its customers in Lancashire to buy buses abroad instead of creating employment in Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1069.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "preceding_text": "pposite brought in S.E.T., and when it was introduced in this House the then Chancellor said that it was intended to shake out employment from the distributive industries and put people into manufacturing—in other words, to create unemployment. But the party opposite did nothing practical to transfer that labour and there was no corresponding increase in employment in the manufacturing industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "All I can tell the House is that the figure in the Three Wise Men's Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": ". The financial and monetary union, if it ever comes about, will have enormous implications for manufacturers and producers in this country, working under a Commission whose rules and regulations which will apply to this country were published rather reluctantly only a few days ago—and the whole thing done without even the basic right to give consent granted to the Danes, Norwegians and the Irish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "That is a waste of time, because the right hon. Gentleman was denying a charge I never made. The case that I am making is that unemployment has moved in an unexpected way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1101.5", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman would be quiet for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1101.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "trategy to deal with it—namely, that the unemployment problem is far more a dynamic than a static problem. It is important to realise that year in and year out, in good times and bad, about one-quarter of a million men leave their employment every month and about another one-quarter of a million men enter new jobs every month. This large flow on and off the register is taking place month by month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Although this was good in itself, it happened so suddenly that the result of the wage explosion, coming on top of six years of stagnation, left us with a stubborn and difficult problem with which to deal. When we get an upturn in the expansionist cycle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1104.6", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about the workers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "iend said, that has been made clear recently by the right hon. Member for Grimsby (Mr. Crosland). As my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, West (Mr. John Page) pointed out, of the money for investment about three to four times as much comes from retained profits as comes from other sources. Therefore, this high degree of profitability, with more of the profits left in the pockets of the companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1104.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1104.6", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "s of 1969, 1970 and the first half of 1971 is about the sharpest deterrent one can have to people's investment plans. If one looks back to the war, one sees that each of the major investment booms, both of which took place under Conservative Governments, followed a period of relative price and cost stability. Next we have to have in this strategy a much more active and effective employment policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1104.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ger programme of public works and renewal than we have been able to afford before. We have already put in hand larger additional programmes in clearing derelict land, in renovating old houses and in other public works than has ever been embarked upon. If we follow a strategy based on those points, I am in do doubt that although the battle will be hard, and may be long, it can, and it will, be won.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-24", "file": "debates1972-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef4842147a6fab97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIRECT-GRANT SCHOOLS REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "e extra help is being given to those schools, and that is why in particular a great deal of concern has been expressed over the years about the way in which the comprehensive principle is being interfered with. The Labour Government had plans to change the rôle of the direct grant schools by making them completely independent, as the other independent sectors of education are, and removing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-24a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1174.2", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ry both to the previous Government and to the present Government, that we took various actions. For example, the first-year allowance on plant and machinery was increased from 60 to 80 per cent. over a two-year period. Free depreciation was introduced for service industries in the development areas. I have made two reductions of corporation tax. Interest rates have been reduced very substantially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1174.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1177.4", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "preceding_text": "Although I am sure that value-added tax will prove a good innovation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1177.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1179.5", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his words of wisdom. We must remember that the rate at which the cost of living is rising has halved since April this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1179.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "nsibility as a Government, as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said yesterday in the debate, for the high level of unemployment, but the hon. Gentleman must recognise that there are those who take the view that It now appears that with any given level of total output in the economy, we must expect a very much higher level of unemployment than previous experience would have led us to expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1196.7", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY (MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Since the Prime Minister does not intend to dismiss the Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, may we take it that he endorses the specific undertaking given by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1196.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1211.3", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "I am able to tell the hon. Gentleman what it costs to enter the historic apartments of Edinburgh Castle, but I am afraid I cannot off the cuff tell him what it costs to enter Burns's cottage, which I have not Visited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1211.5", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "dest charge on those who attend public galleries and museums. I will adduce a few further arguments which seem to me all to have a degree of validity but which will vary in the force that one will attach to them. It is arguable that if the public are making a contribution and are paying for admission to institutions of this kind, they will tend to become more critical of the services they receive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1211.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1213.2", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "t their disposal. There are a host of arguments that one could use in support of the proposition that a small charge is advantageous. Those who are in the habit of visiting museums will appreciate that there are occasionally a very small number of persons who sometimes attend these institutions not with a view to appreciating the works of art that are on display but simply to create a disturbance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "Commissioners and, for the reason I have given, the Minister, are empowered to alter provisions in enactments establishing or regulating a charity. In Scotland we have no such statutory provisions; and, in any event, although the trustees could always apply to the equitable jurisdiction of the Court of Session, that would be both time-consuming and expensive and it would not resolve the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " met to decide what they were to do and how to implement election promises. They no doubt met to decide what they were to put before Parliament and the country. It is very dangerous for Ministers to formulate concrete policies a few months after an election as they meet then in an atmosphere compounded of euphoria and ignorance. They grope about to see what best they can do and how they can do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "costs of collection will be. The cost of collection in respect of the whole £1 million will be over 16 per cent. Is there any other tax which costs as much to collect, quite apart from the inconvenience and annoyance of collecting this tax at the barriers. At the Wallace Collection some 33 per cent. of the money collected will go in costs. At the National Maritime Museum the figure is 32 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1248.2", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "Why not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will understand that for reasons which are not my fault or the hon. Gentleman's fault I have less time than might be. On Sunday afternoon I went to the Hogarth Exhibition at the Tate Gallery. It is an admirable exhibition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "me at my disposal, by saying that this is why in the Government's view the free-day argument falls to the ground. I wish to deal with the penetrating and deeply sincere speech of my hon. Friend the member for Louth, and I shall seek to answer his questions. I have answered the first question. He asked me what \"young\" meant in this context. This is the same as on the railways and buses: under three", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "nd deeply sincere speech of my hon. Friend the member for Louth, and I shall seek to answer his questions. I have answered the first question. He asked me what \"young\" meant in this context. This is the same as on the railways and buses: under three [ Laughter .] Hon. Members may laugh, but my hon. Friend sought to make a serious point and he deserves his answer. I now take up the example he gave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "red the first question. He asked me what \"young\" meant in this context. This is the same as on the railways and buses: under three [ Laughter .] Hon. Members may laugh, but my hon. Friend sought to make a serious point and he deserves his answer. I now take up the example he gave—[ Interruption .] It is all very well, but if the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. John Mendelson) were a mother in arms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "ntended so to impinge, and there is no intention on the part of Ministers to bring pressure to bear on the university my hon. Friend has in mind in order to make them impose a charge. I hope that my hon. Friend feels that, in the short time I have available, that is as far as I can be properly asked to go tonight. I know that sometimes people get gloomy about the results of our educational system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1324.0", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ADMISSION CHARGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like Lord Eccles.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "art lovers like themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-25", "file": "debates1972-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "dc46f74e436fe880", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1339.5", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary said in moving the Third Reading of the Bill that the prospectus had been issued since the Committee stage. That is in keening with the unseemly haste we have witnessed in dealing with the Order Paper in the Matter of the Third Reading debate Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-25a.1339.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I will give way later. If we look back at the Foreign Secretary's behaviour on this matter in the last three months we can see a miserable decline in his sense of responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1414.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1416.8", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " the Rhodesian people, are being asked to decide which side they are on. I believe that the British people and this House must decide for dignity and freedom and that to take that decision is not to betray the Europeans in southern Africa. It is the only way to save them. I hope that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite will listen to the words of the noble Lord, Lord Alport in a recent article—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1416.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1419.3", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "e question arising from the terms: What is it that they are asking the Rhodesians, and particularly the Rhodesian Africans, to reject? At present, under the 1969 Constitution, there is no effective blocking mechanism whatever to prevent the parliamentary situation of the Africans from deteriorating. In the terms of the proposals which were negotiated an effective mechanism is introduced involving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1419.3", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "r can put paid effectively to African representation in Parliament. For that, the settlement substitutes a system whereby representation in Parliament depends on the number of voters who qualify on the same income tax, education and property qualifications as the Europeans. Are the Africans in Rhodesia to be asked by the Opposition to spurn that in favour of staying with the present arrangements?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Mr. Mansfield is returning tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Mr. Mansfield is returning tomorrow. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Mr. Smith has told me that he has detained Mr. Todd for reasons of security, but the evidence on which Mr. Smith made the decision is not available to me at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Mr. Mansfield is returning tomorrow. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Mr. Smith has told me that he has detained Mr. Todd for reasons of security, but the evidence on which Mr. Smith made the decision is not available to me at the moment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"] The Leader of the Liberal Party asked me if I was in a position to answer his question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " that a number have gone there lately without any fuss or hindrance. The Government naturally have no objection whatever to hon. Members going to Rhodesia, and we will certainly ask our liaison officer there, although he is a busy man, to offer any facilities to hon. Members when they are there. I do not disguise my view that it would be wrong for political parties in this House to go to Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " are there. I do not disguise my view that it would be wrong for political parties in this House to go to Rhodesia—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I wish hon. Gentlemen opposite would for once wait to hear the end of a sentence before interrupting. In my view it would be wrong for us as political parties to go to Rhodesia and take the opportunity publicly in Rhodesia to support or object to the settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " opposite would for once wait to hear the end of a sentence before interrupting. In my view it would be wrong for us as political parties to go to Rhodesia and take the opportunity publicly in Rhodesia to support or object to the settlement. [ Interruption. ] No one ever contemplated, when the fifth principle was laid down, that we should transfer our political squabbles on to Rhodesian territory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "thinking of hon. Gentlemen opposite—to modern Africa to try to recover for Africans rights in Rhodesia which they have lost. I ask this House and all hon. Members to re-read the terms of the provisional settlement and each to ask himself in conscience whether he is justified in advising the Rhodesians, and particularly the African Rhodesians, to turn away this opportunity to start down a new road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "rms of the provisional settlement and each to ask himself in conscience whether he is justified in advising the Rhodesians, and particularly the African Rhodesians, to turn away this opportunity to start down a new road. [ Interruption. ] I have searched my conscience and I cannot bring myself to believe that I would be right to withdraw the provisional settlement, which gives such an opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "But the right hon. Gentleman did not say that there was already a clear expression of doubt in Lord Pearce's mind. The right hon. Gentleman made it appear as though my right hon. Friend had completely misrepresented the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "nistone the elections are run the right way and the people have the right to a proper and free expression of opinion. But when the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. John Mendelson) talks about the conditions of Penistone applying to Africa he is talking about the change from what is a police State to a State in which there is some chance for African advance. That is the whole point of the settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1448.3", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": " who died because of his silliness, just as I was deeply sorry for the men of Sharpeville who died because of Harold MacMillan's silliness. We heard that great speech about the wind of change, but its only real effect was a massacre in Sharpeville and the repression of African progress. This is the trouble with the liberals, they make the boldest assertions, but their martyrdom is always by proxy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1448.3", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "s to advance there must be a trade union movement, development must depend on the black proletariat, a black labour force. That must mean African rule. It will not be because of the details of a constitution, because constitutions do not stand up in Africa. It will be, and I am enough of a Marxist to believe this, because the economic circumstances as they develop will force this kind of dominion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "Not for the first time I find myself the spokesman by accident, following the hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget), of those who agree with his sturdy common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1464.0", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did not say that. He said that he did not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Peter Rawlinson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Peter Rawlinson)", "preceding_text": "the Member for Leeds, East said that the Africans were responding to the present opportunity. He spoke of them responding in the towns, the villages and the most remote areas. They cannot at the same time complain about lack of political activity. Political activity is being demonstrated by those who are responding to the opportunity by coming to those meetings and taking part in those activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1468.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1472.2", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ithout any intention, I am sure. This is what Lord Pearce said on 20th January: To say that there has been no political activity in any of the tribal trust lands would seem untenable in the light of what our Commissioners have told us so far He went on to say: The real question will be the degree to which freedom of political expression is permitted. If people are detained simply to silence them\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-26", "file": "debates1972-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5177785c4a883d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1549.1", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "ems of poverty as my hon. Friend, he would be a far more effective Financial Secretary to the Treasury. But I am not criticising the hon. Gentleman tonight. It is merely that he put his nose into what was virtually a private quarrel between the Under-Secretary and myself. In The Times of last Wednesday there was a report of some comments by the Child Poverty Action Group on the operation of F.I.S.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-26a.1549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-27", "file": "debates1972-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "4fa8065aa2c5f125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1601.3", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas-Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas-Mann", "preceding_text": "hich has not existed for many years; that the acquittals in the Mangrave case raise a strong inference that a number of police officers were lying in concert and that, with the connivance of senior officers, they have been responsible for persecution of particularly articulate black people in the area; that this is only an inference and that, as the current issue of the Police Journal makes clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1601.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-27", "file": "debates1972-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "4fa8065aa2c5f125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1609.0", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman convey the thanks of many hon. Members to the staff in his private office who deal with this subject? Those of us who have a large immigrant population in our constituences sometimes need to move very quickly regarding a deportation order. The staff deal with the matter most promptly, and we are most grateful for the action they take in these cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1608.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-27", "file": "debates1972-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "4fa8065aa2c5f125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1611.7", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVANTS (NUMBER)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Where non-industrial civil servants are concerned it is important to distinguish between those employed at headquarters and those em ployed on direct services to the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1611.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-27", "file": "debates1972-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "4fa8065aa2c5f125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1619.0", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " Finally, in a personal sense, the whole House will agree with me that during the period the right hon. Gentleman has been Leader of the House he has been regarded as a Minister highly sensitive to the rights and needs of the House as a whole and whenever there have been complaints about the slightest derogations they have been small compared with those of most of his predecessors, of all parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-27", "file": "debates1972-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "4fa8065aa2c5f125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1624.1", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " the terms of entry, there are two ways of legislating? One would be to follow the normal practice of the House and to have a full legislative procedure on everything that becomes new law, including the rights of our courts and the rights of this House, and the other is what is in the Bill. Secondly, would the right hon. Gentleman, having heard his hon. Friend the Member for Colchester (Mr. Buck)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-27", "file": "debates1972-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "4fa8065aa2c5f125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1624.4", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "The point seems perfectly clear to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1624.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-27", "file": "debates1972-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "4fa8065aa2c5f125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I think I should be careful in pronouncing on matters like that. In any event, I am sure that they can properly be argued when we discuss the Bill in the near future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-27", "file": "debates1972-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "4fa8065aa2c5f125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1629.0", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "No such implication can be taken from my statement announcing the business for next week, and I am sure that the hon. Gentleman appreciates that. I have said, and quite properly, what I must say in these circumstances, which is that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment will come to the House if he has any developments to report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-27", "file": "debates1972-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "4fa8065aa2c5f125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1726.0", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "SUGAR BEET", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "With respect, this order is about a levy to be paid next year for the coming crop", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-27a.1726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADING REPRESENTATIONS (DISABLED PERSONS) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "l goods as having been made by disabled people.\" The virtue of the cause is slightly blinding us to the drastic nature of the action that we are taking and there is a danger, particularly with a cause which is designed to prevent the exploitation of a physical defect, of thinking that anything one does in implementation of it is legislatively justifiable. That is all I have to say on this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADING REPRESENTATIONS (DISABLED PERSONS) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "is designed to prevent the exploitation of a physical defect, of thinking that anything one does in implementation of it is legislatively justifiable. That is all I have to say on this subject—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and I hope that no hon. Member feels that a subject of this kind should not be thoroughly examined, as the Minister agreed in his brief, though lengthy, examination of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADING REPRESENTATIONS (DISABLED PERSONS) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " is all I have to say on this subject—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and I hope that no hon. Member feels that a subject of this kind should not be thoroughly examined, as the Minister agreed in his brief, though lengthy, examination of the Bill. [ Interruption. ] I meant that as a compliment to my hon. Friend. He was being comprehensive in his remarks and was bound to take a little time over them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADING REPRESENTATIONS (DISABLED PERSONS) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " that as a compliment to my hon. Friend. He was being comprehensive in his remarks and was bound to take a little time over them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"] It is clear that some hon. Members have in mind the next business that will come before the House, but that must not be made an excuse for not thoroughly examining the business in hand. A great deal of nonsense goes through Parliament on Friday", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1810.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1821.2", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Richard Sharples)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Richard Sharples)", "preceding_text": "employment. Before reaching a decision, the House will wish to consider two things: first, the areas and extent of discrimination existing in employment at the present time and, secondly, if the problem exists, whether the Bill, or any legislation at all, is the best way to deal with this question. The House will agree that discrimination does not arise in employment in the vast majority of cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": " moving the resolution endorsing \"Fair Shares for the Fair Sex\" which was accepted by the Conservative Women's annual conference. I believe that in many ways pressure for this Bill has been given added impetus by a perfectly justifiable annoyance on the part of women that the Race Relations Act makes it possible for a coloured woman to protest if she is discriminated against because of her colour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1831.1", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "At least hon. Gentlemen opposite in their term of office tried to do the same thing, even though they abandoned it later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1832.3", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "e of the coin, there are many spheres of employment which are dominated by women and, as the hon. Member for Fife, West admitted, the Bill would encourage men to use their best endeavours to invade spheres of employment which, almost exclusively, have employed women. One can imagine the reaction if a young man, lured by good pay, wanted to plunge into a female-dominated sphere of secretarial work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1832.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1833.0", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "y. If I considered that it would be unwise, that it might, through no fault of mine, give rise to gossip, if I turned that applicant down, under the Bill, I could be hauled up and told that his qualifications are better and that I have discriminated against him on grounds of sex. There are male State registered nurses. Are they now to demand that they are entitled to take the training as midwives?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1832.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1833.2", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is the trouble.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "Gynecologists are men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1834.1", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "esire to see prejudice removed as are hon. Ladies and their colleagues opposite and anyone else. However, I want the big battles to be fought in areas where it is practicable to fight them and where one is justified in fighting them. This House is used to battles, but without the preparation that is necessary for a step of the kind that is proposed, without the goodwill of all those married women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1835.7", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "ssary. I will remind the House of what the Secretary of State for Employment said when the earlier Measure was proceeding through Committee. The similiarity between his speech on that occasion and the speech today of my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton) was fantastic. I could not help thinking that the hand may be the hand of Hamilton, but the voice is the voice of Carr.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1835.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1852.1", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "HOSPITAL SERVICES, BIRMINGHAM AREA (PRIVATE PATIENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Michael Alison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Michael Alison)", "preceding_text": "rtly reply to the hon. Lady. I note the hon. Gentleman's supplementary point about a particular case which lay outside the memorandum which has been presented, and I shall attempt to include that in the reply. It is sufficient to say that, apart from Walsgrave, the instances mentioned where the number of private in-patients has exceeded the authorised number can really only be regarded as trivial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-28", "file": "debates1972-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "865ace3b7eaf945b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "HOSPITAL SERVICES, BIRMINGHAM AREA (PRIVATE PATIENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": " this is related to the opening of the new Walsgrave Hospital. Let us put all this in perspective. There are over 200 hospitals under the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board, 70 of which have pay beds. Out of a total of some 40,500 beds, there are 341 pay beds. I would not wish to condone any irregularities in the use of N.H.S. facilities for private patients, nor of course does the regional board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-28a.1856.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.12.2", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I made the position quite clear to the Development Association. I said that I did not rule out the possibility of extending the corporation's remit at some future date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.12.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that the war in Ulster has lasted longer than the Black and Tan war, of odious memory, and that the paratroopers will be remembered for just as long now with the same odium?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.37.4", "colnum": "37", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We appear to be getting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.37.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "place in the United Kingdom yesterday? We therefore welcome this inquiry. But would he not agree that, if it is to be thorough, it is equally important that its findings should be generally accepted? Will he therefore not turn his mind, as I think he did earlier, from the possibility of a very distinguished international statesman, of the calibre, say, of Mr. Lester Pearson, which would in no way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.40.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.43.5", "colnum": "43", "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": "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I wish to make a statement. As the House will be aware, I have been in touch with Mr. Smith about arrangements for Members of Parliament to observe the operation of the Pearce Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.43.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.43.5", "colnum": "43", "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": "th Mr. Smith about arrangements for Members of Parliament to observe the operation of the Pearce Commission. [ Interruption .] I have made clear in this House my view that it is wrong for us to transfer our political differences to Rhodesia or for British political parties to propagate their views on the proposals for a settlement in that country while the Test of Acceptability is being conducted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.43.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "s, \"No\". The hon. Member for West Bromwich (Mr. Foley) has been there, and the hon. Member for York (Mr. Alexander W. Lyon), who is an opponent of the Smith régime, is there at this moment. So the answer is, \"No\". But what Mr. Smith has told me is that he is not prepared to have as part of an all-party delegation or as part of a party delegation people who have advocated violence in Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.48.2", "colnum": "48", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I do not for a moment defend Mr. Smith's decision. I think it is better that Members of Parliament should be able to go to Rhodesia to observe, though I am bound to say that it was the right hon. Gentleman's party which made the complication. I proposed an all-party delegation, and the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.48.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.51.7", "colnum": "51", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is wrong, as I understand it. I do not think that Mr. Smith has rejected his right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East. I have said that my desire is to serve the reasonable requirements of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.51.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.51.7", "colnum": "51", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is wrong, as I understand it. I do not think that Mr. Smith has rejected his right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East. I have said that my desire is to serve the reasonable requirements of the House. [ Interruption .] The right hon. Gentleman, I think, has the worst manners I have ever seen of anyone in Parliament. I would certainly say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.51.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.51.7", "colnum": "51", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stop wriggling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "tleman will control himself—but, of course, knowing the right hon. Member for Leeds, East as I do, I accept his assurance, and I told Mr. Smith that he had given me the most absolute assurance that he would do nothing but observe the Commission. Therefore, when he asks whether I will support the names of any Members he gives me, my reply is that I will certainly, of course, represent to Mr. Smith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.51.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.53.4", "colnum": "53", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "As long as the right hon. Gentleman understands that I cannot insist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.53.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.53.4", "colnum": "53", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "As long as the right hon. Gentleman understands that I cannot insist. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] I do not want to go on insisting on what I said before, but it is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.53.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "preceding_text": "In this context, does my right hon. Friend remember that in July. 1967, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said—and this is an accurate quotation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.84.5", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.84.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.84.8", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "May I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.84.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.84.10", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I had no intention of being discourteous. I have already given way to many hon. Members during the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.84.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Warren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Warren", "preceding_text": "ich will be able to supply the larger market of Europe, something which they certainly could not do if Britain remained at its current market size. But the intervention which I hope the Government will be able to provide should not be of the I.R.C. type such as hon. Members opposite have suggested. That, surely, after Rolls-Royce and Beagle, has been proved to have been a disaster in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.119.2", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "I am mindful of the remarks made by the hon. Member for Walthamstow, East (Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson), and, although I am tempted to take up some of them, I will resist that temptation and get on with the job before me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More honest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hall", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend. My next point is that often those over 50 are a great deal more reliable, more honest and loyal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.135.3", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "the tourist industry. In the 18 months I have been in the House we have spent a great deal of time discussing the coal industry, the steel industry and the shipbuilding industry. We have never had a set debate on the tourist industry other than the occasional debate which has arisen as a result of an hon. Member being lucky in the Ballot. Although unemployment is in many cases an attitude of mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.135.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "I was talking about the machine tool industry.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "e unions who breach agreements into which they have entered. Therefore on his third point he has failed to make the case for rejecting the order. The order provides for the introduction of much of the machinery by which the Industrial Relations Act will operate. We all know in this House—and the thinness of the attendance of hon. Gentlemen opposite, and the weakness of the hon. Gentleman's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-01-31", "file": "debates1972-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e275591d061cd655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.186.9", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Filibuster\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite seem to be happy that the public should be inconvenienced in this way. It seems that their attitude to the Industrial Relations Act and the present law covering picketing is that, if there is something in the law which they do not like, the law should be ignored. If that is so, I hope that they will say so in the debate. The main meat of the Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-01-31a.186.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.239.5", "colnum": "239", "heading": "UNPARLIAMENTARY CONDUCT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sit down. You are stirring the pot\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Speaker, whether this be a question of order or privilege—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.239.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that this tribunal will be warmly welcomed? May we take it that this represents the overt expression of concern of Her Majesty's Government which perhaps in the heat of the moment was not as manifest as some of us would have wished yesterday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "an said that he had the approval of the Northern Ireland Government for setting up this tribunal. Has he consulted any of the minority opinion in Northern Ireland or the leaders of that minority opinion, and particularly the people of Derry? Will he take into account the strong reservations that have been expressed? Will he supplement the tribunal's personnel with an international jurist or judge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.247.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "p.m., a number of these men were engaged. Some gunmen and bombers were certainly hit and some almost certainly killed. In each case, soldiers fired aimed shots at men identified as gunmen or bombers. They fired in self-defence or in defence of their comrades who were threatened. I reject entirely the suggestion that they fired indiscriminately or that they fired into a peaceful and innocent crowd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.276.4", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. With great respect to you, a tribunal of inquiry has been set up. Is not the Minister entirely preempting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.276.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.276.4", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. With great respect to you, a tribunal of inquiry has been set up. Is not the Minister entirely preempting—[ Interruption .] Perhaps right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite do not want to hear the truth from the tribunal of inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.276.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I do not want to continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I do not want to continue—[ Interruption .] At least in regard to Rhodesia my loyalty to the Crown has never been in doubt, nor in Northern Ireland. For once in my life may I recommend that in preference to the position of the hon. and gallant Gentleman, hon. Member's should adhere to the position taken by the Prime Minister this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "for Northern Ireland with an advisory committee representative of all shades of opinion both in Northern Ireland and in this House. If there are those left in Northern Ireland who are prepared to make a system of parliamentary government work, and that is a big \"if\", then I believe that in the present crisis situation we must consider the idea of having an all-party government in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "That is a point well worth looking into. I am afraid that I could not tell my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "and you have to identify him\". The Minister of State tells us that the paratroopers opened fire when shots were fired at them. Major-General Ford was heard and seen by millions watching television last night to say that 200 shots were fired on the British Army before the British Army opened fire. We shall hear from all the reporters of newspapers and sound radio and from civil liberties observers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not laugh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "to identify him\". The Minister of State tells us that the paratroopers opened fire when shots were fired at them. Major-General Ford was heard and seen by millions watching television last night to say that 200 shots were fired on the British Army before the British Army opened fire. We shall hear from all the reporters of newspapers and sound radio and from civil liberties observers—[ Laughter .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "back or in the back of the head? I have had my disagreements with a certain reporter on The Guardian whose writings I criticised and made the subject of a discussion in this House. Quite recently he wrote an article in The Guardian about British paratroopers. Did they think that he was a sniper or that he was Simon Winchester who had done them down and that they might get him when they were at it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "r Defence. They were Gerald McKinney, John Young, Michael McDaid, William Nash, Hugh Gilmore, Bernard McGuigan, Jack Duddy, Michael Kelly, William McKinney, James Wray, Kevin McIlhenney, Gerald Donaghy and Patrick Doherty. The British Army killed every last one of them. They tell us that four of those men were on the British Army's wanted list. Let the Minister of State for Defence say which four—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "e name of her family and her country. All through the whole of the North of Ireland, throughout the 32 counties, people are outraged and indignant, and the Conservative Government by their activities on Sunday may well have lit a fire in Ireland the flames of which may not die out until the last vestige of British rule has ended in that country, until the last trace of British domination has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "not the first 13 people. We remember Barney Watt, Annette McGavigan and Eamonn McDevitt. The list goes on for ever of people who have been accused after their death. After accusations have been blazoned in the newspapers they have been found innocent but never cleared. This is not our first bloody Sunday at the hands of the British Army. But we will be in Newry on Saturday and we will be marching.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " Ulster Constabulary in the very City of Londonderry last week were brutally murdered. In the Daily Mail today there is a report of a statement made by the hon. Lady in which she said: The official and the provisional I.R.A. have each said they will kill 13 paratroopers in vengence for those who died on Sunday. That is 26 coffins coming home to England, and I won't shed a tear for any one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Mahon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is blaming hon. Members on this side of the House for attacks on the British Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.301.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "921. The disaster committed by the British Government in 1916, when they executed the 12 leaders of the Irish rebellion, eventually led to a national uprising, which eventually brought about the 26-county Republic. The events in Derry on Sunday exactly parallel that. Thirteen more innocent people who were not engaged in rebellion, who never used firearms, were shot in the back by the British Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "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": "s, cannot carry us far in this tangled problem. I fear that it has illustrated the depth of division there is in this House about the solution of this problem—the division between, for example, the hon. Lady the Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) and the hon. Member for Antrim, North (Rev. Ian Paisley). Both strongly hold their own points of view, totally opposed as to what is the right solution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " serious practical problems that would be involved, would I think be regarded by the Protestant community of Northern Ireland as tantamount to direct rule, and the right hon. Gentleman must bear this in mind. Having said that, I now challenge him on several points. For example, he said that his hon. Friends had never been told who was responsible for the internment decision and how it was reached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I assure hon. Gentlemen opposite that I have said time and again, both before and after the decision, that it was a decision which was constitutionally in the hands of the Northern Ireland Government but that they would not act without our agreement. They did not act without our agreement. That is the perfectly simple position and it has been explained time and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: [\"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "king if I agreed that talks could take place on the basis of no conditions. I agreed to that course and I still agree to it. This is what we should be aiming to get. We want to get talks among all concerned instead of arguing about whether nine or 10 weeks have gone by and who is responsible for what. The Leader of the Opposition accuses me of dragging my feet and he intends to vote on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " to get talks among all concerned instead of arguing about whether nine or 10 weeks have gone by and who is responsible for what. The Leader of the Opposition accuses me of dragging my feet and he intends to vote on this point. [HON. MEMBERS: [\"Nonsense.\"] Let me assure him that he and his hon. Friends will not be voting on a valid point. We have not dragged our feet. We are not dragging our feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ll people with any part to play in the affairs of Northern Ireland. I have said time and again, and I repeat now, that a settlement can come only by agreement, and agreement can come only by talking. Without talking, agreement cannot be reached. This debate arose from incidents in Londonderry. The account by the Army of what happened was, as one would have expected, clear, detailed and documented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "Ireland—I say it because time and again it has been said that the Army is a tool of a corrupt political régime in Stormont, which is utterly untrue—is that it is not there at its request. Our soldiers do not want to be there. They did not ask to be there. They are performing a duty which has been imposed on them as part of their loyalty to the Crown. They are there to protect law and order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "on law that no more force may be employed in protecting law and order than is necessary. However, the degree of force that is necessary depends on what is done by the lawbreakers. People who attack British soldiers with bullets and bombs are themselves responsible for the degree of force that the Army has to use to resist them. Last Sunday's procession was organised clearly in defiance of the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "nse, knowing the danger that can arise from political marches. That ban was legal. This march was organised clearly in deliberate contravention of it and, that being so, how could any Government do other than instruct their security forces to prevent a breach of the law? That is what took place. The security forces were told to prevent the march and they prevented it with the minimum use of force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "hat they did all they could to make sure that it was lawful and peaceful, must have known—they were warned about this—that hooligan elements, as they often associate themselves with processions, would use the shield of the procession to conduct violent attacks on the British Army. The people who carried out that procession did so in the knowledge of this danger, and therefore carry responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.325.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Two weeks'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "cement about the coal stocks at the power stations, expecting to learn how soon electricity supplies would fade or be shed because of coal supplies running out in the event of the miners' strike continuing for two, three or four weeks longer. I have heard not a word about coal stocks. I hope that my hon. Friend will tell me in winding up whether we have four weeks' or five weeks' coal stocks left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-01", "file": "debates1972-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a0e58cd5b6f570a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.389.7", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "—that every reputable economist, every newspaper commentator and everyone on this side of the House believes that the causes of unemployment are the policies pursued by the Govern- ment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-01a.389.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "one which was asked for and which I arranged at the convenience of those concerned, and it happens that the local authorities, I understand, have no difficulty in sending representatives to this conference and to the other one which is taking place. It happens to be on a day when my hon. Friend who will be in the chair at the conference can be available, it being a Monday, not a parliamentary day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.441.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.451.2", "colnum": "451", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT, MAPLIN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "As for the name of the airport, I believe we would all agree that an airport by any name is still an airport. I think it is right to call this Maplin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.520.4", "colnum": "520", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (CODE OF PRACTICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "managerial prerogative. The problem in industrial relations is the division of power and influence. I always make up my mind on a document or group by asking, \"Whose side is this on—the side of working people seeking to expand their influence or of the employer seeking to contain the expansion of working people's aspirations?\" Paragraphs 40–46 deal with the status and security of employees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.520.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (CODE OF PRACTICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ral Election working down Glapwell Colliery near a face that was not dissimilar from that shown on the photographs displayed in the national Press. I do not remember the management, Derek Ezra, or anybody else rushing off such stills to The Guardian asking for them to be displayed on the front page because Dennis Skinner and thousands of others in Derbyshire were having to work in such conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (CODE OF PRACTICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "She gets it from the Co-op and pays about 7s. 6d. a pound—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.541.3", "colnum": "541", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (CODE OF PRACTICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I know a number of hon. Members opposite do. Let the Secretary of State go along to Derek Ezra and tell him to take advantage of the training scheme and to get down that pit for six months when the conflict is over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.541.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (CODE OF PRACTICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It is an old Parliamentary trick to be asked to quote offhand. I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that I will produce them for him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (CODE OF PRACTICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": " one could not separate the Code from the Act, and for that reason the Code would become ineffective. It was tarnished with the stain of the Act, he said. When the right hon. Gentleman said that we were going off to a never-never land I could not help thinking that he was the one who was living in a never-never land. He is out of touch. I swear that it is true that the Code is being effective now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (CODE OF PRACTICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "ecause it will not be long before this Code becomes established in the industrial relations world and is regarded as the standard setter and reference book. The right hon. Gentleman went on to say that a lead was necessary and that we were not giving one. But that is exactly what we are doing now. Have any other Government produced a document which has proved as influential as this one is proving?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (CODE OF PRACTICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "yers to encourage union membership and pointed out that a change in wording had been made. He wondered whether that had occurred simply for legal reasons, and the answer is \"Yes\". The Consultative Document contained two references to the encouragement of trade union membership. Paragraphs A6c and D14 said that management should encourage employees to join recognised unions and play an active part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.583.7", "colnum": "583", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "f the special congress, and went further and decided that it may well take action against any trade union which decides to register under the Act. It is not a question of democratic decisions taken by the T.U.C. This applies to affiliated unions, and the Government have deliberately endeavoured to set one trade union against another—this is what they have attempted to do and are doing in this Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.583.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.583.7", "colnum": "583", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "essional organisations which are being put on a special register. They are not doing it because they want to register under the Act. They are doing it because they are forced into this position as a result of Government action. That is what is happening in the trade union movement. Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite are loving it. They want to see the trade unions in conflict with one another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.583.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "n of the Act that it is not prepared to talk about anything relating to it. That is the situation. So how can there have been real consultation with all the people directly involved in industrial relations? The Secretary of State will learn very clearly that most trade unionists and unions will refuse to re-register. Therefore, the Government must live with that fact. A trade union, under the Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "on not to register was that the Act should be repealed. The Labour Party on its return to government will repeal this Act. In its place we shall bring in decent, suitable legislation that will protect the trade unions. It will protect unions against the type of employers that they are faced with at present, who are refusing, as in the coal mining industry, to give them decent wages and conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "must recognise that while the Government and law of the country encourage union membership, that membership and its conduct carries with it a responsibility to the country. The hon. Gentleman went on to criticise my right hon. Friend and said that we should repeal the Act, drop everything, and then we could have discussions. In other words, another element of blackmail was brought into the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "No, the option remains. By opting to register they secure many advantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "e knows very well that repeal of the 1957 Rent Act led to replacement by the 1965 Rent Act, which took on board most of the rent provisions in the earlier 1957 Act and which facilitated more rent flexibility in the future than existed in the past. Any repeal of this Act would involve of necessity the replacement of most of the provisions by something designed to achieve the same kind of objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-02", "file": "debates1972-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6f9b31d2f55e743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.643.0", "colnum": "643", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC (FOREIGN VEHICLES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I was concerned not so much with the shortness of time as with the problem that we cannot predict what the date will be. Any new scheme of this sort makes more sense if it is brought in on, say, 1st April—perhaps that is not a very good day", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-02a.643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.656.5", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not take the initiative?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's last words do nothing to contribute to a solution. I assure him that I am ready and anxious for a suitable opportunity to meet both sides, with a reasonable opportunity of bringing about a conciliated settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.656.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Do not lean on the National Coal Board.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "le opportunity of bringing about a conciliated settlement. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not take the initiative?\"] But unless and until there is some indication that conciliation can lead to success, I have to take the view which all my predecessors, of all parties, have taken: that one can do more harm than good by calling in the parties when the gap is so big and when there is no chance of bridging it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.656.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.657.4", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member believes that his Government's policy took account of special ases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.657.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. This is the first opportunity that we have had, Mr. Speaker, to question the Secretary of State for Employment on this very important situation. As we are miners' Members of Parliament who are responsible to some extent for thousands of miners being unemployed, we are entitled, I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Maintain?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I want to assure him that we regard the need to improve our employment services in every way as being extremely important if we are to maintain full employment in the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am glad to see that the support and backing for the hon. Member for Manchester, Ardwick (Mr. Kaufman) is still as good as ever. My right hon. Friend was asked to give the best advice possible, under the existing law, on the action proposed by the local authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.675.2", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Because we do not propose to change the responsibilities of local authorities in this way. We do not believe that they should have the power to dispense in this way without any charge at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.675.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.676.4", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shut up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "preceding_text": "For unlawful picketing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "e day a statement was made in the House by the responsible Minister about the occurrence? He did not go into how and why it happened. He simply expressed the sympathy of the House and said that a public inquiry would be held. I rise on a point of order to seek your guidance, Sir. Should not the Government follow that 1932 precedent in view of the fact that today's tragedy is equal to that of 1932?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": " point of order to seek your guidance, Sir. Should not the Government follow that 1932 precedent in view of the fact that today's tragedy is equal to that of 1932? [ Interruption. ] I agree that the circumstances are different, but this man was undertaking legal picketing in the strict sense of the word. In my constituency during the last week 13 men have been arrested, handcuffed and put in line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "en have been arrested, handcuffed and put in line—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\".] I am addressing you, Mr. Speaker, and not the ignorant Members on the Government benches. I am speaking as a compassionate hon. Member for the Opposition and a representative of the miners' group. I should have thought that even the ignorant element on the benches opposite would be prepared to listen to me on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "en to me on this occasion—[ Interruption. ] This is no laughing matter. We are talking about a man's life. A man is dead and he leaves behind six children. This could be the start of another Ulster in the Yorkshire coalfield. I warn the Government here and now that if there is not an immediate statement from the responsible Minister, I shall go back to my constituency tonight and advocate violence", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "alking about a man's life. A man is dead and he leaves behind six children. This could be the start of another Ulster in the Yorkshire coalfield. I warn the Government here and now that if there is not an immediate statement from the responsible Minister, I shall go back to my constituency tonight and advocate violence [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\".] A man has lost his life today in tragic circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "thereby pre-empted any other hon. Member's opportunity to raise what is an urgent matter immediately. I gave you notice shortly after 2.30 p.m. that I wished to raise this matter, and it was not until the 2.30 news that this information came out. I therefore know personally that no hon. Member could have given you notice of his desire to ask a Private Notice Question before I gave you such notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "ve you such notice—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Gentlemen opposite may laugh over this, but it is not a laughing matter. I heard of this on the 2.30 news. I came straight to the House and spoke to you in the Chair. I said that I wanted to raise the issue today and not tomorrow. Tomorrow may be too late. The miners are extremely upset and worried over this. There could be ructions in the country tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have no wish to exacerbate an already very difficult situation, but I, too, have a very large number of constituents who are miners and who are on continuous picket duty. May I take this opportunity to point out that an already difficult situation has been made more difficult by this tragic accident?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have no wish to exacerbate an already very difficult situation, but I, too, have a very large number of constituents who are miners and who are on continuous picket duty. May I take this opportunity to point out that an already difficult situation has been made more difficult by this tragic accident? [ Interruption. ] I am raising this point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "am raising this point of order—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"]—because I do not want to see any further disorder in any of the streets of Britain. Would it not be desirable for you, Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the House, to request the Secretary of State for Employment to come to the House at, say, 7.30 p.m. to make a statement on this subject and, more important, to make a statement on the miners' strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wonder whether, through you, Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the House might be able to assist. It is clear that the House would like to receive a statement on this matter at the earliest possible opportunity and at the same time would like to afford the responsible Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.681.2", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Speaker. It is not my wish to try to inflame the situation. I listened very intently to what the Secretary of State for Employment said. It seemed to me that he read out most of the contents of what appeared on the tape, which I read a short time ago. I hope there was nothing he is trying to hide, inasmuch as there were two statements on that tape which the Minister has not disclosed, namely, one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.681.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "d even when such deputations would be accompanied by M.Ps. However, there is a new development. The Minister has stated that he would not see deputations either from tenants or landlords, but would receive written representations only. This week the hon. Member for Hertfordshire, South-West (Sir G. Longden) has revealed, or admitted, that he has taken a deputation of landlords to see the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORSERACE TOTALISATOR AND BETTING LEVY BOARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Delargy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Delargy", "preceding_text": "l. This debate is not only a miserable but a disgraceful occasion. Have we nothing better to do than this? Have we nothing more important to talk about than this? Who wants this thing? What is it supposed to do? Above all, why should it be introduced at this moment'? Has the Home Secretary nothing better to do than this? These are the only points to which I want to draw the attention of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-03", "file": "debates1972-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "377d6949203c8ed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORSERACE TOTALISATOR AND BETTING LEVY BOARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "t his job. The fact that he will not allow people to do certain things does not mean that people will not want to do them. No party can bind another. If my party replaces the present Government, then knowing its love of public boards or quasi-public boards or anything to which the adjective \"public\" can be attached, I would not be surprised if there was an extension of the right of the tote board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-03a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYED PERSONS (SAFETY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "y, they are usually provided by the management. Protective clothing, on the other hand, tends to vary from factory to factory. My own experience is that goggles and gloves are supplied. The Industrial Relations Code enables one to learn something of the Government's thinking and, in general terms, of their support for the principle of joint consultation in these very important matters. I conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYED PERSONS (SAFETY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "he Industrial Relations Code enables one to learn something of the Government's thinking and, in general terms, of their support for the principle of joint consultation in these very important matters. I conclude—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I must apologise to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and to the House since I shall not be able to hear immediately succeeding speakers as I have another engagement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.863.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.914.6", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.914.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.922.4", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": ",600. The maximum crowd at any meeting is about 800 to 900—that is, for the Waterloo Cup. The figures showing the occupations of people attending meetings of the three clubs which I mentioned are quite dramatic. Out of 300 members, as I say, 100 come under the heading of farmers, land owners, and greyhound owners or trainers. Of the remainder, there are half-a-dozen pit workers, three bricklayers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.922.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.923.6", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "No. I cannot give way. I have only five minutes. It is not my fault that I have so little time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.923.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.925.16", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCLUSION CLAUSES (SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.925.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.926.4", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIGHTS OF PATIENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.926.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.926.9", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 28th January ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.926.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.926.16", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIGARETTES (PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.926.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.929.3", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIGARETTES (PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Assuming, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I had a point of order—the Chair did not know whether I had or not since I had not been given a hearing—under what circumstances can the Chair refuse to take that point of order? I have not been in the House long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.929.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIGARETTES (PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's hon. Friend is quite capable of stating his own point and has just had a chance of doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.931.2", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIGARETTES (PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.931.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIGARETTES (PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that that would not be in accordance with the rules of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.931.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.932.2", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIGARETTES (PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is quite incorrect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.932.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-04", "file": "debates1972-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7999785cde09f5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.935.11", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BREAST CANCER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "rom the technical position whereby the Motion for the Adjournment of the House failed. In which circumstances is it in order for the Whip who again moved the Adjournment to do so after such a short time? The House having decided not to adjourn, should we not be able to another two hours, say, to allow the House to discuss topics it may wish to discuss, including the Hare Coursing (Abolition) Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-04a.935.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-07", "file": "debates1972-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a970ab23ef12b3f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You ought to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-07", "file": "debates1972-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a970ab23ef12b3f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I would not accept the basis of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question, but I can say that there are encouraging signs of an upturn —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-07", "file": "debates1972-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a970ab23ef12b3f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.975.5", "colnum": "975", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR BERWICK-UPON-TWEED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ers to be called in this House as they wish to be called and as they are called in their constituencies. At the last General Election the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed was elected and this was on his ballot paper: Lambton, Antony Claud Frederick, commonly called Lord Lambton. He was elected as such. There are several hon. Members in this House who are called by names which are not their own —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.975.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-07", "file": "debates1972-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a970ab23ef12b3f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.977.6", "colnum": "977", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR BERWICK-UPON-TWEED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "s nothing to do with Lord Lambton, Mr. Lambton or any other Lambton. You have given a Ruling that hon. Members of this House should be addressed by the title they wish to use, and I suggest that it is about time that all hon. Members in this House who served in the Armed Forces, who were not officers but members of the lower ranks, like myself, should from now on be called \"gallant\" in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.977.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-07", "file": "debates1972-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a970ab23ef12b3f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "preceding_text": "e can plan. There are two main reasons for my confidence in the future of Scotland. First, the Government have a coherent and long-range strategy for the Scottish economy, as indeed for the United Kingdom as a whole, of which Scotland is an integrated part. As we can see from the evidence, this strategy is working. We must not let our minds be totally blinded by the appalling unemployment figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-07", "file": "debates1972-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a970ab23ef12b3f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way, I want to get through my speech as quickly as possible. When the Government took office they were faced with four sets of rising figures—wage rates, prices, strikes, unemployment. Of those four, only one figure is still continuing to rise at a comparable rate, and that is unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-07", "file": "debates1972-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a970ab23ef12b3f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "They will see the population, and they will know the traditions of the people.\" We in this House must remember those traditions. We must not accept pessimism. I have confidence not in this Government but in the people of Scotland. Given the opportunity, they will rise above their present difficulties. I thought that the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Sproat) made the worst speech of the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-07", "file": "debates1972-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a970ab23ef12b3f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "£5 million each; £2·5 million will be spent on infilling the Queen's Dock in Glasgow, and 1·5 million on reconditioning Glasgow underground. Under the Housing Act, 1971, there will be an increase of over £15 million in the amount of grant-aided house improvement work. These are the sorts of programme which the hon. Gentleman was referring to. The Government have also brought forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-07", "file": "debates1972-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a970ab23ef12b3f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As I understand the position, it is in order for Ministers to seek the permission of the House to circulate information in the OFFICIAL REPORT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-07", "file": "debates1972-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a970ab23ef12b3f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "SCOTLAND (ECONOMIC SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "nnounced that and also spoke at length on the question of the British Steel Corporation's plans and investment programme in the debate a week ago. Also at that time I was able to put an end to a number of rumours which seemed to be circulating about the Corporation's plans. Last week, Scots were treated to a homily on our shortcomings by the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-07", "file": "debates1972-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a970ab23ef12b3f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (GRANTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has declared his interest. Nothing pleases me more than to argue in the House with someone who has a direct interest in railway wages. I assure the hon. Gentleman that my railway constituents—they may be his members—are concerned because they are losing employment because of the present demands which the railway unions are putting on the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-07a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1114.5", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which grocer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that this 15 per cent. increase is probably the most shocking of all the many shocking statements made by the present Government? Secondly, does he not recall that over 12,000 price increases have been registered by the Grocer since June, 1970?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1114.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whitewash.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Discounting seasonal factors, will not my right hon. Friend agree that, in respect of the first period of 12 months of Tory rule to July, 1971, prices were rising four times as fast as they have been rising in the last six months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Drivel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Discounting seasonal factors, will not my right hon. Friend agree that, in respect of the first period of 12 months of Tory rule to July, 1971, prices were rising four times as fast as they have been rising in the last six months—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Whitewash.\"] It is not whitewash at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1135.8", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT OF FRANCE (VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend include—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1135.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "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": "as put his point of order. As the House is to debate this important subject, I felt it was reasonable for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment to set out in his speech the various proposals about this dispute. He will make clear the Government's position on emergency powers. I think that is the proper way of doing it, because the whole subject is to be debated this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1139.2", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "CONTROL OF PERSONAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "l to establish a data bank tribunal and inspectorate; to provide for the licensing of data banks containing personal information; and to make other provisions to prevent the misuse of information stored in data banks. I should make it clear to the House, or those of my hon. Friends who have an interest in the computer industry, that I have never intended this Bill to be specifically anti-computer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1139.5", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "CONTROL OF PERSONAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that assistance. I want to make it clear that the purpose of the Bill is not specifically to get at the computer industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1139.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1139.7", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "CONTROL OF PERSONAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "might as well not exist. This is the kind of facility which the United Association for the Protection of Trade with its National Credit Register, British Debt Services and Tracing Services Limited possess and that is the kind of society all these people are working towards. I hope that we will not progress too fast towards a cashless society without realising some of the grave dangers it presents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1139.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1143.5", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "lies the use of the threat to the men's future livelihood in regions of high unemployment as a weapon in the Government's plans to beat the miners into submission. What I detest most about the statements of the Government on this subject is the implication that further unemployment in these hard-hit regions is the miners' problem and not the Government's and ours. But it is the Minister's problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1143.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "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": "ot expect me at this juncture to comment on particular proposals that he made, but we shall give them thought. First, I should like to deal with this question of the Government's decision to ask tomorrow for emergency powers. I want to explain to the House why we thought it was right to let it be known today that we were going to do this, rather than wait in the more normal manner, until tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Robert Carr)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An excuse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": "ait in the more normal manner, until tomorrow. [ Interruption. ] If the House would be patient for a moment. We are going to start talks with both sides tomorrow and we felt—I believed rightly—that if, after the parties had been invited to the talks and perhaps after the talks had begun, it was announced that emergency powers were to be sought this would not be helpful to the conduct of the talks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "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": " What matters is that talks are to take place tomorrow and I do not want to say anything this afternoon in justifica- tion which might jeopardise their success. Therefore, in rebutting the charge of failure to play a properly active part in seeking a settlement of this dispute I will content myself with a very short historical summary of the events as far as my actions to conciliate are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1154.3", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "This is a different point, but I am happy to deal with it. We have as a Government made publicly and repeatedly clear, in this House and in the country, and with no secret about it, that the absolutely urgent priority, from the moment we came into office, was to reduce the level of pay settlements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "d prosperity in the industry and prejudice the future of the industry. The Coal Board stressed strongly to me, as I am sure it did to the union, that it had gone to what it believed to be the limit and that in going as high as it did, however inadequate other people may have thought that limit was, its offer also took on trust the achievement of an increase in productivity of no fewer than 2 tons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many hours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "It would have been very good. It would also have provided a minimum of £20, which is the T.U.C.'s target. It is also right that the House should know a little about the movement of miners' pay and earnings relative to those of other people. It is worth recalling that in April last year 44 per cent. of all miners earned more than £30 a week, and 21 per cent. had earnings of more than £35.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1166.7", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " of 6 per cent. This is a remarkable deceleration in such a short period. Moreover, the same had been happening—this is the important point for the future—in the movement of wholesale prices. The Index of Wholesale Prices in the second half of 1971 increased by only 1 per cent. In other words, we are now in sight of and have within our grasp a greater degree of price stability than for many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1166.7", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " bought by consumers. That is agreed between the two sides of the House, because those words are taken from the last White Paper on this subject issued by the Labour Government. Therefore, there can be no doubt that the deceleration in the rate of price increases, of which I have spoken, has been due more than anything else to the success which we have had in lowering the level of pay settlements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1166.7", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "he level of pay settlements—[ Interruption. ] That is absolutely incontestable. When we came to power we were faced with a situation where pay was rising by 12 per cent. and output was rising by a mere 2 per cent. We are now in the position where pay is rising by about 8 per cent. and output is rising by as much as 5 per cent. In other words, instead of the 12 to 2 relationship which we inherited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. A great many hon. Members wish to speak in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1167.1", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "r him commit not only himself but the whole of his party. I was glad to hear that, and I hope that his party will back that commitment in the months and years ahead. However, I have had no sign of any kind from the Trades Union Congress or from the leaders of any unions that they are in any way prepared to consider the miners' case as a special case or to take any lead to hold back in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1167.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1169.8", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "My right hon. Friend spoke for 20 minutes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I should have finished at least 25 minutes ago had the Opposition been prepared to let me make my speech in the way that this side of the House was prepared to let the right hon. Member for Cheetham make his speech, in spite of what I know he genuinely meant to be very harsh criticisms of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1169.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "House that I shall do my best to discharge the double duty about which I have spoken which the present Government and any Government are elected to discharge—that is the duty to the community as a whole, while within that duty, trying to be fair to the interests of individual sections of it. That is what I shall do tomorrow, and I ask the House to do nothing today to make that task more difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "him. It would be right for the Coal Board to improve on its offer if it could be certain of a longer-term agreement. This is what I should like to suggest. If the union executive will not accept any such offer, at least it might be prepared to recommend it for a ballot. If not, the Secretary of State would have to consider using powers given under the Industrial Relations Act to call for a ballot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "o, he should agree that the answer is not hard to find. On page 7 of the N.C.B.'s accounts one sees that, apart from the first year of opencast activities, this sector of mining has been profitable every year, by contrast with most of the board's other divisions. Indeed, the greater part of the board's profit in the last year was comprised of the £16 million contributed by the opencast activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "There are certain people in private enterprise who can turn loss-making activities into a profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The Bar has particular responsibilities, and I assure that hon. Gentleman that we are a highly competitive profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ts, and this is why I carry them with me when I am expecting to discuss the coal industry, and from them it is easy to see the Coal Board's predicament. The N.C.B. carries an accumulated deficit of about £33 million. Although it made a profit last year of £30 million, for which all credit is due to those who work in the industry at every level, there are also interest charges of about £30 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Concorde?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "spell out the details and remind taxpayers that already £415 million of public money has been written off and we will be called on to contribute at least £30 million to redundancy schemes and a great deal more to re-equip pits; and as those hon. Members opposite who have worked in coal-mining will know, massive capital investment will still be required to put the pits on a proper and viable basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And advocating violence himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I know a little about the law on this but I would prefer the Law Officers to state categorically what the law on this, but I would prefer the Law man knows it, why does he not communicate it to his friends outside who are flagrantly breaching it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "preceding_text": "se of the National Union of Mineworkers in relation to the strike has got a cheek. As Robert Burns would say: Ye hypocrites! Are these your pranks? To murder men and give God thanks? Desist for shame! proceed no further! God won't accept your thanks for murther! Hon. Gentlemen from the benches opposite have said that the Government's attitude should be to try to starve the men, women and children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1217.2", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Normanton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Normanton", "preceding_text": "ility. This is not exclusively the prerogative of trade union leaders. It can and does apply in more cases than one—in many cases—to both parties. There can be no satisfactory solution when there is a clash of personalities. Over-exposure of negotiations by television and the Press severely handicaps their effectiveness. Another factor is the introduction of party politics, which I deeply deplore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1220.0", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Normanton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Normanton", "preceding_text": "It is totally unrealistic to talk in 1972 of an arbitration formula relating to 1936—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1220.2", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Normanton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Normanton", "preceding_text": "tances it is fashionable to press for flat-rate advances. In other cases negotiators concentrate on overtime payments, plant bargaining or bonuses of various types. This House should be under no delusion about the fact that the pressure and demand for higher earnings in this dispute is coming not from those low paid earners, although they feel intense and bitter about it, but from the higher paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1221.3", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Normanton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Normanton", "preceding_text": "I am not concentrating exclusively on the N.U.M. members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1221.3", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Normanton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Normanton", "preceding_text": " the lower paid, why has not the N.U.M. concentrated on demanding a flat-rate advance, which is the unique and only formula which contributes most to the lower paid? Many hon. Members have said that the price will have to be paid eventually in the form of higher coal prices. I make this comment not to argue against it but simply to remind hon. Members of what will be the outcome of a wage advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "ingshire has been shut down. The Council of the Iron Founding Association describes the situation as extremely serious. At the Dunlop factory at Manchester 200 workers have been laid off and 12 Lancashire mills have closed down. There is a whole catalogue but all this has been concealed from the House. The North West Regional Committee of the Coal Merchants' Federation wrote to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1260.6", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "I was most interested to hear the Minister's interpretation of what picketing is all about. Will he now press for the immediate closure of Saltley Gasworks in Birmingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1260.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We also have a responsibility for ensuring that a measure of price stability continues to take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1264.2", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Government have to take those three elements into account. I have no doubt that this will be guiding my right hon. Friend's action tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Lord Cooper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Of course they do not deny it; they cannot. That is what is behind the whole Act although we are told that it is designed to help the trade unions and to be fair. We are also told that the Act will strengthen the hand of responsible trade union leaders, and so on. Yet under the Act's provisions if Jack Jones, Mr. Jack Gormley and others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1276.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1281.5", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. I did not address my remarks to the hon. Gentleman, and I have not mentioned him in my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1281.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1282.3", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "It is obvious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1282.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1283.0", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They have not got the guts.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "el into a power station. In those circumstances, and knowing that the Government have introduced this and from 28th February will be able to implement this part of the Act, everyone in the House knows that in no circumstances will the Government invoke these Sections of the Act against the miners' union if the strike is continued at that time, because they know that it would be counter-productive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1282.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame. Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "r this Government, with the mining dispute, through the Government's refusal to take any initiative to bring the dispute to an end. Section 134 speaks of the right to stop, argue and discuss. Today we see lorry drivers being paid to drive through picket lines, and in certain areas—not all—there seems to be an unfortunate alliance between the police and certain industrial companies importing stuff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "union was given what it was asking for there was no fulfilment because the T.U.C. and the union leadership prefer to play politics rather than get on with the industrial negotiations for things for which they had been striving for a long time. That is another regrettable example of their failing to represent the best interests of their members because they are more concerned with playing politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "ides for long periods of notice for long-service employees—something for which unions have long asked. It provides redress against wrongful dismissal. In view of that list of substantial benefits I do not know how hon. Members opposite can troop through the Lobby against the order. From the speeches made by hon. Members opposite it is clear that, regretfully, some unions and some union leadership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "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": "nd learned Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Ronald King Murray), who usually makes erudite contributions to our discussions, was rather out of character tonight. I equated him with some of his more vociferous colleagues, particularly when he made the extraordinary statement that these provisions will reduce the rights of workers Exactly the opposite will be the case. This order is a historic step—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman would be ill-advised to say that, because this provision is not yet law. It does not become law until 28th February. If anyone has any doubts about a situation, I can tell him that my right hon. Friend's Department is there to help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "pretation of the Act and they will give the necessary advice. I should have thought it was important to realise that where trade union membership is concerned in reality the Act is saying that the individual worker has a right not to be compelled to join a union if he does not want to. I remind the House of something very fundamental about this provision. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1299.7", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDUCTED GAS CENTRAL HEATING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wasting time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a further point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1299.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-08", "file": "debates1972-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "8cbb0434aa4ba4a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1299.9", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDUCTED GAS CENTRAL HEATING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wasting time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "o the Chamber to seek the advice of the Chair. While no one disputes your Ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that this is not a matter for the Chair, can you at least assist hon. Members on two points? Is not it a fact that Committees of the House are servants of the House? Is not it also a fact that where the Government require a guillotine Motion a full debate in the House is required? Can you tell me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-08a.1299.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-09", "file": "debates1972-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "e86230fb01b2d412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-09a.1334.0", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it is not erudite bodies we need to deal with the problem?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-09a.1334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-09", "file": "debates1972-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "e86230fb01b2d412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-09a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I appreciate all that the hon. Lady has said about the importance of this subject. I have been given the somewhat dubious privilege of answering these matters in the House and that I will seek to do, whatever be my qualifications one way or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-09a.1334.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-09", "file": "debates1972-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "e86230fb01b2d412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-09a.1344.0", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that some of us could give him reams of evidence of intimidation—and this intimidation is not from the pickets themselves, but from other people'?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-09a.1344.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-09", "file": "debates1972-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "e86230fb01b2d412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-09a.1347.3", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think I could accept such a Motion for the Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-09a.1347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-09", "file": "debates1972-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "e86230fb01b2d412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-09a.1349.2", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": ": It is not for us to tell the people of Northern Ireland that they must choose to join a United Ireland or that they must choose to remain part of the United Kingdom. My right hon. Friend went on: It is a fact that at the present time a substantial majority in Northern Ireland insist on remaining within the United Kingdom. I myself would add that that substantial majority includes many Catholics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-09a.1349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-09", "file": "debates1972-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "e86230fb01b2d412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-09a.1351.7", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "BRITISH COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": "fication. It is that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office must make up its mind whether the British Council is completely independent or whether the Department is to interfere. It cannot have it both ways. The Council tries to hold up its head, insisting that it is completely independent. However, as soon as it tries to take independent action, it is sat upon by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-09a.1351.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1531.5", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "preceding_text": "per cent. in the minor works programmes in inner London from the beginning of the new financial year'? Is not that a scandalous decision in view of the repeated talk we hear of the Government's supposed concern about primary and junior education? Does not the hon. Gentleman realise the effect the cut will have on worthwhile projects that would benefit both teachers and children? May I finally say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1531.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1533.5", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady aware that that is a thoroughly shocking, miserable answer? Could she say whether the story is true that she has appointed a new public relations officer whose job it will be to convince the country that she is human after all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1533.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1542.4", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady aware that in future her policy may lead to increased violence in schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1542.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1547.4", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1547.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1554.2", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the hon. Gentleman's suggestion that there has been guidance in this way or a blow-by-blow account of Cabinet Committee meetings.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1556.2", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that there has been any indication that they wish to return to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1556.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1556.5", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " Gentleman accept that those of us who have a very great affection for the Foreign Secretary do not exactly regard Rhodesia as being his finest hour? Therefore, I ask the Prime Minister about two matters. As the Prime Minister would, I am sure, he the first to accept, on the question of Rhodesia at least my loyalty to the Crown in the face of a rebellion has never been in doubt. My first question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1556.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1556.5", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rejected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "pened to the proposed all-party delegation which the Foreign Secretary favoured? Second, in view of Mr. Smith's clear statement on 25th November last year in the Rhodesian Parliament that if the package were rejected the 1969 Amendment would continue, and so would sanctions, may we take it that it is likewise the view of Her Majesty's Government that in the event of the settlement being accepted —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1556.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1558.3", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—there have been a number of hon. Members who have urged the use of force and conquest in Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1558.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " exception, is that the Prime Minister suggested that one Member of this House, namely myself, was prepared to take action to kill white or black Rhodesians. I totally reject that. I suggest, as a matter of order, that it is an outrageous allegation to make, and if the Prime Minister, who has already amended his first allegation by making a second, will now come clean, I challenge him to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1561.3", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I would ask hon. Members to bear in mind what the right hon. Gentleman has just said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1561.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1563.0", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many hon. Members, at least on this side of the House, are receiving letters from constituents urging as urgent as possible a settlement of the coal strike, but that running through many of them is the fear, particularly on the part of pensioners, that the price of coal will rise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1564.3", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I ask the House to help me in this matter. Is had to decide whether or not to allow this Private Notice Question. I thought that there was a strong reason for not allowing it, because negotiations were still continuing. I decided to allow it. We have been told that negotiations are still continuing. I must, therefore, ask hon. Members not to persist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1566.0", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the right hon. Gentleman should have made that charge against my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1566.0", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the right hon. Gentleman should have made that charge against my right hon. Friend. [ Interruption. ] The truth is that the closure of the depot is not in any sense due to any insensitive complacency of his. It is due to the fact that picketing at this depot has been carried beyond the point of reasonable peaceful picketing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Doris Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Doris Fisher", "preceding_text": " trading has not taken place for many years? Would he agree that that was a particularly provocative action on the part of that board, bearing in mind that the pickets who are there from all over the country are obviously operating in an extremely emotionally charged situation? Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that -for the West Midlands Gas Board to speed up this process of emotionalism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Doris Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Doris Fisher", "preceding_text": "ing in mind that the pickets who are there from all over the country are obviously operating in an extremely emotionally charged situation? Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that -for the West Midlands Gas Board to speed up this process of emotionalism— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] One would have imagined that the Secretary of State would have taken careful note of the action of this Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Doris Fisher", "preceding_text": "ne would have imagined that the Secretary of State would have taken careful note of the action of this Board—[ Interruption. ] I am not finished yet. I know the area very well indeed, perhaps better than anyone on the Government Benches. It is clear from what my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Cheetham (Mr. Harold Lever) said that there is danger to life and limb in the area because——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1567.2", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fisher", "preceding_text": "There is danger to life and limb because the picketing is taking place at the junction with a main arterial road out of the city, and it is the main link with the M5. The danger to life and limb therefore arises from the situation at the power station. For this reason one would have thought that the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry would have had much closer contact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1567.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1567.2", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fisher", "preceding_text": "ecause the picketing is taking place at the junction with a main arterial road out of the city, and it is the main link with the M5. The danger to life and limb therefore arises from the situation at the power station. For this reason one would have thought that the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry would have had much closer contact—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] I am coming to the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1567.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1567.4", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "In any half-hour now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Lady said that she was coming to her question. I hope she will come to it, and indeed, conclude it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1567.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1567.8", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "We seem to be on Third Reading now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Of course it is the hope of the Chair that supplementary questions will be as concise as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1567.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fisher", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am concerned, and this is the question I want to put—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Following your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, may I endeavour to elicit some information? The depot is closed at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1570.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1570.3", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The right hon. Member for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins) is already on a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "That the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, having disclaimed his peerage, has no right to be addressed in this House by any of the titles pertaining to that peerage.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ents of the effect of the Bill by the House at that time: and regrets that, by reversing the decision of his predecessor which was made in the light of these statements and the advice then given to him by those officially concerned. Mr. Speaker should have impinged upon the privileges of both Houses. ] and one which reflects on the nobility of the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Lord Lambton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1656.8", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "hould be given this huge authority for something in the order of additional £2,500 million over seven years ahead. I want to look at the books half way, which is not an unreasonable sentiment or one that should not appeal to a Conservative Administration which always said before the last General Election, \"We believe in open government. We believe in good husbandry. We believe in good accounting.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1656.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ill say. But that is manifestly false in this context. I am glad to see the hon. Member for Midlothian (Mr. Eadie), a representative of the National Executive of the National Union of Mineworkers. What I am about to say to the Committee—and I address myself particularly to the hon. Gentleman—will have a sympathetic reception from every coal mining representative. As I am on the side of the miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1675.0", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "because of the coincidence—and it was a coincidence—of the timing of the miners' dispute with the dispute that possibly could have arisen this week in electricity supply, and if one thinks that in future if one of these were defeated—if the miners, for example, were defeated on this occasion—we could have the various power unions getting together and putting concerted pressure upon the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-10", "file": "debates1972-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "597c4c381b97710a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1679.0", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to have this reassurance. Perhaps our suspicions are ill-founded. Perhaps it is just that we all have memories of the way an attempt was made to achieve", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-10a.1679.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-11", "file": "debates1972-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eb543deb16bd15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-11a.1731.1", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " bargain\", which would have resulted in another £15 million, anyway, and would therefore have reached the total of £48 million? If the right hon. Gentleman does not want to rely on my mathematics, perhaps he will read the Financial Times, which yesterday made it abundantly clear that the revised offer fell within the 7–8 per cent. pay guide-lines, just as the old offer did. May I therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-11a.1731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-11", "file": "debates1972-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eb543deb16bd15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-11a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "th Mr. Feather on these subjects. I entirely endorse the seriousness of what I have said, and cannot seek to minimise it. What we must be so concerned about is the conservation of the minimum load on the electrical plants, bearing in mind that the reconstitution of stocks, even when the strike is over, will still imply a continued restraint on electricity supply for a considerable time afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-11a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-11", "file": "debates1972-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eb543deb16bd15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-11a.1767.6", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "Further to my point of order. I feel obliged, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to assert that there is such a list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-11a.1767.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-11", "file": "debates1972-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eb543deb16bd15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-11a.1805.1", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "inuing discussions of the hon. Gentleman's Sub-Committee. Because of the importance and magnitude of the problems underlying the promotion of the Bill, we must be sure that any actions that we take have been very well thought out, so as to work for the advantage not only of the regions but of the country as a whole. Having said that, I would not advise my hon. Friends to oppose the Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-11a.1805.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-11", "file": "debates1972-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eb543deb16bd15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-11a.1826.7", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIGARETTES (PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-11a.1826.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "icketing. First, peaceful picketing is lawful and, so long as it is peaceful, it may legally extend beyond the movement of coal to the movement of other commodities. This is the law. Secondly, obstruction and intimidation are not lawful, and it has been held in the courts that the mere number of pickets present, even though they are behaving entirely peacefully, can itself constitute intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ul, and it has been held in the courts that the mere number of pickets present, even though they are behaving entirely peacefully, can itself constitute intimidation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am merely giving the House what has been decided by the courts of law. No doubt there have been examples of unlawful picketing and of intimidation. We have all seen on television examples of this intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "d I understand why. But at the same time there is considerable public concern if it in any way appears that illegal picketing should have prevented coal which is available to the Generating Board being burnt by the board to enable people to keep warm and to keep employed. These are very difficult issues indeed. It would be wrong to try to reach decisions on these matters in the heat of the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.40.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "Certainly figures are collected, and so far as they are relevant they will be published. If the right hon. Gentleman seriously asks me the reasons underlying the timing of the state of emergency, I can only assume that he did not listen to my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "meet either the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry or the Minister for Industry who is directly responsible for the coal mines. It is, we believe, essential that the dispute should now end and as soon as possible. My answer to the hon. Member for Derbyshire, South-East (Mr. Rost) is that it is not the business of the Opposition to tell the N.U.M. to get its men back, but it is our business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "cy, a social services policy and a taxation policy which adds immeasurably to the burdens of the lower paid and then urge upon them restraint. At present there is passing through the House a Bill which will increase the rents of council house tenants by £1 a week. The Government cannot say to men whose rent is being increased by £1 a week that they should not make wage claims to cover that amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "ch will increase the rents of council house tenants by £1 a week. The Government cannot say to men whose rent is being increased by £1 a week that they should not make wage claims to cover that amount. [ Interruption. ] The Government cannot tell ordinary men and women to desist from making wage claims at a time when the Government are putting up the price of school meals, withdrawing school milk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.56.5", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tugendhat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "I was thinking that the hon. Gentleman's intervention was almost as long as my speech. That the miners are in a very strong position nobody doubts. The question is whether anybody has the right to abuse his position, especially when it is a strong one. My speech has not been meant to be inflamatory, and it has been far from inflamatory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.56.