{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-22", "file": "debates1973-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "2f5cfdd7f341081b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-22a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Birds?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "I am sure that that was the last thought in the Earl of Cardigan's mind as he went down the valley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-22a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-22", "file": "debates1973-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "2f5cfdd7f341081b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-22a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend gave me notice that he would go to the Vote Office on, I believe, 1st January. I said that I thought 2nd January might be more appropriate. A number of texts have been delayed, first of all by a strike in Luxembourg—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-22a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-23", "file": "debates1973-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "48675338ea429b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-23a.217.7", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COUNTER-INFLATION PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "he aware that in the absence of the TUC, which has at last learned some sense about this matter, he ought to invite some of his real friends next time? I mean people like Lord Watkinson and Henry Plumb who speak with the real voice of the Prime Minister when they say that cheap food has gone for ever. The right hon. Gentleman might invite the Director-General of the Food Manufacturers' Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-23a.217.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-23", "file": "debates1973-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "48675338ea429b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-23a.219.4", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COUNTER-INFLATION PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There was no such ministerial action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-23a.219.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-23", "file": "debates1973-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "48675338ea429b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-23a.220.2", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COUNTER-INFLATION PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It was there for everybody to see. It was accepted as such until certain industrial correspondents interpreted it the way the right hon. Gentleman did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-23a.220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-23", "file": "debates1973-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "48675338ea429b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-23a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FURNISHED LETTINGS (RENT ALLOWANCES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ances should be extended to persons whose rent includes payment for one or more meals, because there may well be people in this situation who should get help with their rent. Now we come to the dilemma, and it is a very real one. I see from the amendment that the Opposition are suggesting that we should give allowances to all furnished tenants who qualify, I suppose on the relevant income grounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-23a.230.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-01-23", "file": "debates1973-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "48675338ea429b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-23a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FURNISHED LETTINGS (RENT ALLOWANCES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "dies instead of concentrating them on people living in particular districts or particular local authority properties is obviously right. I am sure, therefore, that the Opposition will find with the passage of time that they have gravely misinterpreted public opinion. I believe that they are basically opposed to the extension of housing subsidies to people living outside the local authority sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-23a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.444.6", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "Is this Bill really necessary, or is it one of those which have been extracted from a departmental pigeon-hole when there is not much else to put into the programme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.444.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "VIETNAM", "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": " I wish to make a statement. Hon. Members will already have seen reports of President Nixon's announcement on 23rd January of an agreement on ending the war and restoring the peace in Vietnam and a cease-fire to come into effect at midnight on 27th January. I am sure that the whole House will be immensely relieved that, after so many terrible years of conflict, a ceasefire has finally been agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "make up the ground lost by the Labour Government when they were in power. The House should know the results of doing this. Last year the total cereals acreage increased and we produced a record tonnage of cereals. The dairy herd is expanding and milk production continues to rise. The beef herd in June 1972 had increased 13½ per cent. since June 1970. The number of beef-type heifers in calf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "number of beef-type heifers in calf—[ Interruption. ] It is obvious that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite are not interested in producing food for the people of this country. The number of beef-type heifers in calf in September 1971 in England and Wales was 85 per cent. up on the previous year. The pig breeding herds and the sheep breeding flocks are also in the process of further expansion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.479.0", "colnum": "479", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that that is completely untrue and that the price of beef has not been affected in any way by our entry into the Community, as has been clearly shown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the trade union movement because he had direct and painful experience of it as Prime Minister. There are those leaders within the movement, as we have seen in these talks, who are working hard for the betterment of their members in a national context and for the success of trade unionism as a democratic force in our society. There are others who are using their powers in a completely negative way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "empts to bring in a prices and incomes policy whilst, as the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has rightly pointed out, it was vigorously opposed by the Tories; and, indeed, we had the prospect of Tory Shadow Ministers rushing round the country saying that the Liberal Party had kept the Labour Party in power —a criticism not without precedent, though usually in a different context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "m sorry to disabuse the hon. Gentleman. One cannot escape the fact that there are those who gain an increase which is sometimes almost as great as the total weekly take-home pay of the lowest paid in a particular plant. This can happen within one plant. In this country there are people who are able to demand and sometimes get a wage increase which is larger than the total income of the lower paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "me of the council representatives were prepared to make a stand by refusing to accept its provisions? There is no doubt that this type of repressive legislation—legislation which we are now getting used to from a Conservative Government—will be resisted. I am not seeking to lead a great campaign to resist it, but I am trying to draw attention to what will happen when these measures are introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "seems like a most undesirable set of circumstances. I also resent most strongly the further restrictions of the freedom of the rights of the individual proposed in the aforementioned Bill, so please do inform Lt.-Colonel Heath that if he does not desist he ought to be court martialled and shot by the ordinary, low paid people of this fair land …\". I would not concur with the latter remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "May I help the Prime Minister before I give way? The figures are 13·81 ounces", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "May I help the Prime Minister before I give way? The figures are 13·81 ounces [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"] From the food survey published by the Ministry. It is 13·81 ounces per head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman said 'food'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "May I help the Prime Minister before I give way? The figures are 13·81 ounces [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"] From the food survey published by the Ministry. It is 13·81 ounces per head—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what?\"] Of carcase meats generally. The figures for beef are much less favourable; I am taking carcase meats generally, and that is why I took them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, food.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ve way? The figures are 13·81 ounces [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"] From the food survey published by the Ministry. It is 13·81 ounces per head—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what?\"] Of carcase meats generally. The figures for beef are much less favourable; I am taking carcase meats generally, and that is why I took them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman said 'food'.\"] I referred to meat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " mass of the British people unless the Chancellor changes the rates and conditions of tax which he forced through the House in last year's Finance Bill and which are due to come into operation in April this year at the very beginning when phase 2 of the wages policy will come into effect if the Government get their way. The Prime Minister, as he knows very well, will make £320 million out of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " differentials for those earning more. We want an assurance from the Chancellor tonight that he will include expense accounts and fringe benefits in the code as being subject to the same controls as wages. There is no chance of the new policy working unless he clears away the wreckage of the old policy which is still infesting the area in which the new policy has to operate. If I may now conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "expense accounts and fringe benefits in the code as being subject to the same controls as wages. There is no chance of the new policy working unless he clears away the wreckage of the old policy which is still infesting the area in which the new policy has to operate. If I may now conclude—[HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"] I know that Conservative Members would like me to sit down. They cannot take it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "t has always been made clear that the final decision would be announced sometime before 1st April when VAT becomes operative. Opening the Budget on 6th March will enable that decision to be taken in the context of the Budget as a whole. As my predecessors who are still in the House will know from experience, with the Budget less than six weeks away I am necessarily speaking under some constraints.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "One thing is quite certain. There has been from the trade union movement, unlike hon. Gentlemen opposite, very little recrimination as a result of the breakdown of those talks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " higher than we had achieved over the previous decade, and we are now achieving it. The second was to take whatever action was necessary to ensure that a faster growth rate was not frustrated by inflation. That is the overriding purpose of the policy which my right hon. Friend put before the country last Wednesday and which we have been debating today—to sustain faster growth for real prosperity.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "incipal overseas competitors to realise that for far too long the quality of life in this country has been impaired by the inadequacy of real incomes and by the social problems which are in part the consequence of slow growth. The solution to these problems is to be found primarily in improving our economic performance. Over the past 2½ years our policies have been designed to do just that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.595.3", "colnum": "595", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman, who predicted that there would be no improvements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.595.3", "colnum": "595", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "gave. Under the impact of the CBI price restraint initiative, matched by the nationalised industries, cuts in SET and purchase tax, and also by a de-escalation in pay settlements, considerable success was achieved in moderating the rate of increase of prices and pay. A year later the rise in prices was down to under 6 per cent. from 10 per cent.—in what I may call the hangover year from Socialism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.595.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.596.2", "colnum": "596", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Your incompetence.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the right hon. Gentleman would have known by now that the high balance of payments surplus was directly related to the rising unemployment which his party initiated, and also to the stagnating economy. However much the Opposition may try to disguise them, two things are beyond dispute. First——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.596.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And you will have it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "r way. But in fact there was another way. We could, instead, have pursued a policy of deflation by abandoning our fast rate of growth, by cutting back all round and by piling on massive increases in taxation. That was precisely the policy which was pursued by the right hon. Gentleman and his Administration. To do the Opposition full justice, they had both deflation and a compulsory incomes policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.597.3", "colnum": "597", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I will come to that figure. In a series of hammer blows the right hon. Gentleman and his Government raised the rate of purchase tax on petrol, tobacco and alcohol by a staggering £1,200 million a year. At today's rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-24", "file": "debates1973-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b9a0e2b06bed1fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES (FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Donald Kaberry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Donald Kaberry", "preceding_text": "and. I received a letter from the leader of my local city council, which is to disappear within the next 12 months, urging that I support representations to the Prime Minister, which I have done and to which he gladly and quickly responded. I hope that something can be done. But the argument put forward is that most of the increases are consequent upon the policies being pursued by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-24a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "tion Time. When he referred to the recent Government assistance towards rates, why did he not mention that the Labour Government's policy of increasing the assistance to the domestic ratepayer each year was interfered with by his Government when they came to office by halving the amount of the increase? At best, he is only catching up with what he failed to do. When the Prime Minister referred to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.641.2", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister answer my question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.641.5", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will reply to the example of self-control and imperturbability we see before us. We shall monitor what is happening to the rates of all councils. Where they are unjustifiable we shall take action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.641.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Regarding the Secretary of State for Education and Science, I believe that it is for local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "FIRST SCOTTISH STANDING COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "he Opposition and agree, on my giving certain undertakings on behalf of my Liberal colleagues who are involved in this, that there is no need to pursue the motion. Referring to something you have said, Mr. Speaker, and to the opening words of the Leader of the House, I should like to pay a tribute to the Chairman of the Standing Committee, the hon. Member for Glasgow, Shettleston (Sir M. Galpern).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.672.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.673.5", "colnum": "673", "heading": "FIRST SCOTTISH STANDING COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order for an hon. Member to tell the House that he and his colleagues will allow a Committee to proceed? Surely he has no power to say \"We will allow\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.673.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "FIRST SCOTTISH STANDING COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "I am not questioning your ruling, Mr. Speaker, I am merely pointing out the effect of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "FIRST SCOTTISH STANDING COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "at it is right that one point of view should be heard. I should not like to compete with my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition in his description about oriental bargaining. This is the wrong place to conduct such bargaining. I wish to make it clear, however, that within my hearing certain hon. Members this morning said as they were withdrawing that they would come back again on Tuesday", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "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": "ional cases for their particular areas. But the motion goes a good deal further. It argues that there is something fundamentally wrong with the BSC's proposals and that a new principle should be adopted by the Government. The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale had nothing to say about that and very little to say about whether the strategy as a whole was right, whether it was good for the nation as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Industrial Development (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Industrial Development (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "preceding_text": "ot be able to sell enough steel in the mid-1970s to retain steelmaking capacity in Ebbw Vale. I want to deal mainly with the social consequences of this strategy and with the Government's plans for meeting them. We are determined to ensure that we bring new jobs into those areas. In most of the regions—in fact in all of them—there has been a substantial reduction in unemployment over these months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.772.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.779.2", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Mr. Callaghan rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.779.4", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "I must get on because I have a great deal to say. The right hon. Gentleman made a typically constituency speech, but he has on previous occasions in his constituency talked of the Labour Government's £150 million two-stage development of the East Moors works", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.779.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-25", "file": "debates1973-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3d89f29cd6673f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.791.4", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "bearing on the subject, and I hope it will progress. On the roads we must know our enemy. Objects carried by road transport should be labeled; tan- kers should be labelled, too. We assume that the vehicle being used is suitable for the purpose. But perhaps my hon. Friend will say something about that, too, because I believe there are regulations afoot for dealing with the construction of vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-25a.791.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-26", "file": "debates1973-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7fa88a0ee5fc5d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENALTIES FOR MURDER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "I agree. It was only for circumstances of time that I perhaps looked over that note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.831.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-01-26", "file": "debates1973-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7fa88a0ee5fc5d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.857.2", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENALTIES FOR MURDER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is the point.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "preceding_text": "rs can put on figures. The figure for 1961 showed that there were four convictions for murder in Scotland. In 1971 the number was 40. That demonstrates the trend as clearly as anything can. It is also demonstrated in every official publication that emerges, and I have studied them all. There is a very clear indication that not only murders but all the serious crimes which could easily be murders——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.857.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-01-26", "file": "debates1973-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7fa88a0ee5fc5d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENALTIES FOR MURDER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": " of the potentially criminal population into believing it too\". That, to my mind, is the serious point. My hon. and learned Friend the Member for South Fylde (Mr. Gardner) said that if we insist on a minimum sentence being specified by judges, except in exceptional circumstances, we shall have headlines \"Killer gets four years\" I do not accept that. The Press are very responsible in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.871.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-26", "file": "debates1973-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7fa88a0ee5fc5d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENALTIES FOR MURDER BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate (Mr. Norman Wylie)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate (Mr. Norman Wylie)", "preceding_text": " to be concerned about the level of violent crime and of homicide in Scotland. The Emslie Report referred at the outset to this general problem and to the fact that a committee set up by the previous Administration—the Committee on Criminal Procedure—was looking, inter alia, into the whole problem a the possession of offensive weapons, which I believe is one of the underlying problems in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-26", "file": "debates1973-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7fa88a0ee5fc5d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.889.3", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENALTIES FOR MURDER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "cause of the increase in violence. Some violence will end in killing, and when there is an increase in violence there is an increase in killing. But this, as I say, is a world-wide phenomenon, not one isolated to Scotland. When I look back at the way in which the hon. Member for Cathcart and others conducted their election campaign in Scotland on the question of law and order, murder and violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.889.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-26", "file": "debates1973-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7fa88a0ee5fc5d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. This is a very serious point of order. The whole House thought when you made your ruling that you were referring to the Export of Animals (Control) Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-26", "file": "debates1973-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7fa88a0ee5fc5d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.902.4", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "aker. Most of the confusion this afternoon has arisen on this matter because certain hon. Members could not distinguish where the objection came from. We at this end of the Chamber thought it came from here, and we thought it was a mistake because the hon. Member who did it did so in a hurry. Would it not be better for the comfort of the House if the hon. Member or hon. Members objecting stood up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-26a.902.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-29", "file": "debates1973-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc75357044dd5564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "During the period of the standstill the Weights and Measures Inspectorate will be operating under the direction of my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.957.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-01-29", "file": "debates1973-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc75357044dd5564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "nt in an insoluble dilemma, because they have to have a policy, at one and the same time, of inflating and of stopping inflation. They must be promoting inflation and fighting inflation simultaneously in order to fulfil their policies and meet the demands placed upon them. If a man is confronted by two equally compelling but mutually contradictory requirements, there is only one recourse for him——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-29", "file": "debates1973-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc75357044dd5564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "I cannot exactly recall the principle at stake in December 1969.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-29", "file": "debates1973-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc75357044dd5564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roland Moyle (Lewisham, North)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is what the Prime Minister said in 1969.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roland Moyle (Lewisham, North)", "preceding_text": "t is possible to take that line if one is Prime Minister, but is a responsible trade union leader expected to obey the law knowing that there are always other people willing to urge the trade union, in default of a lead from the responsible leadership, to go to the extreme industrial length, so that we finish with people in charge of unions who are much worse from the point of view of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-29", "file": "debates1973-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc75357044dd5564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": "ion which a Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer allowed to run away in 1970; when the present Opposition allowed the economy to rip. It is all very well for the hon. Gentleman to talk about what we inherited: we inherited a lot of overseas debt, which we have repaid. Since we came to office we have reduced taxation by some £3,000 million, most of which has gone to those in the lower income bracket—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-29", "file": "debates1973-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc75357044dd5564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "yment, which continued to rise. In face of those two difficulties, we adopted a combined policy of tax reductions, beginning with the abolition of SET and reductions in purchase tax, followed by price restraints within the nationalised industries and supported by the CBI. This was accompanied by progressive de-escalation of pay settlements. On the prices front those measures led to marked success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-29", "file": "debates1973-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc75357044dd5564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "impact on unemployment. We were urged by the Opposition, as indeed we were tonight by the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East, to give further encouragement to the creation of jobs. On that we needed no encouragement. We introduced tax cuts, an extensive regional programme, boosts to investment in the regions, and, as a consequence, unemployment has been sharply reduced and is still falling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-29", "file": "debates1973-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc75357044dd5564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "ded to create a right of appeal from the agencies to Ministers, but it provides—this point was raised by a number of my hon. Friends and by some hon. Gentlemen opposite—the means whereby the working of the agencies will remain accountable to Parliament. It would be wrong to say, upon that basis, that the agencies will be isolated from Parliament. It is possible for the Minister who has this power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-29", "file": "debates1973-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc75357044dd5564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1072.3", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I understand the importance of this issue and why the right hon. Gentleman returns to it. The position is clear. The code will be approved by the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1072.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-29", "file": "debates1973-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc75357044dd5564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1072.3", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at the result.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "y come to mean a mounting and discouraging burden of taxation on the great mass of working people. They mean either higher prices, if the taxation is indirect, or lower take-home pay if the taxation is direct. It deserves to be remembered that food subsidies of that kind were one of the major obstacles which had to be removed when the Conservative Party came to power at the beginning of the 1950s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1072.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-29", "file": "debates1973-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc75357044dd5564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION ACT 1972 (EXTENSION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I wish to underline what was said by my right hon. Friend the Member for Stepney (Mr. Shore) about those sections of workers who have been badly affected by the freeze and who will continue to be so affected for the next 60 days. At one stage it was alleged by Ministers that almost all price increases were due to high wage settlements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-29a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1143.3", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Twister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The figures do not bear out what the right hon. Gentleman says. Comparing the years between 1968 and 1970, for example, the number of stoppages starting in those years rose by 64 per cent. The number of stoppages starting between 1970 and 1972 fell by 36 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1154.5", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "There are many precedents under both the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1154.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1158.5", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I believe that my hon. Friend's speech has been warmly welcomed throughout Europe and, in particular, in the European Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1163.0", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAS INDUSTRY (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As far as I know, all the correspondence has already been published. The letter from Lord Cooper to me was published when he sent it. My reply to Lord Cooper has also been published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "but in the country at large if a child were killed in sewage filth dumped on open ground. This is the reality of the situation. It is the reality that my constituents have to face, and it is a reality that those in power in the GLC must know could happen at any moment while the sludge remains on virtually unfenced land. In my constituency at the moment we are sitting upon an unexploded stink bomb—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "preceding_text": "sed by the hon. Member for Erith and Crayford (Mr. Well-beloved). Suffice it to say that when he is taking a walk on a Sunday afternoon over some unfenced area in his constituency, I hope on behalf of his constituents that he does not fall into the sludge. I am sure that everyone would be mortified at the result if he did. I prefer to bring discussion on these regulations back to a little reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "preceding_text": " what they term \"Draconian\" offences. Where there happens to be a naked light which could blow up a vessel carrying inflammable liquids, where common sense would naturally dictate the utmost caution, the offence is punishable by a fine not exceeding £10. I think that every seaman is reasonable. I have been to sea. Most of us went to sea during the war. The way to avoid fines is to act responsibly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1249.4", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "t do so under the right procedure, he is liable himself to be fined £20. Therefore there is adequate protection. It may be said. \"Why not treat them all like fishermen, who generally return to port. I could understand local tribunals or local committees operating on that basis, but when people are on the ocean runs between the United Kingdom and America or Australia, these conditions do not apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1249.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1257.0", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "ion applies to the conditions of the men on the ships. It is Norwegian legislation, which is going away from the whole point of having a severe disciplinary system based upon sanctions of a monetary nature. The hon. and learned Member for Darwen raised the point about disciplinary committees and the failure that they represent. Let us make it quite clear that there were 12 disciplinary committees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "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": "orth, I have the feeling that in Committee and in all the stages on the Bill in which Labour Members no doubt took an active part the particular problems of the sludge vessels were never identified. It would perhaps be too much to expect the disciplinary offences regulations to meet with universal approval, especially in view of the evidence of a split on the Opposition Front Bench in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "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": " is wrong that a seaman's employer should have the right to make statutory deductions without having to prove justification for the deduction at law. That overlooks the provisions of Section 7 of the 1970 Act, which provided for a seaman's wages to be paid to him in full when he is discharged from his ship. The section imposes severe penalties on an employer who fails to comply with the provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "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": "over to this side of the House and look over my shoulder he would agree that he must be fairly well out at sea by the time he gets there, whatever the lines on the map may say. I understand that the place where the activities of the sludge dumping vessels reach their culmination is a fair way out down the estuary and, I believe, capable of being seen to be outside the partially smooth water areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-30", "file": "debates1973-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "8e95fbd4e930dacf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am reluctant to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Gorbals (Mr. McElhone) in a vicious attack on the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-30a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-31", "file": "debates1973-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "4ffaf53a18c7949f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-31a.1342.4", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": " bits of the plan would require a catalogue. I have no doubt that the hon. Gentleman can have those details, and I shall pass his request on. The redundancies have been stated by the corporation as being about 7,000 over the next five or six years, which is about the same as the number which have taken place over the past five or six years in Scotland. They are job losses rather than redundancies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-31a.1342.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-31", "file": "debates1973-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "4ffaf53a18c7949f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-31a.1361.4", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "LIFE PEERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leonard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leonard", "preceding_text": "uld add to the effectiveness of the work of Parliament. Before putting the case for the Bill, I want to make clear what the effect of its passage would be. The Bill does not seek to alter the powers or the membership of the other place. It does not seek to abolish the peerage or hereditary titles. It does not seek to abolish the honours list. There may be a strong case for all of those objectives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-31a.1361.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-31", "file": "debates1973-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "4ffaf53a18c7949f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-31a.1429.2", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (ATTENDANCE ALLOWANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "ppeal to a Commissioner is, with leave, against a review decision and only on any question of law arising on such a decision. My second question to the Minister is this: does he consider that it is just for the family of a disabled child to have a decision made by a secret, private discussion at which not only are the family prevented from being present but at which no representation is permitted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-31a.1429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-01-31", "file": "debates1973-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "4ffaf53a18c7949f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-31a.1466.3", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinsey", "preceding_text": " look at it from that point of view and take these matters into consideration. I ask my hon. Friend to direct his attention to this side of the matter. We in Birmingham would feel much better if the Minister could protect us from the distortion caused by revaluation and the actions of Socialist local councils in bringing in extra services such as free contraception and going back to direct labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-01-31a.1466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1590.1", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "The Minister may have had seven, but I have had 83 since the Mechanics of Payment of Aliment Bill. Does the hon. and learned Gentleman realise that there are a great many women—perhaps I have been partly responsible for this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1602.2", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman speed this up, because many of us in the House who have very progressive ideas on a number of things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1639.5", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "o the discussion of secondary education reorganisation. At education gatherings the emphasis is on the number of schools reorganised. At party conferences the argument switches to the type of schools which have been preserved. The Secretary of State said at Blackpool last year, I think with some pride: I have upheld 92 objections, mostly in favour of famous or well known grammar schools. She said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1639.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1643.2", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "deed, by the operation of Section 13 the reorganisation of secondary education is almost the only element of Government policy that is determined by referendum. The distinction and novelty of this referendum is that victory goes not to the side with the biggest vote but to whatever group can be cobbled together to represent the prejudices of the Secretary of State. The only conclusion we can draw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ampaigns? The right hon. Lady has never been anything but frank about her rôle. If I might say so, without offence, it has been one of the more attractive aspects of her participation in this business. At her party conference last year, according to The Times Educational Supplement, she pleaded for those who believed intensely in the future of grammar schools to be vocal in their interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1649.1", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "note that some parents are already preparing a petition on the matter to me. As a nod is not quite as good as a wink to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the right hon. Gentleman thought it right to add his comment which was published in the Grantham Journal on the same day. It urged those who had objections to make their views known before the Secretary of State came to a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1659.0", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "prehensive schools, each composed of two schools, and they were approved. So local education authorities are used to looking at the guidelines and making their submissions regarding comprehensive schemes in the light of them. Again, proposals for two-tier arrangements require close scrutiny. I should like to quote from the Assistant Masters' Association which has great experience of these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1659.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1663.2", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the date of that speech?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "rinciple. This applies especially to our big cities, for several reasons. First, our big cities contain a particularly large number of established grammar schools of real excellence and, secondly, Socialist plans for the big cities so often involve botched-up schemes—taking a group of existing schools, often separated by wide distances, and giving them one head, which is absolutely no good at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Wiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Wiley", "preceding_text": "As it is already nearly six o'clock, I shall try to help by being brief, and I shall confine my remarks to my constituency. I want to help the Secretary of State. She is extremely unpopular. Indeed, she is probably more unpopular than anyone else in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1684.2", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oxford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "hen the time came for her to take her O-levels she had improved considerably. Then, two years ago, she started doing A-levels and made up her mind to go to university. She was given an unconditional acceptance at Leeds University but the A-level results were so good that she decided to fly even higher. And, where do you think she landed? At none other than the best university in England—Cambridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1690.1", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "some sort of choice. If choice is removed it means that there will be a State system in education under which the State will provide education for all, make it compulsory and refuse parents any right to influence that education. That seems to me to cut right across the concept of participation which most of us believe in. I believe that we are back in the rigidly State-controlled Marxist ideology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1721.1", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "preceding_text": "n has achieved excellent standards in secondary education as witnessed by the high proportion of pupils staying at school beyond the compulsory leaving age and by very good results in external examinations at 16 and 18. It is worth pointing out that Bolton had the original concept of comprehensive schools on what were called \"bases\"—three schools on a base. It was developed over the last 25 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1736.3", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "this evening, because they are aware that although the argument may have been lost, there is still a long way to go before the whole principle of comprehensive education reaches fruition and that much can be frustrated on the way. I believe that the country and, oddly enough, the Government recognise that the argument about the preservation of privilege and elitism in education has also been lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1738.3", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "ossible. But that does not mean that we enhance a secondary system of education that perpetuates inequalities. The hon. Gentleman's very language frightens me to death. He talks about grammar school types, certain levels of creaming off, intelligence, and not being able to get a certain type of intake into comprehensive schools because a number of children with high IQs have moved out of the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1746.4", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "ber for Uxbridge, in a felicitous phrase, hailed my right hon. Friend as a champion of parents. The parents of this country are grateful to her because she has defended their rights of choice. Summing up this wide-ranging debate, what is it basically about? It is a debate between those who regard education as a means of social engineering, a means of transforming society into an egalitarian model—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1746.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-01", "file": "debates1973-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "224d6bc830e3c81e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1772.0", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's intervention was as courteous as it was long. I can confirm that I agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-01a.1772.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-02-02", "file": "debates1973-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e89b4e425b3ba73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1817.2", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEAVY COMMERCIAL VEHICLES (CONTROLS AND REGULATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daniel Awdry", "preceding_text": "I also am much saddened by the news of the death of Tom Price. One of the most pleasant places in this building is the chess room, and I have had the good fortune to spend a number of hours with Tom Price in that room. He was always extremely friendly to me. I know that I speak for all right hon. and hon. Members when I say that we shall deeply miss his presence in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-02", "file": "debates1973-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e89b4e425b3ba73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1819.0", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEAVY COMMERCIAL VEHICLES (CONTROLS AND REGULATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "May I put the matter of procedure right? I did not want to stop the hon. Gentleman while he was in the middle of his quotation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1819.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-02", "file": "debates1973-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e89b4e425b3ba73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1846.2", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEAVY COMMERCIAL VEHICLES (CONTROLS AND REGULATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I object to the discourtesy of the hon. Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1846.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-02", "file": "debates1973-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e89b4e425b3ba73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1850.8", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "re would no doubt be a massive majority in favour of the Bill. I believe that I can anticipate the Minister's reply. It will be that we should await the recommendations of the House of Lords' report, wait for the Department of Employment's inquiry, wait until the Session before the next election and then the Government will produce a Bill and they will be hailed as the champions. As a liberal man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1850.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-02", "file": "debates1973-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e89b4e425b3ba73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1855.3", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "ights. As he reminded us, this is not the first time that a Bill of this kind has come before the House. His Bill is identical with one which he introduced on behalf of one of his hon. Friends, as he put it, during the last Parliament. In addition, a similar Bill was introduced in the other place by the noble Lady, Lady Seear. I notice, Mr. Deputy Speaker—perhaps I should say Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-02", "file": "debates1973-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e89b4e425b3ba73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1855.3", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Not much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": " Conservative Party before the Government came into office to look at the issue of discrimination in law against women, I am glad to be able to say that we have during this Parliament already taken certain action in this matter. In regard to taxation and in regard to women's rights in relation to their children we have already brought about changes in the law aimed at removing that discrimination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-02", "file": "debates1973-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e89b4e425b3ba73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1855.3", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And about time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": " MEMBER: \"Not much.\"] Perhaps I may be allowed to develop my speech. I am glad to be able to tell the House today—I am sure that it will please my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dame Joan Vickers), in particular—that we have now introduced our Bill to change the law of guardianship so as to give to each parent equal and separate rights of guardianship in respect of their children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-02", "file": "debates1973-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e89b4e425b3ba73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1858.1", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "the clause would bring about fundamental changes in the whole of our education system. I am not for a moment saying, for the purpose of the present argument, whether it is right or wrong that those changes should be made. I am not saying whether it is right or wrong that all single-sex maintained schools, private schools—single-sex schools across the board—should by law no longer be able to exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-02", "file": "debates1973-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e89b4e425b3ba73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1875.3", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "gotiations and agreements which have been entered into in good faith and honoured and Acts of Parliament which were brought in with the best intentions for the protection of women. Are we satisfied that all protection in all spheres is now archaic and should go? I agree that much of it is archaic and should go. Do we want to see many industries in which women will automatically do long night work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-02", "file": "debates1973-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e89b4e425b3ba73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1877.3", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "I am not in any way unsympathetic to the principles but I believe that this hasty Bill will create far more anomalies and cause far more trouble than if we altered the many facets of discrimination in an orderly way and in a way which could be enforced and understood by everyone. We must look again to see whether we want to sweep away all the female protections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-02a.1877.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-05", "file": "debates1973-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d06e43e54bfb766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.3.3", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "We must deal with the housing problem as a whole. If we take the total of public and private sector housing and add to it those houses which have been modernised by improvement grants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.3.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-05", "file": "debates1973-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d06e43e54bfb766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "ry important that we should not have these very large authorities virtually self-contained, very remote from the people. I have no doubt that when it comes to the question of nomi- nation to such boards, in the Tory Party it will be found on this, as on every other issue, that blood is thicker than water. I am sure it would be the same with the Labour Party if they were nominating to these bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.79.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-02-05", "file": "debates1973-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d06e43e54bfb766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.142.4", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-05", "file": "debates1973-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d06e43e54bfb766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.142.7", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": " questions. The right hon. Gentleman replied: I am sure that there will be plenty of opportunity for the proposals of my right hon. and learned Friend on this topic to be debated in the Welsh Committee.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd December 1971; Vol. 827, c. 682–8.] If there is one Committee which it is difficult to get the Secretary of State for Wales to attend, it is the Welsh Grand Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.142.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-02-05", "file": "debates1973-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d06e43e54bfb766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "Mr. Peter Thomas rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-05", "file": "debates1973-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d06e43e54bfb766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " cannot we give the Welsh National Water Development Authority the obligation to consult the Severn-Trent Water Authority whenever vital decisions are at stake? We shall put forward this proposal in Committee, though I doubt whether we shall see the Secretary of State for Wales there. I have never yet seen him in a Committee, except the Welsh Grand Committee. In his Press notice the Minister said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-05", "file": "debates1973-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d06e43e54bfb766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": " I want to say something about the costs. The hon. Member for the City of Chester reminds us that there is a £50 million assistance from the Treasury for sewage works now under way to help local authorities. We are told in the Bill that all costs of sewage will now have to be met by charges. Is this another example of the Government's transferring their burden from the Exchequer to the ratepayers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.145.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-02-05", "file": "debates1973-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d06e43e54bfb766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Eldon Griffiths)", "preceding_text": " which will be dealing with the Bill. I know that I carry both sides of the House with me when I say that I am sorry that my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Ely (Sir H. Legge-Bourke), who has taken a very special interest in land drainage and whose representations had considerable effect, is not able to be here tonight owing to illness, and I am sure the House will wish him a very quick return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-05", "file": "debates1973-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d06e43e54bfb766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (FIRE SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "preceding_text": "ept to ask the question that the hon. Gentleman asked in reverse. He asked why the title should be the \"Ulster Fire Authority\". I ask why that should not be its title, and upon whose instigation it was changed. It was originally to be called the \"Ulster Fire Authority\" and it is now to be the \"Fire Authority for Northern Ireland.\" Why has the change been made? What is wrong with the name \"Ulster\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-05", "file": "debates1973-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d06e43e54bfb766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "NORTH SEA OIL", "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": "vernment. It is misleading industry and the people of Scotland when the hon. Gentleman denigrates the major steps taken by the Government to carry through the IMEG recommendations. It appears that the hon. Gentleman has not yet realised what the Government are providing in the massive aid and guidance to industry to benefit from the potential business and orders arising from North Sea development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-05a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-06", "file": "debates1973-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1760366dbd79a6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-06", "file": "debates1973-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1760366dbd79a6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "preceding_text": "reas of stress; and further welcomes Her Majesty's Government's determination to increase the amount of land available for house building. I think the whole House has enjoyed the speech of the right hon. Member for Grimsby (Mr. Crosland). It was good-humoured and full of excellent phrases but, I fear, not a very constructive speech. It is no good just putting the blame on to the building industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-06", "file": "debates1973-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1760366dbd79a6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Local authorities have a right to determine their own housing policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-06", "file": "debates1973-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1760366dbd79a6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "shall try to limit expenditure\". The public expenditure projections show that there is an attempt to limit spending on housing. This was the substance of a great deal of the argument which took place last year. I believe that the Government are right. The public spending bonanza of the last year or two cannot continue indefinitely and we are bound to return to a more rigorous view of these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-06", "file": "debates1973-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1760366dbd79a6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "n or his daughter. That unit of accommodation could well be locked up for 60 years. During that period the hon. Members fortunate enough to represent this area will have many approaches from people in similar dire straits and in similar need of accommodation. It is not feasible to expect councils to provide this accommodation time and time again for people to occupy it generation after generation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-06", "file": "debates1973-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1760366dbd79a6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ludicrous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "No. I have just given way, and the hon. Gentleman has already intervened in another hon. Member's speech and been rebuked by Mr. Speaker for the length of his intervention. I am in favour of tenancies of a specific length where there will be no rent increase, so that people have an opportunity to save for a deposit for their own home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-06", "file": "debates1973-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1760366dbd79a6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.314.3", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "tuation in which private rents, which in some cases were admittedly ridiculously low, have been increased by a staggering amount. For example, a rent of 12s. 6d. a week, which has wrongly gone on for about 40 years, will now be increased to about £7 a week over three annual increases. I do not think that the draftsmen of the Bill were thinking in terms of these increases. Whether they did or not —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-06", "file": "debates1973-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1760366dbd79a6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "priorities. I was glad to hear my hon. Friend the Member for Salford, East (Mr. Frank Allaun) bringing humanity into the statistics. He explained the effect on families and the effect on opportunities for children. If land is as scarce as some Conservatives say, the only way to solve the problem is to ensure that local authorities have full control of that land, and that means by public ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-06", "file": "debates1973-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1760366dbd79a6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way because I do not have much time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-06", "file": "debates1973-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1760366dbd79a6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Gordon Campbell)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the right price.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Gordon Campbell)", "preceding_text": "t the current rate of building for housing for owner-occupation. My hon. Friend the Member for Stockport, North (Mr. Idris Owen) raised the question of the need for planning authorities to release more land. I entirely agree with my hon. Friend that it is essential that planning authorities should be ready to release land for development for private houses at the right time and in the right place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-06", "file": "debates1973-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1760366dbd79a6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (MUSEUMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have a go.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "I am sure that you would rule me out of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, if I were to reply to the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-06", "file": "debates1973-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1760366dbd79a6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "house, although it is already installed only 100 yards away. The electricity board told me that there is great difficulty with way-leaves being negotiated. I trust that with the spending of this money in Northern Ireland electrification will be speeded up. I am glad to support the spending of money to take light into the dark places, especially to many of those people who deserve to get the light.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-06a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-07", "file": "debates1973-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "53b00b6b8f3451bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.445.6", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that with these strange little boxes that have been installed all over the House it is difficult to get through to anywhere?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.445.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-07", "file": "debates1973-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "53b00b6b8f3451bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.445.6", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that with these strange little boxes that have been installed all over the House it is difficult to get through to anywhere? [ Interruption. ] Will the Minister have a word with the Post Office and suggest that it conducts its experiments elsewhere?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.445.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-07", "file": "debates1973-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "53b00b6b8f3451bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.454.6", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "mber but for that Question not to be shown to have been withdrawn in the next issue of the Votes and Proceedings? We all know that if a Question is withdrawn from the Order Paper it is usually withdrawn by an hon. Member who gives notice of the withdrawal. I am not concerned here with whether there was or was not a Press leak or whether civil servants' time was or was not expended. May I conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.454.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-07", "file": "debates1973-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "53b00b6b8f3451bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " years. The overall picture that emerges—and this is most clearly shown in the figures in paragraph 5 of Part I of the White Paper—is the sharp increases in expenditure this year and next, followed by very much smaller increases in the later years. As we made clear in the White Paper, this profile so far from being \"unplanned\", represents specific decisions taken for specific and defined purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-07", "file": "debates1973-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "53b00b6b8f3451bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.470.3", "colnum": "470", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Of course it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-07", "file": "debates1973-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "53b00b6b8f3451bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.480.6", "colnum": "480", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "Public expenditure will always be high under a Labour Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.480.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-07", "file": "debates1973-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "53b00b6b8f3451bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.480.6", "colnum": "480", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "Public expenditure will always be high under a Labour Administration—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We have never denied that, and we stand by it. However, it would be a planned increase in public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.480.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-07", "file": "debates1973-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "53b00b6b8f3451bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.518.3", "colnum": "518", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ok office in June 1970 they carried out an immediate review which was urgent because we were spending far too much. He said: … the Government … carried out an immediate review of public expenditure up to 1974–75 … to concentrate the activities of public bodies on the tasks which they alone can perform, to reduce substantially previous plans for public spending. …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-07", "file": "debates1973-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "53b00b6b8f3451bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "preceding_text": "come devoted to public expenditure, and in support of that proposition I shall quote from a document to which I do not often refer these days. It is called \"A Better Tomorrow\" and it was our manifesto at the last election. It said that the true problem in social policy is not that we spend too much but that with Labour stagnation we can afford so little. It is only right to put that on record now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-07", "file": "debates1973-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "53b00b6b8f3451bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "e in local government, he will appreciate the difficulty of keeping growth in expenditure in local government to 1·7, 1·8 and 1·4 per cent. He should have a word with those who are trying to deal with the rates this year and who are trying to keep them to something like what the Chancellor is asking them to achieve—a small increase in rates, despite the increases in valuation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-07", "file": "debates1973-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "53b00b6b8f3451bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "ly to be available over a similar period. That is the object of the public expenditure surveys and the related assessment of medium-term economic trends. At the same time we must be prepared to adjust these plans for short-term reasons. These changes in the medium-term programme may involve a speeding-up of the rate of growth of spending, as they have over the past two years, to curb unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-07a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the strike yesterday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "I welcome that reply, but is my hon. Friend aware of the damage that has been done to employment prospects in Northern Ireland by the terrorist campaign, particularly the prolonged IRA campaign of indiscriminate bombing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "On the question of decisions being taken outside this House—for example, the issues on which the right hon. Gentleman was so unclear on Tuesday, of the law-making bodies—is it not a fact that the former Leader of the Liberal Party, who is now shaking his head, is a member of the party that voted for the Second Reading of the legislation that provided for that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the city of Manchester's finances have been adversely affected by the city's fall in population—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.668.2", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I think my lion. Friend will find that he has misinterpreted Table 9 on page 193 in Appendix 6. He should also look at Table 9 in paragraph 20. That is the same one", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.668.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "st being entirely attributable to further airport construction, including a second runway and extra terminals. If we add the cost of the first stages of the seaport and the road and rail access, these figures become £440 million as the 1980 cost and £825 million as the 1990 cost. The great majority of this expenditure would of course, have been incurred elsewhere if it were not incurred at Maplin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.687.3", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "ill Commission supported Foulness, said in paragraph 48 of his minority report: My assessment as a professional planner … is that with careful design it would be possible to accommodate the airport population and to leave space for additional population dependent on airport-associated activities. What the Government are now planning goes far beyond the airport and its associated activities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.687.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Go back to Hastings.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Warren", "preceding_text": "The GLC is in favour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.689.2", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "lty decision in the last few minutes of the game. The coach operators would be just as willing to bus, if our policy encouraged them to do so, to the airports of the Midlands, the North East, after the Humber Bridge is completed, and the North West. They would probably be more willing to bus charter passengers to those airports than to Maplin. The honeypot argument was used strongly two years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.689.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "yment than the South East and are therefore more in need of airport development on the grounds of unemployment policy. It would be crazy to pre-empt this possibility and the CAA study by pushing blindly ahead with Maplin. Indeed a number of people in the industry think that the next international airport should not be built in the South East at all but should be built in the Midlands or the North.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "The Roskill Commission was set up, and if the Under-Secretary had been listening he would know that I have already described that part of the story. Let me repeat one sentence for the hon. Gentleman's benefit. Unfortunately the merits of the report were greatly reduced by the fact that Stansted was omitted from the short list at the start.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ll not be a miss at all. The pressure on Heathrow must be reduced. The inferno of noise in summer is so great that it is not only people who are disturbed in their homes. Hospitals and schools cannot function properly in some parts of the glide path area. There was a letter in The Times recently which I thought made a very good point. It was a Councillor Mrs. Jenkins of the Greater London Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "So if aircraft are to fly in to Maplin they will have to pay. The seaport will not only make money but should vastly improve our export facilities and, with a deeper port, render our exports cheaper. The railway will pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.731.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tonight.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "ew airport, if it comes into being, is operational there will begin a sharp rundown of the traffic at Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton or anywhere else. I predict that for a long time after it comes into being there will be just as much traffic as there is at Heathrow now. People do not want the prospect of relief seven or eight years from now; they want to see the Government doing something about it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "nt on local ratepayers. He was obviously making the point that this was a national development. The House will be aware that we are now looking at the whole question of the impact on local government finance. We are examining the effect of the rate support grant on various problems associated with the needs element related to development areas such as South-East Essex where there is faster growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-08", "file": "debates1973-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "950153c53d064a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "preceding_text": "the committee for investigation and decision. In the absence of any indication or instruction to the contrary, however, Your Committee consider that the second reading of a hybrid bill should relieve the promoters of the onus of establishing the expediency of the Bill. We feel—and there was a clear indication from Conservative hon. Members opposite that they feel—that the Government have not made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-08a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-09", "file": "debates1973-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "bec507deb1af823e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-09a.857.5", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DANGEROUS DRUGS AND DISABLED CHILDREN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "n of people who react to it abnormally and who suffer illness or injury as a result. I do not see how it is possible to guard against that sort of circumstance. To do so is to deprive everybody of the benefit of the drug. To sum up the argument that I should like to put to the House: if the latest offer by the Distillers Company is acceptable, the immediate need for the Bill will have disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-09a.857.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-12", "file": "debates1973-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "beeda2a2a66da8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-12a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "RATING SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": "rthants, South (Mr. Arthur Jones) referred to spendthrift authorities, but did not define what he meant. In his general observations he tended to castigate certain unspecified local authorities as being spendthrift. It is not enough to make such generalisations. I often found during my period in office as a Labour local councillor that we were referred to by Conservative colleagues as spendthrift—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-12a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-12", "file": "debates1973-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "beeda2a2a66da8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-12a.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Norman St. JohnStevas)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Norman St. JohnStevas)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I hope that the Bill will be non-controversial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-12a.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-13", "file": "debates1973-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "255313dfbc3b925d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-13a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT NIXON (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "preceding_text": "Did the Prime Minister bring to the President's attention the disgust felt by the people of this country at the perfidy of the United States in continuing to import vast quantities of chrome from the rebel State of Rhodesia —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-13a.1138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-13", "file": "debates1973-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "255313dfbc3b925d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-13a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT NIXON (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "preceding_text": "Did the Prime Minister bring to the President's attention the disgust felt by the people of this country at the perfidy of the United States in continuing to import vast quantities of chrome from the rebel State of Rhodesia —[ Interruption. ]—the Conservative Members do not like it, Mr. Speaker, but they are going to get it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-13a.1138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1257.1", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a further Question on this point later on. The only short answer to the question of house prices is to provide more houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1265.6", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I hardly think that that arises out of this Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1265.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1268.4", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "What has been done is more flexible and more satisfactory than just a general increase. I accept the rigid nature of the yardstick controls, which were introduced not by me but by the hon. Gentleman's right hon. Friends. I know of hardly any case in the country where schemes are being held up by the yardstick. I know of none in Salford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1268.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "GAS INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": " Gentleman asked whether I would pay tribute to the unions for their work. I would pay tribute to them for their past record, but I must express my deep regret at the course which they have now elected to take. The right hon. Gentleman asked why there was not a court of inquiry. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, there can be no purpose in a court of inquiry when there is nothing to inquire into.