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Parkinson", "preceding_text": "impressed by the statement that a great profit is being made out of distributing coal, and that coal is being sold at £20 per ton. The impression given was that coal being sold at £20 had been bought for £5·84 and that there was a great profit tucked away for the distributors. But I looked at that matter and found that coal sold at £20 per ton leaves the pithead at very nearly £20 per ton.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.76.5", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "and insult the miners' leadership. We read yesterday, for example, a whole page in the Sunday Times arguing that the dispute would not have happened if it had not been for Joe Gormley and Lawrence Daly. But I have a pretty good memory, and I always tinge present arguments about justice with memory. My memory goes back to the Sankey Commission of 1919, when two of the outstanding miners' advocates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.76.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.76.5", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All written down?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "y Commission, the advocacy of Robert Smillie and Frank Hodges was so brilliant that it not only compelled the original Commission to declare in favour of nationalisation but it even brought its chairman, Lord Sankey, into the ranks of the Labour Party. One has only to think of the great figures since then, Herbert Smith, Ernest Jones, Jim Bowman, A. J. Cook, Will Paynter—all of them in their time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.76.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.77.5", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only just.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "The point about the miners' dispute is that they knew from the start what they wanted. They started on their claim almost as soon as their last one had been settled nearly a year ago. They could not get the vote they wanted under their union rules, so they altered the rules and got a ballot vote in favour of the strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.77.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.77.5", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "y conferences is that if this House is a hot house sometimes, party conferences are a mad house. But the Prime Minister savoured the occasion to the full. He made a speech of sustained arrogance. There was not one word of compassion in it, not one word of comprehension. He thought the miners were had men, striking because they were wicked, instead of good men passionately believing they are right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.77.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Not yet—I will give way in a moment when I have finished with the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.86.2", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tugendhat", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "Nobody who heard my speech could accuse me of hounding the miners", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.86.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "I know the hon. Gentleman used that term, having said a number of other things, but that does not make his offence any less great.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.87.5", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Yes, he is; he is reversing the position, and I will come to the right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary to show that he, too, within four days has reversed his position. The right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has a duty to ensure that the two sides get together under his instructions to man and run the depôt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.87.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "It is equivalent to just under 4·5p per therm. I have answered the hon. Gentleman's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "e first is that the miners have been given a lucrative offer. The second is that they had increases in 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970. In the last two years there have been unofficial strikes and this year we have an official one. The miner's standard of living relative to that of his colleagues in the economy fell under the Labour Government but fortunately it has been rising under the Conservatives.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.108.7", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "from 140 million tons to 109 million. If the pits are not reopened it will mean disaster for the industry. Many people may say that the safety cover promised by the National Union of Mineworkers should have been forthcoming but that the union leaders have no control over their own workers. That may be so. I can only discuss the arguments, because I am not a miner, although I have been down a pit.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.108.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.113.5", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "preceding_text": " complete and absolute intransigence. He also showed that this is a political strike. He made that perfectly clear. He glorified in stating that it was a political strike. He stated emphatically that he was for the workers, for the miners. Who are the workers? Practically everyone in Britain today is a worker, even Members of the House of Commons. Let us not try to divide the nation on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "xact figures, because I asked the research department of the Library to look up details of miners' earnings and the cost of living from 1964 to 1970. The information is dated 9th February and is headed \"Research Division, The Library, House of Commons: The average weekly cash earnings (excluding the value of allowances in kind)\"— that is, coal and in many cases either free or very low-cost houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "art of the organised workers to counteract it by securing higher wages should be ruthlessly resisted.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th July, 1967; Vol. 751, c. 100.] Then we had devaluation. Why did we have devaluation? We had devaluation because every other policy that the Labour Government had tried to solve the unemployment position and to put the country on the road to prosperity had failed completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "ners are tough and brave, but so is the whole British nation. If the miners persist in their strike, they will, I believe, find increasing opposition to their case from more and more sections of the British public. In the end, public opinion always wins, just as it did in the power dispute at the end of 1970. What a time this is to have such troubles. Everyone knows that recovery was due to start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not illegal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I have written to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary about it. We must insist that the depôt be opened again. A second equally serious incident happened today when pickets in the West Country tried to stop the unloading of a coaster carrying coal. We live by imports. If imports into Britain can be stopped by illegal picketing, the nation can be brought to its knees in a matter of days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "de and Industry in greater strength than at the moment and than it has done for the last two or three hours. One would hardly think, looking at the House of Commons, that we were in a state of emergency. We are not debating the coal miners' strike; we are debating a state of emergency in the nation when factories of every industry are closing down and people being thrown out of work and suffering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "e on 18th January I accused the N.C.B. of failing to identify with the miners, and when the N.U.M. turned down the N.C.B.'s offer last week and refused to go on talking, I believe that it then became in danger of failing to identify with the public interest. This saddens me because we are all concerned with the public interest now. We want to put Great Britain back in the game and back on the map.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "one or two Ministers who were warning the others. The best defence, indeed, the only defence of the Chairman of the Emergency Committee, or the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, or the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, and the only excuse for them, all of them, is that they were taking orders from the Prime Minister. I shall come to him shortly.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "for which the Government, obviously, was unprepared…Is the Government intending to give in to the miners, once it has found a means of doing so without losing too much face? It would be a pity if this were so; but, if it is, there is much to be said for doing it at once, openly and honestly, rather than subject the public to ultimately pointless hardship and inconvenience. Next, The Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I will give the hon. Gentleman my exact answer to that in the course of my speech; I promise him that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I will give the hon. Gentleman my exact answer to that in the course of my speech; I promise him that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I promise the hon. Gentleman that I will not forget. Or perhaps the Secretary of State will tell us what he thinks of the statement by Mr. Walter Terry in the Daily Mail today, to the effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ness, as usual, was armour plated. I wonder whether the Prime Minister understands what effect those words had in the places where they were supposed to have some effect. The Prime Minister presumably was trying to end the strike. Presumably he was trying to make an appeal to the miners, to their families and to the mining communities. He ought to know—I hope he has read the reports in The Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.150.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " against the emergency powers tonight not only because we believe the Government must bear the responsibility for their grotesque mishandling of the strike but also because if their emergency powers are voted clearly by the House there is no promise or undertaking that they will not use them to prolong the strike rather than to settle it. We have had enough of this from the Prime Minister already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is Ted?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": " wind up for the Government, greets the end of this debate. It is singularly out of character with the debate as it has so far proceeded. Although I acknowledge the right of the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) to put a long series of questions to the Government, to state his views of their incompetence, and ask them to answer to those views, what he had to say was purely incandescent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The fifth item has been the whole question of picketing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "the effect upon the working life of the country. The whole House would wish to know what are the latest figures that I can give of the situation. The amount of coal stocks at generating stations at the moment is approximately 4·8 million tons. Of that total quantity, about 2·2 millions tons were denied to use by the Central Electricity Generating Board by picketing and other factors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go and dig it yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "d to the degree that the domestic consumer responds to the strong appeals made for economy. If that response were satisfactory, the total economy in use could rise to perhaps something of the nature of a third of the total load. At present, with the stocks which are there and available for use, the anticipated endurance of the C.E.G.B. is approximately two weeks at the present rate of consumption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "nvolved these many concerns as well as their representative bodies. To imagine for a moment that there has been, so to speak, an absolute vacuum of activity until last week is completely wrong and nonsensical. If I may say so, to be able to deliver 20,000 individual letters of direction to the 20,000 companies concerned on the day that I made my statement last week was not pure accident. Moreover—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ereby we do not concentrate in successive days on individual households the maximum risk of supply restriction. If we do, the natural result is that households where there is hardship—where there are old people, invalids, children, and the like—can, under severe conditions of restraint, find themselves day after day without hot water and heat. As a matter of cold decision we decided that we would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "utomatically would be that industry would not only have the days on which it was prohibited from using electricity but would also suffer on the other days from increasing risks of rota disconnection. I have sought to explain what went on in the consultations, that they were not at all superficial or late in the day, and that the Government had to face this major problem. Now I come to why did not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "between the N.C.B. and the N.U.M. When the talks between those two bodies broke down at the beginning of January, the parties were poles apart, miles apart in their approach to the problem. The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale asked why we let four and a half weeks go by. Has he forgotten that on 19th January Mr. Feather, the General Secretary of the T.U.C., tried hard to bring the two parties together?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Not untypically, the right hon. Gentleman seeks to intervene not at all on a point I was making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "tirely different. I have been asked to what degree the Government were holding the strings of a National Coal Board puppet. The answer is that they were not. What is certainly true—and I have never denied it and I will not deny it—is that the Government never failed to make known to Mr. Ezra and the National Coal Board negotiators their grave concern with the rate of inflation in wage settlements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "eny it—is that the Government never failed to make known to Mr. Ezra and the National Coal Board negotiators their grave concern with the rate of inflation in wage settlements. [ Interruption. ] Who would not? If hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite were in Government, would they have failed to do that? Right hon. Gentlemen opposite are the first to make objections. Would they have stood silent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-14", "file": "debates1972-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ca73acdbe0d15bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": " constable deciding that he has reasonable cause to arrest one or more miners. I invite the attention of the House to Regulations 32, 33 and 34. One can visualise the situation at the docks, at a power station, or anywhere else, of a constable, thinking that he has \"reasonable cause\"—those are the words in Regulation 35—for arresting someone. Does anybody imagine that if Joe Gormley were arrested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-14a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-15", "file": "debates1972-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "bd32fcfc57938958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I believe that that is a fair question to put to the Leader of the Opposition. I should have hoped that he and his Front Bench spokesmen would have answered it unequivocally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-15", "file": "debates1972-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "bd32fcfc57938958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.239.4", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman studied what I said in Saturday on this point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-15", "file": "debates1972-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "bd32fcfc57938958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "—on the understanding that the Prime Minister on Saturday should have intervened with both sides, got the issue settled over the weekend and saved a week. Is he aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-15", "file": "debates1972-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "bd32fcfc57938958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.242.4", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (RESPONSIBILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Whatever the Leader of the Opposition may or may not have said, I see that the National Executive of the Labour Party yesterday passed a resolution giving full support to the miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.242.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-15", "file": "debates1972-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "bd32fcfc57938958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "I am sure the whole House hopes that the friendly relations established in both peace and war between our two countries will be able to continue under the new defence agreement. Is the Minister aware, however, that we on this side of the House condemn the clumsy and often insensitive way in which, particularly in the early part, the negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-15", "file": "debates1972-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "bd32fcfc57938958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": " both peace and war between our two countries will be able to continue under the new defence agreement. Is the Minister aware, however, that we on this side of the House condemn the clumsy and often insensitive way in which, particularly in the early part, the negotiations—[ Interruption. ]—were conducted? Once again the Prime Minister's obduracy and insensitivity characterised these negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-15", "file": "debates1972-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "bd32fcfc57938958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman that they must listen to a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-15", "file": "debates1972-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "bd32fcfc57938958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.277.5", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "that the United Kingdom would, in future, refrain from enacting legisation inconsistent with Community law.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th May, 1967; Vol. 746, c. 1089.] Clause 2(4) accordingly provides that present and future enactments shall be construed and have effect subject to Clause 2. I do not want to pretend that this process of Community law-making involves no constitutional innovation whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-15", "file": "debates1972-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "bd32fcfc57938958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I cannot and will not give a quick reply to that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-15", "file": "debates1972-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "bd32fcfc57938958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "were accepted—and I have not said anything to suggest that it should be—and even if the terms had been utterly different from those that have been brought back, I believe that the actual form which this Measure has taken is for many people an outrage. Indeed, it is as though it had been designed to give this House a kind of salutary shock, to teach it that it will count for so much less in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-15", "file": "debates1972-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "bd32fcfc57938958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "t is as though it had been designed to give this House a kind of salutary shock, to teach it that it will count for so much less in future. [ Interruption. ] Let me illustrate this. I do not pretend to a vast expertise in these matters, which, in any event, will be pursued in later stages of the debate. The very fact that Clause 2(1) is to enact these 1,500 regulations \"without further enactment\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-15", "file": "debates1972-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "bd32fcfc57938958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "Southend. This, as I understand it, was all in preparation for entry into the Community. This, as far as I know, has never been denied. It was certainly the last Government which did that. From what the right hon. Gentleman said towards the end of his speech, it is staggering that he has no personal idea of what is occurring on the Continent, at the Council of Europe or in the European Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-15a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend appreciate that that Act was introduced by the Labour Government in an effort to hide some of their housing policy failures? Does his reply indicate that, like all Socialist Measures, this one is all right in theory but no good in practice? Cannot we get a bit of private enterprise into this so as to get it going?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.401.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It was.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will recall that his own party in its manifesto for the General Election before last said that the Land Commission would reduce the price of land. No such claim was made by my own party in abolishing the Land Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.408.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.408.5", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Declare your interest.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "As the director of a company that has to buy land, not sell it, may I ask my hon. Friend whether it is not ironical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.408.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.410.3", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman asks me, I will of course look at the matter and see whether local needs are properly dealt with. But I must remind the House just how unsatisfactory the scheme is. Over the country as a whole there are 22,000 authorised garages and almost as many different results are obtainable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that this is a totally unsatisfactory position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that this is a totally unsatisfactory position—[ Interruption. ] What a load of rubbish hon. Members opposite are. This very serious situation in Camden is being dealt with in this form by a planted Question and an answer already rigged by the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "preceding_text": " are. This very serious situation in Camden is being dealt with in this form by a planted Question and an answer already rigged by the Minister—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—which hides the fact that Camden has probably done more improvements than any other borough in the country and the fact that the council, which was led by the hon. Member for Hampstead (Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg), who raised the Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.415.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.415.5", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "preceding_text": "ements than any other borough in the country and the fact that the council, which was led by the hon. Member for Hampstead (Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg), who raised the Question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] I am asking whether the Minister is aware that the council which was led by his hon. Friend tried to use improvements to tat up and bodge up property which should have been demolished. Is he also aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Julian Amery)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Julian Amery)", "preceding_text": "With permission, and in response to the request from the hon. Member for Manchester, Ardwick (Mr. Kaufman), I would like to answer Questions Nos. 9 and 25. The latest figures for local authority housebuilding indicate a distinct levelling off in the downward trend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.418.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Since the right hon. Gentleman was so effervescently anxious to answer the Question of my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF CROWN LANDS AND THE DUCHIES OF LANCASTER AND CORN WALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": " memorandum presented to the Select Committee from the Crown Estate Commissioners tells another story—but not all of it. James I, for instance, gave land to some of his favourites in Scotland. Charles I flogged off many of the estates to avoid coming to Parliament for cash, and on the security of the estate he borrowed £320,000 from the City of London to enable him to carry on a war with Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF CROWN LANDS AND THE DUCHIES OF LANCASTER AND CORN WALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I do not think the rule states specifically 10 minutes. I believe it says, \"a short speech\", and I shall be as short as I can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF CROWN LANDS AND THE DUCHIES OF LANCASTER AND CORN WALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition suggested we might get a modern opinion from today's Law Officers. I asked that specific Question of the Chancellor of the Exchequer last week, and he said, \"No, you are not going to get it.\" So on an opinion based on no firm foundation, made in 1913, that young man is getting a tax-free income of £105,000 a year. Looking at that, if we take two miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.436.7", "colnum": "436", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF CROWN LANDS AND THE DUCHIES OF LANCASTER AND CORN WALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I cannot put it in the exact words, but I can quote the word I used. I said, in effect, that it was indefensible that two miners should work for 50 years for £20 a week before they could earn as much in 50 years underground as we paid that young twerp in a year. That is what I said and, that is what I stand by. I end by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.436.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "require to negotiate what is meant by \"central areas\" as regards this country, and we shall then have to see whether the kinds of incentives which exist in this country, and the extent of them, are likely to be caught by the definitions of \"central areas\" which are eventually arrived at. We cannot know as yet what the definition of \"central areas\" is because we have not completed the negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.452.2", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "That would have been impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.454.4", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": " statement that needs to be made by a supporter of the Bill, that he does not know what obligations we are undertaking and what provisions and opportunities we may insist on. He went on to say: because unless this is done much as I approve of the price we are paying\"— and we on this side of the House, of course, do not— I do not think it has been sufficiently spelt out. Let there be no hypocrisy\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.454.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": " of Ministers, but at any rate, he cannot do it in this House by a subordinate instrument. The next is: to make any provision taking effect from a date earlier than that of the making of the instrument containing the provision\". That is very reasonable—that they should not have retrospective force—but again not a very revolutionary piece of giving rights to this House which it did not have before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fig leaf.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": " country would benefit from them. That of course, has not been shown. Proof of that burden has never been fulfilled by the Government. But even if the terms have been good for this country, bearing in mind what lies ahead, Parliament should not be left naked as this Bill leaves it with hardly a fig to cover the occupants of the Government Front Bench, which indeed covers up a horrendous spectacle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": " \"but\" which comes in after the semi-colon. Why the \"but\" is there I do not know. No doubt the learned Solicitor-General will tell us. There follows after the \"but\" the words: …except as may be provided by any Act passed after this Act… That seems to contradict what is said in the first part of the subsection. What has been taken away is given back, to use the words of the Scripture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Sir R. Turton), whose views have been long and consistently held and clearly set before this Parliament and others, is less than fair if he suggests that those hon. Members who favour entry to Europe are consciously gambling with parliamentary sovereignty. It is certainly an opinion, but it is not an opinion to which he is entitled.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "embers in this situation and understand and respect the views of people like the right hon. Member for Stepney (Mr. Shore), and the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) and the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. John Mendelson), who are utterly consistent in what they have said, rather than I have for the Leader of the Opposition, who is now so vigorously engaged in rebutting his own case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "noyed and that is when democracy begins to break down. I do not need to tell my hon. Friends—I do not know about hon. Members opposite—that the credibility of this Parliament and of our parliamentary structure as it stands is under considerable strain. I have been out canvassing as a candidate. The people did not know that I was a candidate and I know what they think of politicians and Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": " shall refrain from so doing. In view of the reports in today's newspapers on which the Prime Minister has said that he and the Cabinet will resign if the Bill is not given a Second Reading, I feel that I must deal with that aspect tonight, because nobody else has yet done so on this side of the House. I do not know whether those reports are true, because I have not been selected for an interview.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "or presumably go to the Queen on Friday—at a time like this, with the coal strike, Northern Ireland and massive unemployment, I cannot help feeling that the country would say the Government were using the excuse of the defeat of this Bill to run away from their responsibilities. I say that, because in a very important document for Conservatives, our election manifesto entitled \"A Better Tomorrow\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One hundred and twelve.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": " \"people\" in there. This was a pledge given to the nation because at the time of the election the nation was afraid of being bulldozed into the Common Market; and it was clearly meant to reassure the electorate on that very point. The consent of Parliament can be obtained by one vote, by a majority of one, but if words mean anything at all, full-hearted support is something much greater than that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": " from my farmers. I studied the statistics and prepared a memorandum on what I thought ought to be done in farming policy for the coming year. I wrote to my right hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mr. Peart), who was then Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, asking whether I could see him. I hope that he will not mind if I quote his reply, which I have always treasured: My dear John\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "d the Treasury in the annual price review, and it would be quite inappropriate for me to listen to, or be influenced by, the views of a Member of Parliament on such a matter. He went on to say that, once he had reached a decision and made an announcement, I could of course raise the matter in the House, and he would always be glad to see me at agricultural Questions and at other times of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the other nine months?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "ent, I could of course raise the matter in the House, and he would always be glad to see me at agricultural Questions and at other times of the year. [ Laughter. ] This has been the practice of the House. This is the reality of sovereignty. In the crucial three months of the price review period, this House has not been able to argue and discuss these matters or to see Ministers since the 1947 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-16", "file": "debates1972-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "521cb23bee47235b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "mmon agricultural market and give effect to a common agricultural policy. The nature of these regulations etc. is described in more detail below. It is a bit hard to understand how hon. Members can come to the House now and say that they have never seen the regulations before. After all, the White Paper says what the regulations are. Then I come to the statement made by Lord George-Brown to W.E.U.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-16a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.594.4", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "hole House is aware of the fighting reputation of the Parachute Regiment, including the First Battalion, and of the training and the qualities which distinguish it from other units, but is he quite sure that those qualities were appropriate to the crowd situation which existed in the Bogside on 30th January? Was it not a case of bad staff work and wrong troops in the wrong place at the wrong time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.594.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will recollect that the Prime Minister gave me a promise a fortnight ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will recollect that the Prime Minister gave me a promise a fortnight ago—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—that I should not have to wait long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will recollect that the Prime Minister gave me a promise a fortnight ago—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—that I should not have to wait long—[ Interruption. ]—for a certain decision relating to the development areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.621.2", "colnum": "621", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the importance of the subject which the right hon. Gentleman brings forward. I could not find time in the House for a debate on this matter next week. These matters can frequently be arranged in the Welsh Grand Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.626.2", "colnum": "626", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Boardman", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend had any indication from the Leader of the Opposition whether he and his colleagues support or repudiate industrial action on the part of unions which are not involved in the dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.626.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.627.2", "colnum": "627", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the \"no power for three days\" each week rule to medium and large industry is creating a tremendous problem in Sheffield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.627.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.629.4", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": ".I. has had to cancel its meeting tomorrow with its opposite numbers in the Six because of the industrial crisis. The timing of the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy is affected, too. His theme in this debate, as we shall hear later, and his theme for the weekend's talks with President Pompidou has been transmuted into dreams of great-Power status in candlepower Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.629.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.629.4", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " right hon. and hon. Friends by a majority decided to oppose entry into the Common Market on the terms negotiated by the Government. But for those on this side of the House who took a different view and supported the terms which the Government had negotiated—indeed, for all of us who sought entry on the right terms—one thing is clear. It is that the advantages we saw from entry on the right terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.629.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.629.4", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ek the closer unity of Europe by whatever means and whatever terms may be negotiated, the sincerity of the aspirations expressed on one side of the House or the other and on one side of the argument or the other. One reason why the great debate here and in the country has been worthy of the importance of the subject has been not only the sincerity of all who have taken part but, no less important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.629.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "angements, with no mention of quantities. The protocol could be met by exceptional arrangements to provide one pound of butter, avoirdupois or its metric equivalent, per year. There is nothing in the protocol to rule that out, and there is no power in the hands of the Government to enforce anything different, because they cannot use the veto. Consequently, the unanimity concept which Mr. Marshall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "tutional implications of the Bill—were sharply criticised in The Times, not I believe maliciously but through characteristic imperception, as implying a repudiation of entry on any terms whatever. That is not the position of the Labour Party, either by decision of conference or of the parliamentary party, as we have made perfectly clear and as we have voted. What I want to say now is irrespective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "s of hon. Members concerned about the ability of one Parliament, or, still more the ability of a Government without parliamentary reference, to bind a future Parliament. From time to time there are acute differences between the main parties in this House and in the country. This Government abolished I.R.C., the Prices and Incomes Board and the Consumers' Council within a few days of taking office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "It is a total misunderstanding of the structure and shape of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "It is a total misunderstanding of the structure and shape of the Bill. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman is asking me, and I am answering his question, why the Bill makes important and necessary changes in statute law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "earer 200 than 100 if there had been a free vote on the Opposition side of the House. So the will of Parliament is abundantly clear. The formula that has been devised to try to enable most of the Opposition to vote in the \"No\" Lobby against the Second Reading is a sham. It is a transparent fraud and does not even provide a figleaf of respectability behind which naked party games can be carried on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the function of politicians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "preceding_text": "nto Europe, I agree that it will be bad for future Governments, whether Tory or Labour, and very bad for Britain. The hon. Member mentioned sovereignty. I do not want to be a cynical materialist, but I doubt whether there is any strike or strife in this country arising from a loss of sovereignty. The miners are striking for another fiver in their wage packets, not because of a loss of sovereignty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "preceding_text": " Member mentioned sovereignty. I do not want to be a cynical materialist, but I doubt whether there is any strike or strife in this country arising from a loss of sovereignty. The miners are striking for another fiver in their wage packets, not because of a loss of sovereignty—[An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the function of politicians.\"] That may be so, but the point about sovereignty we should forget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Everyone should give way once, even in a debate in which there is not much time left. But I must say with all charity that what the hon. Gentleman said is not strictly relevant to the point I was making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.705.2", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Some did, but most did not. I ask hon. and right hon. Members to address to themselves this question: \"Did I tell the electorate in June, 1970, whether or not I was in favour of entry\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.705.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.705.2", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Some did, but most did not. I ask hon. and right hon. Members to address to themselves this question: \"Did I tell the electorate in June, 1970, whether or not I was in favour of entry\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] I will complete the sentence. \"Did hon. Members tell their electorate, whether or not they were in favour\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.705.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.706.4", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Genuine negotiation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "That vote was in favour of negotiation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.706.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.706.4", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "That vote was in favour of negotiation—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Genuine negotiation.\"]—In favour of genuine negotiation but, as I said earlier—and I do not know whether my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Lewes (Sir T. Beamish) was here—we none of us have the right, faced with this Bill, to go back to White Papers and declarations in previous years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.706.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.706.4", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "e Front Bench do not think so. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister does not think so. In order to secure a narrow majority in the Division tonight, they have brought to bear upon hon. Members of different views, despite my right hon. Friend's assurance that they would have an absolute right to vote as they so decided on this question, every available form of pressure. Is that a sign of belief?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.706.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "aying that during a former debate I had put a question to him about the central areas which he had answered very effectively. But in fact he had totally failed to answer the point—I am glad to see that the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs has arrived. The Government really are dragging them back! Perhaps he will be a bit more successful here than where he has been up to now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": " is so much support for the concept of entering the Common Market that there has been more arm-twisting on the issue than on any other I can remember. If any hon. Member feels very deeply about an issue, irrespective of what his Government decide, and no matter how much he is pressured, he should be prepared to put the interests of his constituents and what he thinks is right before anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "me, like my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer), if I did not recognise what some of these anxieties are bound to be for hon. Members when they find themselves in conflict with their parties. Like my hon. Friend, I have had some experience in this respect. On this occasion I am in the happy position that I agree with my party—or perhaps I can say that my party agrees with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " these things into account, even the conversations with some of his hon. Friends that the Prime Minister is alleged to have had. Of course we do not know whether to believe the reports in the papers or to attribute this solely to the Prime Minister's irrepressible spirit of conviviality. Whichever it may be, these conversations have taken place, and I do not think that we have a right to complain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "honour to be a Member of this House, as I believe it to be—to support the matter on its merits: not on the question of what somebody said in 1967, not even on the authority of the White Paper of 1967, but on its merits. The Prime Minister laughs at this, but it is not a matter to be laughed at. I believe the House of Commons will much better perform its duties if it argues the issue on the merits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "portunity that the British people had to settle this question was in June, 1970. If the Bill is passed, that will be the fact. If that were to be so, I should have thought that it would have been tile responsibility of the political leaders of all the parties in this country to make sure that at the last General Election the issue was openly presented to the people. That was not the case, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman does not share it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "s, but it applies equally to the rôle which this House plays in the life of the nation. This House will adapt itself to the new situation in a European community—and, what is more, will play its part in influencing the development of a European Parliament, to be effective in the institutions of the Community. I respect the hon. Member's deep love of Parliament, of which he has often spoken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "nsistent with our intention stated last June and consistent with the normal procedures of the House. The vote last October came after more than a decade of negotiations; after a long period during which hon. Members had reflected on the matter and had discussed this thoroughly with all the various interests involved. When the time came for the vote, there was a free vote on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": " we have moved to the next stage in the proceedings. The Leader of the Opposition said this afternoon that he did not propose to raise again the basic issues. I agree. I believe that outside this House there is no desire now to reopen the debate of principle. The Leader of the Opposition did not wish to raise basic issues. Overwhelmingly the desire now, the decision of principle having been taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition raised three particular points—New Zealand, sugar and fisheries—and while I do not wish to go into them in great detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "unilaterally, on our own. The question, therefore, if one is dealing for example, with fisheries as far ahead as 1982, is how we can best protect our rightful interests. If it is to be done on a majority decision, then there is a possibility of being outvoted. But if it is a question of a unanimous decision and we have the right of veto, then we have the ability to protect our essential interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.746.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "required, where repeals are to take place, and where there is to be substantial change in our law. Where these changes are not required till later, that can be done through legislation, or statutory instrument, as was, again, precisely, foreseen in the White Paper of 1967. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition mentioned the question of levies and taxes. Again, this is nothing new.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.749.7", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "world events. Looking to the future, the enlarged Community must aim at making its full contribution to resolving the problems of East-West relations, the problems of China's growing stature in the world, and the needs of the developing world. It is by exerting our influence through the enlarged Community that we can ensure that his aim is realised. We recognise, as I said when signing the Treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.749.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.757.6", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What precedent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "In accordance with precedent, I want to ask the Prime Minister if he will now make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.757.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.758.3", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The first is that, in breach of his election promise, the Prime Minister has not got the full-hearted consent of the British people. Secondly, he has not got the full-hearted consent of Parliament. Thirdly, when he said he must get this through on Tory votes in a majority of this House, he has not done so. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.758.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I was on my fourth and last point. Since the right hon. Gentleman had not got it from his resources proper on his own side of the House and since his whole majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-17", "file": "debates1972-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f9f364d1a6adda39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.759.5", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have only six or seven words left. Since the right hon. Gentleman's whole majority is given him by the Liberals, despite Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-17a.759.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-18", "file": "debates1972-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c47ecf02eac84037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-18a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is no excuse\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "ot making any physical contact with the aggrieved parties, I want to put on record that none of us on this side of the House in any way supports attitudes of violence or anything of that sort. But I ask you, before you make any ruling, to take into account the circumstances of last night. The atmosphere and excitement—and this is clearly understood on both sides of the House—were quite incredible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-18a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-18", "file": "debates1972-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c47ecf02eac84037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-18a.774.3", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT (HOLIDAY EXTENSION AND EARLY RETIREMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "doubt that there is a vast public opinion moving in the direction which I seek to encourage by this Bill. The House may be interested to know that, of the largest postbag that I have ever had in the 17 years during which I have been a Member of this House, 90 per cent. were enthusiastically and overwhelmingly in favour of the Bill's provisions. I have analysed the 10 per cent. who wrote objecting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-18a.774.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-18", "file": "debates1972-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c47ecf02eac84037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-18a.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT (HOLIDAY EXTENSION AND EARLY RETIREMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "ployers. This is a something-for-nothing philosophy which so many hon. Members opposite wish to advocate consistently and which is hopelessly misguided, because work is its own reward, and those who believe that all we need to make us happy is extra leisure are living in a fool's paradise. The benefit and value of relaxation come because of disciplined effort. Honest, hard work never hurt any man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-18a.859.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-18", "file": "debates1972-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c47ecf02eac84037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-18a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (WILBERFORCE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "Whatever be the result of the current negotiations, may we hear from the right hon. Gentleman now that the Government have learned a lesson from this very sad matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-18a.870.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-21", "file": "debates1972-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "39426d11347d3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.912.5", "colnum": "912", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a personal statement about the events of last Thursday evening. While some Press reports of the incident may have been exaggerated, nevertheless if by any action I took I caused an affront to you, Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Liberal Party and the House, I wish to apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.912.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-21", "file": "debates1972-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "39426d11347d3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.923.1", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady knows that that is playing with words. There was not a penny of extra money connected with the Bill, and we know it. But I do not want to pursue that. It needed to be put on the record as a background to the hon. Lady's speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-21", "file": "debates1972-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "39426d11347d3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ries, and so on? In case anyone has doubts, as the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Mrs. Knight) has, about people being forced to go on a register, I would point out that there is advantage not only to possible recipients of organs but to the potential donor, if he should suffer a motor accident and be critically ill. It would be far easier to save him if that kind of identity card existed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-21", "file": "debates1972-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "39426d11347d3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "ety than simplicity, but it cannot hide the Government's failure to be as good as we should have liked them to be. The Government have congratulated themselves in the Amendment on the rising provision for…aids for the disabled\". As the Secretary of State knows, that statement is villainously complacent and totally unjustified. Indeed, there is much in the Amendment which is purely schmooze.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-21", "file": "debates1972-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "39426d11347d3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": " movingly on behalf of the blind. He spoke as well about the need for more interdepartmental co-ordination. The Secretary of State should not be too touchy or tetchy. I think he was both touchy and tetchy in his replies to my hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Dr. Summerskill) at the opening of the debate. He is not at his best when he seems restive. We are not attacking the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-21", "file": "debates1972-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "39426d11347d3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.1025.2", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.1025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-21", "file": "debates1972-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "39426d11347d3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Development, Scottish Office (Mr. George Younger)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Development, Scottish Office (Mr. George Younger)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Rate Support Grant (Increase) (Scotland) Order 1972, dated 7th February 1972, a copy of which was laid before this House on 14th February, be approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.1035.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-21", "file": "debates1972-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "39426d11347d3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.1035.6", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I would ask hon. Members to withdraw as quickly and quietly as possible. Meanwhile, if it is for the convenience of the House the two orders can be taken together. Is that agreed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.1035.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-21", "file": "debates1972-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "39426d11347d3481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.1049.3", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "oke! We are not finished yet because there is the cost of heating and lighting and it will be interesting to see how the Government finance the recent settlement. There has been bungling there and no doubt the Government's ideas will not be shared by one hon. Member opposite and there will be another resignation from the Scottish Office—this time the \"Parliamentary Private ill-mannered Secretary\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-21a.1049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH SERVICE COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"A Scotsman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Of course we are interested in this proposal, but some aspects are rather vague and rather limiting. The right hon. Gentleman said that there would be three commissioners—one for Scottish, one for Welsh, and one for English complaints—but that initially this appointment is to be held by one man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1141.3", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right when he talks about harmonisation, though that is not the phrase used in the decision of 21st April, 1970, which refers to its being assessed in a uniform manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1141.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1155.4", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Go on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "Mr. Shore rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "It was not, with respect. I remember all this very well. The February, 1970, debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not have time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "It was not, with respect. I remember all this very well. The February, 1970, debate—[ Interruption. ] This is where we get into the chess game about paragraphs 43 and 44. I do not want to go over all that ground again, but I have something slightly new to say to the right hon. and learned Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too much give and not enough take.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": " an enthusiastic European I am the last person in this House, I hope, who would wish to see the sovereignty of this House diminished. If that seems to some to be a contradiction, I will just say this to clarify the matter. In my view, when one joins in an agreement or joins a community of this kind there must inevitably be some diminution of freedom. It cannot be otherwise; there is give and take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1169.5", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "se days no attack was made on him. In 1966 he changed his mind because he thought he would be able to negotiate favourable conditions. Many of us thought that he could not be able to do so, and subsequently we were proved right. It is not unusual for issues to change. I remember many Conservatives being violently against the National Health Scheme, but when they found that it was becoming popular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "d our minds\". This is even more important when new evidence comes along, and there has indeed been some new evidence in the last few years. I am amazed at some of my hon. Friends. I heard one on the radio programme \"World at One\" shedding crocodile tears that we were making him do something against his conscience. It is amazing the number of times I have had to do many things against my concience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Start again, Arthur.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "there has indeed been some new evidence in the last few years. I am amazed at some of my hon. Friends. I heard one on the radio programme \"World at One\" shedding crocodile tears that we were making him do something against his conscience. It is amazing the number of times I have had to do many things against my concience—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am glad that hon. Members opposite have corrected me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So did Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "The Liberals know what happened to them. They lost a number of seats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " Minister said, to give their wholehearted consent, then there will be a scream and the Government will not get these matters through. Even if the Bill goes through, what do we find? We find that money and taxation will be raised in Brussels by some bureaucrats. Some will come from Germany which, by the way, I suggest has not got the history of the greatest of democratic traditions over the years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " through. Even if the Bill goes through, what do we find? We find that money and taxation will be raised in Brussels by some bureaucrats. Some will come from Germany which, by the way, I suggest has not got the history of the greatest of democratic traditions over the years. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"] Really, it is true. Italy is not the country of the greatest democratic traditions over the years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "With respect, we are on the Ways and Means Resolution which talks about the particular kinds of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1203.3", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loveridge", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Before the war\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loveridge", "preceding_text": " after decade, we placed not only our agricultural enterprises but also our industrial enterprises at a severe disadvantage. For this reason the year after year of successive drain by importing foodstuffs that we could well have produced ourselves at home prevented our ever building up any kind of substantial reserve to meet temporary balance or payments difficulties caused by industrial expansion", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1203.3", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loveridge", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a two-way traffic though.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loveridge", "preceding_text": " half our food. No other nation is in this situation. Therefore, we are at greater peril than any other country on account of the balance of payments, and always have been. The levies, in fact, will help us; they will help to push up home output of farming produce, and our own sales of farm machinery to Europeans will surely help also in curing any balance of payments problem there may be to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-22", "file": "debates1972-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2cbe57f39d7add9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (MANCHESTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "Further evidence of the Government's determination to deal with unemployment has been demonstrated by the recent announcement by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment concerning plans for greatly expanding industrial training facilities. As hon. Members will know, the setting up of a new Government training centre for Trafford Park was announced last July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-22a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-23", "file": "debates1972-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "94f51a4b58fc476e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-23a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Illegal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Home Secretary's statement that the charges against Mr. John Hume are to be dropped. I assume that that also goes for Ivan Cooper and other defendants. They are not terrorists but elected representatives of the Catholic community who were taking part in a civil demonstration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-23a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-23", "file": "debates1972-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "94f51a4b58fc476e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-23a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "e Home Secretary comes here at 3.30 in the afternoon with new legislation which the House is asked to pass in one day. May I ask the right hon. Gentleman what is the position of those hon. Members, particularly those in Northern Ireland, who may not be here this afternoon and may have an undoubted interest in this Bill? What arrangements have been made to notify them of this impending legislation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-23a.1295.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-23", "file": "debates1972-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "94f51a4b58fc476e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-23a.1301.3", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "My point of order in no way concerns the point of order raised by the hon. Member for Peterborough (Sir Harmar Nicholls) or your Ruling thereon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-23a.1301.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-23", "file": "debates1972-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "94f51a4b58fc476e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-23a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let it be clearly understood that I must have obedience to the Chair by everyone in the House, of whatever party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-23a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-23", "file": "debates1972-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "94f51a4b58fc476e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-23a.1408.2", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, it was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": "which can control what is done by the Army. What is in question is the legal responsibility for the acts performed by the Army. It is necessary to pass this legislation if there is to be legal protection for what the Army does. I express some surprise at the decision of the Northern Ireland Divisional Court since I see that the judgment of Mr. Justice Ackner does not seem to have been referred to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-23a.1408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-23", "file": "debates1972-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "94f51a4b58fc476e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-23a.1437.5", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Treacheries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "attention to the three undertakings which the Home Secretary gave—the first about retrospective criminality, the second about no effect on civil proceedings and the third that the Bill confers no extra powers on Stormont. That might not be so in the letter of the law, but it certainly does in the spirit of the law. We are in fact saying, \"For all your failures, your ineptitudes, your stupidities\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-23a.1437.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-24", "file": "debates1972-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b489893bc589cf51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1482.6", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James", "preceding_text": "I see the force of my hon. and learned Friend's reply, but at a time when many people are worried about the generation gap is it not a pity that a father cannot take his 16-year-old son into a pub for a pint of beer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1482.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-24", "file": "debates1972-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b489893bc589cf51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1490.0", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "As one who can and does claim to have stood up for the reforms towards the rights of the minorities in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-24", "file": "debates1972-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b489893bc589cf51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1494.4", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The reason was that throughout that time neither the National Coal Board nor the miners came anywhere near to reaching agreement and because the miners were not prepared to accept arbitration or a court of inquiry, which in the end had to be imposed on them by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1494.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-24", "file": "debates1972-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b489893bc589cf51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1518.3", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Several HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": " aircraft best suited to the R.A.F.'s requirement. We intend, therefore, subject to the conclusion of satisfactory contract arrangements, to place an order for about 25 Jetstream aircraft with Scottish Aviation Ltd. I believe that such an order will give considerable encouragement to the export prospects of this excellent aircraft and be appreciated not only in Prestwick but in Scotland generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-24", "file": "debates1972-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b489893bc589cf51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1525.1", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "w from East of Suez, that we should adopt a different world rôle, with a primary emphasis on Europe. We were right to press for that, but we should not delude ourselves. To bring about that degree of reduction in percentage of G.N.P. was a painful experience. We had difficulties with our allies and the Services, and we had persistent and most obsessional criticism from Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-24", "file": "debates1972-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b489893bc589cf51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1539.0", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "I accept the question. What Soviet Russia did in Czechoslovakia was absolutely wrong and indefensible, but this is partly due to the existence of the two military camps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-24", "file": "debates1972-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b489893bc589cf51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1622.5", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "nds—and less than £1 million—through charges for admission to museums and galleries. It is absolutely contemptible, and yet we see an effective increase in defence expenditure getting on for £400 million. This is a measure of the Government's priorities. This is where I profoundly disagree with the attitude of hon. and right hon. Members opposite. I, of course, am supporting the Amendment tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1622.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-24", "file": "debates1972-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b489893bc589cf51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1625.0", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": " what happened there. On the other hand, I tried to understand it; and in mentioning Czechoslovakia the hon. Gentleman has put his finger on the position of the Soviet Union. Some hon. Gentlemen opposite are obsessed with the alleged threat of the Soviet Union. The hon. Member for Cannock is one of them. He takes part in all sorts of rather dubious activities in this direction to demonstrate that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-24", "file": "debates1972-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b489893bc589cf51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1625.2", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "I am answering the hon. Gentleman's interventions one at a time. There is a persistent unwillingness on the part of many hon. Gentlemen opposite to understand the position. The Soviet Union was invaded during the war and suffered greatly, far more than any country in the world. This makes Russia defensive rather than offensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-24", "file": "debates1972-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b489893bc589cf51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1626.2", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman cannot seduce me twice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1626.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-24", "file": "debates1972-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b489893bc589cf51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1626.2", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "penditure. Militarists always claim—and this has been put forward from the opposite side today—that more armaments make us safer. They are always clamouring for more. The more defence expenditure we have the more they seek and clamour for. I wonder if anyone in the world feels safer because of the existence of nuclear weapons in any country. Do we feel safer because we have our Polaris submarines?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-24a.1626.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-25", "file": "debates1972-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8e50952d0f78b0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-25a.1758.0", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (HOLIDAY EXTEN SION AND EARLY RETIREMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [18th February].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-25a.1757.23"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-25", "file": "debates1972-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8e50952d0f78b0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-25a.1758.12", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "HARE COURSING (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [4th February].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-25a.1758.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-28", "file": "debates1972-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e819efa7226321aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.2.3", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that even while picketing was in progress, conversions were taking place at four power stations in the North and that equipment was being smuggled in to allow conversion to oil?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.2.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-28", "file": "debates1972-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e819efa7226321aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "n to oil? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right, too.\"] I understand the hon. Member's feelings. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, if it is not made abundantly clear by the Government and the C.E.G.B. together that this oil conversion is of a temporary and not of a permanent nature, further picketing will take place and there will be further trouble for the Secretary of State and for the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.2.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-02-28", "file": "debates1972-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e819efa7226321aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.9.6", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend agree that it has always been the law that when goods are sold the purchaser should have the free use of and the right to use those goods? Would he further agree that the action in previous weeks of picketing goods which did not belong to the National Coal Board was a violation of the law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.9.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-28", "file": "debates1972-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e819efa7226321aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.33.5", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Bean", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Bean", "preceding_text": " created last night of aloofness from the problem confirmed the suspicion of many people which I have articulated in the House many times, that even now, when the miners' strike is over, he does not understand that the strike was in part a product of unemployment. The 500,000 men the coal industry had to shed over the past few years gave the miners the feeling that they had to fight on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.33.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-28", "file": "debates1972-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e819efa7226321aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.33.5", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Bean", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Bean", "preceding_text": "yment. The 500,000 men the coal industry had to shed over the past few years gave the miners the feeling that they had to fight on this issue—[ Interruption .] That was the case. If the right hon. Gentleman had met the National Union of Mineworkers at any time in the past 18 months he would have known that the miners, quite apart from the very high rundown under all Governments, including our own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.33.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-28", "file": "debates1972-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e819efa7226321aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.33.5", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Bean", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Bean", "preceding_text": "een management and labour. Vic Feather said, \"We once had a hot line; now we have a cold shoulder.\" That is not a bad description of the right hon. Gentleman's policy. Thirdly, there is the Prime Minister himself, who has made it his business to keep out of all these matters to the point where he gives the impression of regarding industrial relations and unemployment as being well below his level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.33.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-28", "file": "debates1972-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e819efa7226321aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman that public attitudes to the trade union movement have altered in the last 18 months. With the rise in unemployment, many people who did not do so before now realise the importance of trade union membership, if only as a defence against redundancy, while many families now realise, perhaps for the first time, that the trade union movement also protects them from price increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-28", "file": "debates1972-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e819efa7226321aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How soon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-28", "file": "debates1972-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e819efa7226321aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "I will quote one small firm in Bolton which convinced me that we are right about the Common Market. This firm said, \"If you will get us into the Common Market, we will be employing three times as many people as we are now within three or four years.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-28", "file": "debates1972-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e819efa7226321aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Back to the 1930s.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "lise that there is bound to be risk in private enterprise. The essence of business is risk. Those who want security should choose the public service, where the wage rate may be lower but the security is greater. The public service can also attract those who wish to serve their country. A number of public services cannot find enough men and women. I am thinking of the Navy, the Army, the Air Force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-28", "file": "debates1972-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e819efa7226321aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. The last point he made was a cheap political one. I do not intend to give him the opportunity to make another. The basic fact to recognise is that the Government's policy is in ruins. Each venture of theirs has ended in disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-28a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.255.2", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Protection of Otters", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Carter", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Carter", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for the protection of otters. This is not the first occasion on which a Bill has been introduced for the protection of otters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Protection of Otters", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Page", "preceding_text": "I rise to oppose this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "o be here. That situation has been altered because Committee sittings have been put down for extra days. My right hon. Friend the Member for Deptford (Mr. John Silkin) told me that he would be here to answer the charges and allegations I shall level against him if he could get away from the sitting of the Committee considering the Local Government Bill, of which he is in charge for the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " for hon. Members at the beginning of the Committee stage or at other moments to make representations to you about the selection of Amendments so that you may take them into account and maybe make further recommendations later. What has happened on this occasion, as with other Bills, is that you have posted in the \"No\" Lobby an indication of Amendments to be selected. I will put to you at the end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "that, in regard to the majority of the Amendments on the Paper, the question is not a question of selection but one of order. That is to say, most of the Amendments—indeed, all of the more important Amendments—have been omitted not in virtue of my power of selection but because they are out of order and could not be called in any circumstances. The reason for this is the nature of the Bill itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "nd Steel Community, the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, and to exercise the rights of membership. In a word, the Bill provides the legal nuts and bolts which are necessary if the United Kingdom is to be a member of the Communities. It is not a Bill to approve the Treaty of Accession or any of the other treaties which are basic to membership of the Communities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": " Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, and to exercise the rights of membership. In a word, the Bill provides the legal nuts and bolts which are necessary if the United Kingdom is to be a member of the Communities. It is not a Bill to approve the Treaty of Accession or any of the other treaties which are basic to membership of the Communities—[ Interruption .] If it were such a Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "efully, of course, and in the case of his it may be that some of them could be in order in the form of new Clauses, but as they are at present on Clause 1 I have to find them out of order. I hope the Committee will realise that in making this decision I have to look at what I have before me. I have to look at the Bill. I have to take the advice of the learned Clerks and decide what is in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should emphasise to the Committee what I have already said. I have really no option in deeming an Amendment in order or out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Foster", "preceding_text": " why these Amendments are out of order. I might add in parenthesis first of all that there has been great confusion between the right of discussion and the right of amendment. A lot of arguments can be advanced as to why the House should not pass the Bill as all, because there are various objections to it. That I understand. But it is a rule of this House that wrecking Amendments are out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Foster", "preceding_text": "nts put forward by them. The fact that they disagree is no reason for trying to stop people speaking. The Amendments which are wrecking Amendments, are out of order. Let us examine why these Amendments are out of order. The reason is that when the Treaty of Rome was acceded to we acceded to all its provisions. Any Amendment which seeks to amend the Treaty of Rome through a statute is out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Foster", "preceding_text": "ch limit the area of Amendments and discussion. It is irrelevant to say \"Because I cannot put forward a wrecking Amendment, therefore Parliament in its unlimited sovereignty is being prevented from doing something of the utmost importance.\" A wrecking Amendment is equivalent to saying \"The Bill shall not pass\". It negates the whole principle of the Bill. These Amendments do that because they seek—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "n. and learned Member for Northwich that these are wrecking Amendments. These are not wrecking Amendments in fact or intention but are carefully drafted substantial Amendments to try to open up debate on matters of the greatest possible importance. Basing myself upon this fact and intention which can clearly be seen in the nature of the Amendments I will now deal with the second point of substance", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " or for the orderly conduct of business to proceed with the discussion of Amendment No. 96 and the Amendments associated with it, because about six pages of Amendments would have been overlooked we should have passed them by. I am not saying that the right hon. Gentleman's suggestion is a device or anything like that, but he is suggesting that we should accept the Ruling of the Chair as it stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "d in that view by my right hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Sir Robin Turton) with all his experience. I am making a suggestion which seems a wholly reasonable one without prejudice for the future. I should have thought that in all the circumstances that would be a reasonable way of proceeding at this stage. I urge on the Committee that this is a perfectly reasonable and sensible way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.303.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.307.2", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Sir Robert. I think that what happened is perfectly clear, and I also believe that it was not in the way you described. The understanding of myself and almost everyone in the Committee was that the Question was put and carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.319.2", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "es not feel particularly aggrieved, but there are some others which do feel aggrieved. The key question that arises for British industry is that, unless there is a fairly full explanation at some time, then a Government which try to do this sort of thing again will never be fully believed. Some of us wonder whether a Rolls-Royce option could ever be handled again in that form and get away with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-02-29", "file": "debates1972-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20645c1eeb2208ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-02-29a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "f going on with this engine\"— that is, the RB211— 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/1972-02-29a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.399.4", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "I would certainly not accept any of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.399.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "lications of this legislation in regard to Wales exclusively. I say at the outset that this Motion is not, and is not intended to be, a personal attack on the Chairman of Ways and Means. Least of all is it an imputation, as I said yesterday, against his good faith and integrity. He is, of course, greatly respected by the whole House and I am sure that I have the whole House with me in saying that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "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": " Motion, which you, Mr. Speaker, have read to us, because it simply states: that the ruling given by the Chairman of Ways and Means on 29th February to the Committee of the whole House sitting or the European Communities Bill gravely infringes the rights of the House\". That is a direct criticism of the Chairman of Ways and Means. It is the substantive Motion against the Chairman of Ways and Means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "re will be no getout, as I shall show the hon. Gentleman. As the right hon. and learned Member for West Ham, South has introduced matters concerning the European Communities Bill, I think it only right, from my own point of view, to place on record the thoroughly reasonable arrangements which have been made for the House to debate the issue of Britain's joining the European Communities. Last July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Certainly. I am seeking to point out that anyone who suggests, as some right hon. and hon. Gentlemen did yesterday, that the Government have treated Parliament unreasonably on this issue, or that some gag has been put on discussion of the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I would have said in October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Naturally.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I give way to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I do not understand why hon. Gentlemen opposite should jeer when I give way to the Leader of the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "ake. I would have thought that they would want me to give way to the leader of a party in this House. My reply to the right hon. Gentleman is that I felt it was right for me to deal with the specific point of the challenge to the Chair. My right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy is the proper person to deal with the legal points, and he will do that when he replies to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.446.7", "colnum": "446", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "ar that the points raised by the right hon. and learned Member for West Ham, South will be considered and properly answered by my right hon. and learned Friend, as is the normal practice in this House. I draw my remarks to a close by returning once again to the Motion. Frankly, I hope it will not be pressed to a Division. If it is, then that can only be regarded as a direct challenge to the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.446.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.446.7", "colnum": "446", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "this House. I draw my remarks to a close by returning once again to the Motion. Frankly, I hope it will not be pressed to a Division. If it is, then that can only be regarded as a direct challenge to the Chair—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"]—and then, to borrow a phrase from my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell), the very stones of this place will cry out against us", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.446.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.446.7", "colnum": "446", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "ope it will not be pressed to a Division. If it is, then that can only be regarded as a direct challenge to the Chair—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"]—and then, to borrow a phrase from my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell), the very stones of this place will cry out against us [ Interruption .] I go further and say that they will fall on us, bury us all beneath them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.446.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "On this vital point the Leader of the House first contradicted the Chairman of Ways and Means, and now he has contradicted himself. The right hon. Gentleman said earlier that this Bill would have the effect of approving the Treaty of Accession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.449.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Brazen effrontery.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I thought I had made it perfectly clear that the Government had no such intention. No Government can know what Amendments would be moved. No Government can know what Amendments the Chair will judge in order. Therefore, I make that perfectly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.450.5", "colnum": "450", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": " a treaty which involves cession of territory that the Bill or statute to approve ratification comes before Parliament, but there is not a process as such of a treaty's ratification. There is a process of parliamentary procedure of the appropriate kind between signature and ratification. That is what we explained we were going to do on 20th January, and that is what we have done. I explained this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.450.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "y possible argument to delay the Bill. Before we resort to all the legal arguments, the flourishing of \"Erskine May\" and so on, it is sensible for us to consider the reasons behind the Motion. Let us take first the proposition that the Bill is defective—that it is so wrongly drawn, as the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) suggested, that it inhibits reasonable and proper discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "preceding_text": "day out to kill the Bill or cripple it gravely, and they did it without criticism from their colleagues, many of whom are now making loud noises about constitutionalism. It is the Solicitor-General who must answer for this Bill. In a very real sense his personal honour is involved. He and the Parliamentary draftsmen bid fair to becoming the holders of the most hated names in parliamentary history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member goes right to the root of my personal dilemma in this matter because I understand that both Front Benches are agreed that this is a Bill to approve the Treaty of Accession to the Communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I was anticipating that the hon. Member's career was not yet over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I was anticipating that the hon. Member's career was not yet over. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is.\"] No—he may get a peerage over Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.478.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Pass on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "My point was a parallel one, which is that we cannot amend these matters under the rules of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Foster", "preceding_text": "f order, but that cannot be done by means of a Motion of censure on the Chair. It is not the fault of the Chair that our rules of order are what they are. If the Chairman were censured—in other words, if the Motion of censure were carried—on this aspect of the case, then he would have been censured for ruling in accordance with our rules of order. Then there would be a new selection of Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.489.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It was the hon. Member for Pontypridd (Mr. John).", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "I certainly did not make that point. It must have been someone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.494.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "preceding_text": "s. But the Community treaty is another kind of treaty where it is a contract between A and B. Where one has such a contract which, owing to one's internal legislation, has to be brought into effect in the internal legislation, one cannot put in a reservation. All that one can do is to ask them to renegotiate. But if one does that, that is an end of the principle of the treaty and one starts again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.494.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "t which it is proper that the Leader of the House should give his views and at which we should look with extreme care. Those of us who tabled the Motion looked at it very carefully. We also looked at the precedents. I cannot say that I looked as far back as the speech I made in 1966, from which the Leader of the House quoted. I was searching not for what I might have said but for other precedents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Little.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "d as far back as the speech I made in 1966, from which the Leader of the House quoted. I was searching not for what I might have said but for other precedents. [ Interruption .] If the Leader of the House proved me inconsistent, I do not suppose the House would take that as a particularly grave matter, especially as I think it was Emerson who described consistency as the hobgoblin of feeble minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "tification or acceptance of the treaties. The Motion before the House two or three days before the treaties were actually signed was concerned with the provision of the treaties to the House, and no one can claim that the treaties were accepted then. So 20th January also falls. I suppose that could be argued but if the Leader of the House did not argue it we can be sure it was not a likely runner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "preceding_text": "rpose of beating the Government. He emphasised—as of course must be the case—that the immediate purpose of the Motion is not to attack the Government but to censure the Chair. At the same time he made it clear that the attack on the Chair is not directed at the bona fides of the Chairman of Ways and Means, but that the Opposition are, in effect, challenging his judgment, his ruling, his authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "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": "of course must be the case—that the immediate purpose of the Motion is not to attack the Government but to censure the Chair. At the same time he made it clear that the attack on the Chair is not directed at the bona fides of the Chairman of Ways and Means, but that the Opposition are, in effect, challenging his judgment, his ruling, his authority. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, I think it must be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": " he did, that the House was not told about how or when treaties are approved, because that was the whole purpose of our debate on the 20th January, and we referred back to it on Second Reading. He was also wrong to talk about the need for a ratifying Statute as such which might afford opportunities to amend the treaty. My hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Mr. St. John-Stevas) dealt with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ng which could be taken to imply that the scope of the Bill, and so the debate could, or would, go wider than the views that I expressed in January and again in February and which we have expressed throughout. I submit that the Bill follows normal constitutional practice throughout. Perhaps it is worth remembering what we were deciding when we approved the principles of the Bill on Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "roughout. Perhaps it is worth remembering what we were deciding when we approved the principles of the Bill on Second Reading. [ Interruption .] Some hon. Members appeared today to have some doubts about what they were doing, but those who voted against the Second Reading were out-and-out objectors to the Bill. They knew that if we were to accede to the treaties we had to have a Bill in this form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.540.0", "colnum": "540", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman appears to be introducing a new dictum. He declares that because, in his view, the Bill is honest, it cannot be amended —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.555.6", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "The first Amendment is No. 96, in page 2, line 5, after 'and', insert 'subject to approval by resolution of each House of Parliament'. standing in the name of the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) and the names of other right hon. and hon. Members. Before I call upon the hon. Gentleman to move it, I think the Committee will be glad to know that I have selected another Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.555.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Robert. Is not the House in a very difficult position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Mellish", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Mellish", "preceding_text": "ut this point of view? I asume that it must be put as a point of order. The Leader of the House must know, because he has held the position which I hold, that after all that has happened in the last two days the Committee is hardly in a position to discuss this Bill with the lucidity that it demands. You have rightly made an appeal, Sir Robert, but may I say to the Leader of the House through you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Mellish", "preceding_text": " may I say to the Leader of the House through you—[Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I am not concerned about back-benchers opposite. I want to put to the right hon. Gentleman through you Sir Robert, that to start now on the first Amendment to be called by the Chair would not be satisfactory. I am not quite sure what he means by \"progress\", but would it not be better to start on it at an agreed time next week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.559.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why split hairs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": " Amendment No. 96 and those grouped with it in your previous selection. If I am right in my understanding, I would wish to put two points to you. The first is that these two groups of Amendments, the new pair and the old group of five or six, raise substantially different matters which, I submit, it is highly inconvenient should be taken together since this would not lead to a satisfactory debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.562.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.567.4", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": " indeed, on the other side. It is he and his hon. and right hon. Friends who have done their best to frustrate those time-honoured procedures by preventing fair debate. Many of us want to contribute to the discussion on the Amendment which you have selected, Sir Robert, but we have not had an adequate opportunity for preparation. Surely the rights of back benchers should be protected by the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.567.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "ences Amendments Nos. 59, 50, 24, 25, 35, 45. 26 and 27, so that we are left with Nos. 32, 33, 47, 14, 36, 37, 42, 71, 72, 73, 74, 46, 75, 51, 43 and 60. The last group comes after No. 96. I therefore return to why I have chosen those Amendments. They are referred to in your letter of today's date, Sir Robert, to my hon. Friend the Member for Acton (Mr. Spearing), in which you distinguish between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.569.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.570.9", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": "concerned. 11.15 p.m. In a debate covering the British Broadcasting Agreement, Mr. Speaker Hylton-Foster adjourned the debate at about 3 a.m., on representations made by my hon. Friends, on the ground that no full discussion of any issue can be entered into by the House unless Members of the House have before them the requisite papers. On that occasion all that happened was that it was discovered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.570.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I appeal to the Committee to appreciate that we are abusing our democratic processes if we do not now make some progress with the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.588.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.588.4", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "hael Foot) and other hon. Members. If hon. Members wish to have a long discussion on that, then I do not think the Government would be inclined to ask for the closure. Certainly the Chair would not wish to grant such a request until there had been a considerable discussion of such an Amendment. I hope that I may now be permitted to call the hon. Member to move his Amendment, if he wishes to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Tatton Brinton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Tatton Brinton", "preceding_text": "The first part of my point of order, Sir Robert, is to ask you whether it is not our rule that points of order should be brief and to the point, and to ask you to rule when a point of order becomes obvious filibustering, of which we have heard a great deal tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I felt that it was a necessary preamble, Sir Robert, before coming to my point of order, to say that we so much regretted the attack upon the Chair as well as on hon. Members. As you correctly said, Sir Robert, we face a serious situation. This serious situation requires serious consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.590.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "Tedious repetition. Where is the point of order?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "on today are now making it impossible for us even to examine legislation to deal with Britain inside the very Committees of the House of Commons. With respect, Sir Robert, this is a serious situation. Recognising as you do, Sir Robert, the seriousness of your Ruling, and remembering the very powerful point put forward by the hon. Member for Burton (Mr. Jennings)—and, may I add, I regret very much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.591.4", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "t), the right hon. Gentleman for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) and the hon. Member for Burton (Mr. Jennings) are not issues only for the House of Commons. Some hon. Members opposite think they are jokes. But that is not so with hon. Members who have to report to their constituents on what we are trying to do here. The three hon. Members I have mentioned have argued that there is material—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.591.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.600.4", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Robert. I concede the point made by the right hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross). This last intervention was a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.600.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.600.6", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "two occasions, Sir Robert, you did not call me on a point of order, nor did I say that I was rising on a point of order. Your invitation to me, Sir Robert—I cannot recapitulate the precise terms—was an invitation to rise to assist the Chair and the general expedition of the business of the House. I am proceeding at some length because this is an important point. I feel very exposed on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.600.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.600.6", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eighteen stone\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "ation to me, Sir Robert—I cannot recapitulate the precise terms—was an invitation to rise to assist the Chair and the general expedition of the business of the House. I am proceeding at some length because this is an important point. I feel very exposed on this matter—[ Interruption .] And I shall not be put off what I am saying by the 16 stone of the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.600.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.604.2", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Robert. I seek your guidance with regard to a slightly different matter concerning the statement by the Leader of the House on Thursday, 24th February—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.604.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I see what the hon. Member is driving at, but it is a question of the interpretation one puts on the word \"desire\". A perfectly valid interpretation would be that they did not intend to move it at the time, and that would not preclude literally any other hon. Member moving it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.609.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.618.2", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Get to the point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "They may have made a decision not to participate beyond a certain hour. Whatever views one may form about the activities of the Liberal Party, they have taken a great interest in this subject. They are to be denied the opportunity of debate unless the House is allowed to adjourn. That equally applies to other independent Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.618.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "he proceedings of a committee on a bill may be brought abruptly to a close by an order, 'That the chairman do now leave the chair'… This would involve no surrender on either side of the Committee. \"Erskine May\" continues: The chairman in such cases, being without instructions from the committee, makes no report to the House. A bill disposed of in this manner disappears from the order book\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " to put is that when this sort of thing is taking place, the House of Commons sometimes has to take certain steps which result in some restriction of the rights of hon. Members. It seems to me that we are getting into serious danger tonight of so over-using the procedure of points of order that if this continues it may become necessary for us to start to impose some restriction on points of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheat', not 'cheap'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I gather that the hon. Member thinks this is a cheap observation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.655.2", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ese discussions the day before yesterday, when my hon. Friend began his first submission the Chairman of Ways and Means said: In a word, the Bill provides the legal nuts and bolts which are necessary if the United Kingdom is to be a member of the Communities. It is not a Bill to approve the Treaty of Accession or any of the other treaties which are basic to the Communities. If it were such a Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": " to a magnificent contribution by the Leader of the House, the situation was resolved. The right hon. Gentleman's behaviour was exemplary. We have a difficult situation now, and my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) has attempted to resolve it. There never has been an issue as grave as this before us. Many of us believe that the Bill is almost illegal in the way it is drafted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.656.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I have the hon. and learned Gentleman's point, and I am much obliged to him for helping me. But the whole Committee knows exactly why we have not made progress. It is because one part of the Committee does not want US to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.675.2", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Sir Robert. If this is so surely the Committee ought to be suspended to allow Mr. Speaker to come to the House and be questioned on this valid point. It is obvious to any intelligent person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.676.5", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "—and no one has taken any exception to them. It is part of my duty to say these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.676.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "guage on the last occasion which brought me to my feet for the first time on a point of order. I must ask you to allow me to put this point to you. During the course of this debate, you have been interpreting for the world at large what has been going on tonight. You have said many times that the reason why we have made no progress is that a section of the Committee does not wish to make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.677.3", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "is Bill became law we could debate night after night with no legal prospect of making real the conclusions that we had reached. This is what the whole thing is about. If this Bill goes through, I am very much alarmed that your interpretation will give the public who will read and take note of your words a wholly false impression that we are motivated by a desire to bring Parliament into disrepute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "accept a Motion like that under any consideration. Another thing I say to the right hon. Gentleman is that I am expressly charged by the House of Commons to assist it to get through the business before it. That is my work. I have to do that with strict impartiality so that both sides of the question are heard. The Queen's Government and the Queen's business must be carried forward in the long run.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "d by the House of Commons to assist it to get through the business before it. That is my work. I have to do that with strict impartiality so that both sides of the question are heard. The Queen's Government and the Queen's business must be carried forward in the long run. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I have to do my best. Those who are in the Chair have to see that the business is forwarded, if they can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.680.2", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"'Abused' was the word\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Sir Robert. I take very strong exception to the last Ruling, and particularly to certain words you used—whether or not you intended to use them. You said that we—and presumably you were referring to the Opposition side of the House alone—had disobeyed the orders of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.680.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-01", "file": "debates1972-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "eda697631c5df39c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "nt is the question of the Motion to report Progress and ask leave to sit again. During the period of the Labour Government, on numerous occasions on major Bills the Opposition exercised that right. Those of my right hon. and hon. Friends leading the Opposition tonight have tried to seek that right. I never knew a time when we went for eight hours with such a Motion not being accepted by the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-01a.687.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-02", "file": "debates1972-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d72709e38928499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-02a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "RHODESIA (ALL-PARTY DELEGATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "r own members to take part in delegations and that therefore it was intolerable that the choice should be limited. Thus, my preference was for an all-party delegation, though Lord Pearce is getting on with his work successfully without observation. I will answer the three specific points the hon. Gentleman put to me. The answer to the first is that I have told Mr. Smith that I regret his decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-02a.750.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-02", "file": "debates1972-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d72709e38928499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-02a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "RHODESIA (ALL-PARTY DELEGATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I am not sure if the right hon. Gentleman was around when this was considered, but the position was that Mr. Smith rejected a request for a Labour Party delegation and a Liberal Party delegation. I have never been keen on Lord Pearce's Commission being observed, but if it was to be observed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-02a.754.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-06", "file": "debates1972-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2065582206a51716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1038.4", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I distinctly heard the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) address the comment to the Prime Minister: \"taking your bloody clients away\". Is this in order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1038.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-06", "file": "debates1972-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2065582206a51716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "That is what I am trying to do, and the right hon. Member for Stepney is twisting all the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-06", "file": "debates1972-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2065582206a51716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "s to considering the legislation necessary to enable us to ratify the Treaty of Accession by bringing our domestic law into harmony with our obligations. Now that the House by giving a Second Reading to the Bill has reaffirmed the principle of entry into the Community on the terms negotiated, the opponents of the Bill are now resorting to what are basically procedural devices to obstruct progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-06", "file": "debates1972-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2065582206a51716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "Parliament (No. 2) Bill. He had experience of that retreat by the Labour Government. But this is not a similar Bill. This Government are far more determined on this legislation than the Labour Government were on the House of Lords legislation. In the end, the Government will introduce a guillotine. I fear that they will introduce it later rather than earlier, and I would prefer to see it earlier——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-06", "file": "debates1972-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2065582206a51716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1074.5", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "We in the Liberal Party have recently had plenty of practice in withstanding the jeers, and worse, of the Parliamentary Labour Party. We have all the time in the world. When time ran out on the Industrial Relations Bill, vote after vote went on without debate all through the night. At that time, I made it clear that we were not going to stay up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1074.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-06", "file": "debates1972-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2065582206a51716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1080.2", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " we can debate them—with the possibility, at any rate, of reaching an adverse decision. From the beginning, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and others have made plain what is an undeniable fact; that is, that this act of State cannot conceivably take place without the full hearted consent of this House and of the people. There is little sign so far of the full-hearted consent of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1080.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-06", "file": "debates1972-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2065582206a51716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "tish constitution, and if necessary the whole, in order to preserve the remainder. That seems to be the attitude of the Solicitor-General. The Solicitor-General has a very great and well-justified reputation throughout this Administration. We all know how much the Government rely upon him. Whenever they are in trouble or in a tight corner the cry goes up: \"Send for Geoffrey. \"Everybody knows that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-06", "file": "debates1972-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2065582206a51716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I cannot expect the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale to be regarded by the House as particularly representative of his party in claiming to be a consistent upholder of the rights of free speech and Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-06", "file": "debates1972-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2065582206a51716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1160.2", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member is spelling out with great patience and erudition the mechanical techniques which the Government have adopted to railroad this legislation through the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-06", "file": "debates1972-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2065582206a51716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not say it could not be amended?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ton, South-West. Because the passage of this legislation is necessary, that would be the time to debate the important questions, including those of sovereignty, to see how far the Government are carrying out intentions foreshadowed in the 1967 White Paper. That is the appropriate method and the appropriate time to enable Parliament to consider, approve and implement the consequences of the Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-06", "file": "debates1972-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2065582206a51716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where has Harold gone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " to pursue our application for membership with all the vigour and determination at our cornmand.\"—[OFFCIAL REPORT, 2nd May, 1967; Vol. 746, c. 314.] Then, six days later, he repeated: These applications will be made from strength, in a spirit of resolve.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th May, 1967; Vol. 746, c. 1096.] Where has that resolve gone? Where has that determination gone? Where has that vigour gone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-06a.1162.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-07", "file": "debates1972-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7c82cc8a48dfcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "preceding_text": "I wrote to The Times about this matter. I think that some of the procedures for Parliament to inquire into Community legislation will have to be altered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-07", "file": "debates1972-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7c82cc8a48dfcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1310.3", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "preceding_text": "No. It would be in the schedule to the treaty attached to the Order in Council. If the Order in Council specifies a treaty, I submit that we would be entitled to look at and discuss that treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-07", "file": "debates1972-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7c82cc8a48dfcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "preceding_text": "I come back to the fact that it was possible when a treaty was brought in by an Order in Council—for example, an extradition treaty, a double taxation treaty or, in the old days, a slave trade treaty—to examine the treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-07", "file": "debates1972-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7c82cc8a48dfcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1314.2", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "preceding_text": "table or the affirmative Resolutions under the Bill. This can be arranged. In my view, the Government would be wise to have a full discussion on this, but it seems to me to follow that because the Question put by the Chair would be purely that an order pass or not pass, if the question in the Bill is that it be regarded as a Community Treaty, the objections to doing so must depend on its contents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1314.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-07", "file": "debates1972-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7c82cc8a48dfcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "e Bill itself is unamendable.\"—[OFFCAL REPORT, 6th March, 1972; Vol. 832, c. 1155.] That is a distinction which the hon. and learned Gentleman drew clearly for the first time. He distinguished between the treaties themselves and the Bill, and he suggested that the treaties were unamendable but that the Bill was amendable. What the hon. and learned Gentleman said on 20th January was very different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-07", "file": "debates1972-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7c82cc8a48dfcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1357.2", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Northwich (Sir J. Foster). It is all very well for us to listen to such great speeches by highly practised and well-versed Members, many of them expert legal minds, giving their interpretation of what is to happen when we enter Europe. The speeches have been made in connection with the Amendments in the widest sense. As an ordinary back bencher who happens to be opposed to entry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-07", "file": "debates1972-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7c82cc8a48dfcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1357.2", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "ert legal minds, giving their interpretation of what is to happen when we enter Europe. The speeches have been made in connection with the Amendments in the widest sense. As an ordinary back bencher who happens to be opposed to entry—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—I am grateful to those hon. Members who so kindly agree that I am an ordinary back bencher—I want to put my interpretation on the words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-07", "file": "debates1972-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7c82cc8a48dfcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1357.2", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "inary back bencher—I want to put my interpretation on the words. [ Interruption. ] I am stalling a bit, because I had hoped that my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northwich might come into the Chamber, as it was about his speech that I wanted to speak. I greatly admired it. It was one of the first speeches by a pro-Marketeer that really spoke the truth. It told hon. Members where he stood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-07", "file": "debates1972-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7c82cc8a48dfcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1361.2", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Lewes (Sir T. Beamish)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-07", "file": "debates1972-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7c82cc8a48dfcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1361.6", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I have got under the skin so obviously of my hon. and gallant Friend. He of course has had experience of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1361.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-07", "file": "debates1972-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c7c82cc8a48dfcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1361.6", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": " as I am to mine. The view of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northwich is honest. At the same time, let no one tell me that my hon. and gallant Friend has not attempted to mislead the country about Britain going into the Common Market. I have heard him say things on television which caused me to say, \"I wish to goodness I had been there to answer him. I could have torn it into shreds\".—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-07a.1361.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1420.8", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIORMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hall", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply. Incidentally I am \"Madam\", not \"Sir\". My hon. Friend replied \"No, Sir\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1420.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1425.0", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIORMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that under the new proposals more money will be spent on new canals than before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1440.7", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIORMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I am not enough of a lawyer to know for sure that the document was improperly received. Certainly it was improperly conveyed. I do not know the law governing receivers of stolen goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1440.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1442.0", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIORMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The increases in rents which we are proposing are not, in practice, much higher than those which the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1443.7", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIORMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend dealt with that point very satisfactorily a moment ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1443.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1448.10", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It happened here.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. What happens in a Standing Committee is not for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1448.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1449.0", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not understand that the imputation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1449.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1451.5", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have to try to administer the Standing Orders. It is not always a very easy task. I have to try to prevent points of order being raised about matters which are not matters of order. I ruled that if there was any suggestion of a criminal charge being made against an hon. Member that should be withdrawn. My understanding is that that has been withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1451.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1454.2", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "TOURIST INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to authorise the establishment of a Ministry of Tourism with powers to lay down a code of conduct for the tourist industry and to consider and act on complaints made by holidaymakers regarding tourist facilities both in this country and in respect of travel overseas; and for matters connected therewith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the rest!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "provide for close contacts between the Community and the countries concerned. These treaties are being incorporated by paragraph 7, Schedule 1, of the Bill. Little is said about those treaties, but that is the situation. When we look at the few brief words in this provision, we must remember that we are talking about 10 volumes which are in the Stationery Office for anybody to buy at a cost of £6—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "lications of the Treaty of Rome, so that what we are discussing now are simply the nuts and bolts to operate the treaty, which, as we know, will take away many of this Parliament's powers. I am anxious not to make a speech when intervening in my right hon. and learned Friend's contribution, and I intervene at some length only because Scottish hon. Members are debarred from speaking in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1489.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " this series of Amendments. I understand the concern of the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. John Mendelson), who has temporarily vanished from our midst, and the hon. Member for Nottingham, West (Mr. English), both of whom have been endeavouring to intervene on a number of occasions. One must, however, see the picture as a whole; there will be further Amendments on which they will be able to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "respect, Mr. Godman Irvine—the lack of a continuous flow of information between successive occupants of the Chair about, for example, the fact that some hon. Members have intervened in more than one of these debates and also—again, without any disrepect to the Chair—the fact that the points they have been making have not all been truly related to the Amendments that we are endeavouring to discuss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1530.2", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I think it might alter the meaning of the Clause, and that is why it is there. It is there because someone might argue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1536.4", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1536.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "vement by Parliament in all these aspects, including the aspects of secondary legislation made by the Communities' proposals, which, until the very recent appointment of the committee under Lord Brooke, go beyond the extent to which Parliament has been able to be involved in such secondary legislation at home. It is not acceptable for the hon. Gentleman to say, \"We will not have any part of this\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1551.3", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "nience of the continued working of the institutions. But as the nature of the charge developed from small to large, the extent to which Parliament would react and would require the Government to react by taking the matter to legislation would depend on the nature of the matter under consideration. I suggest that this is a properly adjusted, diverse method whereby Parliament can assert its control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1575.0", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "e the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement—that is, Britain acting as a separate commercial power in its own right; we have this agreement or trade treaty—to buy certain quantities of sugar at a certain price. This agreement expires, because it is not to be renewed, at the end of 1974. If we enter the E.E.C. the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement—for sell sugar these countries must—cannot apply to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1575.0", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": " is no requirement to let us know. Even if we did know, we have no machinery and right in the matter under the first part of Clause 1(3). Am I right or wrong? I am never too demanding of the right hon. and learned Gentleman. Like myself, he is a reflective man and likes to think about his answers. I am happy to leave it at present. But what we want is not smart ripostes but the substantial answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-08", "file": "debates1972-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "75c4a960f46cebae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1603.0", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Swiss.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "ntries as a whole, whatever their views about the Common Market, are unhappy behind the scenes about the way in which the negotiations have been conducted. We may well have been keeping them informed at E.F.T.A. Council meetings, but we have been doing only the minimum. I know from some of my political contacts in Scandinavia that the Swedes and the Danes in particular have been extremely unhappy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-08a.1603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1638.0", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "May I make a suggestion to the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1645.1", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have previously visited Bathgate and I am willing to go there again. The particular problems, which my hon. Friend rightly mentions, must be left to management and unions to resolve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "Disqualified drivers!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1647.5", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Prime Minister will not exploit my question for short-term political ends. I want to ask him a question which is very sensitive and emotionally charged for the Labour movement, and which I believe to be a very important question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1647.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1651.5", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. When hon. Gentlemen opposite were in power they tried every form of so-called incomes policy—guidelines, declarations of intent, voluntary policy and compulsory policy—and each one failed. The present Government, on the other hand, have had success in the past 21 months in dealing with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1651.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1652.4", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Instead of all this waffle, will the right hon. Gentleman now answer my question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1652.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1653.2", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will never acknowledge that no firm in this country can be efficient, maintain employment and expand unless it has the resources for investment—and they can come from nowhere except profits. The Labour Government reduced profitability to such a low level that firms could not invest, and so unemployment increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1653.2", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "m nowhere except profits. The Labour Government reduced profitability to such a low level that firms could not invest, and so unemployment increased. [ Interruption. ] When the hon. Gentleman talks about rents, why does he not emphasise that under the Bill he has in mind 1¾ million tenants in the public sector will be getting rent rebates, and that in the private sector, for the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1653.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1664.4", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "My right hon. Friend did not say that the right hon. Gentleman did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "To be fair, I have never told the House that there would be a statement next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1664.5", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I know, but I wanted to put my position firmly on the record. On the question of when statements are to be made in the House, I am the person entitled to be believed, and I did not say that a statement would be made next week. I cannot say when a statement will be made. If I could, I would certainly tell the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1664.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1706.4", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "mber for Neath expressed this view when he said that he wants labour-intensive industry for the Principality rather than capital-intensive industry. In the short term both he and the Welsh Council are possibly right. I suppose we need a lot of jobs quickly. But in the longer term I am not quite so sure. Wales has suffered in the past from having too few industries which have been labour-intensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1706.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Ellis", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That they should resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Ellis", "preceding_text": "vernment, alarmed at the unemployment situation which they have contrived, have stimulated consumer demand, but have failed in the far more crucial matter of capital investment in manufacturing industry. I want to try to be constructive because I am a kind-hearted man and I feel sorry for the Government which is at sixes and sevens and in a terrible mess. I want to make a constructive suggestion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mr. David Gibson-Watt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mr. David Gibson-Watt)", "preceding_text": "e-condition to the successful application of a development area policy is the existence of a buoyant confident economy and a pre-disposition to investment. This is what we have been saying and this is what the Government's measures are wholly directed towards. My complaint is that the previous Government's measures produced neither a buoyant, confident economy nor any predisposition to investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1778.2", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "t background, it is fair for us to judge tonight which of the two major political parties, the present Government or the previous Government, has contributed more effectively to the prosperity of these areas, because the facts of the situation are that after six years of Socialist Government agriculture was on its knees. Government had ebbed away in the absence of any clear direction. By contrast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-09", "file": "debates1972-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0e81228615db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1778.2", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "to Europe. If hon. Gentlemen opposite do not believe me, let them look at the markets and at the state of the farms. Quite clearly, hon. Gentlemen opposite do not want to get mud on their boots. The fact remains that if any of us asks the stock farmers of Wales today whether they are doing better under this Government than they did under the last, they will give a pretty quick and definite answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-09a.1778.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Twenty minutes late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": " that the Bill is a revolutionary Measure. That is not just my opinion or an opinion put forward by the Opposition as part of the normal exchange of party controversy. It is also clearly the opinion of Ministers. I should have thought that the Secretary of State for the Environment might have shown us the courtesy of appearing for the debate—I am sorry, he is in the Chamber. I am glad to see him.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "hostility. Nevertheless, we do not propose to filibuster in any way, because there is far too much in the Bill that we want to get down to opposing, changing and amending. We have no intention of wasting time, because there is much too much in the Bill that we want to discuss.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, Standing Committee E, 25th Nov., 1971; c. 5.] My hon. Friends and I have fully carried out that pledge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.48.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.61.5", "colnum": "61", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "n no fewer than 344 occasions hon. Members opposite have been ruled out of order because of the irrelevancy of their remarks to the Amendment or Clause being debated. On a further 84 occasions they have raised points of order which have been ruled out of order. In addition, they have been responsible for another 52 miscellaneous and residual infringements of order, bringing the grand total to 480—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.61.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benyon", "preceding_text": "rtion, and this becomes increasingly hysterical as the public refuses to respond. Thus, we have had a number of sinister threats, already referred to today, made by various members of the Committee, which will not be forgotten as time passes. This is a Measure of major reform. Like all such Measures, from the abolition of slavery onwards, it has been opposed by reactionary elements in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Lady is saying is that she sits absolutely dumb and silent and if the local authority does not prompt her about the surplus she will say nothing. I have had letters from many Tory local authorities, sayings, \"How can we get rid of our surplus? May we plough it back into the general rate fund?\" Bromley council is one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The tactics on this side of the House are to discuss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.101.4", "colnum": "101", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I would at once acquit the right hon. Gentleman of any desire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.101.4", "colnum": "101", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I would at once acquit the right hon. Gentleman of any desire—[ Interruption .]—to go back on his undertaking at the first sitting not to filibuster in any way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.101.4", "colnum": "101", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I would at once acquit the right hon. Gentleman of any desire—[ Interruption .]—to go back on his undertaking at the first sitting not to filibuster in any way—[ Interruption .]— and if he had wanted to obstruct from the start—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "Be that as it may—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.104.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.106.7", "colnum": "106", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gorst rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.106.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "preceding_text": "line's formative years, but not, despite what the Minister said, exclusively in its first years. Unless this wording is amended, the Civil Aviation Authority will have to bear in mind the need for British Caledonian to have adequate opportunities to develop its route network throughout its career, however long it may be. I suggest that that is a contradiction of what the right hon. Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.149.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.170.2", "colnum": "170", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Rutland and Stamford (Mr. Kenneth Lewis). We have a situation where we are debating two issues. We are debating the guidance which has been given to the Civil Aviation Authority. Incorporated with it are a number of Statutory Instruments. I conclude from that that it is within the procedures of this House that this debate should continue for one and a half hours after ten o'clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.172.5", "colnum": "172", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I am entitled to put a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-13", "file": "debates1972-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "ca3158b91e01a514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.173.10", "colnum": "173", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "We had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-13a.173.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-14", "file": "debates1972-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1912780b4690bec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-14a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not tell the country that because it is not true. What I have told the country, and what the House knows perfectly well, is what the rent rebate system will mean to those in private tenancies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-14a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-14", "file": "debates1972-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1912780b4690bec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-14a.296.2", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ecision, and the country will be able from that to judge the views of all those who took part in that matter. In regard to my telecast, I believe that the country as a whole has expressed anxiety about some aspects of picketing during the recent miners' strike. It was absolutely right that my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General last Friday should have made the situation quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-14a.296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-14", "file": "debates1972-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1912780b4690bec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-14a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What is the latest verdict?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is nothing new about it. I did this last July when we were discussing the European question as part of the great debate in which the nation was taking part at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-14a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-14", "file": "debates1972-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1912780b4690bec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-14a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"None next week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ll hon. Members to recognise what is happening. We do not propose to relinquish the discussion on this Bill before everybody in the country knows what it is about. That is our elementary duty as hon. Members. We certainly seek to ensure, particularly in view of what has been unravelled and unearthed in the last few days—after all, we have had only two very short days of debate so far in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-14a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-14", "file": "debates1972-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1912780b4690bec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-14a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend seems to be in some doubt. I am merely pointing out that, so far as it goes, the latter part of the subsection adds a protection for the House. If that protection were not there, we would properly complain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-14a.392.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.543.4", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPECIAL BRANCH RAIDS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "preceding_text": "Aldershot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.543.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.543.5", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPECIAL BRANCH RAIDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Aldershot. This is not a laughing matter. People's homes were raided in the early hours of this morning, in this country. No arms were found. In one case, the children of Mr. Campbell, a building worker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.543.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPECIAL BRANCH RAIDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "tement was to be made I would raise the matter under Standing Order No. 9. I am sorry if you have not been given that information. I do not want to mislead the House, or you, Mr. Speaker, or anyone else. I am not one who tells lies. I have not made any statement to the effect that I would not raise this matter under Standing Order No. 9, and the Secretary standing next to you knows perfectly well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.544.2", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPECIAL BRANCH RAIDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "homes of a number of people who have absolutely no connection with the Aldershot bombing have been raided. In fact, they were bitterly opposed to what happened at Aldershot. Some of these people are in a group known as the International Socialists. They do not hold my views and I do not hold their views, but they have a right, within our democratic system, to express their views, like anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": " as generalising and saying that every point made by every speaker during every minute of our prolonged discussions does not seek for information. I am submitting that each speech which we have heard—the speech which we have heard from the right hon. Member for Stepney (Mr. Shore) in moving the Amendments is no exception—has contained nothing more than an attack upon the principle of our adhesion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": " made by every speaker during every minute of our prolonged discussions does not seek for information. I am submitting that each speech which we have heard—the speech which we have heard from the right hon. Member for Stepney (Mr. Shore) in moving the Amendments is no exception—has contained nothing more than an attack upon the principle of our adhesion—[ Interruption .] Yes indeed. The principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "I will not join issue with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "I will not join issue with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on that. [ Laughter .] Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite may laugh. I am not suggesting that we have not had useful discussions; but for every five minutes of useful discussion we have had 55 minutes of time wasting going behind the principle of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "with a matter which was raised by the hon. Member for Nottingham, West (Mr. English) who is sitting beside him. For that, I make no apology, because I did my best to answer the hon. Gentleman. As to his relationships with his constituents, I should be delighted to advise him outside this Chamber, but I should be out of order in seeking to deal with that point now. I am now coming to the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "iment which had broken down in 1963, it did not lie in our mouths to object. I am quite prepared to agree that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hertfordshire, East and others have been more consistent and more far-sighted. There is no dispute about that; and indeed nothing is to be gained in admissions or accusations about the past in examining the logical case for these Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hertfordshire, East and others have been more consistent and more far-sighted. There is no dispute about that; and indeed nothing is to be gained in admissions or accusations about the past in examining the logical case for these Amendments—[ Interruption .] If the hon. Member for West Stirlingshire is just going to thresh that straw again, I cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I gladly give the hon. Gentleman my answer. It was quite scandalous that the decision of the British Government of the day, supported, I suspect, by the Opposition of the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "Many people outside the House will be thankful to the hon. Gentleman for publicising that point. I understand that that is not yet a regulation but a draft directive. Obviously, our insurance rates will have to be harmonised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "uropean co-operation in these questions, which can only be for the good of all our peoples. That was the view of Labour's Chancellor of the Exchequer, given as Chancellor of the Exchequer. I think, in fact, that he went a little further in that statement on the movement to a common currency than many people would believe immediately realistic. But the goal has been accepted by a great many people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "o-operation in monetary matters. We have always made it clear that we are prepared to go along with the best of them on this question and shall be prepared to do so and to negotiate, if that is an issue in the negotiations, or afterwards if that is an issue afterwards.\"—[Official Report, 10th February, 1970; Vol. 795, c. 1089.] Thus, we have all been perfectly clear about our pursuit of this goal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-15", "file": "debates1972-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a92c029ad9195ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Almost?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ed. Yet the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale said that he did not know of any developments being contemplated. As I said, the United Kingdom looks forward to co-operating in the development of economic and monetary union as a member of the enlarged Community. But, here again, major constitutional developments in this field will almost certainly require a treaty which would have to come before Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-15a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is there any Department or activity of his Administration with which the right hon. Gentleman is not satisfied?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.759.5", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Did the Prime Minister read the article in the Spectator of 4th March dealing with the conferring of a knighthood on a certain individual, allegedly for charitable purposes? This individual was in the Prime Minister's list and is alleged to have given £600,000 to the European Movement, for which charity the hon. Member for Louth (Mr. Jeffrey Archer) was a principal sponsor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.759.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.759.5", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "inister read the article in the Spectator of 4th March dealing with the conferring of a knighthood on a certain individual, allegedly for charitable purposes? This individual was in the Prime Minister's list and is alleged to have given £600,000 to the European Movement, for which charity the hon. Member for Louth (Mr. Jeffrey Archer) was a principal sponsor—[ Interruption .]—taking his usual cut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.759.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.759.9", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The article to which the hon. Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton) referred consisted of a succession of nasty innuendoes based on a series of unfounded and completely irresponsible statements. I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman should have used his opposition to European policies to attack a distinguished man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.759.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "It is always regrettable when matters of this kind are debated in the House—by tradition they are not—but may I ask the right hon. Gentleman, first, to express regret for the words he used to so distinguished a pro-Marketeer as my hon. Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ind are debated in the House—by tradition they are not—but may I ask the right hon. Gentleman, first, to express regret for the words he used to so distinguished a pro-Marketeer as my hon. Friend? [ Interruption .] Will he, secondly, give a great deal of thought to this problem? Will he confirm that it is an extremely difficult and delicate matter for Prime Ministers from either side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Gentleman knows, there was deep consideration of this matter by an independent committee on the ground that nobody wants anybody to be able to pay a price to buy an award. On the other hand, people who have spent a lifetime of dedication to charity should not be penalised thereafter. Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that this individual, who has been widely respected and, indeed, recommended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ill the right hon. Gentleman confirm that this individual, who has been widely respected and, indeed, recommended—[ Interruption .] I cannot understand why hon. Gentlemen opposite keep interrupting me. If there is any objection to my pursuing this matter, I shall be happy to sit down, but I think that the right hon. Gentleman feels that what I am saying is helpful to what we are trying to discuss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "eep interrupting me. If there is any objection to my pursuing this matter, I shall be happy to sit down, but I think that the right hon. Gentleman feels that what I am saying is helpful to what we are trying to discuss—[ Interruption .]—and is showing up some of the hooligans who are seated behind him. Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that what I have just said is true? Will he further agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for those remarks. The reason why I did not complete what I wanted to say was the behaviour of certain hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for those remarks. The reason why I did not complete what I wanted to say was the behaviour of certain hon. Gentlemen opposite—[ Interruption .] I am not being touchy. This is a matter for which the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister alone, is responsible. The same has been true of previous Prime Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "is a matter for which the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister alone, is responsible. The same has been true of previous Prime Ministers. [ Interruption .] If hon. Gentlemen opposite want to exercise their normal political reaction to most things that are said from this side of the House, then on this issue they are only making it more difficult for the Prime Minister, whom I was trying to help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree with the hon. Gentleman. Experience of the last 10 years shows that a formal incomes policy does not produce the result we want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ow that the House has seen some deeply disturbing Press reports on these interventions, would the right hon. Gentleman confirm that the House will be given a statement on their implications some time next week? Second, on the subject of Northern Ireland, is the right hon. Gentleman aware of the deep concern that six weeks after a Government initiative was envisaged and publicly known to be coming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.767.3", "colnum": "767", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "e ask the right hon. Gentleman to reconsider his statement and ask his right hon. Friend the Home Secretary to make a statement to the House so that he can be questioned by the House. Then, if the House is totally convinced of the correctness of the position, no question arises. But the statements that have been made, the letter by Mr. Paul Foot in The Times this morning and the statement made by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.775.2", "colnum": "775", "heading": "SPECIAL BRANCH RAIDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, could you help me? I came to see you before the House sat today to seek your advice about some of the arrests that took place yesterday in our constituencies and concerning our own constituents. I refer in particular to a constituent in Haringey, who was arrested yesterday morning at five past six, called Seamus O'Kane—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.775.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.775.6", "colnum": "775", "heading": "SPECIAL BRANCH RAIDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "lice are announcing to arrested people that they are using special powers. As I understand it, they are not applicable in this country, and, therefore, I should like to find a way, if you could explain one to me, Mr. Speaker, to seek the assurance of the House that no one will be arrested in this country and taken to Ireland for internment. That man was arrested at five past six yesterday morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.775.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.776.2", "colnum": "776", "heading": "SPECIAL BRANCH RAIDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has asked me to advise him as a lawyer. The advice one gets from a lawyer free is usually worth precisely what one pays for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.776.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hard cases.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. There is an old adage that good cases make bad law, as you will know, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hard cases.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "cause, if that is so, it would obviously be the case that in future S.O.9 debates would become a prerogative of the Front Benches which have either Government time or Supply time. I am aware that the point I am making is purely procedural and is not related to this subject. Every hon. Member on this side of the House, I believe, wants this debate, but, as I say, very often good cases make bad law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE ESTIMATE 1972–73 (ARMY) VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And miners\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "in Northern Ireland over here but rather of civil disturbance by such numbers of people that there are simply not enough police to control them. The most obvious example of this in the recent coal crisis was of course at the Saltley Coke Depot in Birmingham, where 300 or 400 police were powerless against about 5,000 engineering workers on strike, accompanied by a few students and other hangers-on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-16", "file": "debates1972-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "de06fc781a8e015b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE ESTIMATE 1972–73 (ARMY) VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "ource of production of a wide range of defence stores required by the Services. But they will be provided with a broader management hierarchy, greater independence and authority within the Ministry and a more commercial basis for their finances. We shall be setting up a restructured Royal Ordnance Factories Board shortly and—this is the personal note—I have been asked to become its first chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-16a.885.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-17", "file": "debates1972-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eb78c050e5ec505b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.943.4", "colnum": "943", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What did they do?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "My Government would have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.943.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-17", "file": "debates1972-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eb78c050e5ec505b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "n June, 1969, when he said: I hope that Conservative councils will take care to resist the temptation to go on building council housing for all sorts of seemingly good purposes… They have certainly applied that maxim. He went on: New Conservative housing chairmen have a great tendency to prove to the Socialists that they can provide even more council houses than their predecessors… —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-17", "file": "debates1972-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eb78c050e5ec505b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.962.2", "colnum": "962", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ded immediately even when the council has had to introduce the kind of rate increase that Manchester Corporation has been forced to introduce. These amenities are essential if the City of Manchester is to remain a civilised one and if it is to continue its long tradition of contributing to the country's civilisation. After all, what Manchester thinks today, the rest of the country thinks tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.962.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-17", "file": "debates1972-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eb78c050e5ec505b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.965.6", "colnum": "965", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "hom any open-minded and reasonable observer would regard as being completely incapable of expressing a fair judgment about anything. Having gained, through no merit of his own, the honour and privilege of moving this Motion, to what does he draw our attention? He refers to what he calls the utter contempt manifested by the Government for the established principles of freedom for local government\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.965.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-17", "file": "debates1972-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eb78c050e5ec505b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "No. I am debating the merits of the issue. If this council believes—I believe that it is right in saying this—that that land should be available for occupation by private purchasers, it should be allowed to make it so available. If people from Inner London wish to buy houses in Bromley good luck to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-17", "file": "debates1972-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eb78c050e5ec505b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "orm of taxation evenly and reasonably. There are problems involved in the increasing scale of certain technical services which, if they must be provided must be provided efficiently. The result today, unfortunately, is a dangerous tendency for wholly nominated, non-elected bodies to control important public services. I refer to the hospital services and to the projected regional water authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-17", "file": "debates1972-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eb78c050e5ec505b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": " for the people, they must have the land on which to build the houses. Therefore, Government policy to that extent rightly comes into the argument. I have always felt it a little odd that the first manifestation of a Conservative Government from the Department of the Environment was when the Secretary of State marched into the House on 20th July, 1970, and announced the end of the Land Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-17", "file": "debates1972-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eb78c050e5ec505b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I was just observing that the hon. Gentleman has not been here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-17", "file": "debates1972-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "eb78c050e5ec505b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.1031.3", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "d housing commissioners. If that rumour is true, it is an absolute disgrace. It is the most dastardly thing of all to try to suborn the present officers of local authorities to make them into officers of the Department of the Environment. The Housing Finance Bill is bad. The only possible excuse for it is the fact that from time immemorial the Tory Party has been engaged in council tenant bashing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-17a.1031.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1052.9", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall that only a very short time ago Lord Robens, who really ought to know, forecast that as a result of the strike 15,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1052.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "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": " concerned in Northern Ireland about the position there, discussions without any inhibitions and limitations. Indeed, I think that this was the view taken by the right hon. Gentleman and his party when they proposed discussions on an all-party basis. But they, like we, ran into the same road block. The political representatives of the minority community were not prepared to have these discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1086.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "I will discuss the matter later with the hon. Member but I promised Mr. Speaker that I would speak for no more than five minutes and I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "They have been twisted and perverted to the same old slogan of \"no surrender\" and \"a Protestant Parliament for Protestant people\". In an artificially created State guaranteeing permanent majority rule to one section of the population there can be no democracy. Stormont is an imitation and a very poor and perverted imitation of democracy and in that situation a new and radical initiative is needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "I will not give way, because I have promised to be brief. My next principle—and I was glad that the Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the Liberal Party made almost the same point—is that neither on Wednesday nor in any other discussions should anything be forced upon the Government of Northern Ireland that would create an apartheid system based upon religion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "preceding_text": "at change is needed. I regard myself as a friend of Ulster. I have had the privilege, and sometimes the high adventure, of visiting the Province on many occasions. I have also had the pleasure of visiting the home of the hon. Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt). My visits go back to the halcyon days of 1952 when I was Chairman of the Federation of University Conservative and Unionist Associations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1117.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1126.3", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Monks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Monks", "preceding_text": " Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Mr. McManus) will probably agree. He says: Human rights and freedom are one of the fundamental rights of any human society. That is what the war of 1939–45 was about and why people fought, bled and died to defend it, particularly the Armed Forces of the Crown which also included Irish men, north and southern volunteers in the ranks. My constituent's sixth point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "he Serviceman is at risk only when we are at war, or if he is sent to Ulster, but the miner faces a risk every day he goes down the pit. The Government are laying great stress on the need for the extension of occupational pension schemes. The miners have an occupational pension scheme, but it is not worth the paper it is written on, and the people who negotiated it should be ashamed of themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Yes, and the following year my right hon. Friend the present Home Secretary, who had succeeded him as Chancellor, stood the whole matter on its head and said that it was not for revenue purposes but to protect the coal industry. He was decidely more honest than his predecessor in this context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ion? Is competition fair betwen the private retailer and the retail division of the N.C.B.? I know that productivity has almost doubled since 1947, from 20 cwt. to 40 cwt. per man shift. That reflects great credit on those who work in the industry, but it also reflects massive capital investment. Would a further massive injection of capital, further mechanisation, yield equally impressive results?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1173.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What pension scheme?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "be that everything will go on exactly as before and that by a few debates in this House all can be put right. I should like to say a word about redundancy, before coming to the question of fuel policy. The redundant miner gets his redundancy pay in the same way as does everybody else. He also qualifies for the pension scheme and he qualifies for the redundant miner workers' payment scheme as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "miner who had been 40 years in a pit could end up with only thirty bob a week, I could not believe it. He would not have been able to get the redundant mineworker's pension unless he had started at the age of 14, in which case he would get it next year. The hon. Gentleman should take into account this generous scheme, which is far more generous than the E.E.C. scheme designed for similar purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-20", "file": "debates1972-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d3dad46b95807da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1259.2", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "VEHICLE AND GENERAL INSURANCE (TRIBUNAL)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": "nded upon the precedents in \"Erskine May\", and they have complained about the precedents themselves. But what they really ought to complain about is that they have chosen the wrong occasion to raise this matter. If they wanted to raise the matter and make the kind of speech made by the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe) in his last couple of sentences, this was not the occasion to do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-20a.1259.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-21", "file": "debates1972-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "67a57e9f9dbf1f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-21a.1342.6", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Boardman", "preceding_text": "In his speech my right hon. Friend referred to regional problems. Can he say whether the massive battery of regional expedients deployed by the Leader of the Opposition, including his speeches, when he was in office, made any material change in the regional imbalance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-21a.1342.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-21", "file": "debates1972-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "67a57e9f9dbf1f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-21a.1369.2", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Grants.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ich I have announced—free depreciation and new measures for the regions—together provide the most powerful combination of national and regional investment incentives which we have had in this country since the war. Moreover, in order to give industry the stability it seeks when planning long-term investments I should make it clear that the intention is that the new system of investment incentives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-21a.1369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-21", "file": "debates1972-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "67a57e9f9dbf1f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-21a.1395.1", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "le if these generous tax concessions and the other changes which the right hon. Gentleman has made had come as a result of, shall we say, the Government's stewardship of the last two years and not as a result of panic necessity to spend our way out of unemployment. At the time of the last election hon. Gentlemen opposite were going to reduce taxation by reducing expenditure. They have not done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-21a.1395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1482.3", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1482.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Congratulate the Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "This is a very comprehensive statement, which will need careful examination and debate. May I just make two points at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1504.2", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "May I first say how much we welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1504.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1504.3", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What did the right hon. Lady's Government give?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "May I first say how much we welcome—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—the change in the provision for the disabled, in particular the changes in the size and scope of the attendance allowance, for which we have been pressing for so long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1523.2", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "e extent in order to maintain unrealistic exchange rates, whether they are too high or too low.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 21st March, 1972; Vol 833, c. 1354.] I agree with the Chancellor, but I wonder whether the Prime Minister did not feel a twinge of conscience, even a flush of shame, when he heard those words. In 1967 when we, somewhat belatedly as it now appears, changed an unrealistic exchange rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1523.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1527.0", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "So did you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ntly happy to go on. Mr. Iain Macleod, in July, 1970, firmly, clearly and overtly resisted any reflation. There were excuses for his taking that attitude at the time. He had had only a short time in which to consider the position. But in the autumn the present Chancellor, with no such excuses, when it was clear that the case for expansion was overwhelmingly necessary, took exactly the same course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "tantial taxation increases. At one stage yesterday I thought the Chancellor was going to announce an immediate programme of public expenditure increases. He talked most eloquently about the persistence of bad schools, of old hospitals, of slums and of urban squalor. With a great deal of money to give away, why does he not do more about them? There is a lot of unemployment in the building industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": "nsuing from my right hon. Friend's Budget, because if I were to do so it would make my speech even longer. Our trading performance during 1971 has been exceptionally good. We achieved a record surplus on current account of over £950 million, which is over 50 per cent. better than the previous record surplus of £611 million in 1970. In fact, there have been a succession of records achieved in 1970—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "certainly am not nor ever have been an advocate of abandoning to their fate major sectors of British industry whose long-term success lies at the very heart of our industrial resurgence. Both on the regional and on the national score there is a need for the means of action. I mean to provide the means and to equip it with the powers and resources to do the job. In a new and rapidly changing world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "We will come to that. The new Executive is to have a regional organisation—I wish to stress this—developed from the existing regional offices of the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1549.0", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about hiving-off?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "unction within the Government. First, the functions of a body of this character are inevitably bound up with other activities of Government. Second, and we think conclusively, any new body to promote industrial development in the regions and elsewhere with substantial sums of public money available to it should be under the direct control of Ministers with appropriate accountability to Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Questions of that sort must be left to consideration in the light of events as they emerge. I apologise for having spoken at such length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " of work which, by its very nature, calls for long-term and sustained measures. The complex of decisions announced yesterday and today constitutes a comprehensive new approach to the persistent problems which successive Governments have faced. I add to that the hope that all who are concerned with the purposes involved will recognise the objectiveness and the absence of doctrinaire points of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " that all who are concerned with the purposes involved will recognise the objectiveness and the absence of doctrinaire points of view—[ Interruption .]—implicit in the policies I have outlined. Hon. Gentlemen opposite are constantly asking for concerted attacks on regional policies, but they are curiously inept at recognising them when they see them. I hope they will recognise this for what it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "n private industry on the grand scale. We only need the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) to be appointed to the job, the Land Commission to be brought back and the Post Office to be renationalised to provide more employment and we shall have Socialism in our time. I trust that we can rely on Her Majesty's Opposition to offer hope and encouragement to the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1585.2", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "uced by the Labour Government had imposed upon them such burdens that if any further burdens were to fall upon them—well, they almost threatened to strike. It is rather significant that not a cheep of protest came from those same civil servants—the same Civil Service staff association—despite the two Budgets of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer. It makes one wonder where their loyalties lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1619.1", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says it is a necessity. That is a subjective judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "pid rise in prices than there was in the period between January, 1966, and January, 1970. In food prices there has been a dramatically greater rise. All that is demonstrated by constant increases in the pension by the present Government is the Government's inability for a very long time to curb inflation and the fact that, even though halved, inflation is running at a rate that necessarily erodes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": " 1970. In food prices there has been a dramatically greater rise. All that is demonstrated by constant increases in the pension by the present Government is the Government's inability for a very long time to curb inflation and the fact that, even though halved, inflation is running at a rate that necessarily erodes—[ Interruption .]—Of course they have halved it, from an unprecedently high figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-22", "file": "debates1972-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0160b4a787dae882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "r will be set against the assessment and that company will pay over only the balance to the Revenue. I emphasise that the key to understanding the system is that the tax paid by the company at the time it pays a dividend is an advance payment of corporation tax and not income tax deducted at source. I apologise to the House for having inflicted that upon it. I hope it has helped some hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-22a.1635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1649.9", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that at all. The fact that we spend nearly £500,000 a year on research shows that the Home Office takes this seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1649.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1659.3", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that treason was first defined in the reign of Edward III in 1350 and that the law was amended in 1795 to include: The use of force to make the King change his counsels…\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1659.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1663.9", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister not aware that questions like: V.D. is a just punishment for illicit sex and If someone offered me pot I might try it\". are all part of a questionnaire by Mary Agar Field Services on behalf of the supposedly respectable Leo Burnett London Press Exchange advertising agency? The survey offered a B.M.C. Mini as the prize.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1663.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1672.6", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister still not learned, even after U.C.S., Rolls-Royce, compromise with the T.U.C. and now the re-introduction of the I.R.C. and investment grants under another name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1672.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1672.6", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister still not learned, even after U.C.S., Rolls-Royce, compromise with the T.U.C. and now the re-introduction of the I.R.C. and investment grants under another name—[Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"]—that confrontation will not pay off in British politics? Will he withdraw the Bill or tone it down, or is he so rigid that he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1672.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1683.3", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": " apart from the request for a statement which has been made by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, will the right hon. Gentleman recall that the Opposition rightly facilitated the passing in one day of the legislation which the Government required for the Army in Northern Ireland, and that the right hon. Gentleman undertook that there would be a full day's debate in Government time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1686.2", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How do you know?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman clarify what he said earlier about a statement? Is he aware that there are some very well respected members of the Labour Party in my constituency, as well as members of my local authority, whose homes were raided at 6 o'clock that morning by members of the Special Branch, and that those people had never had anything to do with Irish politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1686.2", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ency, as well as members of my local authority, whose homes were raided at 6 o'clock that morning by members of the Special Branch, and that those people had never had anything to do with Irish politics—[Hon. Members: \"How do you know?\".] I know them personally. When the right hon. Gentleman talks about political investigations, he wants to investigate the past records of some of his hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1686.2", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": ", whose homes were raided at 6 o'clock that morning by members of the Special Branch, and that those people had never had anything to do with Irish politics—[Hon. Members: \"How do you know?\".] I know them personally. When the right hon. Gentleman talks about political investigations, he wants to investigate the past records of some of his hon. Friends—[ Interruption .] They have much more to hide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " in terms of total impact for the coming period has been the decision of the Government to increase infrastructure improvements. When I heard the right hon. Member for Stechford speak yesterday about items of public expenditure to remove urban squalor, I thought that that was remark able coming from him. I remind hon. Members that when he was Chancellor there was rising unemployment in the region—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1697.3", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I will give, for example, the very great increase in today's employment figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "e forward with a reversal of previous policies. The first example is investment grants. One can choose another word if one finds it embarrassing to use the title \"investment grants\", but as far back as May 1966, the Secretary of State was criticising investment grants. He produced a White Paper in October, 1970, in which he spelled out the case against investment grants. Now they are to come back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1720.1", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "on-upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter) would linger into high summer, but I understand from the beginning of his speech that, no doubt owing to the warm spring, he is thinking of leaving his chrysalis on the back benches and spreading his wings for higher spheres, in two senses. If that is true, I must say how sad I am at the prospect of that event. I am sure that in that I speak for the whole House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil McBride", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil McBride", "preceding_text": "ncial position. As a result of public pressure the Tory Government have been forced to make an annual uprating of pensions, but the increases are too small. When I speak about old-age pensioners I speak with feeling. I am working class and proud of it. Parents of working people in the evening of their days deserve the best that the nation can give and this Government are not giving them that best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "r, put a tax—selective employment tax—specifically bearing on the service industries. The right hon. Member for Stechford, when he was Chancellor, doubled that tax. I believe that we should give credit where it is due and recognise that the right hon. Gentleman, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, dilettante, connoisseur of good art and good claret, is also architect of much of our unemployment today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1802.3", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Terence Higgins)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Terence Higgins)", "preceding_text": "y. His tribute to my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be greatly valued, I know. My right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston-upon-Thames has been a distinguished Financial Secretary, Chief Secretary, Paymaster-General, Minister of Transport, Minister of Pensions and Chairman of our Public Accounts Committee. The House and the country have benefited greatly from his counsels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1807.3", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "I made that position perfectly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-23", "file": "debates1972-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ebd5216348735f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1844.3", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "SCHOOL LEAVING AGE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "t. of all children at school who are over the compulsory school leaving age. So I think that the right hon. Gentleman would not merely be amending the Act by three words; he would be altering the entire purpose of these allowances in a way that was never intended. They have always been intended to help or encourage parents to leave their children at school beyond the compulsory school leaving age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-23a.1844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-24", "file": "debates1972-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d0aec61c375e4807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-24a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "While I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Londonderry (Mr. Chichester-Clark) that it is important that we should speak with moderation because human lives are at stake, I must tell this House that we shall be unrealistic if we do not realise that what has happened will be looked upon by the majority in Ulster as a victory for the I.R.A.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-24a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-24", "file": "debates1972-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d0aec61c375e4807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-24a.1881.4", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (FAMILY PLANNING) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I am even more grateful for that, Mr. Speaker. That assures my future at least. Though I may be told to sit down, I shall be told with a smile, which is always nice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-24a.1881.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-24", "file": "debates1972-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d0aec61c375e4807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-24a.1921.4", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (FAMILY PLANNING) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "ments so that we might know what we are talking about in full. I also remind the House that I am using extraneous speech only because I cannot go on saying \"Please, I want this Amendment,\" since you would then immediately call me to order for tedious repetition, and rightly so. Surely I am at least to be allowed to put a case when I see those whom I am trying to impress looking so dumb and stupid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-24a.1921.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-27", "file": "debates1972-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f8bcf69eda5e397", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-27a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Handing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Handing", "preceding_text": "ilosophy behind it which is that loss of representation is part of the price this country will have to pay for entering the Common Market. But before I develop the point I should like to take particular issue on one matter, because it seems unlikely that my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher), who is one of the great authorities on it, will be lucky in speaking, at least tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-27a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-27", "file": "debates1972-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f8bcf69eda5e397", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-27a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "rse he advocated floating. He quoted his right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter) with the warmest approval and it is silly for him to say that he did not advocate floating. He specifically quoted that phrase in his right hon. Gentleman's speech with the warmest possible approval. He can look at HANSARD and see how foolish it was to intervene and to say otherwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-27a.150.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-27", "file": "debates1972-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f8bcf69eda5e397", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-27a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "No. This Budget gives a larger stimulus to demand than has been given by any Budget. As a result of the changes we have made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-27a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-27", "file": "debates1972-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f8bcf69eda5e397", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-27a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "No. This Budget gives a larger stimulus to demand than has been given by any Budget. As a result of the changes we have made—[ Interruption. ]—we can go forward to our European venture with the biggest tax incentives for investment and for modernisation that we in this country have ever had. We are making the largest ever rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-27a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.211.9", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"A fiddle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "at I replied in answer to a previous question on the basis of the retail prices index in order to be consistent with a reply that I gave to a previous question. However, the latest consumer price index for 1971, which provides a better indication of changes in purchasing power, is available, and on that basis the adjustment in the retail price index shows a figure of 89p and a fall of 11 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.211.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.229.6", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The Government are changing policies quickly, but this is ridiculous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.229.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rafton Pounder", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rafton Pounder", "preceding_text": "nce. That Bill is now to come here by means of an Order in Council. But, worse than that, there is nobody in this House who has a mandate, let alone the knowledge of local affairs in Northern Ireland, to have a view on such a Bill. I believe that it is wrong to deal with legislation of that magnitude by means of the Order in Council procedure. This is the utter negation of parliamentary democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "st is perhaps as important as any quality that he will take to Northern Ireland. But I ask rhetorically that if this House is to exercise legislative powers for Northern Ireland why should it be by Order in Council? Is it because it is thought that it is too heavy a burden to place on the House of Commons? I could suggest other legislation which I think is of less importance and less significance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "boycotting the Commission, or by trying to prevent an agreement being reached between the various communities. We approach this dangerous situation without knowing what the outcome will be. I believe that the Government had no alternative. I hope that they will realise that the whole House of Commons is prepared to shoulder this legislative responsibility, not just as a matter of Order in Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.281.3", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "to enjoy the benefits of living in a British Northern Ireland. The right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) said that Ulster people—perhaps he intended it to apply to all Irish people—responded to generosity. What generosity have they now received from the Government? Under the Bill 1½ million British subjects have been reduced to the status of a subject people in a colony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "he matter is not shared by all right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite and on this side of the House. The right hon. Member for Fulham (Mr. Michael Stewart) spoke on this matter in an earlier debate. I know he holds other views. I noted during his visit to Dublin a fortnight ago that the Leader of the Opposition was reported as saying that talks could not sensibly exclude the subject of the Border.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": " control, its own police, and its own \"B\" specials which it had in the past? The reason for the defence of Stormont and why those who profess to be pro-British turn out in effect to be anti-British is that Northern Ireland, a small State consisting of six counties, is maintained at the moment by 16,000 British troops and subsidised to the tune of£150 million a year of the British taxpayers' money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Even more dynamic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": " just as it will be impossible to integrate the Six Counties completely if the minority definitely object. Both communities have a sanction here. I want to see union, but union which is welcomed and which brings a new society and an improved standard of living in the South. For instance, the hon. Member for Antrim, North (Rev. Ian Paisley) would be quite a dynamic figure in a Parliament in Dublin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is not in the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": " or 20 years—but to keep the door open. This is why I regret what my right hon. Friend said about writing into the Bill some reference to the 1949 Government of Ireland Act. That Act said that this should be the decision of the Parliament of Northern Ireland. But what is to be the arrangement when there is no Parliament? The plebiscite is a classic example. That will cut right across the 1949 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "be governed as though she were England. Ireland is not and will never be England. She has her own identity, both north and south of the Border. They are separate identities. We have to recognise that. The one thing we must not do at any price is to abandon those who wish to remain loyal subjects of Her Majesty. Finally, let us not overlook the dedicated service that Mr. Faulkner has tried to give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "preceding_text": "them low wages and the brutalisation of the whole system, which was visited upon us all. Look at the men who will lead them. I ask them to look at Mr. William Craig strutting alongside Billy Hull. I do not see how Billy Hull could forget Mr. Craig, as Minister of Development, told the trade unions to take a long running jump from a very great height if they wanted better wages in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "preceding_text": "ards rule from Dublin. But Catholic workers fear rule from Belfast because they see in it prepetuation of rule from London. I advise Protestant workers not to be scared of Jack Lynch. He is a time server of Toryism and he has not much time left to serve. Catholic workers must not be led into the Tory trap that says: \"We will work out a new deal by which we will more effectively keep you all down\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " this course is not acceptable to the loyalists. The House should face the reality that Stormont is a thing of the past. It is no use Unionists thinking that by some way or other Stormont will return, because I am afraid Ichabod has been written over it and the glory has departed. I was a member of Stormont. After the S.D.L.P. and the Nationalists left the House I was the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-28", "file": "debates1972-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4471159fcc3c2b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": " They wish to remain part of the United Kingdom, and that is the wish of the overwhelming majority of them. But at a time when we are considering devolution, we are to suppress a local Parliament at Stormont. We may wish to restore that assembly, indeed: a reformed Parliament there might set an example in regional government, an example which could be of benefit to the whole of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-28a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "That presumably is why we do not call them trunk roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.411.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " during Question Time by other hon. Members. In this way that hon. Member may well have been precluded from exercising his normal rights to leave his Question on the Order Paper for written reply and to take any subsequent action that he thinks necessary. The hon. Member concerned—namely, my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Carter)—is now expecting to receive a written reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.434.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.435.3", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I should like first to repudiate any suggestion by the hon. Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.435.3", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "]—that this was in any sense a stooge Question. He should not make such allegations about his hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Carter). I do not wish to detain the House because we have very important matters before us this afternoon. Therefore I am content that the very good February housing building figures which I have announced today should go forward in a Written Answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.438.6", "colnum": "438", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "My job today as acting un—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.438.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "hat we on the Liberal benches seek to raise this matter. The Special Powers Acts—I put it in the plural because there are a whole host of regulations which have gone with the legislation over the years—are a symbol of the suppression of races and creeds in Northern Ireland. There is no doubt that this legislation is special restrictive legislation applying only to the minority in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Might I ask the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe) whether it is not the case that the hon. Member for Antrim, North (Rev. Ian Paisley) was put inside under the Special Powers Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "preceding_text": "On the point about internees, may I put this to the Secretary of State designate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for correcting me on that point. She might also have told the hon. Member for Cornwall. North that he, too, is working from the wrong version.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "That is a very interesting argument. My argument is that the best people to decide what is to happen to Ireland are the Irish people themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Is she not a Communist?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "rn to new Clause 1. Today I wrote a letter to the Secretary of State designate for Northern Ireland. In fact, I wrote the letter at 3.30 this afternoon, and this is the reason I arrived late for the Committee stage of this Bill. The letter concerns a man called John Daly. This afternoon I had a telephone call from Mrs. Edwina Stewart, the Secretary of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "preceding_text": "I can answer the right hon. Gentleman right away. I was elected to the House to represent the constituents of Armagh and I have no intention of resigning my seat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "preceding_text": "I can answer the right hon. Gentleman right away. I was elected to the House to represent the constituents of Armagh and I have no intention of resigning my seat—[ Interruption. ] It is the people who count in the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.562.2", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend also remind the Secretary of State designate, if he does not remove this ban on marches, that there are at least three hon. Members who might be going to jail? If he will keep us in mind…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "As I understand the right hon. Gentleman's position in relating violence to the present conditions of internment, surely on purely logical grounds he must understand that some 700 or 800, possibly 900—we do not know the number, ranging somewhere between 700 and 900—currently held in concentration camps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.570.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ied to meet the points that have been made. We thank him for giving as many undertakings as he could in a very difficult situation. On Amendment No. 10, I am not personally convinced that all the legislative proposals, however restrictive, cannot be dealt with by the House of Commons in the normal way. It may be that an Ulster Grand Committee could be the forum in which there should be discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "pecial Powers Act into limbo, just as the Bill as a whole puts Stormont into limbo. Although I am an active Member on the Government side of the House, I strongly oppose the Bill, and indeed I voted accordingly last night. I cannot bring myself to vote for something which, unfortunately, will only worsen a tragic situation. I wish my right hon. Friend all the luck in the world in his new position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.576.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.580.9", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "In reply to the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.580.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "We have seen moderate leadership from certainly some of the last three Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland—probably not so much from the last one as some of the others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "We have seen moderate leadership from certainly some of the last three Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland—probably not so much from the last one as some of the others. [ Interruption. ] I have no intention of rousing the ire of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I may be deflected, and may stray far from the rules of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.598.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.626.5", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not yet.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "I understand—I was not in the Chamber, so I cannot vouch for this, but from hon. Members who were in the Chamber I understand—that, whoever was the occupant of the Chair at the time Amendment No. 10 was debated, along with other Amendments and new Clause 1, there was an understanding that the Question on new Clause 1 would be put separately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Robert. It may have been that you did not see either me or my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, East (Mr. McMaster) rise on the Question, \"That Clause 1 stand part of the Bill\", but in fact the moment you uttered the words of that Question we rose to our feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "I regret what has happened, because we are dealing with a Bill of fundamental constitutional importance. Therefore, it must be seen to be dealt with fairly. I in no way challenge your ruling, Sir Robert, but it is obvious to me that certain of my hon. Friends rose, notwithstanding the declaration from below the Gangway, from those unable to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": " being sought in Northern Ireland, I feel that one must come to the clear conclusion that the Clause is totally misconceived. The Bill has been introduced to suspend the Parliament of Northern Ire land. Clearly the I.R.A. has achieved the first two of its objectives. It has discredited the police, as the Report of the Hunt Committee shows, and it has discredited the Government of Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "I am attempting to argue that the Title is a complete misnomer and I am giving my reasons for thinking that. The Bill cannot be a temporary provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I am quite used to that. I beg my hon. Friends not to be diverted by hon. Members opposite; it does not worry me at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.643.2", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Committee will learn with amazement that the hon. Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt) does not want this new Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "I understand that point. My point is that because the Parliament of Northern Ireland was given this power under a United Kingdom Statute, it can be taken away just as easily by a United Kingdom Statute. Putting this Amendment in the Bill does not mean that some future Bill cannot take away this power. That is the important point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.655.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "re the people of Northern Ireland about the Border the more they would continue to nurture the suspicion that the hon. Member for Londonderry (Mr. Chichester-Clark) told us exists throughout Northern Ireland. I do not doubt that is true. But does any hon. Member here really believe that that suspicion will be in any way diminished by the announcements just made by the Secretary of State-designate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": " kind or, preferably, a Government statement that not only would they not stand in the way of a united Ireland—we understand the Prime Minister when he says that—but also that they positively desire Irish unity. When pressed about the future relationship between this country and Ireland or Northern Ireland, most people say that they believe that future developments will result in a united Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "t stand still. Happily in recent years all the evidence of that has been in the economic sphere. This area calls for immediate study. I am thinking of cross-Border trade, industrial development in the Border counties, tourism, and co-operation between the two electricity authorities. Does any hon. Member believe that Ireland will ever get a nuclear power station without cross-Border co- operation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.664.2", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "ish to see the flow stop? No doubt he will be interested in the suggestion that perhaps the most desirable pieces of real estate in 10 to 15 years time will be in Southern Ireland. Many continentals are quite sure that this will prove to be the case. I draw attention to my early day Motion 262, which mentions the growth of trade with the Irish Republic. I will not comment on that Motion in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.664.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": "lating against fears, and, if he is going to, I suggest that many people in Northern Ireland fear ghosts. So why does this Parliament not legislate against ghosts so that the people there may not be afraid? If he is going to legislate against fears, what about the fears of the minority? Can he give legislative assurance to them that they will never be terrorised and brutalised by the British Army?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.667.2", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": "Nonsense? The world proclaimed against them, and still they insist that it does not happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.667.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.668.8", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Maude) has made many speeches and has ample opportunity to develop his points at length in a major national newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.668.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "Ireland Parliament. I am concerned about the return to parliamentary government at the end of the year. Surely it would be wise to use the elected Members that we have already in the interim. It is unlikely that we shall ever get a better representative body. By their training and experience, elected Members of Parliament are used to gathering opinions from the people to whom they are responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"A dog's breakfast.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must realise that although I agree that this Amendment is something of a dog's dinner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": "Because he was a Catholic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "e Minister for the Civil Service, determine. I can assure the Committee that my right hon. Friend has no intention of making lavish allowances or paying lavish remuneration. I very much doubt whether the Minister for the Civil Service would allow him to do so, and that may well be a check imposed upon my right hon. Friend in the unlikely event of his being tempted to pay people vast sums of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Before doing that, would my hon. Friend clear up something puzzling me? It appears from the Schedule that there is a statutory requirement that this Commission shall be in existence from the first moment that the Statute is operative. It says: So long as…this Act has effect, there shall be a body\". Presumably the Act starts to have effect when the Royal Assent is given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is very anxious that he should consult the Commission in cases of this kind, and he believes it is right that he should have this duty placed upon him to consult it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": " not start to operate until he had the Commission in being. It seems from paragraph 1(2) that the Secretary of State has abundant latitude as to when he may make the appointment. It says that he may \"from time to time determine\" who shall serve on the Commission. I should have thought that the opening words of paragraph 1(1), So long as section 1 of this Act has effect… were limiting words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.719.2", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "I beg to move Amendment No. 27, in page 3, line 13, after 'and', insert: 'after consultation with the police authority and representatives of the Royal Ulster Constabulary' I intend to deal with this matter briefly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-03-29", "file": "debates1972-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9a45c0f0677eb222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "leman believes that the range of options considered by Her Majesty's Opposition includes that of a partition, which enables that part of Northern Ireland to be contained within the United Kingdom to be one which is ethnically and culturally more homogeneous than now. We can say that this small debate may have been of value in that we can take note of that statement from the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-03-29a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-10", "file": "debates1972-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0c027d890090f5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-10a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Navy (Mr. Peter Kirk)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Navy (Mr. Peter Kirk)", "preceding_text": "ack a few years—will remember that he was a remarkable character who contributed greatly to our discussions, about not only the Royal Navy but a number of other matters. I feel it right not to allow this occasion to pass without expressing my personal view, and, I know, that of the Government, of our sorrow at his loss. He would have been particularly caustic today about the nature of this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-10a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.998.6", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that the opportunity for maximum part-time service has a bearing upon the length of waiting lists or their increase or decrease, except perhaps exceedingly marginally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.998.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "It is no argument to talk about what previous Governments have or have not done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1007.5", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Now that the Budget euphoria has died down, is the Undersecretary aware that it will do little or nothing to help the old-age pensioner to exist?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1007.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1007.5", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Now that the Budget euphoria has died down, is the Undersecretary aware that it will do little or nothing to help the old-age pensioner to exist? [An Hon. Member: \"Nonsense.\"] When he next replies to these letters, perhaps he could explain to a few of these people how a miserly 75 percent.—75p—increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1007.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1007.6", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman wants to be fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1007.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1012.5", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "By her last words, the right hon. Lady has prevented me from giving a brief, \"Yes, Sir\", in reply to a supplementary question. I remind the House that I am not responsible for population policy and that such questions are for my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1012.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And leave him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "When next the Prime Minister has a chance to speak to President Pompidou, would not it be reasonable for him to take along his right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1017.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT POMPIDOU (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Take Roy as well.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "And leave him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1020.3", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BEXLEY AND SIDCUP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister realise that I am trying to help him by encouraging him to go there more often, although there seem to be local Tories who do not want him to go there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1020.3", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BEXLEY AND SIDCUP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister realise that I am trying to help him by encouraging him to go there more often, although there seem to be local Tories who do not want him to go there? [ Interruption .] Does he recall the words of the old song, even if he does not subscribe to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1020.3", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BEXLEY AND SIDCUP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister realise that I am trying to help him by encouraging him to go there more often, although there seem to be local Tories who do not want him to go there? [ Interruption .] Does he recall the words of the old song, even if he does not subscribe to them—[ Interruption .]—\"Everybody loves a dame\"? Is not he aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1020.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "SOUTH OCKENDON MENTAL HOSPITAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "I was only trying to point out that the right hon. Lady's assertion that other people believed that the killer responsible for the 1969 death is still at large was not necessarily supported by the acquittal of David Burles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1027.2", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "MINIMUM RETIREMENT PENSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Bid well", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Bid well", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to establish a minimum retirement pension related to average earnings. It is appropriate that my effort to bring in this Bill takes place on the day when the Secretary of State for Social Services is answering Questions and when so many Questions have ranged over the inadequacy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1027.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1027.5", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "MINIMUM RETIREMENT PENSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "—when so many Questions have ranged around the inadequacy of the existing old-age pension and the present plight of pensioners. I wish to bring in a Bill which will substantially increase old-age pensions. For the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1027.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "l relating to England and Wales. From the outset Opposition Mem- bers raised objections to the normal Motion that the Committee should sit on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Anybody who has been in this place for any length of time will know that if Standing Committees meet on Tuesdays and Thursday mornings this can mean only one thing; namely, that the Opposition has spilled over into obstruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "he fact that the Committee can sit as often as it likes and as the Business Sub-Committee chooses between now and 27th April, I really do not believe that anybody with any objectivity at all can possibly claim that this Bill will not have had ample, indeed very ample, and generous time for debate and consideration. But it is essential that we get this Bill out of Committee by that date—27th April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Five.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": " Committee when we were obliged to stop discussing serious Amendments while the hon. Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne), who I regret is not in his place, blew his nose, sneezed or otherwise had an allergic effect on his hon. Friends. It is clear that the Government have no mandate for this legislation. Of the 16 Members of the Committee, only six are present today on the benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "ills. But my right hon. Friend has produced a Bill which has exactly the same effect on every constituency in Scotland and, therefore, the need for such a large Committee to continue the discussion has been unnecessary. This is probably one of the reasons why we have a timetable Motion. I hope that we shall not have a Committee of such a size again, because it is wasteful of time and opportunity.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1064.3", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "e required to pay it along with people living in S.S.H.A. houses and, to some extent, private tenants. As one of my hon. Friends has already said, owner-occupiers will be involved in the Bill. The more it is examined, the clearer it becomes that every person with a roof over his head in Scotland will be affected by the Bill to the extent they will require to pay more for their housing and shelter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1064.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "re and others trying to put forward what they regard as the real, \"auld licht\" Labour policies. That is why our debates upstairs have not been as constructive as they should have been. That is why, although I regret it, we need this guillotine Motion. But so long as this dreadful situation continues in the Labour Party, a situation which is not good for democracy, we will have to have guillotines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " not go through and the existing situation will remain. I have been appalled and perplexed to hear hon. Members opposite saying, \"We do not want this Bill, we do not want the 50p per week per year rise in council rents until they become economic. The Labour Party is against it and will stop it.\" But we do not know the view of the party opposite. If the Bill becomes law, will they bring down rents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1094.3", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Development, Scottish Office (Mr. George Younger)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Development, Scottish Office (Mr. George Younger)", "preceding_text": "the good news and made clear that he is once more back in good form. We are glad to see him back after his illness for such a long section of the Committee stage. He seemed to be in good form today. He is so anxious to maintain his rather precarious perch on the Opposition Front Bench that he seemed at times to be more like a linnet sitting up there and singing his way, he hopes, to better things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1094.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1094.3", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Development, Scottish Office (Mr. George Younger)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Twenty-seven sittings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Development, Scottish Office (Mr. George Younger)", "preceding_text": "is Bill—and seven Schedules. That was completed in six sittings because the Opposition of the day discussed it sensibly and constructively throughout its passage in Committee. The Social Work (Scotland) Bill, a most important and wide-ranging Measure in 1967, had 102 Clauses and eight Schedules and was completed in 13 sittings. With this Bill we have sat through 26 sittings in the Committee stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1094.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUND BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": " will be permitted a share in the profits of an entirely separate commercial enterprise merely because they happen to have a newspaper in that area. Presumably the new Clause will apply to the London news station as it will to any other station. Therefore, it would give the Evening Standard the right to buy into Radio London, but would also give the Evening Standard and the Evening News the right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1157.3", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUND BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer the hon. Gentleman on that matter because I do not read the Yorkshire Post . I read newspapers which are widely sold in my constituency, plus the nationals. I see no reason for reading a publication which is nothing less than an organ of the Conservative Party both in Yorkshire and in the country at large.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUND BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ages mentioned by the hon. Members for Brighouse and Spenborough and Hendon, North—the only two hon. Members opposite who any longer believe in anything that is in their election manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUND BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ages mentioned by the hon. Members for Brighouse and Spenborough and Hendon, North—the only two hon. Members opposite who any longer believe in anything that is in their election manifesto. [ Interruption .] It is no use hon. Members giggling. The Chancellor of the Exchequer two weeks ago introduced a Budget which reversed practically everything on which the Government were elected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-11", "file": "debates1972-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c16ec89fb07790c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1208.3", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUND BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": " an effect it has upon the quality of programmes. Let us take the example given by my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham of \"Horlick's Half Hour.\" Not that it would be called that—it would be \"Mantovani's Half Hour\", with Horlick's advertisements at the beginning and end. Let us assume that the directors of this desirable bed-time drink, which I am happy to say I do not think I have ever tasted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-11a.1208.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-12", "file": "debates1972-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b0fa947abc8e925", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-12a.1244.6", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "—wait for it—to know that Governments have never made predictions and forecasts on unemployment figures ahead. The right hon. Gentleman referred to something I said, but I was then expressing a hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-12a.1244.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-12", "file": "debates1972-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b0fa947abc8e925", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-12a.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUND BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Amendment proposed by myhon. and learned Friend the Member for Barons Court (Mr. Richard). Although he does not intend to push it to a Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-12a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-12", "file": "debates1972-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b0fa947abc8e925", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-12a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUND BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proud foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proud foot", "preceding_text": "No, not at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-12a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-12", "file": "debates1972-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b0fa947abc8e925", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-12a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUND BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "I am about to finish. The right hon. Gentleman will know that, both in Committee and since, I have been reluctant, on behalf of the Opposition, to lose an additional news service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-12a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-12", "file": "debates1972-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b0fa947abc8e925", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-12a.1345.0", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUND BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "I remember being asked to take part in a television programme in Memphis, Tennessee, on which at 7.20 a.m. I was expected to talk about the Common Market. I was immediately preceded by an advertisement for English muffins, which I have never seen on this side of the Atlantic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-12a.1345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-12", "file": "debates1972-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2b0fa947abc8e925", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-12a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": " in his speech, suggesting that my hon. Friends had readily accepted in Committee the principle of commercial television. I was glad for the robust statement of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Barons Court (Mr. Richard) which went far to discredit what the Minister said. I know that my hon. Friends would have remained faithful to the principle and policy of the party to which we belong.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-12a.1381.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "d be independently canvassed in Committee and should not be mixed up with some conventional, ordinary suggestion for a General Election. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has referred to the suggestion of a referendum as repugnant, and something to which he would never be a party. This makes it important that we should have a separate debate on this distinct subject. May I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I say—[Hon. Members: \"Too long.\"] I am sorry if I offend those hon. Members who have always been so anxious to avoid points of order on this Bill. I hope they will realise that this is an exceptional intervention in a Committee that is not accustomed to points of order on this Bill. We have before us an Amendment tabled by the official Opposition coupled with a rebel Amendment from the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend had been with us on earlier occasions and had followed the debates that we have had so far on Clause 1 he would have discovered not merely that there is, as it were, part of Community law built into the Treaty of Rome and all that flows from it but that a substantial part of the Bill has been wantonly added on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "r occasions and had followed the debates that we have had so far on Clause 1 he would have discovered not merely that there is, as it were, part of Community law built into the Treaty of Rome and all that flows from it but that a substantial part of the Bill has been wantonly added on—[ Interruption. ]—so that the Government are giving far greater powers than any requirements in the treaty itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.241.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has lost his place.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "here is, as it were, part of Community law built into the Treaty of Rome and all that flows from it but that a substantial part of the Bill has been wantonly added on—[ Interruption. ]—so that the Government are giving far greater powers than any requirements in the treaty itself. [Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"] I wanted to come to my next point, on which I would say that the power that Parliament has——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "After. It does not make any difference, but I saw them collectively only after the election. Many of them repeated this expression, \"no more, no less\". Not many people buy these manifestos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "is spirit which is questioned by many in Britain today. There, he is talking about the people of Britain questioning. He went on: For we should be clear that these are not only or even essentially transactions between Governments. Whatever the Government in power in Britain I do not myself believe that Parliament will approve a settlement which in the opinion of its members is unequal and unfair\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "tary enthusiasm for it when it has been necessary to get down and do some work on the matter. So it has got to be something more substantial than 51 per cent., and I would say that it should be in the region of two-thirds. That is what other countries are requiring. I think Norway requires three-quarters, Denmark two-thirds, and so on. In a moment I will go into why we should have two-thirds also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "ad them to award—Mr. Andrew Alexander—for having asked the question: which dictators have referenda? How many referenda have been held in Russia and China? Therefore, the argument that a referendum is for demagogues and dictators is just about as absurd as it is possible to be. It is rather like the argument that if we have a referendum on this issue we shall have one on hanging. That is nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.257.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about Second Reading?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend accept that in all the Divisions in which he took part there was never any danger of defeating the Government, unlike the one we are debating today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.261.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wasting time.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "ould ask my right hon. Friend for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) to be his Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right hon. Members for Stepney (Mr. Shore) and Workington (Mr. Peart) would have to be found places, as would the hon. Members for Poplar (Mr. Mikardo), Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer), Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) and Antrim, North (Rev. Ian Paisley), and perhaps seats in another place——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "I do not know precisely how it is being solved, but I stick to the view that a straight question, asking whether a person was in favour of joining, would be extremely misleading and might lead to the wrong result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "o\", and 19 per cent. \"I do not know\". The question was also asked: Do you think that joining would be in your own interest? The interesting thing there was that the figures were almost exactly reversed—51 per cent, \"no\" and 32 per cent. \"yes\". There is another snag about a referendum. The size of the poll might be derisory. I asked an organisation which calls itself the Political Freedom Movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Sir Alfred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Stir it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ballot box, to decide constitutional questions is as deeply entrenched as the feeling of Ulster loyalists, as I believe it is, there could well be trouble following a decision to enter. No doubt the Government, with their police and perhaps a little advice from the French police in Calais, could put it down. It is better to say it now than wait until it happens and then wonder why it has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) has made a most impressive speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "edings. As I see it, his argument was that there was a risk, no higher than that, of civil disorder; no doubt the police could deal with it. Then gratuitously there was thrown in a reference to the French police who might be asked to come and help. It was his view that unless we had a General Election or a referendum we stood the risk of civil disorder and total cynicism with our political system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "The anti-Marketeer had a variety of things which he could have done. First, he could have done what certain selection committees have done and decided what type of candidate his party needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ny me in my argument he will find that I do not come to that conclusion at all. So perhaps he will bear with me while I invite the House to consider whether it can seriously be claimed that there is either—and now I substitute the disjunctive for the conjunctive—the full-hearted consent of Parliament or the full-hearted consent of the people. Taking Parliament first and this House of Commons first", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.343.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is impossible.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ould happen. Those who vote for the Amendment, as I shall tonight, are saying, whatever their views on a referendum may be, \"There is not here or in the country the necessary consent to the Bill passing in this form. Therefore, let something be done to ensure that in due course the forms, the arrangements, the negotiations are so altered that, if possible, full-hearted consent may be forthcoming.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "myself of the very convenient Civil Service phrase, which is carefully drawn to mean one thing to one man and something else to another and to be defensible as having a third meaning if challenged later on. It is a great pity that the Prime Minister did not say straight out, as did my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition—he may have applied a different rule in the changing circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "y right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition—he may have applied a different rule in the changing circumstances—[ Laughter ]—it is all very well laughing. I know how I would choose between a man who spoke his mind in unmistakable language, as did my right hon. Friend, at a General Election, and who at least made plain what he was saying, or somebody who engaged in double talk at election time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I cannot keep giving way. I want to put my points. The sovereignty of Parliament will not be reduced if the Bill is passed precisely because the next Parliament will be entirely free to reverse it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " not merely from now to the General Election but thereafter. The test is a simple one, and I am not being flippant in giving it. Whatever this House enacts the courts are obliged to enforce it. If the House were foolish enough to enact in proper form that I should be deemed to be Miss Brigitte Bardot, then for all legal purposes I would be female, French and considerably more attractive than I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "e power of the other place or the way in which people vote. It is not the Bill which creates the bogeymen possibility, but the total sovereignty of Parliament itself. If my previous example was not unattractive enough, I can give another one. Parliament could pass an Act which provided that at the next General Election everyone had one vote for each pound he had in his current account at the bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They are inferior.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "on. It is to our shame if we have misapplied a constitutional principle. I am opposed to the referendum being injected into the most mature parliamentary system in the world, the British parliamentary system. When the right hon. and learned Gentleman says that the system is not alien to us, he knows I am talking of our own parliamentary system, not about the system in Zambia or the Canary Islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ish parliamentary system. When the right hon. and learned Gentleman says that the system is not alien to us, he knows I am talking of our own parliamentary system, not about the system in Zambia or the Canary Islands. [An Hon. Member: \"They are inferior.\"] No, they are not inferior. They have different constitutional arrangements; they are at different stages of economic and political development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ember: \"They are inferior.\"] No, they are not inferior. They have different constitutional arrangements; they are at different stages of economic and political development. [ Interruption. ] I resent anybody saying to people who hold my view that I am elitist because I wish to defend what I believe to be the most democratic parliamentary constitution in the world. There is nothing elitist in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I have almost finished and do not want to give way now so late in my remarks. The sovereignty of Parliament depends on the fact that no one law has a higher rank than another. It is that alone that gives to an incoming Parliament total sovereignty over the country's affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "of Parliament depends on the fact that no one law has a higher rank than another. It is that alone that gives to an incoming Parliament total sovereignty over the country's affairs. [ Interruption. ] Of course one can tear up the Rome Treaty in the next Parliament if one wishes to do so, but if we have a constitution which has embodied within it a referendum, then that is a quite different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "The speech to which the Committee has just listened has, I am sure, given pleasure to all who heard it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Because, as I have explained, and as my right hon. Friend has explained many times, the views of the people would be transmitted to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the Leader of the Labour Party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "d enough, said Lord Attlee. It means that the Government would decide to go in and seek support from Parliament by a vote in the House, no doubt with the Whips on. It is the electors who have the right to decide on a vital matter of this kind. The view expressed in Amendment No. 23 is not a view which has been concocted at the last moment. It is a view which has been expressed by the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That was precisely what was said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ot read those words in the Conservative manifesto or in the various statements that were made by other Ministers at the election as saying that they wanted the British people to know that the Common Market was an issue in the General Election and that if they were elected it was very likely that they would have to proceed to secure, or attempt to secure, entry into the European Economic Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is the Leader of the Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "dealing with it. I have tried to show to the Committee, I would have thought conclusively, that it has always been the view of the Labour Party, over not merely the last weeks but over the years, that if on the terms of entry there was to be a major divergence between the major parties, if there was a division between the major parties on the issue of the terms, that should be put to the electors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is the Leader of the Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "or divergence between the major parties, if there was a division between the major parties on the issue of the terms, that should be put to the electors. [Hon. Members: \"Where is the Leader of the Opposition?