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "GAS INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many hours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "As I told my hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire, South-East (Mr. Rost), the average earnings in the gas industry are £35·50—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1293.0", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "GAS INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "on of any statement being made that could be in any way so construed. And since industrial action has been taken, it has been the Government's right and duty to warn the public of the hazards to ensure that everything possible is done to preserve public safety and to make the appeal we have made. I again make an appeal for good sense, which has so long been a feature of this union, to be restored—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX (CHILDREN'S CLOTHING)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is seeking simply to obviate the hardship to families, would all the complications that he has referred to not be obviated if, instead of bringing forward this motion just before the Budget, when clearly it can hardly be sensibly argued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX (CHILDREN'S CLOTHING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "53. I think it is the case that successive Chancellors have generally taken the view that it is sensible to deliver a Budget statement which takes account of the various factors which need to be regarded as a whole. Instead of making representations in the usual manner, the Opposition have chosen today to do something without precedent. I can find no precedent for a Supply Day debate of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX (CHILDREN'S CLOTHING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "I shall be very happy to spell out the implications of the right hon. Gentleman's motion. He is clearly now trying to wriggle out of the position into which he has got himself. He could have tabled a motion asking for con- sideration of this or that topic. But he has put down a motion tantamount to asking for a decision on the matter, and I understand that he intends to press it to a Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX (CHILDREN'S CLOTHING)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "zero rating of all children's shoes. What I asked my right hon. Friend the Chancellor to do on 16th May—and in this I was joined by my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, South (Dr. Stuttaford) and others—was to set up a specialist committee on this subject to work out medically approved sizes and fittings, and that he agreed to do. The committee's report has not been published and it seems to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1349.2", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX (CHILDREN'S CLOTHING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "preceding_text": " because, as one hon. Member has said—I believe that it was my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, South (Dr. Stuttaford)—the shoes have already been moulded to the original wearer's foot and nothing but harm can be done to children who will have to wear them subsequently. I do not wish to see an era of cast-off clothing. I live in a fairly affluent constituency and we live in an affluent society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX (CHILDREN'S CLOTHING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "May I express the hope, Mr. Speaker, that I may also mention fertilisers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1350.8", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUE ADDED TAX (CHILDREN'S CLOTHING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "n subjects, I cannot give my reasons for mentioning them. I have written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer about hearing aids, and perhaps the Minister of State will either refer to them later this evening or write to me. The other point is the application of VAT to horticulture outputs. This also concerns me, but bearing in mind your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, I will not go into detail, except to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1350.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shakes his head. I wonder why he is so sure. That aspect is worth considering. The Bill goes nowhere even to acknowledge the extent of that problem. I now turn to the mothers whose children have grown up. Such a mother will have gaps in her experience as a result of having brought up her children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1369.3", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "ces are and I hope in this way to start off on an objective path. I begin with the point of view of the working mother herself. What is the nature of her economic contribution? This has been well defined by the National Manpower Council of Columbia University, and what it says applies here just as much as in the United States. It says that women …constitute a distinctive manpower resource\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1369.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1371.4", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way because, as Mr. Speaker has pointed out——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1371.6", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "en five and 11 years old, though two-thirds of those children had older brothers and sisters. Of the older children between 12 and 15, more than 40 per cent. looked after themselves during the holidays. I observe that Women's Lib and its champions here who ignore these problems, as the Bill does, prove themselves to be completely out of touch with the realities faced by so many women and children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1371.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1372.4", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "I will leave that. What plans have we which recognise the severe drop in family income which can take place when a wife who has been working stops doing so as her children begin to arrive? It may be said that Government policies in other areas should look after all these things. I want to take one such area—taxation—and see what is happening. This is my last point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1372.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1374.3", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": " large number of women in the Chamber tonight, but in total they are a very small minority in a man's world. I do not complain that we are in a man's world. I complain that there are so few women Members. There should be more of us. There is tremendous discrimination against women in both political parties. It is difficult for women to be selected and adopted for safe Labour or Conservative seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1390.2", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "s. They stem from the failure to deal adequately with the definition of discriminate. If we are to have an across-the-board prohibition of discrimination, all educational institutions, whether maintained or independent —and I am not thinking solely of Roedean or Eton, but across the board—will no longer be able to cater exclusively for either boys or girls. There are, apart from higher education —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Shirley Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Shirley Summerskill", "preceding_text": "m not euphoric. In fact, I am cynical and dubious about the future of the Bill. Having seen the battle for the Equal Pay Act since 1964, having seen it put on the Statute Book with great difficulty, and as it is not even implemented yet and we are still having to press for equal pay, I am dubious about the Bill. The Government have granted special time tonight for a decision on the Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "As a supporter of the Bill, I am forced to express one personal regret. It is inevitable, I suppose, that the Bill should have become associated in many people's minds with the more extreme elements of the women's liberation movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-14", "file": "debates1973-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fef909353642dcca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1406.1", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "y them according to the measured value of the work done. Because that absurd, doctrinaire thing is done the next doctrinaire thing has to be done, and we are now proposing to say to the employer \"What is more, when a man and a woman come for a job you shall not distinguish between them on grounds of sex. You must employ the woman if the job is there, and you must pay her as though she were a man\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-14a.1406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-15", "file": "debates1973-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "315d2c4a4e274fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1421.0", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong. I have never advised the housewife to boycott any product.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-15", "file": "debates1973-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "315d2c4a4e274fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1426.4", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Lady that, as I have already explained to the House, these rises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1426.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-15", "file": "debates1973-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "315d2c4a4e274fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1426.14", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Lady will do me the courtesy of listening to the answer. She has made many charges. As I said, these rises are due to world conditions, as she knows. The fact of Britain's joining the Community has not had an impact of any kind. The hon. Lady asked what housewives will buy. I remind her that the official figures show that consumption, particularly by old people, has risen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1426.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-15", "file": "debates1973-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "315d2c4a4e274fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1434.4", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I referred to the food survey figures in Question No. 1. So far as I recall there certainly was no reference to that in what I read out. What I gave was the figure as I have it. I have given the figure in regard to the figures taken from the Ministry's tables on food supplies moving into consumption in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-15", "file": "debates1973-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "315d2c4a4e274fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1441.0", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "preceding_text": "Since the Prime Minister spoke with such admiration of President Nixon's handling of the trade unions in the United States, would it not have been of value to have further discussions with him immediately about what the right hon. Gentleman should do in the present circumstances, instead of truculently complaining that he cannot get British trade union leaders to sell their members down the river—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-15", "file": "debates1973-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "315d2c4a4e274fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1442.5", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Obviously the question of sterling devaluation was not discussed, because sterling is floating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1442.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-15", "file": "debates1973-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "315d2c4a4e274fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I fully adhere to the undertaking I gave that the best system for an integrated community is one of fixed and adjustable parities. I fully adhere to that, and I believe that we must solve the problems which arise from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-15", "file": "debates1973-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "315d2c4a4e274fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1452.3", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Leader of the House should answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend any information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-15", "file": "debates1973-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "315d2c4a4e274fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1484.3", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "All who qualify on financial grounds. The hon. Member for Aston was fair enough to point out that there should be a residential qualification, though he says that six months is too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-15", "file": "debates1973-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "315d2c4a4e274fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "chnology. Does he say that my right hon. Friend was right or wrong to reveal the changes in the treaty? If he believes that my right hon. Friend should have revealed the changing situation at that time, surely he will concede that he ought to be just as frank with the House on this occasion. It is now suggested that the Minister must not be as frank with the House as my right hon. Friend has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-15", "file": "debates1973-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "315d2c4a4e274fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1606.7", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCORDE AIRCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "I will not pursue this point. I am prepared to do so, but I am not sure that it will be very helpful. If we are saying that we are going on with Concorde because we have no means of getting out of an obligation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-15a.1606.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.16.5", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House will have been interested to hear the hon. Gentleman's views describing the difficulties of conditions in some parts of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.16.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "Is there not some evidence, on this question of catching up, that there are other industries which could ask to catch up with the Civil Service in such matters as holidays, leave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "GREATER LONDON DEVELOPMENT PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend accept that all who have the interests of London at heart will believe that one central ring road in inner London will be of inestimable benefit to the capital city—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "GREATER LONDON DEVELOPMENT PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "therefore absurd to suggest how many thousands of houses might or might not be affected. The right hon. Gentleman's estimate is higher than any given before. Until the details are gone into, one cannot make a statement of that kind. The panel quotes with approval Sir Colin Buchanan's statement that, so far from a ringway of this kind affecting the environment adversely, it will in fact improve it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "GREATER LONDON DEVELOPMENT PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have to protect the business of the House. We have an important debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about milk?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "The new policies comprise a further advance. They give a better start, better schools, better teaching, and better choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "The new policies comprise a further advance. They give a better start, better schools, better teaching, and better choice. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about milk?\"] It is in the 1968 Report, from which I quoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "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": " still faced with the fact that we have only a limited sum of money to dispose of. The White Paper has to make choices between competing priorities any one of which could absorb the entire sum available. It singles out five subjects for consideration—nursery education, school building, staffing standards in schools, teacher training and higher education. My right hon. Friend, in a masterly survey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas)", "preceding_text": "ning for a total increase of nearly 150,000 teachers, from 364,000 in 1971 to 510,000 a decade later. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Lewisham, North because, with his usual courtesy, he gave me notice of the rather complicated questions that he put to me during his summing-up speech. The hon. Gentleman will not expect me to set out all the answers in the brief period that is available to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Very well—will be in the future. This shows how little the hon. Member for Sparkbrook understands the education system. The basic needs programme is based on the number of places that are needed. That depends on a whole variety of factors including, oddly enough—although it may not have occurred to the hon. Gentleman—the birth-rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "I would remind the hon Gentleman that we in Transport House take the trouble to check Press coverage. I explained in the debate that the White Paper had had a good reception until some people began to do their arithmetic, but I assure him that in terms of volume of comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "e costing of the White Paper proposals and the total lack of any figures to back up what has been put forward from the Opposition Front Bench and in the Green Paper for educational change. There has been the suggestion of compulsory day release for all young people in industry. Who is to pay for it? Grants are to be made available for all courses, full-time, part-time, discretionary and mandatory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-19", "file": "debates1973-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f4f76b8118400dfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "e Opposition Front Bench, that it would come from increased tax revenue. I hope that he has told his right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) about that. But, leaving aside the depressing prospect of this fantasy Green Paper, I want to end by going back to the practicalities and realities of the White Paper. Every so often there comes an important watershed in educational affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-19a.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "es Board, in order to give it the necessary powers in advance of legislation, we created it as a Royal Commission so that it could get down to work right away? Will he agree to set up either a nucleus of the Pay Board or at least the component dealing with special cases or particular problems as a Royal Commission, and then in the gas dispute enable it to embark in relation to phase 3 settlements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "? Will he agree to set up either a nucleus of the Pay Board or at least the component dealing with special cases or particular problems as a Royal Commission, and then in the gas dispute enable it to embark in relation to phase 3 settlements—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—on the thorough-going inquiry suggested by Sir Henry Jones last week, which would take into account the whole productivity record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " a Royal Commission, and then in the gas dispute enable it to embark in relation to phase 3 settlements—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—on the thorough-going inquiry suggested by Sir Henry Jones last week, which would take into account the whole productivity record—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]— and the problem of the electricity analogue, which was slipped through before the standstill phase I agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "able it to embark in relation to phase 3 settlements—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—on the thorough-going inquiry suggested by Sir Henry Jones last week, which would take into account the whole productivity record—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]— and the problem of the electricity analogue, which was slipped through before the standstill phase I agreement—[ Interruption. ] Tory backbenchers are bad enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will know that it is rare for me to raise a point of order when you are in the Chair. However, you named the Questions which were to be linked with Question No. Q2—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "STEEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But not 38 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "the Labour Government before they went out of office for the modernisation of the steel industry. I want, therefore, to bring to the attention of the House the importance of having, at long last, a very substantial and very important modernisation programme. This is a modernisation programme that would ensure that by the year 1980 we can have production of between 33 million and 35 million tonnes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "STEEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, I have been down to his constituency and discussed this matter with the people concerned, and I have no intention of misleading either the House or the people of Ebbw Vale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "STEEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It is impossible to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "STEEL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Thomas)", "preceding_text": "the case of Wales they will be reporting to me. The task force is composed of officials from various departments. The officials will be using their expert knowledge and the resources at their command in order to analyse a situation and to report back as quickly as possible. These are the reports of officials to Ministers. Does the hon. Gentleman seriously think these reports should be made public?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.264.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "STEEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You said it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "If a firm's order book in civil engineering and other sectors in which it is interested is doing badly, those jobs might be sustained by this BSC programme. If it is doing well in other sectors, jobs will be created by the programme. Of course the Corporation cannot say, with any accuracy, that they will be sustained without knowing what is going on in every other industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "STEEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "he was speaking on the largest investment programme that has ever been undertaken in this vital industry. The hon. Member spoke as though, if he understood the White Paper—and I believe that he must have read it—he was doing his best to conceal his knowledge of it. He spent all his time in a nitpicking exercise, trying to find some conflict between what the Secretary of State said and what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "STEEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "It is not the Government's figure; it is the British Steel Corporation's figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.356.4", "colnum": "356", "heading": "STEEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must follow the ordinary basic principles of investment decision-making. If I can translate it into the simplest possible terms, he will probably know approximately how much he will be spending on his household next year but he cannot say how much will go on sheets or shoes. I have tried to reduce it to elementary language to make it understandable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.356.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-20", "file": "debates1973-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cac2a5e8366414bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "eech from the Opposition Front Bench. I sincerely hope that he will make many more speeches from the Opposition Front Bench. I do not pull his leg, however, when I say that he must know that we have a high opinion of the standing he has achieved both in the House and in the Labour Party as an expert on coal mining, and I am delighted to see that it has brought him his promotion to the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-20a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-21", "file": "debates1973-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "b27963d3f33c689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "There are differing opinions about the usefulness of that particular measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-21", "file": "debates1973-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "b27963d3f33c689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.455.4", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "Not without notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.455.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-02-21", "file": "debates1973-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "b27963d3f33c689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.457.3", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "In view of the last answer——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-21", "file": "debates1973-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "b27963d3f33c689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "y would be dealt with by monetary compensatory amounts. I said that in reply to the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan). That is precisely what we are doing at this time. The difference is that on that occasion we had arranged merely for floating upwards those monetary compensatory amounts. Now the arrangement has been made flexible so that they can float in either direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-21", "file": "debates1973-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "b27963d3f33c689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.478.3", "colnum": "478", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must be working under a misapprehension here. What we shall be doing in regard to the United Kingdom will be related to internal values. In so far as the units of account are concerned, this will be in relation to Community price levels. We are raising British prices towards Community price levels over a five-year period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.478.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-21", "file": "debates1973-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "b27963d3f33c689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "TELEVISION LICENCES (PENSIONERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I wish to intervene briefly to reinforce the arguments of the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-21", "file": "debates1973-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "b27963d3f33c689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "TELEVISION LICENCES (PENSIONERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "d people have been begging for decades under successive Governments, but we have heard not a word of praise for the Government for that. Furthermore, we have given the biggest increases in our history to public service and armed forces pensioners. I am sure that we all warmly welcomed those increases. I say nothing about the Socialist Government's record, because I do not want to be controversial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-21", "file": "debates1973-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "b27963d3f33c689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman followed what I said? I dealt with this point specifically. I say seriously and specifically that when in 1967 my right hon. Friends embarked upon this exercise of negotiation this law did not even exist. It was a much more specific control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-21a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-22", "file": "debates1973-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcf4495080edf826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.679.5", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What I can tell the right hon. Gentleman is that this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.679.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-22", "file": "debates1973-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcf4495080edf826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.679.5", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What I can tell the right hon. Gentleman is that this—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I am answering the question in detail. This Government have given a higher grant—60 per cent. of expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.679.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-22", "file": "debates1973-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcf4495080edf826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.679.5", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Gentleman is that this—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I am answering the question in detail. This Government have given a higher grant—60 per cent. of expenditure—[ Interruption. ]—more than £3,000 million, higher than ever before, and we have also given the highest increase in the domestic element. That is the contribution that this Government have made to taking the burden off the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.679.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-22", "file": "debates1973-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcf4495080edf826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.679.7", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer is that what local authorities spend is to a considerable extent in their judgment. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.679.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-22", "file": "debates1973-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcf4495080edf826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.679.7", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer is that what local authorities spend is to a considerable extent in their judgment. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to have—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] If he wants to have a figure", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.679.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-22", "file": "debates1973-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcf4495080edf826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wants to know he can look it up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-22", "file": "debates1973-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcf4495080edf826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.683.5", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "er monotonous. If the Pay Board were set up as a Royal Commission it could not be set up any earlier than the announcement of members' appointments. They will be appointed at the earliest possible opportunity. The unit, under a deputy chairman, that is to concentrate on dealing with anomalies will be set up at the earliest opportunity. It will be available to hear any submissions, or any evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.683.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-22", "file": "debates1973-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcf4495080edf826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "omalies under stage 3. All of these are matters on which we are agreed, and I welcome that. I have rejected nothing. I have said that the unit will immediately begin to operate. If the right hon. Gentleman is saying that everything depends on calling the people concerned a Royal Commission, I can only say that he is completely mistaken, and that they will be able to do everything that is required—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-22", "file": "debates1973-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcf4495080edf826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nds on calling the people concerned a Royal Commission, I can only say that he is completely mistaken, and that they will be able to do everything that is required—[ Interruption. ] Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the General Secretary of the TUC has said in public, and repeated in the United States, that the trade union movement does not want a confrontation, and neither do the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-22", "file": "debates1973-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcf4495080edf826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Gentleman aware that the General Secretary of the TUC has said in public, and repeated in the United States, that the trade union movement does not want a confrontation, and neither do the Government—[ Interruption. ] The General Secretary has repeated his view that the Government do not want a confrontation. I suggest that the views of Mr. Feather should be listened to instead of the disruptive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-22", "file": "debates1973-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcf4495080edf826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have to ask his Front Bench about that. As it is a rule of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-22a.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-23", "file": "debates1973-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "d9cbe4f04714d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-23a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE ACTS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodhouse", "preceding_text": "ery of investigation by endless frivolous complaints. The hon. Member for Pontypool (Mr. Abse), in a most imaginative speech, had much to say on that point. When I was at the Home Office there was the tragic case of a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police Force who was convicted of planting bricks in the pockets of people whom he arrested at demonstrations. At any rate, in one case he was convicted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-23a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-23", "file": "debates1973-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "d9cbe4f04714d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-23a.989.5", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE ACTS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "d investigation but no one sees the report. 'The police officer concerned decides that no action will be taken. He writes to the Home Secretary, who agrees with the police officer. The Member is informed and then it goes back to the complainant. I do not think that is good enough. I know from personal experience of occasions when the police have roughened up innocent people. It has happened to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-23a.989.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-26", "file": "debates1973-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd798f9c014d209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1044.4", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is the representative?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether by the last part of his question the right hon. Gentleman is suggesting that there should not be meetings of the Welsh Grand Committee or whether he intends to boycott it, in the same way as the Opposition have boycotted the European Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1044.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-26", "file": "debates1973-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd798f9c014d209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "MEAT PRODUCTS (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "The effect of the increase to which the Question refers, on the general prices index as a whole will be roughly 0·075 of 1 per cent. of the cost-of-living index. This is a very small figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-26", "file": "debates1973-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd798f9c014d209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "uture? The combination of measures for regional development announced last March precisely suited the requirements of Scotland. This was made clear by bodies such as the Scottish Council and the Scottish Trades Union Congress, which had advocated some of these measures. In particular, the system of free depreciation for both manufacturing and service industries was extended widely, thus assisting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-26", "file": "debates1973-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd798f9c014d209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Scottish Office?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "preceding_text": "sland is helping itself in many ways, including the development of its tweed industry and the provision of a seafood factory. I hope that it will also shortly have a bedding factory. But my right hon. Friend could help the island even more by siting a Government Department there. I understand that he is having discussions about that. The island is ideally suited to welcome a Government Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-26", "file": "debates1973-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd798f9c014d209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "preceding_text": "suffer. Under the Labour Government steps were always taken before the situation got very bad. What have the present Government done to correct this? There have been deputations to the Secretary of State for Scotland and to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. Those deputations included local Members of Parliament, the Lord Provost, who is now Tory candidate in the by-election in Dundee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-26", "file": "debates1973-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd798f9c014d209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows perfectly well that the specific recommendations in the IMEG report were recommendations for action by the office. None of those things—for example, the setting up of a British drilling company—is something which can be done instantaneously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-26", "file": "debates1973-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd798f9c014d209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1158.3", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE AND LAND PRICES (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "preceding_text": "ot get the number of houses we want. Then there is the question of those houses that have been modernised as a result of improvement grants. The high rate of the grant is coming to an end. Has there been any estimate of the number of houses which still need to be improved and of whether it would be the right policy to prolong this help? I went around some tenement flats in Dundee one day recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-26", "file": "debates1973-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd798f9c014d209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1158.3", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE AND LAND PRICES (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "preceding_text": "ment grants. The high rate of the grant is coming to an end. Has there been any estimate of the number of houses which still need to be improved and of whether it would be the right policy to prolong this help? I went around some tenement flats in Dundee one day recently—[ Interruption. ] I was in pursuit of votes, and there is nothing to be ashamed of in that. I must say I found a lot of support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-26", "file": "debates1973-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd798f9c014d209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1195.4", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE AND LAND PRICES (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman. Is it the case that a mortgage relative to income is more difficult to afford to-day than it was two years ago? The figures provided by the building societies and the methods by which they calculate them are interesting. As I have said, the average price for a house in Scotland is about £6,500. But houses are being advertised for sale in several large towns at present at about £5,500.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-26a.1195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-27", "file": "debates1973-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "589fe648eb0956ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1278.2", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since the Prime Minister invited me to intervene, if he will read all the reports of that speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-27", "file": "debates1973-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "589fe648eb0956ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1280.0", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What my right hon. Friend was saying in his speech was a very straightforward point: that his responsibility in Northern Ireland was to try to prevent people from being oppressed by force. It is the responsibility of the Government to protect the weak members of the community, such as the aged and the lower-paid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-27", "file": "debates1973-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "589fe648eb0956ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "ia throughout the world, instead of broadcasting wild and false allegations about the security forces which are doing a noble task in Northern Ireland, should expose the murderous terrorism of the IRA and its cowardly callousness, which was sadly demonstrated at the weekend when a 10-year-old boy was murdered while playing in the garden at the back of his home on the Creggan Estate in Londonderry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-27", "file": "debates1973-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "589fe648eb0956ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1280.4", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I must correct the hon. Member. My right hon. Friend was not equating terrorists with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-27", "file": "debates1973-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "589fe648eb0956ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "They are not required to notify under any part of the Bill as it now stands. The fact is that no applications for or notification of rate increases have been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-27", "file": "debates1973-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "589fe648eb0956ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1416.4", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "nment shall adopt a strongman posture. Even if the Government are fulfilling the expectations of their back benchers, they are not fulfilling the expectations of the nation at large. The hon. Member for Harrow, East said that the nation was looking to the Government to give a lead. If it is looking to the Government for anything, it is for them to get out so that alternative policies may be tried—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1416.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-27", "file": "debates1973-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "589fe648eb0956ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1446.4", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Let me deal with the arguments advanced by an hon. and learned Member who is a judge. He advocated earlier that Members of Parliament should accept a voluntary cut in their salaries as a method of giving leadership to the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1446.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-27", "file": "debates1973-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "589fe648eb0956ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1452.0", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ing group, rather than 7 per cent., as is the case for most. I would have to consider this case in greater detail. The subject of the Budget has been raised, but that is not a matter for me or any Minister to speculate on. The hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) took the argument about differentials rather wider, and it developed into an argument with his hon. Friend the Member for All Souls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-27a.1452.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-02-28", "file": "debates1973-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e93fab39ea89f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1485.3", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must be aware that the offer of association to the African and Caribbean Commonwealth countries will, by excluding the Asian Commonwealth, have the effect of breaking up the whole Commonwealth trade system. That is one clear effect. That being so, surely the right hon. Gentleman will agree——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-28", "file": "debates1973-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e93fab39ea89f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1503.2", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "PUBLIC OPINION POLLS (DISCLOSURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "itain, but more importantly from my own understanding of survey techniques, I realise that although organisations aspire to objectivity in the construction of the questionnaires and the structuring of the survey it is all too easy to get things wrong. Realising that they are subject to criticism, five of the leading companies that engaged in polling in May 1970 compiled an agreed code of practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-28", "file": "debates1973-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e93fab39ea89f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1512.0", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": " be taken of it. I go further and say that in the excellent debates we had in Committee—and, speaking personally, I found it the most interesting Committee of which I have ever been a member—a number of different views began to emerge. There was the Government view, joined very largely by the Liberal Party, the post-capitalist party as the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe) described it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-28", "file": "debates1973-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e93fab39ea89f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " have to say to him is that he would be better advised not to take me on, because I can deal with him. We should support the Government's amendment in the interests of the vast majority of the people in the country, who are behind the Government, and in order to offset the many militants in the trade union movement in my part of the country. I get on well with the militants. They are awfully nice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-28", "file": "debates1973-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e93fab39ea89f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "No. I am not saying anything of the sort. I was merely pointing out that this consultative document, this draft, is for stage 2 only. I would say to my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, West (Mr. John Page) that I am grateful for his sort of modified lack of support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-28", "file": "debates1973-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e93fab39ea89f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1578.0", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "ng prices. I was very disturbed by the intemperate and ill-informed speech of the hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Parkinson). I regret that he is not present and I apologise for not having given him prior notice that I intended to refer to him. He followed up a series of criticisms and attacks that we have heard of late, primarily from the Government side, on productivity deals. It seems to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-02-28", "file": "debates1973-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e93fab39ea89f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "tions, including in some cases foreign—for example, American—consultancy firms. My hon. Friend quoted Mr. Jarratt as saying: We have a very full record of 200 consultancy firms, their field experience and so on.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th April 1967; Vol. 744, c. 157.] My hon. Friend conjured up a vision of these consultancy firms queueing up at the door—or was that on the Committee stage of the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-02-28a.1642.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-03-01", "file": "debates1973-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "a533c60cef255cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-01a.1706.3", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Or tomorrow?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Will there be a statement next week on Government rate aid to the great cities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-01a.1706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-01", "file": "debates1973-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "a533c60cef255cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-01a.1743.1", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "preceding_text": "he work to the justices. I share the reservations of the hon. Member for Hackney, Central about depriving the subject of the right to trial by jury in cases which now entitle him to that right. However, I draw a great distinction between what the hon. Gentleman called technical cases, such as breathalyser cases, and a great number of other motoring cases, and those cases where honour is involved.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-01a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-01", "file": "debates1973-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "a533c60cef255cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-01a.1770.1", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS PENSIONS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "preceding_text": " evening, but this is an opportunity to raise the point. I should like to have an assurance from the Minister that in relation to the Bill, in assuming liability to pay pensions of expatriate pensioners, the Government will be careful to include those who are outside the terms of the Pensions (Increase) Act, 1971 who nevertheless are domiciled in the United Kingdom and are United Kingdom citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-01a.1770.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-05", "file": "debates1973-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b735c384375bd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.37.4", "colnum": "37", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " the Government are more than willing, in course of that process, to receive further representations about the form of the code from the TUC. And we are anxious, too, to take account of the views of Parliament. That is, of course, the principal purpose of today's debate. Against that background, I now commend these proposals to the House. And I do so upon the basis that they are balanced and fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.37.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-05", "file": "debates1973-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b735c384375bd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ing these 14 points to the House, I must express a word of thanks to the Government, for they have provided almost all the legislative machinery which we should need to implement the joint Labour-TUC statement. The argument put by the Government—no doubt, we shall hear it again today—is that, as we have a statutory price policy, we must have a statutory wage policy, too. This is manifest nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-05", "file": "debates1973-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b735c384375bd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.93.4", "colnum": "93", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter - Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter - Jones", "preceding_text": "— Concorde —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.93.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-05", "file": "debates1973-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b735c384375bd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.93.4", "colnum": "93", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter - Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter - Jones", "preceding_text": "— Concorde — [ Interruption. ]—and one or two other things.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.93.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-05", "file": "debates1973-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b735c384375bd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ent which, admittedly, was dented by the Labour Government. But it is going much further than any previous Government have done. The Secretary of State for Social Services is normally most courteous in these matters. It is very unsatisfactory that he will not make some statement about the present state of negotiations. Fifthly—and I am glad that the Secretary of State for Social Services is here —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-05", "file": "debates1973-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b735c384375bd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "This is the present intention of the Government. If variation is required, it will be seen through the quarterly reports, and we can adjust our policies accordingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-05", "file": "debates1973-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b735c384375bd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows full well that I did not say that the Labour Party must do what the trade unions want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-05", "file": "debates1973-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b735c384375bd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION PROPOSALS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "Opposition Front Bench. I have a great advantage over him. He had prepared his speech, and it suffered from all the problems of preparing a speech. I am only disappointed that I have not a music stand to put my three notes on. However, the hon. Gentleman identified the lowest-paid workers in the land. I am fed up with hearing about the agricultural workers, the miners, or about this group or that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-05", "file": "debates1973-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b735c384375bd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION PROPOSALS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "y three notes on. However, the hon. Gentleman identified the lowest-paid workers in the land. I am fed up with hearing about the agricultural workers, the miners, or about this group or that. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) should listen because he does not know who the lowest-paid workers are. They are in distribution. I am one of the employers in that business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-05", "file": "debates1973-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b735c384375bd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION PROPOSALS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Small.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "This is an extraordinary attitude. This sudden zeal, this sudden demand for these tremendous wage increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-05", "file": "debates1973-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4b735c384375bd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.180.3", "colnum": "180", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION PROPOSALS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I am talking to hon. Members other than the hon. Member for Gillingham, who mutters so much. I am asking how they can get so enthusiastic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-05a.180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The question of subsidised butter is still being considered by Ministers. It is not the striker who receives the benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.215.5", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And lack of gas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is virtually saying that no progress has been made. Is it not true to say that literally thousands of aged people die from hypothermia each winter in consequence of a lack of food and heat?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.215.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.215.5", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where have you been?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is virtually saying that no progress has been made. Is it not true to say that literally thousands of aged people die from hypothermia each winter in consequence of a lack of food and heat? [HON. MEMBERS: \"And lack of gas.\"] The gas strike has been on for only two or three days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.215.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.215.5", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": " that literally thousands of aged people die from hypothermia each winter in consequence of a lack of food and heat? [HON. MEMBERS: \"And lack of gas.\"] The gas strike has been on for only two or three days. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where have you been?\"] I am talking about the situation that applies winter after winter. Will the hon. Gentleman speed up these investigations? May I put a suggestion to him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.215.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Have a ballot.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot comment on the situation of individual unions. But what my hon. Friend said was reflected in the comments of many of those at yesterday's meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.233.5", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "that. The hon. Member for Southall has received correspondence in terms of bitter anguish requiring him to make known the feelings of people in receipt of incomes of £20 and £25 a week, to point out that the Government's prices and incomes code does nothing to rectify this serious position, that the formula of El plus 4 per cent. has nothing to do with the question whatever, that we must consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.233.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ld be done, but I do not think it can be said that we have been unreasonable in our attitude. We have given prority to rapid economic growth. We have held down nationalised industry prices. We have made massive reductions in taxation so as to increase employment. We have already increased old-age pensions proportionately more than ever before. We have provided relief on rents, and relief on rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will be very lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I do not think that any previous Chancellor has found himself attending an international conference of major importance two days before delivering his Budget or has been faced with having to be abroad for further discussions for three more days before the Budget debate has ended. I know the House will appreciate the reason if I reluctantly have to miss some parts of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "INDIRECT TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "set out in newspaper advertising and in leaflets a list of more than 150 main items of consumers' expenditure, and show how as a result of the tax changes their prices are likely to move. If any member of the public finds that prices in a particular shop have changed in a way which is out of line with this Shoppers' Guide he or she will be able to complain to the Weights and Measures Inspectorate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.281.4", "colnum": "281", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " eve of the Budget presentation. Just as the right hon. Gentleman's style of speech is part of a regular pattern, so we have seen other regularities. For example, as well as my own regular congratulations to the right hon. Gentleman there are usually the full-throated cheers of his right hon. and hon. Friends when he sits down. I thought that they were a little muted today compared with last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.281.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.281.4", "colnum": "281", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the debts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "dence to support its continuing at the rate which he has been describing. The right hon. Gentleman knows that the reality underlying that growth rate is associated with—not only concomitant with but causally associated with—a prodigal dissipation of the balance of payments surplus of £650 million that we bequeathed to him in 1970 with a built-in momentum carrying it to over £1,000 Million in 1971—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.281.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "record trade deficit against a record inherited surplus two years ago; the virtual certainty of a record balance of payments deficit; record interest rates; record house prices; record land prices; the lowest house building figures since the Tories were last in office; the lowest public authority house building for over ten years; two devaluations in eight months, three in fourteen, now amounting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "rd inherited surplus two years ago; the virtual certainty of a record balance of payments deficit; record interest rates; record house prices; record land prices; the lowest house building figures since the Tories were last in office; the lowest public authority house building for over ten years; two devaluations in eight months, three in fourteen, now amounting—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] Oh, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "g investment down by 18 per cent. last year when compared with the previous year? Was that the kind of glowing economy that he was trying to draw to our attention today? Is that why he said that industry is better prepared now to take advantage of rising world markets? Finally, industrial relations. More man-days were lost through disputes last year than in nearly six years of a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "conomic Community, which I strongly supported. I believe that the Government had to back away then, as the shake-out was going on, so that Opposition Members could vote with them for entry into Europe. Otherwise, those Labour Members who favoured entry would have been under such enormous political pressures that they would have had to go into the anti-Common Market Lobby against their best wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-06", "file": "debates1973-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ecc0e97065613e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tugendhat", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "eal in the coming weeks. I think the hon. Gentleman would agree that I am not backward in coming forward and talking about London matters. On this occasion, however, I will resist the temptation. The hon. Gentleman's intervention leads me to make one other point with which I hope he will agree. All of us representing London seats regret the necessity for a London debate on the General Powers Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-06a.312.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-03-07", "file": "debates1973-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bb6b6774c7d2b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.389.7", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "mplified again yesterday on the Stock Exchange, has been that millions of pounds have been made by property sharks? Why is it that councillors who have carried out their election promises in keeping down rents can be surcharged and fined and at the same time hon. Gentlemen opposite, who voted for the Act and represent property companies, can line their own pockets? What kind of a carry-on is this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.389.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-07", "file": "debates1973-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bb6b6774c7d2b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.409.7", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman put a rocket behind British Rail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.409.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-07", "file": "debates1973-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bb6b6774c7d2b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State confirm that, even after this proposed pension increase next autumn, the pension will still be worth only about 19 per cent. of national average earnings, compared with more than 21 per cent. in 1967—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-07", "file": "debates1973-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bb6b6774c7d2b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " building land and housing. On top of the Chancellor's failure to act in these areas, we have him deciding to increase the cost of living by at least 1 per cent. through the imposition of value added tax at 10 per cent. We have debated value added tax, and I will not repeat what so many of us have said, but the Chancellor had a wonderful opportunity at least to suspend the introduction of the tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-07", "file": "debates1973-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bb6b6774c7d2b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I was well aware of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-07", "file": "debates1973-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bb6b6774c7d2b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ss Socialist economic techniques are allied to Socialist moral values. The Budget represents a reversal to the Neanderthal period in the history of the Government. The Chancellor is giving £300 million mainly to the rich, while the poor are being asked to pay £500 million to £600 million in tax which they should not have to pay. Relief is given on lollipops and candy floss, but school milk is cut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-07", "file": "debates1973-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bb6b6774c7d2b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Si monumentum requiris circumspice. Every time there is a wage demand, however high, however unreasonable, however inflationary, automatically the Labour Front Bench, provided that it is in opposition, will back it. When in government, the Labour Party was pressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-07", "file": "debates1973-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bb6b6774c7d2b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "abour Front Bench, provided that it is in opposition, will back it. When in government, the Labour Party was pressed—[ Interruption. ] We had a superb example in the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn)—Wedgwood was for the rule of law, and Benn for those who broke it. We had the case of the dockers. We now have the reaction of the Leader of the Opposition to the gas workers' case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-07", "file": "debates1973-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bb6b6774c7d2b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I ask the hon. Gentleman to cast his mind back to the Labour Government's short-lived attempt when in power. He will realise that, if and when there is a freeze, exceptions cannot be made. If an exception is made for any particular category, exceptions have at once to be made for the lot. Having voted for phase 2, I accept that it permits no exceptions save—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-07", "file": "debates1973-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bb6b6774c7d2b7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": " is a fact that he has discovered a secretary earning £10 a week, he has an obligation to advise that lady to join my trade union. I hope that I may be forgiven that commercial. If this is an authentic case, it must be one of the worst examples of exploitation to be drawn to the attention of the House for a long time. It may be that like so many of the utterances of the Leader of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-07a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-08", "file": "debates1973-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "4526d26db85f8865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.579.5", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady will give me details of the place where she purchased the loaf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.579.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-08", "file": "debates1973-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "4526d26db85f8865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.579.5", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady will give me details of the place where she purchased the loaf—[ Interruption. ]—and will make absolutely certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.579.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-08", "file": "debates1973-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "4526d26db85f8865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.579.5", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady will give me details of the place where she purchased the loaf—[ Interruption. ]—and will make absolutely certain—[ Interruption. ] Is she referring to the 14 oz loaf?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.579.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-08", "file": "debates1973-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "4526d26db85f8865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "With regard to announcements of changes in food prices, has the Minister noted the universal condemnation of the Government's frivolous tax concession in the Budget on confectionery, potato crisps, and so on—condemnation notably expressed in a forthright leading article in the Sun today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-08", "file": "debates1973-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "4526d26db85f8865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "t tack—might deal with when he concludes the debate. It was something I found a little confusing and a little ambiguous and no doubt he will be able to clear it up. It arose in the Chancellor's Budget statement. I am pleased that when he discussed the question of payment to a mother or father he had become converted to the idea of payment to the mother. The House will view that with some pleasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-08", "file": "debates1973-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "4526d26db85f8865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "use will view that with some pleasure. [ Interruption. ] The Chancellor said: The House should know that the Government will not adopt any arrangement which leaves the mothers being paid less than they are at present\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th March 1973; Vol. 852, c. 242] I am trying to find out what this means. If the Minister of State looks at it again he will see that it is worded very carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-08", "file": "debates1973-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "4526d26db85f8865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "being paid less than they are at present\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th March 1973; Vol. 852, c. 242] I am trying to find out what this means. If the Minister of State looks at it again he will see that it is worded very carefully. [ Interruption. ] Does it mean a mother will get 90p and that under the tax credit scheme the rest will go to the father? Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will deal with this later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-08", "file": "debates1973-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "4526d26db85f8865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "preceding_text": "an living on personal income has to pay 90 per cent. of that income in taxation, the highest rate of taxation of almost any country. I would rather confine my remarks to my feelings about the Budget. I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Chancellor on being able, during what must have been a busy, trying and eventful week, to come here and make a two-hour speech which held the House in raptures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-08a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-09", "file": "debates1973-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "341ddb44044f9e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Indeed, in the Select Committee Report of 1901 one can find it recorded that Mr. Lowther, the future Speaker Lowther, was rebuked by a custodian on a Saturday afternoon and told that he had no rights in the place. That was the truth of the matter. We had no rights in this place. We did not even have a respectable tenancy until I negotiated the settlement in 1965. That is where this history begins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-09", "file": "debates1973-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "341ddb44044f9e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": " last ditch for the mediaeval rights of the Lord Great Chamberlain, going back to 1133. There is now the absurd business where they are spending over £80,000 on extending their restaurant accommodation. It is not the House of Commons which is the best club in Europe, it is the House of Lords now. And, of course, life peerages have made that place very much more popular than it ever deserves to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-09", "file": "debates1973-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "341ddb44044f9e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "t were done the question would arise of what would happen to the accommodation vacated in the Lords. I would not ask for it for the Commons. I would ask for decent accommodation for many distinguished men and women as life peers who in some ways have even sparser accommodation than we have. The House of Lords, which is a great repository of distinguished public service, needs to treat its members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-09", "file": "debates1973-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "341ddb44044f9e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "e. The GLC and many others are hostile to the scheme, and so are the amenity societies, to which my hon. Friend referred. Here hon. Members will have to make their own judgment on which advice they wish to follow. It would be wrong for me to express a view on that at this stage. It would be a purely subjective view and one on which I do not think the House would wish to place any particular value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-09", "file": "debates1973-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "341ddb44044f9e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.768.3", "colnum": "768", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "be without such a scheme. The provision would, of course, be less luxurious than in the new building, a full survey would be needed before reaching firm decisions, and the cost would depend to a great extent on the demands of Members. There is one advantage to this proposal, and that is that hon. Members would still be relatively near the Chamber, and that factor will weigh with some hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.768.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-09", "file": "debates1973-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "341ddb44044f9e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": " to hide the view from the Square of the now emerging Queen Anne's Mansions. Sir Basil Spence gave it as one of the merits of his proposal that it would be largely invisible, so perhaps we could take that opportunity to close yet another view of it. All the buildings along Great George Street, starting from our end, from the Chartered Surveyors through the other institutions, should be demolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-09", "file": "debates1973-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "341ddb44044f9e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "secretary bird into some cubicle at the back of beyond? Of course he does not. He is at his place day after day for any hon. Member who agrees or disagrees with him to confront him and to debate with him. He is available. My hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, West (Mr. Robert Cooke)—a young Member but one who has been here a long time—to the best of my knowledge works away at his appointed place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-09", "file": "debates1973-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "341ddb44044f9e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "ees or disagrees with him to confront him and to debate with him. He is available. My hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, West (Mr. Robert Cooke)—a young Member but one who has been here a long time—to the best of my knowledge works away at his appointed place. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] One frequently sees him sitting there in the Aye Lobby, writing his letters and gossiping to those who pass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-09", "file": "debates1973-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "341ddb44044f9e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "inted place. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] One frequently sees him sitting there in the Aye Lobby, writing his letters and gossiping to those who pass. [ Laughter. ] Some of my hon. Friends say \"Hear, hear\" and others laugh in a good-humoured way. But this is what this place is all about—gossiping with those who pass. In a long, pompous, platitudinous speech, the right hon. Member for Leeds, West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-09a.806.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-12", "file": "debates1973-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "06a67c23f0568373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "high and rising, when there was much unused capacity in the economy, and when both unemployment and spare capacity were particularly evident in the regions. The bulk of the additional spending falls under three main heads. There is the short-term counter-cyclical spending to which the hon. Gentleman referred and which amounts to over £675 million in the two years 1972–73 and 1973–74.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-12", "file": "debates1973-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "06a67c23f0568373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I chose my words very carefully, because it is important to get this exactly right. It is the question of the tax that becomes due in the current year.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-12", "file": "debates1973-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "06a67c23f0568373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "rs and the chairmen of the boards of companies who are responsible for industrial negotiations. They are the civil servants who devise the incomes policies; the Ministers of both parties who have to advocate those policies; the broadcasters who comment on incomes policies; and the editors who write the leading articles about them. I return to the The Times, which had a leading article on Saturday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-12", "file": "debates1973-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "06a67c23f0568373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "rd can move his capital abroad? Those are the issues that have been skilfully concealed by technical complexity, by the way in which Ministers explain the technical aspects of budgetary problems. The eyes of the Chancellor light up as he discovers a new detail of an adjustment to an inheritance tax that he can make for the benefit of his own supporters that he has been able to conceal in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-12", "file": "debates1973-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "06a67c23f0568373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "March 1972 the Tory Party's expenditure of £1,250,000 exceeded income by £319,000. In 1971 the Labour Party's expenditure of £672,000 exceeded its income by £101,000. These are substantial annual deficits. It is entirely wrong that political parties should run into this sort of financial embarrassment, because if they do they become dependent on raising cash from not particularly suitable sources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-12", "file": "debates1973-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "06a67c23f0568373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "doubt they will have some attractions to investors, but the question is not whether they will be attractive to investors but whether they will attract money which is at present outside the gilt-edged market, or whether there will simply be a switch within the gilt-edged market to the new types of debt. I have no doubt that the 3 per cent, loan issued at 75 will be attractive to high surtax payers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-12", "file": "debates1973-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "06a67c23f0568373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": "ck Lawson was a Minister in the Attlee Administration, much revered in the North East and in the House for his fairness and good judgment. Pat Bartley had already begun to make a reputation before his all-too-early death. My immediate predecessor, Norman Pentland, was much loved in his constituency and deeply respected on both sides of the House for his integrity, his courage and his common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-12", "file": "debates1973-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "06a67c23f0568373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Marquand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Marquand", "preceding_text": "depressed regions, in the Federal Republic of Germany have a per capita income above the EEC average. If we could get an effective regional policy which involved a really significant transfer of resources from the prosperous regions of the enlarged Community to the less prosperous regions of the enlarged Community, this country would benefit more than any other member of the EEC, except for Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-12", "file": "debates1973-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "06a67c23f0568373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "ng the taxation of the rich. But it would be intellectually dishonest and, in the long run, politically disastrous to pretend that increased taxation of the rich can solve the problem altogether. Two years ago, if the State had taken all incomes of more than £5,000 a year, the additional revenue at the Chancellor's disposal would have amounted to only about 1 per cent. of Inland Revenue receipts\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-12", "file": "debates1973-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "06a67c23f0568373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "LOCAL ELECTIONS RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "I did not intend to intervene, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for reasons you will understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-12a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-13", "file": "debates1973-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c0911ad856aee402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1098.6", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "That is a very disappointing reply, bearing in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1098.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-13", "file": "debates1973-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c0911ad856aee402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1112.5", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Since The Grocer shows that food prices have risen since the freeze by an annual rate of 28 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1112.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-13", "file": "debates1973-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c0911ad856aee402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not know where the right hon. Gentleman gets his views from the City because I do not know where he lunches and dines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-13", "file": "debates1973-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c0911ad856aee402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (SECONDARY LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ral deficiency payments system, with all the consequences for increases in food prices which have been going on for some weeks and which will continue for some weeks ahead? It is difficult for the House of Commons to discover from the present arrangements whether these increases in food prices are due to unilateral action by the Government, to decisions in Brussels, or to a combination of the two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-13", "file": "debates1973-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c0911ad856aee402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (SECONDARY LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "ms of the \"dummy\" written statement to which reference was made by the Select Committee. It has never been the wish of the House that we should have too many ministerial statements on matters that are not of great significance to the House, and I would have thought that the arrangements which have operated over the past three months have been satisfactory to hon. Members in all parts of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-13", "file": "debates1973-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c0911ad856aee402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (SECONDARY LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "he put into the report. Of course, I confirm what he said—that this is an interim report—and I have no doubt that, in the light of the recommendations which the Government have accepted and in the light of the further consideration of the matter by the Select Committee, we shall have to return to the subject and have a debate. We had better wait and have a further report from the Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1119.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-03-13", "file": "debates1973-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c0911ad856aee402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1122.4", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (SECONDARY LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Beef prices.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Quennell", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend define to the House what the minor matters would be on which he would consider it not worth while for the House to hear a statement from the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-13a.1122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1266.2", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman ask his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to listen to Ayr County Council and to appoint the sole nominee, Councillor Robert Beattie, to fill this vacancy on the Irvine Development Corporation? Since this long-dragged-out affair is beginning to smell of political corruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "as been announced in the Press that the CBI has changed its mind. However, I have had no representations direct from the Scottish CBI on this matter. The hon. Gentleman misrepresented what I said, because I said that there were differing views. For example, some people in the service industries, which are important industries for Scotland, are critical of a system which discriminates against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1294.3", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "BRITISH RAIL (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What unity?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": "The unity of purpose of the three railway trade unions which existed in 1972 assisted greatly in bringing about a settlement with the British Railways Board. Is the Minister aware that anything that any hon. or right hon. Member says to destroy that unity will do more harm than good?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1308.4", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "That is an abuse of the right or privilege to intervene. I hope that my right hon. and hon. Friends will bear in mind the hon. Gentleman's intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "pen to us if our people and their children are to be decently housed. The next Labour Government will take into public ownership all land needed for housing and development to the end of the century. The next Labour Government will make one of the top priorities in the allocation of money and resources the building of 400,000 houses a year. The next Labour Government will end property speculation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1318.2", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Fry", "preceding_text": "ast has gone towards providing council accommodation has come from national taxation. I believe that there is an argument for parity of treatment in these cases. I turn from the council tenant to the problems of young married couples or any persons wanting to buy their first house. This problem is perhaps restricted to the South-East and the Midlands where the greatest rise in prices has occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "At times the speech of the hon. Member for Merioneth (Mr. William Edwards) had a touch of sound common sense, which must have done little to endear him to many of his colleagues who verged on the theological. Indeed, it was in contrast to the speech of the hon. Member for Ealing, North (Mr. Molloy), assuming that even he believed what he was saying—which we could all doubt from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1389.5", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ouse. It was the right hon. Gentleman's peroration that will live in the memory of the House. It was the one example of deflation that we have seen for a long time—the promise of 400,000 houses per year. It used to be a promise of 500,000 a year. What happened to the 500,000? We move not from a promise but a pledge, solemnly given, to just another of those quick promises thrown across the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend pointed out, it is typical of the Opposition to say that the whole thing is totally inadequate when we have not announced any details about it. I wish first to refer to some of the points raised by hon. Members in the debate. I would have liked to have said something to the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Mr. Tope) but he has not done us the courtesy of being here at this moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "on homelessness in our major cities. Any of us with a responsibility for housing, either because we are in Government or because we speak about it in Opposition and look forward to responsibilities—in the long distant future perhaps—must think of homelessness as the greatest single social evil that we have to face. I want to start by saying something about rates, and some of the problems involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "artly because local services are being improved and developed, sometimes with the direct encouragement of the Government but sometimes purely on local initiative. For 1973–74 the Government will meet 60 per cent. of the increased total expenditure, compared with 58 per cent. of the lower total last year. It is a record percentage, representing a large increase over the help given last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1418.0", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Derisory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "joyed the advantage of a lower assessment than was justified, we have taken two measures to cushion the impact of revaluation. First, there is the 50 per cent. increase to the domestic rate adjustment. Secondly, there are the measures announced by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget Statement for those domestic ratepayers who are particularly hard hit by revaluation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1418.0", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are fewer of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "right hon. Member for Grimsby said that it was the general increase in local authority costs that mattered, and not the revaluation, which was a very small feature of the whole situation. Changes in rates happen every year. Some go up and some go down. This year is no exception. We have heard a great deal about authorities whose rates will go up, but less about authorities where they will go down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1418.0", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ent conference in Newcastle, when he said: At a time of high taxation—and taxation should be higher under a Labour Government if we are to carry out our social programmes—we shall never find another source of as much money as accrues through the rating system. If that is not an indication that the rates will be higher under a Labour Government, I should like to know what is. So much for the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ngle person on rent rebate and allowance and £3·50 to £14·75 for a married couple. I shall give some examples of the effect of the increase. A pensioner couple whose total weekly income is £15, and who are paying a rent of £3 at present, will get a rebate of £1·76. At the moment they pay £1·24 in rent. From the end of April, they will be getting a rebate of £2·61", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ent, will get a rebate of £1·76. At the moment they pay £1·24 in rent. From the end of April, they will be getting a rebate of £2·61 [ Interruption. ] I know that hon. Members do not like rebates. From the end of April they will be getting a rebate of £2·61, so that they will pay only 39p in rent. Even if they are council tenants and the rent of their home is increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1423.4", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "e who are also getting supplementary benefit towards their rent. All of those tenants will be better off as a result of the increase in the needs allowances even after the rent increase which is due in 1973–74. Even if their income goes up during the coming months by the amount envisaged under the stage 2 policy, scarcely any of them will be paying any more in rent than they are now paying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1423.4", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "he rent increase which is due in 1973–74. Even if their income goes up during the coming months by the amount envisaged under the stage 2 policy, scarcely any of them will be paying any more in rent than they are now paying—[ Interruption. ] All private tenants get-ting a rent allowance now will be better gift off from the end of April. That applies to all rents and ranges up to 88p a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1423.4", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "rs and ratepayers, many of who are worse off than council house tenants. This document also calls for subsidies to public sector housing at least equal to the tax relief enjoyed by owner-occupiers. The Opposition may not be aware that subsidies from taxpayers and ratepayers, to council tenants are about the same as the amount of tax relief granted on mortgage interest plus option mortgage subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chanson", "preceding_text": "The document also proposes that council tenants should have more say in the management of council estates. The hon. Member for Romford (Mr. Leonard) raised this point. I agree with it. There is nothing to stop councils from doing this now. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary recently recommended them to do so in a speech in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chanson", "preceding_text": "r Romford (Mr. Leonard) raised this point. I agree with it. There is nothing to stop councils from doing this now. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary recently recommended them to do so in a speech in this House. [ Interruption. ] The document also calls for a target of over 400,000 houses a year. I must say that if I were the Opposition I would not place my faith in their national housing targets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-14", "file": "debates1973-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "59803654bbe10b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1426.3", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND AND HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ssed by the Opposition's wish to help owner-occupation if they had been prepared to allow councils to sell council houses to existing tenants. The right answer to the problem of house and land prices is to develop the existing arrangements for bringing forward land for building and to achieve a higher stable output of new houses to buy. The Government have made considerable progress in this field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-14a.1426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-15", "file": "debates1973-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "8a76c6f9c29a4305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-15a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wrong again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister indicate what these prices are? My figures—which the Minister usually challenges—which apply up to last weekend show that since the beginning of the freeze there has been an increase in fruit prices of just over 50 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-15a.1460.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-03-15", "file": "debates1973-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "8a76c6f9c29a4305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-15a.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INFLATION (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-15a.1470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-15", "file": "debates1973-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "8a76c6f9c29a4305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-15a.1473.3", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDONESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I have said, the French Government are well aware of our views on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-15a.1473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-15", "file": "debates1973-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "8a76c6f9c29a4305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-15a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "BSA LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. The House can readily understand the increased difficulties suffered by you, Mr. Speaker, and no doubt they are going to get very much worse because the period between deciding the week's business and conducting it is now growing longer and some of us get to know what the week's business is two or three weeks before it actually takes place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-15a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-15", "file": "debates1973-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "8a76c6f9c29a4305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-15a.1610.7", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We want a whole speech on it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maker", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way any more. I think I have given way five times, and I must have some time to deal with the Opposition amendment, even if the Opposition do not want to hear about it, which is the clear impression I have had throughout the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-15a.1610.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-15", "file": "debates1973-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "8a76c6f9c29a4305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-15a.1612.1", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "It calls for urgent action within the Alliance to bring our defence spending into line with that of our European allies. It is perfectly clear from what has been said in other contexts and at the Labour Party conference what that means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-15a.1612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-16", "file": "debates1973-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "946943e712769f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-16a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVANTS (LOCAL AUTHORITY MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": " a possibility that, if one of those employees is elected for a ward where street lighting is poor or there is a considerable amount of rebuilding to be done, any plan submitted by council employees to the full council will not be entirely impartial. Rightly or wrongly, the councillor concerned with his ward will do his best to get his street lighting improved or his houses demolished and rebuilt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-16a.1664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-16", "file": "debates1973-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "946943e712769f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-16a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "We do not exactly have a representative House this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-16a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-16", "file": "debates1973-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "946943e712769f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-16a.1712.1", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " are second from the bottom. It cannot be denied that any man with family responsibilities who is receiving less than £30 a week has a far higher claim on national resources than the man earning £5,000 a year and above. The Government have paid more regard to the man earning £5,000 a year and more than to those earning under £30 a week. That is the crux of the national problem which we are facing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-16a.1712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-16", "file": "debates1973-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "946943e712769f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-16a.1717.3", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that I made foul accusations. I repeat them. I believe that the present Government have sought confrontation with the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-16a.1717.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-16", "file": "debates1973-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "946943e712769f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-16a.1719.2", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The position has not been brought about by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-16a.1719.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-19", "file": "debates1973-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "3928dd1d0419a18e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-19a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "BSA LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "the company and the trade unions concerned. I agree with him that trade union cooperation will be of great importance. On monitoring, a condition of the arrangements will be the agreement of a satisfactory monitoring plan which will involve flows of information to the Government. On the right hon. Gentleman's first observation, it is curious that he should describe as a lame duck Manganese Bronze—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-19a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-19", "file": "debates1973-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "3928dd1d0419a18e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-19a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Lambton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Lambton", "preceding_text": "I do not know what authority the hon. Gentleman has for stating costs. I do not think that it is possible to say exactly what the costs are before one knows precisely what is going in these vessels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-19a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-19", "file": "debates1973-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "3928dd1d0419a18e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-19a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "to know what the position is now. I was concerned with the matter as far back as 1968 and 1969, when these cruisers were very much in their conceptual stage. Early approval was given to consider these matters and for the necessary investigations, and I assure the hon. and gallant Gentleman that if ever they came to be built they would have to be contained within the totality of the defence budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-19a.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-19", "file": "debates1973-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "3928dd1d0419a18e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-19a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "a great help to the stability of the important Gulf area as a whole. I have spoken about the European security conference and MBFR. We have entered these talks with a determination to make them succeed. But the amendment proposed by the Opposition constitutes just about the worst possible preparation for the negotiations that one can think of. I am quite sure that the Opposition want a diminution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-19a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-19", "file": "debates1973-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "3928dd1d0419a18e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-19a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "sh reduction will do anything except strengthen the voices in America which are calling for greatly reduced military commitments in Europe? The withdrawal of American Forces from Europe is, I suppose, the greatest prize to which the Soviet Union is trying to reach out to achieve. The Soviet reaction to a reduced British defence effort would, surely, be one of incredulity. Even before negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-19a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-19", "file": "debates1973-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "3928dd1d0419a18e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-19a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The figures for other countries reflect the fact they have conscription. This reduces the cost of their military effort, but it imposes a strain on their manpower. We do not believe that that is necessary in this country. The alternative course is to cut down on certain functions. To bring defence expenditure down to 4·2 per cent. of GNP means cutting it by £850 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-19a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-20", "file": "debates1973-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "2585e3301ebf00d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-20a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "Those are the hon. Gentleman's figures, not mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-20a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-20", "file": "debates1973-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "2585e3301ebf00d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-20a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "oportional representation, on power sharing, on the vital need to end the Special Powers Act, and on the all-Ireland dimension and on economic affairs. Nevertheless, does the right hon. Gentleman agree that we would all be wise to follow the advice of the trade unions of Northern Ireland and of the Council of Churches to consider carefully the words of the White Paper before giving our firm views?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-20a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-20", "file": "debates1973-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "2585e3301ebf00d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-20a.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For you to consider.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "This is something which the House will have to consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-20a.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-20", "file": "debates1973-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "2585e3301ebf00d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-20a.308.3", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " rates increase order—subject to the success of the counter-inflation policy—and that next April the rates will be relieved of the local authority services at present costing £350 million relating to personal health and water. This of course would be bound to have a relieving effect on the rates. My right hon. Friend referred to the rating of empty promises—I am sorry, I should have said premises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-20a.308.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-20", "file": "debates1973-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "2585e3301ebf00d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-20a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON MOTORWAY BOX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Worsley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Worsley", "preceding_text": "he was supposed to be moving. The views that he exposed are well known—he is against any form of central ringway—but that is not what the motion says nor what the Select Committee said. The Select Committee said that there were many issues, like traffic restraint and public transport, which should be taken into account before urban ringways were built. It did not say that they should not be built—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-20a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-20", "file": "debates1973-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "2585e3301ebf00d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-20a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON MOTORWAY BOX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is introducing a quite different subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-20a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.414.7", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Because, time and again, I have made it clear to the French Government what our view is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.414.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "0 million? How does he propose to deal with that deficit? Will he wipe it out by a Treasury injection or is it to be met by additional increases in butter and cheese prices for the British people? If it is to be wiped out by the Treasury, does this not mean a subsidy, and will he stop talking nonsense about subsidies meaning rationing and extend the principle to other commodities? Will he tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "ise with the hon. Gentleman in his difficulty in finding something about which to complain. The hon. Gentleman first asked whether the review was agreed. I wish to make it plain that, in view of the wholly changed circumstances surrounding the review, I agreed with the farmers' leaders at the start of our discussions this year that the old convention of asking for agreement should be discontinued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": " what the hon. Gentleman said about prices, he continues to use price indices which I do not recognise. As I told him on Monday night when he used such indices, we are using precisely the same basis of index as the Opposition did when they were in office, and if the hon. Gentleman uses it he will be able to argue more effectively. I reject his figure of 14 per cent., which is unreal and incorrect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "While I welcome my right hon. Friend's decision on eggs, I should like him to explain why the Government waited until this year, instead of taking action last year, to help egg producers, when so many of them have been facing bankruptcy. Does my right hon. Friend realise that the reduction in the rate of capital improvements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that, whatever the acreage of cereals, the crop yield has been a record one. That shows the way farming is going. We can take pleasure in this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "in the review and to give a bigger increase and to include it within an artificial global total, but this would have had no meaning. The farming community recognises that factor, and this is why we have not attempted to equate it in that way. I presume that the hon. Gentleman did not hear me correctly on calf subsidy. I did not say that it was being removed; I said it was being cut by 25 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "eased production and to help the farming community. The hon. Gentleman asked me about the figure of support. He will find it on page 34 of the White Paper. The total is £258·9 million, with the exception of the EEC figures which are given separately. This is Government expenditure over the whole field, including the best estimate we can make of market returns over the forthcoming 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "e drawing of the extra money now available. With some relish, having been carefully moderate, I now turn to a separate issue —the credentials of the Opposition to raise this whole subject. What did the Opposition, when in Government, do for the hospital ancillaries? I hope that the right hon. Gentleman has looked up the record. During the period of the Labour Government prices rose by 30 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ate issue —the credentials of the Opposition to raise this whole subject. What did the Opposition, when in Government, do for the hospital ancillaries? I hope that the right hon. Gentleman has looked up the record. During the period of the Labour Government prices rose by 30 per cent. [ Interruption. ] I shall disclose the true comparison. During the six years of the Labour Government prices rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": " preparation for phase 3. One thing which is lamentable is that it has become the custom for strikers, in whatever industry they may be, to refer to the basic pay of the lowest grade as if it applied to them all. Along with millions of viewers, I heard a representative of the hospital workers repeatedly refer to the £l8 a week of hospital workers, when 27·8 per cent. earn over £35 per week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.478.3", "colnum": "478", "heading": "HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "use they were weakly organised and were not militant. They were left behind in the queue and by the time they came to assert their claim there was a freeze. They are therefore feeling a perfectly understandable sense of injustice. How can it be right for a Government which has now had a complete change of heart, and far too late, to give way to a single group? The Labour Government would not do it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.478.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "I have always believed, and I said so on the platform in Chester-le-Street, that the hospital workers had a good and reasonable case but that there should be no exceptions made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "I have always believed, and I said so on the platform in Chester-le-Street, that the hospital workers had a good and reasonable case but that there should be no exceptions made. [ Interruption. ] What the Government need to do and what the House needs to do, unless the Labour Party has become so irresponsible", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "I have always believed, and I said so on the platform in Chester-le-Street, that the hospital workers had a good and reasonable case but that there should be no exceptions made. [ Interruption. ] What the Government need to do and what the House needs to do, unless the Labour Party has become so irresponsible [ Interruption. ] that it wants to give way and to see every group get increased wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "d look at what is happening outside the party, and people's reactions to the party. At a time when the Labour Party should be gaining strength, it is not gaining in strength but is losing in strength. Why?—because it has lost a certain credibility, and it has lost it because it is well realised by the public that the party in Opposition is condemning what, if it were in power, it would have to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.510.3", "colnum": "510", "heading": "HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "the health service and the country to ransom recently are the BMA and the doctors, who have threatened mass resignations. It does not do consultants in the Birmingham area any good when they sign petitions saying that waiting lists are getting longer. I was a member of the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board for two-and-a-half years. When I was on that board the waiting lists got longer and longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "HOSPITAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "himself said that in a just society the ancillary workers would have been given a fair wage. So we have to accept what the hon. Member for Dorset, South (Mr. Evelyn King) said, that we do not have a just society. I had hoped that the Secretary of State, instead of delivering, as I am afraid he did—he is no doubt under a considerable nervous strain—a five-minute party political piece earlier today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-21", "file": "debates1973-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d3fddd963d03dfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "No. It is always Right-wing regimes that the Opposition criticise. I have never known them to criticise semi-authoritarian or authoritarian Left-wing regimes to anything like the same extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-21a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-22", "file": "debates1973-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "c388b73b2eb14375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-22a.634.4", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "The answer to the hon. Member is simple—I would not wish to endorse any of the points he has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-22a.634.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-22", "file": "debates1973-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "c388b73b2eb14375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-22a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "What investigations have the Government undertaken to discover whether perfectly suitable people would undertake these two jobs for less than £16,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-22a.652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-22", "file": "debates1973-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "c388b73b2eb14375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-22a.656.5", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. Regrettably, the construction industry ran down the total number of its employees at the end of the 1960s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-22a.656.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-22", "file": "debates1973-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "c388b73b2eb14375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-22a.667.4", "colnum": "667", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "llowing the representations made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) regarding the wearing of safety helmets by motor cyclists, will the Leader of the House bear in mind that it is also proposed that there should be compulsion for the wearing of seat belts? As these matters are for persuasion and for the insurance companies and not for the law of the land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-22a.667.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-22", "file": "debates1973-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "c388b73b2eb14375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-22a.667.5", "colnum": "667", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "These obviously are matters for debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-22a.667.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-22", "file": "debates1973-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "c388b73b2eb14375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-22a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ICELANDIC FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Big deal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "preceding_text": "said that he wanted a quick reaction to any particular incident. I can assure him that there is no sitting back and waiting to make a protest if an incident takes place. In one particular incident, I have been told, there was a telephone call straight away by our ambassador to the appropriate Minister. This certainly is the sort of reaction one likes to see and I can assure my hon. Friend on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-22a.717.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-03-23", "file": "debates1973-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ac3b397ea65a28a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-23a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "SOCIALIST PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House calls attention to the need to change, not re-arrange, social, economic and Parliamentary priorities: and declares that, in a system where the free market forces are shown to be continually breaking down, only the implementation of a truly Socialist programme can create a One Nation society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-23a.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-23", "file": "debates1973-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ac3b397ea65a28a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-23a.785.2", "colnum": "785", "heading": "SOCIALIST PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " figures for the first nine months show that overseas private investment was about £1,000 million. Therefore, for the full year it would be about £1,400 million. I have a novel scheme for looking after that aspect as well. If we are to attempt to prevent it and to recoup some of the money, I suggest a way in which it can be done. The Bank of England must give authority for money to be sent abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-23a.785.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-23", "file": "debates1973-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ac3b397ea65a28a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-23a.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "SOCIALIST PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "ate bargaining strength. Today the balance of power has shifted. The effects of industrial disputes are no longer confined to the workshop. They frequently affect the daily lives of us all. It was to redress this balance that the Government introduced the Counter-Inflation Bill, and it is the strength of the Conservative Party that it has avoided any ties with particular sections of the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-23a.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-23", "file": "debates1973-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ac3b397ea65a28a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-23a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "SOCIALIST PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite wrong. In any event how can he talk about a sectional interest when the Labour Party is financed almost entirely by the trade unions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-23a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "On another point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "as saying, who argue that until the service of contraception is made normal by being part of the National Health Service, those large minorities may not feel the impetus to change their attitudes and habits. That is what I was trying to express. We are being urged to go free by a very wide range of bodies, including the Church of England's Board of Social Responsibility and the Women's Institutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "ry of State for Social Services and then of my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State. My right hon. Friend, who made a tremendous speech, said that public opinion now supports free contraception for all, or certainly those were almost the words that he used. I do not know on what he bases this assertion. I do not think that there has been any serious research into public opinion on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "if possible. I pose the next question, which arises on the same subject, to my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State. Last year, when we discussed the National Health Service (Family Planning) Amendment Bill in Committee, which brought in vasectomy, some of us had the impression that at least the requirement would be that for somebody to be vasectomised the husband and wife should be agreeable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "n for contraception at all, and illegitimate children.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, House of Lords, 19th December 1972; Vol. 337, c. 989.] We are told by an authoritative body that has come to advise us out of the blue that it is possible that the third, fourth, fifth and sixth children will, by natural rejection rather than natural selection, come into the category of unwanted children or unwanted births—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I should like some closer definition of \"unwanted pregnancy\". I know that my right hon. and learned friend the Member for Huntingdonshire (Sir D. Renton) and my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, South (Dr. Stuttaford) have strong views on these matters. I am endeavouring to put them as reasonably as I can from the other point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "dvice mean to the people about whom we are talking? What is advice if there is a split in the family at the time, if the father and mother are not getting on too well, if they have had a child and are having terrible rows? The local health visitor or counsellor hears about it, gets one of them to come along and persuades them in the torment of their row perhaps that the man should be vasectomised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.974.3", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, South can wag his head as much as he likes. He has never managed to persuade a few of us about his views on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "rts of matters. Hon. Members opposite are against me on this, but they are the first to scream about democracy. But here we are ready to accept a new band of paid people who are to tell people how to run their lives—not the so-called \"best\" people, the wealthy or the well-off or the better-off but the poorest people. We have the temerity to condemn them because perhaps they have too many children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "on explosion argument for a totally free birth control service simply does not stand up. So what are the other reasons? To prevent the unwanted child; but let us say \"the unwanted pregnancies\" instead of \"the unwanted children\". I can remember in this House not so very many years ago hon. Members saying that if only we were to pass the Abortion Act there would not be any more unwanted pregnancies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "amily planning devices, free contraceptive devices, for everybody, a climate is created in which it is more likely that there will be more unplanned pregnancies and not fewer. One of the things which worry me very much at the moment is that many young people think that if they do not sleep around there must be something wrong with them, because of the kind of pressure which is being put upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.1002.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "preceding_text": "s muddled comments upon what would happen under Clause 4 revealed that conflict. Where, indeed, is the rationale behind the Secretary of State's new proposals? It is certainly out of keeping with his temperament. Has he suddenly turned misogynist? As to family planning he declared this afternoon, as I understood him, that every man shall have his sheath free and every woman must pay for her pills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-26", "file": "debates1973-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "a9ea39cec1d511b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.1027.7", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "That was the view, as the Minister acknowledges, which was propounded then. When I see these extravagant oscillations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-26a.1027.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-28", "file": "debates1973-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "555bfe8b222f055a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-28a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is 2 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will realise that the Liberal Party commands 1 million votes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-28a.1333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-28", "file": "debates1973-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "555bfe8b222f055a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-28a.1390.3", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "tion of the Governor. The people in Northern Ireland are very disturbed by the way in which this office has been abolished. We are determined to maintain the constitutional link with the United Kingdom, and, in my view, this link would be weakened if the representative of Her Majesty the Queen in Northern Ireland were removed. Unfortunately, Her Majesty has not visited Northern Ireland frequently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-28a.1390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1524.5", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "On inflation, which is the subject of this speech, I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on arm-twisting the building societies to postpone their increase until after the GLC and other elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1524.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1527.4", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question No. 6.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gregor Mackenzie", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1527.7", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The whole question of the balance of VAT has been debated many times in the past. The hon. Gentleman knows the situation. As I have emphasised, the demand for the telephone system is now very great indeed. The companies recognise this. The companies are working on long-term plans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1527.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question No. 6.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The whole question of the balance of VAT has been debated many times in the past. The hon. Gentleman knows the situation. As I have emphasised, the demand for the telephone system is now very great indeed. The companies recognise this. The companies are working on long-term plans. [ Interruption. ] I hope that I have said enough to convince the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1527.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1558.3", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "a Bill dealing solely with elections, which should come first. If this were not the right way, I should certainly look at the proposals put forward by the right hon. Gentleman. Such a Bill would need to pass all stages in both Houses by the end of the second week of May to permit the elections to be held by the end of June. I can undertake that such a Bill will be presented to the House very soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1590.1", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "alled it an absurdity, and such a contradiction is an absurdity— built into the proposals and made the centrepiece of them. The hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) at the end of a speech yesterday afternoon which contained what, if I may say so, was a brilliant dissection of this centre piece of the White Paper—I thought she exposed its inconsistencies and contradictions in a devastating way;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1590.1", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "for Belfast, North (Mr. Stratton Mills) yesterday were \"Give it a try\". Let us give it a try, say hon. Members, and see if it will work. But we are not sent here to give things a try, to see if they will work. We are sent here to apply our judgment before the event. We are sent here to judge between what is likely to work and what is not likely to work, between what is absurd and what is rational.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McManus", "preceding_text": "order the Secretary of State envisages in Northern Ireland he should surely have had the breadth of vision and the political courage to say that the police force at the very least needs very drastic reform As yet, not a word has been mentioned about how the police are to be reformed. I have specific ideas about how they should be reformed. But those will probably be matters for debate on the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1618.5", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "d that 10 years before a man had applied to be deputy director of education and he had been turned down. This is the position and the starting point of many quite unbiassed hon. Members on this side of the House. There are hon. Members who, under the pretext of modest amendments, are hoping to bring back that domination. We heard some semi-Marxism from the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1618.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1644.1", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "e the war? With the redistribution of population a new feeling has grown. This sort of thing has altered the situation. There is also another myth, as my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, West will agree, that \"never the twain shall meet\". I do not believe that there is any family, on either side, that does not have a black sheep in it in the form of a Roman Catholic or a Protestant in reverse.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "as to fight a battle within the law. If one has discussed these matters in what passes for a barrack room and has been out with men who can at any moment be shot in the street, one realises two things. First, we must make changes in the administration of the law to deal with intimidation, and secondly we must retain detention with trial. It is not detention without trial but detention with trial.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1669.2", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (FIREARMS)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Peter Mills)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Peter Mills)", "preceding_text": " 23 of which it was incumbent on the police to grant a certificate once the requirements had been satisfied. At present, firearm certificates for bullet-firing weapons are granted in two types of case only. The first is where the police consider that the person's life is in danger and that he needs a handgun for personal protection. The second is where a farmer shows that he cannot control vermin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1676.2", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (FIREARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "Once again a red herring is drawn in, because there is no evidence that the UDR was guilty of negligence in that instance and we do not know who was responsible for capturing those rifles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1676.2", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (FIREARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "Once again a red herring is drawn in, because there is no evidence that the UDR was guilty of negligence in that instance and we do not know who was responsible for capturing those rifles. [ Interruption. ] I do not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1677.5", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (FIREARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "atholics when the Under-Secretary was referring to vermin. I did not intend to take it up because I thought it was in the worst possible taste. The hon. Gentleman can laugh, but to my mind that is not a pleasant thing to state in this Chamber. The hon. Gentleman has his own armoury. He is a Roman Catholic and he has his guns. He should not talk about Protestants shooting Catholics. Let us be fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1677.5", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (FIREARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "ind that is not a pleasant thing to state in this Chamber. The hon. Gentleman has his own armoury. He is a Roman Catholic and he has his guns. He should not talk about Protestants shooting Catholics. Let us be fair—[ interruption. ]—I never expect fairness from the hon. Gentleman. If he has the courage to do so, let him stand up and put his questions rather than grunt away like a pig in a parlour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1682.2", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (FIREARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "ff duty, returning from a dance, passed through the Bogside area of Derry and there discharged a weapon. He was subsequently arrested by the British Army and the police and is facing charges. Again I am not saying, because I do not know, what weapon he discharged, from what kind of handgun he fired shots. I am making no claim that anyone was injured —no one was. This may have been an isolated case", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1682.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-29", "file": "debates1973-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d926c318a7b81308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (FIREARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "lind people. That is why we should call in all the guns. That is why I can only partially welcome what the Government are doing. They are only partially doing what the Opposition have asked them to do. I concede that people living in remote areas and in difficult circumstances— —Republicans, Nationalists, Moderates, Protestants, Unionists, Loyalists, Catholics, Christian Scientists, Presbyterians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-29a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-03-30", "file": "debates1973-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "dce8a043a7ca0f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-30a.1779.1", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "NORTH SEA OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tarn Dalyell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not the only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tarn Dalyell", "preceding_text": "length. There were some pointed remarks by St. Thomas about the destruction of national life. That is one of the things with which the debate has been concerned. Have the Government thought about the efforts of a sincere and distinguished civil servant who joined the Highlands and Islands Development Board, Sir James McKay, who went so soon to a combine like the Cromarty Firth Development Company?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-03-30a.1779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-02", "file": "debates1973-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "bcb4f4f68159e827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "t of the supplementary question is that it was one of the recommendations. The hon. Gentleman may have seen that Mr. Gibson, of the Offshore Supplies Office, told the Aberdeen Offshore Conference two weeks ago that the IMEG recommendation which appeared to be the most difficult is developing as one of the easiest to implement. Although the second part of the question is not entirely relevant here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.8.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-02", "file": "debates1973-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "bcb4f4f68159e827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "nomic debate is to support the futile May Day protest strikes. This seems to me to be just another example of all that is worst in the Labour Party. The voices of common sense are drowned. The arguments of reason, moderation and respect for parliamentary democracy are overwhelmed. While the Leader of the Opposition characteristically sits silent, in silent impotence, the militant Left rampages on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-02", "file": "debates1973-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "bcb4f4f68159e827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "rds for VAT prices through the Price Code, pay returns, detailed control over their profit margins—all the other forms of stifling initiative about which we used to hear so much from hon. Members opposite. Where are all those valient defenders of yesteryear? We remember the hon. Member for South Angus. He is still at it, but all the others have vacated the Floor. We do not hear from them any more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-02", "file": "debates1973-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "bcb4f4f68159e827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " It will be known that I have a very considerable interest to declare in that respect. I am not pleased about that growth because most accountancy firms, in my experience, had plenty to do before this happened. But they are now inundated, and we are only at the start of it. What the Government have done to this well-loved family company about which we have heard so much from hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-02", "file": "debates1973-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "bcb4f4f68159e827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.62.3", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "nt for the building societies to enable mortgage interest rates to remain lower. I make no objection to such a step being taken, provided that at the same time corresponding concessions are given to council house tenants, and mortgage interest relief is removed altogether for those with a second house and for those at the higher end of the income scale. That is what the Chancellor should be doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.62.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-02", "file": "debates1973-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "bcb4f4f68159e827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "t wage restraint, a gesture which would show that the restraint is being equally shared. We needed a Finance Bill with positive action on prices instead of positive action to increase prices through VAT. We needed a resolute refusal to allow prices, especially food prices, to rise. Instead, we have the reverse. Presumably, what President Nixon has done today this Government will do a little later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-02", "file": "debates1973-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "bcb4f4f68159e827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ngs they will give to the various parts of the Government machine that there shall be proper planning and a proper conceptual whole to establish the necessary onshore facilities for North Sea oil. I end by saying that if the Government will not take all this from a Socialist, at least they might take it from St. Thomas Aquinas. We must balance the Church of Scotland with the Roman Catholic Church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-02", "file": "debates1973-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "bcb4f4f68159e827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "posals relating to the date of valuation for estate duty will together require a small addition to the staff of the Inland Revenue amounting to about 150 in 1973–74 and 300 in 1974–75. If we take the overall effect of the Government's tax reform package, including the change to VAT, unification and in the longer term the tax credit scheme, there will be a substantial saving in staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-02", "file": "debates1973-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "bcb4f4f68159e827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR (DISTRIBUTION REPAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "ion for that country and those who produce cane sugar there as the hon. Gentleman. But it is extraordinary that we should be asked to provide a subsidy, which is what we have been doing, towards the Australian economy for the production of cane sugar when there is no need for it. This is a matter that I have failed to understand in recent years, but I believe that the Australians do understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-02", "file": "debates1973-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "bcb4f4f68159e827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR (DISTRIBUTION REPAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to subsidise the French.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-02", "file": "debates1973-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "bcb4f4f68159e827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.183.0", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR (DISTRIBUTION REPAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I am trying to follow what the hon. Lady is saying. May I refer her to Statutory Instrument No. 307? This is, I assume, a distribution payment. Could she tell me why, at 17·02F, caramel, solid, is 0·50 whereas caramel, liquid, is 0·34? If the hon. Lady will turn over the page—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-02", "file": "debates1973-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "bcb4f4f68159e827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR (DISTRIBUTION REPAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": " 2 of the counter-inflation policy. It is impossible to forecast the practical effect on the price of manufactured foods, but, as my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge said, in the case of many foods with high sugar content, such as chocolate and sugar confectionery, icecream and soft drinks, the removal of purchase tax and zero rating for VAT will far outweigh the effect of removing the subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-02a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-03", "file": "debates1973-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a45c5eecc9e84e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-03a.209.4", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I have not precise figures because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-03a.209.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-03", "file": "debates1973-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a45c5eecc9e84e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-03a.228.6", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Any.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the present Government have done more for the disabled than many of their predecessors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-03a.228.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-03", "file": "debates1973-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a45c5eecc9e84e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-03a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "What it means is that no decisions have yet been taken on the matter. If, however, the proposals put forward by the Commission were accepted in total, the second of the right hon. Gentleman's propositions would apply, namely that the increase originally expected would be less by 2p a lb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-03a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-03", "file": "debates1973-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a45c5eecc9e84e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-03a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": " the past few weeks—from the somewhat lower meat prices. There is this factor which has been seen to operate in the past, namely that if one imposes a ceiling on prices it automatically becomes the floor price, too. That would not have been helpful here. The Government recognise the seriousness of the situation. Wherever we can we have taken effective action. The abolition of SET and purchase tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-03a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-03", "file": "debates1973-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a45c5eecc9e84e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-03a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "preceding_text": "o believe that there is an opportunity here which has not been vouched safe to us in London since, perhaps, the Great Fire. The hon. Members who talked about the problems of the river were quite right. The barrier will enable us to use the river as it should be used. I never tire of telling people that a fish has been caught off Chelsea, because when this happens there must be hope for the Thames.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-03a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-05", "file": "debates1973-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "201159693d19fb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "This is not a slap in the face for anyone", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-05", "file": "debates1973-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "201159693d19fb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.615.5", "colnum": "615", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I sympathise with my hon. Friend to the extent that some Members who think that they should be on Standing Committees do not always find a place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-05", "file": "debates1973-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "201159693d19fb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.629.3", "colnum": "629", "heading": "BUILDING SOCIETIES (INTEREST RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "A new 25-year annuity mortgage of £6,000—a fairly typical national figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-05", "file": "debates1973-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "201159693d19fb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morris", "preceding_text": "ich I have taken an interest is that nine claims were submitted between 20th and 30th March, all of which have been passed for payment, and five were settled by the unit on 2nd April. Of the other eight cases one has been delayed because the soldier is in hospital, two claims have been reimbursed by Customs and Excise, and a third is under consideration. Three of the soldiers have sold their cars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-05", "file": "debates1973-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "201159693d19fb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR CYCLISTS (HELMETS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "preceding_text": " matter in which we are dealing with intelligent people, because motor cyclists are intelligent people. As the hon. and learned Gentleman has said, 88 per cent. of them already wear crash helmets voluntarily. They do not need a law to make them do that. I do not believe and have never believed that morality or good conduct can be forced on people by passing laws. That is really what this is about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-05", "file": "debates1973-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "201159693d19fb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR CYCLISTS (HELMETS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "n whose life could have been saved being lost because he was not wearing a crash helmet. Our first natural instinct and reaction, having legislative power in our hands, is to use that legislative power. But that is where the danger lies. The abuse of legislative power by this House is far more serious and more far-reaching in its effects than the loss of individual lives through foolish decisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-05", "file": "debates1973-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "201159693d19fb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR CYCLISTS (HELMETS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants to make a party political point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.762.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-05", "file": "debates1973-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "201159693d19fb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR CYCLISTS (HELMETS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "preceding_text": "With respect to my right hon. Friend, it is not for the manufacturer of the car. The House will know that it is an offence for anyone to use a car first used after 1st July 1972 unless it has a collapsible steering column.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-05a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-06", "file": "debates1973-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f082773f19634b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-06a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HALLMARKING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "preceding_text": "as sponsor of the Bill, for the help that his Department has given, and for his part in Committee in helping with a lengthy and complex Bill. I know that this extra work makes an especially heavy load for him. His explanation of the reason for excluding the words \"any person knowingly\" was far more enlightened and conclusive than mine. I am sure that the House must now be convinced of the reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-06a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-06", "file": "debates1973-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f082773f19634b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-06a.826.13", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "preceding_text": "consumer associations, among others, and Government officials have come to the conclusion that the ancient symbols are perhaps out of date and therefore for one dreadful moment they proposed that the lion, the worldwide symbol of British silver, should be removed from the mark and that the more soulless millesimal number should be used to indicate the standard of purity or fineness of the article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-06a.826.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-06", "file": "debates1973-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f082773f19634b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-06a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "ers that have appeared in recent years, we frequently see that an outstanding feature of their beauty is the bold punch mark or the series of bold punch marks on the bowl, goblet, salver or whatever it may be. That is recognised. Will the little numbers 925 be destructive of the harmony and the cohesion of the marks which have been used for centuries or will they add to the beauty of the article?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-06a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-06", "file": "debates1973-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "f082773f19634b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-06a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL LOTTERY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinn", "preceding_text": "rongly argued criticism, particularly from my own side of the House, was that it was absolutely wrong that in a mature society, with a conscience and with responsibility towards its citizens, such necessary and worthwhile causes should be dependent upon the chance of a lottery, that if the needs were there, they should be met through taxation rationed out. that that was the more rational approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-06a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-09", "file": "debates1973-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "75e5091b037ee8de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.930.8", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Out of how many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would perhaps like to be told about these statistics. In the three days immediately prior to 29th March there were 17 cases of shoplifting before the court, all of people of considerable means and ability to pay, all of whom came from the Near or Middle East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.930.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-09", "file": "debates1973-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "75e5091b037ee8de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "MR. PETER NIESEWAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " that was turned down by the people of Rhodesia last year, to represent the strong views held by parties in the House and by all sections of the community here? If there were no response to that action, would the Prime Minister take note of the proposal made by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, East (Mr. John D. Grant) that the world Press, outraged as is the British Press by this decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-09", "file": "debates1973-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "75e5091b037ee8de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "MR. PETER NIESEWAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Lest words uttered here today should go out from here as representing the views of this House, especially of this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-09", "file": "debates1973-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "75e5091b037ee8de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (INTEREST RATES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "s and difficult problems that no one could be expected to solve in a short time. In the controversy over mortgage rates, the major point must not be forgotten— to keep up the output of houses. Nothing must spoil that. My right hon. and learned Friend pointed out that last year there were 227,000 private housing starts against 165,000 in 1970. The rate is at least being maintained so far this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-09", "file": "debates1973-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "75e5091b037ee8de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (INTEREST RATES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "hon. Friends will accept that that is so. One or two hon. Members suggested that it is unfair that home owners should have been assisted in this way by the Government. I understand that to be the view of some Opposition Members. Certainly it was clear from their speeches. But surely that cannot be right. As part of our counter-inflation policies, householders of every type have received some help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-09", "file": "debates1973-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "75e5091b037ee8de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (INTEREST RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "erm to moderate increases in new gross mortgage costs from about 13 per cent. to 8 per cent. A typical mortgage, would increase by about £4 gross or £3 net at present. If the rate had been allowed to rise to 10 per cent. the increased cost would have been £6 gross or £4 net, so there is a gross saving of £2 per month on a fairly typical mortgage. In the context of counter-inflation, that is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-09", "file": "debates1973-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "75e5091b037ee8de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (INTEREST RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "y typical mortgage. In the context of counter-inflation, that is right. [ Interruption. ] Some Labour hon. Members are saying that it is wrong in principle that the subsidy should be granted, while some say that it is inadequate. They must decide which is their case. The Leader of the Opposition has himself suggested such subsidies. Surely Labour hon. Members cannot disagree with that wise advice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-09", "file": "debates1973-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "75e5091b037ee8de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (INTEREST RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ly, can scarcely disagree with the Leader of the Opposition. I understand that to be the Opposition's position. The right hon. Member for Grimsby perhaps did not answer that question, and we must look at exactly what the Opposition are saying. The Opposition cannot ride both horses at the same time. They can either say that it is inequitable to have the subsidy or that the subsidy is insufficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-09", "file": "debates1973-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "75e5091b037ee8de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (INTEREST RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "y say that it is inequitable, the right hon. Member for Jarrow (Mr. Fernyhough) had better deal with his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition on that matter. The Leader of the Opposition is trying to ride both horses. He is trying to say that the help is insufficient. I should be more concerned about the motion if it were not that history shows just how hollow are the Opposition's words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-09", "file": "debates1973-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "75e5091b037ee8de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (INTEREST RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ir own record. When in office they allowed two mortgage famines in 1965 and 1969. There is no mortgage famine now, and my right hon. Friends have taken steps to avert one. The Labour Party when in power sought to deal with the land problem by the Land Commission and betterment levy. My right hon. Friends are doing it the sensible way, through getting more land released through the planning system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-09", "file": "debates1973-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "75e5091b037ee8de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHRONICALLY SICK AND DISABLED PERSONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "to be available, because we have asked for it several times. If surveys were carried out among local authorities, as they should be, under Sections 1 and 2 of the Act, they would show that the need for telephones runs into thousands rather than a mere 500. It is necessary to be brief in this debate to allow other hon. Members to speak, but, speaking with some presumption for the whole of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-09", "file": "debates1973-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "75e5091b037ee8de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHRONICALLY SICK AND DISABLED PERSONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": " animus into the debate. One of our colleagues is sadly missed today. I refer to my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles (Mr. Carter-Jones), who made such powerful contributions to our earlier debates. He is not with us because his wife is seriously ill. She is in hospital, and I know that the thoughts of right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House will be with my hon. Friend this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-09a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1131.3", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Which of the Government's policies does the Prime Minister consider has had the most unifying influence in the nation? Is it his taxation policies which favour the rich, his housing policies which favour the owner-occupier against the council tenant or the Industrial Relations Act which penalises the trade unions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1131.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1132.5", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How many?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no need for the hon. Gentleman to shout. The plain fact is that by putting up the needs requirement by £3·50 we have covered all of those up to average industrial earnings level even after the payment of £1 plus 4 per cent. This means, therefore, that this will be of great benefit to all those tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1132.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that, despite his remarks in that speech about unity in the nation, Great Britain is terribly divided at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1134.5", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I always like to take the optimistic view that for the Labour Party to accept its responsibilities would always be helpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1134.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1134.10", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Does not the question of this butter illustrate to ordinary British people the absurdity of the common agricultural policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1134.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1134.11", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Does not the question of this butter illustrate to ordinary British people the absurdity of the common agricultural policy? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Is it not time that the Government's representative made it clear to the Common Market that the CAP has to be radically changed or abandoned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1134.