\"] It may be that hon. Members on the Government side do not like it all that much, and the Prime Minister, who gave the pledge about full-hearted consent, has not shown himself in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It happens to be my view that the people who should settle the question of whether Britain is to go into the European Economic Community are the people of this country, not Parliament alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "are the people of this country, not Parliament alone. [Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"] I am answering. Therefore, I give the right hon. and learned Gentleman the answer absolutely clearly that if a Labour Government renegotiated terms of entry into the EEC, and those terms were deeply disputed by the official Opposition party, we should have exactly the situation described in Mr. Hugh Gaitskell's speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"How many General Elections?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": ", and those terms were deeply disputed by the official Opposition party, we should have exactly the situation described in Mr. Hugh Gaitskell's speech. [ Interruption. ] We would indeed. We would then have exactly the circumstances that were described in Mr. Gaitskell's speech, and the only way to settle a matter between major parties in those circumstances would be by an appeal to the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"To split the party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e have had a number of elections to decide these questions. It would be better to have an extra election than to take Britain into the Common Market against the people's will, which is the proposition the Government are trying to put to us. There has been some attempt to suggest that the referendum has been considered by many of us on this side only because we thought it might be a convenient way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Friends, including my right hon. Friends the Members for Cheetham and Dundee, East, argue that there is something improper about a referendum, they have not the basis for doing so. There may be a few hon. Members who came into the House at the last election who have never partipicated in recommending a referendum, but for the rest none of us can say, perhaps, that we are consistent on the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "But it is not the case. The right hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe) says that a General Election on the question of whether Britain should join the EEC on these terms is totally impossible. He thinks so because there are differences between the parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "mmittee perhaps to have a considerable discussion on this group of Amendments and still get home a bit earlier than four or five o'clock in the morning, the Government will immediately give the undertaking that they will move the Motion to report progress immediately there is a vote on these Amendments. We have gone very far in meeting the Government. It may be suggested that we have gone too far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-18", "file": "debates1972-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "8b46ed25d84f6e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—[ Interruption. ] I am sorry, but when I raised the point of order and received a lot of unwelcome assistance from hon. Members opposite that tended to make the point of order somewhat more difficult to express with the brevity I originally intended. All I wish to pursue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-18a.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that the House and, indeed, the Chair are in considerable difficulty because the report of the Select Committee on Procedure with regard to matters sub judice was adopted by the House. We must go very carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ty because the report of the Select Committee on Procedure with regard to matters sub judice was adopted by the House. We must go very carefully. [ Interruption. ] Order. The two questions which the right hon. Gentleman has already asked are perfectly in order, but I think that he and other hon. Members must be careful not to ask anything which might be the subject of argument before the tribunal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.511.4", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adam Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adam Butler", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend make it clear on every possible occasion that a cooling-off period is not being imposed by a diktat of Government, but is subject to the decision of a court of law set up by the democratic votes of the Houses of Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "When does the Minister intend to act as a genuine conciliator instead of allowing himself to be used by the Conservative Party as a mouthpiece—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "s Committee of the TUC; the slightest idea whether or not those proposals involved extra spending by the board, over and above the wage deal of the Jarratt award; and any idea whether the unions would find the proposals which had been discussed acceptable to them. He was, therefore, asking us for more time for further pressure to be put on the country by the industrial action which is being taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I am advised that I should not, while the court is sitting, go into any details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is very far wide of a point of order. Indeed, it goes into the whole of the merits of the matter which is essentially one for the court to decide. That is exactly what is sub judice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.515.4", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am not prepared to hear any more points of order on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.515.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.515.9", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "t give us an answer? I understand from what you have said, Mr. Speaker, that the question was not out of order. May I, therefore, put it again with your permission? What is it that the Minister has made application to the court to do, and would he please publish his application in HANSARD so that we may all read it? That is a perfectly simple question. As a House, we should like to have an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.515.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "If I may come to a point of fact which was raised by an hon. Member opposite, this application—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND (WIDGERY TRIBUNAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": "eport will certainly not add anything to the prospects for peace and reconciliation in the future. The only thing it will succeed in doing is finally to bankrupt any shred of confidence the minority ever had in tribunals or judicial inquiries set up by this House or this Government. In their eyes it is plainly a spurious and desperate attempt to whitewash the activities of the Army on that Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.526.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND (WIDGERY TRIBUNAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Have you read the report?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": "The only thing it will succeed in doing is finally to bankrupt any shred of confidence the minority ever had in tribunals or judicial inquiries set up by this House or this Government. In their eyes it is plainly a spurious and desperate attempt to whitewash the activities of the Army on that Sunday. [ Interruption. ] No amount of reports or verbiage will eliminate or explain away \"Bloody Sunday\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND (WIDGERY TRIBUNAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": "ew that if there had been no march there would have been no violence, because by so doing he is saying that the punishment for organising the illegal march on that day was death for 13 people? If the Prime Minister has a grain of sense in his head or if there is a grain of sense in the Government, they will now lift this ridiculous ban on marches and grant an amnesty to all who have been punished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.526.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.528.2", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND (WIDGERY TRIBUNAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We have.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister realise that some of us were pleased to hear him express regret towards the end of his statement at the deaths of 13 persons, because so far no one from the Government side of the House has ever expressed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "I am about to come to that point. I am glad it has been reiterated by the right hon. Gentleman. Originally the right hon. Gentleman said that we were breaking faith and that the Foreign Office had been taking action at conferences and meetings in this context over a number of years. This is not the view of the other applicant countries. It is not the view of the Norwegians, the Danes or the Irish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "rganisation that there is in Brussels. Anyone who thinks that it does not exist should go there for a weekend and look at the bureaucratic set-up of the Commission, which is a very powerful organisation. Anyone who suggests that there is no limitation on our sovereignty has only to look at the Commission's decisions, which percolate through and become imposed on the countries belonging to the EEC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.574.4", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And fish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I mentioned that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.574.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.574.4", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "ve their referendum on 24th September, and they will require three-quarters of their Members of Parliament to vote positively in favour of going in. I think that it was my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Solihull (Mr. Grieve) who seemed to think that they would get that vote and their referendum. I do not know how well—apart from the dinner-table—he knows Norway, but I go there quite a lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.574.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "how that my good will and encomia have no narrow restrictions, to follow with a genial word of welcome to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Cheetham (Mr. Harold Lever) who was seated on his side of the Committee a few minutes ago. But, alas, I am in a sense too late because he is no longer with us. I hope, to use the language of Burke, that he is not merely a transient and embarrassed phantom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "o redress that balance. I was very interested in everything the hon. and learned Gentleman said, particularly his stimulating observations about what I think he meant to represent as this last chance for expanding and extending the democratic processes within the Community, because there is certainly great need for that. 8.45 p.m. The hon. and learned Gentleman referred to the European Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " seek to contribute, but it is a condition which it might well have been better for the Government to specify as one of the cardinal aims and requirements of our application for entry rather than being relegated behind those relatively few economic conditions which were prescribed. We have spent long hours, laborious days and some nights upon the Clause, and it is sad that we are reaching its end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "hair—I know it to be most unusual for a Bill to be right as drafted the first time. If that be so as the general rule, so much more unlikely is a Bill as complex as this unique Measure to be right first time. The odds against it being right the first time, whatever the manifold merits of the draftsman, and whatever the assiduity and ingenuity of my right hon. and learned Friend, which is profound—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.619.2", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gummer", "preceding_text": "iscussed the Clause and who do not want anything to do with Europe. They do not want any such greater democracy because any greater democracy would demand a greater degree of the giving up of sovereignty, as they would put it. My hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Marten) has often posed the dilemma that we have here an institution which is not as democratic as many of us would like it to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "ty is whether we gain or lose sovereignty if we share it. The answer depends very much on whether one believes that the alternative to sharing is more or less advantageous. Sovereignty is conditional, like freedom, which we all uphold. I am free to stay in the Savoy. Unfortunately, I am unable to do so economically. Sovereignty is essentially valuable only if it can be used to the State's benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.641.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "ns. I can only say that I recognise, as every hon. Member should be able to recognise, what a constitutional change is of a kind which it would be improper for a Government to enact without either having a specific mandate for it or without allowing a General Election to precede it to get that mandate. That kind of constitutional change, whatever that may mean, is not involved in this legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "pe, or of the Community, would become paramount over British law and that we cannot honourably revoke any of it, and so on. 11.0 p.m. The truth of the matter is, however, and I will take it first in its pendantic form and then discuss it in its practical form, that, as I maintain, after the passing of the Bill, as before, any law which is in force will be in force because Parliament has willed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.652.4", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Without further formality?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.652.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.652.4", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Without further formality? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Without action on the part of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.652.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.652.4", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Without further formality? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Without action on the part of the House? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Without further treaty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.652.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.652.4", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "tee brings itself into disrepute now and again, but some hon. Members are too immediately accepting the invitation. It is no good bellowing in my ear. I am trying to ascertain exactly what the right hon. and learned Gentleman is saying. He is saying that the whole body of existing law automatically comes into force when we pass this Bill, that this was part of the application to join the Community", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.652.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.652.4", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "hat the right hon. and learned Gentleman is saying. He is saying that the whole body of existing law automatically comes into force when we pass this Bill, that this was part of the application to join the Community [ Interruption. ] I ask hon. Members to listen or it will hardly be worth intervening. I will go back to working to rule. I merely want to see whether I can find some meeting of minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.652.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "The official party position—I do not say that my hon. Friend is obliged to be deeply attached to the party line on this any more than I am—is that if we become the Government we shall insist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I do not want to have any differences on this, Sir Myer. I am replying to a speech which was permitted. I am replying in detail and in the strain of speeches which have been made all around me. I cannot see that if I have strayed in answering this argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "illing to believe that. The fall-back is that if the practical application does not continue in the spirit intended the separate sovereignties of the nations are there to protect that Community spirit, good sense and flexibility. Why is this? With great respect to the hon. Member for Inverness and others who lamented that there was not much democracy in the Community, there is no democracy at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carry on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "lity. Why is this? With great respect to the hon. Member for Inverness and others who lamented that there was not much democracy in the Community, there is no democracy at all—[ Interruption. ] I will not trouble the Committee further because I see that everyone is particularly anxious to move on. I see that some hon. Members do not want to debate this question and I will not trouble them further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "preceding_text": "ng his argument. Is he aware that when we signed the EFTA treaty and it was passed in this House nobody dreamed of some of the implications which would arise from it? For example, in Scotland we discovered that we should not be able to pay a subsidy to the shale industry. We discovered that we had to sink the shale industry in part of my constituency and as a consequence we had mass un employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "become part of British law. I give one very important example. The Hague Agreement of December, 1969, which is an international agreement, by virtue of Clause 1(4) becomes a treaty which is part of the law of this country. There is a sentence in this treaty relating to the desires of the Governments there assembled to work towards a \"United Europe\". I will give the exact reference if it is wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-19", "file": "debates1972-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce83518a38e1ec06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": " if they had been present they would have learnt that there is nothing in the Bill in any way contradictory to what was said by a Labour Lord Chancellor on 8th May, 1967, and contained in the Labour Government's White Paper on legal and constitutional implications. It may be a brutal Bill. I think my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hertfordshire, East (Sir D. Walker-Smiith) called it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-19a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.724.4", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "preceding_text": "sed with him on 4th February and four weeks later, following a reminder from the AUEW, a letter was written to the firm. But the matter has still not been resolved. The Minister told us today that it is now the concern of the Industrial Arbitration Board, which I sincerely hope has been asked to examine the matter because there are members of the union who have been unemployed now for four months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.724.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "preceding_text": "The drill for fishery protection vessels like \"L'Agile\" is for us to be given an outline programme in advance. We are supposed to be given 24 hours notice of a call. This call was rather unusual and unscheduled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS (OFFICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "If the worst should happen and we go into Europe, will the right hon. Gentleman consider using his influence to ensure that if institutions come to Britain they will go to South Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT (DEPARTMENTAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I have noticed, as we all have, some of these actions in the Manchester area. We have also noticed from where they are being stimulated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.746.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.747.4", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awdry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awdry", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend once more try to explain to hon. Gentlemen opposite that one of the main reasons for the high unemployment total is the unreasonable level of wage demands made by the unions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.747.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I am not as well informed as I would wish to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "EARLY-DAY MOTION NO. 292", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not appreciate that the hon. Gentleman was about to raise that particular point. I was prepared for another point about a Motion on the Order Paper, and, if I may, I will deal first of all with the point that I expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " vital point, as you will appreciate when you hear it. My hon. Friend wanted to put down a Motion yesterday, and it was out of order then because it dealt with a matter which was sub judice. That is clear. But—and this ties up with the point which you have made—once the court gave its decision the matter ceased to be sub judice. Now, here comes the point both on this case and on the general issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": ". Friend wanted to get publicity, and good publicity, for the railwaymen, so yesterday afternoon he wanted to put down a Motion in order to obtain Press publicity. He was not able to do that. It was not until after midnight that he was informed that the Motion would be accepted, but by then it was too late for any publicity. I do not say that this action was taken deliberately by the Table Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "the long run it is essential that this should be financed by a higher proportion of personal saving. First, there is the exemption from the investment income surcharge of the first £2.000 of investment income. This means for anyone in the country who is in the process of building up a modest accumulation of capital that the income from his savings is taxed in exactly the same way as earned income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Grants.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "dustrial investment because it removes the disincentive to distribute. The answer to this is threefold. First, we are introducing a dramatically improved system of direct incentives to invest. [ Interuption. ] If right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite do not think after all these years of pressure on them and on previous Conservative Governments that the introduction of free depreciation is not a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.787.3", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not propose to confirm that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.787.3", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not propose to confirm that. [ Interruption. ] If the hon. Gentleman wants to bandy about figures he will get an answer, but in Committee. I do not propose to confirm or deny figures like that off the cuff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.809.3", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "s, chose not to refer at all in his speech. Even if the Budget achieves the objectives set by the Chancellor—and it is no more likely to do that than any of the other Budgets he has presented to the House—there is no guarantee that it will reduce unemployment by more than a fraction over the next 12 months. That fraction will be largely made up of the 60,000 extra bureaucrats needed tooperate VAT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They have for the last few years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": "Profits today are more valuable than profits tomorrow. Any businessman who plays around with deferring his investment would risk burning his fingers. He might lose his share of the market. He might find himself left behind in the queue for new plant. I recognise that there may be some postponement at the fringe. But I find it hard to believe that industry as a whole would behave so shortsightedly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The new Clauses will be taken in Committee upstairs, but they will be taken in this Chamber on Report as well. So they will be considered upstairs and downstairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-20", "file": "debates1972-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c74eddf2693642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.893.4", "colnum": "893", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "The Bill and the Estimates which support it suggest that we should vote some £300 million on the refinancing of fixed rate export lending out of a total under subsection ( e ) of £311 million. As I understand the statement by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-20a.893.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-24", "file": "debates1972-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "1421c3bec50686e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-24a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Robert Carr)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": "May I respond to that point of order in a helpful way? I have been in touch with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment. He does not think that it is wise to make a statement at this juncture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-24a.1062.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-24", "file": "debates1972-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "1421c3bec50686e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-24a.1110.3", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "New Clause No. 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas-Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas-Mann", "preceding_text": "n. We know that this is where the greatest hardship exists. We know from the Francis Committee conclusions that In the search for housing in the private sector, at least half suffered from some form of potential handicap (being a lone parent, unemployed, sick, coloured, having a low income, having three or more children, or not being fully conversant with the English language). It is these people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-24a.1110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-24", "file": "debates1972-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "1421c3bec50686e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-24a.1110.3", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "New Clause No. 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas-Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas-Mann", "preceding_text": "ts. We know from the Francis Committee conclusions that In the search for housing in the private sector, at least half suffered from some form of potential handicap (being a lone parent, unemployed, sick, coloured, having a low income, having three or more children, or not being fully conversant with the English language). It is these people—[ Interruption. ]—who are least able to help themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-24a.1110.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1254.2", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I am sorry, Mr. Speaker, but I very clearly said—and if you did not hear it I regret it—that I was rising to a point of order. All my hon. Friends will bear me out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1254.7", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Would not my hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1254.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1254.8", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I cannot have that said. I ask the hon. Member for Manchester, Ardwick (Mr. Kaufman) to withdraw from the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1254.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1260.5", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stuttaford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stuttaford", "preceding_text": " the past? Would he further agree that this tax would add 50p to the price of a pair of shoes for an eight-year-old which would encourage mothers to by second hand shoes, cheaper shoes or ill-fitting shoes, thereby hazarding the health of their children? Would he agree that this tax will bring into disrepute the VAT system because it would be a prescription charge on the health of children's feet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1260.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "With respect, some of my hon. Friend's comments are a little exaggerated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman perhaps take some medical advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1280.6", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the right hon. Gentleman would have been one of the first to realise that my Department does not provide financial aid to anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1280.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "That is a very unsatisfactory reply. Does the Prime Minister conceive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1311.2", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I do not think so, but we can check that. I wish the right hon. and learned Gentleman would not be quite so defensive; I am trying to make a few points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1331.0", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ere is a slight area of controversy between him and my right hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Sir Robin Turton) as to the exact medical term that might be most appropriate, but I think that my right hon. and learned Friend, as often in these matters of definition, is not far short of the truth. This is in fact a wrecking Amendment, and that is the whole purpose of those who tabled it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1338.2", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "What they have done is to bring their adherence to the treaty into effect in accordance with their own constitutional procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1338.2", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "What they have done is to bring their adherence to the treaty into effect in accordance with their own constitutional procedures. [ Interruption .] I take the view that we should introduce our measures in accordance with our own constitutional procedures and not theirs. That is precisely what we are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1339.4", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "They have their own procedures and we have ours. We must deal with these matters in our own way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1339.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1365.2", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ing to introduce a great mass of Community law into the law of this country, but in fact accomplishing nothing. I am sure that my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General will be only too glad to hide away the wreckage of this misconceived subsection as soon as possible by recommending the Committee to accept the Amendment of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hertfordshire, East", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1365.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1365.2", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hertfordshire, East [ Interruption .] I live in hopes—for I am very conscious of the legal rectitude and logical mind of my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General—that he will recognise that there is no content to subsection (1) and will secure its removal from the Bill, and thus render otiose the other Amendments that are grouped with this one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1365.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1433.2", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I know that others have said that. I think that the Chancellor of the Duchy said it earlier today. But the Solicitor-General is cleverer, because he knows that if he were to say that he would be arguing that this is the only way to do it. He is not saying that, is he? He does not say that for a moment, does he? It is not the only way to do it, is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-25", "file": "debates1972-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "efbb3f46ea901f70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1435.7", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The Solicitor-General has now got into the position in which he can contradict himself even in a short intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-25a.1435.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-26", "file": "debates1972-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a8e19f19423ba507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1520.0", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will remember that before the Housing Act, 1969, there were restrictive conditions—for example, a proportion of grant had to be repaid if a house was resold for owner-occupation within a period of three years. Lord Greenwood, very rightly in my view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-26", "file": "debates1972-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a8e19f19423ba507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1523.2", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry to have to tell the hon. Gentleman that he is a bit behind the times. Already vehicles are not allowed to be manufactured if they allow avoidable smoke, and from October this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1523.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-26", "file": "debates1972-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a8e19f19423ba507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1536.0", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I doubt it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I could make a constructive proposal in answer to the hon. Gentleman's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-26", "file": "debates1972-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a8e19f19423ba507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1550.2", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Robert. As all the speeches made yesterday have been made several times in the debate, cannot earlier volumes of HANSARD be made available?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-26", "file": "debates1972-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a8e19f19423ba507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1569.2", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "preceding_text": "About 12 years ago in the House the issue of entry to the Common Market became a live one. Since then with words and political behaviour I have consistently opposed it. I have dared to put down an Amendment quite separately from the five other persons whose names appear on it, Amendment No. 136. Contrary to what has been suggested, this is not a narrow Amendment but a very wide one. To show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-26", "file": "debates1972-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a8e19f19423ba507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1569.2", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "preceding_text": "ntry to the Common Market became a live one. Since then with words and political behaviour I have consistently opposed it. I have dared to put down an Amendment quite separately from the five other persons whose names appear on it, Amendment No. 136. Contrary to what has been suggested, this is not a narrow Amendment but a very wide one. To show—[ Interruption. ]—how wide it is we have to look at—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-26", "file": "debates1972-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a8e19f19423ba507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1653.0", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "and learned Gentleman will do his best to see that international agreements are reached, we must go on to consider another important problem concerning the consumer, and particularly the house wife, in Britain. In other words, what effective control over the retail price of food will we have, particularly when our food prices are likely to be affected by the CAP? I know I speak for all housewives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1653.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-26", "file": "debates1972-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a8e19f19423ba507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1716.3", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "d well loved British system of guaranteed prices. I move on to Amendment No. 109. I have referred in passing to forestry. It is significant that the volume of forestry regulations contains only four. No doubt when Community foresty policy is fully established there will be many more. Amendment No. 108 deals with flax and hemp. This again is an example of a Community policy where none is necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-26", "file": "debates1972-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a8e19f19423ba507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1727.2", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "They are mentioned in the Amendment. The principal one is 727/70. The others follow upon that. The Common Market protects its tobacco growers against far more efficient tobacco producers. The result will be to raise the prices of tobacco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-26a.1727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-27", "file": "debates1972-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ba59557fbf2819a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1765.0", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Anyone is entitled to shop around to find the best prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-27", "file": "debates1972-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ba59557fbf2819a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1775.0", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "f the Government's Motion. When it is tabled, I think the House and, indeed, the country will see that the time allocated is not only generous but wholly exceptional compared with anything that has gone before. It is our intention that the Motion shall contain, built into the Motion itself, an allocation of time for each and every Clause. The object of that is not to limit the rights of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-27", "file": "debates1972-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ba59557fbf2819a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1777.0", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman appreciate that the Bill on which he is introducing the Motion—a unique Bill, as he himself has said—is one for which the Government had a majority of only eight on Second Reading?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-27", "file": "debates1972-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ba59557fbf2819a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1777.0", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Leader of the Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Clause in the Bill, which changes the whole constitution of the country? Since it is so difficult for some of us, and perhaps for others in the country, to understand how it can be claimed that the full-hearted consent of Parliament could be secured only by the operation of the guillotine, will the right hon. Gentleman give a guarantee that in the debate on Tuesday the Prime Minister will be here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-27", "file": "debates1972-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ba59557fbf2819a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1778.6", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, you permitted me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1778.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-27", "file": "debates1972-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ba59557fbf2819a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "LAND AND HOUSES (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "-hand and older houses will push up the price of modern houses. This is what the Government have done by their own will. They have run in the face of all common sense, and this has added to the crises and dangers that beset us. Practically the first thing the Secretary of State did on 27th July, 1970, when assuming office was to come to this House and announce the abolition of the Land Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-27", "file": "debates1972-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ba59557fbf2819a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "LAND AND HOUSES (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "country has ever seen! What is the situation today? According to the Department's own figures, in the first six months of 1970—that is, between the right hon. Gentleman's speech in January, 1970, in which he forecast the abolition of the Land Commission, and the General Election in June—the price of land, as the Land Commission was beginning to get fully into its stride, fell by 4 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-27", "file": "debates1972-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ba59557fbf2819a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1801.1", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "LAND AND HOUSES (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I will come to that important point later. Therefore, I am making available to local authorities an additional £80 million to spend on assembling land which can be released in convenient parcels for very early private housing development. It will be a condition that the land is bought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-27", "file": "debates1972-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ba59557fbf2819a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1831.1", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "LAND AND HOUSES (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "pty for more than six months to discourage the practice of people hanging on in the hope of finding somebody who will pay another £500 or £1,000 for the house. Thirdly, the Government could introduce legislation to the effect that once a person had bought a house he could not sell it for a period, possibly three or four years, unless he gave the local authority first refusal at the valuer's price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-27", "file": "debates1972-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ba59557fbf2819a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soref", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soref", "preceding_text": "ked admirably until the nationalisation and expropriation. Until there are adequate safeguards and protection for British interests, we should not give more money from British taxpayers. We should also consider that these so-called developing countries—that word is pure supposition—are less developed than others because of their high leisure preference, their lack of interest in material advances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-04-27", "file": "debates1972-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ba59557fbf2819a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1888.2", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "I am almost speechless after listening to the contribution by the hon. Member for Ormskirk (Mr. Soref), and I am sure the House will forgive me if I do not take up the point he raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-04-27a.1888.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-01", "file": "debates1972-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "6dde31a6a8b315f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-01a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "I certainly care about the increase in prices. There is no evidence, in fact, that the price of building land offered for sale has markedly risen for Wales as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-01a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-01", "file": "debates1972-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "6dde31a6a8b315f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-01a.54.6", "colnum": "54", "heading": "VEHICLE AND GENERAL INSUR ANCE COMPANY LIMITED (TRIBUNAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": " the generosity of a back-bencher. Although guilty of repetition, I must declare that when one recalls that over 1 million motorists lost their cover as the result of the collapse of V. and G., the Government stand accused of indulging almost in a whitewashing operation, with a complete failure to respond to the disquiet about the state of the insurance industry. I am not making a political point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-01a.54.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "negotiated directly with the unions in a nationalised industry. On the other hand, every Government have accepted that they have a responsibility in connection with the financing of the nationalised industries, both for investment and for current expenditure. The view expressed by the hon. Gentleman is not the view of the Chairman of the Board of British Railways, as he has made absolutely clear —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "rift gradually day by day into a situation where it would eventually have been faced with the need for a timetable which, at that later stage, could not have allowed time for adequate consideration of all the Bill's provisions. But by bringing the Motion forward now we still have time available to make sure that each and every Clause and Schedule is individually given a reasonable time for debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.214.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "l the collective voices of those industrialists in my constituency who tell me they vote Tory but support me between elections on this issue. I cannot understand any kind of argument that says it is necessary to bring in the guillotine at this time. The debates have been rather shorter than the subject matter would actually suggest. The debate on certain agricultural matters was very short indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": " because, as regards the treaties and regulations already in existence, we should have no power under the Treaty of Accession, or any treaty of accession which might have been negotiated, to have them all revised. It would not, therefore, have been a sensible exercise for us to undertake. In my view, the Government were wise to introduce the timetable Motion. It is likely to lead to better debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Where is he now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is being both very amusing and very inaccurate. My hon. Friend the Member for Inverness (Mr. Russell Johnston) has been here throughout almost every debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "the real explanation of the Motion is that the offence of those of us who are opposed to the Bill is that all our discussions up to date have opened the eyes of many people and have probably embarrassed the Government themselves. What the Government are saying, in effect, is that if we go on exposing the Bill in this manner there is a danger that the public will become aware; hence the guillotine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "s some sort of reality. I remain an unrepentant anti-Marketeer and a Tory, but I propose to vote for the Motion. I shall try to explain my argument for doing so, which I believe is the strongest that can be put forward. It is based on a realistic view of what is happening. My first reason is that there is in the House a majority in favour of the Bill. Secondly, we have a Bill which is unamendable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.299.3", "colnum": "299", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has been discussed before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "s not ungenerous, will give further time, before the final decision is taken, for the discussion of the major issues which must be discussed. I should like to list a few which have not been properly discussed yet. First. there is the necessity for the House to have some form of pre-decision machinery for judging what our representatives in Brussels are to do. That is for the Government to propose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.299.3", "colnum": "299", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "transport matters, which we should be much better informed upon than we are now. I am told that so confident are the proponents of the Common Market legislation on both sides of the House—this goes right across parties—that even at this hour preparations are being made for a Festival of Europe in London next January. Where the funds are to come from I do not know. I hope not from the public purse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.299.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And so it ought.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "preceding_text": "en given, especially by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House, that what we are proposing is an exceptionally generous timetable by any precedent or standard. As my right hon. Friend said, with the debates that we have had and the debates provided for in this timetable, by the end of the day the Bill will have had devoted to it more of the time of Parliament than any Bill in recent history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "sure Motions and the time spent on points of order, we have had six days on Clause 1. We propose nearly seven days on Clause 2. This is not an unreasonable proposition to put before the House. All Governments have had to recognise that one must face the fact that an absolutely unlimited amount of time for any Bill is impracticable if the nation's business is to be conducted properly in Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.331.5", "colnum": "331", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "The House deals with more than other legislation. Matters of general interest need to be debated. These, too, would have to wait. Hon. Members who were present in Committee will accept that a wide range of Amendments and subjects need to be discussed. On 3rd February, 1881, Mr. Gladstone —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.331.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "no doubt been digging very hard to discover what they can find from what I have said in previous guillotine debates. If that is the worst they can find, I have a very clean record. The right hon. and learned Gentleman is the person who is curtailing the time of the House. He should not complain about time. He has plenty of time if he withdraws the Bill. Is he really trying to pretend to the HOUse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "hat I have said in previous guillotine debates. If that is the worst they can find, I have a very clean record. The right hon. and learned Gentleman is the person who is curtailing the time of the House. He should not complain about time. He has plenty of time if he withdraws the Bill. Is he really trying to pretend to the HOUse— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-02", "file": "debates1972-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "bd42dbe4baf5aa71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " record. The right hon. and learned Gentleman is the person who is curtailing the time of the House. He should not complain about time. He has plenty of time if he withdraws the Bill. Is he really trying to pretend to the HOUse— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I am not going to be sneered down by semi-drunken Members of the other side. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-02a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for acknowledging that the first part of my answer is correct. Regarding the second part, the last thing I would want to do is to provoke a confrontation with anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "On the first point, this is a subject on which it is impossible to get agreement from everyone. There are three or four major points of controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.381.6", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that that reply is quite disgraceful and shows no evidence whatever that he is aware of the potential employment benefits in Sutherland arising from the oil industry and the aluminium smelter at Easter Ross? When will he give approval to the bridging of the Dornoch Firth? Do we have to wait years, until there is another Labour Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.381.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Robert Carr)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": "If an Englishman may stay safely south of the border—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made many remarks already today. Let him wait for a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.430.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "h 29 reads: There is at present no requirement to harmonise our death duties with those charged in the other countries of the EEC. But in evaluating the case for a change there is the consideration that as the years go by it will become increasingly difficult to subject a man who dies in the United Kingdom to a significantly different death duty regime from a man who dies in another EEC country \".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.439.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Yes, our friends and kinsmen, people with whom we have a common heritage. We do not have quite the same relationship with, for example, the Italians and others in the EEC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "rophobic fear among many people, the idea of being locked in a parity from which they cannot escape and which will ruin us if we stay in it. I must tell my right hon. Friend with great bluntness—I hope he will forgive me—that it is a total fantasy, this idea that one can lock any sovereign nation into a parity and keep it there to its ruin. That is absolutely absurd. It cannot and will not happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.452.3", "colnum": "452", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " 6.30 p.m. Turning to the free movement of labour, it is wrong to talk about the sub-proletariat of Germany as the kind of thing with which we are threatened in some way either as importers or as exporters of a sub-proletariat. It is well to remember when we consider these matters that, however lamentable conditions may be in Germany—I have not studied them—it is the choice of the people concerned", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.452.3", "colnum": "452", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "about the sub-proletariat of Germany as the kind of thing with which we are threatened in some way either as importers or as exporters of a sub-proletariat. It is well to remember when we consider these matters that, however lamentable conditions may be in Germany—I have not studied them—it is the choice of the people concerned [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, their choice. I put it to my hon. Friends —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "We are not dealing with generalisations of the kind that we have heard in debates in this House over the past 12 months. We are dealing with a concrete event which is occurring now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Normanton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Normanton", "preceding_text": "mmediately to look up a book of rules and to make our judgment according to what the book says. It is surely a commitment to look in a certain direction and to influence our thinking in all aspects of our public life in a general direction, which I would question whether even the most bitter critics of our entry could condemn. We are debating one Amendment and referring to the freedom of movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.511.2", "colnum": "511", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Mallalieu. It is very rarely that the Prime Minister has dared to show his face during these debates. We issued invitations to the Prime Minister to come here earlier in our discussions, in particular on the guillotine Motion, but he ran away from that debate, and I presume that it is only by accident that he has dared to come here now. It would have been very strange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perfectly adequate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am on a point of order, Mr. Mallalieu. I will not be shouted down by a full-hearted Prime Minister who cannot even come here and defend his own position. If the Prime Minister wishes to intervene in my remarks, I am sure he will agree that he should have the courage to stand on his own feet. What I am asking is this: as the majorities in the last two Divisions of six and four—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.513.4", "colnum": "513", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Prime Minister will recall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that the Solicitor-General is not himself tonight, with the narrow majorities the Government are having in Divisions. If he reads what I said he will realise that I am directing my attention entirely and exclusively to the provisions of the Bill and its implications. I may have used a colourful phrase and perhaps I should withdraw it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.517.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It never will be.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "preceding_text": "ot by my ancestors but by the forebears of the present Conservatives in Scotland. Indeed, the mob—that was my people they were talking about; they were referred to as \"the mob\"—was vehemently opposed to the Union. There was an attempt at repeal in 1713, which failed. But it did not extinguish the desire among all Scotsmen for a distinct Scottish expression. It has never been submerged at any time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "It is no good the hon. Gentleman saying \"No\". Four losses for the Tories in Perth last night should make even him feel shaky. If the Tories win the next General Election in Britain, having lost it in Scotland, there will be problems for all of us to face. If the Labour Party wins the next General Election, as I think it will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.539.4", "colnum": "539", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "a debate on the Floor of the House of Commons, and I feel deeply enough about the subject which I have been discussing to speak at greater length than is my custom. I must apologise to my hon. Friends who are desperate to get into the debate, for I have encroached on their time. But they should remember that if an hon. Member opposite were to start speaking now, he would continue until 11 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.539.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-03", "file": "debates1972-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b07b84141377b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.543.2", "colnum": "543", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "There was quite a lot of time to deal with it if hon. Members had confined themselves more strictly to the Amendments to which they were speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-03a.543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give consideration to the possibility of providing adventure playgrounds, particularly in Belfast, for Protestant and Catholic children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I did not discuss these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.576.4", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" It was not emotive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I saw that somewhat emotive photograph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.576.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the long-term development of the European Parliament can be dealt with by an Amendment to the Bill. I agree with the hon. Gentleman that it is quite right that there should be discussions with all parties in this House about the way in which Members should be elected to go to the European Parliament. After discussions through the usual channels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ent and this Parliament if Britain were to become a member. There has been ample time to debate it since the negotiations were concluded. The powers of the European Parliament are laid down in the Treaty of Rome, which the right hon. Gentleman accepted and which the present Government accept. The question of representation and the choice of the 36 Members surely is not a matter to put into a Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.592.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Suppose he dies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Does the sub judice rule means that we cannot discuss even the physical condition of this man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.608.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.609.3", "colnum": "609", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, while—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "al authority finance specifically. So it seems to me quite an implausible and unreasonable suggestion that local authorities should be expected to comment on the general effect on the economy of different rent levels. It is equally doubtful whether they are qualified to talk about the effect on the general market in housing of increases in rents. Obviously there is a relationship between the two.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "rly if it went to £600 million a year, which is the forecast we have had, would involve heavy taxation on ordinary citizens often less well off than the people receiving the subsidy. I turn now to another of the Opposition's parrot cries: that council housing is a social service. This oft repeated assertion conceals a good deal of sloppy thinking and a patronising attitude towards council tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.661.3", "colnum": "661", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "h is rather more. In Rochdale the increase was 43 per cent. In Sutton the increase was 10 per cent. In Dorking and Horley the increase was 44 per cent. We must keep a sense of proportion in all this. The right hon. Gentleman talked about rents becoming dramatically dearer. I gave certain figures earlier which suggested that they would be far from 50 per cent. I now have the figures for Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.661.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for giving way as I have been seeking an opportunity to ask him some questions which are extremely pertinent to the figures which he has just quoted. In view of the time factor I cannot list the half-dozen questions which I wanted to put to him. May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.662.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I am giving not Government figures but figures supplied by the Birmingham authority. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Birmingham has been into this in great detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "lve rent increases. We are told that the Labour Party will produce a policy of its own. I remind hon. Gentlemen opposite that they have been working on it since 1965, and no doubt it will come out after the Royal Assent has been given to this Measure. If they thought that fair rents would involve no rent increases for council tenants, they would not have opposed applying them to the public sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.662.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.731.4", "colnum": "731", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman: in these circumstances do they accept the law or do they fight against an oppressive law introduced by a fascist government? Of course, ours is not a fascist Government but they are a Government which are moving in the direction of introducing a corporate State in this country. Are we then going to accept the type of laws that we are having foisted upon us by this Government?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.731.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-04", "file": "debates1972-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e98fb636ddb4739a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "In view of what the hon. Gentleman has just said, with some sympathy generally for the spirit in which my right hon. Friend the Member for Grimsby (Mr. Crosland) spoke, why did he open his references to my right hon. Friend with a rather nasty smear about his always being absent when this issue is debated? The hon. Gentleman has just quoted from the major speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-04a.736.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "use no one can know what the rents are as they have not been assessed. The hon. Gentleman can talk to us about what advice he will give his Labour colleagues on that council over their opposition to the Bill. In that borough, led as ever from the rear, the local Labour Party has decided that it will not implement the Bill. I want to hear what the Opposition spokesman will advise his friends there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1005.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "hey intend to place in the stead of this Bill, when or if they repeal it—and, of course, if or when they become the Government. We await with interest next week's Local Government Chronicle. Presumably, it would be vain of us to say that those who are not prepared to state what their policy would be in relation to these matters, if they were to form a Government, have no right to vote on the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "y reflect the state of affairs in other Birmingham constituencies. I come now to one of the criticisms which I have of the Bill, which I think will be shared by other hon. Members on both sides. When making a fundamental change—a change for the good, in my view—in housing finance policy, it is best if the rents which people will have to pay are established before the Bill reaches the Statute Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a certain expertise in this matter and he surely knows that people on supplementary benefit have the whole of their rent and rates paid, and they will continue to have them paid under the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Trew", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Trew", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the cost to the owner-occupier of maintaining, repairing and insuring his house increases yearly, whereas the council tenant has no responsibility for these elements?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What principle? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "e in the Labour Party, to get rents on to a basis which is as near non-profit-making as we can have in our society. It is for that reason that I give this advice. If the Minister wants to fudge tonight, it will not be good enough, and the matter will not end in this debate. I trust that all councils will do precisely what I have advised them to do, so that we get back to some principle in housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "ill seeks to solve this problem through the rising cost subsidy. Those local authorities who most need to build new housing to meet the housing need are protected from intolerable escalation and the burden on the ratepayers is limited to 25 per cent. The authority will know that this activity will not push up existing rents. I do not ask the party opposite to endorse every aspect of our proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You have done that! Turn over.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "ce when there are pensioners residing with the tenant and his wife. I was much attracted by the suggestion of my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford (Mr. Woodhouse) that at least one member of the Advisory Committee on Rent Rebates and Allowances should have experience of the problems of the chronically sick and disabled and I will ensure that this is carefully looked into. I come to slum clearance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1046.4", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I come to the slum clearance subsidy which has been made retrospective to 1965. In this context I should like to say that we have been able, as a result of our proposed reforms, to make the yardstick a good deal more elastic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1046.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are they right? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "t. increase in Birmingham. There may be certain areas where the increase will be of some importance. But it would be wrong to draw general conclusions as to fair rents elsewhere on the estimates from Birmingham or Newcastle. Equally, it would be wrong for hon. Members to take the view that, because these estimates are surprisingly encouraging from the point of view of the tenants, they were wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I could understand if, in another place, where there is still some respect for the system of heredity, the idea of pooled historic costs won support as a kind of endorsement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "e rents; because it is fair that tenants who can afford to pay should pay rents which reflect the fair value of the accommodation, and determining the fair rent is basically a matter of valuation which has been made much easier by the fact that over 300,000 fair rents have now been determined in the private sector. Hon. Gentlemen opposite argue that rents in the public sector cannot be determined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "aluation which has been made much easier by the fact that over 300,000 fair rents have now been determined in the private sector. Hon. Gentlemen opposite argue that rents in the public sector cannot be determined—[ Interruption. ]—because the procedures for determining them in the private sector are different. But they take into account all the circumstances, including personal circumstances, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "semidetached house built since 1919 was about £4,700. On the most common terms of a building society mortgage for a first—time purchaser, his average outgoings were about £6 a week after taking account of tax relief, or about two and a half times the average council rent. It is curious to see hon. Gentlemen opposite adopting a policy which is so opposed to a party supposedly dedicated to equality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": " purchaser, his average outgoings were about £6 a week after taking account of tax relief, or about two and a half times the average council rent. It is curious to see hon. Gentlemen opposite adopting a policy which is so opposed to a party supposedly dedicated to equality—[ Interruption. ]—with their deep-rooted dislike of landlords, however poor, their instinctive suspicion of private ownership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "ed to a party supposedly dedicated to equality—[ Interruption. ]—with their deep-rooted dislike of landlords, however poor, their instinctive suspicion of private ownership—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] They never thought of allowances in the unfurnished, let alone the furnished sector. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have little concern for tenants in the private sector. They have an instinctive suspicion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "equality—[ Interruption. ]—with their deep-rooted dislike of landlords, however poor, their instinctive suspicion of private ownership—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] They never thought of allowances in the unfurnished, let alone the furnished sector. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have little concern for tenants in the private sector. They have an instinctive suspicion—[ Interruption. ]—and non cooperation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "tlemen opposite would have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Will hon. Gentlemen opposite restore universal subsidies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Will hon. Gentlemen opposite restore universal subsidies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Enough.\"]—following the Brighton Conference? Ask Roy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Will hon. Gentlemen opposite restore universal subsidies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Enough.\"]—following the Brighton Conference? Ask Roy—[ Interruption. ] —and ask Dennis. Will they repeal the rebates, allowances, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL [THIRD ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ite restore universal subsidies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Enough.\"]—following the Brighton Conference? Ask Roy—[ Interruption. ] —and ask Dennis. Will they repeal the rebates, allowances, and—[ Interruption. ] —what about slum clearance and rising costs? Here we have an Opposition split down the middle like some primitive organism. We witness their ancestral suspicion of landlords and jealousy of ownership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-08", "file": "debates1972-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2516cecb153b203b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1071.5", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (PROSECUTION OF OFFENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Why the delay? \".", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "With great respect, I suggest that it is exactly the same point. I was coming to the question why no draft of this order was laid. The order was made and came into operation on 30th March. We are now debating it on 8th May—five weeks later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-08a.1071.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wants figures for specific periods which he selects, I am prepared to send them to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman either does not know the figures for his own period of office or has not the guts to give them in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman either does not know the figures for his own period of office or has not the guts to give them in the House—[ Interruption. ] Will he confirm that man-days lost from all causes add up now to 35,225,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "VIETNAM (BRITISH SHIPPING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Facing both ways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ivately and publicly, to President Johnson of what would be our position if there were bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in the past month, in addition to the statement issued this morning by our party which is very clear, I myself have publicly deplored both the invasion from the north and the resumption of American bombing which was stopped by President Nixon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "multi-rate structure, which has inevitably given rise to an even larger host of anomalies and administrative difficulties. On Second Reading, my hon. Friend the Chief Secretary pointed out many of the nonsenses that we have had to put up with over the years on this score. I need repeat only a few. Toilet soap is taxed at a high rate, yet toilet paper is exempt. Cutlery is taxed at the bottom rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1161.4", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that in his election address he stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1171.5", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "and it could start next year—the Government have given themselves the power to take all trades at present zero-rated out of that rating by order the moment the Bill is law. They have the power to increase the rate to 12½ per cent. before it comes into operation and to increase it to 15 per cent. the following week, again by order with no effective discussion here. I believe—I could be wrong", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1193.3", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "x, and it was stated to be an intended effect when the Bill was introduced. Today we are asked to choose between that tax and the value added tax. It is a condition of our joining the European Economic Community that we accept the value added tax. The member States of the EEC had already chosen the value added tax because of its inherent advantages. The United States is now introducing such a tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is why we employ lawyers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "hat. Can anyone tell me what Items Nos. 2 and 3 mean? I should like to know what my VAT obligations are in that respect. Under \"Notes\" is it stated that (1) Item 2 does not include any work of repair or maintenance or the supply of any services to a person who himself supplies such services as are mentioned therein. Again, would someone be kind enough to explain to a layman what is required there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1209.0", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": "do not say that the comments we have heard so far have not been very good, they have been few, I think that the right hon. Gentleman's critique of the tax was very much concerned not with a broad criticism of the tax itself but with small and minor anomalies and difficulties that could occur with the tax. The right hon. Gentleman referred in particular to anomalies, fiddles and fly-by-night firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1256.0", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "er the hon. Member for Walthamstow, West (Mr. Deakins) was speaking for the official Opposition, but he has made his views extremely clear on this tax. I could not take a more opposite view. During the several hours of the debate we have not heard those views expressed by other hon. Gentlemen. In fact, we have heard an extremely muddled expression of views, not a strong expression against the tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1256.0", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "is views extremely clear on this tax. I could not take a more opposite view. During the several hours of the debate we have not heard those views expressed by other hon. Gentlemen. In fact, we have heard an extremely muddled expression of views, not a strong expression against the tax. [ Interruption. ] I do not want to discuss where I have been all day, but I have been here throughout the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1256.0", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "e. I hope that my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench will not prove inflexible. We know that the Chancellor is never inflexible. He has a ready ear when we express our views to him. I hope that he and his colleagues will continue to be flexible. I do not entirely agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Horsham (Mr. Hordern), who, perhaps reflecting an almost official Treasury view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-09", "file": "debates1972-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "012452b1c45f790b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1268.2", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trew", "preceding_text": "on is one which we ought to welcome—and examine. The hon. Member for Birmingham, All Saints (Mr. Brian Walden) gave an innocuous reason for introducing the Amendment. He said that it was to reduce the freedom of action of the Government to increase the rate of VAT in the future. In effect, the hon. Gentleman proposes a reduction in revenue of £360 million, and really he must say where he proposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-09a.1268.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-10", "file": "debates1972-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1e998637826ccea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is a wide degree of opinion in support of what my hon. Friend the Member for Epping (Mr. Tebbit) has said? Is he further aware that this anti-British Broadcasting Cor-poration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1289.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-10", "file": "debates1972-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1e998637826ccea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1323.4", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Assuming that things do not work out too well in the railways dispute, is the right hon. Gentleman saying that he will come to the House first before he again approaches the Industrial Court?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1323.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-10", "file": "debates1972-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1e998637826ccea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "er. On 3rd June, 1970, just a week or two before polling day, he said: Value-added tax would mean 4s. in the pound, that is 20 per cent., more on your bus fares, on your rail fares, for these would be subject to the tax, and 4s. in the pound, that is 20 per cent., on your gas bills, your electricity bills, and your coal bills. None of that came to pass. Today we hear just the same old scary stuff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-10", "file": "debates1972-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1e998637826ccea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman is making a great deal about suspicions, is he prepared to give us an assurance that the tax will not go up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-10", "file": "debates1972-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1e998637826ccea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Of course I will answer. What is the purpose of having an economic regulator or a provision which allows us to put taxation up or down? The hon. Gentleman and his right hon. and hon. Friends have an absolute obsession with increasing taxation. It never occurs to them that it might go down on occasions. I am not surprised, because they have never had any experience of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-10", "file": "debates1972-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1e998637826ccea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Gilbert", "preceding_text": " Gentleman expects to use these powers—and presumably he must be expecting the possibility, otherwise they would not be in the Bill—will he give an undertaking that if they have to be used, social service benefits will be increased proportionately to the extent that ensures that those who would be worst affected by such increases in the rate of the tax would be protected from hardship accordingly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-10", "file": "debates1972-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1e998637826ccea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1362.2", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "xt, can make recommendations. But, with the best will in the world, if it seeks to discriminate between this and that appliance or between this and that fuel on the ground, for example, that burning coal pollutes the atmosphere more than burning electricity, which in my judgment is a very dubious proposition, every kind of scientific argument and disputation will arise. That is my first objection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-10", "file": "debates1972-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1e998637826ccea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "I want to be satisfied on this point before I leave the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-10", "file": "debates1972-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1e998637826ccea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1430.7", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "All Scots have the gift —you should know this, Miss Harvie Anderson—of brevity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1430.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-10", "file": "debates1972-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1e998637826ccea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1460.6", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1460.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-10", "file": "debates1972-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1e998637826ccea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1463.0", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": ", and exclude it from value added tax. It would immediately give rise to a hundred other anomalies of a parallel kind. If the whole group of five items, including particularly ice cream, is to be taxed under value added tax, which is the proposal in the Bill, it would be best to leave it as it is for the time being until all food is brought into value added tax in harmony with European practice. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-10", "file": "debates1972-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1e998637826ccea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1468.4", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I will leave the hon. Gentleman to the tender mercy of the French confectionery manufacturers who will no doubt instruct him that their industry is substantially larger than ours. I believe it is wholly harmful to relieve unilaterally a single product—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-10a.1468.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1544.5", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend very warmly for all he does for regional development in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1544.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1545.2", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "To answer the last part of that supplementary question first, I do not see that the two are incompatible in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1545.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1547.3", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE RESTRAINT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister not aware, as he surely must be, that a large number of the members of the CBI are very reluctant to continue the policy initiated by the CBI—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1547.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1548.1", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE RESTRAINT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister bearing in mind the continuous effect of rising prices on old-age pensioners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE RESTRAINT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is not entitled to take one item of VAT in isolation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1566.2", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "y for the money that will be made available and spent by this finance corporation, and what arrangements he is making about other public offices and their accountability? Will they be accountable to the Public Accounts Committee of the House? The Bill originally did not provide for any public accountability to the Public Accounts Committee at Stormont. Has the right hon. Gentleman any information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1566.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1566.2", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "d their accountability? Will they be accountable to the Public Accounts Committee of the House? The Bill originally did not provide for any public accountability to the Public Accounts Committee at Stormont. Has the right hon. Gentleman any information—[ Interruption ]—about a man who was kidnapped today and whose brother was shot during the kidnapping offence? Would the right hon. Gentleman also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1566.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1575.0", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "If it has become a political issue, I can only say that it was one before I came into it; in fact, it was so from the beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1577.0", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "y, the serious potential danger to world peace involved in the present situation in Indo-China and on the high seas surrounding Vietnam. I said two days ago that I found decisions under this Standing Order extremely difficult to make. I have considered the Standing Order very carefully, in particular paragraph (4), and have come to the conclusion that it is proper for this matter to be discussed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1622.6", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "We have heard the usual Government arguments for resisting Amendments although we seem to have made a little progress. We have had one almost firm concession, admittedly to Government back-bench Members, and almost a concession to consider before Report an Amendment which we moved. I hope that the Government are moving away from the rigid line of resisting Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1622.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1641.0", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "oup 9 of Schedule 4. I assure him that he need not have any worries on that score. I come straight away to the question of the need for a weight limit in the Bill. The purpose of the weight limit of 15 tons is to reconcile two objectives. The first is to relieve shipping operators of any financial burden, while at the same time taxing consumers' expenditure for recreation or for pleasure purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1641.0", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"SET? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "e same time taxing consumers' expenditure for recreation or for pleasure purposes. [ Interruption. ] I hear hon. Members murmuring the word \"boats \". There is no special term of art in the distinction between the words \"ships\" and \"boats \". Hon. Members need not worry on this score, either. In trying to achieve these twin objectives—of relieving shipping operators from the financial burden of SET—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1670.0", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is defunct.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "preceding_text": "ll lead yet again to the possible destruction of some of our great orchestras. If I speak of England I hope my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) will forgive me. But England did not have a high reputation in music until recently. I now see my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Craigton (Mr. Milian) present, and when I look at him I naturally think of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " individual managements cannot fully offset by increasing their charges, the Government will make special supplementary provision during 1973 for the Arts Council. This in turn will enable the Arts Council to make special provision for the various institutions before the end of the financial year. Hon. Members on both sides of the Committee will realise that this is a very far-reaching commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-11", "file": "debates1972-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4954439ee7b3280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1689.0", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not casting any reflection upon the Chair. I called the hon. Member for York (Mr. Alexander W. Lyon) because he was the only hon. Member to rise on that side of the Committee. For that reason, I was obliged to call the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-11a.1689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-15", "file": "debates1972-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0ecd71fc5d6b4291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.16.3", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "Has not the movement towards protectionism in recent years in the United States been basically caused by the inward-looking, protectionist and imperialistic policies of the European Economic Community in relation to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.16.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-15", "file": "debates1972-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0ecd71fc5d6b4291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "South Africa (Deported British Subject)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Secretary. We have had a wholly one-sided, deliberately biased account of recent events at the negotiating table. Only through the opportunity of this debate will the House be able to establish the facts. There are not only many hon. Members on this side of the House but, to my certain knowledge, hon. Members opposite, who have spoken to me privately, who are seriously worried about the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-15", "file": "debates1972-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0ecd71fc5d6b4291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "South Africa (Deported British Subject)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "The point about the attitude of North Vietnam is that most of the people there believe that they ate one country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-15", "file": "debates1972-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0ecd71fc5d6b4291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "South Africa (Deported British Subject)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "I will be fairly brief. The hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. John Mendelson) is to be congratulated on initiating the debate, although I am by no means convinced that it will justify a vote at the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-15", "file": "debates1972-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0ecd71fc5d6b4291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "South Africa (Deported British Subject)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": " were not elections in the sense that any hon. Member in this House would understand elections. There was censorship and opposition parties were banned. Many people boycotted them. The breach of the Agreement—the part of it which said that there would be elections in a unified Vietnam—occurred in January and March, 1956. I commend hon. Gentlemen opposite who speak from prejudice rather than facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-15", "file": "debates1972-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0ecd71fc5d6b4291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.89.2", "colnum": "89", "heading": "South Africa (Deported British Subject)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "er a view and a vote tonight in order to show people that we feel that it is essential that more should be done to bring this conflict to an end, and I should like to tell the House on what basis I shall vote. Others may vote for different reasons, but it is important to register a vote. I shall vote to express my disagreement with President Nixon's policy of escalating the bombing and the mining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.89.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-15", "file": "debates1972-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0ecd71fc5d6b4291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.115.5", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I have misunderstood the Financial Secretary. One cannot offset the amounts that will be levied by, for example, reducing admission charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.115.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-15", "file": "debates1972-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0ecd71fc5d6b4291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.135.2", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": ". If they are to press for numerous exemptions, such as this and many others on the Notice Paper, the 10 per cent. rate has either to be increased or it must be applied to a number of things which are now zero-rated. Do the Opposition want to see it added to food, to fuel or to any other essentials which affect the cost of living of the old-age pensioner? What they want is the best of both worlds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-15", "file": "debates1972-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0ecd71fc5d6b4291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Miss Mary Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Mary Holt", "preceding_text": "In my constituency there is a famous football club, Preston North End. It is one of the founder members of the Football Association. The people of Preston have for many years followed with pride and affection the fortunes of that football club. I must declare an interest. I am both a supporter and a shareholder of Preston, North End.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-15", "file": "debates1972-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0ecd71fc5d6b4291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.149.5", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "preceding_text": "I want to be brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.149.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-15", "file": "debates1972-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0ecd71fc5d6b4291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Never heard of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "ract (Mr. Harper) talked about Featherstone Rovers—a very third-rate team compared with Hunslet. I am faced with an entirely different situation. I wish to speak not about a First Division football club but about a series of football clubs which do not have such wealth. I may amuse the Committee when I say that I am vice-president of Coleford United, Redbrook Rovers and Harrow Mill football clubs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-15", "file": "debates1972-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0ecd71fc5d6b4291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "When one considers the impact of this tax on attendances at sports meetings, one must also look at the other measures we have taken in the Budget. For example, the fact that those paying income tax will be £1 a week better Off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-15a.164.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.214.4", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will realise when we come to a later Question on the Order Paper, there was a considerable acceleration of prices during the last three years of the Labour Government. That acceleration has now ceased and we are on a downward path.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.214.7", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "An increase of prices of one-sixth over a period of approximately 22 months is a very grave matter indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.214.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.217.6", "colnum": "217", "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 make two points in reply to that. First, we are dealing with an index which is running at least two months behind the facts. The hon. Gentleman will find that the news to come is good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.217.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.224.5", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At a stroke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "There are no figures as good as those for June, 1966, to January. 1967. The extraordinary thing about the figures is that they show an acceleration all the way through the period of the Labour Government. The fact that they were accelerating at that time means that it takes a bit longer to get them under control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.224.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th MAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. May I refer to Question No. Q8 on today's Order Paper? Yesterday I received a letter from the Prime Minister indicating the answer to the Question; namely, that he was to fly in Concorde on Friday this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "too, as my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, North (Mr. Wallace) reminds me. 4.0 p.m. But I think the Committee must consider the effect of the imposition of the tax on the children themselves. The moral humiliation for many children of having to wear handed-down clothes from their elder brothers and sisters is something about which hon. Members on the Government side may be totally unconscious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "girls of 14 are not so much smaller than those of 17, 18 or 19. In some respects the situation has become ridiculous in recent years, with the changes in fashion which have tended to obliterate the distinction between clothes for children and clothes for teenagers or young women. We have all watched with interest, some of us no doubt with a certain kind of fascination, the trend of the mini-skirt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Our Amendment, too, refers to young children. I wish that the right hon. Gentleman would read the Notice Paper before he makes his statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.269.4", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I am anxious to conclude my remarks on this point. I am sure the Committee will agree that the two Opposition Amendments should be rejected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.269.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.269.5", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "uch an inquiry is necessary after this debate, why on earth did it not occur to Treasury Ministers to conduct it before this point was reached? This raises the whole question of Treasury decision-making. What medical advice was sought before this debate? Did any Minister or Treasury official seek advice from, for example, the London Foot Clinic? May we have a factual reply from the Chancellor now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.269.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.272.2", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piers Dixon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piers Dixon", "preceding_text": "for Lancaster (Mrs. Kellett-Bowman). First, I take up the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) on his imputations that certain of my hon. Friends have had quite different family experiences from those of certain hon. Members on the Opposition benches. In my family we always shared clothes. I have shared clothes with the wife of my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, South (Mr. Blaker).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.272.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ould be something about £12 million. My hon. Friend seemed to suggest that there was something perhaps not wholly convincing about saying that if one were to use £12 million for this purpose, there would be £12 million less available elsewhere. My experience after two years at the Treasury is that not to proceed on those principles is just the way to allow public expenditure to get out of control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. John Nott)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. John Nott)", "preceding_text": "ppliances, drugs and medicines on the Amendment Paper is intended to zero-rate a number of articles which are at present exempt from purchase tax While the motives behind these Amendments, and I group them all together at the outset, are well understood I have to say to begin with that on several grounds there are objections both of policy and of administration to the suggestions contained in them", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.342.4", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "s. My colleagues and T have referred again and again in Committee in our debates on Schedule 4 to the need to avoid providing reliefs where there is no objective and simple border line. Once we accept the principle of an open-ended list, as with purchase tax, we should be under constant pressure to add other items to it and there would be no satisfactory criteria of where the line should be drawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.342.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "I am sorry the hon. Gentleman did not come in earlier. I would gladly have included in my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mudd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mudd", "preceding_text": "ous goods on which she has paid value added tax. Surely the Treasury is not so unromantic and unimaginative that it cannot say to her as a tribute to her tax contributions \"We'll give you the odd copper off your bunch of flowers.\" Surely, the Treasury could see the logic of paying that tribute to the housewife by not taxing her in this way. My hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench are very human men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The second finest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "e numbers of trees and shrubs and bedding plants and so on that were produced by local authorities for landscaping. They have argued that it would be environmentally undesirable for these products to attract tax. To be parochial for a moment, last night the annual banquet of the Mayor of Worthing took place and we had the finest display of flowers that one could see probably anywhere in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-16", "file": "debates1972-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "48e281c54a6da451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.477.3", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " of discrimination. A single man whose only income is investment income of £4,000 has a marginal rate of 61·25 per cent. Yet if he had an earned income of £4,000, which is now not an excessive salary for middle management, he would have a marginal rate of 30·14 per cent. At that relatively modest level of executive income the marginal rate is twice as high if it is investment income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-16a.477.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-19", "file": "debates1972-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "d4de26949b4fa907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-19a.961.22", "colnum": "961", "heading": "ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 28th January. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-19a.961.21"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-19", "file": "debates1972-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "d4de26949b4fa907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-19a.962.6", "colnum": "962", "heading": "PUBLIC ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-19a.962.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-22", "file": "debates1972-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab88051297652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-22a.983.5", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "No factors can be identified which have not in some measure been present in previous years. This adds to the significance of the decrease of nearly 7,200 in the number unemployed, which is the largest decrease between April and May since 1940.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-22a.983.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-22", "file": "debates1972-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab88051297652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-22a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "I can recall a case under the last Administration where there seemed a prospect of enormous investment grants going to a project without the remotest chance of profitability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-22a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-22", "file": "debates1972-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab88051297652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-22a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "preceding_text": "t Midlands, from 2·2 per cent. to 4·1 per cent. This summer there is a higher rate of unemployment in the once-booming West Midlands than there was in the Welsh development area two years ago. These are the fruits of the Government's proudly-proclaimed new general strategy. This Government, who profess such stern views on public expenditure, have brought before us this panic Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-22a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-22", "file": "debates1972-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab88051297652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-22a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Industrial Development (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Industrial Development (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "preceding_text": " to take the line that there never should be any change in the employment pattern. When talking about coal and steel, the hon. Gentleman seemed to be arguing that the numbers employed in the coal industry should be the same as in previous years. Finally, the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East and a number of others argued for an alternative strategy. Those who have taken part in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-22a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-22", "file": "debates1972-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab88051297652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-22a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "ants in this industry not simply to stave off crises but to fortify the successful, and that there should be the opportunity to evaluate the industry as a whole. The priority study on which my Department is embarked is intended to do just that. My hon. Friend the Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne) asked quite a few questions about the Bill. I will answer a number of them in correspondence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-22a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1210.2", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£15 a week? How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is not the money supply situation causing trouble for the building societies and for the Government? As to these 86½p pound notes, may we assume that they are in general use? Do they apply to the railwaymen or is it that when his right hon. Friend was accusing £15-a-week railwaymen of holding the country to ransom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1224.7", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "preceding_text": "desians, for the problems of Rhodesia can essentially only be solved by Rhodesians themselves. Her Majesty's Government feel that plenty of time should be given in which the position can be clarified and that meanwhile no door should be closed. We feel that the best atmosphere for constructive discussion and advance will be provided if we maintain the situation as it is today, including sanctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1224.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1227.0", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "nciples. I have never seen any difficulty about those principles. The proposals were within the five principles that Mr. Smith and I made, and any future proposals must be within the five principles. I should not at this stage like to commit myself exactly to the method which should be used in regard to the fifth principle in future; we are looking at the matter entirely anew and completely blind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It takes one to recognise one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Now that the Foreign Secretary and his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister have failed in their disastrously misjudged efforts to legitimise a bastard régime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1234.4", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "As it is the black African countries, and in particular Zambia, which are the foremost of sanction breakers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1234.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1238.2", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "UNOCCUPIED PROPERTY (INCREASE OF RATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the provisions of Section 17 of, and Schedule I to, the General Rate Act 1967 relating to the liability to be rated in respect of unoccupied property. I am grateful for such a full House for the introduction of my 10-Minute Rule Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1238.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1241.5", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "preceding_text": " review. That has been made clear in this House. Yet, two weeks ago it was the Minister for Industry who was put up to make a statement which was harmful and damaging to the industry while the Secretary of State cowered behind him on the Front Bench. Today we are informed that it is the Minister for Industry who will defend that statement, whilst once again the Secretary of State lurks behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1241.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "gure there. The level of exports is no less important than the level of imports. The level of exports, and indeed the level of imports, will depend upon the achievement of an efficient industry and structure, and within the bracket of 28 million to 36 million tons there is flexibility to take account of the various levels of exports and imports. Let me remind the House of the traumatic experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "s, and indeed the level of imports, will depend upon the achievement of an efficient industry and structure, and within the bracket of 28 million to 36 million tons there is flexibility to take account of the various levels of exports and imports. Let me remind the House of the traumatic experience—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"]—which the industry went through due to the Labour Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "estment for this great industry, should now seek to censure the Government who have aproved investment at three times those levels. It is perhaps a fair comparison between the confidence we have in the industry, and those employed in it, and the consequences of the Opposition's policy. Was not the steel industry called by the Leader of the Opposition one of the \"commanding heights of the economy\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "o compete with those from overseas, an industry that will be profitable, because without profit there cannot at the end of the day be either security for those engaged in the industry, prosperity in the regions, or the growth that the nation needs. My rôle is to see that, within the limits of my powers, the BSC and the private sector have the conditions to enable them to achieve these aims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "preceding_text": "We have heard some astonishing statements in the debate. Now we are apparently being told that the British Steel Corporation should welcome the contraction of the industry in order that it can be expanded in France or Germany. I find that unacceptable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1321.2", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "I apologise to hon. Members that I was not in the House this afternoon and have not listened to the major part of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "f this approval on account of £200 million, £80 million has already been approved and the only additional money is £120 million. When the Minister reads my statement he will realise that there is no disparity between what I have said and the position of the corporation. The Government should not try to mislead the House as they have sought to do in this statement. Let me go on as quickly as I can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Peter Emery)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Peter Emery)", "preceding_text": " precisely what happened through the creation and work of the Joint Steering Group. I find the attitude of the right hon. Member for Aberavon (Mr. John Morris) very strange when he says that advice, unless it comes from a committee chaired by a Minister, is not acceptable. In most places outside the House, advice from a source not chaired by a Minister would be much more acceptable to many people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "l be delighted to give way. The report contains such material of a commercial confidential nature that publication would damage the commercial interests of the Corporation by revealing plans and expectations to competitors. It is important that Ministers must retain the right to receive the most confidenial information from experts with no punches pulled and with no fear of subsequent publication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": " indication of, the JSG will in the figures that it has given understood what in fact might be necessary. I want to make it quite clear that within the range of figures announced there is a flexibility within the short term to deal with long-term forecasting. If it becomes apparent that demands will rise very much above the levels which we see this year, the flexibility exists within the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-23", "file": "debates1972-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9016dcc3fed76c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Llanwern, the situation is such that the shipment of ore from Port Talbot is likely to bring about a saving of about £4 million to Llanwern works by the modernised process. I was intrigued to be told by the hon. Member for Chesterfield about despondency within the industry. I was at Llanwern on Friday and went through the plant. The trade union representatives were kind enough to have tea with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-23a.1347.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1420.2", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend ignore the silly remarks of the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Strang) and will he accept from me, as the Member for Perth and East Perthshire, that there is very wide satisfaction with the large improvements which have been announced? However, can my hon. Friend assert clearly that there is nothing at all in his mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1422.2", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "The point is that this office can go into action straight away, whereas the kind of authority that requires legislation will not be in action for at least two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1422.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "e important. I hope the right hon. and learned Gentleman will give an undertaking that he will make a statement to the House on this matter tomorrow. We cannot deal with the matter now as we are under the guillotine, but I hope he will undertake to make a statement about the production of these documents and the questions which have been raised when he has had an opportunity to look at the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "that I hope that these two undertakings—that the matter will be properly investigated—may enable us to proceed because we are under this difficulty imposed by the Government that we wish to debate extremely important matters now before the Committee and, unfortunately, have to do so under a guillotine Motion. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has said that he will make a statement to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1450.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1495.2", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "South-West.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Despite the arguments and eloquence of a number of hon. and right hon. Members—I am thinking of the contributions by the right hon. Members for Stepney (Mr. Shore) and Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) and, on this side of the Committee, my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hertfordshire, East (Sir D. Walker-Smith) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-East——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"South-West\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "ion Community rights and liabilities created by the Treaty are automatically enforceable under our system without further enactment. That of course is the very wide-reaching measure which has been discussed, but that in itself is not enough. We also know that under the EEC system the EEC and various other bodies issue directives, or directives as the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, SouthEast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Indeed, Mr. Godman Irvine, I have been here all afternoon except for a very short interval, and it would be wrong of me not to accept exactly what you say. I will try to keep to the spirit of these Amendments, which is the spirit of most—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "oke of several, of a member State being hauled before the International Court by the Court itself or indeed by the Commission and taken to task for its formulation of aid or State aids to industry. I do not believe that this has happened at all. My hon. Friend the Member for Llanelly mentioned aid being given for regional purposes and its being disallowed by the Commission. I know of no such case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "It would be unwise to embark on a discussion of the democratic or other nature of the member Governments. I am convinced that the member Governments with whom we are to join are elected freely in a democratic society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1546.0", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to intervene in this debate, but I have been stimulated to do so by the useful intervention of the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan), who represents a very happy if not yet fully developed part of our country. I regretted the reaction in certain parts of the Committee when the hon. Gentleman spoke about the emerging democratic institutions in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "e would seek to achieve. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Jarrow (Mr. Fernyhough) put to me a number of questions—would I confirm that we can still do this and that—and inquired if there was anything to which I might say, \"No\". I am happy to say that as far as I can judge all the things lie worries about we can do. We cannot be made, for instance, to drive on the left-hand side of the road—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1580.0", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "This is an important Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-24", "file": "debates1972-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "7665674aa8cf3d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1580.0", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "This is an important Amendment. [ Interruption .] The right hon. Gentleman made the same speech for the 193rd time. I shall take it from anyone else, but not from him and that an hon. Member does not have a right to stand upon an occasion like this and ask for an explanation of the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-24a.1580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-25", "file": "debates1972-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5687e1271271d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-25a.1604.2", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "In December, 1970, after a study had been made of the use of voting machines, my right hon. Friend's conclusion was announced that they would not offer enough advantages to outweigh the radical change in our traditional voting methods which they would require.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-25a.1604.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-25", "file": "debates1972-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5687e1271271d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-25a.1617.4", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They go well together.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "The Home Department has been giving that answer for the last 12 months. The application form for Dateline computer dating includes some 52 attitude questions including questions on Communism and sex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-25a.1617.