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he was not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Hall", "preceding_text": "When the hon. and learned Member for Lincoln (Mr. Taverne) was appointed to the European Parliament, was he not a paid-up member of the Labour Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We made a satisfactory arrangement for New Zealand and the Labour Government never insisted on anything in negotiations in Europe, as the right hon. Gentleman knows full well. He has consistently misled this House and the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "er insisted on anything in negotiations in Europe, as the right hon. Gentleman knows full well. He has consistently misled this House and the country—[ Interruption. ]—by saying that when he went round to visit the Heads of Government in Europe he was laying down the terms they had to accept. He knows full well that was not the case, and neither did they accept them and they never would have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1137.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1137.5", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is wrong. I have quoted in this House the Cabinet minutes and the record of all the Six talks in Europe. What the Prime Minister is saying about the Labour Party is a lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1137.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1137.6", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman chooses to use unparliamentary language, that is a matter for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1137.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1137.7", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I deprecate the use of that word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1137.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1138.9", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "BULLS AND PUBLIC PATHS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to forbid the pasturing of bulls aged 12 months and over at large in fields and enclosures containing public rights of way. There is obviously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1138.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Mem- ber for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) concluded by talking about honesty and consistency. Therefore, it might be as well if I were to begin by answering two of his points. The right hon. Member alleged that the last published trade figures of VAT were affected by industrial action of customs staff. I must tell the Committee that there was no such effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has made a long intervention. Perhaps I may quote what he actually said last year on another subject, unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1217.3", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows that no Treasury Minister has ever given a forecast of interest rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1224.3", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should not pride himself on reaching the highest level of borrowing requirement that has ever been reached. That is not a matter for congratulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "surprising. Only Treasury Ministers could have imagined that traders would not simply pocket SET. Could they really have believed that this benefit would be passed on? It is remarkable that such an outcome could have been thought possible. The article goes on to quote Mr. Leslie Griffiths, a London chief inspector, as saying: It always seems to be very difficult to take a tax off. So it is hardly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1236.3", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "eve that the Chancellor or the Prime Minister can go on pretending that the tax cuts the Government have made are no flash in the pan. Of course, the Financial Secretary knows that real cuts other than those as a result of fiscal drag, mean that they should be either earned or the results of cuts in public expenditure. To pay for them out of borrowing only adds to the disillusionment of the public", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-10", "file": "debates1973-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0a38ceb38c41d641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1239.4", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "nly, and next week and the week after, and next month, next year and a year after, we shall have advertisements telling us that people are cutting prices. But if the hon. Lady thinks they are going to cut prices across the board so that they will all lose money she is slightly more naïve than I had imagined was the case—although I may be doing her an injustice. On the amendments themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-10a.1239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1320.4", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Portugal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister recall that NATO is an alliance set up in defence of freedom and democracy? Therefore, will he undertake to make representations to the Greek Government and the Turkish Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "BUTTER (EEC-SOVIET AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": " goes to the Council of Ministers. The views of the Management Committee were favourable on this issue, by a majority, and so no reference went to the Council of Ministers. This is one of the features of the common agricultural policy which needs changing. This undesirable feature has been highlighted by this deal. We have always recognised that the common agricultural policy has these weaknesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1330.5", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "BUTTER (EEC-SOVIET AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "Our representatives on the Management Committee abstained from voting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1330.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "preceding_text": "port everything he says. I am a little puzzled by what the hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) said about inflation being a severe tax on wealthy people. My impression concerning property and industrial equity shares, which form the major part of the wealth of wealthy people, is that during the recent period of severe inflation there has been a steady increase in their capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "erms of job satisfaction, of increasing their status and regarding the people with whom they work as a team and being engaged in a team effort. Such people have no real disincentive because of increased taxation. Many Conservative Members tend to exaggerate the importance of private expenditure. They feel that a person should retain as much money as possible and should be able to spend it himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1366.2", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne) believes in inequality and yet he is not a surtax payer. What a tragedy! I want to speak on behalf of the vast legion of non-surtax payers, who include the hon. Gentleman and me. I hope that he avoids being a surtax payer by a very small amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1373.3", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "direct taxation. The hon. Gentleman then says, \"All right, ignore the comparative statistics\". We shall not be able to ignore them, because, as my hon. Friend the Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce Gardyne) has pointed out, with the free movement of capital and labour inside the Common Market we shall lose our best entrepreneurial talent upon which the success of our economy must ultimately depend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "lk in terms of £1,000 for the age exemption limit rather than the sort of irregular figure to which my hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South referred last year. It was for that simple reason that we chose the regular figures of £700 and £1,000. We considered that they were simple and clear and would enable the pensioner to understand, rather than the exactly comparable figure of £1,035.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1434.0", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "I should hate to cheat the hon. Member for Dudley (Dr. Gilbert) of the spectacle of Conservative back benchers showing enthusiasm for the clause. I hope that I can speak for many of my hon. Friends in saying that there is widespread enthusiasm for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1434.0", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "etailed criticisms of the measures introduced last year, because, generous though they were, they could be broadened, and some of the rules could be relaxed a tiny bit. We could also make detailed criticisms of the measures proposed this year, by reference to the restraints last year, particularly the limitation that the share option and share incentive schemes can relate only to quoted companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1434.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why did not thehon. and learned Gentleman make those points last year?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "t year, particularly the limitation that the share option and share incentive schemes can relate only to quoted companies. [ Interruption. ] If they can be extended to private companies, that is good news. I hope that my hon. Friend will examine the provision that they cannot relate to a subsidiary in a group. These are in essence points of detail that we can no doubt debate in Committee upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Clause 38", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Money", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Money", "preceding_text": ". It was concerned with executors dealing with a large estate and with certain works of art of major public importance. That legislation was not concerned with destinations. In the welcome announcement of 30th June the Treasury very much widened the scope of this scheme, giving weight. I think, to some of the remarks which have been made on this subject as recently as 15th March in another place —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-11", "file": "debates1973-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "acd29c4708c44ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1467.4", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Clause 38", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say 'Yes'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "The clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-11a.1467.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-04-12", "file": "debates1973-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b61733597c740f7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-12a.1479.7", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-12a.1479.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-12", "file": "debates1973-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b61733597c740f7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-12a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman's assessment. If he and his colleagues took part it would help to make the European Parliament more effective. It is not a bit of good saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-12a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-12", "file": "debates1973-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b61733597c740f7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-12a.1512.4", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "There is, of course, now an unholy alliance between my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Marten) and the Opposition in seeking to have this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-12a.1512.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-12", "file": "debates1973-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b61733597c740f7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-12a.1619.1", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FARM CAPITAL GRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": "er which is a considerable blow to the farm development programme of this country, and will obviously have long-term repercussions on farm costs and therefore eventually on consumer prices. It is difficult to know exactly what the Government are aiming at in this proposal. Although we are greatly impressed that the Minister gets up so early on a Saturday morning to listen to the farming programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-12a.1619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-13", "file": "debates1973-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "ac0a4d28aab60eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-13a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC INDECENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "That is my view. The difficulty about the Act is that it deals with points of view and public attitudes. I do not think it is possible to legislate in that field. For that reason the Act is not satisfactory. I have expressed that view in public. It is all of a piece. I realise that some of my hon. Friends will disagree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-13a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-13", "file": "debates1973-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "ac0a4d28aab60eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-13a.1736.1", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC INDECENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Sin is indivisible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "Yes, but that is sin with a difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-13a.1736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-16", "file": "debates1973-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "451a5c4f4647cfee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-16a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": " and radio for further explanatory effort. Instead of indicating one name with a cross, the voter states a choice in order of preference among the candidates— one, two, three, and so on—for as many candidates, or as few, as the voter wishes. Basically, all the voter has to do is to remember that he or she uses numbers instead of a cross when receiving a ballot paper. The count is more complicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-16a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-16", "file": "debates1973-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "451a5c4f4647cfee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-16a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "In the light of what I have so far argued, I cannot agree with the hon. Member. I believe that there is much wrong with it. As for the need to deter personation, that can be done by agents of parties who are not on the premises but outside, as they are in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-16a.89.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-04-16", "file": "debates1973-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "451a5c4f4647cfee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-16a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY BILL", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "He did it voluntarily.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "0 for the salaries and allowances of the 78 Members of the new Assembly and another £250,000 for alimony for the Members of the old Stormont. It is interesting in this context to remember that one of the Members of Stormont, a friend of the hon. Member for Antrim, North, Mr. John McQuaid, resigned his seat and his salary and went back to the only job he had as a docker when Stormont was suspended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-16a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-16", "file": "debates1973-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "451a5c4f4647cfee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-16a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is like that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "I have often heard the Leader of the Liberal Party in this House quoting ancient documents, if I may call them that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-16a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-16", "file": "debates1973-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "451a5c4f4647cfee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-16a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gifted it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "e to get over the past we need to take the past by the horns and say that we should meet in that building and that it will be a different type of Assembly. I remind the Committee that originally the castle was known as Stormont Castle, and from that castle came the name \"Stormont\". It was this House of Commons that built the Parliament building and that gifted it to the people of Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-16a.168.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-04-17", "file": "debates1973-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "750bd81cb81de0b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-17a.256.3", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where was Dubcek?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Did Her Majesty's Government entertain the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from Czechoslovakia last week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-17a.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-17", "file": "debates1973-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "750bd81cb81de0b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-17a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I cannot accept anything that the hon. Gentleman has said. If he reads the speech carefully, he will see that I said quite explicitly under the authority of Parliament\". I am sorry if the hon. Gentleman or any of his friends dislikes the idea of partnership instead of opposition in the industrial world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-17a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-17", "file": "debates1973-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "750bd81cb81de0b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-17a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have always been opposed to class warfare in this country. I do not believe that anything I have done has ever contributed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-17a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-17", "file": "debates1973-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "750bd81cb81de0b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-17a.435.0", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (OATHS AND DECLARATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "f us on this side and two on the Opposition side—representing one and a half million of the citizens of the United Kingdom who live in Northern Ireland, are legislating on three important matters for Northern Ireland in a totally unsatisfactory way, when the House and its servants are obviously exhausted. We cannot apply our minds properly and efficiently at this late hour to three major measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-17a.435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-18", "file": "debates1973-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "7db17b9b671e3717", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-18a.469.6", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of the problems that exist in the stress areas of our big cities, and, in particular, in inner London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-18a.469.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-18", "file": "debates1973-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "7db17b9b671e3717", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-18a.475.4", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that in one inner London borough where the housing association of which I am chairman operates the district valuer has recently fixed rateable values at such a level that the rate payable is more than £4 a week on a large flat and more than £3 a week on a smaller flat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-18a.475.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-18", "file": "debates1973-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "7db17b9b671e3717", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-18a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tonight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend say when the Oaths and Declarations (Repeals) (Northern Ireland) Order will be debated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-18a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-19", "file": "debates1973-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "6467d2aba194a9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-19a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": " liable to capital gains tax; charities primarily established for the relief of distress are zero rated on resale by the charity; all goods exported by any charity are zero rated; goods and services provided by charities for the relief of distress at below cost are outside the scope of the tax; and with regard to income tax my right hon. Friend has provided transitional arrangements for covenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-19a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-19", "file": "debates1973-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "6467d2aba194a9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-19a.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": " look at specific items because we would then rapidly be back in the old purchase tax situation, with a long list of detailed items extending over pages and pages, with continuing debate about whether or not we should add an item. We have given relief to medical aids linked to their source of supply and to clinical diagnoses or judgments by doctors or qualified staff of hospitals or nursing homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-19a.650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-19", "file": "debates1973-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "6467d2aba194a9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-19a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "TELEVISION FILM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It may be good for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "I know that it is based in Anglia, but if it became part of Anglia Television instead of being transferred to Yorkshire, a third of the people who live in Yorkshire would receive their transmissions from Norwich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-19a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-19", "file": "debates1973-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "6467d2aba194a9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-19a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "TELEVISION FILM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "preceding_text": "h (Mr. Torney), but it has nothing to do with our fight. Those in Yorkshire can have their Yorkshire Television. We shall be delighted to let them have it. We would rather have Anglia. Our argument is about choice. My hon. Friend the Member for Keighley (Miss Joan Hall) had the nerve to say that we are greedy. We do not want Yorkshire in our part of the world. We will have Anglia and be satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-19a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-19", "file": "debates1973-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "6467d2aba194a9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-19a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "TELEVISION FILM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "preceding_text": "nt to see the film. We want to know whether we can see the film and whether the Minister can see it. If Mary Whitehouse were to say that she did not want to see the film, or if Norris McWhirter were to take out a writ against the Government to ensure that the film could not be shown, it would be shown on every television screen throughout the country next week. I suggest that we get Lord Longford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-19a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-19", "file": "debates1973-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "6467d2aba194a9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-19a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "TELEVISION FILM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "preceding_text": "s. He has not come to the lower House to hear our point of view. We should get Lord Longford to say that there are no circumstances in which we can see the film. Then we should have to be able to see it. We want one question answered by the Minister. Can he see this film? When he has seen it, will he allow us to see it? We will watch a Yorkshire propaganda film as well. We are willing to watch it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-19a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-30", "file": "debates1973-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "0e0efbebad347570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.798.3", "colnum": "798", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I do not know of the statement to which my hon. Friend refers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.798.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-30", "file": "debates1973-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "0e0efbebad347570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The Price Commission will be making quarterly reports to this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-30", "file": "debates1973-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "0e0efbebad347570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.799.2", "colnum": "799", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "This is an application by six specific petrol companies to increase their prices. Their figures were examined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.799.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-30", "file": "debates1973-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "0e0efbebad347570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.800.6", "colnum": "800", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It was this Government that brought in legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.800.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-30", "file": "debates1973-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "0e0efbebad347570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.801.5", "colnum": "801", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "That is so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.801.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-30", "file": "debates1973-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "0e0efbebad347570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFIT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian O'Malley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian O'Malley", "preceding_text": "ication, say that, as the Government found themselves able, in the last financial year, to give away £3,000 million in tax release, there was a strong case for examining the possibility of substantially increasing the Treasury supplement at least over a period. More than that, if the proposals which the Labour Government put forward but which fell at the General Election had now been in operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-30", "file": "debates1973-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "0e0efbebad347570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FURNISHED LETTINGS (RATEABLE VALUE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "ocal authorities to advertise the Citizens Advice Bureaux and to encourage people to go to them for advice. That is the only way that we can ensure that people do get advice. I was asked whether I would recommend local authorities to refer cases to rent tribunals. I am sure that local authorities know that they have the right to take cases before rent tribunals where the tenants ask them to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-04-30", "file": "debates1973-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "0e0efbebad347570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.955.2", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — M3, WINCHESTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "preceding_text": "other local amenity about which a great deal has been said—that the motorway will cut it off from the college and the town and so on. This is just not true. Access to the hill will not be affected. Indeed, it will be a good deal safer than it is now, because the present crossings of the main traffic stream at road level will be eliminated and replaced by bridges or underpasses across the motorway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-04-30a.955.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-01", "file": "debates1973-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "462beeec0bf067aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-01a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "tries and that when the present Government departed from that framework they were going against the advice of the Donovan Commission and of practically all informed opinion on this subject? If I may revert to the supplementary question I put on Question No. 1, which has not been answered, what possible justification is there at this stage, now that the failure of the Act is universally recognised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-01a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-01", "file": "debates1973-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "462beeec0bf067aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-01a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "First, we appreciate the speed with which the Minister has come to the House to report on his lengthy negotiations in Brussels. However, although we appreciate that, it might have been somewhat better for the House as a whole, on a statement of such importance and complexity if he had given himself and the House an extra 24 hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-01a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-01", "file": "debates1973-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "462beeec0bf067aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-01a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could correct the hon. Gentleman's misinterpretation. It might be better if I were to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-01a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-01", "file": "debates1973-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "462beeec0bf067aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-01a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "o let it go. I hope that the Minister will say now whether the Government will accept something like this clause in another place. If he does not give the Government's view, what has been said today and in Committee will be lost. The fact that the Minister makes no attempt to rise is not only parliamentary bad manners but inexplicable. Perhaps I could raise it as a point of order in my own speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-01a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-01", "file": "debates1973-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "462beeec0bf067aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-01a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "house where I live and had a distinguished career, of interest to many of us in considering the principles and possibilities of municipal Socialism. I hope that some of my colleagues who are now returned to power in various parts of the country will look at what he achieved —not least, the Birmingham Municipal Bank, which also might be an example for them to follow. However, I now return to water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-01a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-01", "file": "debates1973-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "462beeec0bf067aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-01a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "dination with a slight degree of national oversight. Who is to have oversight of the work of the regional water authorities? This is not an academic question. It is a question of the greatest importance to every water consumer. I am glad to see the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food who has responsibility for consumer affairs. We have a great difficulty now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-01a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-02", "file": "debates1973-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f822626b5e9d7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "part of society who use a good deal of water—the invalids, the sick and children. Imagine a housewife with an elderly, possibly incontinent, relative and many children. The amount saved by economy may be only 4p or the price of a packet of crisps, but we all know what women do when they are trying to save. They will be nagging the children and they will think twice about washing the kitchen floor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-02", "file": "debates1973-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f822626b5e9d7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1272.3", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "man on these issues. He travels the country explaining the position. Metering may not begin in April 1974, but the Government intend to introduce the principle of water meters and switch the burden of the cost of water from the community as a whole to the individual consumer, irrespective of income and need. Does this mean that we shall have the equivalent of rent rebates on metered water charges?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-02", "file": "debates1973-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f822626b5e9d7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Haselhurst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Haselhurst", "preceding_text": "embers. To give a power to meter water supplies is not precisely the same as to make a direction that in all circumstances supplies should be metered. It would be helpful—I make this concession to what was said by the hon. Member for Acton (Mr. Spearing)—if the Government could be more specific and give greater clarity on precisely what is in their mind in seeking to include the power in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-02", "file": "debates1973-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f822626b5e9d7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Schedule 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "In moving this Third Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-02", "file": "debates1973-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f822626b5e9d7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1344.3", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Schedule 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "mmerce, because the policy is being operated in an atmosphere of growth and expansion. It cannot be stressed too often that the code does not put an upper limit on profits as such. It is profit margins which are subject to the reference level of the best two of the last five years. There is nothing in the code to prevent any firm expanding its business and so increasing the profits that it earns.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-02", "file": "debates1973-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f822626b5e9d7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1353.2", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Schedule 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "I hope that my right hon. Friend, who I am sure does not wish to mislead the House, will refer to the TUC-Labour Party agreement on prices and incomes. It does not specify that we should have an incomes policy. Surely my right hon. Friend does not want to mislead the House. We talk about prices and about getting a correct climate, but the agreement does not mention an incomes policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-02", "file": "debates1973-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f822626b5e9d7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Schedule 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether Sir Frank Figgures will handle things in the same way, but if he makes as much of a botch of things as he has done on petrol prices, he will be able to write the same sort of book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-02", "file": "debates1973-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f822626b5e9d7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1382.3", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Schedule 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "about it. It comes down to the fact that if one is organised, if one is a member of a union and agrees with proper industrial relations agreements, one is caught by the code, whereas if one is unorganised one can go free. I shall not go on because my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, Central (Mr. Palmer) wishes to speak, and I understand that the Under-Secretary of State is to speak at 9.45 p.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-02", "file": "debates1973-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f822626b5e9d7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1402.2", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Schedule 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Renfrew, West (Mr. Buchan) has made a weak speech. He has based it on two particular facets. He attacked the absence of my right hon. Friend the Minister. Apparently he was not aware that my right hon. Friend has been on the Continent for several days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-02", "file": "debates1973-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f822626b5e9d7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Schedule 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "s. The board should be virtually mandated by this House to do that. There should be an expression of view from both sides of the House that farm workers' wages should be equivalent to what can be earned in manufacturing industry because their record of productivity—6 per cent. per annum over a decade—rivals that of any other group. I shall vote for this order because I believe in being consistent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-02a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-03", "file": "debates1973-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "dc12d2b0610df4a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-03a.1475.8", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "at, while I could look at the list, I could not make a copy of it. Naturally, I protested at that as any hon. Member would do. I was then informed late last evening that the Serjeant at Arms, despite my remonstrations, had personally instructed that I was not to be given a copy of the list. Lobby correspondents come here not to talk to the Serjeant at Arms but to talk to me and other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-03a.1475.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-03", "file": "debates1973-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "dc12d2b0610df4a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-03a.1507.1", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "ompanies that have a character of their own. Here comes the natural break for the \"commercial\" if the House wants to look at it in that way. I must declare my interest in that I have for the last two years or so been a non-executive director of Westward Television where I have seen at first hand how a regional company attempts to deal with the representation of immensely varied regional interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-03a.1507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-03", "file": "debates1973-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "dc12d2b0610df4a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-03a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Dorman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ridiculous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Dorman", "preceding_text": " the IBA. I attribute that largely, though not entirely, to the over-cosy relationship between the authority and the council. I say that in no pejorative manner. I refer to the structure rather than the personal relationships although both are obviously involved. The weaknesses can be shown with examples. First, members of the council are appointed by the authority, which seems to me indefensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-03a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-04", "file": "debates1973-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "2b47ebc12571ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-04a.1676.5", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF WRECKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "mount of misunderstanding about the present legal position I certainly might have raised it then, but it has only been since then that interest has been stimulated afresh in this matter, stimulated by the Second Reading. I have had various representations made to me which have clearly indicated to me a need to put on the record the historical situation, and what we propose to do about it, and why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-04a.1676.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-04", "file": "debates1973-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "2b47ebc12571ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-04a.1694.3", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF WRECKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": " who are conscientious and scrupulous and have at heart the interests of archaeology and nautical history are likely to place themselves in a position in which, if they wish to enjoy the rights they formerly enjoyed, they will have to expose themselves to the penalties of the law. The legislation will have an effect on rights of ownership in an area where such rights have not been fettered before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-04a.1694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-04", "file": "debates1973-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "2b47ebc12571ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-04a.1717.1", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEATING FOR THE ELDERLY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Michael Alison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Michael Alison)", "preceding_text": " major point of principle. First, there is the small objection, which one is bound to raise since it will involve a change in the Bill, that the term \"general practitioner\", as the hon. Gentleman knows, may embrace three different types of practitioner. I presume that the hon. Gentleman means the medical practitioner, but there are general ophthalmic practitioners and general dental practitioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-04a.1717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-04", "file": "debates1973-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "2b47ebc12571ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-04a.1738.0", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEATING FOR THE ELDERLY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "That is a valid point. The hon. Member for Islington, South-West (Mr. George Cunningham) said that it is sufficient to name a topic and expect to be able to build a Bill on it afterwards. That is not so. I turn to what I believe —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-04a.1738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-04", "file": "debates1973-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "2b47ebc12571ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-04a.1740.5", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEATING FOR THE ELDERLY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "The other major point is that Clause 2 depends on Clause 1. There is a very serious deficiency here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-04a.1740.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-07", "file": "debates1973-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "7085c3e914c4bfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Peter Walker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is a freeze.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Peter Walker)", "preceding_text": "rnment as well as a Conservative Government. It is interesting to look at the rise in the cost of living in the last six months of the Labour Government and to compare it with the rise in the past six months. They are almost identical. In the last six months of the Labour Government the cost of living went up by 4·1 per cent. and in the past six months it has gone up by 4·2 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-07", "file": "debates1973-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "7085c3e914c4bfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "r the question that must be in the public's mind, if not in his own: \"What would you do if you had to deal with the situation?\" Recent opinion polls and the notable lack of any major advance by the Labour Party in local government elections— indeed, a swing away from it since last year—tend to indicate that the public have no great confidence in the alternative policies that were being put forward", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-07", "file": "debates1973-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "7085c3e914c4bfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "preceding_text": "about that. It goes on. The Government ought to be considering what they can do to legislate about this. I cannot think of the answer or of what form the legislation would take but there is certainly trouble ahead on this point. We have seen something of that trouble in the petitions presented to this House by various housewives' organisations concerning the tax credit scheme and family allowances", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-07", "file": "debates1973-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "7085c3e914c4bfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.79.3", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "On an occasion such as this the Opposition ought to be presenting an alternative policy. I did not hear much of that in the right hon. Gentleman's speech. There was no mention of the fact that in the first year of this Government the rate of increase in the cost of living was showing signs of falling. Two things happened to our de-escalation policy. We had the Chrysler settlement for 18 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.79.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-07", "file": "debates1973-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "7085c3e914c4bfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member is still a bachelor, like myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-07", "file": "debates1973-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "7085c3e914c4bfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Parkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Parkinson", "preceding_text": "creating an illusion which serves no object. The only beneficiaries will be Members such as the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe), who feasts on the public's disillusionment with the major parties. I have figures which show that food prices are an international problem. There is not a country in Europe and there is hardly a country in the world which is not suffering from record prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-07", "file": "debates1973-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "7085c3e914c4bfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "coming year, it rather suggests that the rate of take-up is not expected to be very high. If the subsidy is l0p per person per month rather than the 8p I had previously thought, it will obviously be more than £1 a year per person, and if 5 million people are entitled to it the scheme should cost £5 million. If the right hon. Gentleman is budgeting for £3 million, it must be a much smaller take-up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-07", "file": "debates1973-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "7085c3e914c4bfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.160.5", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Excluding food.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "agues when they were in Government. I am content to meet him on any of those grounds. A striking measure of the success of the standstill is that despite those huge increases in input prices the wholesale price index for non-food manufactures went up by less than 1 per cent. during the first four months of the policy and the retail price index, excluding food, went up by only 0·8 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.160.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-07", "file": "debates1973-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "7085c3e914c4bfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "are implemented. If any organisation—retail, wholesale or anything else—raises a price in a way that appears to go beyond the provisions of the code, the commission, on the complaint of a consumer or anyone else, can investigate it and restrict it. The commission is entitled to discover whether the price increase that has been introduced is in any way likely to infringe the provisions of the code.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-07", "file": "debates1973-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "7085c3e914c4bfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "But there has been no rise during the standstill and increases allowed by the Price Commission represented no more than the actual cash increase in the cost of crude oil and of its transportation to the United Kingdom —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-07", "file": "debates1973-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "7085c3e914c4bfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wages are lower, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "aid to producer countries and an increase paid as a result of participation agreements and there has been an increase in the cost of ocean freight. The price increases allowed by the Price Commission fell short of the increased prices being paid by the oil companies since the beginning of the standstill. The price of petrol at the pump in Britain is lower than in any other country in Europe today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-07a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-08", "file": "debates1973-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "17057946adaf6bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-08", "file": "debates1973-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "17057946adaf6bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What increase?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " in practice it would be found that part of it would have to be met from taxation, for a variety of reasons. The philosophy behind what the right hon. Gentleman says has a basic fallacy because in the long run the increases in taxation that would, I believe, have to be made, despite the right hon. Gentleman's assurances, would not deprive the rich man of one hot dinner but would deprive the widow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-08", "file": "debates1973-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "17057946adaf6bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "? Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " in taxation that would, I believe, have to be made, despite the right hon. Gentleman's assurances, would not deprive the rich man of one hot dinner but would deprive the widow—[An HON. MEMBER: \"What increase?\"] The increase to which I am referring is an increase in taxation which I maintain would have to be made to provide fully for the measures in the new clause and the complementary amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-08", "file": "debates1973-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "17057946adaf6bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I entirely accept what the right hon. Lady says. I have told the House that I have a great deal of sympathy with the objectives of the amendment, and particularly with the aspect of the problem that the right hon. Lady has just mentioned. I shall not vote for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-08", "file": "debates1973-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "17057946adaf6bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "b satisfaction and job enrichment. That is equally true of men and women, and not just the dis-advantaged group of women that I have already mentioned. However, I reject the new clause and the amendments, with which I have already said I am fundamentally in sympathy, because the right hon. Gentleman has not convinced me that he has told us what the real cost will be of implementing the new clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-08", "file": "debates1973-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "17057946adaf6bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " successive policies of this Government, which include annual improvements in social security benefits and the tax credit scheme, as well as an increase in selective benefits, and the reserve scheme and occupational pensions, relatively soon, dramatically fewer women will be retiring in poverty. After all, the tax credit scheme, which has not yet been adopted as Government policy, would in itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-08", "file": "debates1973-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "17057946adaf6bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) who quoted figures to show how the relatively very small proportion of working women in occupational pension schemes is a token of discrimination against women, but I must point out that it is no more a token of discrimination than the relatively small proportion of manual workers who are in occupational pension schemes is a sign of discrimination against manual men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-08", "file": "debates1973-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "17057946adaf6bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "lumns 883 and 884. The amendment gives women not equal rights to men in occupational pension schemes but merely equal rights to membership. I hope that there will be enough support on both sides of the House at least to give them that basic entitlement. Even the hon. Member for Gloucester (Mrs. Sally Oppenheim)—I am not attacking her for it—made a party political speech. She said she was broadly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-08a.269.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-09", "file": "debates1973-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d289c0390a0021a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-09a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "d and review the present rates in order progressively to raise pensions to the standard we have set by 1980. Clearly, if we were to guarantee pensions as I have argued we should, guaranteeing also social security benefits and wages against the food price guarantee, this would be a part of bringing them up. No doubt the Minister will ask how a future Liberal Government will pay for these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-09a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-09", "file": "debates1973-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d289c0390a0021a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-09a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "sed occupational pension schemes. We must face the fact that the employers whom I have described—those who, in pension terms, are not particularly interested, who are cost-conscious more than pensions-conscious, who have no pressure from the shop floor and rarely any pressure from the trade unions —will tend to surge towards the reserve scheme if we provide tax exemption for contributions into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-09a.642.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-10", "file": "debates1973-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e7b8fd3289d5e33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-10a.754.4", "colnum": "754", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "It cannot be all that much earlier than the Summer Recess. There will be only seven, eight or nine weeks at the most—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-10a.754.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-10", "file": "debates1973-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e7b8fd3289d5e33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-10a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have not lost them yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": " the Australians came here to seek to enlist the support of the Government, and the New Zealanders in turn made representations, they went away grossly dissatisfied about the support they had hoped for from Her Majesty's Government. It is rather odd that Conservative Members who make such a great play with the old Commonwealth and the ties of kith and kin and the loss of Australia and New Zealand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-10a.839.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-10", "file": "debates1973-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e7b8fd3289d5e33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-10a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman also asked about the Saudi Arabian contract. I am told that details cannot be provided, as the right hon. Gentleman, with his great experience of these matters, will understand. But I have authority to say that the figure he mentioned was erroneous, and that a more accurate figure was quoted by one of my hon. Friends. It is rather larger than the right hon. Gentleman suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-10a.847.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-14", "file": "debates1973-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "259a82704428119f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-14a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "reland constituency. I should have liked to see the ultimate sanction, not only in the sense in which the law stands today, but in the present circumstances as a dark shadow over every person in the community, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, who goes out to murder his fellow citizens, whether on duty or off duty. I say that sincerely from my heart. The Government have plotted another course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-14a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-14", "file": "debates1973-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "259a82704428119f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-14a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "e them up with me at any time I will be happy to do so. We are not saying to the Army today that if an IRA man strikes a soldier on one cheek he should allow him to strike him on the other. That is not the policy that the Government are carrying out. Everybody knows that in the scriptures, the basis of Christianity is the New Testament and there are personal laws to do with personal relationships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-14a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-14", "file": "debates1973-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "259a82704428119f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-14a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "I apologise at once to my right hon. Friend. I accept that he did not advance that argument. But it has been an argument advanced in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-14a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-14", "file": "debates1973-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "259a82704428119f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-14a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "apers or on television about these matters. There is no mention in the television advertisement even of the limited number of candidates. According to the advertisement, people can vote as many times as they like. If there are 26 candidates in Omagh, can people mark from 1 to 26, or can they vote only for the number of candidates to be elected? That is another question which needs to be clarified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-14a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-14", "file": "debates1973-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "259a82704428119f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-14a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTORAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "the position. Is it right that a person can go on the morning of 17th May and get a form, complete it and deliver it? That is a matter which requires clarification. A further matter is that returning officers sometimes cannot be contacted. For example, the returning officer for Ballymena is, on the face of it, always in Ballymena, yet when people go to Ballymena they are told that he is in Antrim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-14a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1217.2", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "The Government's policy is determined by giving the local authorities maximum freedom of choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1239.2", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, my hon. Friend is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The position remains exactly the same. If the trade unions want to raise the question of increased rents and their consequences, or the impact of going into the Community on food prices, or any of these matters, they are perfectly free to put forward their views. They know us well enough to know that we have an open mind and are prepared to listen to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1249.4", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn (Bristol, South-East)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn (Bristol, South-East)", "preceding_text": "their handling of Rolls-Royce over the last two years, each of which will require a full and complete answer from the Secretary of State. I have also drafted and listed a number of important questions which require to be dealt with authoritatively in the debate. Before I come to those, let me tell the House what the debate is not about. It is not about a threat of confiscation of private property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1249.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Arrogant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "No, the hon. Member will just have to ask his hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, North-East (Mr. Adley)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "No, the hon. Member will just have to ask his hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, North-East (Mr. Adley)—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Arrogant.\"] If the hon. Gentleman has a serious question I will give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1252.2", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "d Parliament and the public by seeking to deny that Rolls-Royce is a public asset. Second, the Government are actively encouraging the sale of a profitable part of these public assets. That is what the flotation of the shares in the motor company is all about. Third, the Government themselves are responsible for the bankruptcy of Rolls, which they brought about deliberately and needlessly in 1971—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows what I proposed at the time, because I have the record here— that Rolls-Royce should have been acquired by the Government under the Industrial Expansion Act, in which case, every worker shareholder would have been safeguarded, there would have been —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "learned Gentleman, why not use the Industrial Expansion Act and acquire it, he said that I was \"probably right\", that it could be done. Had the Government acquired Rolls-Royce in that way, there would have been none of the loss of faith, none of the tarnishing of the engineering reputation of Rolls-Royce and the problems of the worker shareholders or creditors would never have arisen in that form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "til the price payable for those assets has been agreed. I am not able to say when that will be. Did Ministers put pressure on the receiver to sell off Rolls-Royce Motors? Of course they did, and I will tell the House how they did it. They did it by making it absolutely clear, as they did to the receiver about Carbon Fibres, that they were not prepared to buy it. Those were the political pressures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1269.0", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman, in about eight sentences, said \"Yes\". That is the principle upon which he is now working. Any firms which have a great deal of defence contracts or which tender on a large basis for Government contracts and any firms which get massive injections of aid in the regions are on the potential list for nationalisation according to the right hon. Gentleman. All that I can say is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1272.2", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I will. First, I was never the chairman of Slater-Walker. That is one inaccuracy. But besides that, perhaps I could ask the right hon. Gentleman why it was, when he was the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1272.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1313.5", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "cause it symbolises absolutely the policy of this Government, which is to make quick profits for their allies at public expense, to be absolutely silent about the worker shareholders, to squeak only when they think that their own investing friends may be affected, and to try to carry this through by a diversionary attack upon the policy of the Labour Party which is emerging and will be successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I want the people employed by that company to understand that if there is hesitancy it is because the right hon. Gentleman has created it tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ne thing—which is that the right hon. Gentleman made a speech saying that the Labour Party would nationalise, without compensation, the shares in Rolls-Royce Motors—a speech calculated to do the maximum possible harm to the people who were likely to acquire those shares. The next day it became necessary for the right hon. Gentleman's colleagues in the Shadow Cabinet to repudiate what he had said.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1362.3", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOL BUILDING COSTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "If I were the hon. Member I would not persist in referring to 1967, because that was not the brightest year in the history of the Labour Party. The Opposition have chosen the wrong subject, the wrong speakers and the wrong night. My right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1362.3", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOL BUILDING COSTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "If I were the hon. Member I would not persist in referring to 1967, because that was not the brightest year in the history of the Labour Party. The Opposition have chosen the wrong subject, the wrong speakers and the wrong night. My right hon. Friend—[ Interruption. ] was devastating when she—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-15", "file": "debates1973-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "5535e899db601ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOL BUILDING COSTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must bounce down again. I will not be intimidated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-15a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-17", "file": "debates1973-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "65a204398740dbaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-17a.1682.6", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Member realises that the price of apples increased because of the extremely poor harvest last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-17a.1682.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-17", "file": "debates1973-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "65a204398740dbaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-17a.1682.6", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "se of the extremely poor harvest last year. [ Interruption. ] We have become accustomed to believing that Governments and Oppositions can do most things, but they cannot direct whether there should be a good or bad apple crop. In fairness, the hon. Member should also realise that the figure he quotes includes the cost of dry fruit, which must take account of the Californian crop failure last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-17a.1682.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-17", "file": "debates1973-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "65a204398740dbaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-17a.1683.3", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "They did not have a successful apple harvest on the Continent, either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-17a.1683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-17", "file": "debates1973-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "65a204398740dbaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-17a.1759.0", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAIR TRADING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "t No. 82. Before doing so I feel I must refer to the speech of the hon. Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton) whom I am assured by one or two of my colleagues is really a very nice man once he is outside the Chamber. He is a parliamentary Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—a Hyde in the Chamber and no doubt a Jekyll in the Members' Dining Room. Alas, I have never had occasion to speak to him there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-17a.1759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-17", "file": "debates1973-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "65a204398740dbaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-17a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Clause 54", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "nceivable circumstance in which one would reasonably wish the court to make an order. But the clause goes wider than that. It says that there does not even have to be an apprehension, fear or expectation that the trade association which is behaving well now will behave badly in the future. Provided that one of the parties to the agreement is a member of the trade association the order can be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-17a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-18", "file": "debates1973-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "b063f58d63808ba6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-18a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Owen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At what cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ant to work hard. He is the last man we should want to deprive of the advantages which have been so hard won by the hon. Member for Walton and his friends. Let hon. Members opposite criticise labour-only sub-contracting as much as they like. It has much virtue. It has reduced overhead expenses, as the hon. Member said. What is wrong with that? Is there virtue in having a pile of overhead expenses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-18a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-18", "file": "debates1973-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "b063f58d63808ba6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-18a.1907.1", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Urwin", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Selsdon man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Urwin", "preceding_text": "ied to persuade the Government to take up that Bill as an earnest of their desire to ensure that we restored order out of the chaos that had for so long existed in the construction industry. But we were always beaten back. The policy of the Government in those days was that there should be no intervention in industry— that matters should be allowed to take their normal and somewhat natural course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-18a.1907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-21", "file": "debates1973-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6230326270e67f68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-21a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I have the figures here about the Civil Service. If one takes the total, which it is perfectly reasonable to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-21a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-21", "file": "debates1973-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6230326270e67f68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-21a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INSURANCE COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "se their premiums indicated that their pressures on the smaller companies would be much greater. Therefore. I went on with statistics that I had obtained from research to prove—at least I thought I was proving—that there was the possibility of collapses taking place in such circumstances. Indeed, there was not just the one collapse there were a number. I should like to go on to deal with the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-21a.142.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-05-22", "file": "debates1973-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d347a4f0839861e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I have given the right hon. Gentleman the latest figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-22", "file": "debates1973-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d347a4f0839861e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And stable prices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "ss-man), who has said: The ironical fact is that in that period —when the previous Labour Government were in office— we indefatigably went on increasing our public expenditure section despite the lack of growth and therefore had to tax the worker in ways which probably lost us the Election. In other words, the Labour Government went for high taxation, low growth and greater Government expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-22", "file": "debates1973-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d347a4f0839861e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "ffice— we indefatigably went on increasing our public expenditure section despite the lack of growth and therefore had to tax the worker in ways which probably lost us the Election. In other words, the Labour Government went for high taxation, low growth and greater Government expenditure—[An HON. MEMBER: \"And stable prices.\"] Come off it. Anyone who wants a return to high taxation and stagnation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-22", "file": "debates1973-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d347a4f0839861e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAKISTAN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite mistaken. The Immigration Act had no language qualifications for voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-22", "file": "debates1973-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d347a4f0839861e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAKISTAN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "efers to a figure of more than £600,000 as the cost of dealing with this legislation. I remind hon. Members that this is taking place in a week in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced proposals to reduce public expenditure. I suggest that an easy way of taking £500,000 out of public expenditure would be to spread the time over a longer period than six months. The key issue, however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-22", "file": "debates1973-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d347a4f0839861e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "PAKISTAN BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Lord Balniel)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Lord Balniel)", "preceding_text": "Commonwealth membership. The second was that we considered it right to be fair and humane to those Pakistanis who came to Britain before Pakistan left the Commonwealth in the belief that they would be entitled to certain benefits. During the debate, it has been suggested that we erred in both ways. Some hon. Members have said that we have been too generous to the Pakistanis living in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-22", "file": "debates1973-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d347a4f0839861e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "PAKISTAN BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Lord Balniel)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Lord Balniel)", "preceding_text": "lth in the belief that they would be entitled to certain benefits. During the debate, it has been suggested that we erred in both ways. Some hon. Members have said that we have been too generous to the Pakistanis living in this country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"] Some hon. Members have suggested that, where we proposed automatic registration, naturalisation would be a more appropriate method.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-22", "file": "debates1973-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d347a4f0839861e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "PAKISTAN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. and learned Gentleman will allow me to continue, because he made a long speech and I have much to say. Some hon. Members asked why we were giving the Pakistanis so much time to register as citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-22", "file": "debates1973-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d347a4f0839861e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "PAKISTAN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": " them also after five years' residence to apply for naturalisation if they so wish. People coming from Pakistan after January 1972 surely cannot have imagined that the fact of their country having left the Commonwealth would not affect their position as Commonwealth citizens. To have put up a notice at the point of immigration would have meant that we had already decided what action we would take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-22", "file": "debates1973-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d347a4f0839861e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.375.4", "colnum": "375", "heading": "PAKISTAN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend is confusing the issue. Surely the House can think it not unreasonable for Pakistani Citizens to take the advice of the Pakistan Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-22", "file": "debates1973-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d347a4f0839861e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "BAHAMAS INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "rks made shortly after the Labour Party won the General Election in 1945 by a gentleman who at the time occupied the Front Bench. He said \"We are the masters now.\" Perhaps some people's blood ran cold when they heard that, but equally the passage of time has given Lord Shawcross a somewhat less menacing appearance than he may have had then. Indeed, if remarks of that kind were made in the Bahamas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-22a.405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-23", "file": "debates1973-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e21a33effd163fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows the rules for getting on to the waiting lists of various local authorities as well as I do. The hon. Gentleman's views about the people of Scotland are strangely at variance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-23", "file": "debates1973-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e21a33effd163fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.455.8", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "While expecting that type of answer, may I apologise, first, for a rather long supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.455.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-23", "file": "debates1973-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e21a33effd163fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "ss that a large number of Scottish Conservative Members of Parliament rushed down to the House to hear the answer to one of my Questions? Will the Minister assure the House that Scottish Conservative Members are here at other Question Times? Is it not absolutely scurrilous, to use the term of my hon. Friend the Member for Bothwell (Mr. James Hamilton), for the hon. Member for Cathcart to suggest —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-23", "file": "debates1973-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e21a33effd163fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "tinent question to the Minister? Out of a random survey of 100 cases from the computer in the Glasgow housing management rebate centre it was pointed out to me that 78 per cent. of the rebate cases were mainly widows, the disabled and the unemployed, and that of the other 22 per cent. many were widows or wage-stop cases. Does not that destroy the Government's arguments in regard to rebates? May I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.456.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-05-23", "file": "debates1973-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e21a33effd163fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.456.5", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "May I, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-23", "file": "debates1973-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e21a33effd163fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (SECURITY)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. James Prior)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. James Prior)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-23", "file": "debates1973-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e21a33effd163fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "EEC (MINISTERIAL MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. John Davies)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and that of the House, I will make a statement about the matters discussed in the Council of the European Communities within the past 10 days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-23", "file": "debates1973-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e21a33effd163fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "EEC (MINISTERIAL MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "No. The word \"peripheral\" is my hon. Friend's, not mine. On the contrary, I said that it was not the purpose of the Government to undermine the basic principles of the CAP. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture certainly did not in any way give the impression that that was the purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-23", "file": "debates1973-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e21a33effd163fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "who are responsible will consider all the evidence and reach a decision which will have the support and understanding of the vast majority of people who have expert knowledge and realise the difficulties. I know the views of the hon. Member for Doncaster on this subject. He is a little unfair to the Department of Employment, of which he was a distinguished member in the last Labour administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-23", "file": "debates1973-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e21a33effd163fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, indeed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "preceding_text": "appreciate what the hon. Member for Lewisham, North (Mr. Moyle) is trying to do, and sympathise with him, but it is not as simple as that. If the Bill made special reference to services for men, there might be a strong case for saying that it should also make special reference to services for the disabled, the socially disadvantaged, older workers, coloured workers and many other deserving groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-23", "file": "debates1973-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e21a33effd163fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "preceding_text": "tment of Employment is giving a great deal of attention to this area. This matter was also raised by the hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Guy Barnett). I must tell him and my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough, West that the Government remain firmly of the view that the primary responsibility for training of young people rests with employers. Industry has generally taken this view in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-23a.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-24", "file": "debates1973-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "eab841ee7cc28c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-24a.640.4", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "This is a matter for the Community as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-24a.640.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-05-24", "file": "debates1973-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "eab841ee7cc28c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-24a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gummer", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the European Parliament has increasing power over the budget of the Commission? If the Labour Party sent representatives to that Parliament, does my hon. Friend agree that they could raise the question at that forum if they considered that it should be raised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-24a.653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-24", "file": "debates1973-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "eab841ee7cc28c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-24a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR SECRETS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think my hon. Friend was asking whether I agreed that conventional forces become more important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-24a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-24", "file": "debates1973-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "eab841ee7cc28c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-24a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "er the Assembly nor the Executive will be in responsible control. The third consequence will be that this House will be greatly mistaken if it supposes that by passing an Act of this kind it is devolving any responsibility from itself on to an Assembly or an Executive in Northern Ireland. It will remain the prisoner of the past 12 months and the prisoner of the contradiction embodied in this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-24a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-24", "file": "debates1973-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "eab841ee7cc28c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-24a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "e Paper and incorporated in the Bill. One of the main complaints against Northern Ireland in the past has concerned the lack of democracy there. If we are to have democracy and if we are to practise what we preach, we must increase the representation of Northern Ireland at Westminster. There are a number of other minor matters, but as there may be several other hon. Members still wishing to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-24a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-25", "file": "debates1973-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "ffad30ee8f5dfc26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-25a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "t was a useful document in terms of spelling out the existing opportunities. It is a pity that the Government could not bring themselves to be as interventionist as was advocated by the consultants from private industry. Whatever should have been done, I believe that we will, sooner or later, be forced to establish a separate development agency or board, independent, but accountable to Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-25a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-25", "file": "debates1973-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "ffad30ee8f5dfc26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-25a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "noble Friend Lady Tweedsmuir—my noble Friend has been a deputy for the Secretary of State and if the Secretary of State is engaged on some other matter, as for example when a few days ago I was at the last meeting of the Scottish Standing Committee, where I had to be, my noble Friend naturally, as he has done and as his predecessor did on many occasions, attended meetings of Ministers in my place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-25a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-05-25", "file": "debates1973-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "ffad30ee8f5dfc26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-25a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "ation now has a programme to build about 2,500 houses in north and north-east Scotland. All that the Opposition have proposed in this matter is nationalisation. That was confirmed by the Scottish Council of the Labour Party's Conference at Dunoon this year. What can that do to help those working on the job at the moment? It is merely a threat to the jobs of the men who are working on the rigs now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-05-25a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-11", "file": "debates1973-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f691733779d3426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " to that. We have repaired the omission from the plan—that is, in the western part of the region—by dealing with the 64 miles, at a cost of £62 million, of the M6 north of Carnforth. We are going ahead—I now come to the point raised by the hon. Gentleman—with the improvement of the A66 from Scotch Corner to Penrith and on to Workington. That is a project which, incidentally, will provide 800 jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-11", "file": "debates1973-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f691733779d3426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "e in 1,095. In the Northern Region it is as low as one in 488, so there has certainly been a substantial increase in training places. The hon. Member for Houghton-le-Spring raised the question of the employment of civil servants in the Northern Region. The region has done pretty well out of Government dispersals. There are 11,000 staff at the Department of Health and Social Security at Longbenton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-11", "file": "debates1973-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f691733779d3426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must be aware of the difficulty that the Civil Service is finding in recruiting within the area. The problem is quite clear from the administration which is there already. We must guard against putting too many Civil Service jobs there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-11", "file": "debates1973-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f691733779d3426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "ture plans. I found no depression amongst those at the meeting either about the future of the Northern Region or about the assistance given by central Government. I admit that the North East Development Council was not present. It has chosen to circulate to right hon. and hon. Members a paper crying \"Woe, woe.\" I should have thought that a development council should be preaching boom and not doom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-11", "file": "debates1973-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f691733779d3426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Bryan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Bryan", "preceding_text": ". It is how better to tackle the regional problems today which have persisted—I underline the word \"persisted\"—in face of massive efforts by successive Governments. Whether the right hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Willey) likes it or not, this is the week in which the national executive of the Labour Party has told an incredulous public that 25 major companies are going to be nationalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-11", "file": "debates1973-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f691733779d3426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "to Strasbourg to work for the regional policy which is being developed there by an ex-member of the Labour Party who is now a European Commissioner. I will not describe Mr. Thomson as our member there. He is a member for the whole Community. There is a great job of work to be done in Europe, and the North-East, with its proximity to Europe, is very concerned in this aspect of regional development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-11", "file": "debates1973-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f691733779d3426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Industrial Development (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Industrial Development (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "preceding_text": "erseas. We are seeing at the moment—I have a list here—a very substantial number of firms attracted into the region by virtue of its excellent location in relation to the Common Market. I therefore hope that there will be no doubt in any part of the House that we want to see that investment attracted and I hope that such notions as are contained in the recent Labour proposals for trying to insist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-11", "file": "debates1973-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f691733779d3426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "We have seen proposals issued in this last week which we do not believe can be consistent with maintaining economic growth, but, nor, of course do a good many Labour Members. Some of them actually believe that the whole purpose of setting up what is called the National Enterprise Board is to put a stop to the pursuit of economic growth.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-11", "file": "debates1973-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f691733779d3426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Urwin", "preceding_text": "rose——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-11a.1115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-12", "file": "debates1973-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "140fbc6b0b89c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1180.4", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The last one, speaking from memory, was some years ago—I think in the early 1960s or late 1950s. We have debated this matter in the Welsh Grand Committee. Successive Governments have taken the view that persuasion is better than coercion. It may be that public opinion now feels that there should be greater coercion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1180.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-12", "file": "debates1973-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "140fbc6b0b89c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1188.4", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the figure is much less than it was last year? Large numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1188.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-12", "file": "debates1973-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "140fbc6b0b89c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1191.3", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Stop striking.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "t that the so-called increased prosperity appears to have left Liverpool behind, because the level of unemployment on Merseyside at the moment is running at 7 per cent., which means that male unemployment is even higher? Precisely what do the Government intend to do to help an area like Merseyside? Are they prepared to make it a special development area to help it to overcome its serious problems?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-12", "file": "debates1973-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "140fbc6b0b89c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1194.4", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "It is no commentary of that kind whatever. The present book is of historical interest and contains a summary of the Fair Wages Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-12", "file": "debates1973-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "140fbc6b0b89c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1203.2", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONGRESS OF EUROPE (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "lf, however, to borrow the Prime Minister's phrase, he is so happy with the situation that we should have an all-embracing relationship with our European partners, why is it that we have had so little influence with the Government of France in the matter of nuclear tests?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1203.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-12", "file": "debates1973-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "140fbc6b0b89c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1203.3", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONGRESS OF EUROPE (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "This is not a laughing matter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "lf, however, to borrow the Prime Minister's phrase, he is so happy with the situation that we should have an all-embracing relationship with our European partners, why is it that we have had so little influence with the Government of France in the matter of nuclear tests? [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-12", "file": "debates1973-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "140fbc6b0b89c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1208.3", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not our citizens.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "preceding_text": "Parliament is necessarily the protector of its citizens, whatever the colour of their skin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-12", "file": "debates1973-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "140fbc6b0b89c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1208.3", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "preceding_text": "Parliament is necessarily the protector of its citizens, whatever the colour of their skin—[HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not our citizens.\"] —the protector of all its citizens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-12", "file": "debates1973-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "140fbc6b0b89c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1209.0", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "nd any other cases that come before me. It is a complicated Act, but a great many Acts that come before the House are complicated. I cannot accept the suggestion that my right hon. Friend the Member for Barnet—and the House knows him and his approach to these matters well enough to accept this from me—deliberately withheld from the House our intentions. We believe that these intentions were clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-12", "file": "debates1973-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "140fbc6b0b89c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE REORGANISATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ers, and so on, who are trying to inculcate Christian moral standards. On top of the enormous commercial pressures which we all recognise and of all the advertising on television, in magazines and newspapers, plays and films, we now have the State jumping on the bandwagon and implying that sexual intercourse with any partner is a free-for-all activity—normally, natural and, of course, State-aided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-12", "file": "debates1973-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "140fbc6b0b89c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE REORGANISATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "l pressures which we all recognise and of all the advertising on television, in magazines and newspapers, plays and films, we now have the State jumping on the bandwagon and implying that sexual intercourse with any partner is a free-for-all activity—normally, natural and, of course, State-aided. [ Laughter. ] At least the events of the past few weeks should have made the Government more cautious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-12", "file": "debates1973-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "140fbc6b0b89c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1378.4", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE REORGANISATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Vote.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mudd", "preceding_text": "rose——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-12a.1378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1485.1", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "PERKINS ENGINES (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "s, it will be my constituents in Peterborough who will suffer, the families and people in business. More than that, the reputation of Peterborough could suffer. If a city gets the reputation of being a rogue city for industrial relations at a time when, under the new towns procedure, it is becoming a centre for industrial development, it may well be a tragedy, and one which we could have foreseen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1525.0", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": " who are desperately looking for reasons to justify an earlier decision which was politically arrived at and which is no longer technically justifiable. The Maplin project is not just an airport\", my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary wrote in \"London's Flight East\". It is the rapid, planned development of an entire sub-region, undertaken with the specific intention of improving the quality of life\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1525.0", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor does a single person.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "esumably in a development area. The whole project is a political child. As I have told my right hon. Friend who is now Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, enthusiasm for the Maplin project varies inversely with knowledge of aviation. The more one knows about aeroplanes, the less one likes the project. This has been well demonstrated by the fact that not a single airline wants to use Maplin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1525.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Address the Chair.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. His courtesy is only exceeded by the fallaciousness of his argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Stephen McAdden", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is on the back of the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Stephen McAdden", "preceding_text": "cess roads, and their routing, as well as the cost of construction of an airport, if there is to be an airport. We must have this information before the House gives a decision. The House must not be asked to give a decision in blind faith on the basis that everything will be all right. Some hon. Members have said that they are worried about the seaport. What seaport? No one knows anything about it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "nsultation. The idea that, if these new clauses are not added to the Bill, the Government will not continue to consult the British Airports Authority or the Civil Aviation Authority or whatever other appropriate authority exists, is fanciful. Consultation is automatic. If at some point someone were to say to the Government \"This has ceased to be necessary\", obviously the project would not proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1586.0", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " human significance to people who have to put up with the frequency of aircraft movements from which people around Heathrow are suffering. There is no getting away from that point. I ask those who have been rather taken in by the airlines—some of my hon. Friends who represent constituencies in Essex have been most sensible and moderate about this; it is the airlines which are fighting this battle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "l the way up the river from the estuary. Let us be sensible. We must have a deep water port at the estuary if we are to recover the maritime position which we have most damagingly lost to the countries on the west coast of Europe. If we must have a new seaport, as we must, just as in the west we had to have Milford Haven, it makes sense to have it near the third London airport, which we also need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1590.1", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Bill is a limited Bill. It is a machinery Bill more than a policy Bill. It is a Bill which sets up an organisation which will be able to reclaim land. That land is intended for two purposes—for an airport and for a seaport. In so far as the reclamation may produce some surplus land, that will have its related purposes. But what the Bill does not do is to authorise an airport to be built at Maplin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1590.1", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "able to reclaim land. That land is intended for two purposes—for an airport and for a seaport. In so far as the reclamation may produce some surplus land, that will have its related purposes. But what the Bill does not do is to authorise an airport to be built at Maplin. [ Laughter. ] I can only repeat that the Bill does not authorise an airport to be built at Maplin, nor does it authorise a port.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " Secretary of State will carry out the purposes of new Clauses 1 and 2 by consulting in respect of the authorisation requirements set out there. When he has done so he will report to this House. He may well lay a parliamentary paper. The form of that can be considered. But no reclamation will commence until he has done that. Hon. Members ask, reasonably, in that case why not accept the new clause?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1594.0", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Perhaps my hon. Friend will allow me to come to the expenditure in a moment, when I shall answer his question. My eight hon. and learned Friend, having carried out the consultations in question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1593.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "£140 million. From that figure, on the credit side of the ledger we should have gained the following. First, we should have gained 2,500 acres of flat and well-drained land for a modern oil terminal and seaport. We should have 8,200 acres for a two-runway airport and all ancillary services, and there would be a surplus of just over 3,400 acres available for commercial and recreational development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1604.2", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They already live there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I am advised that the cost of housing people in a new town in South Essex will be no different from the cost of housing them anywhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1604.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1604.4", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Marten", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Marten", "preceding_text": "Before my hon. Friend deals with that, may I be helpful? I do not want my hon. Friend, whom I greatly admire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1604.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "earch on the Roskill Commission, and Professor Alan Day, who has circulated a document in the last few days. Both these studies, with forecasts on a number of different assumptions basing themselves solely on Government statistics, show in effect that we could get 10 times the reduction in noise from the introduction of quieter engines than we could ever get from building another runway at Maplin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1614.4", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not clarifying matters. I take it that the House can accept that a decision has been made in principle by the Government that a seaport will be built at Maplin, and the National Ports Council is to be asked simply for detailed advice on the size, scale and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1614.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1625.11", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As the Government have just been defeated on a major new clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1625.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1629.6", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Question has been put.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1629.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1630.4", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is an important point of order. You called a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1633.0", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": " at this stage is that I am advised completely to the contrary by sailing interests in the area. In any event, what is involved here is not the numbers involved but the principle. If a Minister promises in the House that the bridge will be kept open in order to preserve an amenity, and then a provision is put into the Bill which denies that amenity, I am not sure that the numbers matter very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1633.0", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "ch denies that amenity, I am not sure that the numbers matter very much. [ Interruption. ] I will explain to my hon. Friend something that he does not seem to understand. Evidence was given to the Select Committee by the Royal Yachting Association, which completely misled the Select Committee. When that was drawn to my hon. Friend's attention, he did nothing about it but swept it completely aside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1633.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Over seven years.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. McAdden", "preceding_text": "efit of those who do not know what the Havengore Creek is and could not care less—what is known amongst yachtsmen as the inshore route to Burnham. It enables yachtsmen to go by an inshore route into the Crouch, thus avoiding going out to rougher waters which otherwise they have to traverse. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary made some play of the fact that only three yachts a week use the passage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1647.3", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "or Essex, South-East (Sir Bernard Braine) talked about caring about people, but the minority of people who take five boats a week through, half an hour either side of the tide, and who have flooded protests on members of the Committee about birds, bees, boats, fauna and everything else, do not seem to care about the quarter million who live round Heathrow, about children who have to be in schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "preceding_text": "overnment and this House to do their duty to those who live around Heathrow Airport by providing a third London airport for all who use civil aviation. To hon. Members who have spoken so eloquently against a third London airport, which, let us face it, no part of the country wants, and to the residents of South-East Essex I say: be proud that your area has been chosen as the site for this airport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-13", "file": "debates1973-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "285869b827fba97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Sit down then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I think the House knows my feeling about Maplin, and it has been fairly consistent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-13a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-14", "file": "debates1973-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "27239e45ac34ffd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-14a.1694.5", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "As it is three years this weekend since the center hon. Gentleman was elected to power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-14a.1694.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-14", "file": "debates1973-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "27239e45ac34ffd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-14a.1707.0", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Community. I have an assurance that, although there may be a meeting of Ministers of Transport in the Council of Ministers this month, that subject will not be among those raised, so that there will still be time for a debate. As for a debate on future arrangements in the EEC in relation to GATT, I should like to consider further whether this should form part of our two-day foreign affairs debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-14a.1707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-14", "file": "debates1973-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "27239e45ac34ffd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-14a.1771.0", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": " interest all that was said by the hon. Member for Nottingham, West (Mr. English) but when he speaks about the pledge given by the Labour Government in 1949 he and other Labour Members should remember that it was given with the remembrance of the part played by Northern Ireland in winning the war. In other words, the Ulster people had made their contribution to the integrity of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-14a.1771.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-14", "file": "debates1973-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "27239e45ac34ffd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-14a.1772.9", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Humbug!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "I do not think I should want to delay the House but I have been asked by whom my constituent was shot——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-14a.1772.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-14", "file": "debates1973-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "27239e45ac34ffd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-14a.1798.2", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": " Member for St. Pancras, North says, that the view he described is deeply held. There are people in Northern Ireland who, although they are on British soil, regard themselves as being on Irish soil, in terms of nationhood rather than geography. But he must also accept from me that those of us who live in Ulster regard ourselves as being on British soil. These two points of view are irreconcilable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-14a.1798.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-15", "file": "debates1973-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b25dfe938e20b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-15a.1909.3", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tope", "preceding_text": "ight traffic rather than discourage it. I am somewhat bemused by the statistics in this section of the Green Paper, which seem to indicate that only 10 minutes overall is allowed for both the unloading and the loading of a vehicle ferry train. My arithmetic is not good but I calculate, on the basis of a load of 260 vehicles per train, that each vehicle has three seconds to get on or off the train.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-15a.1909.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-15", "file": "debates1973-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b25dfe938e20b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-15a.1927.1", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moate", "preceding_text": "verwhelming response or enthusiasm for this particular project, and we should examine why that should be so. The people of Kent have appreciated the way in which my right hon. Friend the Minister for Transport Industries has gone out of his way to stress all along, that he is totally objective and completely open-minded on the subject. I believe that the Government have not yet come to a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-15a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-15", "file": "debates1973-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b25dfe938e20b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-15a.1940.3", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wingfield Digby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wingfield Digby", "preceding_text": "ess and less, and I very much doubt whether the time is still here for expansion of rail services when air services are so quick. I must express a further doubt about British Rail, which is perhaps a little unkind. Much has been said about the opportunities offered for British Rail, but I wonder whether the time has not passed when British Rail is capable of grasping these great new opportunities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-15a.1940.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-18", "file": "debates1973-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0cfcfc7502d29393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-18a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "ludes the Government. It appears to me that the Government have not recognised the fact that their words could give encouragement to get this idea off the ground. The Govern- ment do not want to instruct local authorities to do something. We have tried to find a middle way, perhaps not successfully in terms of the new clause, but I hope that what I am saying will be taken on board by the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-18a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-18", "file": "debates1973-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0cfcfc7502d29393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-18a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "because the Secretary of State will intervene and exercise his power as the economic overlord of Scotland whenever he thinks necessary. Do we seriously imagine that the future of Hunterston, for example, will be decided by the Strathclyde authority? Of course it will not be. It will be decided by the Cabinet and by the Secretary of State as a member of the Cabinet implementing governmental policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-18a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-18", "file": "debates1973-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0cfcfc7502d29393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-18a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "usiness, or to support the hon. Member in relation to that. Administratively, thereafter Ayrshire was broken up. What is now Ayrshire was broken up into Kyle, Cunningham and Carrick. Girvan has always claimed to be in Carrick. During the Committee stage I was invited to Girvan for a Burns supper. What was the name of the club? It was the Carrick Burns Club, not the Galloway and Brewis Burns Club.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-18a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-18", "file": "debates1973-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0cfcfc7502d29393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-18a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "ea in the centre, formed out of sections of three previous counties, which it is proposed to name Ettrick Forest. This name is highly unsatisfactory because \"Ettrick\" applies to only a half of it and there is no forest. It is somewhat confusing, to put it mildly. I have had representations from the borough of Lauder and the district pointing out that \"Ettrick and Lauderdale would be a better name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-18a.255.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-19", "file": "debates1973-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "635b43737e72f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give him a job.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "Did my right hon. Friend discuss with President Pompidou the Fifth Directive of the Common Market? If that was discussed, did President Pompidou give any indication of what the French Government think about that directive and what they propose to do about it when considering industrial relations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.366.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-19", "file": "debates1973-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "635b43737e72f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.371.4", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question No. 5.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "been trying to weigh up, and what hon. Members will accept, whether or not they agree with the proposed location of the changes, is the cost in efficiency of dispersal of those associated with the policy-making compared with the advantages of regional development. I should have thought that a report as long as his and as carefully worked out demanded the most careful consideration by hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.371.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-19", "file": "debates1973-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "635b43737e72f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.371.6", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Business of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.371.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-19", "file": "debates1973-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "635b43737e72f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "I understand that this matter is debatable. I should like to seek an assurance from the Leader of the House before we agree to this motion about the effect that it will have on the remaining stages of the Local Government (Scotland) Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-19", "file": "debates1973-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "635b43737e72f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE REORGANISATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timothy Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timothy Raison", "preceding_text": "hey be there representing local government? To the best of my recollection, we heard nothing about how these local government representatives would report back to their local authorities, or whether they would report back. The Opposition did not think that through. The pattern chosen by the Secretary of State is in no sense undemocratic. In this pattern democracy is placed very firmly at the top.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.395.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-19", "file": "debates1973-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "635b43737e72f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Clause 81", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "preceding_text": "enter into the contract shall be published and that tenders be invited from all reputable persons or firms willing to tender, and regulate the manner in which such notice shall be given and tenders invited, but may authorise the authority to exempt any contract from such provision when the authority resolve in a public meeting for special reasons stated in public that such exemption is justified'.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-19", "file": "debates1973-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "635b43737e72f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Clause 123", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "of an education committee being elected, with the rest being appointed in one way or another, is totally wrong. I do not know whether I have got through to the Under-Secretary. There was a time when I called him the silent senator for Dumfries, but now he is in the places of power. We are confronted with such an obvious wrong that I am sure the hon. Gentleman will rise immediately to put it right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-19", "file": "debates1973-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "635b43737e72f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Schedule 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "My professional services group is always in close touch with the Association of Reporters. I should be surprised if the point has not been discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-19", "file": "debates1973-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "635b43737e72f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "l Johnston) will interrupt me if am wrong, but I believe that it was generally assumed, perhaps naively and wrongly, that by the time we reached this stage in the proceedings we should be presented with a clear idea of the nuts and bolts on finance and planning. What do we get? When certain courteous questions are put to the junior Minister about what he means by structural and strategic planning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-19", "file": "debates1973-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "635b43737e72f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "oupled with promotion, will lead to sufficient motivation for the efficient running of these organisations. The whole question of motivation of management within the public and private sectors is a very large one. We debated it recently on the Finance Bill. I remember it well, and no doubt we might have an opportunity of considering the matter again when the Finance Bill goes downstairs on Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-19a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-20", "file": "debates1973-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e40235152285cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-20a.666.5", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I suppose that that is what the Prime Minister means by the boom. We certainly got it in housing! Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the predominant reason why we have this fantastic increase in house costs is the Tory Government's Housing Finance Act and the upward spiral in rents and prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-20a.666.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-20", "file": "debates1973-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e40235152285cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-20a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "SLATER WALKER—HILL SAMUEL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "As always, the right hon. Gentleman has sought to erect a far-ranging and elaborate structure on a single event. If I may go back over the matters that he raised, it is quite wrong to imply, as he sought to do, that transactions of this kind were promoted by Ministers who were familiar with some of the parties in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-20a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-20", "file": "debates1973-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e40235152285cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-20a.690.4", "colnum": "690", "heading": "EMPLOYEES' CHARTER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "viding for a two-tier system at management level. If workers were represented at supervisory level, and if works councils were established throughout industry, I suggest that there would be at least some protection against the arbitrary effects of mergers, takeovers and unfair dismissals. If we are, in effect, changing the structure of company law in this country, I suggest that the prelude to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-20a.690.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-20", "file": "debates1973-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e40235152285cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-20a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "EMPLOYEES' CHARTER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "f becoming law. There is only one Friday left for Private Members' Bills, and it would have to get through all its stages on the nod, which is virtually inconceivable. I believe that the eyewash and the codswallop for which the Liberal Party is becoming steadily more famous should be cut down to size, and it is primarily for that reason that I oppose the introduction of the Bill. Second, the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-20a.692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-20", "file": "debates1973-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e40235152285cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-20a.766.2", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "As usual, one finds oneself outclassed and out of date through not being in touch with popular song and literature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-20a.766.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-21", "file": "debates1973-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "6db0ef199b67fcc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-21a.851.8", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is perfectly well aware that Watergate and food prices have nothing in common. The Price Commission is publishing information for pre-notifying firms about all price increases that it accepts as being within the limits set by the code. I am aware that the Labour Party has been trying to make something of this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-21a.851.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-21", "file": "debates1973-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "6db0ef199b67fcc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-21a.856.2", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member refers to the food bill for the average family. He should also, in fairness, have referred to the average wage increase over the last three years. Perhaps he would like to listen to the figures of the wage increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-21a.856.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-21", "file": "debates1973-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "6db0ef199b67fcc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-21a.856.3", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "The people are getting sick of two things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-21a.856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-21", "file": "debates1973-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "6db0ef199b67fcc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-21a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mahon", "preceding_text": " I raise a point about Question No. 5 to the Prime Minister? My hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Leslie Huckfield) was unable to be here to ask that Question for reasons which the Prime Minister may not be aware of. Is it proper for the Prime Minister, in replying to Question No. 10, to refer to the answer to Question No. 5, which we were not given because of the absence of my hon. Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-21a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-21", "file": "debates1973-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "6db0ef199b67fcc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-21a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "We welcome that after so many months the Franks Report is to be debated in the House, even though, from what the Prime Minister said, it will be without any clear lead from the Government about their reaction to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-21a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-25", "file": "debates1973-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f7b5fabb42f6d0ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1123.6", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "s not regarded as requiring investigation by the Younger Committee which investigated the law and practice in relation to privacy. If a customer objects to the practice of being photographed when he is presenting a cheque, in the way described by the hon. Gentleman, he has other alternatives. He can carry means of identification, pay by cash, contact his bank, or wait for his cheque to be cleared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1123.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-25", "file": "debates1973-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f7b5fabb42f6d0ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adam Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adam Butler", "preceding_text": "greement and again will be permitted under phase 3. This then is an area in which the Government can act. However, there is no doubt that the best resolution of the problem can come from co-operation between management and employees. This will not stem from any magical change of attitude. It must come from improved consultation and improved involvement. I shall mention the Industrial Relations Act", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-25", "file": "debates1973-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f7b5fabb42f6d0ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "rom ground level and should think how it will appear when viewed along with Richmond Terrace. Then they will see the sort of vista of which this site is capable. Too many hon. Members judge it by what they saw on television and from merely from looking down on things. This facility is greatly needed in this area, which is an area as great as Leicester Square. I do not wish to talk for long tonight", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-25", "file": "debates1973-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f7b5fabb42f6d0ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Judd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Judd", "preceding_text": " discussing this crucial subject, to overlook the fact that an increasingly well-informed electorate is cynical about the body politic. There is a feeling, which many of us would, of course, contest, that we use the electorate in order to reach this elite exclusive political circle and that, once here, we want to surround ourselves with the best possible working conditions to tackle the executive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-25", "file": "debates1973-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f7b5fabb42f6d0ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timothy Raison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timothy Raison", "preceding_text": "Member wants a room of his own he will want an additional room for his secretary. Many of us share secretaries, and that practice is likely to continue. I accept the argument that there is a risk that, if we lock ourselves up in little rooms on the other side of Bridge Street, we shall detract from our principal function as Members of Parliament. I have been a Member of this House only since 1970—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-25", "file": "debates1973-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f7b5fabb42f6d0ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "MAENDY AND BROFISKIN QUARRIES (CHEMICAL WASTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Robert Grant-Ferris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Robert Grant-Ferris)", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman. I did not see that the Minister was not here. The Chair must deprecate very strongly any hon. Member raising a matter on the Adjournment in the absence of the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-25", "file": "debates1973-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f7b5fabb42f6d0ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1286.3", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "MAENDY AND BROFISKIN QUARRIES (CHEMICAL WASTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "e Welsh Office has also asked the Water Pollution Research Laboratory to make investigations at Brofiskin and Maendy because the laboratory is undertaking a long-term fundamental research programme into the problem of percolate from tips. The laboratory has identified PCBs, but the highest level recorded was 0·11 microgrammes per litre, which, I am advised, is toxicologically insignificant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-25", "file": "debates1973-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f7b5fabb42f6d0ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1289.1", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "MAENDY AND BROFISKIN QUARRIES (CHEMICAL WASTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shakes his head. If he will tell me in the Welsh Office the evidence on which he says that the public are at risk, I will accept it, but if he has no evidence, he has no reason to make those remarks. The Ministry of Agriculture sampling programme started on 11th June, and levels of PCBs have been shown to be below 0·02 parts per million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-25a.1289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-26", "file": "debates1973-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8597e7d83ab13c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1297.7", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Whoever was responsible for putting up these buildings 40 years ago, it was neither myself nor the Government. The important point is whether they are being replaced. Replacements which are already programmed will provide new school places for nearly half the Derbyshire children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1297.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-26", "file": "debates1973-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8597e7d83ab13c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1302.0", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "It is not my recommendation; it is the recommendation of the committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-26", "file": "debates1973-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8597e7d83ab13c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1321.3", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon, Mr. Speaker; I was not aware of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-26", "file": "debates1973-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8597e7d83ab13c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1331.5", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "REGIONAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "yond that I will not go.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd May, 1973; Vol. 857, c. 477–89.] That is the most recent statement—indeed the only statement of any protracted length—that we have had from the Minister responsible on this important matter about which a decision is to be made affecting half the area geographically of the country and nearly one-third of its population within a very few days —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1331.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-26", "file": "debates1973-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8597e7d83ab13c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "REGIONAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "ies not only 14 years of free market policies in the EEC, but the precise provisions of the Treaty of Rome dealing with the subject of State aids. In other words, this whole matter, the subject of our motion, is not even within the area of Community regional policy; it is part of Community competition policy for which M. Borschette is responsible, and his views on these matters inevitably prevail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-26", "file": "debates1973-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8597e7d83ab13c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1346.4", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "REGIONAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ent or government is being disregarded—the Opposition's contention is utterly unrealistic and springs from an inadequate understanding reinforced by the Opposition's deliberate non-involvement in the problem. The fact is that with regard to executive decisions made in the European context Parliament has just as much influence as it does on Her Majesty's Government in relation to domestic policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1346.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-26", "file": "debates1973-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8597e7d83ab13c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Lane)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Misleading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Lane)", "preceding_text": "scretion.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th June 1971; Vol. 819, c. 476.] So, from this and other quotations that my right hon. Friend mentioned, I maintain that it is clear that this House was not then under the impression that the Bill that it was discussing involved an automatic amnesty. And all this was before the Bill moved on to further lengthy consideration in another place. It has also been alleged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-26", "file": "debates1973-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8597e7d83ab13c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1463.3", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is the original Question, as amended. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1463.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-26", "file": "debates1973-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8597e7d83ab13c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1463.5", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "To the contrary, \"No\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-26a.1463.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-27", "file": "debates1973-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1fd083d3b8a2a784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-27a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "That may be a matter of opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-27a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-27", "file": "debates1973-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1fd083d3b8a2a784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-27a.1550.0", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I had better leave the whole document, as it was decided early on Tuesday morning, to be studied by the right hon. Gentleman. The agricultural policy is seen by the whole Community to be basic to the Community's existence. That does not mean that there cannot be some changes of some kind in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-27a.1550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-27", "file": "debates1973-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1fd083d3b8a2a784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-27a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I think that our interpretation is exactly the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-27a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1709.3", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Before tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "On the point about passing on wage increases, my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary has commented on other occasions. It is well known that there is an indication that those increases have not been passed on. As for the indices, the only fair comparison is with the all-items index, which has risen by 27·2 per cent., wages by 27·8 per cent., and pensions by 35 per cent.,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1712.3", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, you are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to to the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1712.5", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend not consider that the Opposition are spending far too much time on the price of food?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1712.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1712.5", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend not consider that the Opposition are spending far too much time on the price of food? [ Laughter .] Although we agree —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1712.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1713.0", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "Although we agree that it is very important, I would have thought that they would show equal concern for the farming community as a whole and the income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend—[ Interruption .] No amount of bellowing like bulls from the back bench will get an answer for the Opposition. My hon. Friend has properly made the point that wages in agriculture, whose workers are among the lower income groups, I accept —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1724.4", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that it looks, to most of us at least, as though the 12 months' honeymoon period with the TUC is over? It seems as though the working class within the trade union movement has rumbled what the Prime Minister is up to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1724.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1729.0", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "t on privacy—one of the great blind spots in English law? Third, may I draw to the right hon. Gentleman's attention the exchange which we had last week on the subject of parliamentary papers and the difficulties which we are encountering, especially is not having HANSARD? May we be told what the state of play is in the dispute, a dispute which arises out of the Government's grossly unjust phase 2?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1973–74", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "O allies take that stand, but we seem to be lagging behind. In what the right hon. Gentleman said I can read nothing which expresses the views that have come from both sides, particularly from the Opposition, about the absence of democratic procedures, about the arbitrary arrests that are taking place in Greece today, or about the attitude towards the Portuguese in the celebration of the alliance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1738.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1973–74", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is asleep.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "at that is not the position. Our influence at the moment with North Vietnam is negligible. I accept that we have a man stationed out there. He has been given a car in which to ride but a very small petrol allowance. He mostly uses a bicycle when he makes his reports. He does so not to the Prime Minister of North Vietnam but to the municipal authority. Perhaps the Prime Minister does not know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1751.1", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1973–74", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callahan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callahan", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing out the obvious conclusion. I hope Mr. Brezhnev will be invited soon and will come here. It is high time he did. I hope that he will be exposed even to the hon. Member for Cannock (Mr. Cormack).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1754.0", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1973–74", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "benches opposite will remember that what has been said now has the authority of the Prime Minister. I must apologise to the House for taking so long but I was provoked a little earlier when I said I would turn to the way in which a middle-sized country like ours can exert leverage without gun boats. I would like to say in a sentence how it can be done. It should be done through the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1754.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1756.4", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1973–74", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord BaIniel", "preceding_text": "I must get on, because time is passing and the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East was reluctant to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1775.1", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1973–74", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": " have things of which to be ashamed in their records in the Middle East. The Tory Party is the party of Suez. That puts it beyond the pale to begin with. The Liberal Party attacks colonialism and racialism in every part of the world, except where it is practised by Israel. I hope that the Labour Party will carefully consider the possible double standards in its approach to this colonial question.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1801.1", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1973–74", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": " to Labour policy. Within the NATO councils our Defence Minister and Foreign Secretary are not regarded as the keenest advocates of progress in the MBFR talks. Leaders of other Governments are taking a much more positive line in this direction. It is said that Mr. Brezhnev is agreeable to mutual force reductions, but not to balanced ones. If that is so, I hope that he will reconsider his attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1854.1", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1973–74", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Julian Amery)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Big head.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Julian Amery)", "preceding_text": "I shall not seek to deal in any detail with the remarks of the hon. and learned Member for Barons Court (Mr. Richard) about Rhodesia. I have often thought that some of the best speeches on the subject were made in 1965 and 1966 by my right hon. Friend the Member for Preston, North, as he was, now more happily ensconced in Brighton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-28", "file": "debates1973-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e302991fd07d4c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1863.1", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1973–74", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "d with the United States but I would dismiss altogether the idea of a crisis of capitalism. Our experience since the war, shows that, however much competition grows between advanced countries, trade between them grows faster than any other trade. I would reject the idea that in the field of trade one man's gain must be another man's loss. It is very often, indeed usually should be, the other way.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-28a.1863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-06-29", "file": "debates1973-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc41ac46fc81d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-29a.1913.0", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Me.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "Before my hon. Friend leaves that point, will he tell the House who in his view would have to decide which Cabinet minutes would be published?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-06-29a.1913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister should answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I invite the House to note that, in assessing our balance of payments, one must take into account also the extent to which our invisible earnings are running, namely, at nearly £60 million a month. I invite the right hon. Member for Barnsley (Mr. Mason) to answer this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman still does not come back to the central point. Our invisible earnings are continuing high and substantial. Our balance of visible trade is being produced by an expanding volume in that trade. The right hon. Gentleman is possibly the last hon. Member entitled to ask, as he did a moment ago, when we shall get the nation out of debt. We have got it out of debt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Critehley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Critehley", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman ought to study my speech a little more carefully. I did not say that. I passed a light-hearted comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Critehley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Buyable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Critehley", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman ought to study my speech a little more carefully. I did not say that. I passed a light-hearted comment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"] Very well: a serious comment, if hon. Members prefer—that there are experts in all walks of life who are easibly obtainable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " in the atmosphere is to take place, as in the past, in an uninhabited zone of ocean which, in the direction of the prevailing winds, is 4,000 miles from the nearest land. The Pitcairn Islands are 600 miles away, but monitoring has been done there since the tests began in the time of the Labour Government and that monitoring has shown that there is no detectable risk. The French have been careful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "TEACHER SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "e about teacher numbers to refer to a series of very important pieces of research on a crucial aspect of the subject. I know that the hon. Member for Thurrock (Mr. Delargy) wants me to sit down as soon as possible so that he can make a stiring speech. However, in a debate of this kind an hon. Member can- not be criticised for introducing a note of respect for the work done by academic researchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "TEACHER SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Raison) took 20 minutes of the time of this House in what is a very short debate. It is not for me to tell you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, how to run the business of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "TEACHER SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "e. Despite the criticisms which pour forth from the Opposition in every education debate, my right hon. Friend has done an excellent job as Secretary of State for Education and Science. What I find so difficult to understand is that, although Labour right hon. and hon. Members make all these criticisms now, in opposition, when they had the chance to do something for education they did very little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "TEACHER SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Between 1970 and 1975 the teacher/pupil ratio will go down from 22·7 to 20·7.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "TEACHER SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Between 1970 and 1975 the teacher/pupil ratio will go down from 22·7 to 20·7. [ Interruption ] I have made it clear that these are provisional figures. From 1975 to 1980 the ratio will fall from 20·7 to 18·7. Those figures represent a rate of reduction nearly three times as great as that which was achieved by the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "TEACHER SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "an, who said that the language of priorities was the religion of Socialism. If this be so, the hon. Member for Sparkbrook is one of the great Labour heretics of our age. If he spent more time on sorting out his priorities and less in fighting his hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East (Mr. Rhodes) over the Green Paper, it would be an improvement for the cause of education in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "Nay, while they are still considered to be in need of the service which I have described in shorthand as domiciliary. That is, by sustained persuasion. Once they are considered to be self-motivating, they will not need to be treated any differently from anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ble extension of the prescription charge base. The Secretary of State tried to make the point that it was on common ground with those items that are subject to prescription charge. The House must know that I am against prescription charges of any sort but that I fully accept the reality of the situation that prescription charges will continue during what is left of the lifetime of this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "se. The Secretary of State tried to make the point that it was on common ground with those items that are subject to prescription charge. The House must know that I am against prescription charges of any sort but that I fully accept the reality of the situation that prescription charges will continue during what is left of the lifetime of this Government. [ Interruption .] We plan to abolish them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "as well as to married people. This must regulate one's attitude to the Lords amendment. It was my view on the wider issue—as it is my view on the narrower issue—that considerations of money are not responsible for any appreciable part of the proportion of unwarranted or illegitimate pregnancies. I do not believe that lack of money ever stands between people and the contraceptives they want to use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "State of totally free contraceptives to all who come in for open-handed largesse will have no impact on people's moral attitudes. They are entitled to their view, but I do not accept it—indeed I find it impossible to accept. We cannot make this distinction. If the Lords amendment were passed, many people would consider that the State had given respectability, and even its blessing, to promiscuity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State misled the House, and I think that he did so deliberately when he said that the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"TOO long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way. She is trying to show that there is a great ground swell of opinion, fact or statistics in favour of her case. Would she care to comment on the fact that the amendment in another place was carried by the votes of the life peers, who are very much older than we in this House are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.189.3", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "I will put my short and simple point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.189.3", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "I will put my short and simple point—[ Interruption .]—I will put my short and simple point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.189.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "perfectly well what he is getting at, but it is difficult to answer him because I believe, with my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Buckinghamshire, South that we are taking another step along the road to greater immorality and less regard for the moral values of life. The hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles (Mr. David Steel) may wag his head, but obviously he has permissive views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.199.2", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Navy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "Obviously, there are strong arguments on both sides of this subject, but I wonder whether those who advocating free issue ad lib have considered one practical point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.199.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.199.2", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "se who advocating free issue ad lib have considered one practical point. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Navy?\"] I was about to say that I had some small practical experience, since, quite rightly, the Navy makes the issue free. The question I put to those who are advocating free issue ad lib is whether, under their scheme, there is anything to prevent a man's going to his doctor seven days a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.199.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-02", "file": "debates1973-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9283c4fabed8e0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.201.4", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ninety per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The whole House will have felt very deeply with the hon. Member for Liverpool, Kirkdale (Mr. Dunn). What he has said emphasises what this debate tonight has been about as opposed to earlier debates. Tonight's debate is undoubtedly about the fact that my right hon. Friend has moved 80 per cent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-02a.201.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-03", "file": "debates1973-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "7069bea5a3d13ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-03a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERIAL BROADCAST", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Confrontation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "t statement by Mr. Hugh Scanlon to the effect that the nation may expect increased disturbances in the autumn, no doubt destined to coincide with the arrival of phase 3 of the incomes policy? Will my right hon. Friend make it perfectly clear now, well in advance of the autumn, that the present Government do not propose to be browbeaten by Mr. Hugh Scanlon or by any other leading member of the TUC?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-03a.252.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-03", "file": "debates1973-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "7069bea5a3d13ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-03a.302.5", "colnum": "302", "heading": "STATUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND AS PART OF UNITED KINGDOM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "One at a time. His case is not that the British Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-03a.302.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-03", "file": "debates1973-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "7069bea5a3d13ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-03a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "STATUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND AS PART OF UNITED KINGDOM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "This is an interesting argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-03a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-03", "file": "debates1973-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "7069bea5a3d13ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-03a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "STATUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND AS PART OF UNITED KINGDOM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "I do not want to bandy words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-03a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-03", "file": "debates1973-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "7069bea5a3d13ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-03a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "REPEALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not right honourable\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "preceding_text": "d say \"I have it here—peace in our time\"? I do not think that any one of us can do that. We will have to look at this thing in a sensible manner. The big question mark hanging over the Bill is that of power sharing. No one can get away from that fact. What is the position following the Assembly elections? One section, led by my right hon. Friend the Member for Antrim, North (Reverend Ian Paisley)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-03a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-03", "file": "debates1973-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "7069bea5a3d13ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-03a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "REPEALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "e was a link with the \"Claudia\", which brought Russian arms to Northern Ireland to help the terrorists to continue their campaign, and the aircraft which was stopped in Antwerp and found to be full of Communist weapons from Czechoslovakia. These are not accidents. The enemy working within Northern Ireland and supplying the IRA with rifles and ammunition and some of its funds is a Communist enemy.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-03a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-04", "file": "debates1973-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "13617adaad84c8ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-04a.519.6", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Member quite understands what happened. It is quite normal. I do not know whether it happens to him, but it often happens to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-04a.519.