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-25", "file": "debates1972-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5687e1271271d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-25a.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "BRITISH AIRWAYS BOARD (CAPITAL STRUCTURE) AND CONCORDE AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " attention of the House drawn to someone else's tie rather than mine. I appreciate how much of an interest my hon. Friend has from a constituency point of view. It may be of interest to the House to know that approximately 1 in 4 Members have manufacturing interests, through constituencies, in Concorde. Approximately 152 constituencies are involved in the production of components for the aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-25a.1651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-25", "file": "debates1972-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5687e1271271d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-25a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewiss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewiss", "preceding_text": "The sick and the disabled and the chronically sick will have to pay the tax, I suppose because the Prime Minister insists on taking us into the Common Market without the full-hearted consent of Parliament and the people. They have to pay for his ego and the pleasure of taking us in when we know that the overwhelming majority of the people and the whole trade union movement are against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-25a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-25", "file": "debates1972-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5687e1271271d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-25a.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "I apologise to you. Sir Robert. The hon. Gentleman knows that I am speaking the truth. The amount of tax and surtax taken from the chairmen of nationalised boards is enormous, and the final take-home figure amounts to only a meagre sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-25a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-05-25", "file": "debates1972-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5687e1271271d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-25a.1706.1", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "n the view of the overwhelming majority in the House, it is necessary, if we are to see an end to this situation, that a policy of law, order and security, and its enforcement, should be combined now with political initiatives and new attempts at reconciliation between the different sections of the communities. I know that the hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) takes another view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-05-25a.1706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-05", "file": "debates1972-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "609197b92c0e1d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-05a.25.4", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw some\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is asking the House to join him in being particularly naive. We have a tremendous amount of legislation in the House at the moment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-05a.25.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-05", "file": "debates1972-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "609197b92c0e1d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-05a.33.4", "colnum": "33", "heading": "BEEF (PRICES AND IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must realise that it is Community policy, while we are still outside the Community, which is bringing about the present situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-05a.33.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-05", "file": "debates1972-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "609197b92c0e1d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-05a.37.7", "colnum": "37", "heading": "DEATH OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF WINDSOR", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It will be debatable. I intervened in the Prime Minister's moving of the Motion. I take it that the Prime Minister has the agreement of the House to proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-05a.37.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-05", "file": "debates1972-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "609197b92c0e1d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-05a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL TRAINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " of the Distributive Industry Training Board, made the point that there was apprehension among many companies that if the Government left the industrial training boards with the power to raise levies, in the unfortunate event of a change of Government the new Government would resurrect these levies because there is a tremendous keenness on the benches opposite for levies to be as high as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-05a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-06", "file": "debates1972-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "285434e0cea938d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends will be able to arrange, if they so wish, a debate through the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-06", "file": "debates1972-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "285434e0cea938d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.232.4", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN UNITY (AWARD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "preceding_text": " British entry to the European Economic Community? Would it not also improve the chances of the Leader of the Opposition winning such a prize, as he has so far been overlooked by prize-givers? Does not the right hon. Gentleman deserve a prize for his efforts to get Britain into the EEC in 1967 on less favourable terms than we are getting now? Has not the right hon. Gentleman established his right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-06", "file": "debates1972-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "285434e0cea938d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.234.5", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNIONS (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am prepared for this point to remain a matter of controversy in the House. But the trade unions themselves are now co-operating in working the Act and in appearing before the Court and putting their views to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-06", "file": "debates1972-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "285434e0cea938d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSES EXCLUDED FROM GENERAL DECONTROL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "I did not understand my hon. Friend to be meaning otherwise. Unfortunately, he is not in the Chamber at the moment. I understood my hon. Friend was simply saying that there ought to be a new Clause between Clauses 34 and 35 as they appear in the Bill after its passage through the Committee. Obviously there is a gap which must be filled. That is what my hon. Friend obviously meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-06", "file": "debates1972-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "285434e0cea938d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF SCHEDULE 6 TO ACT OF 1971", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I should certainly be glad to send a copy to any hon. Member who would like to see one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-06", "file": "debates1972-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "285434e0cea938d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF SCHEDULE 6 TO ACT OF 1971", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I am certain that it would not be the wish of anyone that we should publish details of individuals' rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-06", "file": "debates1972-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "285434e0cea938d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE SUBJECT TO CONDITION AS TO RENT UNDER HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1924.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "ms with houses going out of decontrol—literally decontrol, not 1957 Act decontrol, but 1924 Act decontrol—perhaps we would have included them in that Act. Everyone cannot be wise all the time and keep up to date on all matters. If hon. Gentlemen opposite had been so keenly aware of this problem which was to emerge in 1969–70 why did they not make some representations to the Department then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-06", "file": "debates1972-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "285434e0cea938d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROVISIONS AS TO RENTS IN 1972–73 AND 1973–74", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "preceding_text": "ccepting them? They would at least enable them to honour one promise, which was that they would reduce rent increases at a stroke. In a sense, coming at this time, they are sensible Amendments. The Government will have to be much more sensible in the next two years than they have been in the period between June, 1970, and now. The Prime Minister at Question Time this afternoon was decidedly shaky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.369.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-06", "file": "debates1972-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "285434e0cea938d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROVISIONS AS TO RENTS IN 1972–73 AND 1973–74", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "lly, what sort of country are they living in? What year are they living in? 1972? I wonder what on earth they have been doing all these past years if they think that this is the sort of country we are living in that measures of that sort could be produced by this Bill or any other Bill of today. Let us look at what is being done. I am not going to answer the general Second Reading debate speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-06a.374.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-07", "file": "debates1972-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "14153c0e0e6db292", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "I think that is going a bit far and that we should try—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-07", "file": "debates1972-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "14153c0e0e6db292", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that, in so far as advertising helps to bring about these sporting events—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-07", "file": "debates1972-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "14153c0e0e6db292", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.452.5", "colnum": "452", "heading": "RHODESIA (WANKIE COLLIERY DISASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. On a number of occasions in recent months the House has found itself in some difficulty over some matter. On many of these occasions some one on the Government Front Bench has intervened to help the House out of its difficulty. Today we have the situation in which there is no one on the Front Bench who could intervene to help the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.452.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-07", "file": "debates1972-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "14153c0e0e6db292", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark Hutchison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark Hutchison", "preceding_text": " and it seems very important. If it comes in at the same time, in January, then it will be all right but if there is a difference in timing, I am not so sure about it. Secondly, can my hon. Friend tell me whether there was anything in previous housing legislation such as this rent allowance scheme or is this a new proposal? I admit that I am not well up in housing, I find it extremely complicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-07", "file": "debates1972-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "14153c0e0e6db292", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "ck (Dr. Dickson Mabon) and his right hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross), because they had the courage to start this process by introducing the fair rents system. I respect them for doing that, because it must have been difficult for them. They introduced it—rightly—and we are trying to extend it to more properties, which perhaps they did not have time to do while they were in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-07", "file": "debates1972-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "14153c0e0e6db292", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": " into effect. We do not think that it would have been right to have brought in this new Measure without a rent allowance scheme to protect those tenants of lesser means from the effects of the higher rents which some of them will have to pay. It weighs a little heavily on the conscience of hon. Gentlemen opposite that they introduced a fair rents scheme without thinking of people on lower incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-07", "file": "debates1972-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "14153c0e0e6db292", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.582.4", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The old Tory philosophy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "Thank you for your ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I will pass from that subject. But there is one further aspect in which the Bill irons out an unfairness. While we have been rightly preoccupied with giving a fair deal to the tenants, we should be equally certain of giving a fair deal to landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.582.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-07", "file": "debates1972-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "14153c0e0e6db292", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "d Reading on a Bill, when one is limited to debating what is in the Bill, bringing in something which he thinks is important. We may think it is important when we see it. I am glad that the Government have discovered the importance of the Scottish Housing Advisory Committee. The Tories abolished it. We revived it. This body did all the basic work in relation to improvement and rent rebate schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-07", "file": "debates1972-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "14153c0e0e6db292", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "cotland down. There will be an increase in rents. That may suit hon. Gentlemen opposite. They may for a time kid the Scottish people that rates will be reduced. I can think of another way in which rates can be reduced. In England industry pays 100 per cent. rates. In Scotland it pays only 50 per cent., and the other ratepayers have to bear the burden of the remainder. Let the Government not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-07a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.680.5", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I must apologise but there was a lot of noise going on at the time and I took from what the Minister of State said that there would not be in Northern Ireland the same kind of provisions that we are to apply in Great Britain. Is imply could not hear. I thought that was what he said. May I say in that case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.680.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.680.5", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I must apologise but there was a lot of noise going on at the time and I took from what the Minister of State said that there would not be in Northern Ireland the same kind of provisions that we are to apply in Great Britain. Is imply could not hear. I thought that was what he said. May I say in that case—[ Interruption. ] There was a lot of noise and I must press the point. I just could not hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.680.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.690.4", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I thought the Government had sent the hon. Gentleman over there to do exactly that. Cannot he remember making all these claims in Committee, that he would help the needy, assist the unemployed, unite the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.690.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.690.7", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Do you want me to start again, Mr. Speaker? If all those claims are right, why has this not been imposed in Northern Ireland? Perhaps the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.690.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Do it at 3.30.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wish to seek your advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wish to seek your advice—[Hon. Members: \"Do it at 3.30.\"] I hope that hon. Members will not mind my putting my point of order to Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.701.3", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "On the first point, I would answer certainly, yes. On the second point, obviously the volume of money involved in increases in incomes is by far the most important element in the inflationary situation generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.701.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.701.4", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "using and land, which he blames on the amount of money in circulation, namely wages of £20 per week? As a former Chancellor of the Exchequer of great distinction, as we recognise since we had his inheritance as well as the previous one, would not the right hon. Gentleman agree that an increase in money supply at the rate of 20 per cent, might have some effect on the amount of money in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.701.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.704.4", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND (NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I rise on a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I seek your guidance since, Sir, you are our protector, though a less Cromwellian figure I could hardly imagine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.704.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.704.6", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND (NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read Hansard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I rise to put what I consider to be an important point of order. I asked the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland a Question about his plans for a Parliamentary Commissioner for the National Health Service for Northern Ireland. In the hubbub of noise pollution which occurred at the time there were one or two words I did not hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.704.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.704.6", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND (NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "ate for Northern Ireland a Question about his plans for a Parliamentary Commissioner for the National Health Service for Northern Ireland. In the hubbub of noise pollution which occurred at the time there were one or two words I did not hear. [Hon. Members: \"Read Hansard.\"] Had I heard what the Secretary of State actually said, my supplementary question would have been worded entirely differently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.704.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND (NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "But I did not hear the ministerial answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.706.5", "colnum": "706", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "we on our side of the House decided this morning not to attempt to seek your authority, Mr. Speaker, to table a Private Notice Question on the rail dispute on the ground that it might be more helpful not to do so today? However, the right hon. Gentleman should know that the House wishes to have a statement from the Minister responsible at the earliest appropriate moment, either tomorrow or Monday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.706.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Two days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Dealing with the right hon. Gentleman's first point, I acknowledge gratefully that the Supply Day for Rhodesia is on loan from the Opposition. It is a loan that I shall feel bound to repay this Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.717.4", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "ommunity, though we do not have the faintest idea what they will be. I questioned the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on 17th May about the current and forward estimates, of the Community's common agricultural budget. Remember, this is 90 per cent. of the total budget. To my surprise, I received the information that these estimates did not extend beyond 1972. I was genuinely surprised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.717.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "our own customs duties, the hon. Gentleman said: these do not in reality belong to member countries but flow through, in our case, the Consolidated Fund to the Communities.\"—[Official Report, 22nd February, 1972; Vol. 831, c. 1148–9.] They just flow through. At the time we were all arrested by the image of money flowing through the British people directly to their new tax masters in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.724.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.727.3", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "Sir A. Meyer rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Selwyn Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Selwyn Gummer", "preceding_text": "t that there is something particularly wrong about the agreement which has been made. He finds the argument a little difficult and uses a technique which, if superficially heard, is extremely effective but which, in fact, is wrong. That technique is to suggest that what we are doing is coming to an agreement with some kind of foreign body with which we have no connection and that somehow or other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "It is important for us to underline this factor because often the efficacy of statements derive more from the conditions in which they are made than from the statements themselves. The context is to build up in the minds of the British people something which is rather curious for an Opposition Member to do—namely, a kind of narrow nationalism of fearing the foreigner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "s that we had to come to an agreement which was satisfactory to both sides and which would mean, and has meant, a long transitional period. It is true that we were not a party to these argreements. How sad it is that we were not. If it had not been for the opposition of right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House early on, we might have been. Having not been a party to those agreements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "st brought the debate back to the point and touched on the heart of the subject. Speaking from the Liberal Benches, he has also aggravated the bad tendency in the debate to be totally and grossly unrepresentative. Because of the way the dice falls, some 90 hon. Gentlemen opposite who are strongly in favour of British membership of the Common Market are gagged by their Whips and forbidden to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "e Community were to be greatly enlarged to cover two further matters: first, the financing of research, development and procurement in advanced technology; and, secondly, the Community's regional aid policy. If the enlarged Community, with Britain in it, were to embark on ambitious projects in these two spheres this country would undoubtedly be a net gainer. There is a third sphere of expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "That is news to me—and, probably, to the Inland Revenue. I hope that it is not like Irish whiskey and things such as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for those two observations. I should not like to intervene in this internecine strife between the Welsh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.772.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "their standard of living is appalling low. Those right hon. and hon. Members opposite who profess to be Socialists and put as their first priority the care of those in need and those who live in poverty have attacked the common agricultural policy, and in doing so they are attacking the poorest people in the land. They are attacking them, first, because they are agricultural instead of industrial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Fourth, these improvements in opportunities, confidence and efficiency will raise both the quantity and quality of investment in British industry. None of these things will happen automatically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.804.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity of making a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": " a lawyer or a Front Bench Opposition spokesman to be the sole judge of what is democratic. I do not impugn the sincerity of those hon. Members, but let them reciprocate instead of always putting their arguments in such a way as to suggest that those who believe the Bill is right and the Amendment wrong are in the wrong. This is a line they are always taking, and I am getting a little tired of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "free man in a free Parliament, but I do not see Amendment No. 419 or Amendment No. 53 as destroying the citadel of freedom or the citadel of liberty. I have looked carefully at the effect of this Amendment and the others that we are discussing with it. I have listened carefully to the hon. and learned Member for Leith and to my right hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Sir Robin Turton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.838.3", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "Yes, power, as my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Neil Marten) may learn in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.838.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Let us have a Division!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hornby", "preceding_text": "I want to intervene briefly at this point, having made a speech in the main debate last November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-08", "file": "debates1972-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "e19b4a407327042e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "1 appreciate that there are still one or two of my hon. Friends who are anxious to participate in this debate, but, since I have the impression that the Committee is anxious to come to a decision on these Amendments, I thought it right to intervene at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-08a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-09", "file": "debates1972-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2e1f75f09d995468", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-09a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY AND OTHER PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How do they know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "endments contain an interesting drafting point, which nullifies the effect that the hon. Member wishes to achieve. Clause 13(4) provides that a widow's pension shall be withheld if, first, she is cohabiting at the time of her husband's death and, secondly, if she begins cohabiting later. That deals with widows, but the proviso enables the trustees to restore the pension if the cohabitation ceases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-09a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-12", "file": "debates1972-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "4cfa9445e64c19fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-12a.970.5", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Representations to Portugal and South Africa would not be much good because they have opted out, deliberately, of the sanctions policy. There are many other countries, however, which are breaking sanctions. I do not think it is a good thing to name them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-12a.970.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-12", "file": "debates1972-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "4cfa9445e64c19fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-12a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I am a little uncertain of the form of this debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Are we taking now the three subsequent orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-12a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-12", "file": "debates1972-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "4cfa9445e64c19fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-12a.1167.1", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "nor of this debate. If the missing Members cannot be with us because they do not exist at this point in time, we have, because of their absence, a greater responsibility to probe the legislation which is brought before us on behalf of the 1½ million people of Northern Ireland, and, in particular, since we are dealing with money raised from the British taxpayer throughout the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-12a.1167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-12", "file": "debates1972-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "4cfa9445e64c19fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-12a.1167.1", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "th us because they do not exist at this point in time, we have, because of their absence, a greater responsibility to probe the legislation which is brought before us on behalf of the 1½ million people of Northern Ireland, and, in particular, since we are dealing with money raised from the British taxpayer throughout the United Kingdom—[ Interruption. ]—to ask how that money is being spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-12a.1167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-12", "file": "debates1972-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "4cfa9445e64c19fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-12a.1167.1", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": " [ Interruption. ] Clearly, my remarks are raising some sort of objection on the Opposition benches. I do not understand it, since it seems to me clear, in the light of the way that constituencies are represented in the rest of the United Kingdom, that Northern Ireland is under-represented by four or five Members of Parliament. If hon. Members opposite do not believe in democracy, let them say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-12a.1167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-12", "file": "debates1972-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "4cfa9445e64c19fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-12a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Time wasting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "No, I refuse to give way. The hon. Member has been making noises and trying to interrupt my speech. If he does that from a sedentary position, I do not see why I should now give way to him in the course of a speech in which I am raising important matters relevant to the subject under debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-12a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1251.4", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Blackpool.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "As well as making sure that no persons are confined in mental homes who ought to be outside them, will my right hon. Friend take steps to ensure that some of those who ought to be in mental homes are placed in them, bearing in mind the horrible tragedy of the deaths of three children recently in Liverpool?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1252.2", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "ermined to make a fresh attempt at serious negotiations? Will he also welcome Mr. Thuy's announcement yesterday that he was prepared to return to Paris from Hanoi with new directives? Does the Prime Minister recognise that he can have no influence on peace in the world if he maintains his stance of being more American than millions of Americans, including Senator McGovern, and that the best thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1252.4", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "er aware that in the debate on Vietnam on 15th May this year, the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs said: South Vietnam is defending herself against this ruthless assault as best she can, and in doing so has looked to her ally, the United States, for help.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th May, 1972; Vol. 837, c. 95.] As no democratic elections have been held in South Vietnam since 1954", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1252.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1255.4", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "As these activities concern the whole country, can my right hon. Friend assure the House that London will not have a monopoly of these desirable activities and that the regions will participate as well? Can he assure me that the arrangements will cater not only for the highbrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1255.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1255.4", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "As these activities concern the whole country, can my right hon. Friend assure the House that London will not have a monopoly of these desirable activities and that the regions will participate as well? Can he assure me that the arrangements will cater not only for the highbrow—[ Interruption. ]—but also for non-intellectuals like myself and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1255.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1256.0", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The two committees are preparing arrangements for Scotland and Wales and for the provinces, as well as for London, so the celebrations will be widespread. They include a wide variety of events, including sporting events and football matches for the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "About bloody time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REHABILITATION (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "RAILWAYS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I gladly acknowledge the rôle that Mr. Victor Feather played in coming to see me and indicating for the first time that there was a possibility of compromise on the part of the unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1265.0", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "ould be far better if local authorities were able to build specifically for sale in addition to building for rent rather than sell off rented accommodation which is already in short supply? Is he not further aware that the increased provision of non-rented housing is disinflationary compared with the sale of existing properties on the private market, which is inflationary? Is he not further aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1268.2", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not offensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1290.2", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "day came, the Minister in charge would point out that something of this sort was envisaged, because a pointer had been put in by the House of Commons in Clause 2(4) of the Bill. 5.15 p.m. This leads us to the significance of the central portion of the subsection, which says any enactment passed or to be passed…shall…have effect subject\"— here I substitute \"subject to subsection (1)\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1290.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "nt pair of Amendments, Nos. 182 and 183, to which my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Darwen (Mr. Fletcher-Cooke) has spoken and which have certainly enabled the Committee to see more clearly the factors which are built into subsection (4). I shall, I hope, be able to satisfy my hon. and learned Friend that his two Amendments would not represent an improvement on the Clause as it now stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1385.2", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Bill that we have had an opportunity to discuss in depth the form of representation or the ways in which the acceptance of representations should be made to the European Assembly, as it is correctly called, or the European Parliament. This is the first opportunity that we have had to discuss that matter, and yet we shall have to compress our debate into the derisory amount of time available to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "gether to the European Assembly, from 1st January onwards, assuming that the Government's will is paramount and that we join the Community. From 1st January some decision will have to be made about our representation in the European Assembly. The Government have made proposals to deal with the situation. The Government's proposal was that the matter should be dealt with through the usual channels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ve to be made about our representation in the European Assembly. The Government have made proposals to deal with the situation. The Government's proposal was that the matter should be dealt with through the usual channels—[ Interruption. ]—and that there should be an arrangement whereby discussions took place between the usual channels to fix not merely the names of people who would be sent there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ituencies. Therefore, what has tended to happen, as we can read in the documents, in the Vedel Report and so on, is that the membership of the European Parliament tends to be confined to, or to be to a considerable extent composed of, enthusiasts for the so-called European concept, who do not carry much weight in the national Parliaments from which they come. That is the focal point of the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1407.0", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "ey are appointed, their appointment is decided by the House of Commons, but the effect of the Bill and the Treaty of Rome is that such appointment is ultimately decided by the Government. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said that he would go through the usual channels. There is no guarantee that a future Government will do that, but there would be a guarantee if the Amend- ment were accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1434.3", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW PALACE YARD (UNDERGROUND CAR PARK)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "preceding_text": "d that we shall also investigate the possibility of using what is a very nice site—the garden adjacent to Victoria Tower. It is an extremely pleasant garden which is used and enjoyed by the public. But, properly planned, it could be used for an underground car park, leaving the garden relatively undisturbed, and even for a multi-storey car park while still preserving the amenities of the locality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1444.3", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "e Community. The only one of my hon. Friends who attended the meeting and is an opponent of our entry is my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield (Mr. David Reed), and the report does not say that the proposal was accepted unanimously. Since the hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles (Mr. David Steel) was not present, I do not know whether he can tell us whether it was accepted unanimously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1444.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1445.0", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Welsh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "talian, or Italian rather than Danish? It says \"a European Community language\". Like the Industrial Relations Act, this is badly phrased and open to a large number of interpretations. On that basis I want the House to reject it. What is a European Economic Community language? Is it just a majority language spoken in any European Economic Community country, or any language spoken in such a country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-13", "file": "debates1972-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7f21bd9501643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "and now want to take another\". He could in that way draw £60 every twelve months. What I do say is why should Members of Parliament be entitled to claim? Why should a business man, a company director, a doctor or lawyer—indeed any taxpayer—not be so entitled? After all, this is to be paid for by the taxpayer; it will not be paid for by the Prime Minister out of his 85 per cent. increase in salary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-13a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-14", "file": "debates1972-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e60652a6c4104f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1494.12", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "Three experiments have been conducted, and hon. Members can see them in Black Rod's Garden. One involves what one might call the Nabarro method, of water spray and bristle brushing.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1494.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-14", "file": "debates1972-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e60652a6c4104f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "those 30 elected persons should have seats ex officio in the other place for the duration of their office. That is not such a revolutionary suggestion as it sounds. In 1959 the House of Commons approved the suggestion that new creatures called life peers should be created. There is no reason why we should not go a stage further and create peers ex officio for the period for which they hold office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-14", "file": "debates1972-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e60652a6c4104f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1518.0", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": " arise under article 137 of the treaty cannot be disposed of in a brief debate. There is the problem of finding 36 Members of this House who are willing to take on this task. I believe that they should be largely Members of this House. I do not disagree with the hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles when he says that there should be some Members of the other House involved in these duties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-14", "file": "debates1972-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e60652a6c4104f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": " Select Committee. There is also the related question of where the European Parliament should have its sittings. This will materially affect Members in this House. If it were here in England, which would be very suitable since England is the Mother of Parliaments, it would aid Members here considerably. On the other hand, there is a suggestion which has been put forward in The Economist this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-14", "file": "debates1972-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e60652a6c4104f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1539.0", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": " of the Council of Europe. North Atlantic Assembly and who meets European trade unionists and Social Democrats, will know that they find it absolutely staggering too. It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that, to find such deep seated, old fashioned nationalism, such pathological suspicion of everybody and everything foreign, one nowadays really has to go quite a long way behind the iron curtain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-14", "file": "debates1972-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e60652a6c4104f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1545.2", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "That is not because of the quality of the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1545.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-14", "file": "debates1972-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e60652a6c4104f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1593.3", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Robert. As we have the attendance of the Prime Minister here and as the Government have achieved such a derisory majority on a matter on which the Prime Minister promised he would proceed only if he had the full-hearted consent of Parliament.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1593.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-14", "file": "debates1972-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e60652a6c4104f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1594.0", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order, The hon. Gentleman,I am sure, will not seek to make a political point on a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1594.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-14", "file": "debates1972-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e60652a6c4104f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1595.3", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope hon. Members will leave the Chamber quietly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-14", "file": "debates1972-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e60652a6c4104f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1596.6", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I thought that when I asked hon. Members to leave quietly, they did leave quietly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-14a.1596.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1714.2", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Now that the Prime Minister has established that the Philistines are sitting opposite and that we are the party of the beautiful people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1714.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1725.0", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICIES (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, all working families receive a tax remission, which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced in his Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1725.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICIES (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend accept how wise he was to make a speech of this kind to women who are absolutely fed up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICIES (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend accept how wise he was to make a speech of this kind to women who are absolutely fed up—[Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] The women are basically fed up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1727.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1727.6", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICIES (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend whether he is aware how very grateful the women were that he made his speech to them, because they are fed up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1727.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1731.0", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "althy exercise, and I will join him if he will join me. As for further progress on the European Communities Bill and the Report stage, I shall of course consider the possibility of making a statement. However, I should repeat what is the position. It is that the timetable Motion to which we are operating now makes proper provision for there to be a Report stage, as I think I made clear last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1736.3", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about us?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "That would be a very rash course to pursue. This is a very difficult matter and a very important one for freedom under the law. When I read the papers day after day, which seem to be fairly full of comment as well as news on these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1736.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1738.7", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "If I might continue the point and ask for your guidance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1738.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1745.2", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": " Government's entire attitude to Northern Ireland, can I ask him to reverse his decision not to talk to the Provisional IRA? Will he agree with me that everybody in the minority, even the SDLP, has suggested that this is a genuine peace offer and that if he refuses to accept this genuine peace offer the responsibility for the continuation of violence will be seen to rest squarely on his shoulders?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1745.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McManus", "preceding_text": "ll reasonable people, that any man who is interested in peace and who deliberately excludes those without whose consent peace is not possible is not genuinely seeking peace? If the Secretary of State does not change his mind, the 48 hours will shortly be over, the violence may likely continue, and the responsibility for that violence in the eyes of the minority will rest on the Secretary of State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "abour Party will act as messenger-boys to the Provisionals, whom the right hon. Gentleman would condemn as terrorists, which, in keeping with its status as the opposition party in Northern Ireland, it could not do. Therefore, will the right hon. Gentleman first accept that his talks with the SDLP today amount to nothing, mean nothing and will produce nothing in terms of the Provisionals' campaign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "hern Ireland, it could not do. Therefore, will the right hon. Gentleman first accept that his talks with the SDLP today amount to nothing, mean nothing and will produce nothing in terms of the Provisionals' campaign? [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members may say it is ridiculous, but in terms of the Provisionals' campaign the talks will mean and produce nothing. Will the right hon. Gentleman also accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1756.5", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 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": "m and substituted the ultimate aim of majority rule. To this latest compromise proposal, made by Mr. Smith and myself, Lord Pearce and his colleagues have said that they found the African answer was \"No\". That finding we have accepted. I think, from reading the report, that it is fair to conclude that the \"No\" related less to the actual proposals than to distrust of the Rhodesian Front Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1756.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1765.3", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "on in the light of a report from the Pearce Commission which wholly negatives all that he thought was the Africans' view about what he had done. I would not, on the grounds of the mixture of weak defiance and cajolery which characterised the Foreign Secretary's approach this afternoon, recommend my hon. Friends to vote for the Motion as it stands. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to avoid a vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1766.1", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\" 'Tiger' and 'Fearless'; devaluation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "d—tabled by some of his hon. Friends, and he has to try to carry the whole of his party along with him. Heaven knows, it is already split into three. It is a good tactic, no doubt, to try to take it out of the Opposition, but he should not expect us to sit back and listen to him talking to us about the way in which we should conduct matters when he has such a ghastly series of failures behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1769.3", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am not ready to go into that matter, because I have a speech here which I wish to make.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "957 and I learned sufficient about the situation not to commit myself about who should be the representatives. It is surely not beyond the wit of man to work out from whom the representatives should be drawn. I accept that Bishop Muzorewa and the African National Council should be included. It is certainly long overdue for Mr. Nkomo to be charged or released from the detention in which he is held—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1781.3", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": " been lost, and with it a great chance for Rhodesia and for the stability of central Africa as a whole. It fell at the last fence on the assessment of opinion, under the fifth principle, and it is a tragedy, virtually unmitigated. It is no satisfaction whatever to me or to any of us—there were one or two—who said consistently that the fifth principle could not be practically or fairly implemented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1781.3", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "t. of the African population—and it is overwhelmingly the African population with whom we are concerned. No special weight was given to Africans who, professionally or economically, are contributing disproportionately, in terms of the population as a whole, to Rhodesian life. It could well have been argued, and it was argued, that they understood much better what was at stake than did many others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1784.1", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It was very good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "re than they apparently did. I want to turn, third, to the question of intimidation. The Commission, to my mind, appeared to take this far too lightly and to discount much of what the Rhodesian Government reported. What they put into their own report is, I suppose, necessarily selective, but take for instance one part of the evidence submitted by the Rhodesian branch of the Institute of Directors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1784.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1787.0", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And the next sentence.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "whole or not. Another team reported that bcause of their inability to assess accurately the very important question as to how far the results obtained were induced by the conssequences of intimidation, they must de-value the mass meetings as a means of obtaining genuine opinion and found that the evidence received by other means was so divided as to prevent them from arriving at a firm conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1790.1", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Certainly. I said that about the hon. Gentleman advisedly. Mr. Smith has been in rebellion against the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1849.0", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "preceding_text": "tion, when we are saying to the Africans \"We give you a veto, a chance to decide whether you find the proposals acceptable\" to say to them \"You shall now have an initiating power and a right to be consulted when the proposals are drawn up\". The division in the House tonight is three-fold. We have had the Rhodesian Lobby on the other side in great evidence in the debate, and we always welcome them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1854.1", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": " weight to be attached to the voice were to be decided by the Rhodesian Government. If one look sat what Lord Pearce says about the advice tendered to him by the so-called experts in Rhodesia one sees that they were telling him not to talk to ordinary Africans but to concentrate his attention on such people as the chiefs and those which the Rhodesian Government claimed to be representative bodies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-15", "file": "debates1972-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0a62e45eedde6244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1866.1", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "ed not only sanctions but the Beira patrol. That is the position. I see no reason or need to pronounce finally today on a matter which has no relevance until November. To be frank with the House, I am getting a little tired of attempts which have been made not only today but on previous occasions to throw doubt on our intentions and integrity regarding Rhodesia. I have appreciated the contrasting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-15a.1866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-16", "file": "debates1972-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "906aedbbdb51addf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-16a.2021.3", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "titude of the old Board of Trade and the present Department of Trade and Industry on the question of marking, going back about 50 years, has always been directed towards preventing merchandise from being passed off as appearing to come from the United Kingdom. Obviously this is still the thinking. My right hon. Friend asks—will we accept his attitude to the Bill and not accept the Lords Amendment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-16a.2021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-16", "file": "debates1972-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "906aedbbdb51addf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-16a.2057.1", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "With respect, the hon. Gentleman says this, but in fact in Committee when I attempted to raise the case of Lord Denning's judgment, I was cut short. I am simply taking advantage of this Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-16a.2057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-16", "file": "debates1972-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "906aedbbdb51addf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-16a.2059.3", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I am referring to the case of Bravery v. Bravery. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his help. Why should he not help me? He has been the only one throughout all these debates to take any notice of the dangers of vasectomy to the married men of this great country of ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-16a.2059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-16", "file": "debates1972-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "906aedbbdb51addf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-16a.2060.0", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": " the sundry interruptions which I have had—namely, the views of Lord Denning in the case of Bravery v. Bravery. I take up Lord Denning's account of the matter again: Q.—Why did you agree to have an operation for sterilisation? A.—Because my wife was so installed\"— The word \"installed\" may be understood by the Front Bench, but it is not readily understood by me. She was so installed with the home\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-16a.2060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-16", "file": "debates1972-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "906aedbbdb51addf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-16a.2062.3", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ment which tries to do everything it can to look after the people who come within its orbit. Someone hears that a family is having dreadful trouble. The husband and wife are throwing pots and pans at each other as hard as they can. Perhaps a health visitor is sent to see them, or they may go to the council to have a talk. Perhaps they are behind with the payment of rent because they do not get on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-16a.2062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-16", "file": "debates1972-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "906aedbbdb51addf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-16a.2067.1", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I am, of course, again in difficulty, Mr. Deputy Speaker, although I have craved your indulgence before. All I can say at this stage is that I will abide by what you say. Nevertheless, I think I must be allowed to come to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-16a.2067.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-19", "file": "debates1972-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "11696aa59cf01d06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.43.6", "colnum": "43", "heading": "DOCK WORKERS (PAY AND CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. You have ruled, quite rightly, Mr. Speaker, that we cannot say anything which impugns the integrity or competence of a High Court judge. But surely we can point out that he was a Conservative Party official a short time ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.43.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-19", "file": "debates1972-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "11696aa59cf01d06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE REGION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Donald Kaberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Donald Kaberry", "preceding_text": "hemes in Yorkshire. Many Yorkshire folk, especially those from the West Riding, like to go to the North-East coast, and to the Yorkshire coast in particular. Scarborough is a great watering place but it is a difficult place to get to. We have been promised a bypass for York, Malton and Tadcaster, and I should like to ask for the process to be speeded up and for all the objections to be dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-19", "file": "debates1972-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "11696aa59cf01d06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE REGION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Hall", "preceding_text": "s a whole, we have a bad tendency always to talk about our failures and where we do not go right and far too little about where we are successful. When one goes overseas it is depressing to hear it said that the vast majority of people in this country are unwashed, on drugs and permanently on strike. Far too often that is the picture painted of the majority of people here, but it is totally false.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-19", "file": "debates1972-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "11696aa59cf01d06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE REGION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dodging.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "It was most unfortunate, perhaps partly due to the length of time I thought it fit to devote to the trade unions with which I was having a meeting in the afternoon, that we did not have much time for talks. The nature of their complaint was not that there was anything unclear about the incentives. The nature of their complaint concerned the length of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-19", "file": "debates1972-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "11696aa59cf01d06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE REGION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "preceding_text": "ion having a larger proportion of sub-standard housing than any other area in the country. It is estimated that 10 per cent. of houses in the region are unfit—that is, about 170,000. There are no Government restrictions on the local authority building programme as such. The Housing Finance Bill provisions will give a direct subsidy to a loss made on slum clearance and this is particularly helpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-19", "file": "debates1972-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "11696aa59cf01d06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE REGION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "preceding_text": "he region are unfit—that is, about 170,000. There are no Government restrictions on the local authority building programme as such. The Housing Finance Bill provisions will give a direct subsidy to a loss made on slum clearance and this is particularly helpful. [ Interruption. ] This will be particularly helpful and it has been welcomed by some of the local authorities in Yorkshire and Humberside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-19", "file": "debates1972-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "11696aa59cf01d06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE REGION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend has said, the new range of major regional incentives, the new developments of first-class communications by road, rail and sea, massive resources for improving the quality of life, improving old houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-19a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.228.7", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "The great thing about British agriculture at present is that farmers know where they are under this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.228.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman might list some of the inflationary wage increases which we have supported. What we have done, as he knows, is to condemn the whole failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman might list some of the inflationary wage increases which we have supported. What we have done, as he knows, is to condemn the whole failure—[ Interruption. ]—of the industrial relations policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman might list some of the inflationary wage increases which we have supported. What we have done, as he knows, is to condemn the whole failure—[ Interruption. ]—of the industrial relations policy. [ Interruption. ] On the right hon. Gentleman's strictures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.254.2", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "The common law was created—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "endment No. 54. The definition of \"Community obligation\" in line three on page 20 reads as follows: 'Community obligation' means any obligation created or arising by or under the Treaties…\". Why make such a devious use of the English language? I should have thought that it would be more natural and idiomatic to have said \"'Community obligation' means any obligation created by the treaties\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " other words, they are all rights, powers, liabilities or obligations which are, in a different and more familiar jargon, \"directly applicable\". The use of the phrase \"enforceable Community right\" is convenient only because the word \"right\" is the first to appear at the beginning of the sentence. I dare say that some sense of draftsmanship and poetry may have impelled them to appear in that order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "I can remember the time when I sometimes used to come into this Chamber at the request of Whips and speak because they thought I was a lawyer. This time I have come in because I wanted to hear what the lawyers are saying. Having listened to this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "mes a person who is not a lawyer does not understand what they are talking about and it might be as well to see whether he understands what is being talked about. Not having heard much from the Opposition in the last three-quarters of an hour to support their argument, about which I can only imagine they do not feel strongly, and having listened to my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": " have the phrase \"includes enforceable\" as set out in Amendment No. 451. I stress the word \"enforceable\" because it is stressed in Amendment No. 133 which has been put forward by my right hon. and hon. Friends. Why do we have to stress the word \"enforceable\"? I shall remind the Committee what we are considering in the Amendment, which I do not think is worth much more of the time of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "I hate being interrupted by the hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis). He makes such excellent speeches on his own. He is much better when he is on his feet making a long speech rather than making interventions from a seated position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "r our debates, I cannot help feeling that there has been a failure on the part of the Committee to concentrate properly on the whole question of subordinate legislation and the power to make regulations exercisable by Statutory Instrument, as modified by Schedule 2. Until now the Opposition have been opposed in principle to discussing exactly how Parliament should scrutinise Community legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "We have just heard one of the most appalling and dishonest speeches ever delivered in this House,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "We have just heard one of the most appalling and dishonest speeches ever delivered in this House, [ Interruption. ] I have never heard the hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) utter a word on behalf of the blind, the deaf and the disabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-20", "file": "debates1972-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8bfa4c22b9f9a84f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Manchester, Exchange (Mr. Will Griffiths) and I have a number of contacts and friends in common in the optical world. He and I recently attended a big celebration at which, informally, these very matters were discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-20a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.444.5", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I would not accept any of the epithets which the hon. Gentleman has thought up during the morning. I remind him that in the midst of our concern at the announcement which was made by the steel industry—which is the responsibility of the Department of Trade and Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.444.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (FAMILY PLANNING) AMEND MENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I beg your tolerance and the tolerance of the House for raising a matter, of which I gave you notice, Mr. Speaker. It is a matter which was previously raised by the hon. Member for Derby, North (Mr. Whitehead) on Monday, and I wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.475.5", "colnum": "475", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (FAMILY PLANNING) AMEND MENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "ouse will be satisfied with what happened last Friday, and I have asked the Leader of the House to consider the situation.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 20th June, 1972; Vol. 839, c. 237.] This is where I am in difficulty over this ruling, because immediately before that you had said something which raises a doubt in my mind, where you felt that there are some possibilities to feel doubt about the procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.475.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Normanton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The GATT.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Normanton", "preceding_text": "I will not labour the point excessively, but I note what the hon. Gentleman has said. The facts about the non-tariff barriers are as I have stated them. How else can we dismantle them effectively, other than from within, around the table?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Body", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Body", "preceding_text": "ate the German or French markets and the difficulties they have. There is an endless variety of non-tariff barriers interrupting the free flow of trade within the Community. I give one more quotation from the report because it answers the argument adduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Cheadle who argues that we shall only be able to break down these non-tariff barriers if we join the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proud foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proud foot", "preceding_text": "sy to quote statistics the other way, and I will have a go at exactly that. 5.45 p.m. If we look at aid not trade we see that in 1969, the latest year for which figures are available, the total from Great Britain was 1,145 million dollars. The total going out from the whole of Europe was 5,261 million dollars. That is something like four to five times greater than our aid going to other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.552.2", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "reason why the aid goes to those countries is that they are the countries not only associated with the Common Market but historically tied to the members of the Common Market. It is no secret that those of us who support the concept of Commonwealth often do so because we believe our historic ties are of importance to remind our people of the duties and obligations we owe to the developing nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Judd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Judd", "preceding_text": " to me when I asked him in conversation what he felt about this—and I know that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite will not accept this point—but he said, \"The crisis of the confrontation between the industrialised countries and the developing countries is so great, the gap is so severe and so much widened, that this problem can only be solved on the basis of international Socialist planning.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "Perhaps on monetary matters, but that was not clear from what she said. As on a number of previous occasions, the right hon. Lady wants to have the argument both ways. This is the prerogative of all ladies, and I do not want to deny it to her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.630.5", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED REFORMED CHURCH BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very small.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "ip was about 38 per cent. Of those who turned up to vote the result in the individual churches was as I have indicated. Of the other churches, 465 churches in the Congregational Union decided they could not accept, or did not achieve, the necessary 75 per cent vote. They represented about 25 per cent. of the membership. The proportion of the enrolled membership which voted there was just the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.630.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.653.5", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED REFORMED CHURCH BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Northern Ireland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": ". What concerns the House is the Bill. The Title states: An Act to make provision as to property held on behalf of the Congregational Church in England and Wales and its member churches and of the Presbyterian Church of England, and for other purposes incidental to or consequential upon the formation of the United Reformed Church (Congregational-Presbyterian) in England and Wales. It will be seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.653.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.653.5", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED REFORMED CHURCH BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "er. The leaflet circulated by the sponsors of the Bill makes plain that No parliamentary sanction is necessary to confirm this act of conviction namely the coming together of the two churches. If they so desire, these two churches can come together, and it is no business of the House. I believe that the State should not interfere in the Church and that the Church should not interfere in the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.653.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-21", "file": "debates1972-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2930e0c0dc435137", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED REFORMED CHURCH BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ed to conform to one title deed, as suggested in the scheme of union before us. That is something in which every hon. Member is entitled to take an interest. The matter could lead to great litigation, because some of the trust deeds have a proviso clause that if the church is ever sold the money must go to a church of like faith and order. The matter is one not of ecumenical union but of property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-21a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend agree that the Army should study the nature of the threat to society even if there is some indication that part of the threat comes through acquaintances of certain hon. Members on the Labour benches?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.687.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.692.2", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "I am surprised at the immediacy with which the Opposition have seized upon the opportunity of criticising officers who are reported as having made certain remarks. None the less, my hon. and learned Friend has raised an extremely important issue. The responsibility for deciding when to use troops in aid of the civil power, should the event ever arise, is the responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.692.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend accept that the public interest is more important than the views of a militant minority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.708.3", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. GEORGE MEANY (MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I think the Industrial Relations Act has also had other results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.708.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. GEORGE MEANY (MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " courts about contempt. There have been no such decisions which have stood up on appeal up till now, and in the case last week the whole shambles was resolved by the Official Solicitor. Is the Prime Minister aware that, even so, I said last week that the law must be obeyed in that case? Further, I appealed to the dockers to go back to work in the light of the intervention of the Official Receiver—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.715.5", "colnum": "715", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "This is a matter on which hon. Members have pressed both for a statement and now for a debate and I think that I am entitled to point out to the House in reply that under the nationalisation legislation the decision about which hon. Members are complaining is not the responsibility of my right hon. Friend.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.715.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " will the right hon. Gentleman please forget that argument, which has not been practised in this House? We have a lot of sympathy for the right hon. Gentleman having to defend the position of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. Is he aware that there have been serious statements on steel closures—Derbyshire last Thursday, Manchester earlier this week, Scotland yesterday and again today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "sed in this House? We have a lot of sympathy for the right hon. Gentleman having to defend the position of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. Is he aware that there have been serious statements on steel closures—Derbyshire last Thursday, Manchester earlier this week, Scotland yesterday and again today—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"]—I am asking whether the right hon. Gentleman is aware.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.742.2", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "from our stalwart Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food we shall this afternoon have a response to one or two of the serious Amendments, by his accepting something that will help to improve the Bill. I pray that that will happen in the Amendments before us, including that so ably moved by the right hon. Gentleman. If my right hon. Friend does that, he will go down in the history of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend has been here for the past three or four minutes, I believe, but in case he has not, I must tell him that I was only supporting the Amendments because I felt they would help to strengthen Parliament's position under the Bill. That is their aim.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.763.2", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ars a fairly close resemblance to the sort of commodity commission approach which was so favoured by the Opposition at one time, and this policy, for the first time, gives power to a governmental body to intervene on the market in order to hold the price at a pre-defined level. I should have thought that this was something that had, in past years, found a good deal of acceptance by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.763.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "r denaturing products, particularly wheat. Denaturing is a system whereby in order to take wheat off the market a subsidy is paid on it if it is used for animal feed. In order to ensure that the wheat is not subsequently used for human consumption it has to be \"denatured\" by the addition of a dye or fish-oil or it has to be directly incorporated into animal feeding stuffs in controlled conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.774.4", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I said that perhaps there would be a regional office in Wales. No firm decision has been made yet, but I will let the right hon. Gentleman know as soon as one has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.774.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.774.4", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "s there would be a regional office in Wales. No firm decision has been made yet, but I will let the right hon. Gentleman know as soon as one has been. [ Interruption. ] The Opposition have asked me an enormous number of questions and I am replying in some detail. It is important, as these questions were asked, that I should have a proper opportunity to answer, and this is the right place to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.774.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "'s threshold prices adjusted by the compensatory amounts. The Act of Accession provides in Article 51(3) …that the application of the Community rules results in a level of market prices comparable with the level recorded\"—in the United Kingdom—during a representative period preceding the implementation of the Community rules\". The mechanism to give effect to this is the compensatory amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "y amount. [ Interruption. ] I am trying to get through as fast as I can, but this is a very important matter for the Committee. I am confident that we shall, within the period up to the end of July, be able to give all the information required to the House on these points and that there need be no fear after the end of the year that there will be a sudden jump in prices or anything of that nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.817.5", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ffect to the common agricultural policy, there will be the difficulties and uncertainties which have been stressed. Above all, the system, as I have argued, needs changing. I have quoted Dr. Mansholt, who is still connected with the Commission, for whom I have a great admiration. I have met him on many occasions. I refer now to his successor, who was here a few days ago, Signor Scarascia-Mugnozza—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.817.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "in Europe, including Bismarck and all the great men of Europe, believed that Europe's strength lay essentially in its rural rather than its urban communities. That is not unnatural. We in this country have evolved over hundreds of years without revolution. We have been blessed by the fact that we have had a House of Commons which has defeated the barons and the kings, and even the Socialist Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.826.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "olution. We have been blessed by the fact that we have had a House of Commons which has defeated the barons and the kings, and even the Socialist Party—[ Interruption. ]—and the Tories for that matter, and has survived. But in Europe there has been a sense of danger, of constant movements of troops. There have been wars, including civil wars, and far greater instabilities than we have ever known.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.826.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I remember well that in a debate in 1967 the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition was talking about having to come to terms with it. I remember well what the right hon. Gentlemen now Lord George-Brown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "uld like to forget him, said: Some of the changes we shall be called on to make, particularly in the field of agriculture, will be very considerable. The right hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Peart), in opening the debate on the Question, That the Clause stand part of the Bill, appeared to have forgotten what was in the White Paper. The right hon. Gentleman was a member of the Cabinet at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-22", "file": "debates1972-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b3e8f631f3410380", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "basis has been applied throughout and the figure is now 12 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-22a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-23", "file": "debates1972-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "433b53fcc2513893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-23a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "The Opposition say that they are keen to make rapid progress. We have seen the evidence of this. Up to the time that the hon. Member for Shore-ditch and Finsbury (Mr. Ronald Brown) sat down, we had had just on four hours of debate, in which there had been eight speeches from the Opposition. That can hardly be described as a record of hon. Members honestly attempting to make fast progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-23a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-26", "file": "debates1972-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9a2f97aded3ec733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.977.5", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fidler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fidler", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of Press reports of correspondence between the Prime Minister and the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) which purport to attribute to the Prime Minister the statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.977.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-26", "file": "debates1972-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9a2f97aded3ec733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "cement about the Bacon Market Sharing understanding. It says: …the Government has determined the total quantity required on the United Kingdom market in the 12 months beginning April 1st, 1972, as 639,570 tons, a reduction of 10,430 tons over the determination for 1971–72 There has been a reduction in the total quantity of bacon produced by this country for the United Kingdom market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-26", "file": "debates1972-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9a2f97aded3ec733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Paris.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " have serious repercussions on our international trade and our national position. I ask the Minister to try to defend his policies. It is no good attacking some of us who had responsibility. He has responsibility now. I am prepared to stand by what I did in agricultural matters and compare my Price Reviews with those of the Conservative Minister whom I succeeded, who is now our ambassador in Rome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-26", "file": "debates1972-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9a2f97aded3ec733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They voted for the Conservatives.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The butchers or the farm workers because I believe it is the Government who are responsible. We are censuring the Government, not the farmers, butchers or the farm workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-26", "file": "debates1972-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9a2f97aded3ec733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "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": "een halved over the past six months, and welcomes the determination of Her Majesty's Government to bring inflation under control'. I welcome the opening remarks of the right hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Peart), in which he said that concern about rising prices was felt on both sides of the House. I share that concern with all my colleagues just as much as it is shared on the Opposition benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-26", "file": "debates1972-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9a2f97aded3ec733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": " figures which support their arguments, and they must accept it, too, when it tells a different story from the one they wish. The latest food index figures confirm that food prices are rising much more slowly. The annual rate of increase has fallen from 11·1 per cent. in March to 6·4 per cent. in May. Compared to the position last December the annual rate of increase has been halved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-26", "file": "debates1972-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9a2f97aded3ec733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "e from May, 1971, to May, 1972, of just under 5 per cent. Those figures compare with the figure for the year June, 1970, to June, 1971, of just over 11 per cent. So we are finding that the lower figures produced by the food price index are backed up by other people's experience. Again, there is a much greater awareness by housewives of price increases and whether they can get good value for money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-26", "file": "debates1972-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9a2f97aded3ec733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": " we know that eggs are 4½ per dozen cheaper than they were a year ago? Do we know that poultry meat is 2p cheaper per lb. than it was a year ago? Do we know that coffee, margarine and other goods are cheaper than they were a year ago? Although these are marked improvements, much more needs to be done before inflation is brought under control. The seeds of inflation were sown some years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-26", "file": "debates1972-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9a2f97aded3ec733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "site when they were in Government. That is when this raging, runaway inflation began, and it is hypocrisy past belief for the Opposition now to move a Motion of censure on the Government. One sees plenty of hypocrisy in this House, but really this is quite a record. Earlier today, my right hon. Friend the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food gave some examples of prices that had gone down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-26", "file": "debates1972-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9a2f97aded3ec733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "is is the core of the housewife's worry. How can it be possible for increases of this size to be paid without an immediate reflection in still greater rises in prices? Sometimes I wonder whether Lord Denning, for instance, has considered the effect on prices of his recommendations. If he has, I feel that there could not possibly have been such a high wage settlement recommended for the railwaymen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-26", "file": "debates1972-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9a2f97aded3ec733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "ives upon the virtues of shopping around. They are sick and tired of having to shop around. Wherever they go, they find that prices are infinitely higher than they were two years ago. They feel deeply betrayed when they compare the Government's performance with its precepts at the last General Election. This is an anniversary month for the Minister. He has now held this present post for two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-26", "file": "debates1972-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9a2f97aded3ec733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL LONDON DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "l of the GLC next spring, we may have an entirely fresh approach as compared with that of the Tory-controlled GLC. The result of the public inquiry into the Covent Garden redevelopment plan is awaited. Meanwhile, it is reliably reported that dissent has broken out, even inside the Tory majority at County Hall, and that relations between Sir Desmond Plummer and Lady Dartmouth are at breaking point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-26a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the fact that what is disturbing is that 800,000 building workers have put in wage claims of 20 to 23 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 2·40?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Following that question, and reverting to the Question on the Paper, does the Chancellor endeavour to pretend, as he did on Friday and over the weekend, that this is not a devaluation? Has he any intention of returning or any belief that we can return to a rate of 2·60 dollars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who repaid the debt?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": " the weekend, that this is not a devaluation? Has he any intention of returning or any belief that we can return to a rate of 2·60 dollars—[An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 2·40?\"] No, 2·60 is not equivalent to 2·40, because the dollar has changed and we are lower today against the weighted average of world currencies than we were in December. This is a very important point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " measures announced last Friday were planned in June, 1970, and that this was the climax of the Conservative Party's \"Better Britain\"? Will the hon. Gentleman say what were the reactions of the Ministers in Luxembourg yesterday, apart from the snide remark of the Chancellor just now about my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) when clearly my right hon. Friend was reflecting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "One must look at the overall economic policy as a whole. Certainly my right hon. Friend made absolutely clear the great importance we attach to the question of inflation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman consider that the Prime Minister personally conducting a version of Sullivan's \"Lost Chord\" might be a much more appropriate requiem for the present Government? Does he recollect the words?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman consider that the Prime Minister personally conducting a version of Sullivan's \"Lost Chord\" might be a much more appropriate requiem for the present Government? Does he recollect the words?—[ Interruption. ] I could sing them if hon. Members would prefer that. Does the Prime Minister recollect the words? They are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "he Prime Minister personally conducting a version of Sullivan's \"Lost Chord\" might be a much more appropriate requiem for the present Government? Does he recollect the words?—[ Interruption. ] I could sing them if hon. Members would prefer that. Does the Prime Minister recollect the words? They are—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]. They are: I knew not what I was playing, Or what I was dreaming of. But—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WAGE SETTLEMENTS AND INFLATION (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Financial Secretary has just referred to wage moderation. The increase in wages has been approximately twice the increase in prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "he Select Committee reported, the Government have considered the issues very carefully. My right hon. and noble Friend the Lord Chancellor has, properly, been involved in the consultations. He has consulted the heads of the judiciary and so on, and we are satisfied that it is responsible to accept the recommendations which I have indicated, but that it would not be responsible to go the whole hog—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robin Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More than doubled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robin Turton", "preceding_text": " we last talked about sugar, there has been an uplift of price. When I was quoting a figure of the target price of £103a ton and an intervention price of £98·81 per ton, I was quoting figures given in April to my hon. Friend the Member for Devizes by the Minister of Agriculture. In other words, with the last price increase agreed by the Community—since Friday the price will be higher still—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1222.2", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. James Prior)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. James Prior)", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend has dealt with both those points, perhaps I had better wait until the winding-up speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1277.4", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": ". Therefore, as we are approaching the end of this farcical, unrealistic Committee stage, to try to save the name of the House an approach should be made to Mr. Speaker and the Government Front Bench to say that we cannot go on in this ridiculous way, having a Bill which must be immaculate in every respect—every dot and comma. I do not think there has been a precedent in the history of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARBOURS DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Robert Hughes), I congratulate my right hon. and hon. Friends on the energy and action they put into securing the loan, and later the grant, for Aberdeen harbour, about which we had so many anguished discussions. A lot of rubbish is talked about the position of the Scottish Office vis-à-vis North Sea oil; indeed, not all the rubbish is talked in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-27", "file": "debates1972-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f774f8b6aac5a16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARBOURS DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": " I sympathise with him. I know he came to the House feeling that he was doing rather well for everyone, but that only suggests that he was completely out of touch with Scottish feeling on this issue. We want him to be seized of the importance of this matter to Scotland. It has been left not to a Minister but to the Chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party, Sir William McEwan Younger, to try to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-27a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-28", "file": "debates1972-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "597dfe5435a3fbf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-28a.1428.4", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "The main way of helping elderly retired people is through the cash grant of the retirement pension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-28a.1428.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-28", "file": "debates1972-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "597dfe5435a3fbf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-28a.1468.2", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will not mention my hon. Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "y should bear in mind the comparison. I cannot subscribe to some of the Piltdown Man transport policies sometimes echoed from my side of the Chamber. I do not wish my speech to be understood as being dogmatically in favour of heavy lorries. If I see headlines in the newspapers tomorrow morning saying that the Member for Nuneaton supports heavier lorries, that is not the main stress I want to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-28a.1468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-28", "file": "debates1972-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "597dfe5435a3fbf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-28a.1557.1", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "Oh, the guillotine, the guillotine! The guillotine allows ten more minutes of this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-28a.1557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-28", "file": "debates1972-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "597dfe5435a3fbf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-28a.1585.0", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "Apart from the interesting but slightly irrelevant contribution by the hon. Member for Walsall, South (Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-28a.1585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1663.0", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, the Government have not conducted litigation against trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1690.0", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "n aware, when he talks about repayment of rents, that the majority of the people who have not been paying rents or rates are law-abiding people in the best circumstances, but they felt, of necessity, that it was the only peaceful gesture they could make against the internment policy? Is he further aware that the amount of money outstanding, according to his own Department, is less than £2 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1705.1", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POUND STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "What it means is that there is no restriction on sterling borrowing by companies controlled by sterling area residents for direct investment in the United Kingdom. I am somewhat hesitant, for reasons which I know the right hon. Gentleman will understand, to answer off-the-cuff questions about details, important though they may be, concerning the exchange control regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1710.1", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POUND STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "In recent months it has been running at an annual rate of about 23 per cent. But I explained during the Budget debate—I think that it was in the Budget Statement—why I do not believe it is right to name a target.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1728.1", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POUND STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A long time ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ting will produce inflationary pressures which immediately affect the whole range of economic and industrial activities in Britain, unless some dramatic and rapid action is taken to contain them; and unless it is taken the £ will never stop floating down. Prices are the key. On this at least I agree with what the Prime Minister said in the speech from which I quoted at the beginning of my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1728.1", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POUND STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " the Government will have to do this—they must re-establish the machinery of price control which they took care to abolish after coming into office. They must set up some body with the same sort of function as the National Board for Prices and Incomes had in this field. The Government must insist on an early warning system. They must give that body the power to permit or to refuse price increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1728.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1800.2", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POUND STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1800.6", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POUND STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " 4 per cent. Therefore, although the rate of increase is still serious, it is now at a slower rate both in relation to prices as a whole and to food prices than it was in the last six months of the right hon. Gentleman's Government prior to the election. Those are the facts and they should be known and stated. It is not complacent to state them because they still represent a very serious problem.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1800.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POUND STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": ", were to go simply to personal affluence it would turn sour in our hands. It is needed for many other purposes. Look round this country. Look at the old houses. Look at the old factories. Look at the old hospitals and the old schools. Look at the enormous programme of physical renewal which Britain must undertake. Look not only at the renewal but look at all the new things which are needed still.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1807.10", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POUND STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "No, I am afraid not. What is it that the Opposition propose instead of the policies on which we have embarked? They suggest, among other things, that the Industrial Relations Act should be dropped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1807.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1807.10", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POUND STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Could not be worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "nment did just that. They dropped \"In Place of Strife\" to get such co-operation. What happened? In the year after dropping it, wage rates went up by almost 10 per cent. compared with only 5 per cent. the year before. Is that what we are to do? It is also said that if we drop the Industrial Relations Act there will be better industrial relations. What is the evidence for that? Industrial relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1807.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1808.1", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POUND STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "in his book. That is why the right hon. Gentleman himself came to believe that industrial relations legislation, as proposed in \"In Place of Strife\", was essential not just to the survival of his Government but to the health of the country. He knew it then, and, if he is honest, he knows it now. The other great contribution which the Opposition ask us to make is to give up the Housing Finance Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1808.1", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POUND STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "trial relations legislation, as proposed in \"In Place of Strife\", was essential not just to the survival of his Government but to the health of the country. He knew it then, and, if he is honest, he knows it now. The other great contribution which the Opposition ask us to make is to give up the Housing Finance Bill [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] In other words, we are asked to deny help on a scale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-29", "file": "debates1972-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "45ed759616ac8e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1808.1", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POUND STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ther words, we are asked to deny help on a scale—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"]—that has never before been given in this country to the council and the private tenant with the lowest income. All such tenants with the lowest incomes will receive help on a scale which they have never had before. So my answer on that score, too, is, \"Certainly not\". There is one answer, and one answer alone, and that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-29a.1808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-06-30", "file": "debates1972-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2c14542b1c4cef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-30a.1870.5", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "er, to remain in order I had better say \"the gas industry\" on all occasions. In view of Standing Order No. 22, Mr. Speaker, where inadvertently I say \"nationalised industries\" perhaps you would quickly remind me that I ought to say \"the gas industry\". Private industry is frightened of competition from the gas industry. I was hoping not to be provoked and to make a short intervention on this topic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-30a.1870.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-30", "file": "debates1972-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2c14542b1c4cef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-30a.1933.4", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (AMENDMENT) 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/1972-06-30a.1933.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-06-30", "file": "debates1972-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2c14542b1c4cef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-06-30a.1933.8", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIELD MONUMENTS 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/1972-06-30a.1933.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.18.5", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "It may well be that further international publicity would be helpful, and we would be prepared to take our part in that, but this is a matter for the United Nations themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.18.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.37.4", "colnum": "37", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL COMPUTERS LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "the royalty is to be paid on all sales or only on sales arising out of equipment derived from the new research and development? Secondly, following the question asked by the hon. Member for Hitchin (Mrs. Shirley Williams) will he give the House some idea of the long-term research and development projects of this company, because it is inconceivable to me that it could stop at £14·2 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.37.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "e more than Strafford to destroy parliamentary liberties—I suggest a recommendation to the Lord Chancellor for an early removal to the Bench—the Lord Chancellor is notoriously not choosey in other matters—provided the hon. and learned Gentleman's judicial duties are confined to matters excluding any which affect ordinary human beings. But while the hon. and learned Gentleman sinks below the waves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.41.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "he Solicitor-General, who represented a Merseyside constituency not long ago but does not seem to have learned anything, can instruct the Prime Minister how the unions got their names. We will tell him of the 1955 strike when, within a single family, brother fought brother and even militant white card holders went through the picket lines manned by the blue-card-holding members of the same family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.55.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.59.2", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, to leave out from \"House\" to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof: 'endorses the policy of Her Majesty's Government to provide a framework, within the law, which will enable industrial relations in Britain to be improved, and which will contribute to the protection of the community from the damaging consequences of industrial disputes'.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the Opposition can hardly be claimed to be based on rational reflection or on the working of the Act, which has been in operation for only four months. I am asking hon. and right hon. Gentlemen, believing that they are believers in a democratic process, to consider this matter seriously. We have just had a speech from the Leader of the Opposition about which I propose to make very little comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the particular problem of the cooling-off period and the ballot. He would have carried more conviction with most observers if these had not been proposals which he and his Government put their name to both in the White Paper and for the Bill. I am well aware of the differences and there are differences which are genuine and there are rightful grounds for debate between the two sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "to give the public as a whole the opportunity to hear it. It would have been a purely governmental decision, open to the accusation that it was without check outside the political sphere. We have always believed it was right to act through the courts. The right hon. Gentleman, because he disagrees with this, has to my regret adopted the policy of trying to undermine the High Court of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.63.2", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Yes. It was created by the present Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.63.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.63.4", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I repeat, it is a puppet court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.63.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "pted Mr. Jarratt as conciliator and arbitrator. He found it impossible, after a day's work, to conciliate and he decided to arbitrate. The unions then rejected his arbitration and only then did the Secretary of State ask for a cooling-off period. But the gains to the community of the two cooling-off periods granted—first, for the purpose of conciliation, and, secondly, for the ballot—were immense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.66.2", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " and it is surely important that that should be recognised by those considering the question of industrial relations. Many examples could be cited. For example, in the Torquay case, if the injunction had not been complied with the consequences would have been exactly the same. But injunctions were observed and carried out by the unions in previous cases when injunctions had been made against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have been prepared to give way to many hon. Gentlemen a number of times. I ought to get on. This is not in dispute with the unions themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " to the right hon. Gentleman or to whomsoever is to wind up the debate for the Opposition. Do they, as the Opposition, as the Labour Party, approve of that situation? If they do not, how do their propose to resolve it? The union itself had already failed to resolve it. It has been resolved as a result of the working of the Industrial Relations Act, the Jones Aldington Committee having been set up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rdered and efficient system\". Those words will be acceptable to the right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite, because they are taken from \"In Place of Strife\". I cannot accept that the Act should be repealed, neither can the Government, nor I believe can Parliament. Public support for it is still maintained. I say to the trade unions, let them now work this Act and co-operate in its implementation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rests or to the nation. That is the way in which democracy in a developed country operates. The Government will be fully prepared in such a process to discuss these points with them. Hon. Gentlemen say that we have not been prepared to do so in the past. This I dispute but, whatever our difference of opinion about that, I know full well that opinion in the trade unions is changing towards the Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.75.6", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Prime Ministers. Furthermore, they bitterly oppose control of wage increases; they oppose legislation to freeze wages or to govern them by Statute. The trade unions recognise the right of a Government to pursue their own economic policy. The right of the Government to do this in a democracy is essential, but at the same time the trade unions maintain their own right to free collective bargaining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.75.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.75.6", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "and inflation go together. I suggest that this is the real position with which we in this House have to deal, and the responsibility is to be borne equally by Government, unions and employers. I do not wish to go at length into the detail of these matters, but I wish to emphasise that the employers have carried out their undertaking to limit their prices to 5 per cent., and they have policed them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.75.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.75.6", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " they have asked, and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has carried out that policy with all the risks inherent in it, some of which we saw a fortnight ago. We have instituted annual review of pensions, again something for which the trade unions asked. Furthermore, in regional policy it is the trade unions which are complimenting the Goverenment on the policy they are following.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.75.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "r opposite should claim that this is a policy which they have introduced and which we would not have introduced. Provisions for appeals against unfair dismissals were in the Bill which fell at the time of the General Election but which would have become law if a Labour Government had been returned. This is one part of the Industrial Relations Act which we shall keep when we repeal most of the Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "rial Relations Bill we on this side maintained that the dismissed worker should have a right to reinstatement if he so chose and not merely the compensation available to him under the terms of the Act. I hope that the Prime Minister will take the conciliation and arbitration service seriously when he meets the TUC. Clearly the CBI takes this service seriously and wants something along these lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Maurice Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Maurice Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "willing to move from the position from which they started. They made that plain to the board and later to me when I brought the board and unions together to talk. The Act does not say that when the Secretary of State applies for a ballot it must appear to him that the workers concerned are opposed to taking part in industrial action, nor do I have to give evidence either to the court or the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Maurice Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Maurice Macmillan)", "preceding_text": ". They made that plain to the board and later to me when I brought the board and unions together to talk. The Act does not say that when the Secretary of State applies for a ballot it must appear to him that the workers concerned are opposed to taking part in industrial action, nor do I have to give evidence either to the court or the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite.\"] My good faith can be challenged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Maurice Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Maurice Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "hat the workers concerned are opposed to taking part in industrial action, nor do I have to give evidence either to the court or the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite.\"] My good faith can be challenged—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—but the court made it plain that in this instance there was no question of that. I had to indicate that I had legitimate grounds for doubting the attitude of the work people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Maurice Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Maurice Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "dustrial relations. So far from doing injury, the Industrial Relations Act and the National Industrial Relations Court have helped and are helping in the sort of case which was identified in \"In Place of Strife\" but with which the Labour Party, when in Government, failed to deal. \"In Place of Strife\" said that there were considerable problems connected with the recognition of white-collar workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Maurice Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Maurice Macmillan)", "preceding_text": " in the sort of case which was identified in \"In Place of Strife\" but with which the Labour Party, when in Government, failed to deal. \"In Place of Strife\" said that there were considerable problems connected with the recognition of white-collar workers—[ Interruption. ] The National Union of Bank Employees has achieved recognition from the National Bank of Pakistan and the United Dominions Trust—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-03", "file": "debates1972-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ca10d11a2af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTRICITY SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A quorum\".", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "s avail themselves of the Northern Ireland HANSARDS, they will see that that was typical of the way in which legislation was passed through Stormont. When it is passed in such a way, this House has a stern duty to look very closely at legislation brought before it by Order in Council. Six Stormont Members and the Minister took part in the debates in Northern Ireland on this very important Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-03a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-04", "file": "debates1972-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "91231ffe8d90a0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.241.7", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC POLICY (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "s the Prime Minister explain that the Government's figures indicate that over a five-year period owner-occupiers with incomes of over £40 a week will gain an estimated £57 million a year in extra housing aid while council tenants with incomes below £40 a week, even after receiving rent rebates, will still be deprived of about £102 million a year in housing aid? When will the Government stop using—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.241.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-04", "file": "debates1972-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "91231ffe8d90a0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Some of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "For many years the small firms have been wanting to enter the Community and be able to compete on all fours with their opposite numbers in the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-04", "file": "debates1972-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "91231ffe8d90a0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "stpone the exercise of its jurisdiction under section 20 of the Act, or may (notwithstanding section 22(2)) exercise its jurisdiction under section 22, if and in so far as it appears to the court right so to do having regard to the operation of any such provision or to the purpose and effect of any authorisation or exemption granted in relation thereto. I think that that is quite clear, is it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-04", "file": "debates1972-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "91231ffe8d90a0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "At no stage have the Government presented to the House the significance of Euratom in such a way as to allow Parliament and the country to understand its significance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-04", "file": "debates1972-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "91231ffe8d90a0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Fletcher", "preceding_text": "s and I present to the House of Commons. But now they have lost the art. Who but a total idiot would put a Rolls-Royce engine—I keep going on with this metaphor—into a Tin Lizzie and imagine that he had made some kind of magnificent bargain? It is total and absolute nonsense but, as I said earlier, it raises wider issues, because in this Clause we are concerned with the passage of nuclear secrets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-04", "file": "debates1972-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "91231ffe8d90a0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "e was a Minister, disreputable, demagogic and even, at times, dishonest. I shall elaborate on that. We on the Government side, and particularly the Solicitor-General, do not need lessons in our national duties. That type of remark by the right hon. Gentleman, during discussion of a serious matter, does the House of Commons and the right hon. Gentleman as chairman of his party no credit whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-04", "file": "debates1972-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "91231ffe8d90a0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must come off it; he cannot get away with that. He knows that the Opposition have never asked to debate Euratom. Who will deny that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-04", "file": "debates1972-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "91231ffe8d90a0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Of course not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must come off it; he cannot get away with that. He knows that the Opposition have never asked to debate Euratom. Who will deny that? [ Interruption. ]—It is being suggested by the Opposition Front Bench spokesman that it is terrifying that we have never debated the subject. We have never had, until this moment, any such indication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-04", "file": "debates1972-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "91231ffe8d90a0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hurry up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "st come off it; he cannot get away with that. He knows that the Opposition have never asked to debate Euratom. Who will deny that? [ Interruption. ]—It is being suggested by the Opposition Front Bench spokesman that it is terrifying that we have never debated the subject. We have never had, until this moment, any such indication—[Hon. Members: \"Of course not.\"] May I make my speech in my own way?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-04", "file": "debates1972-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "91231ffe8d90a0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I am reluctant to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-04", "file": "debates1972-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "91231ffe8d90a0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.393.11", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "preceding_text": "ut what should happen. He has not been in office for long, and we wish him well. We hope that he will spend many years in his post. His predecessors did not bring forward a fuel policy. Although it may not be appropriate to consider the implications of an oil policy in any discussion of Clause 5, a little haste should be made in considering these matters. What is the significance of the North Sea?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.393.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-04", "file": "debates1972-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "91231ffe8d90a0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "Although the point has rightly been made about how careful those people are, they cannot do more than is practicable. Would my hon. Friend repeat this point when the hon. Member for Manchester Ardwick (Mr. Kaufman) returns? The hon. Gentleman has now left the Chamber and is evidently not anxious to hear the Minister's reply to the point about which his constituents are so greatly concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-04a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"More offices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "There is very close co-operation between my Department and the GLC in all these matters and I do not believe that there is an absence of good planning. The work of the London Action Group has been extremely helpful and will lead to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.532.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ill makes possible, the reluctance with which a narrowly divided Committee is doing what it is doing has become more, not less, perceptible. The relief with which hon. Members think they are about to part with the Committee stage is not untinged with the feeling that it is a business in which on either side of the Committee and on either side of the debate they are sad to have imbrued their hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "I accept that. The point is that his capacity to influence the policy of the executive is very limited in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "nothing of this, even from the mover of the new Clause, the right hon. and learned Member for West Ham, South who is himself a Welshman. We heard nothing about effective decentralisation. I want to make four brief points. First, I will return to the intervention made by the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale. A new Clause which questions the whole concept of supranationalism questions the Community per se.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gumme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gumme", "preceding_text": " the Opposition have attacked him violently and have said that he has no right to abrogate to himself the ability to discern and to articulate the will of the people of Britain. They are right to attack him on that ground, and we are also right to disagree with him on the same basis. My right hon. Friend claims that he, and he alone, can feel what the people of Britain think on these basic issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gumme", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gumme", "preceding_text": "Britain think on these basic issues—[ Interruption. ] Perhaps Labour Members will allow the discussion to proceed. It will be seen that the danger of the argument based on the will of the people is that the interpretation of that will is the key factor. We can all say that the people want this or that the people want that, but we in this country have a method of determining the will of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grylls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grylls", "preceding_text": "967 White Paper. The whole tenor of the White Paper showed that the Labour Government knew perfectly well what they would have to accept. A speech made by a Labour Party spokesman a month before the last election put the matter very clearly. He said they were ready and committed to accepting the Treaty of Rome. That statement was made by the right hon. Member for Dundee, East (Mr. George Thomson)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman talked a lot about the importance of defending and assuring the rights and liberties of our people. It seemed to me that that part of his speech, and the rest of his speech, was shot through with this negative, fearful attitude which is so prevalent on the other side of the Committee, and which assumes that there is a body of liberties which must be defended lest they be eroded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "to the vote but I saw an hon. Member on the Oppositionside rise to speak. If he wants to continue the debate I am prepared to respond, I hope in moderate terms, to some of the insults by the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Ronald King Murray). If anyone has broken a trust it is the Leader of the Opposition who has put in such little appearance in our debates in the recent months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Then sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "ot), who is now the Shadow Leader of the House, used to deal with his right hon. Friend the Member for Stepney (Mr. Shore) during the last Parliament. One had only to watch the hon. Gentleman when he was leader of the \"no-go area\" below the Gangway to understand what arrogance and contempt was. I am not surprised that he leads the Opposition now. I do not wish to take up the time of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "tors in the case of hereditary peers? I suggest that we could well have applied the alternative and said that we would have a democratic delegation. The Government and, alas, my own Front Bench are not as yet ready to countenance such a radical thought as that we should actually elect a delegation. That being so, I believe that all hon. Members who believe in democracy will support this new Clause", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.687.3", "colnum": "687", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "I will not detain the House now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Canvassing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "that will be found true in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.690.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Arbitrary.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Finally, and I hope with the approval of right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the Committee, although it is probably out of order on this new Clause, I should like to say how much we have appreciated the way that you, Sir Robert, and your colleagues have conducted these long and ar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-05", "file": "debates1972-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1ae1f3d24da015f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.711.8", "colnum": "711", "heading": "RAILWAY LINE (WIMBLEDON-CROYDON)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Thompson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Thompson", "preceding_text": "I propose to use my good fortune in the ballot to raise a matter of great constituency importance for Croydon, namely, the threatened closure of the West Croydon-Wimbledon railway,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-05a.711.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The whole House shares that view. The highest tribute should be paid, I have written personally to every teacher in the Province, congratulating them all on their remarkable work. I am sure that is the general view of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.728.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"All the Amendments were voted down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Could the right hon. Gentleman tell the House how many major constitutional Bills this century—and especially legislation of such fundamental importance for this House as the European Communities Bill—have gone through without receiving a Report stage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman tell the House how many major constitutional Bills this century—and especially legislation of such fundamental importance for this House as the European Communities Bill—have gone through without receiving a Report stage? [An Hon. Member: \"All the Amendments were voted down.\"] The House voted down all the Amendments and the Government Front Bench never even considered them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "On the first point, I am afraid that I cannot without research answer categorically the right hon. Gentleman's question. Perhaps I should have done some. It may well be that the answer is \"No\". Even if the answer is \"No\", the reason in this case is that the majority of this House did not pass any Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman convey to his right hon. Friends the Foreign and Home Secretaries the general feeling of this House that the traditional attitudes of this country in accepting political refugee organisations should not be abrogated—I am talking of the PLO—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.758.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.758.3", "colnum": "758", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Terrorists.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Since the hon. Member for Smethwick (Mr. Faulds) has again raised the question of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, has my right hon. Friend——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.758.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is proceeding rather slowly.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "at the House will forgive me if I do not seek to emulate such highly-coloured and emotive language as that used by the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton). There are occasions when I might be tempted to utter a few homilies about the doubtful character of this legislation that is being steamrollered through the House, but I should be out of order if I were to try such an exercise tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ing to follow it intelligently he has his brief written already and his right hon. Friend has made up his mind. I am staggered that the Secretary of State for the Environment is not at the Dispatch Box to listen to the arguments. There is not even present the Minister for Local Government and Development with whom, together with my hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, I have had a long interview.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Misconducted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend fully aware of the method by which the ballot was conducted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "preceding_text": "the population of Leeds. Whereas I appreciate that one can argue in political terms about moving a large area like Harrogate, even now, deliberately, I do not know the composition of Rothwell Urban District Council. 4.15 a.m. I visited Rothwell last Sunday to see the area for myself because I felt it would be helpful. I started from the hostelry known as the \"Black Bull\" and went round in circles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.996.3", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "The effect of Amendment No. 56 would be to retain Dorney in Buckinghamshire. Dorney is a small village and parish with a population of 850 in the south of Buckinghamshire on the River Thames. It has been a part of Buckinghamshire for nearly 1,100 years—that is, from the time when Buckinghamshire first emerged as a county out of the Kingdom of Mercia. Since it is on the north bank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers (Plymouth, Devonport)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It was not Drake's drum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers (Plymouth, Devonport)", "preceding_text": "to fire services. There is a great deal of petroleum at Price Rock and Cattledown, and ships offshore, and there are no risks like this in the county. The Holroyd Report recommended that all chief fire officers must be in reach of the major areas of risk, so they must be locally stationed. In my Second Reading speech I mentioned that Drake's Drum might be heard again and it was heard in Whitehall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "ison of the urban centres, of Scunthorpe, Hull and so on, with the hinter land behind them. Squires in stubble fields of Lincolnshire are the kind of people who are behind the Amendment of the hon. Member for Louth. The hon. Member for Howden spoke of York as an ideal capital. He is like the Grand Old Duke of York. He can march to the top of the hill, but he has not even one man to march with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-06", "file": "debates1972-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e136a620467d2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The reason is that the basis on which the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends supported the unitary system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-06a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-10", "file": "debates1972-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "866418d181e690b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1226.3", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "n why a manuscript Amendment has been put down, which, if I may say so, virtually repeats the position which was debated in Committee upstairs. Of course, a new situation has now arisen. The Government have thought it right to make a change about television rentals, and the position is that the Opposition have thought it right to put in their request for the broader concession. We understand that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-10", "file": "debates1972-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "866418d181e690b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "I do not understand the hon. Gentleman's figures. It is a question of what is reasonable, and I put it on the basis of reasonableness. I do not wish to overstate my case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-10", "file": "debates1972-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "866418d181e690b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "ich the concession might apply is, generally speaking, a great deal shorter than is the life of television sets. For example, the rate of taxon evening dress suits let out on hire is only 11¼ per cent., and these items probably do not last as long as television sets. Some hon. Members opposite say that they are not, on the whole, items used by the most impoverished members of the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-10", "file": "debates1972-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "866418d181e690b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ustry in this way, I believe that it should go to those parts of the industry which cannot carry out the necessary improvements without public handouts. That is why I complained about the Act and forecast what would happen. I have been proved right. We are proposing, as a result of the Fire Precautions Act, to levy a 60 per cent. tax on the greater part of what is incurred in implementing the Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-10", "file": "debates1972-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "866418d181e690b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And more.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "I do not know much about the intricacies of the luncheon-voucher scheme from the revenue standpoint. My understanding—I might be quite wrong—is that it is a convention which has been accepted by the Inland Revenue authorities. However, logic and fair treatment clearly indicate the increase of the 15p to at least 30p.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-10", "file": "debates1972-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "866418d181e690b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1329.7", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Clause be read a Second time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1329.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-10", "file": "debates1972-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "866418d181e690b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1329.9", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "I believe that we are discussing with the new Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1329.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-10", "file": "debates1972-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "866418d181e690b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "capital gains on unit trusts; £7 million for interest relief; £14 million for surtax payers; £115 million for free depreciation; and £45 million for small company relief. The Chancellor stood at that Box on 21st March and reeled off concession after concession, nearly all of them designed to make the division of income and wealth more unequal than it was before. That was the purpose of the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-10a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-11", "file": "debates1972-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "24683baca5eece5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-11a.1407.2", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "AIR POLLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil McBride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil McBride", "preceding_text": " Alkali Inspectorate in cities in order to reduce or eliminate the emission of all waste or toxic gases which pollute the atmosphere; and for connected purposes. The great expansion of the chemical and other industries has seen the people of Britain becoming aware of the possibility of environmental damage, harmful to the ordinary citizen, by the seemingly uncontrolled pollution of the atmosphere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-11a.1407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-11", "file": "debates1972-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "24683baca5eece5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-11a.1407.2", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "AIR POLLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil McBride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil McBride", "preceding_text": "e; and for connected purposes. The great expansion of the chemical and other industries has seen the people of Britain becoming aware of the possibility of environmental damage, harmful to the ordinary citizen, by the seemingly uncontrolled pollution of the atmosphere. [ Interruption. ] The emission of waste and toxic gases and other noxious matters is now the subject of intense public discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-11a.1407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-11", "file": "debates1972-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "24683baca5eece5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-11a.1407.2", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "AIR POLLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil McBride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil McBride", "preceding_text": "ul to the ordinary citizen, by the seemingly uncontrolled pollution of the atmosphere. [ Interruption. ] The emission of waste and toxic gases and other noxious matters is now the subject of intense public discussion. [ Interruption. ] The rôle, numbers and location of the members of the Alkali Inspectorate are matters of public debate in many areas of the country including my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-11a.1407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-11", "file": "debates1972-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "24683baca5eece5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-11a.1470.2", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "nt and under the Conservative Government that power has never been used to impose purchase tax on wide categories of goods. It is essentially an instrument for making borderline adjustments or more occasionally for securing overall reductions in taxation. Obviously no Chancellor of the Exchequer can bind future Governments. Certainly I cannot bind a future Labour Government if there should be one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-11a.1470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-11", "file": "debates1972-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "24683baca5eece5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-11a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I propose to be constructive. I can tell Treasury Ministers where they can get the money needed for the Amendment. They can get it by not spending considerable sums of public money in helping the National Gallery to retain pictures such as Titian's \"Death of Actæon\"in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-11a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-11", "file": "debates1972-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "24683baca5eece5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-11a.1543.0", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trew", "preceding_text": "streamlining. When that happens I think it quite reasonable that we should look again at the question of VAT on the repair and maintenance of churches. In the meanwhile, I welcome the fact that my hon. Friend has stated his concern and that discussions are in progress on ways in which assistance can be given. It is not my intention to press the matter. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-11a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-12", "file": "debates1972-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9b721b909815b0e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I have led successful Scottish campaigns in the past, when I have not had other duties to perform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-12", "file": "debates1972-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9b721b909815b0e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what the right hon. Gentleman meant by saying that the Bill had become law, because it has not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-12", "file": "debates1972-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9b721b909815b0e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1576.4", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "of my Scottish colleagues, it may be desirable to put the right hon. Gentleman's Questions at position No. 10 or thereabouts. On these days we do not reach the Questions tabled for answer by the right hon. Gentleman relating to the whole of the United Kingdom. I know that my Scottish colleagues wish to ask local questions, but it would be possible for them to do so in the Scottish Grand Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-12", "file": "debates1972-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9b721b909815b0e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1647.3", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "The effect of Amendment No. 181 is to exempt the supply of services, and in connection with it the supply of goods, by persons on the register of dispensers of hearing aids and the register of persons employing such dispensers maintained under Section 2 of the Hearing Aid Council Act, 1968. As the House knows, my right hon. Friend felt that there was a strong case for relief in the medical sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-12", "file": "debates1972-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9b721b909815b0e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "preceding_text": "nds in thanking the Minister warmly for the concession but I have a point to put which, though only marginally related to the Amendment, is of some significance. In passing I must say that I feel hurt, neglected and unloved because the Minister did not thank me. However, there it is. When I said in Committee that the concession would not be made, I was of course fishing to get the concession then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-12", "file": "debates1972-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9b721b909815b0e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I thought I had dealt with the point in dealing with the proposal which my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary put forward last night and which I have sought to elaborate. I used almost identical words to those used by my hon. Friend. That is because we in the present Government like to maintain a certain consistency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-12", "file": "debates1972-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9b721b909815b0e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "el rather diffident in saying that on this subject perhaps I have a little more knowledge than my right hon. Friend. It would be helpful if we could have a proper inquiry so that everyone could put his point of view. My right hon. Friend must do something to allay the shock to the general public. An immense amount of anxiety has been felt. I shall support my right hon. Friend in the Lobby tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-12", "file": "debates1972-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9b721b909815b0e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1727.6", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Clause 38", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "I shall be a little time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1727.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-12", "file": "debates1972-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9b721b909815b0e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1727.6", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Clause 38", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Innocuous?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "ding offences not merely if he must have committed them—because that, after all, is the inherent meaning of subsections (1) and (2)—but if he must have committed them whether or not the particulars of the offence are known. Therefore, a strange and repulsive idea, foreign to all English law, creeps into our jurisprudence under cover of an apparently innocuous Bill dealing only with public finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1727.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-12", "file": "debates1972-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9b721b909815b0e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1725.6", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Clause 30", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I do not want to take much of the time of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-12a.1725.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1836.2", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "I do not think that when thehon. Gentleman gets there he will find the harpists in Heaven exclusively drawn from the middle classes. The short answer is that this is essentially a matter for the Arts Council and must remain at matter for the Arts Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1836.3", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cherub. You will be there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the statistic my hon. Friend gave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1841.5", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman say why he allows other Ministers, for instance the Foreign Secretary, to talk about greedy and selfish trade unionists? The Foreign Secretary, above all in the Government, should keep his mouth shut on these matters in view of his own family record over generations in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1841.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1841.5", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " to talk about greedy and selfish trade unionists? The Foreign Secretary, above all in the Government, should keep his mouth shut on these matters in view of his own family record over generations in Scotland. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap!\"] So long as the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary continue to castigate trade unionists and so long as Lord Carrington and other members of the Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1841.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1843.0", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not with you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman could not be more wrong. What I pointed out in my speech at Guildhall was that responsibility rests with the Government, employers and the TUC but that it requires all three to co-operate with a voluntary system. I should have thought that yesterday's statement that the TUC will take part in this deliberate voluntary effort to deal with inflation would have been welcomed by the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Working relationship?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have on a number of occasions explained to the right hon. Gentleman, who seems to be quite incapable of absorbing it, that the question of threshold agreements was discussed in \"Neddy\" after it was produced by the TUC. It was referred to the group of four for examination and consideration, and that is what has been going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1847.0", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What is the Government's view?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have not claimed that the Government were divided on this matter. The group of four has been examining the basis of possible threshold agreements. All economists know, except apparently the Leader of the Opposition, that threshold agreements in certain forms can be inflationary and in other forms stabilising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1849.0", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House should not get too excited about this matter. The Chair has complete discretion whether to allow any supplementary questions at all. The Committee on Procedure recommended that I should exercise that discretion. One way of proceeding would be to allow the first five Members in the group to ask supplementary questions and not allow them to the others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1849.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1849.3", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Why other than for reasons of political prejudice, did you deliberately exclude my question when the Prime Minister agreed to answer Q18 on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1849.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1855.7", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "MR. JOHN POULSON (BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1855.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1866.1", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "We are not entitled to expect hon. Members opposite to abandon so completely the sense of purpose and sense of direction which they once expressed incompelling terms which in substance are embodied in the Bill for which I have proposed the Third Reading. The Labour Party—and this must be said sadly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1872.1", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ies in the first place that Parliament has been forced to accept membership of the Communities without any choice in the matter. Although the ratification of the treaty is a matter for the Crown, such ratification is simply not possible until Parliament decides to make the necessary changes in domestic law. That decision—we are engaged in it today—is itself an exercise of Parliament's sovereignty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stronger.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "of the Opposition Party, and I think, too, that he hoped and believed that the British people, in spite of their initial doubts, would be won over in a clear majority for the European enterprise. Those, I think, were his genuine expectations in May 1970. But they have both been disappointed. The people are hostile. Their opposition is as strong today as it was a year ago, or indeed two years, ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1901.1", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "cannot see any striking similarity. Had it not been for my hon. Friend's record, I should have been inclined to ask him whether he was mocking the hundreds of thousands of Socialists, Communists, Liberals and Jews who were handed over in the Munich settlement to the torments and brutalities of the Nazis. Is he serious in wanting to compare what we are doing today and in the weeks and months ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1902.1", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to name them. I am not criticising everybody. I am saying that some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "n the policy on which they fought the last election. The hon. and learned Member for Lincoln (Mr. Taverne) has suffered a threat of which we should all be aware. I hope that from having the courage of his convictions the hon. and learned Gentleman does not find that he has anything but honour and an honourable future. The majority of 112 Members who were in favour of the principle behind the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "emporary and short-term disadvantages for us, may have long-term advantages for the future of Europe. I hope to see much more being done along those lines. I urge the opponents of the Bill not to leave Europe in suspense. A parliamentary majority of the sovereign Parliament which my hon. Friends and hon. Members opposite profess to love has voted this Measure in the principle by a majority of 112.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1917.1", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Fletcher", "preceding_text": "hat one really good thing that the first Europe actually did was to negotiate the Kennedy Round with the Americans, but that it could be done only because the whole apparatus of the Community was in suspended animation and M. Jean Rey was able to make decisions in the negotiations on his own. In other words, M. Rey functioned more as emperor of Europe than as a responsible Commissioner for Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1963.1", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "e been treated with the utmost care which Parliament was capable of giving to it—is the way in which this Bill of such historic importance has been squeezed through the Committee stage of the House of Commons. The Solicitor-General quoted some of the figures. I think he said that we have had 96 Divisions. As I understand it, out of those 96 Divisions, the Government's overall majority is about 40—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "preceding_text": " both agreed on the importance of parliamentary supremacy. I accept that my right hon. Friend forgot parliamentary supremacy in 1967. I do not believe that the defence of parliamentary democracy is compatible, for example, with arguments about a referendum. The hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. John Mendelson) accepted that. It is not compatible with forcing Members to vote against their consciences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES BILL", "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": "binds them together. So what we have had from the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale and his right hon. Friends the Members for Stepney and Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) and others over the 40 days and nights which we have spent in our wilderness of the Committee is an abject, squalid, shameless, stream of defeatism. I ask some of these fearful people to recall President Roosevelt's inaugural address in 1933.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.2008.6", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDGES AND MAGISTRATES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "preceding_text": " community as judges, give up careers in which they can expect expensive briefs. They are incorruptible in a way that is not true of any other country. We have chosen to debate the wrong things. We can attack the Government for their incomes policy, for their attacks on public servants, but we do not best sustain that attack by attacking another bunch of public servants. That is what we are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.2008.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.2017.8", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLESTON AND STRETTON (REFUSE TIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "preceding_text": "adlincote, but it preferred to stay out of it. Remember that in two years' time we will have local government reform and Tutbury RDC will disappear. The large authority responsible for cleanliness, dumping and tipping will be the county council. Look at the anomalous position and the subtlety of this dastardly deed—a description I use in all conscience. The county council on 26th July will decide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.2017.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-13", "file": "debates1972-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "92df1e8fd72f5db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.2025.1", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLESTON AND STRETTON (REFUSE TIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " is not appropriate. No authority should any longer contemplate the mere dumping of rubbish on the ground with little thought other than to get rid of it. Tipped refuse can be of value to the community in helping to reclaim or improve land. Unsightly holes or depressions and even railway cuttings in appropriate circumstances can be perfectly sound candidates for reclamation by intelligent tipping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-13a.2025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-14", "file": "debates1972-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "554c170ab57cf240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-14a.2033.0", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "argument about being beaten physically into the ground. What I believe is that terrorists must be shown that they have no part in a community, that violence does not pay. That is the way to end terrorist campaigns, and it always has been. I must tell my hon. Friend and the House that in the security situation that we now have I should have grave doubts about the wisdom of having such a plebiscite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-14a.2033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-14", "file": "debates1972-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "554c170ab57cf240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-14a.2038.2", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Mr. Craig is entitled to make speeches. There are lots of people who incite hatred in their speeches from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-14a.2038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-14", "file": "debates1972-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "554c170ab57cf240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-14a.2043.0", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that of the allegations made by the hon. Lady the Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) one is plainly true, and that is that the situation in Ulster is very much worse than it was when the right hon. Gentleman took charge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-14a.2043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-14", "file": "debates1972-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "554c170ab57cf240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-14a.2073.0", "colnum": "2073", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "ntegration. This is what we all want. This is the real hope for Northern Ireland. I should like to pay tribute to the directors of education and the staffs of education committees in Northern Ireland, and particularly Mr. Frank Ebbitt, the Direction of Education for County Down. Anyone who survives as a director of education in Northern Ireland has qualities of character and ability above average.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-14a.2073.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-17", "file": "debates1972-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "080646429bb71e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-17a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "wer as an essential factor in a democratic system. The point has been made that with a two-party system there is often a situation where there is virtually no choice because the individual concerned does not happen to belong to the right party in the area in which he lives. If a man is a Conservative and lives in Durham there is no hope of his ever becoming mayor or even of getting on the council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-17a.55.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-17", "file": "debates1972-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "080646429bb71e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-17a.87.2", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": ". I see no valid reason for the difference in treatment. I have a confession to make to the House. Whereas we have a Local Government Bill of this character perhaps only once a century, one has one's silver wedding only once in a lifetime. That falls to me today and so I shall not be in the House for the whole evening, and perhaps not even for the reply to the debate, which is shameful on my part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-17a.87.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-17", "file": "debates1972-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "080646429bb71e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-17a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 44", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "That is probably because the hon. Gentleman is a member of another union. I am only stating my own opinion, which I regard as one accepted by many people in Durham and those with any contact with the county council", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-17a.144.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-17", "file": "debates1972-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "080646429bb71e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-17a.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 101", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is taken with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. This Amendment No. 246 would appear to be meaningless unless it is taken in conjunction with Amendment 306.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-17a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-17", "file": "debates1972-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "080646429bb71e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-17a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 112", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The second item in this Amendment is the public health inspector. Again I think it is shocking that we should be dealing with this situation in this way, with the inevitable handful of people left in the House to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-17a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should not be arrogant in his replies to hon. Members. He knows full well that under the Conservative Administration prices have rocketed, and this means that the lower income group is suffering hardship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "The best example of a food which has gone down in price is butter, which during the last few weeks has fallen in price by about 9p a lb. Eggs also are considerably cheaper than they have been for years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.376.4", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "rnwall to provide a list of farms over which Concorde has flown so that it might try to elicit complaints from fanners? Is he further aware that one of the farmers, Mr. Rex Davey, who farms 600 acres in Cornwall, was approached by the anti-Concorde project and asked to list the occasions on which Concorde had damaged live stock and buildings, and that he replied that Concorde had caused no damage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.376.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.376.5", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": " aware that one of the farmers, Mr. Rex Davey, who farms 600 acres in Cornwall, was approached by the anti-Concorde project and asked to list the occasions on which Concorde had damaged live stock and buildings, and that he replied that Concorde had caused no damage—[Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"]—either to his buildings or to any of his livestock? Is he aware that Mr. Davey asked me to do what I could—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.376.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REGIONAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "Nothing was concealed from Parliament. The position is exactly as I have described it, that an inquiry was made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REGIONAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "Nothing was concealed from Parliament. The position is exactly as I have described it, that an inquiry was made—[ Interruption. ]—if hon. Gentlemen will stop shouting, I shall answer the question—an inquiry was made by the German Government, of which we heard yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CEREAL PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "uary onwards there will be the increase I have mentioned of 45p a ton for wheat and 36p a ton for barley. That is a very small increase over and above that which would have occurred under our own arrangements. Of course, in the five years of transition our prices will have to rise to Common Market levels, and, as the House will know, there will be considerable increases in prices over that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CEREAL PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has examined and debated this topic over a period of several months. He knows perfectly well that these are regulations of the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-WEST REGION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And they laugh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "They are to be found also in the constituencies of other hon. Members from Liverpool. In addition, there are still thousands of people on the waiting list for houses. We desperately need houses on Merseyside. Yet at this moment we have 9,024 workers unemployed. That is a disgrace, a scandal, a shame and an indictment of the present Government's policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-WEST REGION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"From what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I have just said that the estimate is that the number of jobs will be more than doubled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH-WEST REGION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I have just said that the estimate is that the number of jobs will be more than doubled—[Hon. Members: \"From what?\"]—from those that were in the Department's office a year ago. Service industries are also proving responsive. Partly this is due to a welcome recognition by employers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "SRI LANKA REPUBLIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "f this House, any more than it required co-operation on the part of the House for Ceylon to become the Republic of Sri Lanka. The consequence—and we are proving it by this Bill—is that the citizens of Pakistan have in the law of this country until this House provides otherwise, ceased to be Commonwealth citizens, alias British subjects. This is true whether they are in Timbuctoo or in Broadstairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "SRI LANKA REPUBLIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "n in declaring itself to be outside the Commonwealth has had the effect, without any intervention on the part of this House, that the citizens of Pakistan anywhere in the world are, in the law of this country, no longer Commonwealth citizens or British subjects, and that unless Parliament otherwise provides all the consequences of that must follow. Such is the direct present relevance of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-18", "file": "debates1972-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e49d060c6a45ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "SRI LANKA REPUBLIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "world are, in the law of this country, no longer Commonwealth citizens or British subjects, and that unless Parliament otherwise provides all the consequences of that must follow. Such is the direct present relevance of the Bill—[ Interruption. ] Well, it is the logical implication, the logical consequence, the logical conclusion as to the law of this country which is to be derived from this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-18a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-19", "file": "debates1972-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e84685ecdcb5ba61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.616.2", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman agree that it cannot be right that we should have under the list of the Prime Minister's personal staff the Opposition Chief Whip?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.616.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-19", "file": "debates1972-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e84685ecdcb5ba61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": " for Prices and Incomes considered this point, too, and, quite truthfully in my opinion, said that employers do not specify accurately enough their staff requirements and therefore it is impossible for the interviewers to produce the right applicants for the vacancy or vacancies. The hon. Gentleman implied a slur about young girls being taken to Spain and given jobs which turned out to be immoral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-19", "file": "debates1972-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e84685ecdcb5ba61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "o the Chancellor of the Exchequer first. My right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East gave some examples of what the Chancellor is doing with judges and other top salary earners. I will give one other example, not relating to earned income but to something about which the Chief Secretary never likes to hear—unearned income. A married man with no children with a £20,000 a year investment income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-19", "file": "debates1972-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e84685ecdcb5ba61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.707.3", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "nto the budgets of the poor, will be zero-rated, and some of these bore SET; and many ordinary household items—electric light bulbs, toilet soap, television sets, space heaters—will be taxed at much lower rates. Services, which come much more into the budget of the well-to-do, will be taxed in a way in which many of them have not been taxed before. Ours will, in fact, be the fairest VAT in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-19", "file": "debates1972-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e84685ecdcb5ba61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.708.3", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "iggest-ever increases in personal allowances, the substantial cuts in indirect taxation, the real help for widows and charities on estate duty, the new 100 per cent. first-year allowances for plant and machinery, and, above all—I say this again to a party which itself has committed to enter into the European Community—the Bill contains the fairest VAT in Europe with its single, low, positive rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.708.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-19", "file": "debates1972-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e84685ecdcb5ba61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 183", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "h us than at any other stage in the Bill. He did not answer my right hon. Friend but said that both sides would have to think further on the matter. If the vote on this Amendment goes against the Government, will the Secretary of State think more carefully about a similar request from my right hon. Friend, and undertake not to seek to alter the Bill in the House of Lords? I now come to the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-19", "file": "debates1972-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e84685ecdcb5ba61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 183", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "est from my right hon. Friend, and undertake not to seek to alter the Bill in the House of Lords? I now come to the Clause. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members have come here tonight to express their concern about local government functions they should be prepared to listen for as long as the argument has to be forced upon the Government. Or is their concern synthetic? If their concern is synthetic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-19a.843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "We have a situation in which production is rising, unemployment is falling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No Sir, certainly not.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot guarantee that, for the simple reason that the scheme is carried out by the local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot guarantee that, for the simple reason that the scheme is carried out by the local authorities—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".]—and what the increases and rebates are will depend on the circumstances in each local authority.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.904.0", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHOOL-AGE RECRUITS (EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As my hon. and gallant Friend will be aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.909.7", "colnum": "909", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "On the first question, I must say to the right hon. Gentleman that the timetable Motion under which the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Bill was taken provided a supplementary Motion on this stage as on previous stages, and that will be the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.909.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "One week I am accused of not putting on enough Scottish business and the next week it is said that there is too much. But I take the right hon. Gentleman's point, and will consider it. However, I think that having reached this stage of this important Bill, a Bill about which there is not an undue amount of controversy, as the right hon. Gentleman says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 200", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Under the Clause 101 procedure, up till April, 1974, the terms of an agency agreement can be approved and agreed by the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.1095.7", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " in the knowledge that local government reform in Wales is a package deal. If others are to move to seek independence for their local authority, it is legitimate that I briefly make my case. For some years there has been an omnibus debate over local government reform in Wales. I would hazard a guess that not even an alliance of, for instance, King Solomon and the most respected Mr. Victor Feather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.1095.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "e only 180 are bilingual. In the words of a director of education to the Secretary of State: There is a real anxiety on the part of teachers in the south of the county that if Pembrokeshire is joined to what they regard as a massive 'Welsh' authority their job and career prospects will be seriously jeopardised and that they will be in danger of being driven out from south Pembrokeshire altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.1102.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elystan Morgan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elystan Morgan", "preceding_text": "area of land bounded by the Dovey Estuary, the Plynlimmon range and the Teifi to the south was a distinctive community in the fifth century, long before the warring tribes of Wales had coalesced and federalised into a Welsh Nation. Cardiganshire is older than Wales, and I say with great respect but with great pride, it is far older than the House of Commons. That is not merely an emotional appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.1116.7", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (DETAINED BRITISH SUBJECTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ck, suddenly it would be found possible to rouse the western world and mobilise force for the release of the detainees. Within weeks rather than months they would be free. If that is so—and I have not found anybody to argue the contrary—we could have found ways and means to release them 10 years ago. It also means that the reasons why the Government are inactive is the colour of the men in prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.1116.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-20", "file": "debates1972-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c4cd95f0d9f43aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.1116.7", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (DETAINED BRITISH SUBJECTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": " to reach a settlement with Mr. Smith? Above all, can detainees have the slightest shred of confidence left in Her Majesty's Government when, far from it being apparent that the Government are interested in procuring freedom for those untried men who have stood against the act of treason and against the illegal régime, it seems that the Government are conniving in their continued detention?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-20a.1116.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-21", "file": "debates1972-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ab6d5b974351560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynoro Jones", "preceding_text": "ngs in the county. Carmarthenshire, too, has a long historical tradition. For instance the first Charter to Carmarthen was granted in 1227 at the time of Henry III and to Kidwelly in the time of Henry I. In addition Carmarthen is one of four remaining boroughs that are counties in themselves. The people of Carmarthen will lose the Admiral of the River Towy. I did not know such a man existed until—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1132.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-21", "file": "debates1972-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ab6d5b974351560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1152.2", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Roberts", "preceding_text": "I assure the right hon. Gentleman that he is completely wrong when he attaches any substance to the words spoken on that occasion by the ex-Lord Mayor of Cardiff. Indeed, I am fully aware of what happened on that occasion. It was a rather pleasant function. We were present at the opening of a school. I said then to this ex-Lord Mayor of Cardiff—and this is important, as the matter has been raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-21", "file": "debates1972-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ab6d5b974351560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Both the right hon. and learned Gentleman and I made it clear beyond a pre-adventure that the capital status of Cardiff was never in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-21", "file": "debates1972-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ab6d5b974351560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I gave way to the hon. Gentleman who referred to Merthyr. In my consultations with authorities in respect of my proposals, it was quite clear from the submissions I had from Merthyr that there would be real dissension and a lack of common interest if Merthyr and the heads of the valleys were to be joined with Cardiff. This was part of the reason why I had to consider my original proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-21", "file": "debates1972-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ab6d5b974351560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "n my consultations with authorities in respect of my proposals, it was quite clear from the submissions I had from Merthyr that there would be real dissension and a lack of common interest if Merthyr and the heads of the valleys were to be joined with Cardiff. This was part of the reason why I had to consider my original proposals—[Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"]—and the evidence which came from Cardiff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1209.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-21", "file": "debates1972-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ab6d5b974351560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1210.7", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "uthority, and it was firmly upheld by Cardiff. I came to the conclusion, therefore, that it was only right that there should be a change. I had told the Welsh Grand Committee that I would consider the submissions made to me by the City of Cardiff, which represented a very large number of people. I concluded that after all the information I had gathered this was the proper, right and fair solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1210.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-21", "file": "debates1972-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ab6d5b974351560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1210.10", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "But the insinuation was there. The right hon. and learned Gentleman was far from speaking the truth, and he knows that he was deliberately misleading. It was a twist. I am addressing those who have been twisters about local government in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1210.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-21", "file": "debates1972-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ab6d5b974351560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1212.0", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "a Royal Commission, but based on the Secretary of State's own political judgment, will leave a dishonourable record that will follow him as slime follows when dirty work is under way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-21", "file": "debates1972-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ab6d5b974351560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1251.2", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " I will not quote from those documents as I wish to save time. Nevertheless, those documents clearly show that the only circumstance in which Swansea was willing to contemplate the addition to it of the whole of the Gower RDC was when the alternative available to it was to be given only part of the Gower RDC. I will cut out a section of the speech I intended to devote to that documentary evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-21", "file": "debates1972-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ab6d5b974351560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1253.4", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "preceding_text": "he purpose of this proposal to merge the whole of the Gower rural area into Swansea and to unite two areas in West Glamorgan No. 1 area is to try to effect a cleavage in the natural affinity and unity of interest between Llwchwr, Pontardawe and Gower Rural District, and the Secretary of State, who is hiding in a corner, knows that to be true. These three areas have a natural sense of partnership.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-21a.1253.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-24", "file": "debates1972-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "aae57200ea4c122b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-24a.1302.4", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I must repeat that this organisation as such is not a terrorist organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-24a.1302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-24", "file": "debates1972-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "aae57200ea4c122b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-24a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Or Rhodesia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": " He was warned then, but instead of his heeding the warnings we have had the no-go areas acknowledged and kept; the lowering of profile, which gives a free had to the IRA; the internees released to reinforce the IRA; and negotiations with the IRA. Negotiations with men who are dedicated to violence are just as futile and just as mischievous whether they take place at Berchtesgaden or Cheyne Walk.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-24a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-24", "file": "debates1972-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "aae57200ea4c122b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-24a.1480.0", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "her job to look after an elderly father in his eighties. The Under-secretary tried to deal with the Amendment sympathetically, but this is a problem which remains basically unsolved in 1972. I wish that the last part of the speech of the hon. Member for King's Lynn had not been permeated by what I think was clearly an unconscious reaction, a feeling of dislike, towards members of the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-24a.1480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1518.2", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I have repeatedly said that although some right hon. and hon. Gentlemen have had experience of a statutory policy and tramped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1518.2", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "t although some right hon. and hon. Gentlemen have had experience of a statutory policy and tramped—[Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"] I will come to the question—through the Lobbies night after night in support of such a policy, we know that this is not the answer to the problems which we face. We believe that the right answer is to work together, the two sides of industry and the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is Barbara?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "uld not have been easy even without the committals to prison. Fears and suspicions die hard on the waterfront. But now the conference must take its decisions against a background of the fiercest anger and blazing resentment that the docks have ever known. There opposite me sit the men responsible. The Solicitor-General is, I think, shyly sitting at the end of the Front Bench, but he is there, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " a creation of their design, the Industrial Relations Act, and the Industrial Relations Court, which because of the law that court has to administer is rapidly proving the most irrelevant and expensive judicial bauble in history. The Government sit there in the face of the crisis they have created, unable to act, paralysed, immobilised, impotent, politically and morally bankrupt in this situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "t in the face of a national crisis—and that is where the Government are today. This Government, by the nature of the legislation they forced through the House, have rendered themselves ineffective and powerless to act. They are now the prisoners of their own law, like a bench of right hon. Frankensteins ruefully contemplating the damage and devastation caused by the legal monstrosity they created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "n Radio 4 whining about it and blaming everyone but himself, like the Secretary of State for Employment last night. The Government talk about the law. Not everyone will like this, but my right hon. Friends and I have repeated many times—I said it publicly before the first ill-fated reference to the court by the Secretary of State for Employment—that the law must be obeyed, even manifestly bad law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "nifestly bad law. [ Interruption. ] I said it on television. I have said it throughout. But there is an implication here. Bad law must be changed. That is why we have made it clear that we shall immediately repeal the Act, if the Government have not themselves been forced through a short repeal Bill to slit the throat of their own legislative progeny. For side by side with compliance with the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"So have we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ave said it throughout. But there is an implication here. Bad law must be changed. That is why we have made it clear that we shall immediately repeal the Act, if the Government have not themselves been forced through a short repeal Bill to slit the throat of their own legislative progeny. For side by side with compliance with the law—[ Interruption. ] I want to be brief, but I have plenty of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "in on television last night and heard his wisdom, his humanity, his hard-headed realism, and his respect for the law that has been debased by the Government's Act would regret that even at this late stage the Government did not take that advice. Yet this afternoon the Prime Minister sneered at Lord Devlin as he and other Ministers at the time sneered at the Devlin Report on the Nyasaland massacre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1539.0", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1539.3", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am quoting the decision of the Government to bring industrial relations into court. It is a political matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1539.3", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am quoting the decision of the Government to bring industrial relations into court. It is a political matter. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members want to support the National Front, that is up to them. We do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1539.3", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am quoting the decision of the Government to bring industrial relations into court. It is a political matter. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members want to support the National Front, that is up to them. We do not. [ Interruption. ] I am quoting from Lord Devlin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1539.3", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "tion. ] If hon. Members want to support the National Front, that is up to them. We do not. [ Interruption. ] I am quoting from Lord Devlin. [Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"] I am answering the question. I am quoting from Lord Devlin's view that in this matter the courts should not have the power of contempt. Obviously they should under the normal laws passed by the House. Lord Devlin went on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1540.2", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You have said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "into account. He should take into account the views of moderate leaders of the trade union movement. Whatever action the Government take now will be dangerously late. But to take no action at all is a prescription for national disaster. They give the impression in what they have said publicly that they see no way out unless the fairy queen from the Official Solicitor's office waves his wand again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1540.2", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Like you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "our help or to remain impaled on a hook of their own construction. I believe that where the Government have failed the Opposition have the duty, not to the Government but to the nation, to point the way for the Government to follow. There is only one way: this Act must go; and the Government must take the initiative. They must surely realise that the Act is dying anyway, dying on its own two feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1546.5", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have a great deal to say and it is a short debate. I am sorry, but I am unable to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1546.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1547.6", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. Those are the words of the court explaining why it made the order—that there should be a truce in the blacking of Midland Cold Storage. The court went on to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1547.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1547.6", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The court ordered a truce.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " registered dock workers who were members of the Transport Union or some union other than USDAW in place of USDAW workers. That is the situation which led up to this case. I believe that it is a situation which demands great attention. The court, because of that, ordered a truce. Is the House to say that the court which asked for a truce in that situation to enable a solution to be found is wrong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1547.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1547.6", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t ordered a truce.\"] It ordered a truce so that the matter could be investigated thoroughly and a solution found. It could be investigated by a committee, or the union and the employers, or by conciliation. All of those ways were available, and the court ordered a truce. But the men concerned were not willing to stand by a truce. They also rejected the constitutional processes of their own unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1547.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1550.3", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman has not addressed himself in any way at all. That is the issue which the court had to decide. Were these men to be allowed to opt out of the law of this country? The court decided \"No\". That is the issue on which the House has to express its opinion. If the Opposition divide the House tonight they will be doing so unequivocally in favour of being able to opt out of the rule of law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1551.3", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The court is there and the Act is there and the right hon. Gentleman should immediately tell the five workers that they should obey the court. The right hon. Gentleman is trying to say that this position has been brought about by the Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1551.3", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " dispute could have been obtained without the Industrial Relations Act ever having been in existence. Mr. Justice Megarry in the Chancery Court last week clearly expressed the view that these pickets would not have been entitled to any of the protection afforded by Sections 2 and 3 of the Trade Disputes Act, 1906, or by the Trade Disputes Act introduced and passed by the Labour Government in 1965.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1551.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1552.0", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the Torquay case?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on. ] Members cannot dispute that; I am stating the view of the court. Let us now take the position supposing the trade disputes protection had applied to the Midland Cold Storage disput. Trade union Members on the Opposition benches who have been concerned in these matters know perfectly well that the protection applied only to inducing or threatening to induce breaches of contract of employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1552.3", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In this dispute we are largely concerned not with contracts of employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1552.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1552.4", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "How many were obtained?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tracts of employment—[ Interruption. ] I would have thought that the House would want to debate this matter seriously. In this dispute we are largely concerned not with contracts of employment but with commercial contracts. In other words even under the old law, under the Liberal Party law of 1906 and under the Labour Party's law of 1965, injunctions could have been obtained against these pickets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1552.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1554.2", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who says that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ry different from what was being said elsewhere in his Party. But if right hon. Gentlemen are putting that doctrine forward—also put forward by the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn)—that people can choose the legislation which they are prepared to obey and the courts which they are prepared to accept, then it will not only be dockers who will take advantage of this new doctrine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ry argument for a former Law Officer of the Crown to put forward. I hope the right hon. and learned Gentleman is not saying that there was any justification for resisting these injunctions. There was no justification. This is a branch of the High Court set up under an Act of Parliament. I should have thought a former Law Officer would have been the first to make that clear to every trade unionist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " industrial practices of picketing and blacking started as attempts by trade unionists to counter the overwhelming power of employers. How different from their use in this case and similar cases today! We now see employers, who have no dispute with their work force, are on good terms with them and their elected trade union representatives, and are pursing a legitimate business in a legitimate way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.1", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They are men who use blacking and picketing to destroy that firm and the livelihood of its employees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.4", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rs wish to speak. Where else, in those circumstances, can the aggrieved go for redress? Knowing these facts, hon. Gentlemen opposite with a real knowledge of the trade unions must be sickened by the claptrap which they have now heard, comparing the five men who are now in prison in the circumstances which I have described to the men who were sentenced at Tolpuddle 150 years ago. What a comparison!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.4", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "aken from them by other people with greater power or cunning. It is the weak who would go to the wall, both employers and employees. It is the function of the law to protect the weak against the unfair use of power. It has been said that we are seeking a confrontation. We have heard much in industrial relations debates about confrontation. In the case of the five dockers, who was confronting whom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.4", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " whom? [ Interruption. ] As the right hon. Member for East Ham, North said in a moment of lucidity and honesty, for which he is now being reviled below the Gangway, these dockers had been trying to become martyrs for weeks. I give him full credit for publicly saying so. The House will recall the anger of the dockers when they found they were prevented from going to prison on the previous occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.4", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "se will recall the anger of the dockers when they found they were prevented from going to prison on the previous occasion. [ Interruption. ] Let us look at the real situation. The modernisation of the docks has created a grave social problem. It is a real problem which concerns Governments, unions and employees, and the courts have asked for a truce. It is a problem whose importance no one denies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.4", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eir behaviour. In recent weeks we have seen two different ways of approaching the problem. On the one hand, there is the Jones/Aldington Committee. Its results were announced yesterday. That Committee, on which employers and unions have been working together to tackle the real problem of the industry, produced a series of agreed conclusions which I believe will commend themselves to all concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.4", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "f agreed conclusions which I believe will commend themselves to all concerned. [ Interruption. ] Why did the right hon Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition not tell the dockers to have a truce whilst a solution was worked out? Let the right hon. Gentleman answer that. One of the Committee's conclusions involves financial assistance by the Government to supplement the measures which the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " happened to the first Labour Government. I shall now deal with the Jones-Aldington Committee. One of its conclusions involves financial assistance by the Government to supplement the measures which the industry will be taking and paying for. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment told the House yesterday, we are ready to give that assistance when normal working is resumed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have seldom heard a more despicable phrase from anybody who has held high office in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have seldom heard a more despicable phrase from anybody who has held high office in this country. [ Interruption. ] I am not going to be shouted down by anybody. The proposal of the Committee is that for a period of five months the maximum voluntary severance entitlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Bring back Reggie.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". [ Interruption. ] I am not going to be shouted down by anybody. The proposal of the Committee is that for a period of five months the maximum voluntary severance entitlement—[ Interruption. ] It is obvious that hon. Members opposite are not interested in the dockers in any way at all. The proposal is that the maximum voluntary severance entitlement for unfit registered dockers and those over 55—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ce entitlement—[ Interruption. ] It is obvious that hon. Members opposite are not interested in the dockers in any way at all. The proposal is that the maximum voluntary severance entitlement for unfit registered dockers and those over 55—[An Hon. Member: \"Bring back Reggie.\"]—should be increased from the present level of about £2,300 to £4,000, and the minimum for the unfit from £1,000 to £2,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What conciliation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rovement will be made the Government will meet the full cost of severance to those two categories of men. A Supplementary Estimate will be laid before the House in due course, and in the meantime, so that the scheme can start as soon as possible, recourse will be had to the Contingency Fund. That is one approach—through investigation, conciliation, persuasion and a joint effort by all con- cerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1562.4", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ll throw away the advantages and fall into the trap prepared for them by those who have provoked and engineered the present situation. There is a choice also for right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite. Let them be in no doubt about the meaning of their vote tonight. If they vote tonight they will be voting against finding solutions through conciliation in industrial relations. They will be voting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1562.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1563.2", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "n support of both. The first is that, whatever view one takes, the implications for the economy of the country and for our whole pattern of industrial relations are as grave as any industrial situation to have faced the country since the General Strike. The second is that no one who has been involved in these matters comes out of them well or wisely. I happen to be in a slightly different position", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1563.2", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "as been involved in these matters comes out of them well or wisely. I happen to be in a slightly different position [ Interruption. ] My colleagues and I voted for the Second Reading of the Industrial Relations Bill. Our reason for doing so was that we believed that there were certain aspects of the Bill which were valuable and which could help improve our industrial society. But we made it plain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1565.1", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "—and even when faced with the Donovan Report this Government were not prepared to change one comma or semi-colon in their draft legislation. It was pre-Donovan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1570.0", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": "He is dead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1570.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1574.0", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "s an appalling situation and adreadful commentary on what has gone on. The hon. Gentleman should do what he can to persuade his constituent to accept the suggestion I have made. I do not think anyone could sink lower than people who say that they will block any means of communicating with people who are in jail. I believe that these five unfortunate men who have got into jail through being misled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1573.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1574.5", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "uld be of co-operating with the Act, they would purge their contempt fairly quickly and that would be the end of the trouble. Over the last three months no fewer than 12 members of trade unions within my constituency have asked to see me privately. They know full well that I do not hold surgeries. I invariably meet people in their homes. These 12 union members have asked me to meet them privately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1574.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1579.3", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "ines upon the Transport and General Workers Union that the unions woke up to the fact that the court existed and that it was part of the law of the land and had to be obeyed. The Leader of the Opposition was pressed many times this afternoon and refused to answer. I pose the question again. Do the Opposition support the rule of law or do they support anarchy? That is the sole issue which faces us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1579.3", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "who have encouraged trade unionists to defy the law and not to register, with all the things which have happened as a result. The hon. Member for Barking (Mr. Driberg) is not present. My constituency happens to be next to his. I have many dockers in that constituency, and last Thursday and Friday I met deputations of them. They are very unhappy at the action being taken by their so-called leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1582.2", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "other. Hon. Members know me. I have been in industry for many years. We do not have problems in our company, because we have what I think is a fairly decent system of labour relations. It is possible for all of us to have this relationship. What we cannot have if the country is to prosper is the constant expression of two sides. We are not two sides. Those of us who work in a company are one team—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was a good one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "g when he referred to the seriousness of the situation. Of course it is serious, but one would not have gathered that from listening to the debate since 3.30. Why on earth were hon. Members on the Government side standing on their seats and waving their Order Papers? Who were they cheering? Were they cheering the fact that five men were in gaol? Were they cheering the speech of the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1629.3", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The hon. Gentleman was not there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's intervention is a typical example of what we had to put up with in Committee. An intervention became a speech, a speech became a tirade and a tirade became three or four hours of stultifying nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1647.3", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "c sector. It would be out of order to argue that matter at length tonight, but I should have thought that the merit that hon. Members opposite found when they introduced similar proposals for the private sector could be laudably extended to the public sector. My hon. Friend also pointed out that there are many other positive benefits in the rearrangement of subsidies, not least for slum clearance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1649.7", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member would not expect me to give a long string of examples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1649.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1654.0", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Idris Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Idris Owen", "preceding_text": "I have not received any complaints from the AMC or any other authority about the inadequacy of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1665.0", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "f, instead of sitting here until two o'clock in the morning to discuss the Bill, we were all to get into char bancs and tour the country and learn from the various local authorities the right hon. Gentleman mentioned how they will tackle housing reform. In spite of my intervention on Second Reading, which was designed entirely to get myself selected for the Committee, I did not have that pleasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "When this Bill was first announced, a long time ago, last year, following the preliminary announcement in 1970 that it was on the way, it was welcomed, so far as I can recall, wholeheartedly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1699.4", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "In the context of the Bill, I think it is perfectly clear that we would not take the initiative in proposing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1699.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1700.2", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I think the implication of the Bill is perfectly clear because it sets out categorically that it is for the local authority to propose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1700.2", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"He does not understand it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I think the implication of the Bill is perfectly clear because it sets out categorically that it is for the local authority to propose—[Hon. Members: \"No, it does not.\"]—a rent and for the rent scrutiny board either to accept it or disallow it. But in the period before the rent scrutiny board comes into operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1700.2", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "t.\"]—a rent and for the rent scrutiny board either to accept it or disallow it. But in the period before the rent scrutiny board comes into operation—[An Hon. Member: \"He does not understand it.\"]—the Department is prepared to give a provisional opinion, always subject, of course, to the final determination by the rent scrutiny board subsequent to receiving an application from the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1700.6", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "Of course, in theory it would be possible for us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1700.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1701.4", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the tenants?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "It seems to me perfectly clear that it is not practical for the Department of the Environment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1701.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1701.10", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "Any group is free to make representations to us—the right hon. Gentleman could make them—but I think it fair to say that the ones which we should regard as authoritative would be those coming from the elected local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1701.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-25", "file": "debates1972-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "e1f93066850f0ab4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1772.4", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Clause 41", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the House unanimously says that it wishes me to go back on what has already been done by the House, it can be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-25a.1772.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-26", "file": "debates1972-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "af556d6b1a06b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1811.5", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mr. Hastings)was a leading member of the Cublington lobby and his solicitude for the development of Maplin may not be entirely disinterested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-26", "file": "debates1972-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "af556d6b1a06b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1847.1", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " after that, and the following year. All this could have been forseen. We could have had a reasonable argument in reasonable time. But it is twenty minutes to five and we have to finish dealing with all the Amendments by eight o'clock. The Secretary of State thinks that this is reasonable. He was boasting about it, and the benefits of the Bill, at a garden fete somewhere in Scotland last weekend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-26", "file": "debates1972-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "af556d6b1a06b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1860.0", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "h will be needed to ensure that the will of Parliament in housing matters is carried out. The right hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) did not dispute that there was a need for default powers. Indeed, he could not dispute it, because he had ample opportunity to exercise all the default powers from housing legislation during the seven happy years that he was Secretary of State. But he never did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-26", "file": "debates1972-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "af556d6b1a06b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1874.0", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "f State had better get it into his head that he will have to think in terms of applying this provision to the realities of the political situation. We have already gone over the reasons why we have to have default powers. My right hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) and my hon. Friend the Member for Greenock (Dr. Dickson Mabon) have dealt with the general acceptance of default powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-26", "file": "debates1972-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "af556d6b1a06b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1880.6", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I have indeed. I think it is right. In any case, why are the hon. Members for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Galbraith) and Glasgow, Cathcart so worried? If there is so much merit and good in the Bill, why should they object to a bit of propaganda against it? At least it is factual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1880.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-26", "file": "debates1972-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "af556d6b1a06b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1899.5", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": ". Member for Provan raised rather an important question, the resignation of the Chairman of the SSHA. Since the Chairman became the treasurer of Glasgow Corporation I had realised that he might feel it necessary to resign because he might not find the two appointments running together compatible. But he did not do so for some months, and suddenly the other day he decided to submit his resignation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1899.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-26", "file": "debates1972-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "af556d6b1a06b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1902.0", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "of those local authority areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1902.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-26", "file": "debates1972-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "af556d6b1a06b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1949.0", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARBOURS DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "It would be extremely dangerous to attempt to patronise my right hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross), but I think he will accept from me that he made an excellent speech. As on many other occasions, my right hon. Friend revealed what many of us do not see at first sight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-26a.1949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2040.5", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "May I, too, thank my right hon. Friend for the action he proposes to take? Does he agree that there must be rather more surveillance of this organisation than of normal organisations because it must not have a safe base from which it can be allowed to commit any organised crimes outside this country? I know that the Government cannot get the Official Solicitor to do anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2040.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2059.2", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I am glad to say that the number of folk who can get houses is going up.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2059.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2078.2", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "If I were to disagree with my hon. and learned Friend, I am sure that he would be deeply surprised and very shocked. I certainly do not disagree with him. I have never made any bones of my belief that public ownership applied to great industries like the railways is a fiasco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2078.4", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is different.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "It does not lead to anything of the kind the hon. Gentleman suggested. All I am suggesting is that public ownership has not been proven to be a very great success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2078.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2079.1", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is not what the Minister said before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the undertaking for which the right hon. Gentleman asks is necessary. Of course I can give it in any event. All I said just now was that, looking at it from a national point of view, I find the addiction of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2079.1", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the undertaking for which the right hon. Gentleman asks is necessary. Of course I can give it in any event. All I said just now was that, looking at it from a national point of view, I find the addiction of the Labour Party—[Hon. Members: \"That is not what the Minister said before.\"] It is what I am saying now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2084.3", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "No. We have already lost half-an-hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I do not need to do that, because I and others in Scotland have spent many months doing everything we could to encourage Scottish firms to take part in the exercise. I have heard in recent weeks from those closest to industry that some firms in Scotland have taken great initiatives in this matter, and many more are investigating and finding opportunities in the new industry.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "#x00F4;le in encouraging new North Sea oil developments. Yet their attitude to the Bill when it was before the House was incredible. It being a party which ostensibly appears to recognise that North Sea oil could mean valuable new jobs for Scotland, it was astonishing to see some hon. Members opposite apparently intent upon holding up the pasage of the Bill with every kind of improbable objection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2102.1", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, the licences already place conditions about the speed of exploration. In future licences, should it be necessary, we can control the extraction of the oil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2103.1", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "he plan is to modernise the industry so that it will emerge strong and more efficient. Modernisation must mean reduction in jobs per unit of output. The British Steel Corporation has made known its estimate that its present programme will mean a reduction, but not starting for some time, of between 6,500 and 7,500 job opportunities. That is not redundancies; it is a reduction of job opportunities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2105.0", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "bout basing points and that a number of jobs—about the number which the hon. Gentleman has mentioned—are involved. My hon. Friend intends to deal with this subject when he winds up the debate. I turn to the question of Hunterston. I do not need to tell the House about the advantages offered by the Hunterston peninsula, with its immediate access to deep water for industrial development. It is over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2132.1", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "preceding_text": " have a situation of full employment we shall head for a very dangerous social situation. For in Scotland we are not missing full employment by a hair's breadth, or by one small decimal point on the unemployment scale; we are missing full employment by a massive figure indeed. I regard the Government's policy as a deliberate one not to reduce the high level of unemployment by a substantial figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2132.1", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "preceding_text": "rowth of jobs based on oil control is the Government's major hope substantially to reduce Scottish unemployment and to improve the position. Time is running out for the Government. Let them make no mistake about it; the situation is desperate. If they cannot concede to us the right to work we in Scotland will have to embark upon measures that enable us to take the right to work into our own hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2154.1", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "development companies. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Gorbals (Mr. McElhone) referred to Sir William McEwan Younger. We all know that he wished the Government to go very much further in applying conditions. I am glad that he did. It is extremely healthy that in the Tory Party we can have conflicting ideas which do not have the murderous results that we see among right hon. and hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2190.1", "colnum": "2190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "he whole of our industry which uses steel will suffer a penalty that can destroy it. I recognise that modern methods make it more difficult to replace jobs in manufacturing industry with jobs in similar industries. The hon. Member for Craigton, when he was criticising our regional policy, made the remarkable assertion that too much regional assistance was directed to the manufacturing industries —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-27", "file": "debates1972-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "7eeef96a1a48042a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2193.3", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "ve a real demand for oil, we also have many oil companies and many world interests in oil exploration and exploitation. I should like to have dealt with the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, East (Sir J. Gilmour) in a constructive speech. My hon. Friend referred to getting energy supplies more cheaply, but that is a matter which I cannot condense in the few moments which are left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-27a.2193.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2250.1", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Who will reply from the Government Front Bench? They are not competent to reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2273.3", "colnum": "2273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Fletcher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member:\"Hot air.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Fletcher", "preceding_text": "e other Ministers concerned with making pronouncements about the Bill when it becomes an Act. My second point is very minor and it may give rise to the usual hilarity which occurs when I get on to one of my favourite subjects. I narrow my remarks to one word in new Clause 7—\"ships\" It is not unknown to the House that I have an interest to declare in an old form of transport which is being revived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2273.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2279.3", "colnum": "2279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Anthony Grant)", "preceding_text": "complaint, a very wide-ranging debate, and I shall do my best to answer all the various points that have been raised. But I first want to express my personal regret, and I am sure the regret of my hon. Friends, at the illness of the hon. Member for Barrow-in-Furness (Mr. Booth). We know what a valuable and active part he played in Committee, and we all wish him a very speedy return to good health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2307.2", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "New Clause 2 is very simple and straightforward and the Minister could have short-circuited the debate by saying \"I accept it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2328.1", "colnum": "2328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to give a categorical answer to my hon. Friend on that matter. I do not see that there is vast significance in that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2336.1", "colnum": "2336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ou go on with Upper Clyde and all those policies.\" Why does the House think that the Jones-Aldington Report has been produced on the dot? It was because the pressure of the people affected by unemployment produced a change of policy. I go further. Why does the House think that the Labour Government changed their minds on many matters, other than because they tried to learn from their own mistakes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2336.1", "colnum": "2336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "r. Why does the House think that the Labour Government changed their minds on many matters, other than because they tried to learn from their own mistakes? [ Laughter. ] I warn the House not to giggle at the idea that we in this place are subject to pressure to which we try to respond in the development of our policy. If the House laughs at the idea that Ministers may listen to their constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2360.0", "colnum": "2360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "xposed some misconceptions about the purpose of the Bill and the nature of the incentives available. He supported the argument of my hon. Friend the Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne) that it is impossible for Governments by any incentive to induce businessmen to invest. I have great respect for my hon. Friend's views on these matters and know that they are based on a good deal of thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2410.3", "colnum": "2410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "nt as it could probably have been better considered under the earlier group of Amendments relating to the EEC. I only make the point that we are not alone in having to consider how the Government can give aid, whether the Government should give aid and whether in so doing a Government become Socialist in their application of policies. Labour hon. Members, and there are few enough of them here now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2415.4", "colnum": "2415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "d research and development—as is happening in British industry today—one sees other nations such as Japan moving ahead fast. Are the Government to sit back saying, \"We are clinging to the old shibboleths. We are great old Tories\"? The great advantage of the Conservative Party is that we never are great old Tories when it comes to the crunch. We have always been a party capable of accepting change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2415.4", "colnum": "2415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": " other nations such as Japan moving ahead fast. Are the Government to sit back saying, \"We are clinging to the old shibboleths. We are great old Tories\"? The great advantage of the Conservative Party is that we never are great old Tories when it comes to the crunch. We have always been a party capable of accepting change. [ Interruption. ] My hon. Friends are obviously tired of what I have to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2418.4", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "It will probably be for the convenience of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2418.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2418.6", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " prefer my right hon. Friend to say that whilst advising the rejection of new Clause 8 he intends, either here or in another place to write Amendments Nos. 13 and 20 into the Bill. I should not quibble whether such Amendment came from the Opposition or from the Government. It is an issue of major significance and the House should not delude itself otherwise. I now turn to Amendments Nos. 24 and 25", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2418.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-07-28", "file": "debates1972-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b745a65925d09dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2442.4", "colnum": "2442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Mr. E. L. Mallalieu)", "preceding_text": "Is it your pleasure that the new Clause be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-28a.2442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "preceding_text": "his statement about there being no military solution, for that is what I and a number of others have been trying to establish for a long time, but will he accept that I—I can only speak personally—see this exercise today as attempting to impose a military solution? I think that, because of pressure from Northern Ireland and from hon. Members on the Government benches behind the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What statement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House will agree with the hon. Gentleman in his tribute to the troops, and I think that it will agree also about the need for an end to all no-go areas in Northern Ireland, whoever may be behind them. That is one of the purposes of the whole operation. I note the hon. Gentleman's views about the Border. I have not seen the statement to which he refers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "f arms? Does the Minister recall that in the debate on 6th April last year we raised float this Front Bench the question whether there should not be an almost total ban on arms in Northern Ireland, that all existing gun licences should be withdrawn and that there should be mandatory prison sentences for anyone caught with guns in his possession, whatever section of the community he may come from?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I shall he dealing with all these points in a few minutes. I am trying now to deal with the whole question of the order, leaving out proportional representation for the moment. I shall come to the specific point in three or four minutes if I am not interrupted further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I shall he dealing with all these points in a few minutes. I am trying now to deal with the whole question of the order, leaving out proportional representation for the moment. I shall come to the specific point in three or four minutes if I am not interrupted further. [Interruption] There is plenty of time, but a number of hon. Members wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.50.4", "colnum": "50", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ne with that in Great Britain, where no deposits at local elections are required. Following strong objections in Parliament and from local authorities, the then Northern Ireland Government introduced in Committee an amending Clause providing for the £15 deposit. This was accepted on a Division. Some hon. Members of this House took another view, but, fortunately, they are not with us at the minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.50.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.58.4", "colnum": "58", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it would be very fruitful for me to go into the histories and controversies of the past. I know the views of the hon. Member, and no doubt other hon. Members have different views about this. I note what the hon. Member said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.58.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.58.4", "colnum": "58", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "rd of any substantial objections of any kind to its introduction at present from the political parties. It entails certain complications which I ought to explain to the House. The first is that the boundaries have already been drawn on the basis of a singleward. They must not be grouped into suitable electoral areas. If the House is agreeable and passes this order and it becomes law in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.58.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.58.4", "colnum": "58", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "s have already been drawn on the basis of a singleward. They must not be grouped into suitable electoral areas. If the House is agreeable and passes this order and it becomes law in due course— [Interruption.] —on Friday, I hope it will then be put up to the Chief Electoral Officer as soon as he has been appointed to undertake the task of grouping single member wards into suitable electoral areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.58.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "nd. I think that the introduction of proportional representation for these elections will, under the very special circumstances that exist in Northern Ireland, be of interest and value. They have been pressed upon us from many quarters. A number of hon. Members were anxious to have proportional representation for these local elections. Many people in Northern Ireland have also expressed this view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I am interested in his views on the referendum. I understood that until fairly recently his party was in favour of the plebiscite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "y has said that the plebiscite should take place before the local government elections. The Alliance Party has said the same. So have other parties. As the hon. Member for Belfast, South (Mr. Pounder) has said, if we do not have the plebiscite before the district council elections, those elections will be turned into a plebiscite, which is the very thing that the House says that it wants to avoid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I ask only for the right of self-defence for people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.164.6", "colnum": "164", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "As I was saying a few moments ago, the order deals with the reorganisation of the health and personal social services and many other matters. The reorganisation of local government in Northern Ireland also meant that a new base had to be found for the personal social services at present provided by local welfare authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.164.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-07-31", "file": "debates1972-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "fb0d83b4b0f816ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.198.6", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "ance. It seemed doubtful, however, whether all these establishments would be so covered and the Under-Secretary promised to look at the matter again and, if necessary, see that the change was made on Report. As the hon. Gentleman will recollect, it was my hon. Friend the Member for Barrow-in-Furness (Mr. Booth) who was particularly interested in the point, but he is not able to be with us tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-07-31a.198.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.333.5", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, they did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " of the Opposition have always argued that conciliation was the answer to our industrial relations problems? Therefore, in cheering his hon. Friend, we would hope that in future the advice of his hon. Friend will be accepted and acted upon by the Government. Is the right hon. Gentleman also aware that in voting for a national strike the dockers' committee did not reject the Jones/Aldington Report?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.333.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.333.5", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ted upon by the Government. Is the right hon. Gentleman also aware that in voting for a national strike the dockers' committee did not reject the Jones/Aldington Report? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, they did.\"] No, they did not. What the dockers did was to accept most of the report, but they felt that it had to be strengthened. It is that aspect which is of the utmost importance in getting a settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.333.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.338.6", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "One of the problems is that we shall not be able to provide detailed figures of the results of references to tribunals until the end of the year since these records have become computerised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.338.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "In view of the remarkable figures which my right hon. Friend has given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Repeat the figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "In view of the remarkable figures which my right hon. Friend has given—[ Interruption. ]—of the use which is being made of the Act by individual trade unionists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "In view of the remarkable figures which my right hon. Friend has given—[ Interruption. ]—of the use which is being made of the Act by individual trade unionists—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Repeat the figures.\"]—over 2,500 in so short a time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.346.4", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will recall that despite his own screaming and shouting I was quoting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.346.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (PRINTING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Turn round.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Gentleman the cause of this strike? Am I right in thinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reg Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reg Prentice", "preceding_text": "rge him to consider it in the context of the last 10 days. We had been on the verge of a national dock strike for some months. It had twice been called and twice postponed by the national delegate conference. The Jones-Aldington Committee got to work with considerable skill and speed. Three days before its report was available, five men were sent to gaol and the docks were brought to a standstill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "y plain, first, that Midland Cold Storage did not rush into industrial action. It took a long time to get as far as that. Secondly, no one can deny that the law is open to all, large and small. Any variation on that principle cannot be defended. It is not the Industrial Relations Act that is creating the present difficulties. I do not believe that most trade union members want to be above the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ust be within the framework of the law, based on the principle that no individual and no organisation, however important or however powerful, whether of employers or of workpeople, can be above the law or can seek to take from this House the power to decide what laws shall be made or to take from the courts the power to enforce the law. It is this principle that the Opposition are seeking to deny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "ce in that, and I hope the Government will examine it. Equally, there is a great deal to be said for examining the possibility of removing from the Court the power to send individuals to gaol for contempt of its orders. I believe that the five dockers wanted to go to gaol, and the last thing in the world I should have done was to give them what they wanted. I should have found some other sanction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "t is acceptable to some and unpalatable to others. However, whatever its qualities and whatever its faults, it is now an integral part of our law and subject to the possibility of repeal or revision. Accordingly it is difficult to credit the weekend statement of Mr. Victor Feather when he said: But we do not accept that this Act is the law of the land. That statement is reported in the newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with our internal law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.412.2", "colnum": "412", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "No Minister in his right senses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Heston and Isleworth dealt with the point about the miners' strike and quoted the Committee's report on that point, which satisfactorily established that 10 million of the 14 million days lost was attributable to the miners' strike and the committee found that the main cause of the miners' strike was the pent-up hostility and their falling position in the wages structure in the years 1965 to 1970.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "d at its worst in consecutive speeches. When my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) was speaking the House listened with rapt attention, because it was listening to a man who understood his subject. The intervention by the hon. Member for Bridgwater (Mr. Tom King) was a classic example of a person contributing to a dangerous situation about which he knew very little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "of the court. We all understand the fear which arises when a person or a group of persons are in danger of losing their jobs, but I believe, and many people in this country believe, that in the present dispute that fear is being played upon and inflated by others who are more interested in the political aspects of the dispute than the purely trade union interests in it. Communism is like a cancer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.460.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.460.4", "colnum": "460", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "No, I will not, because time presses on. I am about to finish. This strike has political undertones and overtones. It is being led by Communist leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " confirming the original view of what is in the Act. That decision presents trade union leaders with a dilemma. Either they must reject the Act, in which case they will run the risk of their finances being sequestrated, or they must abide by the Act, in which case they will have to take steps, as many of them believe, to disrupt their unions. They will have to act as policemen in their own unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.467.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ure for a different and more orderly system of handling industrial disputes. He went on to say: What the courts have made plain—and this is not in dispute \"— although it happened to be the matter that was just going to the Court of Appeal— is that the trade unions do have a responsibility for actions which are carried out with their authority and which are unfair practices as the Act defines them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then have an election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) has invited my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to appeal to the country for the verdict of the people. The Government, and my right hon. Friend as their leader, already have the verdict of the people in their favour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": " ruling that was designed to do no more than maintain a truce, to maintain the peace, to preserve the jobs which were being threatened by the men who used that action, and they were doing it to imperil the jobs of other people instead of waiting for the properly-established procedures. No one on this side of the House is unaware of the social problems underlying technological and economic change.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "e.—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Gentlemen may wave their hands about, but they have not listened to some of the speeches made by my hon. Friends underlying this very point. Having fought in my home town in South Wales two successive elections, having represented a constituency on Merseyside confronted by the problems of the docks, and having seen over many years the social problems of London's dockland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": " face. The original concept of trade unionism as a means whereby the weak should band together, which is still a more than legitimate objective, has been fashioned by some people, in circumstances where they ought not to be free to do so, into a blunt instrument of industrial force; into a philosophy of \"Us out—you in!\"; into a philosophy of people who approach these matters politically motivated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "] It has been done in a spirit not of rescuing employment but of wrecking employment for their colleagues as well as for themselves. What is more important is that all this time great corporations—which is what the trade unions are and have long been recognised to be—powerful corporations—have been wielding growing power with no pattern of responsibility or accountability to the nation as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "the Council said when he introduced the Industrial Relations Bill, liberty in too many places can turn to licence. Many people in the nightly vigil watching their television screens have seen the situation turn even worse, and they have been deeply anxious at what they have seen. In face of this situation the former Member for Southwark after the Industrial Relations Bill was first published said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " years of consideration, analysis and comparative study of everything put forward by the Opposition and the Donovan Report. It is an Act—the Opposition are always unwilling to acknowledge this—which confers massive rights as well as responsibilities on trade unions and their members. It is an Act intended to be applied and it is now being applied, like any other law, by a court wholly independent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "rs are made here, in the Palace of Westminster, by the House of Commons, and no individual, no group, no corporation, however powerful, is entitled to set them aside or to ignore them. Yet if we examine the attitude adopted, unhappily, in public by leaders of the trade union movement, we see so far no cause for hope. The leaders of the trade union movement have got to learn to live with democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "SEA FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "preceding_text": "mbrella of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Therefore, while we agree that this is a right step, there is still uncertainty. The second order outlines a scheme for operating subsidies for the next 12 months. This will apply to inshore white fish vessels under 80 ft. in length and all herring vessels. As my hon. Friends who speak for various sections of the industry who are present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "SEA FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "e period 20th August to 30th September, 1972\". As the Ministry rightly said, prohibition is a conservation measure designed to protect and assist in re-establishing spawning stock in the central North Sea. Conservation is a problem. We could have a problem of over-fishing in our inshore fishing areas. The Minister mentioned the question of Europe. I do not want to reopen the argument about Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "SEA FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "s been honest in the past about this. It was in a debate on orders concerning the fishing industry that he enunciated his basic philosophy when he said that he hoped the time would come when there would be an end to all subsidies, both in fisheries and agriculture. He said that the time had come when prices should rise, because the British people had been mollycoddled for too long with cheap food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-01", "file": "debates1972-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "855ee36819f97d0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.513.4", "colnum": "513", "heading": "SEA FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "fishermen, in the fact that this return has been based on the price of fish rather than on an increased production. The fishermen are holy people—they believe in what they are doing. They would rather the return came from producing increased food for the country than from over-charging. Incidentally, I wish the right hon. Gentleman would control his very attractive Parliamentary Private Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-01a.513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-02", "file": "debates1972-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a6264a9f2bb9484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I draw your attention to the fact that despite your efforts to speed up Scottish Question Time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-02", "file": "debates1972-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a6264a9f2bb9484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (WIDOWS' PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Navy (Mr. Peter Kirk)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Navy (Mr. Peter Kirk)", "preceding_text": "had to be bought by additional contributions in respect of previous as well as future service. One could argue endlessly about whether Civil Service widows are more or less deserving than Forces' widows, but I do not think that that has a bearing on the question of the extension of entitlement and the question of the qualifying date. I know that again I have disappointed the House on this problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-02", "file": "debates1972-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a6264a9f2bb9484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "NORTH SEA OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ir business in the United Kingdom. We can do that only if the Government create the background for British firms to compete successfully against other industries in the world. Only by getting the oil companies, and those contracting to it, to work with British industry as they have done in the past and as they are doing now, and by getting the right co-operation from industry and the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.635.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-02", "file": "debates1972-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a6264a9f2bb9484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "preceding_text": "g on to the unemployment register for a brief time. Seasonally adjusted figures were all very well when the seasons behaved as they had traditionally behaved. But in 1971 and 1972 they have not behaved in that way. That is the frightening feature of unemployment in Wales. We should not be adjusting the figures seasonally because the sad fact is that a large number of school leavers and graduates —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-02", "file": "debates1972-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a6264a9f2bb9484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (WALES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mr. David Gibson-Watt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mr. David Gibson-Watt)", "preceding_text": " like them, wish to see the employment situation improved. However, I must take issue with some of the reasoning and with most of the critical comments we have heard from the Opposition tonight. I cannot share the gloom and pessimism which some hon. Members opposite, with the notable exception of the hon. Member for Pontypridd, sought to spread. I said at the close of our debate earlier this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-02", "file": "debates1972-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a6264a9f2bb9484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "per cent. After 1966 the overall level rose sharply. This was of course as a result of the Government's policy. There was very slow growth—indeed, stagnation —and heavy inflation. Criticism of the present levels of unemployment must be levelled at the policies of the past. Employment trends cannot be changed in a week or two, but require a long period of planning and substantial changes in policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-02", "file": "debates1972-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a6264a9f2bb9484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.770.5", "colnum": "770", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "hough the importance of the subject cannot be overestimated, I hope that the hon. Gentleman will allow me to continue. One of the figures which the hon. Gentleman did not give to the House, regarding his own area of Merthyr Tydvil, was unemployment among young persons, a matter of the greatest importance, which between July, 1971, and July, 1972, decreased by 26·5 per cent. from 147 to 108—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-02", "file": "debates1972-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a6264a9f2bb9484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "ustry which hon. Members have in general been referring to tonight. The market towns depend to a large extent on the prosperity of agriculture. Anyone with any knowledge of farming since the war will know that farmers have benefited greatly from two good price reviews and a special injection of money in the autumn of 1970. We found farming in an unhappy state two years ago when we carne to office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-02", "file": "debates1972-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a6264a9f2bb9484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT (SECTION 22)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "ecause the Act is there. As to what is fair and unfair, as this becomes a little more widely realised, we may then, I suppose, expect some reduction—I do not mean to be offensive, but I use the term for want of other words—in the \"try-on\" cases. I do not think that the hon. and learned Gentleman is suggesting that conciliation officers have been acting harshly in cases before they go to tribunals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-02a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-03", "file": "debates1972-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "027dc320ae5c2797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"leave it there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I note what my hon. Friend says. As to the rest of the United Kingdom, the House must have regard to the perfectly clear assurances which have been given by Governments of both parties and which form the basis of the constitutional position on which Northern Ireland stands today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-03", "file": "debates1972-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "027dc320ae5c2797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.952.6", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister realise that this is an affront to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.952.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-03", "file": "debates1972-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "027dc320ae5c2797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.958.4", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear that the decision of the TUC and CBI in making such an agreement indicates that not only the TUC but also the employers' organisation are not in favour of the continuation of the Industrial Relations Act?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.958.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-03", "file": "debates1972-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "027dc320ae5c2797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": " black marketeering and rising prices, is the right hon. Gentleman aware that his right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has time and again demonstrated that he would not recognise a food price rise if he saw one? Is there not grave danger that if there is a rise in prices and malevolent people try to attribute this to the dockers, that can only exacerbate the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-03", "file": "debates1972-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "027dc320ae5c2797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "preceding_text": "I am not an agricultural expert by any means and would bow to the greater knowledge of the Minister of Agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-03", "file": "debates1972-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "027dc320ae5c2797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwynoro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynoro Jones", "preceding_text": "ll feel that they do not matter and that decisions may be taken without their control or without their being asked for their opinion. The Minister will have to adduce far better arguments than those which were adduced in Committee. To talk about saving £150,000 and, at the same time, to devote hundreds of millions of pounds across the exchanges to the common agricultural policy and French farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-08-03", "file": "debates1972-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "027dc320ae5c2797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.1088.11", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ent part in the passage of this Bill there, and whose speech on the Bill there was interrupted by his collapse, which was followed by his death. The noble Lord, Lord Delacourt-Smith—Charles Smith as he was—had a distinguished career concerned with the Post Office, with Parliament and with many good works, and his loss at a very early age is something which I am sure the whole House deeply regrets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-03a.1088.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-04", "file": "debates1972-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "c47a72272f041621", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-04a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman says, we could take the next person down on the list, but this is open to serious objections also. It is a possibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-04a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-04", "file": "debates1972-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "c47a72272f041621", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-04a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "MEMBERS (EXPENSES AND FINANCIAL INTERESTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "t affection and respect for him, although we differ on many important matters. I know that my hon. Friend is angry—and I hope that I am not saying anything which is unfair—that I am raising this subject in this way. He and other Members went to Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland with the agreement of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. They were told that they need not pay their bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-04a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-07", "file": "debates1972-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "255f4785de11e187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1250.4", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "We are at present, as I have said to the hon. Gentleman, computerising the whole of this information. It will, on the rate being developed at present, take a year to complete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-07", "file": "debates1972-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "255f4785de11e187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1250.4", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "We are at present, as I have said to the hon. Gentleman, computerising the whole of this information. It will, on the rate being developed at present, take a year to complete. [Laughter.] The hon. Gentleman laughs but detailed information about ½ million companies cannot be collected in a few minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-07", "file": "debates1972-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "255f4785de11e187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1262.4", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "UGANDA (BRITISH PASSPORT HOLDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": "the Government and the loathsome racialist nature of President Amin's speech. Is the Foreign Secretary aware that the House will support to the full his recognition of the assurances that were given by successive Governments that we will not renege on assurances we have given to these unfortunate people? Will he also consider an increase in the number of quota vouchers that will be made available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1262.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-07", "file": "debates1972-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "255f4785de11e187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "UGANDA (BRITISH PASSPORT HOLDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "Will the Foreign Secretary be very wary of the risk of an absurd demand leading to a less absurd compromise and will he ensure in any negotiations that this outburst does not result in any more Indians from this source coming here as immigrants than otherwise would have come? Will he confirm that many if not most of these people were born in India—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-07", "file": "debates1972-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "255f4785de11e187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "her this extra sophisticated weaponry is worth it, or whether our operational requirements would not be hugely more effective if we stuck to our less sophisticated units. We were told this afternoon by the Minister for Aerospace, who fortuitously has come into the chamber—he is going out again; he knows what his responsibilities are—that we would have \"an integrated European aero-engine industry.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-07", "file": "debates1972-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "255f4785de11e187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "In HANSARD tomorrow the words will be found—and we shall look carefully at the context—\"an integrated European aero-engine industry.\" Some of my hon. Friends on the Opposition Front Bench thought they heard what I heard. We shall read HANSARD tomorrow. If it is to be an integrated European aero-engine industry it will have considerable military consequences. The bafflement of Ministers is showing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-07", "file": "debates1972-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "255f4785de11e187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1433.0", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " REPORT, the verbatim record of our debates. There was talk of extra Sittings of the Committee. A rumour went round that consultations were going on—though there were consultations with my usual channels—about whether we should have extra Sittings to get the Bill through. The Minister had a day off the Committee to go to a conference in E.E.C., although we were told we had to get the Bill through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-07a.1433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-08", "file": "debates1972-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "0990803871756c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1486.0", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "for an assurance that council house and new town tenants would not find their rents raised by more than 5 per cent.? Does he recall that he refused to give that answer? He said that the figures could not be calculated—and then he calculated them and sent them to me. Does he now accept that the question was about council house tenants? Does he disagree with the estimate in my letter of 13 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-08", "file": "debates1972-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "0990803871756c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1486.2", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "at assurance. Will he now do so? It is not for him to say what should be the parameters of the question he was asked to answer. The Prime Minister may dodge the question, as he dodges every other question. Will he now say whether he disagrees with the figure of 13 to 14 per cent.? If he wants to import into the question a matter which was not put to him concerning private tenants, is he not aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-08", "file": "debates1972-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "0990803871756c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1486.2", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "f he wants to import into the question a matter which was not put to him concerning private tenants, is he not aware—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"]—I can understand the sensitivity of Conservative Members. Will the Prime Minister now agree that by importing the private tenants into the picture—and there are five categories covered by the Act, only the first of which comes within the 12 months period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-08", "file": "debates1972-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "0990803871756c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1497.2", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "NUCLEAR REACTOR POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Stakeness is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland, but I have it in mind that he will be having something to say on the matter in the not too distant future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1497.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-08", "file": "debates1972-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "0990803871756c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL TRAINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are being destroyed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "We have had a very long period of intense consultation. I realise the importance of the point which the hon. Gentleman has made about training apprentices. That is covered by the extra money which we are bringing forward to enable apprentice training schemes to be continued.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-08", "file": "debates1972-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "0990803871756c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " of manipulation of the law is such that anything that would add weight to that cynicism ought very seriously to be thought about. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will accept that I am not in the slightest way attempting to cast any reflection upon either his right hon. Friend the Member for Barnet or anything that the Attorney-General might do. I come now to what I wish to raise as a matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-08", "file": "debates1972-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "0990803871756c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1583.0", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman find that this has always been the case, if he will look back. As far as I know, there is nothing to prevent hon. Members from raising this issue; but that is a matter for you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and not for me. As Home Secretary it is my responsibility to bring in the emergency regulations and explain them to the House. That is the traditional responsibility of the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-08", "file": "debates1972-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "0990803871756c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "It is the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Employment and not of the Home Secretary to do that. It is his duty to judge the situation of the moment. That is what has always happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-08", "file": "debates1972-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "0990803871756c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "is duty to judge the situation of the moment. That is what has always happened. [Interruption.] From my 22 years' experience in the House and from all that I have read about matters before that time I have never known of an Opposition of either party who have sought to deny the responsible Minister the right to choose his moment to come and report to the House when requested by the House to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-08", "file": "debates1972-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "0990803871756c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will this time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "We are, of course, particularly concerned about the islands, not only the northern islands but the other islands around our coasts. In the past sometimes on occasions such as this the dockers have been prepared to take special action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-08", "file": "debates1972-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "0990803871756c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1613.4", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "ry good trade unionist should worry greatly. We know that there are a number of men occupying leading positions, or sometimes occupying positions behind the leading figures, whose interests are not the same as those of the vast bulk of the people. I only wish that the Government could act in a dawn swoop, arrest them all, shut them up and put them away out of trouble, but I know that is difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1613.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-08", "file": "debates1972-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "0990803871756c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1617.1", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "ementary Benefits Commission and the Conservative Government if they dare to apply the full provisions of the 1971 Act. If in the 15 days after the return to work notices are issued for attachment of wages through the employer, there will be further problems. I want the strike over. I wish to God it would end tomorrow because many people, many of my friends are suffering deprivation because of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-08a.1617.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-08-09", "file": "debates1972-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "5250da7f99bf09af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-09a.1707.1", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "higher level of pay and prices has added something like £65 million in costs, whereas higher charges to customers have brought in an extra £23 million. This has contributed very much to the adverse situation. Mr. Speaker, may I say how much one shares in the sense of loss at the untimely death of Lord Delacourt-Smith who made such a great contribution towards the work of the Post Office engineers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-09a.1707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-09", "file": "debates1972-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "5250da7f99bf09af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-09a.1709.6", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will appreciate that what I have been at pains to correct is the suggestion that the declared intention was to make this saving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-09a.1709.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-09", "file": "debates1972-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "5250da7f99bf09af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-09a.1712.4", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Act.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The Bill has been before the House over a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-09a.1712.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-09", "file": "debates1972-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "5250da7f99bf09af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-09a.1712.6", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I shall look into the hon. Gentleman's question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-09a.1712.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-09", "file": "debates1972-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "5250da7f99bf09af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-09a.1729.0", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "BANK LENDING POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I, too, have read The Guardian's leading article this morning and I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman could not do better than that. The change which has taken place is most emphatically not a change in the Government's new approach to lending which was introduced last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-09a.1729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-08-09", "file": "debates1972-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "5250da7f99bf09af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-09a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "HOUSING AND LAND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "from 143 to 200, and the processing of appeals has already been speeded up. I have encouraged developers to put in appeals if they are not satisfied with the answers that they have been getting. For the first six months of 1970 there were 2,267 appeals received by the central Government relating to the South-East. For the first six months of this year the number was 3,479, and that shows progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-08-09a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.9.1", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton) is right to seek to clarify the matter. After all, \"growers\" can cover more than horticultural producers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.9.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.15.6", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "I would have thought not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.15.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "dent or Ministers, none at NATO meetings, none in the European Defence Group or the sort of dining meetings held at NATO ministerial conferences? The Prime Minister on Saturday in his speech was asking people to say \"Yes\" more often. I now ask him to say yes or no to this question: Did the statement of the Secretary of State for Defence last Friday represent the policy of Her Majesty's Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "onian Agreement of last December. The right hon. Gentleman must realise the dangers of such a commitment. He had a bitter foretaste in June. He must realise what this must mean for his commitment to a 5 per cent. growth rate and for any hopes of reducing the unacceptable, near-million, unemployment rate into which the Prime Minister has led the country. The Chancellor of the Exchequer realises it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Coward.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ich I hope will be before January 1st. Last week he gave a date, which previously he had consistently refused to do. If through European pressures, be they threats or blandishments, this foolhardy commitment has been made, then we must warn the Prime Minister, before he goes to Paris, against making that undertaking a reality. I know that he does not intend to speak today but I want him to listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has got to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "pound plus surplus last year, their inheritance from the Labour Government. The Economist went on to say: The latest figures show how right Mr. Heath has been to resist pressures to re-peg the pound. But before those words were even on the streets, the Chancellor proved the Economist wrong, and proved that the aforementioned Mr. Heath was not right but dead wrong, because he wants to re-peg the £.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "onal currency, since it is a serious matter I should make the situation quite plain. This Government have always said they support an international system of fixed parities, in exactly the same way as did the right hon. Gentleman's Government. The time and rate for fixing sterling is a matter for this Government's decision. This Government have been under no pressure from members in the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The point is that the Prime Minister defaulted on the agreement which he signed in April—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Floated.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The point is that the Prime Minister defaulted on the agreement which he signed in April— [Interruption.] Of course he did. He devalued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "gional policy. We understand————because this is a much more open Government in their dealing with the Press than in their dealings with the House—that the right hon. Gentleman intends to lay claim to a charge on the Community's \" resources propres\" for industrial regions comparable with what he to lamely accepted for agriculture. This is important and we wish him well in pressing it at the summit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend could consider in relation to the meeting which is to be held this week. But we have known also that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition could not resist jogging backwards. He went so far as to repeat and rehash arguments for a Social Government renegotiating the terms of entry into Europe, with the implication that the renegotiation would be pretty fundamental.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \" Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "preceding_text": "nt so far as to repeat and rehash arguments for a Social Government renegotiating the terms of entry into Europe, with the implication that the renegotiation would be pretty fundamental. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"] One of his right hon. Friends says \"Hear, hear\". The Leader of the Opposition must know that, if he wants European membership, the attitude which he takes up is totally unrealistic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.59.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins (Birmingham, Stetchford)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins (Birmingham, Stetchford)", "preceding_text": "lt considerable doubt about its purpose and wisdom, and I still feel that doubt. If the object of the debate was to secure the views of the House before the summit that would be desirable in itself, but in those circumstances it would be better and more natural not to have a vote at the end. In any event, after 11 weeks away there are a number of subjects which more urgently require our attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "people. One thing he cannot get round, unless words have ceased to have any meaning at all, is that the Prime Minister made a promise. Some people may say, \"For heaven's sake why don't you stop talking about what the Prime Minister said?\". The people will not forget it if I do. The simple fact is that he made this promise. I have been trying hard to understand how the Prime Minister's mind works.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.119.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "r clearly has not been settled and the argument simply will not go away. The reality is that all the major assumptions that the Government have made about Britain and the Common Market have been falsified by events during this past 12 months. First and foremost was the Prime Minister's pledge to win the support of the British people for his European policies. I am not going over that ground again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.150.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "is a partnership for peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "uption.] The right hon. Gentleman sits there muttering now, but when he was Prime Minister he went all over Europe saying that the way ahead for all of us was to create this partnership for peace. He is one of the most discredited men in Europe today, and for a very good reason. He has stood on his head and spurned all the things that he told the people of this country while he was Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (SUMMIT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ing that the way ahead for all of us was to create this partnership for peace. He is one of the most discredited men in Europe today, and for a very good reason. He has stood on his head and spurned all the things that he told the people of this country while he was Prime Minister. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] No wonder they are confused. It has been the deliberate policy of the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "ANGLESEY MARINE TERMINAL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwyn Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asked me a series of rhetorical questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "ANGLESEY MARINE TERMINAL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Robert) referred to the proceedings in the South African Parliament. I say to them that I did not think it would be necessary ever for my right hon. Friend, a man of superb record, as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs against apartheid and racialism, to have, in the course of his argument, to call upon the bona fides of the South African Government for an argument in favour of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.195.4", "colnum": "195", "heading": "ANGLESEY MARINE TERMINAL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "l be laid down in an Act means that 10 years' revenue is mortgaged at a stroke. There is more than that. There are two other facts. I will not intervene in any argument between the hon. Member for Conway and my right hon. Friend the Member for Caernarvon (Mr. Goronwy Roberts) because I will always, on anything but this Bill, take the side of my right hon. Friend. The hon. Member mentioned tourism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.198.2", "colnum": "198", "heading": "ANGLESEY MARINE TERMINAL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "that if there is a fear that Anglesey will be polluted people will think twice about going there for their holidays. The loss of £200,000 would totally wipe out the revenue from the oil royalties and leave a deficit. But even that is not all. Anglesey not only has a commitment to building the harbour but has another commitment. We find this on day 6 of the proceedings of the Committee on the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.199.3", "colnum": "199", "heading": "ANGLESEY MARINE TERMINAL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "e outstanding witness before the Select Committee—a witness of veracity and conviction—said: In part, the justification for the scheme—the financing of the scheme if you like—depends on the freight economies of very large tankers coming from the Middle East. Therefore, he says that the financing of the project from the point of view of Shell depends on oil coming on the long haul in super-tankers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "ANGLESEY MARINE TERMINAL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "totally invalid, as I shall show presently. If there was to be any damage at all done to my constituents in Manchester by this Bill not becoming law, I assure him that I would not have opened my mouth. Much as I care for Anglesey, I care more for Manchester and, in the end, I am ready to tolerate any damage to Anglesey, and even that which will give Shell profit, if it is going to help Manchester.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-17", "file": "debates1972-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3e01ebf89995f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "ANGLESEY MARINE TERMINAL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are joining the Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, I have a deep respect and affection for him. I never thought a day would come when he would quote a Tory Minister against one of his own hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-17a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-18", "file": "debates1972-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0a4df7dcd5346ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-18a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I apologise humbly to the hon. Gentleman if I accused him of such an intolerable action as advising people to observe the law. I thought he had said that. Perhaps what he said was that he had never advised people to break the law. I will withdraw that if it is unfair —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-18a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-18", "file": "debates1972-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0a4df7dcd5346ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-18a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "UGANDA (ASIANS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "As one who has readily condemned the right hon. Gentleman in other respects, may I just as readily congratulate him and the Government on their humane and practical approach to this problem? May I also congratulate him on firmly resisting part of his party which is now in an open alliance with the National Front—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-18a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-18", "file": "debates1972-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0a4df7dcd5346ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-18a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Harper", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Harper", "preceding_text": " letter here. I shall not quote it because it is rather long. It is well written and it starts, \"Dear Joe\", so that indicates that the writer knows me. He had read one of the Standing Committee Reports and wanted to acquaint me of his experience in this matter. This young man left school at the age of 16. He went to work in a factory but did not like that overmuch, so he left to work in a brewery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-18a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend was kind enough to send me advance information in a letter that he had decided to give time to the further consideration of the National Health Service (Family Planning) Amendment Bill. Where do back benchers stand in this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "n.] This is a matter of the greatest seriousness if the interests of back benchers on all sides of the House are to be safeguarded. The fact is that, despite the earlier proceedings on this topic and the fact that the matter went to the Committee on Procedure—whose report has not had a chance to be discussed—the matter has been left in the situation that the Government will do what they think fit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batsford", "preceding_text": "lery. We never acknowledge their existence. We \"spy\" them only if we want to get rid of them. We do not even refer to those who sit there, but they are watching the House at work. Every day, in spite of the weather, there are thousands of people outside waiting to do exactly the same. The introduction of television would surely basically mean that thousands of others would be able to do just that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Botsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Botsford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right and I am grateful to him. It is what happens after this which worries a lot of hon. Members—that is, the further editing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "a on the other side of the street. That is the system which has been used so far. It would be far more effective if we were to accept that the natural proceedings of the House should be shown to the viewing public. One of the fears of those who oppose the Motion is that it might change the character of the House and the way in which we conduct ourselves. There is no evidence that that will happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.488.4", "colnum": "488", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "have seen them here in operation. Let us have a go. Let us not be like a child crying in the dark. Let us not turn ourselves into a monastery and pretend that we are in holy orders and that people outside must not see what we are doing, that they must not see the empty benches. Why should not they? Why should not the people in the constituencies ask their Members why they were not in their places?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.488.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.488.4", "colnum": "488", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ' Not all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " exhibitionism that seeks to express the extreme conservatism of my hon. Friend. He pretends to be a radical. Some of the most radical people on my side of the House are the most irresponsible persons. They are terrified of trying something new. When someone says to me, \"Protect traditionalism\", I tend to reach for a gun. That is the damnation of this House. We want to rid of all these traditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.488.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ogramme and to be asked to compress what they have said in the debate into a couple of minutes or so and to be subjected to questioning by a chairman who perhaps has not the faintest notion of what has happened in the House. They may have come from a debate knowing perfectly well that someone else has made a much better speech, yet that person is not there. Parliament is presented in a caricature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "eatures overnight. \"That is not very likely to happen. Most of the best speeches which I have heard in this House—things may have changed in recent times—have been made from the back benches. I am in favour of keeping alive the spontaneity and surprise which can derive only from the proper reporting of back-bench speeches. Under the proposed new system backbenchers would have a much better chance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.532.2", "colnum": "532", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "s a week. There could be a show called \"Row of the Day\". It could start off with the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) going across and grabbing the Home Secretary, pulling out his hair because she was not called to speak. In ten years we shall have all the show biz razmataz with the canned laughter and all that sort of thing. Let us consider something which is similar to politics—religion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.532.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "preceding_text": ", we should stop there and not go on to televise the courts. Would it not make splendid drama, he asked, for the camera to use a zoom lens to show the face of the judge as he sentenced an accused person. That betrays a false assumption about the object of televising Parliament. As I see it, the emphasis will not be on the drama. The purpose of televising Parliament will be to strengthen democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am sorry to raise a point of order at this late hour, but I think that it would be in accordance with the traditions and practice of the House if the hon. Member for Howden (Sir P. Bryan) would at least declare his personal interest in television. I believe that he is connected with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.572.2", "colnum": "572", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "I accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.572.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-19", "file": "debates1972-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "2dab58f4b59c21f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Marten", "preceding_text": "present and voting. I would also have liked to see the television lights on during the whole of the debate so that we could see what it was like. Most of us have studied the reports of the Select Committees and many of us saw the experiment in the House of Lords a few years ago. Most of us have probably made up our minds. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Mr St. John-Stevas) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-19a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-20", "file": "debates1972-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "142868ada4bd0f2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-20a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "New Clause \"B\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": " We can imagine a man of 26 who at 16 had spent one month as a lab. boy in a forensic science laboratory, and who if he then serves on a jury becomes a criminal. It may be said that the Court would probably take a lenient view and afford him a conditional discharge, but that is not sufficient. A person is entitled not to be deemed guilty of an offence in those circumstances and not to be in mercy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-20a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-23", "file": "debates1972-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "34f7a6c5d2cca926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-23a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (SUMMIT CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "s about procedure. I do not make too much of the first, because it has happened under successive Governments. As a courtesy, a copy of the statement is normally in the hands of the Opposition some 15 minutes before it is to be made, but on this occasion it was only two minutes. At least when that happened we used to apologise for it, and I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman would wish to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-23a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-23", "file": "debates1972-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "34f7a6c5d2cca926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-23a.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (SUMMIT CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"That was the brandy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ns that I put to him? I thank him for what he said about overseas aid, but would he say whether he got an assurance, and what assurance he got, that the amount of money coming to Britain for regional development will equal what we are paying to France and other countries for agricultural development? Did he not satisfy himself about that before he entered his state of euphoria on Saturday morning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-23a.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-23", "file": "debates1972-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "34f7a6c5d2cca926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-23a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (SUMMIT CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t we can guide industry into the other regions. This is what we do in our own regional policy, and it is absolutely right for Europe as a whole. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition seems sceptical. He may recall that on the question of credit for international trade we have always made considerable attempts to prevent individual countries from outbidding each other to no purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-23a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-24", "file": "debates1972-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "da967947dc327dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-24a.974.3", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I shall he happy to answer the hon. Gentleman. If he looks at the matter fairly and objectively, I think he will agree with me that what matters is the proportion of the gross domestic product that is taken by taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-24a.974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-24", "file": "debates1972-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "da967947dc327dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-24a.989.2", "colnum": "989", "heading": "NATIONAL PARKS (FENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Clark (Collie Valley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Clark (Collie Valley)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to prohibit the use of barbed wire on fences adjacent to public highways within National Parks. In doing so I should like to emphasise that this applies only to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-24a.989.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-24", "file": "debates1972-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "da967947dc327dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-24a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Clause 68", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "preceding_text": " local authority associations over the Green Paper on local authority finance. It is fair to say that the local authorities would like us to have gone much further but the Government will announce their conclusions on the reorganisation of local authority finance towards the end of the year. Whatever conclusions we reach then will be of a more major nature. Paragraph 7 requires local authorities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-24a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-24", "file": "debates1972-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "da967947dc327dac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-24a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "ANGLESEY MARINE TERMINAL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "no financial interest in this Bill and I have no financial interest in any person or organisation whom I know to be interested in the Bill. That, at this stage, will have to be enough. On 25th August I was able to visit the Sapref refinery and its operations, and from the seashore to see the SBM. We discussed the SBM and its operation in detail with the general manager of the refinery, Mr. Wilson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-24a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ortant paper on the tax credit scheme as appropriate to this week's debate. But we should not feel it right to refer the document direct to a Select Committee for examination without a wide-ranging debate in this House first, not least on what some of us regard as the quite wrong proposal to take family allowances from the mothers. I hope that we can have the promise of a debate on this question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It was rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ly as the end of May the right hon. Gentleman was at Luton Hoo challenging the unions to mortal combat—the railway unions as it happened, and we saw what happened to him then. A few weeks later, in June, in the House, he was describing trade union leaders elected to office during the Labour Government as \"extremists\". That is what he said. It is in HANSARD. Does the right hon. Gentleman deny that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What would the right hon. Gentleman have done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ng the recess under the supervision of Jack Scamp and the Official Solicitor. And yet, at this most delicate point in the Prime Minister's negotiations, the National Industrial Relations Court—the right hon. Gentleman's creation—is ploughing ahead with yet another contempt case and he is powerless to prevent it. He will do doubt pray for the Official Solicitor who has already bailed him out twice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "naire prejudices, but they had the merit of simplicity and it was right that they should be fully discussed with an honest aim on the part of all concerned to reach a workable and fair agreement. The right hon. Gentleman will know that at no time since 26th September have I sought to interfere or to make the task of agreement more difficult. The right hon. Gentleman knows that my message has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "goods which are sold in the shops, as well as other shop-traded goods—and still more for food—there is a danger in the Government's aridity on price control. No one, when price control is mentioned, is talking about every item that is sold—every tack, drawing-pin and so on. It is the essentials that matter. I have some knowledge of this matter —perhaps more than any other hon. Member in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "s talking about every item that is sold—every tack, drawing-pin and so on. It is the essentials that matter. I have some knowledge of this matter —perhaps more than any other hon. Member in the House— [Interruption.] —having been responsible, for three-and-a-half years, for price control at the Board of Trade. With that experience I agree —and I have often said it—that it would not be practicable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "nt. in wholesalers' prices and 2 per cent. in retailers' prices—over the widest range of textiles, clothing and footwear. That was 5 per cent. off prices at a stroke. It is true that import costs following devaluation eroded this—as devaluation under the present Prime Minister is tending to erode prices—and the Korean war, with raw wool prices rising to 16 times the pre-war level, ended our hopes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " a step in the right direction—that the Government will go for maximum cash margins above a certain figure rather than for a continuation of gross percentage margins. But when the Government keep appealing to what they think public opinion ought to be it is no good saying to the trade unions \"You must accept this or that\" when the wives of trade unionists say \"We were diddled over decimalization\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " expected to pocket about 60 per cent. of the SET they are relieved of. Therefore, I hope that, when the Prime Minister is considering this widening of his package, he will look very carefully at VAT and, if he cannot suspend it, he will at any rate sharply reduce it, just as I and the whole House hope that he will do more on pensions in this year than is indicated in the Gracious Speech. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be the first time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "portion of the goods entering into the family cost of living. The TUC is expected to cover all wages. The CBI can exercise effective control only over the ex-works prices of manufactured goods—it has shown that it can do that. The TUC, given an agreement which is shown to be fair, I believe, could deliver. There might be one or two difficult cases, but substantially they could honour an agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ch he cannot fundamentally believe, since it is a reversal of almost every speech and commitment he has ever made. I challenge the right hon. Gentleman. He has indicated his policy and his programme. I challenge him to submit that programme and his record in Government, including the terms for entry into the Common Market against the wishes of the British people, to the test of a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "ic discussion and the findings of a Select, Committee I hope, therefore, that we may approach in this spirit what was a serious attempt to provide the material for full discussion, both in Select Committee and in public. Then we must take account of all the views which have been expressed. It is two years since we started out on a programme of legislative reform without parallel in recent history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "With reference to what the Prime Minister has just said with regard to prices, there are stores in Ealing Broadway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Since the middle of 1971 we have had success in bringing down the rate of increase in prices, and I want to emphasise the contribution which the Government have already made to the bringing down of the rate of increase in prices not only by tax changes, by purchase tax changes, SET and other tax changes, but also by making it possible for the nationalised industries to limit their price increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "by employers and trade unions through the machinery of collective bargaining. The TUC took the view that, if agreement was reached on a set of proposals, the TUC would be able to ensure compliance on the incomes side. It insisted that the only way of making sure of compliance on the prices side was by the imposition of statutory controls on all retail prices, particularly on retail prices of food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-10-31", "file": "debates1972-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "46695d9f9af08ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.55.9", "colnum": "55", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Because the question of rents is covered by the statutory position. This is a question of retail prices which are being monitored jointly by the TUC and the CBI.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-10-31a.55.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-01", "file": "debates1972-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d2c98215a0792c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-01a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "rthal view is still held shows how much they have to do to transform industrial relations and what a great job it is. I should like to see massive fiscal encouragement to profit sharing, and to the issuing of shares to people employed in industry. I should like to see the whole of the company laws of this country transformed to give the workers equal rights with shareholders at the annual meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-01a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-01", "file": "debates1972-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d2c98215a0792c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-01a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "the workers equal rights with shareholders at the annual meeting. [Interruption.] Hon. Members may laugh but workers in countries where there is very much lower unemployment and higher wages than we have here can enjoy these benefits, and West Germany is a pre-eminent example. Therefore, I should like to see also—and I accept that we shall not get these reforms from the parliamentary Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-01a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-01", "file": "debates1972-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d2c98215a0792c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-01a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": " building strike and some other strikes recently is tending, I believe, to go far beyond what one can regard as industrial relations. It seems to me that \"Rent-a-Picket\" must be a very prosperous concern. The House and the country have a right to know who is financing the heavy mob. The \"Rent-a-Picket\" style of operation, it seems to me, has something in common with the Provisional IRA in Belfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-01a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-01", "file": "debates1972-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d2c98215a0792c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-01a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "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": " the right hon. Gentleman or that we really have one and a half million unemployed as he suggested. It is equally true that the official figures include many people whose unemployment lasts for very short periods. The whole subject of unemployment statistics and whether they can be better presented to indicate the real levels has been under consideration by an interdepartmental group of officials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-01a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-02", "file": "debates1972-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "453c6db6c5985d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-02a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At his request.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heller", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman be fair and admit, first, that most of the local authorities were then Conservative controlled and deliberately reduced the number of houses being built—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-02a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-02", "file": "debates1972-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "453c6db6c5985d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-02a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": ". Sixth, skim off at least some of the profits from land and property speculation—here I am suggesting what even a Tory Government might do—by an effecttive— I emphasise \"effective\"—special levy, or higher rate of capital gains tax, on profits from land and property. This would do something at least to lessen the gross increase in inequality produced by the fantastic profits in the last two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-02a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-02", "file": "debates1972-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "453c6db6c5985d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-02a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "Cann, my predecessor as Member for Rochdale. He was a man I knew very well indeed. No one who knew him could fail to be impressed by his diligence, his honesty, his cheerfulness and his concern for others. Those of us who knew him well understood in the last two years how he laboured under considerable difficulties due to the handicap of illness. I am sure that the House is poorer for his passing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-02a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-02", "file": "debates1972-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "453c6db6c5985d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-02a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest G. Perry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest G. Perry", "preceding_text": "I want first to pay a tribute to the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Cyril Smith) who made a very fine maiden speech. I wish to draw particular attention to his tribute to our old colleague Jack McCann.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-02a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-02", "file": "debates1972-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "453c6db6c5985d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-02a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "bour and land still remains very great. The only explanation is that we are faced with a major demand-pull inflation of a long-pent-up and now effective popular demand. People have more money in their pockets because wages have risen and taxes have come down. There are better credit facilities available—far better than there were two years ago. The result is pretty plain to see. This is happening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-02a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-03", "file": "debates1972-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "8be3aa1c6d9204e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-03a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "preceding_text": " the Meat Trades Journal this week—I hope that the Minister reads it carefully— Less beef on the table. Beef is becoming a luxury. I once said that the Minister could become the Minister for margarine and mince. Many of our poorer people cannot afford to buy a joint of beef. For many people —I am not thinking only of old-age pensioners and people in the lower income group—beef has become a luxury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-03a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-06", "file": "debates1972-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "0dd8c293bf02b891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.629.0", "colnum": "629", "heading": "INFLATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "aised set out in the White Paper. However, I will deal with some of the major ones. He asked what machinery would be used. Government machinery—Government Departments—will be used. One of the first things I learned in the discussions was that the National Board for Prices and Incomes had been anathema as much to the TUC as to many other people. Therefore, there was no desire to recreate that body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-06", "file": "debates1972-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "0dd8c293bf02b891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "INFLATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This country now has expansion going at a rate of 5 per cent., faster than we ever had under the last Administration, with capacity for further expansion for at least another year, with capacity for investment to carry on that expansion over further years ahead. In addition, we are now providing more jobs and greater productivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.633.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-11-06", "file": "debates1972-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "0dd8c293bf02b891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "INFLATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "time of a stagnant economy, at a time when he was deflating continuously through heavy taxation and at a time when he was trying to reduce the real standard of living of the British people. We are doing it at a time of expansion. Our sole objective—I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman turns away—is to protect the expansion and the improvement in the real standard of living of the whole nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.636.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-06", "file": "debates1972-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "0dd8c293bf02b891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-06", "file": "debates1972-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "0dd8c293bf02b891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.638.2", "colnum": "638", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "As we all sympathise with the hon. Gentleman and are all jealous of the hon. Member for Colchester (Mr. Buck) on his promotion, may I put one final—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.638.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-06", "file": "debates1972-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "0dd8c293bf02b891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "No. I have a lot to get through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-06", "file": "debates1972-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "0dd8c293bf02b891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They retire earlier.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " direct contributions from general taxation. It is alleged that having a notional fund has been damaging to the teachers' interests. A number of hon. Members have pointed out that local government services pay a lesser contribution of 6 per cent. There are some local government services which pay a higher contribution. The police services pay 7 per cent. Fire services also pay 6¾ per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-06a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Does my right hen. Friend agree that what was said by the hon. Member for Halifax (Dr. Summerskill) was really helpful? Would not this be a most wonderful occasion to achieve what the Prime Minister and all on this side of the House want? If we could make progress over something —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.818.7", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My position has been made quite clear from the beginning. It was not I who broke off the talks on Thursday night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.818.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.823.7", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "unter. The second element in the policy with which the Prime Minister entered office was an attempt according to Conservative philosophy to increase incentives in Britain by widening the differentials between rich and poor. The whole of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's tax policy since he took office has been devoted to a massive redistribution of wealth and income from the poor towards the rich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.823.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": "ent believe it has. With respect to the question of money supply, I raised with the Chancellor of the Exchequer the growth in the distribution of bankers' cards, such as the Access card. What I think is inflationary is the growth in the credit principle of buying today and paying tomorrow, by way of Access cards, Barclaycards and similar cards. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer is not perturbed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": " on the pulse when he referred yesterday to the increased profits—from £997,000 to £1,992,000 in two years of the Beaver-brook Press. The sycophantic Press and television media treatment of the present Prime Minister, compared with that of my right hon. Friend when Prime Minister, is fantastic. Thus, we have a situation of double-think, not only on the Front Bench but in the Press and other media.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman has raised this in public, I shall have to give the true account of what happened on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.939.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.940.5", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "It's a pack of lies", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.940.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.940.6", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not trust your account.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer uses that unparliamentary expression—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.940.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.940.6", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer uses that unparliamentary expression—[An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not trust your account.\"] We do not trust any account of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.940.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.941.4", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I prefer the word of Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.941.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. James Prior)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. James Prior)", "preceding_text": "es and incomes. He built up his whole case on two articles in The Times and the Daily Telegraph. I suggest to him that if he thinks that the country will be impressed by a party which hopes to become the Government of this country one day without one of its members being able to make one constructive suggestion the whole way through a speech, he has a lot still to learn. On my first page of notes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.943.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "ld not but wonder why any good young executive should stay in this country. The right hon. Gentleman said that such men should set an example and that it was their example that really mattered. All I can say is that, if they are ever faced with the implementation of the attitude which he expressed today, the only example they will be likely to set will be with their feet as they leave the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Try an election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Huyton (Mr. Harold Wilson) and others. The suggestion that the Government's policies do not lay the foundations for an effective attack on inflation is astonishing. It is even more astonishing because the Motion was tabled before the Opposition had a chance even to hear what our proposals were. The view expressed in the Amendment is certainly not shared by the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-07", "file": "debates1972-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "576dd0b940bcb0db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "hing because the Motion was tabled before the Opposition had a chance even to hear what our proposals were. The view expressed in the Amendment is certainly not shared by the people of this country. [HON. MEMBERS \"Try an election.\"] All week Labour Members have been talking about an election, but when it comes to Lincoln they will not face one. If they have all that courage they should try it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-07a.947.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "e that we are all sorry not to see either the new Secretary of State or the new Minister for Housing and Construction with us this afternoon? I read recently in The Guardian that the new Secretary of State, when appointed Minister of Works, spent the first two days of his appointment watching cricket. He has no doubt flown off to Portugal today with Derby County instead of attending to his duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.996.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1007.4", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The point I made last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "aring and criminal increase in the price of property and land? Is any standstill to be placed on contracts that are in the pipeline, affecting public development and activity in housing and all other areas where the most exorbitant and criminal prices are being charged, such as, for example, land which the other day was sold at Altrincham, in the constituency of the Chancellor, at £56,000 an acre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "at in Birmingham? Did he say that a Labour Government would attempt to hold back prices already negotiated but not yet paid? Did he say that? Before the Prime Minister arrived, the Chancellor of the Exchequer told the House that the Government are holding back the farm workers' increase, yet that is what the Prime Minister campaigned against in 1970. He went on to say: We know very well …\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I said that, but I am quoting what the right hon. Gentleman said while campaigning in the country in 1970 against our wage freeze. Now he is introducing a freeze. The right hon. Gentleman said at Birmingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "age control … It also deals with inflation. The manifesto says: We have become resigned to the value of the pound in our pockets or purse falling by at least a shilling a year. That means under a Labour Government. Food prices under the present Government have been rising at almost two shillings in the pound a year. Can I have the right hon. Gentleman's attention when he has quite finished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ack Jones, addressing the Parliamentary Press Gallery luncheon today, entirely confirmed what my hon. Friend said. Who is now responsible for the \"pack of lies\"? As though the Chancellor were unable to exacerbate the conflict there is a new sorcerer's apprentice now, the Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party the hon. Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. Selwyn Gummer), appointed by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ts, and this is not because the extremists have a majority but because the moderates refuse to he militant.' The Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party is the appointee of the Prime Minister, and I ask the Prime Minister, who claims to be anxious for the talks to be resumed and to succeed, whether he endorses that assessment by his vice-chairman, his recent appointee, or whether he repudiates it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That he would do something about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ent's Housing Finance Act ever came before Ministers under the Labour Government. He has said this many times and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has a nice chosen phrase to express that particular legend: he used it last night. Of course I understand what the right hon. Gentleman meant by this. He was being fair just now. He told us that he would take into account the results of that legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister told us of this. Right, left and centre, they have thundered against the \"robber barons\" of the TUC. We have had leading articles and cartoons characterising union leaders as wreckers, muggers, saboteurs and men with coshes. These newspaper proprietors have demanded a freeze. They have said \"Wages must be curbed. Employers and Government must be tough.\" I was very moved by this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "rs and Government must be tough.\" I was very moved by this. [ Interruption. ] Not all newspaper proprietors did it; not Cecil King, anyway; the House may be assured of that. Last month the newspaper proprietors, who were pressing the Chancellor and the Prime Minister to cut the wages for lower-paid workers, decided to pay out increases of £10 to £12 a week to their journalists, back-dated to July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "oad is, and we should call it by its name. The hon. Members for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) and Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heifer) made this point yesterday. The name at the end of this road is \"the corporate State\". I do not believe that we should have too many inhibitions about acknowledging that that is where we would be going. Having said all that, nevertheless I would go along with this legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": " perfect world, with perfect freedom and perfect competition, the monetary theories would work. But that is a perfect world and not the real world. In the world in which we work the logic of economics is not purely the logic of mathematics. It is the logic of power and human feeling. The basic cause of cost-push inflation clearly is in present circumstances the monopoly power of many trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1092.3", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Public house.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ow that I cannot take any action\". That is the Government's attitude. We have not had an answer about whether the people who telephone the Department will be able to reverse the charges. I do not see why they should not be able to do so. If the Government are genuine, let people be allowed to reverse the charges. Indeed, let them have free postage. Why not? Let every post office, public authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " seen as a challenge by the trade unions for sovereignty in this country. I believe that that is the essence of the Prime Minister's present policy, but I believe, also, that if he chooses that kind of confrontation he will be the loser. He has a Chancellor of the Exchequer who, apparently, takes a degree of comfort from the results of the election of a near-Fascist President in the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "controlled power workers. There is Wally Preston, who is something called an International Socialist. I gather that an International Socialist is to the left even of the Communist Party and the Labour Party in this country. He has a perfect right to follow his own bent in his political convictions, but as an AUEW shop steward he uses his political affiliations very much to the country's detriment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "International Socialist is to the left even of the Communist Party and the Labour Party in this country. He has a perfect right to follow his own bent in his political convictions, but as an AUEW shop steward he uses his political affiliations very much to the country's detriment. [Interruption.] We talk about trade union leaders and the tiny section in the unions who are very far out to the left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "low his own bent in his political convictions, but as an AUEW shop steward he uses his political affiliations very much to the country's detriment. [Interruption.] We talk about trade union leaders and the tiny section in the unions who are very far out to the left— [Interruption.] Far too many in that section are shop stewards. The ordinary trade unionist is a perfectly decent and reasonable chap", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "e the Government estranged the unions when they needed them most, they made a belated start on trying to find the remedy, and we cannot support a Measure conceived in folly and born in desperation, because the truth is that the Government do not know what else to do. The Government are desperate and the Bill is a sign of desperation. Nor can we form with the Tory Government a coalition of failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "evasion and avoidance of one kind or another. Moreover, who will reap the harvest in the appreciation of assets and bonus shares which will follow? My hon. Friend the Member for Renfrew, West (Mr. Buchan) referred to this matter, and the truth is that there is no fairness in this Bill and that most of it is rough and ready injustice. We must face a few fundamental truths about the British economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "When a Labour Government have been as long in office as Tory Governments they will do a great many more things", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I repeat what I have said. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made it perfectly clear that he was anxious to resume discussions between the three parties. But in the context of the passage which I have just read, and I read it again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "As regards prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "cess in the long discussions which my right hon. Friends have undertaken over the past three and a half months. Plainly that is the way in which, if it were at all possible, the Government would have preferred to solve the problem. It is only in the circumstances which arose, which were described by my right hon. Friend, that we have taken action, presenting this Bill and the temporary provisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I know that my right hon. Friend put that question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The question cannot be posed in such simple terms —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I know that my right hon. Friend put that question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The question cannot be posed in such simple terms — [Laughter.] —because, in fact, the answer depends upon a much wider range of facts than the facts to which the question is being applied and than can be embraced in answer to a question put in that form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Back dated?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "ationship between dividends and deferred dividends in the context of wages of agricultural workers, a subject raised by a number of hon. Members, and of other groups of low-paid workers. It is perfectly plain from what my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the agricultural workers will have the implementation of their agreement deferred to the end of the standstill period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-08", "file": "debates1972-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "863e0577e93d4cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "t of public opinion and of the Press. We are far better able to command that support than was the right hon. Gentleman's Government because the operation is being undertaken in a totally different climate. Instead of being undertaken in an atmosphere of stagnation and rising taxation, it is being undertaken at a time when all the indicators for progress in the economy point in the right direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-08a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-09", "file": "debates1972-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3fd4b888b49dd857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "It is nice of the Prime Minister to look in on our proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-09", "file": "debates1972-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3fd4b888b49dd857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1223.3", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is being extremely humble. I am afraid that his humility derives from the fact that he knows that he could not give me a truthful answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-09", "file": "debates1972-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3fd4b888b49dd857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "It is like saying that because of what happened in Germany under Hitler, we in Britain, because we are a similar people and live on the same continent, are not fit to rule ourselves. Although what has happened in Uganda is a tragedy, we should look to those countries in Africa which accepted the constitutions we gave them, which accepted the Westminster system and are still basically operating it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-09", "file": "debates1972-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3fd4b888b49dd857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": " Some of those hon. Members shouting from below the gangway have not been there, and have not seen the different system of democracy that those countries use. The constituency of Macclesfield did not have a choice between two Conservative candidates, which the constituents might well have wished. People in Tanzania have that sort of choice. We should not try to impose a rigid Westminster pattern.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-09", "file": "debates1972-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3fd4b888b49dd857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1257.1", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "e the case—the way to get those negotiations is to remove the pressures and the conflict, and the rest will follow. We have been asked about voting. I will follow the advice of other hon. Members who have spoken and who believe that it is unwise to vote tonight. The two parties are in agreement. Unhappily, when the two great parties in the House are in agreement, it is nearly always a bad symptom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-09", "file": "debates1972-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3fd4b888b49dd857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Soref", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Soref", "preceding_text": " not have been practicable to do so, but let us not deduce the unproven facts from this tiny minority which was consulted. Like other Members I, too, have been in Rhodesia, for perhaps rather longer than they have, this year. I met many Africans whom I know and I also met Mr. Chinamano before he went to another place. The general view I found among the Africans was that they were reasonably happy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-09", "file": "debates1972-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3fd4b888b49dd857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL THEATRE AND MUSEUM OF LONDON BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "y informed, there are some garments of intimate apparel suitably ciphered with the Queen's monogram. I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on having received his cardinal's hat of ministerial eminence. But we are all relieved—I say this with no discourtesy to the hon. Gentleman—that this tatty Government of his will not last long enough to see him achieve the triple crown of Prime Ministerial office.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-09", "file": "debates1972-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3fd4b888b49dd857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL THEATRE AND MUSEUM OF LONDON BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "tleman—that this tatty Government of his will not last long enough to see him achieve the triple crown of Prime Ministerial office.—[ Interruption. ] As a former parliamentarian said, we will wait and see. Perhaps I should declare my personal interest in this measure. Many of the players who will grace the boards of the National Theatre are old friends of mine, with whom in a previous incarnation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-09", "file": "debates1972-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3fd4b888b49dd857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1350.3", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL THEATRE AND MUSEUM OF LONDON BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Walked?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "alf the cost?\" He said, \"That is not a bad idea. I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll put down a motion here and if we carry that unanimously I shall be able to go across the water and say that not only the Labour majority but also the Tories on the other side believe that we should build this National Theatre.\" This will carry more weight. We put the motion and carried it. He came across the water—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-09a.1350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-10", "file": "debates1972-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6f0f14d428e08471", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-10a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (BORROWING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "If I may have the leave of the House to speak again, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-10a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-13", "file": "debates1972-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "57bcc8b55eb920cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.11.5", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that that answer is evasive to the point of being untruthful?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.11.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-13", "file": "debates1972-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "57bcc8b55eb920cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.19.5", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I have explained why the point which my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Mrs. Sally Oppenheim) has raised deserves consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.19.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-13", "file": "debates1972-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "57bcc8b55eb920cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I am well aware that it could look like that, but I hope that my answer, which makes it clear that Coventry benefits from this licensing arrangement and that the imported machine would not be produced in this country because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-13", "file": "debates1972-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "57bcc8b55eb920cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "LETTER BOMBS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "May I underline what the right hon. Gentleman has just said? Would it not be advisable to suspend judgment as to who is responsible for these outrageous incidents, more particularly as it was the Zionists who first used these methods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-13", "file": "debates1972-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "57bcc8b55eb920cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "UGANDAN ASIANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that some of us who represent red areas have experienced these problems?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.39.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-11-13", "file": "debates1972-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "57bcc8b55eb920cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What is the best thing for the United Kingdom?", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "be content if Stormont is no longer there and they are legislated for in this Assembly, where their co-religionists are happy with the laws passed. I am glad that the leader of the Unionist Party here today is beginning to see some of the light of total integration, and I hope that the Unionist Party can see that the best thing for it is to have full union, full legislative union, with this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.97.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-13", "file": "debates1972-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "57bcc8b55eb920cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " in this Parliament will shape not only the future of Ulster but her relations with the United Kingdom and the Irish Republic. It must be a turning point, towards either a united Ireland or full integration with the United Kingdom. Few hon. Members on either side of this House have any objection, in principle, to the concept of a united Ireland, if that is what the people of Northern Ireland wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-13", "file": "debates1972-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "57bcc8b55eb920cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "preceding_text": "dly with the points made on this issue by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Down, South. The Government here must find the stomach to carry through a logical alternative. There is only one logical alternative, and that is complete integration within the United Kingdom. The objection has been made that there would be no peg on which to hang Macrory—I mean, not physically, but his structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-13", "file": "debates1972-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "57bcc8b55eb920cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.184.6", "colnum": "184", "heading": "FAILSWORTH GOLF COURSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "It is absolutely necessary that we should build more houses within the city, and that we should find land for private development within the city. It is disgraceful that the hon. Member for Manchester, Blackley should have suggested that there was anything wrong about allowing a private developer to put in an application for planning permission and to succeed in that application", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-13a.184.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-14", "file": "debates1972-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fce78d6c23f6406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "Whilst no one wants to deny benefits to the families of men who are forced to go on strike against their will by the Mafia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-14", "file": "debates1972-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fce78d6c23f6406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "Whilst no one wants to deny benefits to the families of men who are forced to go on strike against their will by the Mafia—[ Laughter. ]—does not my right hon. Friend agree that this matter is extremely urgent and that the country wants action?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-14", "file": "debates1972-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fce78d6c23f6406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES (ADMISSION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend realise that the whole country is behind him in his view about museum charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-14", "file": "debates1972-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fce78d6c23f6406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL. (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " in monitoring the freeze, although it should have been obvious that, without local authority support and intervention, there is no chance whatever of seeing or knowing that price controls are observed. I am astonished that the new Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs, who is supposed to represent the consumer, is not present this afternoon. After all, half the Bill is directly in his province.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-14", "file": "debates1972-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fce78d6c23f6406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL. (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": " be possible for an agreement to be reached on what is a fair timetable, and for that to be included in a Motion of the type before us. This would mean that the timetable would be adhered to throughout the Committee stage of any Bill. The Leader of the House should know the record of my party, that we adhere to the view that timetabling of Bills on the Floor of the House is a sensible arrangement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-14", "file": "debates1972-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fce78d6c23f6406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL. (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": " Floor of the House is a sensible arrangement—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"]—and that the parties should agree on how much time should be given to each part of the Bill. I want the Leader of the House to expand on his statement that a voluntary timetable was tried. All I can tell him is that although my party supported the Second Reading of the Bill the Government did not consult us on any timetabling.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-14", "file": "debates1972-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fce78d6c23f6406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.239.5", "colnum": "239", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL. (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "crisy is entering into the argument of the Leader of the House, because what he said that he could not do is precisely what the Government did in the instance of the European Communities Bill. If the Government are saying that they are prepared to consult us only on occasions when they think that our support matters, that is a startling admission, and the right hon. Gentleman should reconsider it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.239.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-14", "file": "debates1972-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fce78d6c23f6406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "er possible. There is the separate question of policy as to what was or was not under negotiation at the time of the talks until 2nd November, and what is or is not under negotiation in the future. To say that because the Bill contains a certain provision as a matter of law, therefore the Government are making a dramatic change of posture in relation to policy, is to misrepresent what is going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-14", "file": "debates1972-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fce78d6c23f6406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Bidwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Bidwell", "preceding_text": "ernment. I refer particularly to the contributions by the hon. Members for the New Forest (Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson) and Harwich (Mr. Ridsdale). One would think that this was a policy. It is not a policy. It is an impasse to which our amendments correctly call attention. It is a sad day for the Government, and a sad day for the Government is a sad day for the nation. This is acceptance of defeat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-14", "file": "debates1972-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fce78d6c23f6406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.370.3", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "f the freeze continues until the end of April and wages remain totally frozen, and at the same time there is a totally ineffective freeze on prices, the Government will insist on carrying through the next round of rent increases at the beginning of April while the freeze is still continuing. If the Government do not mean that, they must make it clear at this moment to the House and to the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-14a.370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend take positive steps to introduce legislation to sell council house tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.405.4", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I would hate to satisfy opinion now, only to disappoint people later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "to my hon. Friend about the matter. As far as I can judge, the decision is not out of line with the general policy statement, though each case must be considered on its merits. As for the general question which my hon. Friend has raised, I take the opportunity of saying that I have read the recent booklet which he and some of my other hon. Friends have published, called \"Need House Prices Rise? \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Carried through by the Labour Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Reference has been made by some trade union leaders to the question of decimalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Peter Emery)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Peter Emery)", "preceding_text": "ee stages on the Floor of the House is that frequently amendments are put to one side in order that we may have major Second Reading speeches by different Opposition spokesmen in the course of debates. I must congratulate the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) for his performance today. He displayed a sense of brilliant debating comedy. He treated this matter too often as a joke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ad to meet heavy pressure during its first week of operation. It has responded efficiently to telephone demands from businesses and from members of the public. In the same way our regional offices have responded energetically and efficiently. In setting up this system we have created our own market monitors with antennae stretching out through the telephone lines to anyone anywhere in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": " and are investigating what action can be taken which would be reasonable and beneficial to the consumer. As much of this matter deals specifically with the retail trade, I should like to pay specific tribute to the action taken by the retail trade during this period. Many people are suggesting that, given any opportunity, the retail trade will maximise prices and not give a darn for the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "e these prices had not been standardised throughout its chain of stores, it withdrew them and retained the pre-standstill prices. That company has shown its willingness to co-operate by this action. After all, that is meaningful, if not to the Opposition, certainly to consumers generally throughout the country. I suggest that the condemnation of the retailer that we have heard from the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "I am married to an ordinary housewife and I know that my wife—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "etary of State who is to deal with food prices. I wish her every success, but she can take it from me, if not from her hon. Friends, that she will not be given much assistance by the Bill. It contains no serious attempt to stop unjustified price increases and she is in for a rough time. Prices will continue to rise at an alarming rate, particularly after January 1st. I have spoken for long enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.455.4", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "a comprehensive unit pricing scheme through now because, in the first place, there are certain complex technical problems to be overcome. For example, what about washing powders? For this purpose, would the unit be weight? That would be nonsense because some washing powders have a much greater washing power, some have a special chemical concentration, and so on. Will it be volume? What will it be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.455.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "s have said, many aspects of consumer affairs are complementary to making emergency legislation of this sort effective. I say to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Carter) that I make no pretence to be a so-called average housewife. No hon. Member can possibly be an average housewife because she is a Member of Parliament. No wife of an hon. Member can claim to be an average housewife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "he wholesale end, and with great changes occurring all the time. I am convinced that the grocers, if that is the right word to use these days, will respond to the Bill. Indeed, I am convinced that they are already doing so. Retailers are not as worried by the Government as they are by their own customers. Let us remember that retailers will be in business when the Government are finished and gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "compare even a range of eight products which are fairly standardised and common. The Economist quoted a 15-oz. tin of tomato soup—but could I find such a tin in any of the five shops? There were 14½-oz. and 15½-oz. tins but no 15-oz. tins. As a result, I was making complicated calculations on the back of an envelope. The manager thought that his Member of Parliament had gone bonkers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "s point on the premise that what is being applied in respect of prices—his assumption being that there will be a universal halt to price increases—should have its equal counterpart in respect of incomes, It is part of my complaint that the freeze is being applied more rigorously to incomes than to prices. I turn now to the group about whom there seems to be little doubt anywhere, the farm workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not all\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ice increases—should have its equal counterpart in respect of incomes, It is part of my complaint that the freeze is being applied more rigorously to incomes than to prices. I turn now to the group about whom there seems to be little doubt anywhere, the farm workers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.] I note that the reassuring vocal support for that observation comes from all quarters of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman would have done better to have left that aspect of the debate to his hon. Friend. May I remind him of the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "e never lost the habit of calving at the most inconvenient times. Against this sort of background the relationship between farmer and worker is probably closer than that affecting any other body of workers. They work alongside each other in fair weather and foul. For many years farmers have deeply regretted that they have been unable to give their workers the money they knew they were entitled to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that I have received a letter from the Prime Minister which states that because Lord Wigg's increase in salary of £2,800 a year, which is a 39 per cent. increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.531.0", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "ple. Will my right hon. Friend authorise the employers of farm workers to make a payment at Christmas time to their workers of 15 times £3.30, or £50, if they wish? That would have the effect of giving agricultural workers their £3.30 award for 15 weeks. It would establish no new principle, because the Government have already said that old-age pensioners will have their lump sum at Christmas time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.531.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Body", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Half a million\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Body", "preceding_text": "nyone else. This Bill, on the other hand, makes the farm worker a special case, by entangling him in a net where he does not belong and where not even the most flinthearted promoter of this Bill would intend him to be. I listened to my right hon. Friend with great care when he said that if the Amendment were accepted it would open up possibilities for more than 1 million other cases to go through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Whatever the headline in the evening newspaper may say, I support the farm workers, but the farm worker unfortunately is being subjected to the freeze.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Whatever the headline in the evening newspaper may say, I support the farm workers, but the farm worker unfortunately is being subjected to the freeze. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I hope, therefore, that my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.558.5", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": " to be a sort of hypocritical attitude which they have to the farm workers. From my own experience over the years in the industry I know that again and again the farm workers' increases have been used as stepping stones to larger increases for people in the industrial trade unions, and it was the industrial trade unions which were always keeping the agricultural workers at the bottom of the queue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.558.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": " increased benefit to a director? After all, a company does not know what benefit the director will have. A company gives increased expenses to its directors, but the matter of benefit is one for direct negotiation between a director and the Inland Revenue. He pays just as much as he is able to persuade the Inspector of Taxes is not spent in expenses, and it would depend on how well he is advised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-15", "file": "debates1972-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f72f5c7663bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "MEDICAL REGISTER (ERASURE OF NAMES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "Intervention of this formal kind is quite a different proposition from the sort of communications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-15a.579.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-11-16", "file": "debates1972-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "9b53f74ca9ce7bf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Lincoln!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us whether it was part of his plan to get support for the freeze by bringing forward the £10 bonus to pensioners to the same day as two by-elections? Will he confirm that that is the reason for the sudden rush to get these two by-elections over?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-16", "file": "debates1972-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "9b53f74ca9ce7bf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": " firm with council tenants, workers and especially farm workers' wages. But when it comes to property speculators, pusillanimity is the order of the day. The Government are totally cowardly about it. The reason may well be that property speculators are immune because they are very important supporters of the Conservative Party when it comes to the provision of funds, particularly at election time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-16", "file": "debates1972-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "9b53f74ca9ce7bf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "uent Sessions—which have not been sufficiently checked. Most people, other than hon. Members, merely read what they see in a White Paper or a Bill and do not look behind it. If they do not do so they will assume that all rents and service charges are covered. It is important that we should get some clarification. The right hon. Member for Grimsby is out of touch with reality. I listened carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-16", "file": "debates1972-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "9b53f74ca9ce7bf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ties—special arrangements had been made between the two dates. It is interesting that the right hon. Gentleman should have reverted to 1st October in respect of council rents but not in relation to other factors—for example, wages and salaries. Common sense demands that a standstill, if applied, must apply in every case from a common date. Any other arrangement would surely be wholly indefensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-16", "file": "debates1972-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "9b53f74ca9ce7bf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "as had to pay an increase of as much as £1. Therefore, a large proportion of tenants paid no increase in October while a great many paid increases of less than £1 at that date. A very large number of all those tenants have received rebates. Opposition Members who make such a fuss about the Housing Finance Act tend conveniently to forget the national system of rent rebates which the Act introduces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-16", "file": "debates1972-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "9b53f74ca9ce7bf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I withdraw my implied invitation to the hon. Lady to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-16", "file": "debates1972-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "9b53f74ca9ce7bf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "We know that the Bill is not perfect, and we have already admitted that it is a very rough and blunt instrument, but the increase in the salary of one individual like the ombudsman could have no effect at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-16", "file": "debates1972-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "9b53f74ca9ce7bf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.770.3", "colnum": "770", "heading": "THALIDOMIDE CHILDREN", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Paul Dean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Paul Dean)", "preceding_text": "der the extension which will be starting fairly soon. This is part of a much wider problem involving a large number of children. The whole House is grateful to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ashley), for the points which he raised in his speech, and I am particularly grateful to him for giving me notice of them. All hon. Members have a high regard for the hon. Gentleman personally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-16a.770.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-11-17", "file": "debates1972-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "47d6becaf75dfe38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-17a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Robert Grant-Ferris)", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister of State have the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-17a.829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-20", "file": "debates1972-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c06d364af96ac1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S SILVER WEDDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like the Common Market.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "represented the House on this occasion. Over those 25 years, we have seen the continuing development of closer relations between the Royal Family and the British people, the growing informality in their approaches to the problems of the British people and the identification of the Royal Family in worthy national and world causes and concerns—concerns which are non-controversial as between parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-20", "file": "debates1972-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c06d364af96ac1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S SILVER WEDDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the House might not take it amiss if we heard a few minutes of the flip side of the rather tedious, sycophantic and predictable eulogies.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-20", "file": "debates1972-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c06d364af96ac1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S SILVER WEDDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the House might not take it amiss if we heard a few minutes of the flip side of the rather tedious, sycophantic and predictable eulogies.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—to which we have just listened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-20", "file": "debates1972-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c06d364af96ac1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S SILVER WEDDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "s the House might not take it amiss if we heard a few minutes of the flip side of the rather tedious, sycophantic and predictable eulogies.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—to which we have just listened—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—from the leaders of the three parties in the House. It has not been laid on as thickly as it was in the other place last Thursday, and for that we can be grateful, I suppose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-20", "file": "debates1972-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c06d364af96ac1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S SILVER WEDDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "My views on the Monarchy are very well known, and this is no time to repeat them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-20", "file": "debates1972-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c06d364af96ac1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.919.5", "colnum": "919", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S SILVER WEDDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Money-grubber.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "That is not by permission of Her Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.919.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-20", "file": "debates1972-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c06d364af96ac1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.919.5", "colnum": "919", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S SILVER WEDDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "r each client—a collector's cabinet containing a royal velvet plaque to hold the six cameos and a strut for the plaque so that one can stand it on the mantelpiece. They are going for a song. They are £14 each in silver and £120 each in gold; that is, £84 for the set in silver and £720 a set for the gold. Easy payments are provided for. Even credit cards may be used to purchase these unique cameos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.919.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-20", "file": "debates1972-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c06d364af96ac1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.920.2", "colnum": "920", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S SILVER WEDDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The answer to that is very simple. On this very day, four local authorities in Scotland are being inquired into because they are disobeying the law on rents. Other people have disobeyed the law. I hope that the rule of law will apply to everyone, without exception. It is as well to remember that On this day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-20", "file": "debates1972-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c06d364af96ac1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.925.5", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman does, he will want to make his own points in his own way. The simple fact is—and there can be no doubt about this; indeed, if the right hon. Gentleman who aspires to be Chancellor of the Exchequer does not know that there is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.925.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-20", "file": "debates1972-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c06d364af96ac1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Can I help my right hon. Friend? A point which I have not been able to make earlier in proceedings on the Bill is that those who are campaigning for the Bill, and for wage restraint, therefore, are the very persons who go on radio and television to discuss the Bill, getting more money for a ten minute broadcast than the farm worker gets in a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-20", "file": "debates1972-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c06d364af96ac1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.982.7", "colnum": "982", "heading": "PENSIONERS AND FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "preceding_text": "For donkey's years we have all agreed that it is quite wrong, and the hon. Gentleman knows it very well. What he and some of his hon. Friends should remember is that one of the principal causes of inflation, though not the only one, is excessive wage demands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.982.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-11-20", "file": "debates1972-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c06d364af96ac1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "MINK AND COYPUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think it might be for the convenience of the House if at the same time we discussed the second Motion— That the Coypus (Keeping) Order 1972, a copy of which was laid before this House on 7th November, be approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-20a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-21", "file": "debates1972-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "c1ba78fb6aaecbe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1065.4", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brewis", "preceding_text": "May I also congratulate my hon. Friend on her first appearance at the Dispatch Box at Question Time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1065.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-21", "file": "debates1972-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "c1ba78fb6aaecbe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1070.2", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Food Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. In fact, as I have already said this afternoon, the majority of these price rises are clearly attributable to world conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-21", "file": "debates1972-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "c1ba78fb6aaecbe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1070.4", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Food Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "People are entitled to demonstrate whenever they think it appropriate. Regarding old people, pensions now have a higher purchasing power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1070.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-21", "file": "debates1972-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "c1ba78fb6aaecbe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1084.3", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "rty reported. In my constituency I have had correspondence now over six months with two of the right hon. Gentleman's Secretaries of State about a discrepancy of some 23 per cent. in Kirby of those who were not working in the census week against 10 per cent. or 11 per cent. registered unemployed, and they cannot explain the discrepancy. In these circumstances in relation to the importance of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-21", "file": "debates1972-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "c1ba78fb6aaecbe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (BORDER POLL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-21", "file": "debates1972-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "c1ba78fb6aaecbe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1152.0", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (BORDER POLL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "preferring the SDLP. The hon. Member for Belfast, West said that in the plebiscite the Roman Catholics will vote against the link with Britain and that Protestants will vote for the link. That was the message the hon. Gentleman had. We know from an opinion poll which was conducted in Northern Ireland recently by the political magazine Fortnight, which is the local equivalent of the New Statesman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-21", "file": "debates1972-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "c1ba78fb6aaecbe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1152.4", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (BORDER POLL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Any time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": ". The great majority of people in Northern Ireland are moderates, and in that I include members of the Unionist Party. I am proud of the restraint which they have shown. We have two political movements in Northern Ireland to which reference has been made today, the Alliance Party and the new Ulster Movement. They have never fought an election, and we do not know what strength of support they have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-21", "file": "debates1972-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "c1ba78fb6aaecbe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1161.5", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (BORDER POLL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Connaught Rangers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "ason. I do not think that many right hon. or hon. Members can have arrived at the House then without at some stage walking through the graveyard of Westminster Abbey. In the course of that walk they would have seen that not only Ulster regiments like the Inniskillens, but also Irish regiments like the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and all the other panoply of Irish regiments fought alongside the British—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-21", "file": "debates1972-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "c1ba78fb6aaecbe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (BORDER POLL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Member and the late Pope, he does not have a vote in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-21a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Utter rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the thousands of pensioners from Scotland who are lobbying Parliament today regard the Government's £10 hardship payment as derisory almost to the extent of being insulting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1278.6", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "A fairly lengthy list, I suppose. Has the right hon. Gentleman any original ideas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1278.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1301.2", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "CARLISLE AND DISTRICT STATE MANAGEMENT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A waste of money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Lewis", "preceding_text": "sed every conceivable means at my disposal, and my democratic rights, to raise matters concerning the sale of the scheme, so far without any success, yet certain newspapers are able to get information on the matter. Yesterday, in pursuance of my democratic rights, and bearing in mind that the greater part of the scheme lies within my constituency, I tabled 124 Questions on the sale of the scheme.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1301.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONERS AND FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENT PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "her words for poverty. It is much to the credit of the Post Office staffs that they are doing so much to facilitate the payment of the bonus to the elderly poor. We are quite certain that similar arrangements could be made to benefit the excluded widows, the long-term sick and the disabled. The trade union movement as a whole is to be congratulated on its devotion to the cause of the elderly poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1346.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "be best described by that famous passage from the Victorian hymn, which says: The rich man in his castle, The poor man at the gate, He gave to each his station, And ordered their estate. That is what the Government have done. They have created five kinds of Commonwealth and United Kingdom citizen. The rich man in his castle is the United Kingdom citizen with a right of abode in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I ask my hon. Friend to forgive me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1363.2", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I think that there is some misunderstanding here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1369.5", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ssure on immigration into this country. That is something we can never forget. It is no good hon. Members wishing they could forget it. They cannot forget it if, at the same time, they wish to maintain a strict control on Commonwealth immigration. We do put it on one side for what are called the patrials. We would have put it on one side for a much larger number of patrials. But the difference is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1369.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": " the British Nationality Act, 1948. That Act has given me considerable trouble in a recent matter about which I have been trying to knock some sense into the Foreign Office. Is he aware that under that Act it is sometimes difficult for a British subject, of British birth and of British parents, who has been in the Services abroad—the situation of a constituent of mine—to obtain a British passport?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "ctations. After the au pair has arrived there is, so far as I am aware, no provision for supervision. The relevant rules for control after entry—Nos. 17 and 18—make no provision for anyone going to see what has happened in the working out of the arrangement. No one asks whether the au pair is happy, whether she has been turned out of the house the day after arriving, or whether she has walked out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": " will not materialise. The flow is growing in the other direction. We cannot get figures from all the countries, but recent figures from the German census showed that 15,000 skilled Englishmen are working in the industry there. My hon. Friends who say that they will vote against these rules are really saying to the Government \"Take these away and bring them back in 40 days, improved to our taste.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1414.0", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": ", because I believe that is where the most hopeful policy lies, but my hon. Friend the Member for Dorking (Sir G. Sinclair) has already done that extremely effectively, and I leave those thoughts with the Foreign Secretary. A policy of reciprocity would work out in favour of the old Commonwealth as regards numbers. Some people may say that we are discriminating in favour of the white Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": " attempting, in a very short amendment, to return to what they were saying, which is to extend patriality as they originally desired. This is not a rebel movement It is simply saying to the Government \"You ought now to do what you ought to have done and what you said you would do in the first place.\" If there are any hon. Members present—as there appear to have been—who say that this is racialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "nt do not see their way to introducing a one-clause Bill which would do no more than restore the position which they, after all, put before the House and which they could have put back in the Lords and carried through here after if they had shown the same enthusiasm in that regard as they have for many of the other contentious measures that they have pushed through the House in the last 12 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "eral immigration controls. I do not believe that we need the same kind of checks with such countries. Any nation must be free to determine which people shall have the right to come and settle, and it is, surely, nonsense to say that it is racialist to give special treatment to those who have family connections with this country simply because they happen to have the same colour of skin as we have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "do not want to come here.\" When we consider what has happened to this country in the last two years we can understand why he takes that view. It is a little short-sighted. These things can change. The reason why we do not today expect any substantial movement of people into Britain is that our rate of growth and our national prosperity are beginning to fall behind those of the continent of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I am not certain whether it is all square with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "is not enough to tell them that they should be happy because they retain the immense privilege of British citizenship, including the right to vote. The plain truth is that that privilege can be exercised only if they are in the country, and there will not he many people in that position given the close control over entry of numbers which we already have and which is clearly planned for the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "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": "ny which were filled from Italy. Conditions here are totally dissimilar. It was rather cheeky of the right hon. Member for Stepney—even for him—to talk about rate of growth. He should have kept off that subject, if I may say so. Conditions here are totally dissimilar, and there seems no likelihood of a large influx of people to this country seeking work here. It is more likely to be the other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1444.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1452.2", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Powell rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1452.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1454.2", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1454.4", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "preceding_text": "These rules are part of the law of England if we pass them tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1454.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1458.0", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I now ask the Prime Minister, since this is a matter of major constitutional importance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1458.0", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I now ask the Prime Minister, since this is a matter of major constitutional importance —[ Laughter. ]—if he is not going to tender his resignation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1458.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1459.0", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign, resign!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I now ask the Prime Minister, since this is a matter of major constitutional importance —[ Laughter. ]—if he is not going to tender his resignation—[ Laughter. ]—to inform the House what the Government intend to do in the circumstances of this vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1487.1", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "LIVINGSTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (CHAIRMANSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": " appointments in the way that he thinks best. It is a perfectly respectable argument to say that it is not right that one should have a change every now and again in the chairmanship of a new town. The hon. Member for West Lothian is entitled to say that he thinks that a change should not have been made in this case. My right hon. Friend and I feel that it was an appropriate time to make a change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-22", "file": "debates1972-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5d06eabc137b3a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1488.5", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "LIVINGSTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (CHAIRMANSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "ylor having done this job for seven years and having been on the corporation for 10 years—and the corporation's work having reached a stage when the planning of the town centre had been more or less completed and was moving to the stage of implementation it would be of general benefit to the corporation to have a person with a new background and a new range of experience and of skills at its head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-22a.1488.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1501.4", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "The survey given publicity in the Crowther Report was not an IQ survey, and I know of no purely IQ survey. It was a test of ability of National Service recruits, conducted through the Army's own tests of ability. Since that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1501.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1503.3", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend will see, there is probably a good reason for that. If by getting married the young girl saved her parents' contribution, it might be rather a popular thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1505.3", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Through my representatives on Burnham, I asked the committee not to make an offer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1505.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1519.12", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "here is no excuse now—we are getting into this position again. Will the right hon. Gentleman have talks through the usual channels and, if necessary, on a wider basis in the House, possibly by a Select Committee if that is necessary, to make sure that the undoubted rights of the House over statutory instruments are accorded to the House as a whole? Finally, with regard to the events of last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1519.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1519.12", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Cheese Order in 1951.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " the events of last night—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—will he inform the House of the Government's intentions in this matter? Will he tell us of any precedent in the lifetime of any of us of a defeat of the Government on a major confrontation on a Government three-line whip, caused by a revolt of their own Members, which has not led to the necessary conclusions being drawn by the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1519.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1522.0", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "What I am saying is what my right hon. Friend said, that the Government are reviewing the content of those rules in the light of the position and the views expressed in the debate, and will bring amended rules before the House in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1566.3", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman insists on bringing that issue into the debate, I might remind him that the Deputy Prime Minister and several Ministers in that Parliament are Arabs. They have equal rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "lags and Emblems Act making it illegal to fly the Tricolor if someone took offence and objected to it. This kind of legislation was not passed in London and does not apply in any other part of the United Kingdom. While there were many people suffering because of that Act I was able to go to Hyde Park on Sunday afternoons and see hundreds of Tricolors. No one took offence and no one was imprisoned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "for my hon. Friends the Member for West Bromwich (Mr. Foley), the Member for East Stirlingshire (Mr. Douglas) and the Member for Manchester, Blackley (Mr. Rose), who can move amendments such as those now under discussion as though they were dealing with a logical situation in which amendments of this irrelevant and unnecessary detail on a Bill itself an absurdity would clarify or improve anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1632.0", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": " powers. The hon. Gentleman the Member for West Bromwich (Mr. Foley) was very properly concerned about extensions of postal voting. He made the point that communities may move, and they may be uneasy to return to their former dwellings where their vote is registered if the poll is to take place before the new register. My right hon. Friend was very outspoken in the House about the timing question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1636.0", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "d I am sure that it is widely shared. There are real difficulties here. For example, I take the Public Order Act, 1951, to which there have been two subsequent amendments, as the House knows. There are important provisions in that Act about endeavours to break up public meetings. I wonder whether it would be to the benefit of a well conducted poll, and campaign leading up to a well conducted poll—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1646.1", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "endment No. 9 was the only way in which we could vote on Amendment No. 16. If we can now vote on Amendment No. 16 that is all very well, but in the Division only 25 Members voted because they thought they were voting on the principle of Amendment No. 16. Therefore, because of the decision the amendment which I sought to withdraw was voted upon but it was not voted upon by a large number of people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1646.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1675.2", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member for Salford, West suggest that there are a substantial number of people in Northern Ireland who in the distant future—and they do not know what will happen in between—are prepared to put an \"X\" in the third box who would not be prepared to put it in the second box?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1683.0", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of Ireland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "the answer was \"No\" and that there had been no consultation on these important points. I think I am right in saying that that is the situation, and it is hard to imagine anybody negotiating with the Prime Minister. He never Seems to negotiate, but to state his proposals and then not to shift from them. The Prime Minister, at the Oxford Union Society this evening, dealing with these proposals said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1691.0", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "accept that he puts his proposal on that basis, and I accept the sincerity of his hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt) that he wants to see people take part in the poll. That is our purpose. But the burden of my argument remains—this is where a basic difference lies between us—that I genuinely and honestly believe that the second question on the schedule now provides an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-23", "file": "debates1972-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "a9f0fc9443f1afb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I accept that some people take the Opposition view. I can only base my judgment on a great many consultations with different individuals and parties. I am entitled to take the view that since I have probably discussed these problems with more people than anyone else in the House, it is fair to say that, although I may be wrong in the end, as I am the first to admit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-23a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-24", "file": "debates1972-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3e484531aa946ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-24a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "TAKEOVERS AND MERGERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "nd part of the reason was the geographical advantage of being nearer to major part of the market on the Continent. I would alert the House against the euphoria of supposing that entry into Europe will solve all our problems. We need to consider how we can defend our own interests in the same way as Scotland and Wales have had to defend their own interests even in the context of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-24a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-24", "file": "debates1972-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3e484531aa946ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-24a.1822.1", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "TAKEOVERS AND MERGERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "sets and to sell them off for ready cash without regard for the longer-term considerations or the interests of the company and its employees or of the public at large. This kind of merger piracy is still, fortunately, rare, but we will not hesitate to refer to the Monopolies Commission any proposed mergers which arise where the sole aim is the break-up of a profitable business for short-term gain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-24a.1822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-27", "file": "debates1972-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "105ae5d8dc83d2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-27a.17.6", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend explain why the hon. Member for Newport (Mr. Roy Hughes) is always bothering about this matter although very few hon. Members opposite bothered to attend the House to oppose the Bristol Corporation Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-27a.17.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-27", "file": "debates1972-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "105ae5d8dc83d2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-27a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "GARTREE PRISON (ATTEMPTED ESCAPE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Australia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "experience tells me that grade A security-risk prisoners should be kept entirely separate from those in grade B and the others. Not only should they be kept separate, but they and the troublemakers who are not grade A should all be put into one fortress-like prison. That should not be in the United Kingdom as such. It must be in a place where the prisoners can lead a normal life but cannot escape—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-27a.33.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-11-27", "file": "debates1972-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "105ae5d8dc83d2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-27a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMPENSATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And amendments?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "people are very happy with the noise of a discotheque. Others may be like P. G. Wodehouse's golfer who was put off his stroke by the noise of butterflies in an adjoining meadow. It is not easy to measure for precise statutory arrangements, but there will be a fruitful opportunity to discuss this in Committee, when the Government will listen with sympathy and understanding to the views put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-27a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-27", "file": "debates1972-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "105ae5d8dc83d2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-27a.70.2", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMPENSATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "preceding_text": "en 1947 and 1959 no remedy for blight was available and it did not come until the provisions of section 39(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1959 which first defined categories of blighted land, restricting remedies to owner occupiers. It is only fair to recognise that it has been under a Conservative Administration that the problem of blight has been faced up to and legislation introduced.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-27a.70.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-27", "file": "debates1972-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "105ae5d8dc83d2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-27a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. R. Kinsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. R. Kinsey", "preceding_text": "0 per cent. discount people of modest means are still being left outside the range of purchase. We want to see an expansion in the rate of ownership. I am afraid that the Department's circular is to some local authorities, simply another piece of paper—they just ignore it. Since the change of control, Birmingham City Council has tightened up on the sale of council houses—in fact, it has stopped it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-27a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-27", "file": "debates1972-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "105ae5d8dc83d2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-27a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "orward originally. The reason for bringing the 1971 Housing Act before the House was to provide employment for Manchester building workers on a long-term basis. We have an intolerable unemployment position among building workers in Manchester. There are 2,560 of them out of work, and there are only 143 vacancies. It means that there are 18 unemployed building workers for every vacancy in the city—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-27a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-28", "file": "debates1972-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "77c58324242e9d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Lady has not yet understood how value added tax works. What she must do is constantly to repeat to herself the words \"I must remember to deduct my inputs\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-28", "file": "debates1972-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "77c58324242e9d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.219.5", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Since we have been in office we have already halved the rate of SET—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-28", "file": "debates1972-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "77c58324242e9d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.220.5", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Anybody is particularly stupid if he thinks that during the successive increases of taxation on food under the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.220.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-28", "file": "debates1972-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "77c58324242e9d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.220.5", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Anybody is particularly stupid if he thinks that during the successive increases of taxation on food under the previous Government—[ Interruption. ] People are being very stupid indeed if they do not know that those increases made a direct contribution to increasing the price of food. The simple fact is—and the whole country knows this—that the Labour Government deliberately set out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.220.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-28", "file": "debates1972-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "77c58324242e9d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (GUILDHALL SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the right hon. Gentleman's friends?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "In view of the right hon. Gentleman's reference in that speech to his old friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-28", "file": "debates1972-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "77c58324242e9d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "ere was in existence at the time when the Opposition's National Superannuation Bill was going through Parliament an organisation called STOP, Save The Occupational Pension. That organisation liked to quote people with \"right\" attitudes on this subject. One of those who was quoted was—to quote a pamphlet published by STOP—\"Mr. John Nott, Conservative MP for St. Ives\". He is now a Treasury Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-28", "file": "debates1972-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "77c58324242e9d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CASES IN WHICH DEATH GRANT IS PAYABLE UNDER SECTION 30", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "State reserve scheme he will get only 26 per cent. if the basic pension keeps up with earnings, and only 17 per cent. if it matches only price rises. National superannuation would at least have reduced inequalities in retirement and would have removed all but 13 per cent. of supplementary pensioners from poverty within 20 years. In 45 years this Bill will remove hardly any pensioners from poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-28a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The distinction between industrial and non-industrial civil servants—and I am not making a party point—is a very fine one in many jobs. For example, Ministers' drivers are industrial civil servants, which seems absurd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THALIDOMIDE CHILDREN", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And on the other children.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "be done. It is a sober tribute to the achievement of the parents, children, voluntary services and all the other services concerned that no fewer than 90 per cent. of the children concerned are living in their own homes, and 75 per cent. of them are attending ordinary schools. This reflects credit also on the local authorities, the National Health Service, the limb-fitting service and the schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THALIDOMIDE CHILDREN", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I must protect myself from doing that which would be tantamount to intervening in current negotiations and litigation. But hon. Members on both sides have expressed themselves as very concerned about the responsibility of the firm. Those who were desperately worried about what appeared to be deadlock in the negotiations will have noted the new offer as evidence of active negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THALIDOMIDE CHILDREN", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I accept all that. I am not taking a legalistic view. There are two reasons why legislation, as recommended by the Motion, is unsuitable. First, it might prejudice the negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THALIDOMIDE CHILDREN", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ents to want to continue to fight for their children's interests. But other parents have been in no position to take these financial risks Mr. Mason has now new solicitors, but he is still facing endless obstacles in pressing his claim. The new solicitors wrote to Kimber Bull & Co. asking it to transfer the existing papers relating to Mr. Mason's case in respect of his daughter. They were refused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THALIDOMIDE CHILDREN", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "e put into a position to fight. If an average payment of £8,000 in June is now admitted by Distillers to be inadequate, let us keep up the pressure, set up a fund and we may then see that £5 million offer turned into £15 million before long—certainly something far nearer to the human justice which we need to have. I want now to conclude because so many hon. Members want to take part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.459.3", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THALIDOMIDE CHILDREN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Astor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Astor", "preceding_text": "Following the speech made by the right hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle), I hope to reintroduce a more conciliatory note into the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THALIDOMIDE CHILDREN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in this country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "preceding_text": "I understand that originally thalidomide could have been purchased without a prescription.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.513.5", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LORRIES (SIZE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unfair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "e of Bridge, in Kent, is bypassed? How long will it be before all the other towns and villages in Britain are effectively bypassed? The answer is years and years. We are not prepared to wait for so long. The trouble is that the Minister, like his previous boss, the present Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, is a great deal better at talking about the environment than actually improving it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.513.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LORRIES (SIZE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then say so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I am sorry—certainly no innuendo against the right hon. Gentleman was intended in my remarks—but there was on the stocks a proposal when I took office. It did not come from the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LORRIES (SIZE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "preceding_text": "y the greater loads which must come in the years ahead. I agree with the right hon. Member for Grimsby (Mr. Crosland) that this occasion is not a means of destroying for all time the bigger lorry. There is a case for the bigger lorry. But my right hon. Friend must plead at Brussels for this country to be given sufficient time, perhaps a number of years, to prepare our country for greater vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LORRIES (SIZE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Simeons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or 25 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Simeons", "preceding_text": "The matters which we are discussing will not be implemented in Europe until 1980. A lot can happen between now and then and many opinions can alter. I suspect that by 1980 the motorway from Dover to Canterbury will have been built. We are talking not about all the fleet of lorries but about only a percentage of it—I guess 20 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LORRIES (SIZE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Simeons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Simeons", "preceding_text": " from Dover to Canterbury will have been built. We are talking not about all the fleet of lorries but about only a percentage of it—I guess 20 per cent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Or 25 per cent.\"] Perhaps 25 per cent. But the lorries do not drive around like minis or weave in and out like taxis. Just as much havoc is caused as a result of lamp posts having been knocked over by minis as is caused by lorries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LORRIES (SIZE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "was 90, but it is interesting to note that the number is falling off as the message gets home that we will not have in this country foreign lorries that do not comply with our regulations. It is clear to all that something has to be done in Europe as a whole to bring this matter under sensible regulation, especially as we are now engaged in preparations for the European Agricultural Heritage Year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LORRIES (SIZE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the veto?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Marten) accurately quoted the position, as he accurately quoted what my right hon. Friend the Minister for Transport Industries said and how between us we set out the position, the position after 1st January, 1973 and the interim position until then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-29", "file": "debates1972-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3d445d60dece19ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEGAL AID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "preceding_text": "s the world. Certainly in most Continental countries people are amazed at the extent to which, out of public funds and through the good will and resources of the legal profession, we help the litigant. We also aid foreigners who bring deserving cases here. It is with some pride that I recall some years ago myself representing an impecunious French citizen who was suing an Englishman in our courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-29a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-30", "file": "debates1972-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "6fb6a1d399f12b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-30a.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "I am always grateful when right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite express their gratitude to the Royal Navy, though I am always surprised that they confine their remarks to the Beira patrol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-30a.607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-30", "file": "debates1972-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "6fb6a1d399f12b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-30a.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "I am always grateful when right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite express their gratitude to the Royal Navy, though I am always surprised that they confine their remarks to the Beira patrol—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] It is a fair point. A party point was made and it is fair to make a party answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-30a.607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-30", "file": "debates1972-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "6fb6a1d399f12b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-30a.621.2", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND (VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As many as three?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "erever crimes are found. I myself have explained this to Mr. Lynch and have given him the figures of the number of cases brought involving both Catholics and Protestants. At the moment, there are at least three of the present or former members of the UDA Council themselves under charges, and many members of the UDA as well. This is a convincing answer to those who say that the forces only operate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-30a.621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-30", "file": "debates1972-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "6fb6a1d399f12b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-30a.710.2", "colnum": "710", "heading": "ARMY, AIR FORCE AND NAVAL DISCIPLINE ACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. May we return to this question? If Bills are to start their life in the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-30a.710.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-30", "file": "debates1972-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "6fb6a1d399f12b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-30a.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "LONDON TRAFFIC CONGESTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "f somebody who had been frustrated because of traffic congestion blew his top and tore a strip off the first available policeman. The hon. Gentleman would quite rightly condemn that member of the general public in this House. I hope that tonight the hon. Gentleman will express regret that the Prime Minister vented his anger upon a serving police officer—the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-30a.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-11-30", "file": "debates1972-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "6fb6a1d399f12b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-30a.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "LONDON TRAFFIC CONGESTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "rt. That report was provided and the Prime Minister asked that the GLC should be informed of his concern. The Prime Minister's staff did as they were bid, and I think the House will recognise that it is a normal courtesy of a senior Minister of the Crown, when he is making inquiries about the functions of a statutory body, to ensure that the head of that statutory body is informed of this concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-11-30a.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I appreciate my hon. Friend's concern about the matter. That is why I gave the answer I did. It still remains a fact that notices setting out the entitlement of stamps have to be displayed at premises where stamps are available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.928.0", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of debating the subject. The right hon. Gentleman should read what was said in another place originally by his noble Friend who was at that time Minister of State. There is no doubt about the Government's ideas; they were firm and there were to be no changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.928.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.935.3", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " Bill becomes law and then will be a statutory commission for a fixed period. No period is fixed in the Bill. How long does the Secretary of State expect its work to last? We are certainly very pleased that someone of Tom Fraser's quality will be its chairman. I wish that the right hon. Gentleman had given us the names of the chairmen for the other commissions, such as the Boundary Commission and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.935.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.935.3", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "t not before I have a chance to make my own suggestions. The Government will appreciate that although we shall probably agree to the Second Reading because we want change and the general principles are right, there is a good deal of scope in the detail for considerable controversy on the Scottish Committee. We are sorry that that Committee will be so small, particularly from our own point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.935.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.956.3", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "preceding_text": "xpenses will come down, and that everyone will be happier, I am sure that most people will accept the proposal. But that is the last thing that my hon. Friend says. All that we get from him is that people must see an architect in Edinburgh or in Dundee. Any proposal must be based on efficiency and nothing else. All my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench are trying to keep down costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not the only place.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am always willing to give Saltcoats a free plug.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "last year when elections had taken place which could be taken into account, 63 per cent. of the seats were uncontested. How can it be said that the creation of bigger authorities will destroy local democracy? It is a myth. It is just not true. Who can argue that the present set-up is democratic in face of figures like that? I see that the right hon. Member for Argyll (Mr. Noble) nods in agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ested. How can it be said that the creation of bigger authorities will destroy local democracy? It is a myth. It is just not true. Who can argue that the present set-up is democratic in face of figures like that? I see that the right hon. Member for Argyll (Mr. Noble) nods in agreement. [ Interruption .] It is only retired colonels and, perhaps, retired Members of Parliament who can find the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that is necessarily true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian MacArthur", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian MacArthur", "preceding_text": "is White Paper way back in 1963. As he said quietly and modestly in his speech today, some delay followed thereafter. When the right hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) was Secretary of State, nothing much happened beyond the establishment of the Royal Commission. The reason was that the right hon. Gentleman and his fellow Ministers were too busy giving urgent consideration to the Hunter Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Doig", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or in London.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Doig", "preceding_text": "cal point is sheer rubbish. They have some of the finest shopping centres anywhere in Scotland. They have all the facilities; they even have car parking facilities on a scale that one cannot find anywhere else in Scotland. I have found more opportunities for parking fairly close to the shopping centre in Kirkcaldy than I have ever found in Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, or anywhere else in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.1027.5", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "I am aware of that, but I still think that it does not necessarily follow that names which are agreeable to the largest number of people in a region are necessarily the most appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.1027.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "mplication of the top tier's strategy for redistribution of population necessitating the new schools in the first place. The difference is that it would then be accepting the view of a different authority, whereas under the proposals in the Bill it would be the same authority that would be making the decision as to the strategic laying-out of the population and the educational facilities involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "ace. The difference is that it would then be accepting the view of a different authority, whereas under the proposals in the Bill it would be the same authority that would be making the decision as to the strategic laying-out of the population and the educational facilities involved. [ Interruption. ] I am trying to spell this out in the way in which I have been asked. Secondly, there may well be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "orities which might be different from those of the upper tier which made the original strategic decision. There might be no place in the local plan or the structure plan for the new school, and there might be an amendment needed to the plan and a public inquiry for that. Lastly, the district authority might have difficulty in adjusting the local plan to find a satisfactory site for the new school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-04", "file": "debates1972-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "48c62a0c23b9ce2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "STUDENT GRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": " as one of the direct results of the Government's refusal to make any move on the subject of university grants. This latter problem has now engaged the critical and organisational attention of one of the larger unions, the National Union of Public Employees. It will, no doubt, be particularly interested in what the Undersecretary has to say about the future of its membership. I shall wait to hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-04a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "d this matter with various representatives of the unions. The hon. Gentleman's criticism rests very largely on a misunderstanding of the nature of the so-called voluntary codes of practice suggested in Lord Robens' report. I think that what Lord Robens was suggesting is non-statutory codes which would be worked out by unions and employers together and which would be backed by statutory sanctions.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State agree that however the figures are \"cooked\" they show the worst unemployment statistics for 40 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I am surprised at the hon. Member continuing the absurd suggestion that the figures were \"cooked\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "e as those available in the previous Press statement. The figures for the temporarily stopped were published separately and were not included within the total of unemployed in order to achieve greater accuracy about the reserve of manpower, which is something that Labour Members have been seeking. Those who are temporarily stopped are not unemployed in the sense that they are seeking further work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "e system is less than ideal, and a senior consultant in the computer industry agreed yesterday that the time scale is very short. Yes—it is going to be a disaster, I would have thought' he opined equably. Everybody concerned with the administration of the tax knows that it will be a shambles, that it will be a disaster for at least the first six months on the scale of the Dunkirk disaster of 1940—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is very interested in sport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is very interested in sport. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Yes, I will indeed. A great many elderly people watch sport on television.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is very interested in sport. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Yes, I will indeed. A great many elderly people watch sport on television.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The hon. Gentleman was talking about television. How does the hon. Gentleman justify a system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Explain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " a yacht paid no tax but the man who bought a cricket bat—as the hon. Gentleman is so interested in sport—paid 55 per cent.? The whole thing is an absolute nonsense, and the Opposition know it. VAT is a better and fairer tax than purchase tax and SET. The more the Opposition pretend otherwise, the more they will be shown after next April to have misrepresented it. The essence of the change to VAT—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman is so interested in sport—paid 55 per cent.? The whole thing is an absolute nonsense, and the Opposition know it. VAT is a better and fairer tax than purchase tax and SET. The more the Opposition pretend otherwise, the more they will be shown after next April to have misrepresented it. The essence of the change to VAT—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Explain.\"] I have explained to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mention them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ustries. Before I come to the advantages for the retailer—I shall list them in a moment—I should point out to the Opposition that the Customs and Excise reported to me the experience of countries which had changed to a VAT system similar to our own. I was told that once the problems associated with transition were over, the retailers—large and small—in those countries found no difficulty with VAT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "wn. I was told that once the problems associated with transition were over, the retailers—large and small—in those countries found no difficulty with VAT. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Mention them.\"] I will mention some countries in a moment if hon. Gentlemen wish me to do so. Apparently the view of the Labour Party is that British retailers are less intelligent than their counterparts. For example, in Norway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ers—large and small—in those countries found no difficulty with VAT. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Mention them.\"] I will mention some countries in a moment if hon. Gentlemen wish me to do so. Apparently the view of the Labour Party is that British retailers are less intelligent than their counterparts. For example, in Norway—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I was asked to mention countries. In Norway, Sweden and Denmark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1129.4", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I have told the right hon. Gentleman the steps we shall be taking and I have no doubt, from the preliminary discussions which I have had with some members of the retailing organisations, that we shall receive from the retailing organisations—this is essential and I have no doubt that we shall get it—full support and co-operation to ensure that what I have said takes place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1130.3", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I have a great deal more to say. I have given way to the right hon. Gentleman and I do not want to hold up the debate unduly. I come now to the extraordinary antics of the Opposition and the right hon. Gentleman. Here I must warn the country—I shall match my words with chapter and verse—that the Labour Party is engaged in a wholly irresponsible campaign to alarm the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1130.4", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. He is quoting what was said by me before the 1970 General Election on the basis of the Conservative policy as then stated. The Conservatives committed themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1130.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I do not think that was very good.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": ", he inadvertently caused the nation to be deceived at the time of the General Election. But why should the nation any more believe what he says? He referred in his speech today to the Civil Service, but only two days ago, on Sunday, the right hon. Gentleman said on the BBC that because of VAT the Customs and Excise staff are just about on the edge of mutiny\". There is no truth whatsoever in that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1131.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1132.2", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is a document.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I apologise. I thought that the hon. Gentleman expected a document, but I understand that it does not exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1132.8", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And to you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. It is important to the House, if the Government spokesman or the Opposition spokesman, but particularly the Government spokesman, quotes from a document, that that document should be laid before the House. I am asking you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to reconsider the tolerance you have shown to the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1132.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1133.2", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1133.4", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may continue by referring to the deplorable campaign being conducted by the Labour Party. Why did the hon. Member for Eton and Slough (Miss Lestor) say in the House over a fortnight ago that, as a result of VAT, packaged food will go up in price? It will not. Why only last Tuesday did the hon. Member for Ealing, North (Mr. Molloy)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1133.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I am sorry to pursue the matter, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but while we accept your ruling on the question of the documents, nevertheless, arising from these exchanges, I submit that there is a point of very considerable constitutional importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "stions he asked in order to secure that advice and without telling us the circumstances in which the conversation took place and when it took place, and allowing us the opportunity to ask the relevant questions about the matter. We certainly would not wish to put you in an impossible position, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but this situation is unprecedented. I do not think that it has ever happened before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "r than on the rich, for the simple reason that the necessities and near necessities of life which are taxed at the lowest rate of purchase tax will have to bear a higher rate of tax. The first error which has been made, and which should be corrected, is that we have not pursued, as other countries have, two, three or even four rates of VAT as a matter of social justice. That is what the Irish did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "or the Opposition, and the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe) were very kind to the Government Front Bench, suggesting that they were only trying to be helpful in seeking to defer the introduction of VAT for 12 months. We all grinned wryly, because the quicker we get the tax into action, the quicker the bugs will be out of it and the whole thing will vanish from the public consciousness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1171.5", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": "d motor cars will go up in price. What does that mean in terms of regression and progression in the fiscal sense? I should like to give two simple sets of figures, taking households with incomes of less than £10 a week and households of more than £80 in order to exaggerate the argument. However, the figures in between run up in a straight line. Families with a £10 a week income spend 30 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1179.4", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "g he is having to pay for the administration of all the schemes, which was a cost not previously imposed upon me because the cost of the civil servants who administered the scheme was borne on the votes of the various Departments concerned. There is considerable misgiving about the effect that this tax will have on the whole question of sport. I want now to turn to the second part of my argument.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Trew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Trew", "preceding_text": "total consumer expenditure, the tax base of VAT is increasing progressively and yielding proportionately more revenue than the increase in consumer expenditure. In other words, it is providing a useful reserve of revenue for Chancellors of the Exchequer to consider making cuts in taxation. That is a point worth bearing in mind. I want to comment briefly on the attitude of the Liberal Party to VAT—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Conservative Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "preceding_text": "I am particularly pleased to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Dartford (Mr. Trew), especially as we are colleagues as joint secretaries of the Conservative Back-Bench Finance Committee. I am astonished that on an important motion of censure of the Government the Opposition appear to have run out of speakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may not like it, but he will get it. Halfway through the winding-up speech of the hon. Member for Heywood and Royton (Mr. Joel Barnett) there were only 20 Labour Members present. At once stage during the debate Mr. Deputy Speaker was obliged to call two of my hon. Friends in succession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "e only 20 Labour Members present. At once stage during the debate Mr. Deputy Speaker was obliged to call two of my hon. Friends in succession—[ Interruption. ]—It is the Opposition's motion, not ours. I can tell the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) that the next time he asks the Shadow Cabinet for a Supply Day he will have some pretty pointed questions to answer from his Chief Whip.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "he Chancellor and the non-inflationary level of the rate he has selected. The Wholesale Grocers' Federation said: We are extremely pleased that our two main submissions—a single rate of VAT plus zero-rating for food—have been accepted. Nevertheless I do not deny that for the retailer who has never before been concerned with the mechanics of indirect taxation VAT does take a bit of getting used to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is true, anyway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "the air was thick with the cries of alarm. Speaking at Birmingham on 3rd June 1970 the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. Harold Wilson) said: Four shillings in the pound more on your bus and rail fares, for these would be subject to the tax; four shillings in the pound more on your gas, electricity and coal bills; and four shillings in the pound more on children's clothing, books and newspapers \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1232.6", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "e debate has been about the general merits of VAT. To hear the right hon. Member for Leeds, East talking one would think that the Labour Party had never recognised the advantages of VAT, yet we know that it did, and if the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins) were still Chancellor of the Exchequer it is possible that he would be standing at this Dispatch Box defending VAT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1232.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1234.7", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the Minister is so convinced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1234.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-05", "file": "debates1972-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0e39063ee92b4bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1234.7", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the Minister is so convinced—[ Interruption. ]—that traders will treat the public properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-05a.1234.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1280.2", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "Local authorities have a tolerance in these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1306.2", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "CHRYSLER UNITED KINGDOM LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1332.1", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEX THERAPY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Michael Alison)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Michael Alison)", "preceding_text": "s be subject to exploitation and misled as to the true implications of what they are doing. As I have suggested, certain practices are prohibited by the Sexual Offences Act, 1956. It is also possible that some of the more irresponsible and ridiculous claims which might be made would come within the scope of the Trades Descriptions Act, 1968 or the Fair Trading Bill, which is now before Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "t? How can anyone ignore all the points that have been made? But even the considerations that have been used for determining this figure—the cost of living statistics—are inaccurate. They take inadequate notice of the costs of housing in London. I heard of a semi-detached house in Finchley going for £27,000—an ordinary sort of house with three bedrooms. I do not know what is special about Finchley", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas)", "preceding_text": "First, may I look back to the irenic moments which seem so far away when I received the congratulations of the hon. Member for Woolwich, West (Mr. Hamling) on my appointment to the Department. I appreciated them not only because of the ties of friendship which bind us together but because of the hon. Gentleman's contribution to education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1417.1", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Yes, my right hon. Friend and I recognise the very much more complicated situation which exists in London and that it is not strictly comparable to the position in the West Riding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1417.1", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend and I recognise the very much more complicated situation which exists in London and that it is not strictly comparable to the position in the West Riding. [ Laughter. ] There is the other school which was mentioned by the hon. Member for Greenwich; I believe it was Charlton. There again, that is a school which would require a large amount of money to be spent on it—about £800,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1417.1", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Except on rents.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "-up schemes which are comprehensive only in name and do not provide the advantages of comprehension which a new school with new buildings would do. We believe that the responsibility for proposing changes in a local pattern of organisation rests with the local authority. It is not for us to lay down a diktat from Whitehall. We do not believe that the man in Whitehall necessarily always knows best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1420.7", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poppycock.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "It has to do with need because the minor works programme is associated with the basic needs programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1420.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1421.1", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "thought that the age structure of the teaching profession in London would have something to do with the wastage there. It is also likely that a number of young teachers who intend to stay in teaching may take advantage of the mobility which they enjoy before they are tied down by family responsibilities and decide to move out to areas where housing is cheaper and where they can set up their homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": " contentious, subject, that of London teachers' allowances. I say to the hon. Member for Shoreditch and Finsbury that critics of the Secretary of State cannot have it both ways. They cannot, on the one hand, criticise her for not caring and not feeling and on the other hand criticise her because she takes the trouble to consult the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "y. A whole list of criteria applies there, such as the social and economic status of the parents, the absence of amenities in the home, the proportion of the children in school receiving free meals, and so on. That is an entirely different problem, and should not be confused with the present problem. Nor is the allowance a cost of living allowance as such, which would go up and down with an index—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-06", "file": "debates1972-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b3c1d1f4e535bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1426.3", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": " State went out of her way to see that that offer was made available to teachers. Far from being a derisory and arbitrary sum, it was a sum of money based on the indices, and it was a perfectly reasonable sum in the light of past negotiations and past increases. Summing up the last point—and this concludes my speech—my right hon. Friend has throughout behaved correctly and fairly towards teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-06a.1426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-07", "file": "debates1972-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e6e0202306f88afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-07a.1655.3", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tally ho!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-07a.1655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-07", "file": "debates1972-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e6e0202306f88afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-07a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Is not my right hon. Friend aware that we want to discuss these matters on the Floor of the House? We are not concerned with ad hoc or any other ad committees; we want to discuss them here. Is he aware of increasing anxiety among those of us who are interested in the country's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-07a.1681.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-08", "file": "debates1972-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f3fc27ed95dd51d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-08a.1904.3", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "TEACHERS (LONDON ALLOWANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "te acted properly within the context of the present system. I have, I hope, made out a case to show quite clearly that she acted properly. I have given the facts. I have shown that she acted properly and that she has shown that she intends to do her best for teachers. I myself have sympathy with the teachers, but I also have complete confidence in the integrity and honesty of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-08a.1904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.42.4", "colnum": "42", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether I could ask the Leader of the House or, through him, the Attorney-General, three questions. I should like to do this, because it may take the Committee of Privileges two months or more to rule on this matter —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.42.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "United Airlines of America had options. Perhaps I could ask my hon. Friend who is to wind up to give the precise number of aircraft involved in the cancellation of options.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "United Airlines of America had options. Perhaps I could ask my hon. Friend who is to wind up to give the precise number of aircraft involved in the cancellation of options. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister does not know.\"] It is not a question of not knowing; it is a question of my not wishing to mislead the House, which I might do if I were to get a figure wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "tails of those contracts have never been published. Like other Ministers I was faced with this situation and, like other Ministers, I decided that it would not be in the interest of the industries at large or the companies in particular that such contracts should be published. That has been the practice of all Governments with contracts of this sort, and there is no point in hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "he selling price achieved and the size of advance payments airlines are prepared to make, and £250 million is the best estimate that can be made at this stage of the amounts that will need to be loaned or guaranteed. But it is possible that substanially less will be needed. Equally it is possible that more than £250 million will be needed. The Bill therefore provides for the amount to be extended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "sual position tonight in listening to all the friendly references to ministerial statements that I made, and hearing a retrospective blessing of the Industrial Expansion Act, which featured specially for repeal in the Conservative election manifesto of 1970. But I pass from that, except to say that I now understand the phrase about a drunk turning to a lamp post more for support than illumination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "First of all, the coal industry is not a project. Secondly, the distribution of resources among the people involved in the coal industry is rather greater than it is in terms of the numbers involved in the aircraft industry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "Most of these articles come from BAC, which has a very efficient public relations organisation backing it. The only other organisation anywhere near it in expensive publicity is the British Road Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is there to hide?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbitt", "preceding_text": "uld consider seriously a Select Committee procedure, I have my doubts about referring this Bill to a Select Committee at this time. First, I think there is no doubt that what is said in a Select Committee becomes the property of at least those who are very interested in the matter, and we would be very foolish indeed if we were to think otherwise. Everything that was said would be public property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "preceding_text": "l to keep in mind when the Concorde project started. The most important one was the financial safeguard. I specified that there should be constant parliamentary supervision of all the financial aspects and that due attention should be paid to all the environmental difficulties which might arise. I shall not dwell any longer on past history because to some extent perhaps that is past and forgotten—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "If what I am saying is rubbish the Select Committee will prove it so and I therefore expect the Minister to give way on this point. He is admitting that I am right. He knows that the VCIO is 20 times noisier than TriStar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "f what I am saying is rubbish the Select Committee will prove it so and I therefore expect the Minister to give way on this point. He is admitting that I am right. He knows that the VCIO is 20 times noisier than TriStar. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The Minister knows that Concorde is of the same order but rather worse than the noisiest aircraft now landing. That is admitted by the British manufacturers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Cranley Onslow)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Cranley Onslow)", "preceding_text": "us more facts, to remind the House that he had been casti- gated by the Public Accounts Committee for the excessive secrecy with which his Government had approached this project, and then to tell us three or four years later of what happened in September 1968? I find this extraordinary. It seems to be the merest opportunism in a man to say one thing when in office and another when he is out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Cranley Onslow)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Cranley Onslow)", "preceding_text": "another when he is out of it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] This is not the first time that the right hon. Gentleman and I have crossed swords. I hope that he still remembers what I had to say to him at the time of the Beagle affair. I say to him now that what I have to say tonight seems to bear repetition of the Beagle remarks about a hundred-fold. If I may interpolate on the question of the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Cranley Onslow)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Cranley Onslow)", "preceding_text": " what I have to say tonight seems to bear repetition of the Beagle remarks about a hundred-fold. If I may interpolate on the question of the White Paper—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"]—the right hon. Gentleman said that he had been pressing for a White Paper. He has a short memory. We know that. Naturally enough, he has forgotten what he told the House on 26th January 1970. On 26th January 1970—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Cranley Onslow)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Cranley Onslow)", "preceding_text": "ater. But in farewell to the right hon. Gentleman I am amazed at his affrontery. He said in his opening that the whole history of Concorde justifies the view that this is the moment when we should look at it again in greater detail. But this is not the time. If ever there was such a time it was three or four years ago when the House was denied the opportunity and he is the man who denied it to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-11", "file": "debates1972-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "db6523d05668146e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Cranley Onslow)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Cranley Onslow)", "preceding_text": " so I will try to answer some of the questions raised. The hon. Member for Edmonton (Mr. Albu) asked about BOAC. I do not propose to go over the points again that were made in the BOAC order because they were fully explained to the House by my hon. Friend the Minister for Aerospace in May when he made his statement on the capital structure of the British Airways Board and its financial objectives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-11a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-12", "file": "debates1972-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cfdbd972c689a048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-12a.229.5", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unemployment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister in his reply to the first supplementary question referred to the volume of employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-12a.229.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-12", "file": "debates1972-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cfdbd972c689a048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-12a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "r, what was said today by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry was not enough to give Tynesiders the feeling that they will not face serious unemployment. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has told the House that the rate of unemployment is coming down. I accept that statement and I am grateful for it, because I believe that our party has done a magnificent job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-12a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-12", "file": "debates1972-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cfdbd972c689a048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-12a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman that in the North-West as a whole and in his area it is clear from the returns that we are now getting, which of course cover cotton textiles as well as the other major industries in the region, that inquiries from industrialists are running at a very high order—in fact, 50 per cent. above last year. It is significant, too, that since late March IDC approvals in the North-West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-12a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-12", "file": "debates1972-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cfdbd972c689a048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-12a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": " suit the hon. Member, I hope he will not prevent me from giving it. He asked about last year. It is significant, too, that, since late March IDC approvals in the North-West, compared with the same period in 1971. are 50 per cent. higher in number and represent 80 per cent. more factory space and even more new jobs. That, allied to the reduction in unemployment in the North-West, will be welcomed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-12a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-12", "file": "debates1972-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cfdbd972c689a048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-12a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer made clear our position on REP. We have honoured the undertaking given by the Labour Government and we are carrying the REP through to 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-12a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-12", "file": "debates1972-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cfdbd972c689a048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-12a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer made clear our position on REP. We have honoured the undertaking given by the Labour Government and we are carrying the REP through to 1974. [ Interruption. ] There is no question of its being cut off suddenly. It will be phased out after that date, and the Secretary of State is discussing the method of doing that with industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-12a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-13", "file": "debates1972-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "c91f7fb6609b5c93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-13a.423.6", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is not telling the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-13a.423.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-13", "file": "debates1972-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "c91f7fb6609b5c93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-13a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, that is not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "All I can tell the hon. Gentleman is that I think a half day's debate on that topic would be suitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-13a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-13", "file": "debates1972-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "c91f7fb6609b5c93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-13a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAIR TRADING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Roper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Roper", "preceding_text": "of Trade and Ministers in the Department of Trade and Industry ever since my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition expressed some hope of dealing with this when the 1948 measure was going through the House in 1947. I hope that we can pursue in Committee these new provisions for complex monopoly situations and the possibility of these non-collusive oligopolies being brought under scrutiny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-13a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-13", "file": "debates1972-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "c91f7fb6609b5c93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-13a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAIR TRADING BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Peter Emery)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Peter Emery)", "preceding_text": " the citizens advice bureaux and other appropriate organisations. It was not permitted to take up individual consumer's complaints or to take law enforcement action and the idea that the Director General, and the apparatus in the Bill, together with the CPAC could be grafted on to a resuscitated or retained Consumer Council is not to understand either the real working or the benefits of the Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-13a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-14", "file": "debates1972-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f05a6dcf7347584c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.626.3", "colnum": "626", "heading": "FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE (OUTBREAK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "May I add my sympathy to the farmers and others affected? I am sure that this would reflect the views of the whole House. Second, may I congratulate the officers of my right hon. Friend's Ministry and the police on the great speed with which the necessary action has been taken—which is a great improvement on what we saw in 1967—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.626.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-14", "file": "debates1972-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f05a6dcf7347584c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.634.3", "colnum": "634", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "er of other hon. Members. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that under the Merchant Shipping Act over 30 sets of regulations will be issued and that another 10 regulations are before the House which will come into being on 1st January? Is he further aware that these regulations are controversial and comprehensive in that they raise the issue, with which hon. Members will be concerned, of a seaman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.634.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-14", "file": "debates1972-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f05a6dcf7347584c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.641.2", "colnum": "641", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Against whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State for Scotland is naturally leading the fight for the people of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-14", "file": "debates1972-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f05a6dcf7347584c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I assure the right hon. Gentleman that I am not jealous of his having had the Eton boating song played for him.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-14", "file": "debates1972-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f05a6dcf7347584c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Russians want them\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I agree with the right hon. Gentleman. I have never been able to understand the logic of having separate talks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-14", "file": "debates1972-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f05a6dcf7347584c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend should remember that oppression creates oppression. May I make an unkind comment? It needs to be made. Most of us here are fortunate enough to have a single loyalty to this country and to this Parliament. It is time some of our colleagues on both sides of the House forgot their dual loyalty to another country and another Parliament. They are representatives here and not in the Knesset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-14", "file": "debates1972-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f05a6dcf7347584c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "s been a little unbalanced. To have three Arab apologists is a bit much in one debate. But I want to talk about Germany which is one of the most exciting developments we have before us at this moment of time. I happened to be in West Germany during the recent election campaign, and I thought that Brandt's campaign and the result were absolutely splendid. However, the CDU's campaign was disgusting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-14a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-15", "file": "debates1972-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "9cdc862b9e9f8742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-15a.775.7", "colnum": "775", "heading": "GREATER LONDON (GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "is is where I come to perhaps the more controversial part of my speech. Although many Conservative Members may not agree with what I shall now say, they will hardly disagree with the description that I have given. The question now is: what is the Minister to do about the Greater London Development Plan, which, after a marathon inquiry, is due to be on his desk very shortly—or may already be there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-15a.775.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-15", "file": "debates1972-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "9cdc862b9e9f8742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-15a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "GREATER LONDON (GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Tugendhat", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Uxbridge?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "Cheam, fought largely on local community issues and matters of that kind, and the Liberals won a great victory. We congratulate them on their success. But within a week of that victory London at last achieves a day's debate in the House of Commons and the Liberals stay away. It is a matter of regret that if the Liberals have a contribution to make to our affairs they should not be here to make it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-15a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-15", "file": "debates1972-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "9cdc862b9e9f8742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-15a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "GREATER LONDON (GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And steel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": "octrine of the former Secretary of State for the Environment, his former boss, who on the 11th December, whilst speaking about the coal industry, said: The Government have agreed to it because for the first time both sides of the industry came to us with a policy that they themselves had agreed.\"—[OFFICIAL RFPORT, 1lth December, 1972; Vol. 848, c. 36.] The same could be applied to London teaching.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-15a.803.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-12-15", "file": "debates1972-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "9cdc862b9e9f8742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-15a.837.2", "colnum": "837", "heading": "GREATER LONDON (GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Have the Whips been at the hon. Member?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the House for not having been present during the earlier stages of this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-15a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-15", "file": "debates1972-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "9cdc862b9e9f8742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-15a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "GREATER LONDON (GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He might catch a red herring!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": " must be said that there are many excellent things which have been done in London. Under successive Governments, the clean air policy has done marvels in terms of the fight against pollution and the improvement of the air in London. The River Thames is now very much cleaner than it was. On the day when Sir Desmond Plummer catches a salmon off London Bridge, we shall all have cause for celebration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-15a.866.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-12-15", "file": "debates1972-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "9cdc862b9e9f8742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-15a.878.2", "colnum": "878", "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/1972-12-15a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the rest of the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "May I on behalf of the Parliamentary Liberal Party welcome this news.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COURT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": " by the National Industrial Relations Court. It is only in Parliament that we can see a solution to the problem. I am making this application so that we can debate a possible parliamentary solution. Therefore I am arguing that the NIRC should be suspended for a period so that we can seek a solution to the dispute. The point is often made by Conservative Members that trade unions must obey the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Brown", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House calls attention to the damage inflicted on the whole community and to public respect of trade unionism's role within industry and generally in our society by the attitudes and activities of a small minority of extremist, politically-motivated militants within the trade union movement. I apologise if my voice sounds a little strained. I have been somewhat queer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.927.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.928.5", "colnum": "928", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Brown", "preceding_text": "e trade union branches). Among its supporters are Neal Ascherson of The Observer, Roy Bull of the Scotsman, Gus Macdonald of Granada's World in Action and Bryn Jones, industrial writer to the Daily Mirror. Mr. Jones, then father (chairman) of the Daily Mirror chapel, was among the first of the new Fleet Street militants to arouse national newspaper journalists. A course of action which this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.928.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "art of a ruthless industrial and political Kray Brothers organisation. It is like a religion run by gangsters. They work on a simple policy. Their task is to wriggle their way up from the shop floor to decision-making positions in key industries. That would be strong stuff even for a Member of the Monday Club, let alone a prominent Labour supporter. I continue with a quotation from Mr. Ray Gunter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.949.3", "colnum": "949", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "mbers of trade unions, 15 at least of them being leading members. We have already heard about Mr. Lou Lewis, who played a notable part during the building strike. I ask Labour hon. Members who doubt the validity of what we say about this matter to read a book called \"Violence and Intimidation\", a dossier of examples of personal violence, injury, arson and damage during this year's building strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.949.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "am, but that is a matter for them to deal with in their own internal battles. I find the difference of opinion rather odd, because a couple of days ago I read a speech by the Leader of the Opposition in which he said that he was happy to announce that the Labour Party was now totally united. Perhaps Labour Members had better have another meeting upstairs on Wednesday evening to resolve the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "F4;le of the trade unions—this at least should strike a chord with some Labour Members—has been reduced to a secondary one, as has their power to negotiate with employers. If Opposition Members think that I am wrong in that, I wish they could have listened to some of the private conversations I have had with leading trade unionists in the past few days, since my motion appeared on the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Torquay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": " been reduced to a secondary one, as has their power to negotiate with employers. If Opposition Members think that I am wrong in that, I wish they could have listened to some of the private conversations I have had with leading trade unionists in the past few days, since my motion appeared on the Order Paper—[ Interruption. ]—I do not know why the hon. Gentleman keeps on talking about the Bahamas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": " in a way which implies an unreasonable attitude, a refusal to compromise, bloodymindedness. But what we need in the trade union movement is militancy in the sense of hard, dedicated work for the reasonable objectives of the movement. I would like to see a revival of militancy and participation by much larger numbers of people in increasing membership, in improving organisation, in union meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.976.3", "colnum": "976", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "l into the customary inveighings against the Act but I join him in the tribute that he paid to the achievements of the trade union movement over the years. I am not in disagreement with my hon. Friends because their motion pays tribute to the work of the trade union movement. My hon. Friends are concerned that a small minority should undermine the respect in which the trade union movement is held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.976.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, there are many measures coming forward on this matter which he will have the opportunity to discuss. I hope that he will do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "orward on this matter which he will have the opportunity to discuss. I hope that he will do so. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman will be unable to say anything about the record of the Government in that direction. I make no complaint that by a strange coincidence the motions which my hon. Friends the Members for Bath and Tor- quay (Sir F. Bennett) have introduced are in exactly the same terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": " concern which is felt by many people about the future of British industry. It is the concern of anyone who has the future of British industry at heart, no matter what are his political sympathies. That is something with which the right hon. Member for East Ham, North, would not dissent. My hon. Friends the Members for Bath and Torquay touched upon a chord of disquiet in the hearts of many people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "rities to hold the country to ransom. We must always recognise that there are those who want to continue strikes after both sides have accepted a settlement. We must recognise—my hon. Friends dealt with this matter and names were mentioned, but I shall not mention them—that there are political groups whose aims are to subvert the national life of this country and overthrow the system of democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "n gives me the strongest confirmation that there are nuts on the fringe of any movement. We must accept that there are political groups whose aims are to subvert our national life and to overthrow our parliamentary system of democracy. They never cease to work for the establishment of power through infiltration tactics. The Communist Party itself does not primarily urge the use of violent methods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.982.7", "colnum": "982", "heading": "INDUSTRY (TRADE UNIONS ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "ts whose aim is to take advantage of disputes, without being used by what has already been described as the efficient and disciplined industrial apparatus controlled by Communist party headquarters. We have already been reminded of these words of the Leader of the Opposition: No major strike occurs anywhere in this country in any sector of industry in which that apparatus fails to concern itself\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.982.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-18", "file": "debates1972-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5591fdaae43cf1f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ne subject. Perhaps the Leader of the House would like to write to some of us about it. If my right hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross), a great expert on these matters, is baffled, the rest of us need not be embarrassed about being baffled. We do not understand the relationship of Scottish business to statutory instruments. If there is no Scot on the Committee, the Scottish business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-18a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1104.5", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that Manchester Corporation is totally dissatisfied, as are many of my constituents who have written to me about this subject and who are affronted by the deaf ears that the Government have turned to the cries of these tortured animals? Will the Minister, in the few days remaining to the Government in which they have the power to take action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1104.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1113.4", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lincoln.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " I ask him whether he is aware that one of the most damaging things lie has done for his country is to renege cynically and deliberately on his election pledges about not going into the Common Market without the full-hearted consent of the British people, and that on his terms the country will increasingly pay for that? May I ask the right hon. Gentleman another question arising out of his speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1113.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Thomas)", "preceding_text": "It is 18 months since the last Welsh Day debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " of life of Wales. In 1972 we have made the preparations for a chapter in the history of the United Kingdom and Wales that will be among the most exciting and challenging. The Government's policies for the regions make them prepared for Europe. I am quite convinced that Wales is prepared for Europe. My own Office is adapted to what is needed and I am confident we will meet the challenge together.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "I was saying, if the hon. Gentleman would listen, that I have seldom seen so many jobs advertised in the Press. Another strange feature of the present position is that, if anyone seeks to get someone to do a job, it is very difficult to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Members' car park.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "o try to suppress the Welsh language. It is not only in Tudor times that money has been spent in that way. However, we are now trying to repair the situation. There are other matters of priority but they do not compete in the same sphere. Great sums are spent on many things in our country. For example, no one would deny that old people and the disabled have their rights. So has the Welsh language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I always allow interventions because it is part of my courteous nature, but I should have known that the intervention would be totally irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "of the Rhonddas or Llanelli, I am not sure that they would be so favourable for the Labour Party. I admit that this is an unsubstantial pageant; it will fade away and leave not a wrack behind. However, something more disturbing is looming up for the Labour Party. I refer to the spectacle of the Conservative Party, firmly in the middle of the political spectrum, now pursuing policies of concensus —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "posals for increasing employment at the western end of the county. We shall shortly be ready with proposals asking the Government for an advance factory, and I hope shortly to lead a delegation to my right hon. and learned Friend asking for his support in this matter. I have been mainly, and rightly, complimentary to the Government because I think that theirs is a remarkable record of achievement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elystan Morgan", "preceding_text": "ary of State, when he made that announcement on 15th December 1971, know of or have any reason to believe the existence of the plan which was eventually published in The Sunday Times? Did he have any knowledge at all of any of the facts which saw the light of day in that publication in October 1972? I should be glad to give way to the right hon. and learned Gentleman to answer that vital question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1250.5", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must listen to my answer. The House has been inquiring about 2½ years of the stewardship of my right hon. Friend and myself at the Welsh Office. I am telling the House about some of the things which the Government have done for Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1250.5", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must listen to my answer. The House has been inquiring about 2½ years of the stewardship of my right hon. Friend and myself at the Welsh Office. I am telling the House about some of the things which the Government have done for Wales. [ Interruption. ] It is about time that the right hon. Gentleman got rid of his debating tactics and listened to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "It does not surprise me that the question of agriculture was not raised by the Opposition. Agriculture happens to be a buoyant and confident industry at the moment. Three years ago farmers generally were desperately concerned. During the last three years we have changed to a situation in which output, particularly of livestock, is rising rapidly. This is a situation which has improved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "ituation in which output, particularly of livestock, is rising rapidly. This is a situation which has improved—[ Interruption. ] It is no wonder that the Opposition shout. I remember very well when a senior Minister of the last Government went to West Wales and told them that it was not worth farming unless one had 1,000 acres. That same Minister said that farmers did nothing else but go to Ascot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "ption. ] The Opposition make more noise than they need. It is an important industry, and farmers are taking full advantage of entering the Common Market and the future position, which I think the Opposition will admit, was one of the points raised during the debate. Confidence in agriculture, particularly in livestock, has never been higher. We are having great success with the brucellosis effort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": " and of getting rid of pollution. The Opposition have not given me the courtesy of allowing me to do so. I do not complain. I expect no better of them or the right hon. Gentleman. I have known them in good times and in bad. However, what has been said tonight will be read by their fellow countrymen. They will realise that some of the matters which are important to speak upon have not been allowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1256.5", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ities as Members of Parliament. The way in which the Government have sought to get the House of Commons to treat this important question is derisory. We have complained from the Opposition side most bitterly at the way in which this matter is being debated at ten o'clock, again under a kind of guillotine, when many hon. Members who wish to discuss the matter will he deprived of the right to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1256.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sponsored trade union Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "igned by this House. That would be something which I would have thought the whole House would have regarded as intolerable. I therefore invite the Government, if they wish to rectify the matter, to propose that the leader of the delegation should have payment approved by this House. It cannot be done by the methods which have so far been arranged. I would think this an uncontroversial proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e should raise this question, I must say that that is an extraordinary state of affairs, and I would think that the standards of the House must have fallen very low indeed if anybody think that there is anything improper in what I have raised. Let us turn to some of the other aspects of the matter. One of the problems about the whole question of sending Members from this House to another assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e of affairs, and I would think that the standards of the House must have fallen very low indeed if anybody think that there is anything improper in what I have raised. Let us turn to some of the other aspects of the matter. One of the problems about the whole question of sending Members from this House to another assembly—[ Interruption. ] One of the difficulties of sending Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I think that comes rather ill from the right hon. Gentleman who guillotined our debates on this subject and who joined in a conspiracy with the Patronage Secretary to deprive us of our debates. I look forward to the occasion when the right hon. Gentleman can unite his party even on the Common Market. We know perfectly well about his candidate at Sutton and Cheam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lincoln.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "l about his candidate at Sutton and Cheam. [ Interruption. ] Rochdale? When John Bright's Rochdale is represented by a food-taxing, guillotine-supporting Liberal, the world is a very strange place. As for Sutton and Cheam, so great have been the persuasive powers of the Leader of the Liberal Party that he could not even convert his new recruit to supporting the party's policy on the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "n every elector in Lincoln is on the register for the forthcoming election. It will be interesting to Labour voters and Labour supporters in Lincoln to see whoever supports Mr. Taverne in that constituency; they all come from the opposite side. The record of the Leader of the Liberal Party on the question of denying free speech to others is such that it is surprising that he should be complaining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "he proper way to do it. I come to some of the other anomalies inevitably involved in this proceeding. People say that if Parliaments in other countries can without difficulty agree to designate their delegates to go to the European Assembly, why should not it be just as easy for us. There are great differences between the way in which we conduct our affairs and the way in which other countries do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ple are to have no rights.\" The Conservative Party says \"It is finished, or will be on 1st January.\" But we in the Labour Party say something different. The difference between the Labour Party and the other parties—and we have had to endure many attacks about having changed our minds and so on—is that we insist that, on a matter of such momentous consequence, only the British people can settle it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ing different. The difference between the Labour Party and the other parties—and we have had to endure many attacks about having changed our minds and so on—is that we insist that, on a matter of such momentous consequence, only the British people can settle it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"] At a General Election, according to the provisions of our Constitution and the general practice in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1271.6", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "Our Socialist friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1271.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1271.6", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "Our Socialist friends—[ Interruption. ] Whatever they may call themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1271.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1271.6", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Parliament\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "Our Socialist friends—[ Interruption. ] Whatever they may call themselves—[ Interruption. ] Let us call them Socialists. We should use the word they use in that Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1271.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "he hon. Members concerned will be drawing about £20 a day tax-free expenses. Some of them are drawing such expenses in addition to the £750 a year tax-free allowance on their salaries, and some of them would be better off not representing their constituents in this House but serving in the Assembly in Europe. Many of them would prefer to do that, because it is in their financial interest to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The three-line whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "he same time. They cannot be in two or three places at once. The first name on the motion is that of an hon. and gallant Member who is not here. He is a director of a number of large companies. I assume that he draws fees from those companies. Suppose that there is an annual board meeting, a three-line Whip in the House of Commons, and important business in the European Assembly—which comes first?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " in speaking is to cross swords with the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot). His speech reminded me very much of the occasion when the British permanent delegate at the United Nations came across the notes which the Russian delegate there had left in his place and found at one stage a not saying \"Weak point. Shout.\" There was one point on which I wholeheartedly agree with the hon Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's power of logic is defective at this hour of the night. In law it would have been difficult, if not impossible, to incorporate in the Bill these matters which are for discussion between the parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "there would be a referendum, or that the issue would be otherwise submitted to the British electorate. Indeed, the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition expressly denied that a referendum was the right way in which to settle the matter. My position under Labour and Tory Governments has been perfectly consistent ever since I first fought an election in 1955—that we should apply to join—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "lection. The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale defiles the memory of Edmund Burke by talking of those who are in common cause together in unison with their electors. How does he square that with the fact that 69 Labour Members of Parliament who, in October 1971, voted for the terms as negotiated, were almost all dragooned on 7th February 1972 into standing on their heads and voting against Second Reading?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-19", "file": "debates1972-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "efcd1a8ea02de626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1289.1", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Any debate in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-19a.1289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-20", "file": "debates1972-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "349155d25bb1e659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1319.5", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows full well that the overwhelming majority of tenants are not paying vastly more money", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1319.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-20", "file": "debates1972-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "349155d25bb1e659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The position is that the Six had reached a common orientation on the subject of the allocation of these quotas. It converted that into a directive yesterday. That directive does not satisfy my right hon. Friend the Minister for Transport Industries. He has therefore said that he will not consider himself bound indefinitely by that directive", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-20", "file": "debates1972-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "349155d25bb1e659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "On the first point, the fact that I must make clear is that the directive was agreed among the Six but rejected by my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-20", "file": "debates1972-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "349155d25bb1e659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1451.0", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONERS' PAYMENTS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the Minister for his intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-20", "file": "debates1972-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "349155d25bb1e659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1456.0", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONERS' PAYMENTS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "ford to such a confrontation. It must be headed off. If the Government persist in their present course they will become completely discredited in major industrial strongholds such as Birmingham. Wolverhampton and Manchester. I understand that at his Press conference this afternoon, and again in his speech, the Minister said that the reason for the plight in Birmingham was that wages were too high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-20", "file": "debates1972-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "349155d25bb1e659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONERS' PAYMENTS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "t in a national forum and not in the city council chamber of Birmingham that although some cities are hard hit by revaluation, there are other cities which benefit considerably. It may be helpful to quote some examples from the league table of revaluation on the basis of the preliminary figures available to me. Birmingham undoubtedly loses—that is, its rates go up, and sharply. But Bradford gains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-20", "file": "debates1972-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "349155d25bb1e659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1499.3", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONERS' PAYMENTS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Development (Mr. Graham Page)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and Development (Mr. Graham Page)", "preceding_text": " with the districts which appear in the report. I was deeply interested to see how the commission, with all the work that it did, had come to its conclusions over the various areas. This is an exercise in which it is not possible to please everybody, and it is astonishing that following the 296 districts produced in the report there are tonight only seven amendments on the Order Paper complaining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-20", "file": "debates1972-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "349155d25bb1e659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONERS' PAYMENTS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "roposal then and now, and those councils represent the majority of the population living in that area. We then move on to the final proposals, which we find on page 12, where for the first time two particular districts are proposed, one with a population of about 42,000 and another of 66,000. None of the major councils concerned had been consulted as to whether or not they approved of this change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-20a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-21", "file": "debates1972-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "7efaa481c9ba6ae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-21a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY (MODERNISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": " that there will be great disappointment in Scotland not to site a greenfield integrated steel unit at Hunterston. Contrary to the opinions of some of my colleagues on this side of the House, does he not appreciate that his decision today not to announce this development at Hunterston will mean, in the early 1980s, the closure of every steel-producing area in Scotland with the loss of 26,000 jobs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-21a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-21", "file": "debates1972-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "7efaa481c9ba6ae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-21a.1617.1", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farley", "preceding_text": "ore job opportunities. Such an announcement would make plain the Government's recognition that expanding coal production is not an adjunct to social policy, not a kind of underground soup kitchen, as the Economist will probably tell us at the weekend, but an essential strategic resource, precious to this country's future. We welcome this Bill and, if it proves to be necessary, we will vote for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-21a.1617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-21", "file": "debates1972-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "7efaa481c9ba6ae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-21a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "Many of them have already expressed that sort of view. Perhaps the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Crouch) is an exception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-21a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1972-12-21", "file": "debates1972-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "7efaa481c9ba6ae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-21a.1697.3", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West—the Government would have to provide foreign currency out of the balance of payments to import the oil which would be necessary to replace that coal. This would not be helpful to the economy from a foreign exchange point of view. My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Dover (Mr. Peter Rees) asked whether this was a social or commercial measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1972-12-21a.1697.3"}