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-04", "file": "debates1973-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "13617adaad84c8ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-04a.519.7", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": " understands what happened. It is quite normal. I do not know whether it happens to him, but it often happens to me. [ Laughter .] Any speech goes through several drafts, and in the course of preparation of the speech, the draft alters. This is all that happened. Quite normally, in the course of preparing his speech, the Duke of Edinburgh consulted the ambassador about it and made certain changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-04a.519.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-04", "file": "debates1973-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "13617adaad84c8ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-04a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "preceding_text": "s in moving goods from where they are made to where they are to be used, at the most convenient time and without being confined to timetables. My right hon. Friend has been right not to be too dogmatic at this stage. When considering the short term, he must also consider the long term. It is reasonable that we should know his views. To have a White Paper on transport policy may be asking too much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-04a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-05", "file": "debates1973-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aa3720dc225f507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Assembly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "As Commissioners of the European Commission seem to enjoy coming to Britain rather than answering questions in the European Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-05", "file": "debates1973-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aa3720dc225f507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.710.6", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "We have made it abundantly clear to the Commission and to our partners that we regard the zero-rating element of the value added tax as of the utmost social benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.710.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-05", "file": "debates1973-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aa3720dc225f507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ere injury which they have suffered from record increases in the price of food and other essentials, urges the Prime Minister to apologise to those housewives for the cynical and deliberate political seduction practised by him upon them in June 1970, and to take immediate and radical steps to stabilise the cost of living .] This is signed by a large number of hon. Members deploring the behaviour —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-05", "file": "debates1973-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aa3720dc225f507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Lady will recognise that if prices have gone up by 26·4 per cent. average earnings are up by 37·8 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.726.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-05", "file": "debates1973-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aa3720dc225f507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ask a question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Chapman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for West Bromwich (Miss Boothroyd), whom I welcome as representing my next-door constituency, and the Leader of the Opposition have referred to the visit of the Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs to my constituency to meet shoppers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-05", "file": "debates1973-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aa3720dc225f507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.729.4", "colnum": "729", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since we saw from the \"tape\" this morning, if that information is correct, that the defendants in this case have announced they are not to appeal, are the Government considering whether they can find some way of appealing in a civil case which is taking place between two other parties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.729.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-05", "file": "debates1973-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aa3720dc225f507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.730.5", "colnum": "730", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Yes, I think we should have a debate on metrication. I cannot see time for it this side of the recess, but I hope that the matter will be discussed soon after we come back. I do not believe that any suspicions about metric packs causing increases in the price of food are justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.730.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-05", "file": "debates1973-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aa3720dc225f507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.749.2", "colnum": "749", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "preceding_text": "rn Ireland to stand for that and not react? Our duty is to restore law and order and we must use the measures set out in the Bill. The situation demands nothing less than those measures. I agree with the hon. and learned Member for Northampton that even stronger measures should be used. The hon. Member for Erith and Crayford (Mr. Wellbeloved) referred to the army of occupation in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-05", "file": "debates1973-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aa3720dc225f507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "Among other things, we did it with the support of the very brave people who were in the Resistance movement in the occupied countries in Europe, people who resisted the Nazis because they objected to the methods they used to rule. They, too, were called terrorists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-05", "file": "debates1973-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aa3720dc225f507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "I make no apology for intervening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-05a.818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-09", "file": "debates1973-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "1e479382045a4669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1006.5", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is aware that BOAC has said no such thing, and it is for the Governments concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1006.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-09", "file": "debates1973-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "1e479382045a4669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "As regards the rundown in the industry, it is true that employment in the industry has been diminishing since 1966—a substanial amount was lost during the period of the previous administration—but this has mostly been due to rationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-09", "file": "debates1973-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "1e479382045a4669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1024.5", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "EXCHANGE RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " That is a far greater fall in the value of the £sterling than took place in 1967. Will the right hon. Gentleman accept the view of the overwhelming majority of the British people that he must now take urgent action to protect those most hurt by the fall in the value of the £sterling against its consequences on the cost of living? Would he not agree that this 18 per cent. devaluation in the pound—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1024.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-09", "file": "debates1973-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "1e479382045a4669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "HEARING AIDS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend on this generous and imaginative proposal. Am I right in saying that those who cannot obtain these machines through the National Health Service will have to pay VAT on the instrument bought?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-09", "file": "debates1973-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "1e479382045a4669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "f employment as a teacher by an education authority, either for teachers already in such employment or for those who might be taken into employment for the future\". I shall not continue all the quotations; they are alike, and the Law Lords are clearly saying that Parliament did not intend that in this matter there should be compulsion and that, if it had intended compulsion, it would have said so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-09", "file": "debates1973-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "1e479382045a4669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ave said that everyone knew what the position was. In fact, everyone did not know, for 75 per cent. of teachers in Scotland were of no mind to register. About 30,000 teachers out of 40,000 had to be coerced in one way or another to register with the General Teaching Council. I remember the debates at the time. I thought it a pity that they were so minded, but they were perfectly entitled so to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-09", "file": "debates1973-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "1e479382045a4669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "preceding_text": "I have one or two brief observations only. It is apparent to me that the Bill makes no provision for the payment of compensation for any people who may have been dismissed, although I have no doubt that my right hon. and learned Friend the Lord Advocate will say that ex gratia payments may be made. The Bill should have included an additional clause headed Provision for compensation\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-09", "file": "debates1973-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "1e479382045a4669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1203.3", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He declared it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "In the hon. Lady's absence I am willing to accept that gloss, but that sort of moralistic or value judgment ought not to be made. The hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe) said that he declared his interest. I sat within three yards of him, but I did not hear him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-09", "file": "debates1973-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "1e479382045a4669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1210.3", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": " some of the observations in the House of Lords in the other case, which was not concerned with these statutory provisions; it was on different grounds and arguments. But observations were made by their Lordships, the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, that the appellant might be able to question the validity of the regulations, and he quickly—and all credit to him—very successfully proceeded to do so.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-09", "file": "debates1973-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "1e479382045a4669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1210.3", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "en registered at all because the deductions in respect of the renewal of their registration has now fallen to be questioned. As I said in Committee, it is quite arguable that the defect in the 1962 Act provisions is such as to raise a question mark over the registration of the whole teaching profession in Scotland, not only those who were in post when the regulations came into force in April 1968.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-09", "file": "debates1973-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "1e479382045a4669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1210.3", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "ulations came into force in April 1968. [ Interruption .] My hon. Friend says \"So what?\" Here we have a General Teaching Council which was constituted by Act of Parliament with the statutory duty to represent registered teachers. It has been purporting to do that for a number of years. Its very composition included 25 persons representing registered teachers who are themselves registered teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-09", "file": "debates1973-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "1e479382045a4669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether my right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-09a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1231.6", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "NEW WRIT (BERWICK-UPON TWEED)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "n to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the county constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed in the room of Antony Claud Frederick Lambton, Esquire who since his election for the said county constituency bath accepted the Office of Steward or Bailiff of Her Majesty's three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham in the county of Buckingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1231.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that his figures show that it is costing more to administer the Industrial Relations Act, in terms of both staff and finance, than it is to man the Prime Minister's boat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1260.6", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "NEW WRIT (BERWICK-UPON-TWEED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": " today. This is a serious matter which should concern all Members of Parliament because it concerns democracy and the representation of the people. It arises for a simple reason, namely, that we are concerned with procedure that is as archaic as it is absurd, that is spattered with anomalies, and that enables the interests of constituents to be sacrificed to the electoral interests of the parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1260.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1260.6", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "NEW WRIT (BERWICK-UPON-TWEED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "representation of the people. It arises for a simple reason, namely, that we are concerned with procedure that is as archaic as it is absurd, that is spattered with anomalies, and that enables the interests of constituents to be sacrificed to the electoral interests of the parties. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I should have thought that this was a matter that concerned every Member of the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1260.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "NEW WRIT (BERWICK-UPON-TWEED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are not in Strasbourg.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "ay. I said that, as an independent, I would not be bound by the pact between the parties which has prevailed since 1911 and which apparently so many people in the House seem eager to preserve. I also said that I would seek to prevent the abuse, a serious abuse of Parliament and democracy, whereby constituencies can be left unrepresented for long periods because of manoeuvrings for party advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "NEW WRIT (BERWICK-UPON-TWEED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "o preserve. I also said that I would seek to prevent the abuse, a serious abuse of Parliament and democracy, whereby constituencies can be left unrepresented for long periods because of manoeuvrings for party advantage. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You are not in Strasbourg.\"] If some hon. Members were interested in democracy they would be interested in seeing themselves represented in the forum of the Nine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "NEW WRIT (BERWICK-UPON-TWEED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "I am raising this issue at the proper time and I raised it repeatedly in Lincoln, when it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "NEW WRIT (BERWICK-UPON-TWEED)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No—until the end of the Session.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "(York): I understand that if there is a vote which is adverse to the motion, there is then a barrier for 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "New Clause 43", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "It is surely a strange state of affairs if it is alleged in the Press—I did not see it—that agreement has been reached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1355.4", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "No, of course I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1362.4", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " personal freedom and the attainment of a prosperous society. I shall come back to this review in what I have to say later. It is obvious from some of the remarks made by the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) that what really lies behind his comments this evening is not merely an abhorrence of one aspect of capitalism but a barely suppressed hatred of the entire system of capitalism.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1362.4", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "t asked the Inland Revenue for a report about the tax affairs of particular directors or companies. I do not intend to ask, and, if I did, I should not be told. But it will be within the recollection of the House that the right hon. Gentleman has made it clear today that if he had the opportunity and were at this Dispatch Box he would change this fundamental rule of Inland Revenue confidentiality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1373.4", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "e. The question was not—.\"Did the Chancellor know about it?\"—because I know full well, and all of my hon. Friends know full well, that the Chancellor does not have this knowledge. Of course we accept that explanation. The question which was asked—I put it again to the Chief Secretary—was simply this: Did the Inland Revenue know about it? Surely, the Chancellor can tell us whether the Revenue knew.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1373.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1400.4", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman has already spoken.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trew", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Minister of State did not refer to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1400.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1400.6", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trew", "preceding_text": "By leave of the House, may I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1400.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-10", "file": "debates1973-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d2f66a8bb1687c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1443.3", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "regulations on revenue duties. That being so, I have taken very careful steps to ensure that copies of the certified text have been available in the Library and the Vote Office. I contemplated whether I should go around personally through the corridors to ensure that everyone was aware of this, but I do not think that hon. Members have had difficulties in obtaining it. It has not yet been printed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-10a.1443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1512.0", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that there is a total difference between driving a busload of tourists around the Isle of Wight and driving a 32-ton gross antic. up the M1? Will he resist this suggestion, which does not have the blessing of the Transport and General Workers Union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1530.5", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "—and the House will look forward to learning their answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1530.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "he Opposition about the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor on 21st May. Perhaps there are two reasons for that unaccustomed self-denial. First, unlike their exercises in cutting public expenditure, my right hon. Friend's package has been announced not to cut back the growth rate but so that it should be sustained. Second, it was no panic measure involving cutting back contracts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1593.4", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "m is less than half way up the consumer price list and almost lowest on the wholesale price list. That is an important factor to be taken into account in relation to our international competitive position. The relationship between costs and prices and the exchange rate is important. There is evidence that, over the past three years or so, there has been a fundamental change in the British economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1593.4", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who caused it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": " there was a faster rise in unemployment than would have been expected by past relationships in regard to the level of output. At that time the rapid rise in unemployment complicated the difficulties of demand management. We witnessed an unprecedented shake out of labour, reflecting perhaps a changing attitude by employers to maintaining their work forces largely intact in a period of slow growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1593.4", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "immediately to take reflationary measures. However, contrary to what might previously have been thought, we decided in July 1971 that it would be right to act to increase the level of demand, which would have a favourable effect on unemployment, and the increase in output would have a favourable effect on the question of costs. No one today would deny, I think, that that was the right thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1593.4", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "se tax. Between 1969–70 and 1972–73 indirect taxes have been reduced as a proportion of gross national product from 19·9 per cent. to 17·2 per cent. I repeat, from 19·9 per cent to 17·2 per cent. Taxes on personal income, as a percentage of total wages and salaries, have fallen from 22 per cent. in 1969–70 to 20·9 per cent. in 1972–73.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1643.4", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "PROTECTION OF AIRCRAFT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "rth (Mr. Arthur Lewis), we have seen him in two of his guises this evening. One of them was an unaccustomed guise, that of protector and friend of the police force. I am sure that this will cause a good deal of amusement to many of the constables whom I know in the Metropolitan Police Force and others. As for the way in which the hon. Member spoke about security forces and about personal interests", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1643.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1645.5", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "PROTECTION OF AIRCRAFT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ce to ensure safety at airports. This is something that has been echoed by other hon. Members. I have news for all right hon. and hon. Members: one was set up some years ago, and is called the British Airports Constabulary. I do not know what else they want. Certainly, this is a pretty glib, quick new clause—three lines to set up a new police force when one already exists. However, let us discuss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1645.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1645.7", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "PROTECTION OF AIRCRAFT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman could not have been aware of it, otherwise he would not have suggested setting it up. He would not have wanted to waste the time of the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1645.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1654.4", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "PROTECTION OF AIRCRAFT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "tive. I hope that there is general agreement on both sides of the House that there are not enough police available to carry out all security duties at our airports and specifically the searching of passengers and baggage, that searching is a wasteful use of highly-trained police resources, that the police do not like searching duties which they do not consider are duties proper to police officers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1654.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1664.3", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "PROTECTION OF AIRCRAFT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wriggling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I want to see a proper security organisation doing this job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1666.4", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "PROTECTION OF AIRCRAFT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I must get on. I do not believe that these private security organisations are completely above suspicion, as the Minister suggests. They are not licensed, there is no control over them, there is no supervision, and their members do not have to be members of trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1691.0", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "ntitled to be registered on the electoral register but who for some reason or other did not get on this year's register though entitled to vote at parliamentary or local government elections for the period after 15th February when the new electoral register comes into force. It seems to me that this amendment, therefore, is limiting the right to those who were previously on the electoral register.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1723.3", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": " in this country and is still not eligible, because he is an overstayer, have nothing provided in place of the immunity which is being removed. It is in a spirit of conciliation that I make this suggestion. The Government should have another look at this. When the Bill reaches another place, I hope that they will be much more forthcoming. I would not at this stage advise my hon. Friends to divide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1723.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-11", "file": "debates1973-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "299f939869349ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1726.1", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "cretary of State would exercise his discretion firmly but sympathetically is asking a lot of the Pakistani overstayer, who would have to exercise a considerable act of faith in the way in which the Government will behave. That is not reasonable. What the Minister should do, if he is saying. \"Rely on the Goverment's good faith,\" is spell out the criteria on which the Government will judge the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-11a.1726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-12", "file": "debates1973-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "1fd611c41963fece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1773.5", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will recall that a moment ago the Prime Minister said that he would first deal with the question why profits had risen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1773.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-12", "file": "debates1973-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "1fd611c41963fece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1774.3", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in the 12 months following the Labour Government's four-and-a-half-months' statutory freeze the cost of living index rose by 1·4 per cent.? Is he further aware that during the whole of his six-months' freeze the cost of living rose at 9½ per cent. per annum?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1774.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-12", "file": "debates1973-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "1fd611c41963fece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1774.4", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will answer all right. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman recognises that the terms of trade during that time remained almost stationary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1774.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-12", "file": "debates1973-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "1fd611c41963fece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1778.0", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "As the cost of food has increased by 35 per cent. since the Government took office, and as the right hon. Gentleman thinks that what the Labour Government did, compared with the Tory Government, is producing dividends to the Tory Party of only three-figure votes at by-elections, will he tell us whether, when he meets the TUC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-12", "file": "debates1973-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "1fd611c41963fece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1778.0", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I shall try to speak louder. Will he confirm that when he meets the TUC and the CBI at the end of the month he will be fully briefed from the \"think tank\", or such other sources as he draws upon, about the possibility of extending the credit income tax system to cover both housing and rates, the possibility of guaranteed minimum earnings, threshold agreements and, last but not least, implementing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-12", "file": "debates1973-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "1fd611c41963fece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVE ANIMALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "Exports would be able to continue to those countries to which they are going at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-12", "file": "debates1973-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "1fd611c41963fece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1900.1", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "I hope that that is an extreme and isolated example of the way in which good will can be and is on occasion dissipated. Of course, people who are properly convicted and resent their conviction deserve no sympathy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-12", "file": "debates1973-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "1fd611c41963fece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1911.3", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about London?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "e. In regard to the Metropolitan area, although I accept, as my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary accepted, that there are serious problems, and although we are concerned with the present situation in the Metropolitan Police force, I only need to remind the House of the steps which my right hon. Friend has already said are being taken. Having dealt with the paucity of the Opposition's argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-12", "file": "debates1973-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "1fd611c41963fece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1912.2", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about London?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Opposition have chosen to table what can only be described as a censorious motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-12a.1912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-16", "file": "debates1973-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "199effd1e6a38611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The stamps do not at this stage infringe any United Kingdom postal regulations. It is a matter that should be raised through the UPU procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-16", "file": "debates1973-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "199effd1e6a38611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am trying not to give way too much. I have already given way twice on points where clarification was required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-16", "file": "debates1973-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "199effd1e6a38611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "scovery of North Sea oil. I want to emphasise that this is not just a question of preserving the landscape at one particular spot, such as Hunterston, as a holiday outlet for the workers from the industrial belt. It is a whole way of life, the whole balance of society in these regions, that is at stake. I wonder whether our much-vaunted planning procedure is capable of dealing with this onslaught.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.57.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-16", "file": "debates1973-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "199effd1e6a38611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. E. L. Mallalieu)", "preceding_text": "Earl of Dalkeith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-16", "file": "debates1973-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "199effd1e6a38611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "It was getting worse during the whole of those six years. The facts and figures are there. The number of males employed fell significantly. The number of people migrating during those six years was greater than in any previous six-year period, unless one goes back to 1920. Those are facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-16", "file": "debates1973-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "199effd1e6a38611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "preceding_text": "tity of wheat from America. There was a picture of one Russian commissar talking to another. Opposition Members are doubtless aware that nationalisation of agriculture in the Soviet Union has been a much greater success in theory than in practice. The commissar was asking the other one \"What shall we do for food once the red flag flies triumphantly over the Western World?\" I end with a reflection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-16", "file": "debates1973-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "199effd1e6a38611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "n Development Fund. This is the state we have reached. Instead of the British Government being able to help this enterprise, those concerned are going to the European Development Fund cap in hand. But it has not been formed. Our colleague, George Thomson, is fighting hard to get the fund a respectable sum of money, about £500 million over three years. That is a respectable amount even in one year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-16", "file": "debates1973-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "199effd1e6a38611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is time you sat down\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker is willing to allow me to go on, but I promised to be very brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-16", "file": "debates1973-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "199effd1e6a38611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "preceding_text": "tomorrow, a breakthrough for Scotland, a boom in the offing, and so on. But it never comes off. We shall never get this golden end of the rainbow till we run our own affairs in Scotland. I shall vote for the Opposition's motion tonight because I think it is well founded. No doubt, if the Labour Party were in power and the Conservatives had a similar motion I would be voting with the Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-16", "file": "debates1973-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "199effd1e6a38611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members have rightly shown great interest in the important subject of REP. When it was originally introduced, REP was destined to last for seven years, and to end in September 1974. What we have said is that we will not end it abruptly in 1974 but will work out precise arrangements in discussions with the CBI and the TUC, as we promised, as to their advice on phasing it out. I am glad to add—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-16a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.255.6", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "While the present Government have been in office the costs of raw materials and fuel used for food manufacture have risen by 44 per cent. In the six years of Labour Government the figure went up by 13 per cent., due to world factors entirely outside the control of the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.255.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.257.6", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And worse\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "d reduce the rate of increase in prices \"at a stroke\" and say how far he thought he had implemented that promise? Why did he not dissociate himself from the remarks of his party officials when they met a group of irate housewives in the Midlands a few weeks ago and referred to them as \"this bloody crowd\" because they were calling the right hon. Gentleman the biggest Judas of the twentieth century—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.257.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.259.4", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker, although I apologise to those of my hon. Friends who have been denied the right to ask supplementary questions to their own Questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.260.14", "colnum": "260", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will recall that you declared that you were anxious to see that some sort of balance was maintained during Prime Minister's Questions. In view of the fact that most of the Questions concerned were tabled by Opposition hon. Members, surely you must appreciate, or you ought to appreciate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.260.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.265.8", "colnum": "265", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "a and the Biafran enclave. The reports in The Times have been challenged, and we have to form our own judgment. Every right hon. and hon. Member has to do that. I believe that the editor, in a matter of such moment for international relations and standing in the world both of Portugal and Britain, would not have printed these reports, and at such a time, unless he had good reason to believe them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.265.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have seen the letter quoted by the hon. Lady and many other letters and statements. It is a fact—I do not think that we shall convince one another across the Floor of the House in this way—that every hon. Member has the duty of satisfying himself from the information available not only in the last week but over the last 30 years.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.270.5", "colnum": "270", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If it is suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.270.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "for a clarification, rather than for an official inquiry. The Prime Minister should have insisted that before Dr. Caetano was feted in this country the Portuguese authorities should have agreed to an investigation by, for example, the Human Rights Commission, or the International Red Cross, or the Save the Children Fund, or a commission appointed by the Vatican or by the World Council of Churches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "rder to harm the image of the Portuguese Government on the eve of Dr. Caetano's visit? The harm to Portugal's image is caused not by the distortions in the mirror which reflects it but in the reality which it reflects. To save the time of the House from vain searches by hon. Members for other excuses and justification of the Government's position, I shall refer now to another argument put forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Or Czechoslovakia\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ent side of the House. I should like to deal with this now. The suggestion has been made that a decision to leave Portugal in the contemptible state of moral quarantine she has earned for herself would equally mean the cessation of diplomatic exchanges with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe generally, or for that matter, with China, so that when we meet the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe or China—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is because Portugal is a small country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "urpose, too, of the European Security Conference—must go on. That is why we welcome the speech of the Foreign Secretary at Helsinki calling for much freer exchanges of all kinds and a much more open system in Europe. These arguments do not apply in the case of this visit by the Portuguese dictator. They have nothing to contribute to the arguments either about security or about nuclear disarmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "th this visit to the bitter end. Has the right hon. Gentleman, who is Dr. Caetano's host, has any hon. Gentleman who is contemplating voting against us tonight, any evidence, any confidence, that the Prime Minister can secure an assurance from his guest that today's speeches in the House of Commons will be allowed to be reported in the Portuguese Press tomorrow? Can we have any confidence of that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"What about the evidence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "low this. I hope what I have said about our record of decolonisation is totally uncontroversial. Against the British record we contrast that of Portugal—no democratic delegation of government in the territories, no free Parliament where Members can crusade for colonial freedom, and no acceptance of the right of democratic self-government. Before I sit down I want to say this to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "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": "When the Leader of the Opposition succumbs, as he does frequently nowadays, to spasms of political opportunism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.277.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.277.2", "colnum": "277", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do you?", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)", "preceding_text": "ritain's relations with Portugal and about visits by Prime Ministers or other Ministers overseas, in the context of massacres, proved or unproved. On relations with Portugal the right hon. Gentleman had this to say in 1969: Portugal is, of course, an old and loyal ally within NATO. This does not mean that we support her policies in Africa \".-[OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th February 1969; Vol. 777, c. 1117]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ch incidents were part of a consciously pursued policy: And to suspend judgment on that is neither cowardice nor moral evasion on our part … I do not regard it as the right reaction to what this is, an offence against decency, even of this magnitude, to jump to premature conclusions about a friend and an ally.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th December 1969; Vol. 793, c. 44.] That is our position too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.278.5", "colnum": "278", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I shall ask one more question before I give way to the hon. Member. What in the circumstances of My Lai did the right hon. Gentleman do? He went to Washington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.278.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.278.6", "colnum": "278", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "Will the Foreign Secretary accept from me that because my own Government were not always as clearly forward in the fight against these people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.278.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.278.6", "colnum": "278", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "Will the Foreign Secretary accept from me that because my own Government were not always as clearly forward in the fight against these people —[Laughter]—I realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.278.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.278.6", "colnum": "278", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "Will the Foreign Secretary accept from me that because my own Government were not always as clearly forward in the fight against these people —[Laughter]—I realise—[Interruption.]— that that may be regarded as a funny sort of position to take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.278.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.278.6", "colnum": "278", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "t because my own Government were not always as clearly forward in the fight against these people —[Laughter]—I realise—[Interruption.]— that that may be regarded as a funny sort of position to take—[Interruption.] but it is not funny, because some of us over the years consistently, day in and day out, have been arguing in this House that we should have nothing whatever to do with Fascist Portugal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.278.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I must put the right hon. Gentleman right on one matter. It is not a State visit. It is one of those visits such as other visits where Communist leaders have gone to the Palace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady is right. She and the right hon. Gentleman raised the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "rince, Henry the Navigator, encouraged the intermarriage of white Portuguese and Guinean negresses—before that, there was inter-marriage between white Portuguese and Arabs—Portugal has been non-racial. The infant parliamentary institutions, both in the overseas States and provinces and in Europe, are multiracial. When some of my hon. Friends and I recently attended the National Assembly in Lisbon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "h this House used to be responsible. In December 1965, Mr. Julius Nyerere, the most ambitious nationalist leader in Tanganyika at that time, was at the United Nations. In reply to a question posed in the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly, he said that Tanganyika should be independent in about 10 years. In fact, it attained independence in 1961. The pace, we know in our hearts, was too fast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I pay full credit to leaders in such countries, who, against terrible difficulties, which were our legacy, have done extraordinarily well. But my point is that they were ill-served.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Kipling-what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "e Sunday Telegraph, who try to discredit the heartfelt cries of the Spanish priests by the sort of irresponsible reporting that he indulged in from a point \"south of Tete in Mozambique\"․\"setting the scene\", of course. One can only disregard that report for the juvenile journalism that it is. The very phrases of Loudon's report reek of the dead Kiplingesque attitudes of Imperial yesteryears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "have the patience to listen, I shall come to one incident that they witnessed. I prefer the dreadful and detailed reporting of priests to the Boy's Own story-telling of this Woodland Patrol writer which appeared in the Sunday Telegraph. What may he termed the innocence of this journalistic nincompoop perhaps is motivated by lack of concern or perhaps the perks of reporting for a quality newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Sunday Times\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "reporting of priests to the Boy's Own story-telling of this Woodland Patrol writer which appeared in the Sunday Telegraph. What may he termed the innocence of this journalistic nincompoop perhaps is motivated by lack of concern or perhaps the perks of reporting for a quality newspaper. [Interruption.] There are perks for reporting quality newspaper stuff even when it involves this kind of rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Guy Barnett", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Guy Barnett", "preceding_text": "s debate, which inevitably has been coloured by emotion. I think there are two reasons for that. The first is the visit of Dr. Caetano himself and the second is the reported massacres. I think that the least some 11.-in. Gentlemen opposite can do is to respect the fact that there are in this House and in the country at large a great number of people who find the Portuguese régime repugnant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Guy Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Guy Barnett", "preceding_text": "\"Nonsense.\"]—it is not nonsense—and find the form of colonial rule pursued by Portugal in Africa utterly inhuman. These views, whether right or wrong, are sincerely held by thousands, if not millions, of people in this country. If hon. Gentlemen opposite want evidence of that, they need only to have been present in the streets of London during the demonstration that took place on Sunday afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The Portuguese Government may be saying that now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.327.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. The hon. Member has made his speech. He has spoken like a second-rate South African policeman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.330.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.330.9", "colnum": "330", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.330.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.330.12", "colnum": "330", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether what the hon. Member said is parliamentary language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.330.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Only since last week.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The reason I used the language I did was that it is greatly damaging to the reputation of this country that racial tyranny should be defended in this House. In this debate we are trying to discover whether the Government will repudiate the speeches by the hon. Members for Mid-Bedfordshire and Chigwell and others. One of the reasons we have been so strongly opposed to the visit is precisely that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.331.2", "colnum": "331", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "his racialist policies. There is a new situation, as the Foreign Secretary should have been able to discover. The wind of change has been blowing hard in spite of Conservative desires to reverse it. This country will have to take its stand much more clearly month by month and year by year on the whole question of what is to be our attitude to those who are struggling to be free in Southern Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.331.2", "colnum": "331", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "clearly month by month and year by year on the whole question of what is to be our attitude to those who are struggling to be free in Southern Africa. [Interruption.] Some of those who have struggled and whom we honour most are themselves Portuguese; for example, Captain Galvao, and General Delgado, who was assassinated by the Portuguese secret police. Therefore, I hope that the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.331.2", "colnum": "331", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ssinated by the Portuguese secret police. Therefore, I hope that the Foreign Secretary—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"]—will try to convey to Dr. Caetano what is his reputation and what is the feeling of civilised people in this country. He should remember that the cries coming from behind him in this debate have been the same cries of backing as he had in 1938 when he was returning from Munich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ygin came here in 1967. I am not complaining; in fact I applaud it, but in view of his criticism I remind the right hon. Gentleman of what happened. There were two dinners at No. 10 Downing Street, for 70 people and 30 people respectively, a lunch at No. 10 for 36 people, a reception at Lancaster House for 1,000 people, dinner for 57 at Chequers, and dinner with the Queen. Many people have talked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": ", having listened to all but two of the speeches, that on all grounds, including the defence of Europe and the Atlantic, Portugal should remain a member of the alliance. It is totally irresponsible of the Labour Party, when in Opposition, to make promises, pledges or proposals that Portugal should be thrown out of the alliance. That is not what the Opposition in this Parliament should put forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-17", "file": "debates1973-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da65c741de97496a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "PORTUGAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moate", "preceding_text": "anding. I hope that the insurance industry is constantly seeking to make sure that its procedures are right. People can, and should, complain to the investigatory body that exists. They should write to the BIA to say that they feel they have been misled and ask the BIA to look into the matter, or they should write to their Member of Parliament. I hope that they will not do so on too large a scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-17a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.468.5", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "The siting of the European Trade Mark Centre will be a European decision. It has become clear that if it is to come to Britain at all London is the only starter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.468.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman has unintentionally misrepresented what I said. It is simply that in this case London is the only starter——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At 1964 prices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "151 million a month deficit, this would mean a current visible trade deficit of £1,800 million and a current account deficit of £1,100 million—nearly three times as bad as the bequest to us in 1964 from the right hon. Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling). Perhaps we were too unkind to the hon. Member. His successor, the present Chancellor, is running at the moment at nearly three times as bad as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " abroad rising? What do the Government think will happen to interest rates here when the temporary VAT boost to company liquidity ends in a few weeks, as it must? What will happen to building society mortgages? The building societies have already rejected the Prime Minister's appeal in this House to reduce the rates from their present all-time record level. Can they be held at 9½ per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " that the board's calculation of the ultimate fair rent may mean increases of up to 3+ times the starting rent. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will deal with that matter today. I also hope that the Prime Minister will announce that further decontrol of private housing rents will cease. We have seen reports that he is to propose a threshold pay formula. I do not wish to go On too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "only to those who are vainly seeking a home at reasonable cost against all the economic power of a gazumping society, but to those who want to see Britain sharing wealth, sharing economic power, sharing whatever sacrifices have to be made and sharing them as one nation, repudiating the divided Britain into which the Prime Minister's economic and social obsessions have plunged her. I end with this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "h any Government have ever carried through. This afternoon I propose to discuss some of the matters which the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has raised and to deal with them. He has complained of many things, and among them that 1 did not in June 1970 say anything about rising world prices. That is perfectly true, and for a very good reason. World prices were not rising in 1970.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " got more unfair in the last three years than it has in the last quarter of a century. It is certainly now more divided that it has been for the past 30 or 40 years—and it has been divided by a Government who said that they would create one nation. Inflation is hitting hardest the people who can afford to suffer it the least. There is not a single Conservative Member who has been hit by inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is more than you gave them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central)", "preceding_text": "ar as we can tell, the poorest families of all are among the non-claimants. The current FIS rate is £21 for a worker with one child. The single worker and the married childless worker get nothing. A married worker with one child gets the difference between £21 and his wage. If a man earns £20 a week, and if he has one child, FIS amounts to the magnificent sum of 50p, and a single man gets nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Gentleman reads the report to which I have referred. There is another aspect of FIS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "eir lives and the lives of all working people with below-average incomes more difficult, and increases the gulf between rich and poor. Let me briefly give five examples. First, the floating pound—or sinking pound—increases corporate profits derived from exports and at the same time pushes up food prices and depresses real earned incomes. So does the denial of access to cheap food by import duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "to cheap food by import duties. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] The Prime Minister doubted this today, but in the few hours since he spoke I have acquired a list. No fewer than 27 categories of food are now subject to import duties or import levies. Hon. Members can look in HANSARD for 14th June to find them. These are now denying us access to cheese and butter markets, and to markets all over the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "We believe that it is utterly wrong to sell council houses in areas of housing stress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": ". The recent White Paper proposes to cut by half the number of teachers in training. The Secretary of State has already started on this process. This will not affect the independent schools; it will not affect the small teaching groups in schools like Eton and Harrow, but it will condemn State primary schools to classes of 40 and State secondary schools to classes of 30 in 1981. This is at a time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.607.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.609.5", "colnum": "609", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The Department of Education and Science estimated that by 1981, 835,000 places would be required. The Secretary of State is planning for 750,000—a quarter of a million too few. Clearly the Secretary of State thinks that the time has come to stop too many children from State schools from going on for higher education. Not content with these three negative policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.609.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-18", "file": "debates1973-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "29f3dc756e01562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.612.2", "colnum": "612", "heading": "INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "t as a result of the increase in the needs allowance. He will agree that for a single man receiving an extra £1·50 on the needs allowance a swift calculation, even by his unimaginative mind, will produce only three times 81p, which means 25½p when the increase is 50p in October. Therefore, he will be that much worse off as a result. The other point the Chancellor should bear in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-18a.612.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-19", "file": "debates1973-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "99e83566cf301a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-19a.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "It must be for the Rhodesians to decide who takes part in the conversations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-19a.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-19", "file": "debates1973-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "99e83566cf301a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-19a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "WOOL TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": " employers are working out together will, I hope, have the assent of both sides. The forecasts made in the White Paper on Public Expenditure of the likely expenditure in the regions as a result of the Industry Act were such that this expenditure falls within those forecasts. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman is well aware that he now has the reputation of being a Cassandra with feet of clay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-19a.718.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-19", "file": "debates1973-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "99e83566cf301a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-19a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "NEW WRIT (BERWICK-UPON-TWEED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ember to represent them and there will be many heart-breaking cases which will not be dealt with, as the hon. and learned Gentleman said. There is no reason at all why, if the two Chief Whips are acting in good faith—and I have no reason to suppose that they are not—they should not get together between now and next Wednesday to decide to bring forward in the House an alteration of Standing Orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-19a.739.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-19", "file": "debates1973-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "99e83566cf301a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-19a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And France.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "nnel telling us how to serve them. He went on—and this is important, because it is relevant to the attempt by the French to invade our national cuisine: Wine vinegar has no bite to it. It spoils fish and chips. There would be a rumpus if we began using it over here. Over the next few weeks my constituents will be going on holiday. They work hard and they have a right to go on holiday to Blackpool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-19a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-19", "file": "debates1973-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "99e83566cf301a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-19a.850.5", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "of this country. The Prime Minister accepted the assurance of the third Minister. However, what we have to remember—my hon. Friend almost got to it—was that Macmillan accepted the assurance that Philby was not the third man. I wonder why the third Minister has not attempted to rebut by libel action the statements that have been made about him. I turn to the motion that I placed on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-19a.850.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-23", "file": "debates1973-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d8980b7096cd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "I am sure that if my hon. Friend catches your eye later today, Mr. Speaker, he will raise that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-23", "file": "debates1973-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d8980b7096cd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1150.5", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Measure it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong as usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-23", "file": "debates1973-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d8980b7096cd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1163.2", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "ission, my proposals are consistent with the Treaty of Rome and with the directive on aids to shipbuilding adopted by the Community in July, 1972. Therefore, individual permissions are not required on these matters. As for the final cost and the final employment figure involved in reshaping the British industry, clearly one cannot at this moment make estimates, because they depend upon the vigour-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-23", "file": "debates1973-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d8980b7096cd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1182.6", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY BOARD AND PRICE COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "For the Pay Board, the task—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1182.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-23", "file": "debates1973-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d8980b7096cd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY BOARD AND PRICE COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renee Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renee Short", "preceding_text": " is answering Questions. She has no voice with which to bark and no teeth with which to bite. After all the phoney sunshine words that we heard from her about the peak of rising prices being reached, we see prices continuing to rise. If the hon. Lady had any sense. she would resign. Let me cite a few rising prices which I have extracted from the journal of the Transport and General Workers Union —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-23", "file": "debates1973-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d8980b7096cd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1223.3", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY BOARD AND PRICE COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renee Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renee Short", "preceding_text": "From what my hon. Friend has said, it appears that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is acting as a postman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-23", "file": "debates1973-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d8980b7096cd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY BOARD AND PRICE COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I take my right hon. Friend's further point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-23", "file": "debates1973-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d8980b7096cd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY BOARD AND PRICE COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I am indeed answering the debate. I am answering at this point a section of the debate which was not attended by the hon. Gentleman. I am willing to acknowledge that the rela tionship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-23", "file": "debates1973-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d8980b7096cd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY BOARD AND PRICE COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "re paid on the lump and those paid through traditional collective bargaining must be discussed. All that I am asserting—this is surely accepted now by the entire country—is that it is necessary for us to have in one form or another, by agreement or by consent of this House, a policy for the regulation of the consequences of collective bargaining. It is one of the policies that we have essentially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-23", "file": "debates1973-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d8980b7096cd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VEHICLE DRIVING LICENCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "lorries. We are not going to have heavier lorries in this country. Here we are expressing a view that we are not going to have our licensing interfered with. The other day we decided in this House that we would stop the export of live animals, which, according to my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, is an offence against the Treaty of Rome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-23a.1296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-24", "file": "debates1973-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4294a06b5c9c4f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-24a.1408.2", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. How did the last Question come within the orbit of a Private Notice Question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-24a.1408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-24", "file": "debates1973-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4294a06b5c9c4f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-24a.1424.2", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "METRICATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "ect of metrication. It was last discussed in October 1970. In February 1972 the Government published the White Paper on metrication. It is right that we should have this further opportunity of discussing the subject. I say this not only because it is important for the House to have such an opportunity but because I know that this is a subject on which many people outside this House are interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-24a.1424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-24", "file": "debates1973-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4294a06b5c9c4f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-24a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "METRICATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "t extended. It is important that the benefit conferred by this system should be preserved. It is, therefore, important that the replacement of imperial prescribed quantities should take place on the basis of a considered and comprehensible programme. The Government have it in mind to make changes in the prescribed quantities system gradually and in a way to which the consumer can accustom herself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-24a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-24", "file": "debates1973-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4294a06b5c9c4f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-24a.1462.5", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "METRICATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By stealth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "preceding_text": "n the dismal path of decimalisation. Decimalisation of money has turned out to be the biggest con trick ever perpetrated on the British public. Even those who have consistently supported it now recognise that it has been a major influence on the whole problem of inflation. We are in similar danger when, in the most insidious manner, in two, three or more years, metrication will be brought in. How?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-24a.1462.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-24", "file": "debates1973-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4294a06b5c9c4f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-24a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "METRICATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "hall have to progress not down but up the road to metrication. Therefore, I should like us to progress first towards metric measure, even including liquid measure, as long as prescribed unit quantities were small enough for pensioners. However, I ask my right hon. and learned Friend to consider postponing metric weight not for electoral or vote-catching reasons, but in the interests of consumers.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-24a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-25", "file": "debates1973-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "90eb8303dbae96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-25a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "As a member of the committee concerned, at the European Parliament, may I say that the implications of the hon. Member's question are entirely wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-25a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-25", "file": "debates1973-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "90eb8303dbae96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-25a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "With respect, the Foreign Secretary must not be so complacent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-25a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-07-25", "file": "debates1973-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "90eb8303dbae96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-25a.1619.0", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "EEC MINISTERIAL MEETINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "s heavy additional monetary compensation amount, and we pay our part. I think that he also knows that in this respect the Government hope that the Commission's report will enable us to see means by which these heavy charges can be reduced. As he will have heard from my statement, the next step in the operation is for the supplementary budget in question to be considered by the European Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-07-25a.1619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-16", "file": "debates1973-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "e0c8844aff90d644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-16a.12.2", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "It is all very well for the right hon. Gentleman to go on repeating that Ministers should not be involved in these matters, but the fact is that the gentleman concerned said that he would talk only if he met someone whose face he knew from the television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-16a.12.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-16", "file": "debates1973-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "e0c8844aff90d644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-16a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that full answer. Is he aware that a recent report by German doctors stated that industrial noise can take away the desire for love-making and cause impotence? Does he realise the effect of this on family life?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-16a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-16", "file": "debates1973-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "e0c8844aff90d644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-16a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I have made no secret of the fact that there were contracts. We have not broken the contracts. We have suspended them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-16a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-16", "file": "debates1973-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "e0c8844aff90d644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-16a.60.4", "colnum": "60", "heading": "GOVERNMENT WORK (DISPERSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "preceding_text": "Liverpool or Manchester are much bigger economies than Reading or Hemel Hempstead, the multipliers there would be much bigger. This brings me to my third criticism of this side of the equation. It is the biggest error of all in the report. Hardman makes an astonishing claim that the resource gain does not vary much from one area to another, that it is the same in Milton Keynes as it is in Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-16a.60.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-16", "file": "debates1973-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "e0c8844aff90d644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-16a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "GOVERNMENT WORK (DISPERSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gourlay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gourlay", "preceding_text": "vel, the main centres in Fife are within 30 to 35 minutes of Edinburgh airport from which there are regular flights to all major centres in Britain. Fife is, in fact, within a daily return journey of London, allowing reasonable time for business between the outgoing and return flights. Contrary to the general belief here in the South, the climate in Fife is more than comparable with that of Kent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-16a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.177.4", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I shall be in touch with the hon. Member for Willesden, East (Mr. Freeson) as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.177.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether hon. Gentlemen opposite realise that a man with three children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.191.2", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "Primarily it is for each local authority to go ahead with its own housing programme. Local authorities have primary responsibility. When the positions were reversed in the House and hon. Members of the Labour Party were in power, they used to blame the \"wicked Tory councils\", as they called them, when the housing programme was falling behind. Now the boot is on the other foot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.192.5", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " this year is very limited. He has to be satisfied that 2 per cent. or more of the authority's qualifying dwellings would be substantially above the fair rents for those dwellings if a 50p increase were given. Last year there was no flexibility whatsoever. Those authorities which increased their rents in October had to have £1 across the board. Accordingly, there is a much more flexible situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "There are many families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman might ask himself what would have happened if his own Government had introduced that machinery. What we were trying to get was a voluntary arrangement. We had from the CBI a voluntary agreement covering a large area of prices which was very effective. We have looked carefully at the prices code—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ing themselves for a considerable time. But what are the consequences? The position is that, under the Prime Minister's proposals as they have been explained—but he may change them—a young couple would pay less than the ruling rate for the first year or two and more after five years. I think I have it right. The right hon. Gentleman can correct me if I have it wrong—if he thinks he understands it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "m—a young couple would pay less than the ruling rate for the first year or two and more after five years. I think I have it right. The right hon. Gentleman can correct me if I have it wrong—if he thinks he understands it—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"] The proposals will mean that, in many cases, people will be paying mortgages for 60 or 70 years, which, I agree with the hon. Gentleman, is too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "on races ahead unchecked. The right hon. Gentleman cannot deny that. Of course, there are no yardsticks there. The right hon. Gentleman's achievements in dividing the nation will even outlive him in the glass and concrete memorials which posterity will see as typifying the Heath Age. The whole of his policies he seeks to justify by telling us again and again and again about what he calls \"growth\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ing down, to put it mildly, in the fall in unemployment. That is the known and certain consequence of reducing the rate of inflation—not of the way in which it is done but of the fact that it happens. So there is a dilemma which confronts my right hon. Friends and confronts us all. My right hon. Friends—it is a laudable stance—are devoted passionately—Heaven forgive me! I almost said \"fanatically\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "All right, but the point is that it is possible for any employer to use the same means, the same phase 3 formula. The sum is done simply. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "preceding_text": ", but in my view we are not suffering from demand inflation. Before considering whether the policy in phase 3 will work, I wish to say a word about the success of the freeze and phase 2 because this is the context within which phase 3 should be judged. It is difficult to convince people, in a year when prices have risen by 9½ per cent. that this policy has been a success. But import prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "preceding_text": "rt price increases was much higher than at any other period since October 1964; indeed, not just much higher, but about five times higher. So the Government have had considerable success thus far. The success has not been due only to the limitation on income rises. The Price Commission has played a notable part as well. First, its very existence has deterred some firms from applying for increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"By how much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "n before the last spasm of the sinking of the pound, the Chancellor said that the pound was under-valued. The trouble is that British industry does not have the capacity to meet foreign demand because it is over-employed meeting demand in this country. The Chancellor should now withdraw the £400 million tax relief he gave mainly to the rich in his last Budget and he should cut defence expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Would you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " that the pound was under-valued. The trouble is that British industry does not have the capacity to meet foreign demand because it is over-employed meeting demand in this country. The Chancellor should now withdraw the £400 million tax relief he gave mainly to the rich in his last Budget and he should cut defence expenditure—[An hon. Member: \"By how much?\"] He should aim at a cut of £500 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "not. The right hon. Gentleman referred also to what I have been reported as saying at Scarborough some weeks ago. I should like to take the opportunity of putting the record right, because it is an important argument underlying the whole of these discussions in the House. What I referred to in that speech was a prediction, made in that case by Herman Kahn, but others have made similar predictions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "and remains as set out in paragraph 1 of the White Paper—to moderate, to reduce, the rate of cost and price inflation. I intend to begin by examining the effectiveness of the controls which are already in existence. It is now generally acknowledged that during the last year this country, like every other country in the world, has been buffeted by a whirlwind of increases in world commodity prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "They have been saved from increases in prices that would otherwise have gone through as a result of rising commodity prices outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bacon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "Opposition benches want. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition and his right hon. Friend pointed to the need for stricter price controls or strict legal controls. They apparently believe that the strict pattern of control that we have imposed is not effective because it does not go so far as to control the price of every lettuce in every shop and the price of every box of matches.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "its powers under Section 6 of the Act to restrict or prevent the increases taking place. These changes have been incorporated in a revised notification order which will be laid before the House in due course and come into operation on 1st November 1973. From that date also, as my hon. Friend the Member for Leek (Mr. Knox) suggested, the announcement of approvals by the Price Commission will cease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The figures the right hon. and learned Member has quoted have been paid for out of the balance of payments by printing money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The figures the right hon. and learned Member has quoted have been paid for out of the balance of payments by printing money. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Of course they have.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman does not accept the figures I have to put to him", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " figures are precisely as I stated. The rate of growth under this Government has been twice as fast as under the last Government and they cannot be gainsaid. The key to our programme for expansion is not merely in maintenance of the counter-inflation programme but in the continued increase in our investment, and this is the importance of the big increase in investment that is already taking place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (GOVERNMENT STOCKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "preceding_text": "n to deprive someone of the fruits of such a judgment must be subject to the closest scrutiny, and if that is the effect of the order, I cannot support it. Second, what undertaking does he Solicitor-General give with regard to Mr. Franklin's costs? There may be a case on the lines that the Solicitor-General propounded for equating other debtors of such funds as there may be with those bondholders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (GOVERNMENT STOCKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ibility; they have never been responsible. The proceedings in which Mr. Franklin was concerned have nothing to do with the order. Indeed, the order becomes necessary only because of the proceedings and because of Mr. Franklin's seeking to establish that the funds of the Reserve Bank are the property of the Government of Southern Rhodesia. If that had not happened, the order would not be necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-17", "file": "debates1973-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "665c4f00c8114838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (GOVERNMENT STOCKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "nal circumstances there was merely a procedural right given to stockholders in order to save them the expense and trouble of having to sue in Southern Rhodesia. There are the exceptional circumstances in which creditors and Her Majesty's Government in this country are prevented from taking steps to recover their money—the taxpayers' money—arrangements which would have existed had UDI not occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-17a.372.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.383.7", "colnum": "383", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "present Session, and shall report the Bill as amended to the House forthwith, and the Bill, so amended, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table. That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any Proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees hrave already been incurred during the present Session. That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.—[ First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.383.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.386.8", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I would remind him that the position is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.386.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.386.8", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I would remind him that the position is—[ Interruption. ] The figure is 37·3 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.386.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister should go back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.406.5", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister realise that he has a public duty —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.406.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.406.7", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "He has done.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Will the hon. Member ask a question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.406.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "This is an extremely important matter. I put it to the House that this month there is before the Council of Ministers, on the Government's own admission, a draft regulation on the shape of the European Community's regional policy, which is of immense significance to this country, and a financial regulation on how it is to be financed and how the money is to be spent. It is essential—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.416.4", "colnum": "416", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said that he wanted notice of that question. He has now had two or three minutes to think about it. Surely even the Prime Minister with his traditional contempt for this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.416.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.416.4", "colnum": "416", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the European Assembly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "id that he wanted notice of that question. He has now had two or three minutes to think about it. Surely even the Prime Minister with his traditional contempt for this House—[ Interruption. ] If he disagrees he can get up and give us the answer now. Surely he will agree that no decision must be taken which is in any way binding upon this House unless there has been a debate in this Chamber first.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.416.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why are you doing it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I am trying to present a very careful argument. I hope the right hon. Gentleman will restrain himself until I have finished. Even if Israel were to win a decisive victory in the present war there would only be another trial by arms sooner or later. After this long history of violence over all these years I do not believe that it profits us to try to apportion blame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "This time it is meant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I think that is a very thin explanation of the change from 1967.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "cerned. What I say our policy should be is what I quoted from the then Foreign Secretary in 1967, endorsed by the right hon. Gentleman, that we should resume our traditional posture of supplying arms subject to a check case by case. That is what I said then and that is what I say now to the right hon. Gentleman. This is what I am saying, and this is the logic of what the right hon. Gentleman said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have already answered that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have already answered that question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have already answered it. I hope hon. Members will treat this subject with the gravity that it deserves. None of us wants a party fight on this issue. If some hon. Members do, they must be warned of the consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or No?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have already answered that question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have already answered it. I hope hon. Members will treat this subject with the gravity that it deserves. None of us wants a party fight on this issue. If some hon. Members do, they must be warned of the consequences. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have already answered it, and it is in the recollection of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.436.3", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " bipartisan way on the basis of that speech, which was not the position either of Lord Caradon or of the Government at that time. I say this to the right hon. Gentleman, and I say it in all seriousness and not in a contumacious manner. He will, I think, have cause to remember the international problems of the 1930s, in part dominated by the Spanish Civil War. There is almost a ghoulish similarity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.436.3", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman could laugh as much as he liked yesterday, but I ask him not to do so today. There is an almost ghoulish similarity in what is happening now and what happened during the Spanish Civil War, including the use of a localised war to test the products of super-Power military technology, hitherto untested, and with no loss of blood on the part of those supplying the technological weapons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.436.3", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Palestinians?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "r the moment. It is something which concerns us more than them, and I do not apologise. Israel is a democratic socialist country. More than that, it is a community with a national wealth as well as national burdens shared in common. It is a country which, despite her prodigious arms burden, has established a remarkable record in the social services and care for people, especially for her children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.443.0", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "to-air guided weapons, is British equipped. He will recall, too, that at least three-quarters of the Jordanian Army's armoured vehicles and artillery are British. Jordan has no Russian weapons, and cannot get them, and has no recourse to weapons from the United States in the way that Israel has. In 1967 Jordan proved herself vulnerable. I hope that my hon. Friend will bring that out in his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "i, a country which I know well and for which I have friendly feelings. I declare an interest, in that for a while I worked on an economic project for Dubai. We are told on the one hand that the purpose of the tanks is purely ceremonial. If that is so, there does not seem to be tremendous urgency in supplying them. On the other hand, it is said that they are to be used for the security of the Gulf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What happened to Palestine?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " because the future existence of the Arab States is not threatened. That is the difference. Territorial acquisitions there have been and certainly there will have to be territorrial concessions but there has never been a threat to the existence of any Arab country. Were that so the Egyptians would have found the Israelis in Cairo last time just as the Syrians might find them in Damascus this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.470.2", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "We are told that Jordan is. That was not public knowledge until today. Jordan, which is not a main belligerent, is said to have made a protest. Do we believe that the other Arab belligerents are protesting indignantly or feeling anything like what Israel feels about it? It seems to me that none of these arguments stands up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.486.3", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walters", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Russian weapons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walters", "preceding_text": "nt is introduced. The 1967 war was a new element. Now, in a quite different way, a new element is the war which started 10 days ago. It has shown Egypt acting independently and unexpectedly. It has shown that the Egyptians and Syrians can fight well, that their officers can get them to the right place at the right time and that they know how to handle modern weapons, including sea and air weapons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": " have come from Arab countries of willingness to negotiate. Egypt early on declared both her acceptance of the existence of the State of Israel—which was a considerable step in advance of her previous opposition—and of Resolution 242. So did Jordan Although Syria opposed Resolution 242, her stance has changed considerably in the last couple of years. I sensed this in a visit to Damascus last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "ween the Syrian and United Kingdom Governments. The gross misjudgment of the Israeli leaders—they suffer from this—was that they themselves fell prey to the myth of Israeli superiority. Their pre-emptive strike in 1967 destroyed the Arab forces not only materially but morally, and that tremendous advantage gained by starting the war in 1967 has led them since to underestimate Arab will and spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "ut the Zionist machine poured out propaganda that it was the Arabs who refused negotiations because they would not sit down across a table for bilateral talks. Of course the Arabs were not prepared to accept the terms of the conqueror. Would we have accepted the terms offered by the Nazis? That Zionist propaganda machine acts as a fifth column in every country in the world with a Jewish community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "port Israel against the Arabs, support a State which has consistently refused to implement United Nations resolutions on refugees, on Jerusalem, on withdrawal from occupied territories, on attacks on the Lebanon. As a Socialist, I find it particularly difficult to understand how colleagues who, I believe, share my belief in the international nature of Socialism and my profound hatred of racialism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Drivel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "nal nature of Socialism and my profound hatred of racialism—[ Laughter. ]—I expect some uncomprehending idiots opposite with their selfish interests to giggle, but my own colleagues understand—can support a Government whose policies are based on belief in racial exclusivity, a society in which non-Jews, who are those not blessed by the special qualities of a Jewish womb, are second-class citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": " democratic parliamentary State, with equal rights for all communities, Moslems. Christians, and Jews, that the Palestinians want to see as the future for Palestine. There is no reason—although this is what will happen unless we change our attitude in the West towards Israel—why the world should tag along to Armageddon behind the intransigence and arrogance of this or any other Zionist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "e upon oil resources. We can talk as we like about oil blackmail. Britain receives two-thirds of her oil supplies from the Middle East and no responsible British Government—the Labour Party could not do it if our leader sat where the Foreign Secretary sits tonight—can pretend that they can disregard the effect of a chronic oil shortage on this country. The wheels of industry would grind to a halt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "o-thirds of her oil supplies from the Middle East and no responsible British Government—the Labour Party could not do it if our leader sat where the Foreign Secretary sits tonight—can pretend that they can disregard the effect of a chronic oil shortage on this country. The wheels of industry would grind to a halt—[ Interruption. ] Transport would slow drastically. Unemployment would be widespread—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-18", "file": "debates1973-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "db8959b7c0ab31e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "ember for Fulham (Mr. Michael Stewart) that there would be no peace talks and no Resolution 242. The Foreign Secretary said that he did not want to be blackmailed. Is that not exactly what is happening now? We are being blackmailed. The Arab nations are saying that they will supply oil to friendly nations and we want to keep friendly so that the Arabs supply us with oil, so we dance to their tune.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-18a.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-19", "file": "debates1973-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5454a5e5997ad5b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-19a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "LIQUOR LICENSING LAWS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "on with the customer. The connection with the customer used to be the landlord, but he is being made a manager by all the greedy brewers and is no longer the contact with the general public. He does what he is damn well told to do or is thrown out. That is the basis of the enormous drink industry, in which hardly a person in the country does not have an interest, even if it is an interest of hate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-19a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-22", "file": "debates1973-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "564ec55d3842a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "The position that we have adopted, as the hon. Gentleman knows, is the same as that adopted by the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-22", "file": "debates1973-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "564ec55d3842a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.690.5", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can enlighten the Minister. He ought to refer to the City —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.690.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-22", "file": "debates1973-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "564ec55d3842a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why great respect?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "May I ask where all this originated? As far as I know, no back-bench Member of the House has been consulted in any way. These are matters which very much concern us. Sir Edmund Compton, with great respect to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-22", "file": "debates1973-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "564ec55d3842a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.711.2", "colnum": "711", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Harold?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "May I say for the record, Mr. Speaker, that you courteously consulted me on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.711.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-22", "file": "debates1973-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "564ec55d3842a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.714.4", "colnum": "714", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "They were available at 11.15 on Friday morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.714.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-22", "file": "debates1973-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "564ec55d3842a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.714.4", "colnum": "714", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "They were available at 11.15 on Friday morning. [ Interruption. ] I am sorry, they were available at 11.45.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.714.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-22", "file": "debates1973-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "564ec55d3842a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.722.4", "colnum": "722", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "preceding_text": "I will reply with the leave of the House. That must be a matter for the Chair. The matter to which the hon. Member for Lanarkshire, North (Mr. John Smith) referred was one amendment concerning one of the peripheral areas of Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.722.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-22", "file": "debates1973-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "564ec55d3842a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about quality?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": "000, while the Borders will have only 96,000. Obviously the four regions into which Strathclyde would be divided would be viable if those proposed regions are viable. The Borders, with 96,000 people, can be considered a region in its own right and a viable proposition, according to the Secretary of State. Ayrshire, with a population of just under 400,000, should also be considered a viable region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-22", "file": "debates1973-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "564ec55d3842a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman did not merely suggest such a thing but put down an amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.808.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-10-22", "file": "debates1973-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "564ec55d3842a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Answer that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackenzie", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has already made up his mind. He made it up during the time between the Committee and Report stages. Although he now says \"Let's all make up our minds\", the hon. Gentleman knows that his right hon. Friend will be whipping Government Members into the other Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-22", "file": "debates1973-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "564ec55d3842a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Clydebank.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "ened because they think—and with some justification, though I cannot commit any future Greater Glasgow district—that there should be another look at the basis of representation. No matter what is done for this area, I genuinely believe that it will always be a Labour-controlled authority. That is why some people want out of it. The only ones who are getting out are the Tory-controlled authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-22", "file": "debates1973-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "564ec55d3842a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "s he would have wished to be a member, because he could have raised the matter then. I accept straight away that it is very upsetting for those who live in the burgh of Rutherglen to find that apparently, among the peripheral burghs, they are not to get the same treatment. I cannot say anything which will be very cheerful or satisfactory news to those people except that I appreciate how they feel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-22a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-23", "file": "debates1973-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "15229bb155803ff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-23a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vested interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is becoming more ingenious every moment. He will not expect me to give him an answer on that today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-23a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-23", "file": "debates1973-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "15229bb155803ff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-23a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State says that no useful purpose will be served, but surely the contrary is the case. In the two years suggested there will have been a General Election and the fate of Maplin determined. If the Labour Party is returned to power, one of its priorities—unfortunately, this is not clearly understood throughout the country—will be to kill Maplin within days of the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-23a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-23", "file": "debates1973-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "15229bb155803ff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-23a.1032.2", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "preceding_text": "I shall try to make my speech rather shorter than the two speeches that we have heard so far. Otherwise the debate will never be concluded. I thought that there was no doubt about the policy of the Labour Party. I will make it clear in case there is any doubt. The Labour Party is as of now unalterably opposed to the Maplin project—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-23a.1032.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-10-23", "file": "debates1973-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "15229bb155803ff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-23a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "ncy landing one of the airport officials said to me \"We built the airport near the River Tagus. We assumed that the gulls would go away, but they did not.\" Another matter to be considered is the GLC's attitude towards Maplin. It is no use the Government thinking that they can build an airport at Maplin and ignore the GLC's attitude towards road and rail communications. I have gone on far too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-23a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-10-23", "file": "debates1973-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "15229bb155803ff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-23a.1116.2", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "y of State and from the Minister for Aerospace and Shipping, to the effect that they are prepared at least to listen to the House, and I cannot ask for more than that. In view of those assurances, and of the fact that we are going to be able to debate this matter when the Government make their report following their consultations, I beg to ask leave to withdraw my amendment to the Lords amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-23a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-10-24", "file": "debates1973-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "5246f4855812ed08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-24a.1225.7", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " have been made by the Committee in the present Session, and shall report the Bill as amended to the House forthwith, and the Bill, so amended, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table. That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any Proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session. That these Orders shall be Standing Orders of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-24a.1225.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-24", "file": "debates1973-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "5246f4855812ed08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-24a.1270.3", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "EEC MINISTERIAL MEETINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am of course reporting on the meetings of the Council of the Communities. These are not concerned with political co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-24a.1270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-24", "file": "debates1973-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "5246f4855812ed08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-24a.1301.14", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "SUGAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "The present difference is £18 a ton, equivalent to just under one penny a pound. Over the first two years of transition, the rise due to entry into the Community is £7·40 a ton, equivalent to one-third of a penny a pound. That is the true situation and the whole of this advertisement is wrong, and is based on one of the wildest distortions of fact ever put before the British public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-24a.1301.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-24", "file": "debates1973-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "5246f4855812ed08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-24a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "SUGAR", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "Not in detail at the moment, no, but these are the areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-24a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-24", "file": "debates1973-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "5246f4855812ed08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-24a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "SUGAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Fortescue", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Fortescue", "preceding_text": "on-executive directors. The corporation is a Government-controlled body. I ask myself, and I should ask my right hon. Friend if he were here, how it is that after three years of Conservative Government we have a monopoly position in the processing of beet sugar and a Government interest in a capacity which not even the Opposition Front Bench would call one of the commanding heights of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-24a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1457.2", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has always been a great supporter of the growth policy that we have been pursuing and I am grateful to him for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1461.4", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "preceding_text": "would we not get a different result? Second, is it not a fact that wages in the EEC countries, except Holland, have risen dramatically faster, on any computation, specifically or generally, than they have in this country? In Belgium, the only country with a lower rate of inflation than this country on the chart from which the hon. Gentleman has quoted, there has been a threefold increase in wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1481.3", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Was it necessary for the right hon. Gentleman to wait until Dr. Kissinger has held a Press conference later this afternoon before trying to ascertain the significance of the so-called low-level alert? Cannot he get directly in touch with President Nixon—if he is still available", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1481.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "FIRST DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "preceding_text": "ents. The hon. Lady has presided over us with a great deal of ability, confidence and fairness and at the same time with dignity, kindliness and tolerance. There have been many occasions when her stern voice could have scared the life out of us had we not known that behind it lay a great deal of kindliness, friendliness and warmth. She has served the House well. We shall always be grateful to her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1491.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Mitchell", "preceding_text": ". It may be that in 20 years' time more people will want to go to France or to Western Europe on holiday; or if there is an increase in prosperity, instead of going to France, Belgium and Spain, many people may be going to more adventurous places like Cyprus, Greece or the Seychelles. On the other hand, the tendency may be reversed and people may decide to take holidays at home and go to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tope", "preceding_text": "My remarks have come directly from Kent county councillors. I wonder whether the consultations have been with the county councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1550.3", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "in the minority on the Opposition benches tonight. I am not certain of the size of that minority inside the Parliamentary Labour Party My view is one that I have held for some time, and I should like to take a little while to express it. Debates in the House usually attract more opponents of a scheme or proposal than supporters. It seems that we have a fair number of Luddites in the House tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members now on the Government benches will not always be with us. I am more optimistic than some.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1582.2", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "ly efficiently run. It is a national asset. In an attempt to strike even a balance we have been given an enormous mass of documents to the point that they led to confusion rather than clarification. I must also pay tribute to the courtesy and accessibility of my right hon. Friend the Minister for Transport Industries. He has always been available to discuss the problems that the tunnel may create—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1608.0", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "a winding-up speech. If the right hon. Gentleman is so enthusiastic, I would say that he spent only two minutes on it himself. He asked for an independent inquiry, and his plea has been echoed by almost every subsequent Opposition speaker and, I am sorry to say, by one or two of my hon. Friends. The words \"independent inquiry\" may be the sort of epitaph that is written over this country's history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1608.0", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "lf. He asked for an independent inquiry, and his plea has been echoed by almost every subsequent Opposition speaker and, I am sorry to say, by one or two of my hon. Friends. The words \"independent inquiry\" may be the sort of epitaph that is written over this country's history. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We are earning a reputation already as a nation keen on talking and rather averse to action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1608.0", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "RD. I hope that, if he reads some of the speeches which have been made in the House today, he will prove even more sympathetic in the future. That, indeed, is the only ground on which I can possibly thank some hon. Members for the speeches they have made. The examination of the high-speed rail link, which of course is of great importance, has not yet started in any detail, and could not have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-25", "file": "debates1973-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "fad70542134ab633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1611.1", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "re is no intention to subsidise the tunnel. There was not even an intention to subsidise the tunnel operations when the Labour Government were in office. I shall consider very sympathetically any projects from Dover Harbour. We have plenty of time to plan remedial measures for any disturbance of employment. I should particularly like to end on my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury (Mr. Crouch).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-25a.1611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-30", "file": "debates1973-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44eab0cea72c7cba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-30a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who will pay?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "God, will be in the next. We shall take into public ownership all land required for building, development, redevelopment, slum clearance, schools, hospitals, playing fields, sports centres and other amenities at existing values. The Government have done nothing about land. We cannot even find a reference to their 30 per cent. hoarding tax. It is for the Government to defend their refusal to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-30a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-30", "file": "debates1973-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44eab0cea72c7cba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-30a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Too long\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "rthy of our people. Let the Government defend the pillaging of public assets by denationalisation over the last few years and tell the country who has made the profits out of it. Let them tell the people why they oppose our Industry Act including, for example, the power to stop the foreign firm taking over, perhaps for purely asset stripping or other reasons, an important British industry or firm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-30a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-30", "file": "debates1973-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44eab0cea72c7cba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-30a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "y oppose our Industry Act including, for example, the power to stop the foreign firm taking over, perhaps for purely asset stripping or other reasons, an important British industry or firm—[AN HON. MEMBER: \"Too long\"]—of course it is too long for hon. Members opposite. It is coming back to them now. It is in our policy and it is for the Government to defend their refusal to implement it in theirs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-30a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-30", "file": "debates1973-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44eab0cea72c7cba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-30a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "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": " policy of an arms embargo was wrong, and now says that our position is bad because of it. I entirely fail to understand that. In which way would it now be better if, at the same time as we were calling for a cease-fire and using all our influence in the United Nations and elsewhere, we had gone on supplying arms to both sides? How would our position today, as a country, be better in that respect?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-30a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-30", "file": "debates1973-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44eab0cea72c7cba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-30a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Knox", "preceding_text": "l mean that people will stand for Parliament at earlier ages which in turn will, perhaps, lead to their being elected at an earlier average age than is the case now. One of the points that struck me most strongly when I first arrived here in 1970 was that whereas in industry I had reached an age at which people were beginning to regard me as middle-aged, as soon as I became a Member of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-30a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-31", "file": "debates1973-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5757376133f0726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-31a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-31a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-31", "file": "debates1973-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5757376133f0726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-31a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "h he and his officers have moved into the field so quickly, despite the difficulties. It was not easy to assemble the men who have been assembled. They have been transported with the aid of this country and others, and I think this House should go on record as acknowledging that in a field where they cannot have had all that experience, the United Nations has done a good job in the initial stages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-31a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-10-31", "file": "debates1973-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5757376133f0726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-31a.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walters", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the SAMs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walters", "preceding_text": "I was coming to that, but the answer is \"Yes\"—the United States has certainly been building up, and supplying on request, enormous quantities of strike equipment to Israel, particularly Phantom aircraft. Even in the honeymoon period of Soviet-Egyptian relations of two years ago, the Russians never supplied offensive weapons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-10-31a.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-01", "file": "debates1973-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9627f9e3ea4a718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-01a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL PROBLEMS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "I was disappointed at the lack of action promised in the Gracious Speech on Home Office problems. What is good is late and insufficient and, for the rest, it is largely irrelevant. Most Home Office problems seem to have been glossed over. One example is immigration, one of those subjects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-01a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-01", "file": "debates1973-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9627f9e3ea4a718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-01a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL PROBLEMS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "oes. I have one such in my hand. It is called Eve— a publication addressed to young people, dated 20th October 1973. Its cover, advertising the contents within, says, \"Whatever Turns Him On\", which is an article on how to arouse a man sexually; another is \"Permissiveness\", sub-titled, \"Meet the Women who Invented the Word\", the third is \"Men as Sex Objects\", sub-titled \"Now We've Seen Everything\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-01a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-02", "file": "debates1973-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "4b9bab7f3b327375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-02a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman does not wish to misquote me. I said that we had not received any suggestions from the TUC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-02a.499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-02", "file": "debates1973-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "4b9bab7f3b327375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-02a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "preceding_text": "f blackmail I have even seen on the part of any administration. Under it local authorities are told either to operate the law or be removed from office. The Government know that the authorities regard it as anti-social and immoral, and yet they tell the authorities that if they do not operate it they will be removed from office and their ratepayers will be penalised in the process. That is bad law", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-02a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.616.5", "colnum": "616", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "All I can assure the hon. Gentleman about is that as far as by-elections are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.616.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.618.8", "colnum": "618", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "to produce, is that price increases inevitably follow for the ordinary family. Another indirect consequence, because excessive demand in Britain is sucking in imports and diverting possible exports to home consumption, is that we now have the highest trade deficit in our history. It is caused primarily not by vital imports of food and raw materials but by unnecessary imports of manufactured goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.618.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "he economic facts of life. A few moments ago we were discussing increases in oil prices which during his talk-in on the BBC the Prime Minister told the country would add £400 million to our balance of payments deficit. How does he suggest that that will not be reflected in industrial costs unless he proposes to subsidise the sale of oil in this country after paying the money to the Arab producers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will not be the first time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "e published in HANSARD as often as the Questions are asked. I hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Government—this is a matter for the House as a whole—will not suggest that in this area alone essential facts about the operation of a body set up by resolution of this House, under a law passed by this House, are to be refused to hon. Members who ask Questions of the Minister concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "tical history by breaking their election pledges and instituting the machinery of State control in the economy, which they specifically promised in the General Election not to do. They have reversed their techniques of economic management, but the objectives of their economic management remain the same—to achieve a massive shift of wealth and income from the poor and the average family to the rich", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "spute was taken to the courts by USDAW it was proved that the Prime Minister had acted illegally in attempting to rob Mrs. Summerfield and her friends of the £5. So far as I have been able to discover, although the Government huffed and puffed about challenging the court's decision, they have not chosen to do so. I hope that I am right in assuming that the Prime Minister does know about this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ndustry. As this would require to make it work the conversion of every estate agent and chartered surveyor, to say nothing of property developers themselves, into civil servants or at least State employees. this sober and non-socialist director said. it may safely be ruled out during the life of the present Government. We shall be debating the general management of the economy on another occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " of oil, I remind the House that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has referred to his party's plans for the nationalisation of North Sea oil. It is certain that if the Labour Party's plans had been implemented five or 10 years ago, there would have been far less energetic exploration and therefore, now, a much gloomier prospect for our economy and for our balance of payments.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "five or 10 years ago, there would have been far less energetic exploration and therefore, now, a much gloomier prospect for our economy and for our balance of payments.—[ Interruption. ] We shall see whether the Opposition Chief Whip says \"Absolute rubbish\" to what I shall say now. I read recently that the Leader of the Opposition suggested a cut in petrol tax to compensate for the rise in price.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I dealt a moment ago with the point raised by the hon. and learned Gentleman. I know that the hon. and learned Gentleman and the Leader of the Opposition in particular want to slam on the brakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.650.4", "colnum": "650", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "I am not the economic spokesman for my party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"From one bird to another.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "ew the amount of growth in the economy is still relatively small. We have seen the take-up of slack previously created by inflation, but the basic underlying rate of growth is still small. The Chancellor's speech and his economic forecast are as over-optimistic as his original speech in 1970. We shall see the birds come home to roost with this Chancellor who has changed from one policy to another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "Act. Before going on to that, may I say that I think my right hon. Friend and the House will agree that the country, most of all the House, owes a debt of gratitude to Sir Arthur Cockfield whose baby this was and from where the Green Paper emanated. The Chancellor—and I think it is accepted by all parties in the House and in the country—has been the greatest reforming Chancellor that we have had.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.737.3", "colnum": "737", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "for the investment decisions being made in British industry at that time. Those are two significantly different facts. First, the orders to our machine tool firms—a very good indicator—have increased by no less than 88 per cent. in the last nine months. The Financial Times has carried out a survey of industry, the details of which would have been published today had that newspaper been published.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.737.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.738.2", "colnum": "738", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Labour Party lost the election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ernment. He is now beginning to confess the failures. It is interesting that at the 1970 election, in the Labour Party manifesto, there were no firm proposals for the extension of public ownership. After six years of office, operating a mixed economy with a public and a private sector, the Cabinet of that day decided to prepare an election manifesto which contained no such proposals. I wonder why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.738.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "METRICATION (PASTA AND SALT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "when the system was changed in America. Since that time America has put in hand legislation to change to metric weights and measures. It has not yet been put into effect, but it is on its way. There is no doubt that it will happen. I must plead an interest. I am in the grocery business. I do not think that hon. Members who have spoken in the debate can have been in a grocery shop in umpteen years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-05", "file": "debates1973-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2385481a6116075d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "METRICATION (PASTA AND SALT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "the Common Market. I repeat what is well worthy of repetition. The only countries in the world which have not indicated their intention of turning to metrication are Burma, Brunei, Liberia, Nauru, Tonga, Sierra Leone, Western Samoa, the Yemen Arab Republic and the Yemen Democratic People's Republic. I do not really believe that we should be in that group of countries against the rest of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-05a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-06", "file": "debates1973-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "95b649b34067b4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ared in the House, and it was listed in the Parliamentary Liberal Party's register of Members of Parliament. The association wished to maintain its political balance and asked whether it could contribute an equivalent sum of £400 to Liberal Party research facilities. For 1973 it has made a contribution of that amount to the Liberal Central Association, from which I have received no direct benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-06", "file": "debates1973-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "95b649b34067b4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-06", "file": "debates1973-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "95b649b34067b4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "lear. The Bill will be introduced as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, local authorities have been encouraged, and are making plans, to deal with the situation in the way we have suggested. They have not complained about the principle behind the policy, which is that we concentrate the resources of the country to the maximum extent in the areas of greatest need, the stress areas in the city centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-06", "file": "debates1973-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "95b649b34067b4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and his colleagues will have an opportunity to make their speeches. If I was unfair to local authorities, I certainly withdraw the remark. I am not being unfair to Labour Members, who are not going out of their way to explain that many hundreds of thousands of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-06", "file": "debates1973-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "95b649b34067b4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "out such provision many people would be worse off. Whether or not this sector will be nationalised at any time remains to be seen, but I beg all hon. Members to think in practical terms of the effect of threats upon those providing this accommodation. There are many private landlords in my constituency who are no more Rachmans than anyone here. They are people of modest means who own a few houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-06", "file": "debates1973-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "95b649b34067b4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It must have been a case of do-it-yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "preceding_text": ". I made some progress, too, and, by the end of the five weeks, when the chippie told me to go and \"cut some noggins and side spike them with 2½ in. lostheads\", I not only knew what he meant but I could do it. Again this year I mixed a nice drop of pug and more concrete than I care to think about. I even became semiskilled, and in all this I learned some practical things about the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-06", "file": "debates1973-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "95b649b34067b4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": " looked in vain in the speech of my right hon. and learned Friend for crumbs of comfort for her and her constituents. Clearly, she was not looking very hard. Those constituents, for example, in the numerous authorities controlled by the Labour Party which have now been forced to give rebates, which they were not doing until the Housing Finance Act, are seeing something more than crumbs of comfort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-06", "file": "debates1973-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "95b649b34067b4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ow discover that the end of their mortgage repayments recedes with every six months of the Prime Minister's stewardship, the young people who are waiting to get a house from a local authority, the young people waiting to obtain rented accommodation or waiting for a mortgage—all are united against this Government and their housing policy. No wonder the Prime Minister is worried about a by-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-06", "file": "debates1973-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "95b649b34067b4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. James Prior)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. James Prior)", "preceding_text": "not be here very long. The right hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) has an excellent voice, and sometimes even a bit of a face, for the tale of woe and misery he likes to give us. The last time he wound up a debate on the Loyal Address was in 1970, when he spoke about the present Government's regional policies, which he said were likely to cause unemployment and industrial troubles in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-06", "file": "debates1973-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "95b649b34067b4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. James Prior)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who put it up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. James Prior)", "preceding_text": "hat he will be pleased to hear, that unemployment in Scotland has been declining sharply, that the seasonally-adjusted rate for October is lower than at any time since February 1970 and that the number of unfilled vacancies is now higher than at any time in the past 20 years. All areas of Scotland are sharing in the general improvement. Unemployment has fallen most rapidly in the West of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-06", "file": "debates1973-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "95b649b34067b4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "preceding_text": "I have never heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-06", "file": "debates1973-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "95b649b34067b4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "HOUSING AND LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "preceding_text": "I have never heard—[ Interruption. ]—a speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-06a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.965.9", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "On the question of asylum, it has been the long-standing practice of British Governments of all colours and connections not to give asylum to individuals seeking asylum there, unless they were in danger of arrest in the immediate vicinity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.965.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "sed as an excuse to destroy free trade union bargaining. The policy operates through boards and commissions not accountable to Parliament and behind which Ministers shield when they wish, while the commissions and the boards shield behind the Minister when they wish and the Speaker provides the protection of the Table Office to see that whoever is shielding behind the other is, in fact, prevented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has just said that it depends upon the Minister—as though the Minister could block an inquiry to the Price Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " abolish formal approvals …\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th October 1973; Vol. 861, c. 332.] The object of that change is to prevent people from being able to say that the commission has approved a price increase. Once one can get away from the knowledge that a price increase has been approved, then what the commission can say is \"We have no comment. We did not approve it. We did not restrict it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. Gentleman can draw any conclusion of that kind from my remarks. One of the problems is that the Opposition love to exaggerate. I did not say anything which the hon. Gentleman could possibly construe in that way. Neither has anybody on this side of the House done so. No British businessman is under any illusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piers Dixon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piers Dixon", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman has introduced a somewhat emollient note into our proceedings, and that is a welcome change. The right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) made a disgraceful speech. He described my right hon. Friend's speech as the most disgraceful presentation of Government policy that he had ever heard. In my view, some of the goings-on earlier this afternoon on bogus points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name a few.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "ing workers. The hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) knows all about that. He made an interesting speech three and a half years ago when his party was in power. He knows how many building workers are working and drawing unemployment benefit. It would be wrong to say that there are 93,000 building workers doing it, but certainly there are a considerable number. One should recognise that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "t that success has been almost wholly masked from view by the unprecedented rise in world commodity prices. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave some figures for this in Monday's debate. Since January 1972, world food prices are up by over 60 per cent. World commodity prices—it bears repeating, if I may say so—are up by over 90 per cent. No Government can control these prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "es are up by over 60 per cent. World commodity prices—it bears repeating, if I may say so—are up by over 90 per cent. No Government can control these prices—[ Interruption. ]—and no Government can insulate the people from them. What we can do and have done is to keep to a minimum the effects of rising world prices. Between November, 1972 and August of this year, import prices rose by 24 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1120.6", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He has not given way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "The Minister has just referred to the dramatic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1120.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1120.11", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "You invited me, Mr. Speaker, by referring to the fact that I was making comments from a sedentary position, to stand and interrupt the Minister. This I did, and the Minister gave way. Am I now in order in putting the point that I wish to make, from a standing position, to the Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1120.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "A number of points have been raised in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1123.0", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Absolute rubbish!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ontrary, in an area where there is an acute shortage of labour no one gains by the uncontrolled bidding-up of pay, and I should have thought all experience teaches that in such an atmosphere the public services inevitably fare the worst. Such a bidding-up would merely add to inflation and, so far from increasing the supply of labour to the public services, would inevitably reduce it still further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1126.0", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "arliament still feels dissatisfied, he can make a formal complaint to the commission, either to the headquarters in London or to one of the regional offices, and the complaint will be investigated and the person informed. If as a result of the complaint the price rise is found to be unjustified, it can be rolled back. That is a new procedure which actually strengthens the powers to control prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "t might not in those circumstances be able to roll the price back. Under the new procedure, responsibility for making the price rise rests with the firm, and the fact that the notification period has elapsed is no bar whatever to the commission rolling the price back later if it proves to be inconsistent with the code. So far from weakening price control, the new procedure actually strengthens it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I have made the position abundantly clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1128.2", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The question which the right hon. Gentleman has now asked me is totally different from that which he put to me this afternoon. I have answered his original question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1128.2", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "e Commission. As for his second question, it will be for the firm to announce the price increase. If a price has risen and it is suspected that it may be inconsistent with the code, it is open not only to any Member of Parliament but to any member of the public to get in touch with the commission to make a formal complaint, whereupon that price rise will be investigated and the results made known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-07", "file": "debates1973-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "06032f69c463548a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1128.8", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "PRICE AND PAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I hope I have satisfied the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-07a.1128.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-08", "file": "debates1973-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b711ee939a65e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-08a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN JOURNALISTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "I believe I heard during the last supplementary question mention of West Germany and Holland. I understand that since Portugal has been embargoed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-08a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-08", "file": "debates1973-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b711ee939a65e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-08a.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Against what.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ll the right hon. Gentleman confirm that we can expect a debate on Northern Ireland shortly after the House has dealt with the business which he has read out? Thirdly, will lie arrange in Government time for a half day's debate—a full day if he can afford the time—before 30th November, which is the last date for receiving representations on the recent Green Paper on the question of discrimination?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-08a.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-08", "file": "debates1973-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b711ee939a65e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-08a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "preceding_text": "s to trust him for yet another year to see whether he can produce the settlement in the next 12 months, although he has not been able to produce one in the past 36 months. Our view about the sanctions policy is somewhat tougher and less pusillanimous than that of the right hon. Gentleman. I am bound to say to him that we should now move away from this idea of renewing the sanctions order annually.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-08a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-08", "file": "debates1973-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b711ee939a65e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-08a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "We are both saying the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-08a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-08", "file": "debates1973-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b711ee939a65e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-08a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "osition Front Bench, as, thereby speeches from the Labour benches may be somewhat shortened, as they have been. In some ways this has been a vintage debate even for Rhodesian sanctions renewal order debates. But I seem to detect this year that the feeling displayed by hon. Members, particularly hon. Members opposite, was deeper than it was last year and deeper than it has been for many years past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-08a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-08", "file": "debates1973-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b711ee939a65e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-08a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "the present Government in Rhodesia, and as result we hope that some kind of political movement will take place there. If that is right—and anyone who sat through this debate tonight will agree that the views expressed here, while they may represent a certain view in the Conservative Party, cannot be said to be fairly representative of the House as a whole or of the views in the country as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-08a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-12", "file": "debates1973-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a9dbc4791bf806a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-12a.26.4", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNIONS (NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COURT FINES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "preceding_text": "orted and buttressed, by the judgment in Magee v. Lovell in 1874 in which it was said: Words which form an essential part of the description cannot be rejected as falsa demonstratio.\" Lastly, is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the political levy is not collected, nor can it be construed, as forming part of the assets, including everything that is available the meet the liabilities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-12a.26.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-12", "file": "debates1973-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a9dbc4791bf806a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-12a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNIONS (NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COURT FINES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Is the Attorney-General fully seized of all the facts in this case? The political levy of a trade union constitutes funds held in trust on behalf of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-12a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-12", "file": "debates1973-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a9dbc4791bf806a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-12a.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNIONS (NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COURT FINES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Speaker, if this was not a case of not knowing where the money was coming from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-12a.27.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "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": "I am always careful when being questioned by the hon. Gentleman. But recognition as efficient is conferred as a special mark of distinction by the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.241.11", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but clairvoyance is not among the attributes of the Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.241.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": "shortly announce the arrangements for debating the motions on the Address and on the regulations. The regulations are almost identical with those made in August 1972; the only significant additions are to Regulations 19, 20 and 21 extending the powers of the Secretary of State over water and sewerage. The use of the powers will be limited, as always, to what the essential public interest requires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "preceding_text": "This is the fifth emergency to have been declared in just over three years under this Government compared with one state of emergency declared in the whole of the previous 15 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "On the question of timing, there was only one factor which the Government took into account, and that was what is required to safeguard the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady might also have mentioned democracy requiring some respect for the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I should like to know on what basis the Home Secretary can speak in terms of the miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.259.5", "colnum": "259", "heading": "PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The miners' leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.259.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.259.5", "colnum": "259", "heading": "PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The miners' leaders—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—have made specifically clear that they realise that they are pressing a claim contrary to the Government's pay policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.259.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "in public life and work over the maximum period and with the minimum of inconvenience. That is the sole reason for taking these powers now, and I believe that we are justified in taking them now and that we could have been criticised if we had left it any longer. As to the control of prices, the regulations contain as usual the power to make orders on that, and we shall deal with it when it comes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ake orders on that, and we shall deal with it when it comes—[ Interruption. ] As the hon. Lady knows full well, whether or not to use any of the powers in the regulations must be decided in the proper way by the matter coming before this House. The hon. Lady asked why I chose last night to make a statement about picketing. I did not choose last night. I was at a meeting and I was asked a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "at the miners have said—that they believe that the result of their action will be to cut coal supplies very quickly and because the National Coal Board has confirmed to the Government that that will be the effect of their action—have made it necessary to ensure that the life of the overwhelming majority of the community can continue. I never said they were breaking the law by not working overtime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The answer to the first question is a categoric \"No\". There is absolutely no connection at all. The right hon. Gentleman must know this perfectly well. Dealing with the second part of the right hon. Gentleman's question, I am glad to say that exports are rising in volume—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.266.4", "colnum": "266", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "l seek a Standing Order No. 9 debate so that we can debate the actions of the Government—and we shall seek to do it immediately? The right hon. Gentleman had better tell us this afternoon whether, and when, we are to have a major debate in Government time so that we can move a motion of censure on the Government. Since the Prime Minister knew about these trade figures before the four by-elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.266.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I must say that for the right hon. Gentleman to put that question to me when at the time that he had responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ht. He may know which way it would go. The fact is that the miners would interpret any ballot under the Act as a ballot on the Act. It is true that I and my Liberal colleagues voted for the Second Reading of the Industrial Relations Bill, but on the condition that substantial changes were made to it. We did not vote for the Third Reading. We voted against that, because those changes were not made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Pontefrat (Mr. Harper) and his hon. Friend the Member for Morpeth (Mr. George Grant) have added to the debate a note of sincerity, pleading that we recognise the seriousness of the industry's position, with so many men leaving week by week for the obvious reason, as they say, that pay and working conditions in the coal industry do not compare favourably with pay conditions elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "preceding_text": "ects and the lot of the miners by the implementation of Wilberforce. I do not speak entirely with the authority of the national executive of the NUM, but my guess is that it would accept tomorrow if the right hon. Gentleman instructed his hon. Friend who is to conclude the debate to say that the Government are prepared to settle on the kind of payments commensurate with the Wilberforce settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Industry (Mr. Tom Boardman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Industry (Mr. Tom Boardman)", "preceding_text": "indigenous fuel. We followed that discussion on the 20-point plan with the Coal Industry Act, which provided for £1,100 million of the taxpayers' money to be put into the industry, part of which was to be used to write off past deficits. I remind the House of the benefits—which both sides believed to be due—that the Act brought to the miners in the form of improved pensions. Pensions were doubled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Industry (Mr. Tom Boardman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Industry (Mr. Tom Boardman)", "preceding_text": "hat the run down rate is quite unacceptable since it indicates that wages are too low and are insufficient to maintain the industry. I wish to remind the House that the real measure of run down must be looked at against what has happened in previous years. These matters were under negotiation when the union put in its wage demand and sought to couple with it an implied threat of industrial action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH AND INDECENT DISPLAYS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) says that that is not indecent. My hon. Friend is an expert in industrial relations, and I would never dream of interrupting him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.377.5", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH AND INDECENT DISPLAYS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "—to maintain what little grass roots support they still had in the constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH AND INDECENT DISPLAYS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "hat they would ever reach the required notes of the song. Nevertheless, it would be possible at present for such a recording to fall within the ambit of the Bill. That brings me to the area of broadcasting generally, to which several hon. Members have referred. I am a little concerned that, although we are told that radio and television and broadcasting is excluded from the provisions of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH AND INDECENT DISPLAYS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "ve talked about \"What the Butler Saw\". If they saw some of the recent advertisements the Home Office has seen of what is now available they would realise the need for a clause to control that type of show, which is aimed basically at younger people. I welcomed wholeheartedly the general support given, even by the hon. Member for Woolwich, West, to Clause 10, which deals with unsolicited circulars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-13", "file": "debates1973-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "232d277610fc89a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHARLWOOD AND HORLEY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": " and 24 against? What has happened since? If the Minister was not persuaded by the kind of vote that Lord Garnsworthy mentioned—87 per cent.—when we were discussing that Bill, it is obvious that any other expression by the residents of the area could not have motivated a change of mind. There must be another element. What influential people have expressed to the Minister the need to make a change?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-13a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-14", "file": "debates1973-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "fe66fe08ed9b0bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-14a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"What about making a forecast?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong to say that buildings are being pulled down faster than they are being replaced. That is a misunderstanding, which my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment cleared up in the debate on the Queen's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-14a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-14", "file": "debates1973-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "fe66fe08ed9b0bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-14a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I have already told the House that the primary responsibility on this score lies with the local authorities. When the Labour Party was in power Labour Ministers argued strongly on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-14a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-14", "file": "debates1973-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "fe66fe08ed9b0bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-14a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I believe that it would be difficult to draw up a sensible, easily understood code that people would be willing to practise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-14a.500.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-11-14", "file": "debates1973-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "fe66fe08ed9b0bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-14a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "AMBULANCE SERVICES (DURHAM)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Including overtime?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I understand that there are strong feelings. I also understand that the action of the men in Durham and in some other places is unofficial and that their trade union has advised them not to take industrial action but to await a national delegate conference later this month. It is true that the basic pay is relatively low but the average earnings cannot be described as low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-14a.507.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-14", "file": "debates1973-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "fe66fe08ed9b0bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-14a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMER CREDIT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£335 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "preceding_text": "quisition which is not healthy in the long term. I do not blame the public. The Government are increasingly living on a deficit, and this is bound to be reflected in people's personal standards. After all, in what many of us thought was the dreadful year of the Labour Government's devaluation, during the whole of that year the deficit was £316 million, whereas last month alone it was £298 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-14a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.663.2", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FEEDING STUFF PRICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This increase, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, is the result of world shortages of feedstuffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREATER LONDON COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is talking?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "preceding_text": "nancial restrictions will have on local authorities? When will that meeting take place? Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that if the meeting is to be of benefit to all the people of London he should assure the House that he will attend it and be prepared to listen and be helpful with suggestions, and to refrain from the deplorable bully-boy tactics that he employed in the House last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "We had sufficient chaos under the Labour Government for them to introduce \"In Place of Strife\". The then Prime Minister and his Ministers said that that document was essential to the life of the community. As for the hon. Gentleman's other point, the code in phase 3 has been passed by this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.689.2", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is I10 case\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "But is not the case against the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.689.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Fair enough. Is that what the Opposition want to say to the country?—Use up your coal stocks, do it at a time when you have no assurance that you can keep up your oil stocks at their present level, and do nothing in the hope that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman accepted it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ective bargaining made nonsense of that special case, and the special case had become the standard norm. That is the main reason why, regretfully, we have had to go to a statutory policy—a most regrettable step. The hon. Member for Midlothian (Mr. Eadie) talks about the Wilberforce inquiry. Let him, with all his trade union colleagues, examine the why and the wherefore of what happened afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Gorst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Gorst", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady has made a comparison betwen the five declarations of a state of emergency under the present Government and the fewer such declarations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "preceding_text": "have fallen down the ladder. However, he may wish to express for his constituency party his feeling for the miners, as I do, too. They are a remarkable collection of men who do a very good job which I should not be prepared to do. One problem facing the Government in the next 10 years is to find a technology which will enable us to get coal from the ground without having such a vast mining force.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I think that it is offensive to ask about another Member's personal circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": ".] There was not any outright violence during picketing. Perhaps the Home Secretary announced the state of emergency because of a more profound but obscure threat to the rule of law. The Home Secretary tried to imply this on Tuesday in a most discreditable performance. Yet when he was challenged he dodged and slithered away from making the charge that miners or power workers were breaking the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.812.4", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIRECT GRANT SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I repeat what the Secretary of State has said, and the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.812.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.812.5", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIRECT GRANT SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Patronising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "y education. We make our attitude to the increased grant and the existence of the direct grant at all clear. After a suitable period of notice, the direct grant will be withdrawn. This is because our priorities are different from those of the Government. We are not saying for one moment that the direct grant schools are not by some standards good schools. Of course, academically, most of them are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.812.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIRECT GRANT SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. The regulations constitute one of the few Tory measures the Government have introduced during the past two or three years. I can understand why there are so many satisfied smiles on the faces of Conservative Members. It follows the true Tory principle that to those who already have shall be given more. It is nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIRECT GRANT SCHOOLS", "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": " Hattersley), who with a few characteristic glosses from his Leader has determined to abolish the private sector, has not given the House an opportunity to debate that policy. We should welcome it if the Opposition chose to give time for it. It is the hon. Gentleman's policy, not ours. It is odder still that that has not been done in view of the hon. Gentleman's non-stop appearances on television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-15", "file": "debates1973-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d3105841ee958163", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIRECT GRANT SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, for example, the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) for another, while the Leader of the Labour Party sent his children to an independent school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-15a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-16", "file": "debates1973-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0316bfdc23733305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-16a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURE (SPECIAL PAYMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ingly from California rather than North Africa. British produce, certainly apples and salad foods, is much superior in quality to the produce which comes from Europe. I do not say that about pears. I repeat that one is inclined to be subjective about this. I do not think that I have any pear growers in my constituency. I do not think that we produce as good pears as come from the warmer countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-16a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could address myself to the Tory back benchers. What would be appropriate would be a period of decent reticence from Conservative back benchers, for they are in this House only because of faithless pledges made by the Conservative leader. They rode into this House on that platform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "does he think we will get coal without miners? The danger to coal production, not in the next week or two—we all hope that today's discussions between the National Coal Board and the National Union of Mineworkers will lead to a satisfactory settlement being worked out in the near future—but in 1974–75. 1980, and beyond, lies far more in wastage of colliery manpower than in any overtime ban.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "nflux into the mines. There is another issue. One can ask for restraint if one has a policy and can offer a system of society which is fair. One can ask for an all-out national effort, common sacrifices, fairly shared, and a dedication to the national interest, if it is one nation. Miners in their often remote communities are mature people. They have read about Lonrho, for example, and worked out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ut—[ Interruption. ] I am talking about serious issues and serious people who have worked out that they must work 65 years underground or 73 years in mucky work on the surface to qualify for the £130,000 quoted in that case, and they would have to pay tax and other deductions on every penny because they get their pay at the colliery office, not in a Caribbean tax haven. Moreover, stage 3 is aimed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman can show me one miner who can benefit from this, I shall be glad to meet him. I am trying to explain to the hon. Gentleman the kind of society in which we live. I will send him a copy of this brochure if he would like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have checked this, and this scheme was not available at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.970.2", "colnum": "970", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "These reliefs, as I understand it, were not available, and they were not worked out in the way that they are now. At that time my right hon. Friend the then Chancellor was scrapping one incentive after another for people to do this kind of thing, and we were not asking for what the Government are asking now. The right hon. Gentleman cannot justify—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.970.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.976.4", "colnum": "976", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " and production is still rising fast. In September, engineering production had risen by 17·3 per cent. compared with a year ago, chemicals by 14 per cent., and a strong growth has been reported in the production of capital goods. By mid-summer, net new orders in the engineering industries were 30 per cent. higher than a year ago, and sales were 17½ per cent. higher. The problems now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.976.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—[ Interruption. ]—has already made his speech, and he was given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.980.9", "colnum": "980", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the engineering industries, the latest available figures show that net new orders for exports in the three months to July were 41 per cent. higher than a year ago, net new orders at home were 24 per cent. up, domestic sales were up by 13 per cent., and export orders were up by 29 per cent. The engineering industries should have credit for what they are achieving today. I now turn to the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.980.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.989.3", "colnum": "989", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": " It was only after a series of unsuccessful confrontations, which almost always led to capitulation by the Government, that we had phase 1, phase 2 and now phase 3, which has in it an inbuilt rate of inflation of nearly 15 per cent. Indeed, the debate takes place against a back-cloth of economic failure. It has taken the Government three years to prove to them selves that their policies are wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.989.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.998.3", "colnum": "998", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I will say where. First, we must get our social priorities right, and those are to look after the pensioners, old or disabled, and to look after the low paid and those on low incomes. I believe then that we may well have to cut back on a lot of public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.998.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "olicy, why is there no attempt to adjust his policy to deal with them? We have had no explanation whatever from him about how he will adjust the policy for these major external events which he neither foresaw nor was able to control. All of us know that the problems of economic management are not even fully understood in theory by the experts and are appallingly difficult to deal with in practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "rade and Industry, he shows all the brassy and factitious enthusiasm of a second-hand car salesman or a shady tour operator who, when faced with the fact that the luxury hotel on the beach of the Costa Brava is in fact a half-built shanty five miles from the coast with the kitchen unfinished and the water not connected, exhibits a breathless excitement about the quality of the marble on the patio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.1077.3", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I have given way two or three times, but I will answer the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": ". Those are not my words; they come from this week's New Statesman. The reality is that, whatever motivated the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues to put an end to economic expansion in 1966, with all the consequences which followed, in the present situation such a policy would be quite inappropriate. It is natural that there should be differing views about the management of the home economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ng the debate the Leader of the Opposition said that the announcement of a state of emergency was a diversion. The only justification for it could have been oil, he said. He must know surely, as everyone else must know, that that was complete and utter nonsense. The right hon. Gentleman apparently says \"No\". But did he not see that before the overtime ban began Mr. Gormley said absolutely clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-19", "file": "debates1973-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b281d385aff1912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer, answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "d Wilson last night came out in full support of the miners in their pay battle with the Government. If that is the view of the Leader of the Opposition all I can say is that the nation will regard it as scandalous. The nation is entitled to know whether the right hon. Gentleman is prepared to speak out against industrial action in support of a settlement outside the limits laid down by this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-19a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-20", "file": "debates1973-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "42c5c06cefe9274a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "hat the hon. Gentleman has continued his evasive tactics. He made a flat statement in saying: When I was a Minister in the Ministry of Defence we enabled officers in Her Majesty's Forces to send their children to independent schools. But, alas, we did not make that possible for other ranks That was flatly wrong, and it is unfortunate that the hon. Gentleman has not seen fit to correct his mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-20", "file": "debates1973-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "42c5c06cefe9274a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1164.3", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where would they move?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Elliot", "preceding_text": "y staffed, and in a mighty city like London the problems are that much more difficult. As my hon. Friend has mentioned, the staff in London services must have some priority in certain aspects. I shall illustrate this point. Many businessmen, shopkeepers and people employed in, or running, service industries may not wish to move from London, but they could. I do not say they should, but they could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-20", "file": "debates1973-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "42c5c06cefe9274a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1164.3", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Elliot", "preceding_text": "and we were contacted by a postman who said that his gross earnings were £36 a week, his take-home pay was naturally smaller, and he had to pay £4·50 to travel to his work. That is a big sum out of his take-home pay. That example could be extended almost ad infinitum to cover many workers in the London services. Why do not the GLC and the boroughs get on with providing living accommodation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-20", "file": "debates1973-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "42c5c06cefe9274a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "surd that the GLC should be dissipating energy and money in buying existing houses, instead of getting on with building on dockland to which it has access right now, and dragging its feet for purely political reasons. It is absurd that the trade unions should for years have tried to prevent women coming into jobs which they can well undertake—and the trade unions have contributed to this shortage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-20", "file": "debates1973-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "42c5c06cefe9274a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are the figures?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "e names, but one of the most telling is that for the National Museum of Wales, which is free, and also the Welsh Folk Museum, for which charges are imposed. At the National Museum, where entrance is free, the attendances have fallen substantially from 1970 to 1972. For the Welsh Folk Museum, where the charges are lop for adults, and 5p for children, attendances have risen over 1970, 1971 and 1972—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-20", "file": "debates1973-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "42c5c06cefe9274a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1224.3", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "re fully later; but to meet both the interpretations of that phrase which have been put forward he has asked the Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland to make arrangements to ensure that interested members of the public, who wish to see the Turner drawings and do not wish to see any other collections at the National Gallery, have free admission to the Turners in months other than January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-20", "file": "debates1973-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "42c5c06cefe9274a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernle Money", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was his intention.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernle Money", "preceding_text": "and taken great encouragement from, some of the concessions which the Government have been able to give us. We have taken a great deal of comfort from the fact that in recent weeks my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has shown that it was not the intention of this Government to deviate from normal Conservative practice by interferring retrospectively with other people's wills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-20", "file": "debates1973-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "42c5c06cefe9274a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "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": "id not apply to any will or bequest. The interpretation of the Vaughan will has been questioned. Apparently, the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) did not realise that the main purpose of that will was to protect the drawings from the light because they would otherwise fade. Therefore, the will was designed to arrange that they should be kept in darkness for most of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-20", "file": "debates1973-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "42c5c06cefe9274a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1280.0", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I should like to commend this and the other changes on the Order Paper to the House. I shall, if necessary, speak at the end of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-20", "file": "debates1973-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "42c5c06cefe9274a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1283.0", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Robert Grant-Ferris)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Robert Grant-Ferris)", "preceding_text": "Before I call the right hon. Gentleman may I very tentatively suggest to the House that it might be very much for its convenience if we took with this motion the next five motions. If the House is agreeable, that would seem to me to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-20a.1283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-21", "file": "debates1973-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "61e4786e1b834256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-21a.1312.3", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "First, the position in each local authority is different. There are some authorities—we have discussed this often before—with a surplus of houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-21a.1312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-21", "file": "debates1973-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "61e4786e1b834256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-21a.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "CROWN AGENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "ontinental Property Company and substantial interests in Metropolitan Properties Limited, and many of the property companies they have invested in during the last few years have certainly been speculative. The right hon. Gentleman says that the trustee arrangements are proposed to hold good, and the question is whether he proposes that those arrangements will or will not exclude property dealings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-21a.1339.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-11-21", "file": "debates1973-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "61e4786e1b834256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-21a.1343.7", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY CORPORATIONS (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": "debate about the nationalised industries, that one familiar voice in these debates will no longer be heard in the Chamber. I refer, of course, to the late Sir Gerald Nabarro. Whether one agreed with him or not, most of us recognised that he brought to this subject a real understanding of the issues, an understanding which even his combative style could not obscure. We shall all miss him very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-21a.1343.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-21", "file": "debates1973-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "61e4786e1b834256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-21a.1349.3", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY CORPORATIONS (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "No. I am sorry, but I have given way several times already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-21a.1349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-21", "file": "debates1973-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "61e4786e1b834256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-21a.1361.2", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY CORPORATIONS (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " that we adopted for the private sector. It is part of the argument that I shall be developing for a substantial expansion of public ownership, with which the right hon. Gentleman has helped me because he has found a useful way of utilising the public sector. I invite the right hon. Gentleman to look at the 1973 programme of the Labour Party, including the reference to a national enterprise board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-21a.1361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-21", "file": "debates1973-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "61e4786e1b834256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-21a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY CORPORATIONS (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knox", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knox", "preceding_text": "ationalised industries as the Bill seeks to do and the distortions that are the inevitable consequence of such subsidisation. But though I have reservations about this sort of thing I am not against subsidising, as the Bill seeks to do, in all circumstances. In our approach to these problems it is important that we adopt a non-doctrinaire attitude and try to deal with each situation on its merits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-21a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-22", "file": "debates1973-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5e44a3730ceaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1527.7", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I should certainly not wish to minimise for one moment the seriousness of food price increases, but when the Opposition make comments such as we have heard this afternoon it is time to remind the House that the purchasing power of each section of the community is higher today than when we took office in June 1970.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1527.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-22", "file": "debates1973-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5e44a3730ceaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm my impression that the rise in price of home-produced food for consumption here is very much less, and will he confirm—I think I am right—that it is only 17·7 per cent. in the last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-22", "file": "debates1973-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5e44a3730ceaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1539.4", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Beef\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "No. I think I am right in saying that the consumption of cheese is higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1539.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-22", "file": "debates1973-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5e44a3730ceaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1548.4", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WANDSWORTH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yardsticks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Housing is a matter for the local authority to organise. We have placed no restriction on its house building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-22", "file": "debates1973-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5e44a3730ceaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have never made a reference in the House to a political fine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-22", "file": "debates1973-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5e44a3730ceaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1560.7", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I should like to consider that matter, but I shall give a preliminary answer. The procedure mentioned by the hon. Gentleman is antiquated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1560.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-22", "file": "debates1973-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5e44a3730ceaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1595.1", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. F. Deedes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That would be no loss.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. F. Deedes", "preceding_text": "e who believe that are living in cloud-cuckoo-land. Integration is simply not a viable alternative. The first reason is that it would not be accepted by the House of Commons, either in its present shape or in any conceivable shape that it could get itself into. That is a formidable obstacle to such a move. It would certainly end the bipartisan arrangements that we enjoy with hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-22", "file": "debates1973-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5e44a3730ceaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1654.9", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "I understand that in my absence the hon. Lady referred to a colleague of mine who is now to be on the Executive, Mr. Paddy Devlin, as a debt collector for the British forces. I resent that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-22a.1654.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-11-23", "file": "debates1973-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b952456de592690d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-23a.1710.1", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are the Yorkshire Tories?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. E. L. Mallalieu)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-23a.1710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-23", "file": "debates1973-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b952456de592690d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-23a.1729.1", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "tland. I say that so that we may compare the attention received by Yorkshire and Humberside in the House from the Government with the attention that those other regions receive. I make no criticism of them. It is right that the Scots, the Welsh and the Northern Irish should bang the drum. The lesson for us is that we, too, must bang the drum. It might be a good idea if we had a Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-23a.1729.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-11-23", "file": "debates1973-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b952456de592690d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-23a.1734.1", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Oscar Murton)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-23a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-11-23", "file": "debates1973-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b952456de592690d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-23a.1745.3", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-23a.1745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-23", "file": "debates1973-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b952456de592690d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-23a.1762.7", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "—banking and the building societies have nothing to do with Yorkshire and Humberside is to throw away the responsibility of being a Member of Parliament. Let me say what else the Leader of the Opposition said he would do. He will nationalise all building land required for development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-23a.1762.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-23", "file": "debates1973-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b952456de592690d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-23a.1764.1", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proudfoot", "preceding_text": "ry position, presided over the mining industry and closed every coal mine in his own constituency. He is now known as the right hon. Member for Swiss Roll, because Lyons moved in. Three companies in my constituency which would come into the ambit of the national enterprise board are Brookfoot Limited, Paxman Coolers and Huns-worth Dyeing Company. They will also nationalise the ICI in Huddersfield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-23a.1764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-26", "file": "debates1973-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "4938e161caec019c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND ELECTRICITY (CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "uation as it develops over the years to see whether his interpretation is the correct interpretation. Some right hon. and hon. Members opposite have been trying to send shivers up our spines by threatening a General Election over the overtime ban in the coal industry. Even the famous Zinoviev letter made much more sense than that. If they want a General Election, they will have a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-26", "file": "debates1973-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "4938e161caec019c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND ELECTRICITY (CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER : \"Read the leader.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "mal working week laid down by the trade unions. If it becomes necessary for the normal working week to be regularly exceeded because of manpower shortage, surely there is something wrong. Of course, Conservative Members still do not understand that mining is the dirtiest, the most dangerous and almost the most soul-destroying job there is. I should like to quote from a letter in today's Guardian —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-26", "file": "debates1973-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "4938e161caec019c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND ELECTRICITY (CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": " and others, year after year in the House, warning successive Governments, including the Government of which I was a member, that we could not rely for ever on cheap oil and that we must use our indigenous resources. At the very moment when the miners are proved to have been absolutely right the Government spit in their faces and charge them with trying to undermine democracy and the constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-26", "file": "debates1973-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "4938e161caec019c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.135.0", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND ELECTRICITY (CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman mistakes the position if he thinks that Governments give wage increases. Governments do not give wage increases.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-26", "file": "debates1973-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "4938e161caec019c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND ELECTRICITY (CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is at his best when writing Press releases for the Conservative Central Office. Let me deal with the matter in respect of a current issue. The British Steel Corporation's corporate plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-26", "file": "debates1973-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "4938e161caec019c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND ELECTRICITY (CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Industry (Mr. Tom Boardman)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"It was done with Conservative support.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Industry (Mr. Tom Boardman)", "preceding_text": "and square on the shoulders of the Opposition, and on none more than the right hon. Gentleman. What did the Opposition produce during their administration? They produced a White Paper in 1967—and I suggest that hon. Members opposite should read it. The White Paper proposed one of the most massive rundowns of the coal industry, one of the most massive rundowns proposed at any time for any industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-26", "file": "debates1973-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "4938e161caec019c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND ELECTRICITY (CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": " made by his hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin (Mrs. Shirley Williams) on 15th November. She said : Again, my right hon. and learned Friends and myself do not condone any attempt to break a Government by industrial action, by employers' action or by financial action.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, House of Commons, 15th November 1973 ; Vol. 864, c. 699.] I ask : does the right hon. Gentleman agree with that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-26a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend will understand, there has been some confusion in these matters. The right hon. Member for East Ham, North (Mr. Prentice) said that the law should be obeyed, whereas the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) said that he would support the engineers in defending the basic rights of trade unionism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.197.4", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. My hon. Friend is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.197.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SMALL FIRMS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think this is a matter with which the CBI will deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Bill there could have been consultations, but it was not the wish of the TUC to carry them through. Since the Bill has become an Act I have consistently said, in the many meetings that I have held jointly or separately with the TUC or CBI, that we shall consider any specific amendments which are put to us, but I have also asked that the Act should be given a reasonable opportunity of being worked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that most people will be glad that my right hon. Friend in no way seeks to be an apologist for the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Again, that is not a matter for which the Government are responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.223.5", "colnum": "223", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e time of their respective applications, fully realised and accepted that, apart from the major issues of the added political weight and security which membership might give us, the primary economic objectives were ones of obtaining through membership larger markets, increased production and higher investment and thereby greater national prosperity. All of these factors are present in our economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.223.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.223.5", "colnum": "223", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "part from the major issues of the added political weight and security which membership might give us, the primary economic objectives were ones of obtaining through membership larger markets, increased production and higher investment and thereby greater national prosperity. All of these factors are present in our economy. [ Interruption .] The right hon. Member for Stepney (Mr. Shore) says \"Huh.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.223.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am seeking to deal with investment. I am establishing the fact that against many of the doubters' feelings the trend of investment moving into this country from abroad is on a rapid up turn. This is extremely attractive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.248.7", "colnum": "248", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "preceding_text": "ince your predecessor in the Chair, Mr. Deputy Speaker, asked for short speeches, mine will be short—not that I blame the right hon. Member for Stepney (Mr. Shore) for ranging wide, as did my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. I can agree with one thing at least that the right hon. Gentleman said—that this debate was necessary and that it is so wide that one has to select—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.248.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "nstable without warrant, by making it lawful in circumstances where it is totally unknown to us and would be rejected with indignation if it were put forward on its merits. In a leading article, The Times commented upon the appearance of this portent. It was with some relish that I read the adjuration from the leader writer in The Times that Parliament should not let this one through on the nod, —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.259.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to break into the theatrical flow of my right hon. Friend's argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": " the Member for Stockton-on-Tees, who has now left the Chamber, said that there would be a row if we withdrew from the Common Market when the Labour Party's policy was implemented after the next General Election. But who will make the row? It is certainly not the British people. A recent public opinion poll was conducted simultaneously in Britain and in France and was reported widely in the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"They will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "er cent. of British people thought that we received any benefit from belonging to the Common Market. Other interesting figures are that 59 per cent. of Labour supporters felt that we were harmed by our membership and 42 per cent. of Liberal supporters thought we were being similarly harmed. Therefore, those voting Liberal who think that they are voting against the Common Market should think again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gilbert Longden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gilbert Longden", "preceding_text": "It is at this moment being renegotiated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-27", "file": "debates1973-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d5f976b3ffecf13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gilbert Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gilbert Longden", "preceding_text": "ers surely do not demand conformity. I agree with all of the speech made by the hon. Member for Stockton-on-Tees (Mr. William Rodgers) except for its termination, but I particularly agreed when he said that the role of the British in the European Parliament must be aggressive but not disruptive. Our third task is to proclaim the benefits of membership as they manifest themselves from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-27a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-28", "file": "debates1973-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1376bb7051a1dd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.396.6", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. During the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Ardwick (Mr. Kaufman), he suggested that my hon. Friend was not loyal or steadfast. That, coming from someone who sold this country out at Munich and who is selling it out to the Arabs is not good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.396.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-28", "file": "debates1973-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1376bb7051a1dd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "tain that the board will not be able to service the loan debt without running up huge deficits on account of interest charges. What explicit proposals has he for dealing with that problem? Does he envisage a return to deficit financing? On social grants, can he say what effect the EEC regulation 1192/69 will have? What proportion of the investment programme can be attributed to the Channel Tunnel?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-28", "file": "debates1973-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1376bb7051a1dd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.495.2", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILE", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "Has not the hon. Member touched upon the whole point of this debate? Allende was democratically elected but he did not conduct himself democratically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.495.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-28", "file": "debates1973-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1376bb7051a1dd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": "to a farm near Valparaiso which was in a perfectly shocking state. There was no doubt that agricultural production was dropping on almost every farm throughout Chile because the whole agricultural reform programme was failing. It was for that reason that Chile became a net importer of food under the Allende régime when, prior to that, it has been an exporter of food on a considerable scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-28", "file": "debates1973-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1376bb7051a1dd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soref", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soref", "preceding_text": "It was revealed in the House last week that 50 students were coming from Chile to this country. Yesterday we learned, in an answer to a Question of mine, that the figure had been increased to 70 in the last quarter of the year. Other Chileans have been coming into this country as students. Who will pay their maintenance? What are they supposed to do here? What security have we for their behaviour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-28", "file": "debates1973-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1376bb7051a1dd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Where are the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "views that would justify at any time the overthrow of democracy in this country. They have said that, if Governments get into economic difficulty and if Governments do not do what they believe is right, it is right and justifiable to overthrow them by military force and to commit acts of depravity such as those which have been committed in Chile. That is the view of some Conservative hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-28", "file": "debates1973-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1376bb7051a1dd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"HOW many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "s the view of some Conservative hon. Members. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Where are the Liberals?\"] It is remarkable that no Liberal Members have been present during the whole of the debate. I remind the House of what Salvador Allende believed that he and his Government stood for. I quote from the last speech he made when the bombs were dropping on the Monade Palace from, of course, Hawker Siddeley aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-28", "file": "debates1973-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "1376bb7051a1dd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to pass judgment on the internal manoeuvres which preceded the coup. I hope that what I have said will convince the House that it would be a mistake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-28a.530.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-29", "file": "debates1973-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "097eca71e24b467d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.585.7", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERIAL BROADCASTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER : \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "Since the Prime Minister has just told us on the authority of the miners—a rather unusual situation—that they will vouch for his mental stability following a three-and-a-half hour meeting yesterday—and incidentally I have not heard any miner question his mental stability, which may give some comfort to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.585.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-11-29", "file": "debates1973-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "097eca71e24b467d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.593.4", "colnum": "593", "heading": "NATIONAL UNION OF MINEWORKERS (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "On the question of wastage, would not a reasonable Prime Minister look at his Department's statistics of a few days ago in HANSARD which showed that the work force in the mining industry had fallen from 267,000 to 250,000—not in the last few months but over the whole of the year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.593.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-29", "file": "debates1973-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "097eca71e24b467d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "NATIONAL UNION OF MINEWORKERS (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": " hon. Members on the Opposition benches who are as old as I am? I can remember the time when miners were badly paid and badly treated, and when large numbers of them were out of work. The people of this country now understand, appreciate and accept that the miners should now be among the best paid people in the community and that they should be properly treated and give a reasonable pay in crease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-29", "file": "debates1973-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "097eca71e24b467d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.597.4", "colnum": "597", "heading": "NATIONAL UNION OF MINEWORKERS (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "has been made by the NCB is by any criterion not only fair but generous. If the right hon. Gentleman is suggesting that, in an economy which has an expansion rate of 4 per cent.—one of the highest rates of expansion for a decade—there can be wage increases of 16 per cent. right across the economy, then he is quite wrong. I was asked about Ministers taking powers to exempt coal miners from the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.597.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-29", "file": "debates1973-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "097eca71e24b467d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.604.4", "colnum": "604", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER : \"You have one\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I must say that it is undesirable that this House, unless on a substantive motion that it wishes to debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.604.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-29", "file": "debates1973-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "097eca71e24b467d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ng actions, and the request I am making to you is, to some extent, a matter for you and one in which you ought personally to involve yourself. You will no doubt have read or heard today, certainly in the exchanges which took place at Question Time, about the alarming statement made by a Privy Councillor and an ex-Minister of Health about the Prime Minister's so-called \"emotional instability\", etc.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-29", "file": "debates1973-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "097eca71e24b467d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I confess that I am puzzled as to why the weight of compensation is thrown on to importers. I am not clear how the ordinary person will take advantage of this fund. For one thing, in the North of Scotland there are practically no lawyers available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-11-29", "file": "debates1973-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "097eca71e24b467d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Can the Government seriously consider handing over such control to the acknowledged corrupt administration in Hong Kong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-11-29a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-03", "file": "debates1973-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfce7e6450f70535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-03a.892.7", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "No one holds you in higher regard than I do, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-03a.892.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-03", "file": "debates1973-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfce7e6450f70535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-03a.1046.4", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SUGAR ORGANISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman should listen to the remainder of my remarks, because I am coming to the point that he has made that, in some way, the renegotiation conference failed because of the attitude of the Community. There is no question of that. The failure of the conference can in no way be attributed to the attitude of the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-03a.1046.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-04", "file": "debates1973-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0769c6f06dc759df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1081.5", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEWQUAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I take it that the hon. Member is mainly concerned with the A39 bypass. As he knows, a public inquiry will be held next spring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1081.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-04", "file": "debates1973-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0769c6f06dc759df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1081.5", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEWQUAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I take it that the hon. Member is mainly concerned with the A39 bypass. As he knows, a public inquiry will be held next spring—[ Interruption .]—and, following that, we shall have to decide when the earliest work can begin. That probably will not be until 1975.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1081.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-04", "file": "debates1973-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0769c6f06dc759df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Junior Carlton Club.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "e a matter of privilege, or rather of contempt of this House, by the Lord Chancellor. I start from a self-evident basis that you, Mr. Speaker, and you alone, are responsible for the Order Paper. What goes on it is a matter for you, and it is for you to rule a matter out of order if you think it is wrong. It is not for the Lord Chancellor, in another place, drinking and eating at the Carlton Glut)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1089.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-04", "file": "debates1973-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0769c6f06dc759df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Practices Act, that because he was a doughty and respected controversialist of the Labour Party, he was thereby constitutionally incapable of the legal impartiality of the judge? I would have been ashamed to entertain, let alone to utter, such unworthy and unwarranted sentiments. Therefore I am entitled to say now, and I say it with all the energy and emphasis I can command, let there in the name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-04", "file": "debates1973-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0769c6f06dc759df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "the legal impartiality of the judge? I would have been ashamed to entertain, let alone to utter, such unworthy and unwarranted sentiments. Therefore I am entitled to say now, and I say it with all the energy and emphasis I can command, let there in the name—[ Interruption .] The hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) should occasionally sit quiet and listen. He might learn quite a lot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-04", "file": "debates1973-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0769c6f06dc759df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1129.3", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "or reject laws, because that way lies anarchy. One man's preference is another's rejection and soon the whole edifice of the law will crumble. Soon we should be descending to lawlessness, to that state described in the Book of Judges where each man did what was right in his own eyes. Contempt of a court charged with the duty of enforcement is a defiance of the law and no words can gloss that over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-04", "file": "debates1973-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0769c6f06dc759df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "Yes, although we think it would be right to re-enact a great deal of it. On the great controversial issues, we have come to the conclusion that it would be right to repeal it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-04", "file": "debates1973-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0769c6f06dc759df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "Yes, although we think it would be right to re-enact a great deal of it. On the great controversial issues, we have come to the conclusion that it would be right to repeal it. [ interruption .] On Second Reading we voted for the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-04", "file": "debates1973-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0769c6f06dc759df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "eal look at the situation. He will find that the legislation framed by his Government after they were elected in 1970 was historically unnecessary and merely followed a commitment which his party had given its members at a number of Tory Party Conferences. On our television screens in recent years we have all seen people at those conferences going to the rostrum to attack the trade union movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-04", "file": "debates1973-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0769c6f06dc759df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "ion went to the court and was fined £100,000; and, in the other case, the union did not go to the court but was still fined £100,000. How are trade unionists to assess what has happened? How are people who normally respect the law, who are the backbone of our society—the trade union movement, which is the democratic base upon which the working class in this country operate—to assess the situation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-04", "file": "debates1973-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0769c6f06dc759df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "strial action ceased. The recommendation of the CIR was that the ASTMS should be recognised, and a recognition agreement was signed. That is one example of the work of the court. There have been many other cases in which the court has declined to interfere with established bargaining. Then there are complaints of unfair industrial practices. I know that hon. Gentlemen are not anxious to hear this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-04", "file": "debates1973-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0769c6f06dc759df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "cognised, and a recognition agreement was signed. That is one example of the work of the court. There have been many other cases in which the court has declined to interfere with established bargaining. Then there are complaints of unfair industrial practices. I know that hon. Gentlemen are not anxious to hear this. [ interruption .] There have been 115 cases of alleged unfair industrial practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-04a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-05", "file": "debates1973-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "93f8a8bc976c67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-05", "file": "debates1973-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "93f8a8bc976c67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a confession\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware—[ Interruption .] Is it not a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-05", "file": "debates1973-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "93f8a8bc976c67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "EEC MINISTERIAL MEETINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is your view?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "ws of the individual companies involved. What the House wishes to know is whether the right hon. Gentleman knows about these arrangements and is simply accepting them; whether he approves of the action of the Royal Dutch Shell Company in allocating supplies and behaving like a good European company, or whether he disapproves of that action and thinks that the company should be stopped and rebuked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-05", "file": "debates1973-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "93f8a8bc976c67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "EEC MINISTERIAL MEETINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister at any rate think that it is virtually irrelevant to what short-term measures the vulnerable Community of nine decided to take together in dealing with this strong and immediate threat? My next question concerns regional policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-05", "file": "debates1973-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "93f8a8bc976c67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "EEC MINISTERIAL MEETINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "been decided by others that the agreemeent on the regional development fund should be linked with simultaneous agreement on the imposition of rules over State regional aids in the so-called peripheral areas? Is the regional policy free from the other agreement that it would come into effect only if and when the second stage of economic and monetary union was agreed? On economic and monetary union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-05", "file": "debates1973-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "93f8a8bc976c67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "EEC MINISTERIAL MEETINGS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The whole House will be grateful to the right hon. Member for finally having ground to a standstill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-05", "file": "debates1973-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "93f8a8bc976c67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1283.0", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "EEC MINISTERIAL MEETINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his kindest of reproaches. The fact is that if I come to the House more regularly than I do now, there is the kind of reception which I received from the right hon. Member for Stepney (Mr. Shore)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-05", "file": "debates1973-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "93f8a8bc976c67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1291.2", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"It was 1964.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "g on matters arising from a speech made by the Speaker of the other House. That is the difficulty I face. We are dealing with the Speaker of the House of Lords, with the Lord Chancellor. We are really dealing with a judge in his own right. Consequently, the Leader of the House will have to consider the matter, because you cannot, Mr. Speaker, give a prima facie ruling which goes back only to 1934—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-05", "file": "debates1973-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "93f8a8bc976c67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "If I have been nice about the maiden speech of the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North, I have nothing but contempt for the preposterous speech from the Liberal benches. I did not give the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Mr. Tope) notice that I would mention him, because I thought that, having made such a speech, he, or at least one member of his party, whould be present for the rest of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-05a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-06", "file": "debates1973-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "be1ddc0ed93e1a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1448.7", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL UNION OF MINEWORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "preceding_text": "ncellor of the Exchequer meet NUM representatives, will they explain to the national executive members, and, through them, to a great many of my constituents, how it is that even the highest paid men in the industry, working five days a week in one of the most energy-sapping, dangerous and unsocial jobs in the country, will, if they accept the coal board's offer, still be getting under £40 a week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1448.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-06", "file": "debates1973-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "be1ddc0ed93e1a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "DIESEL FUEL (TAXICABS)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. May I now ask my hon. Friend when we shall get a satisfactory answer? In view of the fact that I am already rather annoyed about the whole thing, may I say that it is about time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-06", "file": "debates1973-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "be1ddc0ed93e1a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1463.2", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Crisis.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I think it will be necessary to have a debate on a number of issues, relating to energy and oil and to the economic situation, within the period between now and the Christmas Recess. My hon. Friend has made a perfectly fair point. But even in times such as my hon. Friend has described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1463.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-06", "file": "debates1973-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "be1ddc0ed93e1a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1464.0", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Send out for fish and chips.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": " the question of proscription of people in Northern Ireland, on large sums of money totalling up to £600 million of expenditure in Northern Ireland, and on fundamental reform of local government in Northern Ireland. Those are likely to take four and a half hours, yet from 10.45 p.m. there will be no refreshment available in the Palace of Westminster for the relatively small number who will remain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-06", "file": "debates1973-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "be1ddc0ed93e1a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1464.2", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of taxis, as the hon. Gentleman knows. It is a question of trying to restrict the use of petrol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-06", "file": "debates1973-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "be1ddc0ed93e1a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (PROSCRIBED ORGANISATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "nce, my hon. Friend is under a duty to spell it out. I remind my hon. Friend that during the past four years, since the trouble started in Northern Ireland in October 1969, some 281 soldiers and police have been killed. In each case the IRA has issued a statement afterwards claiming responsibility for those deaths. Not one soldier or officer has been killed by anyone other than members of the IRA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-06", "file": "debates1973-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "be1ddc0ed93e1a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1621.3", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "y. There are difficulties because of Northern Ireland's remoteness but Northern Ireland is still receiving considerable extra aid. There is still the differential because of the distance, the sea and so on. But we are looking into the matter. If my hon. Friends will help with devolution and getting the Executive under way, probably a new Minister of Agriculture will carry on where I have left off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-06a.1621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1669.4", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "COAL MINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I will not relate the exact column in HANSARD. The hon. Gentleman can look it up for himself. The present Prime Minister said that, although the pits were closing at a fairly rapid rate, they should be closed even faster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1669.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1669.4", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "COAL MINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "although the pits were closing at a fairly rapid rate, they should be closed even faster. [ Interruption .] To make it abundantly clear that the other party, those missing today, are in the same boat, it is in order for me to emphasise that their junior partner in \"Heathco Ltd.\" the representative of the Liberal Party—he is now a noble lord—in that same debate and on other occasions made it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1669.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1669.4", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "COAL MINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " the same boat, it is in order for me to emphasise that their junior partner in \"Heathco Ltd.\" the representative of the Liberal Party—he is now a noble lord—in that same debate and on other occasions made it clear—[ Interruption ]—not only that the pits should be closed at a faster rate than they were then being closed but that all the coalfields in the United Kingdom should be closed completely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1669.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "COAL MINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER : \"Do not be silly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "se take-home pay was £2 a week. When told about this, I exclaimed \"How could it be so?\" The circumstances were that the wife of the man concerned was working, the man did not want to have the cash at the time, and so he applied under the board's scheme to have the majority of his earnings put into a savings scheme. This deduction meant that his take-home pay amounted to little more than £2 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1684.2", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "COAL MINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "The union has its own procedures for balloting if it wishes to ballot. It is meeting and considering whether and when it wants to do so. It must be a matter for the union to decide. The ballot is binding on the union. Whether it wishes to conduct a ballot is obviously something it has under consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1706.1", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "COAL MINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "That took place before the Coal Industry Bill was introduced. I will not go into details about that, because that would take too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1715.1", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "COAL MINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rost", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rost", "preceding_text": "xtremely important for some of the moderates, who I believe are in the majority, to stand up and be counted. It may also interest the House to know that my constituent knows the hon. Member for Bolsover \"very well\". He said that the hon. Member for Bolsover does not have the interests of miners at heart but is a trouble-maker. He says that the hon. Member does not speak for the majority of miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1719.1", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "COAL MINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "utside the House apparently do not look further than the front of a queue at the forecourt of a filling station. Our main anxiety seems to be whether we shall have enough oil. Far too little attention has been given by the House and the Government to the implications of the increased cost of oil. The consequences of that increasing cost are likely to be somewhere between dreadful and catastrophic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1745.4", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "COAL MINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "nd after to answer all the points which have been made in the debate. It would be a gross abuse of the House if he now sought to make an equally abrasive speech in the remaining 10 minutes, to the detriment of back-bench Members who have remained here throughout. Not one Scottish Member has been called. Our problem in Scotland is extremely difficult and quite different from the problem in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1745.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1752.3", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "CHILDREN'S PLAY FACILITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I think there is a precedent for this. On the first Friday of this Parliament my colleagues and I voted on the motion, \"That this House do now adjourn\". The Opposition lost by two or three votes. I demand the right to challenge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1752.3", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "CHILDREN'S PLAY FACILITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I think there is a precedent for this. On the first Friday of this Parliament my colleagues and I voted on the motion, \"That this House do now adjourn\". The Opposition lost by two or three votes. I demand the right to challenge—[Hon. Members : \"Withdraw.\"]—Yes, I demand the right to challenge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1752.5", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "CHILDREN'S PLAY FACILITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "If you will refer to the precedent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1752.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1752.6", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "CHILDREN'S PLAY FACILITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "preceding_text": "They would not be here if the Whips had not sent for them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1752.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-07", "file": "debates1973-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5e9f68580292d541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1752.10", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "CHILDREN'S PLAY FACILITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"It was debated.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I should like to refer to the precedent of the first Friday of this Parliament when precisely this position occurred. The motion put by the Whip then, as now, was, \"That this House do now adjourn.\" That was opposed and voted upon. What occurred then should be allowed on this occasion.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-07a.1752.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-10", "file": "debates1973-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "754fe01d098462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.12.6", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The present offer guarantees the miners a substantial improvement in their living standards. It is an offer which also gives them an incentive for further productivity. With all the problems in both energy and counter-inflation, I deeply regret that the miners do not accept the offer and get back to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.12.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-10", "file": "debates1973-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "754fe01d098462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-10", "file": "debates1973-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "754fe01d098462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed—[ Interruption. ] Has my right hon. Friend noticed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.13.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-10", "file": "debates1973-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "754fe01d098462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.13.4", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.13.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-10", "file": "debates1973-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "754fe01d098462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "ontinent where they can get the price they want. Added to that bleak outlook we shall also have to contend with further large increases in the price of freight. Fuel charges will rise, and that is bound to have an effect on prices. We have not heard about this yet; we shall perhaps hear about it before Christmas. The Minister may wish to comment on it if she intervenes. What can the Government do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-10", "file": "debates1973-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "754fe01d098462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Morrison", "preceding_text": "rs to the imposition of tariffs and levies, to the need to defer tariff increases, and to the need for a reform of the CAP. First, it should be said again that tariffs and levies are part of the CAP which was accepted in principle by the Labour Party when it was in office. Secondly, world prices are so high that the effect of EEC tariffs is minimal, and sometimes has the effect of lowering prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-10", "file": "debates1973-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "754fe01d098462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "n has pointed out, there is no dogma in the Conservative Party in respect of food subsidies, as for example regarding milk. I strongly object to uncosted general requests for subsidy. The hon. Gentleman's question as to what the Government can do was much more relevant. The Government have done, and are doing, a great deal, first, through the abolition of purchase tax and selective employment tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-10", "file": "debates1973-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "754fe01d098462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " of production in agriculture. The hon. Lady is right regarding the livestock sector. At present there is a trauma running through that sector of agriculture, arising from high feed prices. Undoubtedly this is, in the short term, reducing output of some products, particularly milk. I am, nevertheless, looking to the Government with a lot of optimism and I hope that they will restore my confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-10", "file": "debates1973-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "754fe01d098462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "NEW PALACE YARD (LANDSCAPING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Never\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "I was just coming to that. It will depend upon other decisions not yet reached, but it is possible that at some future date we shall build for ourselves an extremely luxurious palace, so to speak, with new offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-10a.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-11", "file": "debates1973-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "03971b6a0c287821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-11a.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Money", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Money", "preceding_text": "May I join in the general welcome to my hon. Friend, and say that those of us on this side who have been deeply interested and concerned in this subject will find his clear and extremely constructive answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-11a.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-11", "file": "debates1973-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "03971b6a0c287821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-11a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Trafford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bring out your dead\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Trafford", "preceding_text": " many patients suffering from severe arthritis as there are in any other area. The allocation of beds for care, and the amount of money spent on such people, is not great. At the same time, the area runs an expensive coronary care unit. An ambulance screams around the countryside, rather like the old carts during the 1665 plague, with its bell ringing and someone shouting \"Bring out your injured.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-11a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-11", "file": "debates1973-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "03971b6a0c287821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-11a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "stponing year after year organisational reforms which were already grossly overdue before they reached the statute book so recently. It has been suggested that local authorities should have much greater control. Is not that exactly what the National Health Service was set up to get away from? We had local authority control over medical facilities until the inception of the National Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-11a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-11", "file": "debates1973-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "03971b6a0c287821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-11a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did he say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Mayhew", "preceding_text": "h councils. In the absence of my right hon. Friend, perhaps my hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Dr. Summerskill) will answer when she winds up. What is meant by the composition of the community health councils as my right hon. Friend described it? If I heard him aright, he said that all members of community health councils should be members of local authorities. I hope that he did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-11a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-12", "file": "debates1973-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c3476bb812d9602f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-12a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "NATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "a statement is a matter which perplexes me a great deal. I should be much more disposed to allow questions to continue if they were not made an opportunity for debating points. If they were attempts to seek information, I should be prepared to allow questions to continue. So often when I allow questions to go on they degenerate into a debate. I rather gather that we shall have a debate next week.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-12a.419.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-12", "file": "debates1973-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c3476bb812d9602f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-12a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS (EQUALITY OF TREATMENT FOR WOMEN) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-12a.422.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-12", "file": "debates1973-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c3476bb812d9602f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-12a.425.4", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I take it that it is the will of the House that these two items of business should be taken together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-12a.425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-13", "file": "debates1973-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb274204d39fee7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "ENERGY SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nomy. I note the right hon. Gentleman's declaration that he does not wish any measure of deflation. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I say that I have noted on previous occasions that he has made negotiating offers across the Floor of the House. I must say to him that I think it better that negotiations on the present industrial disputes should not be dealt with in that way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-13", "file": "debates1973-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb274204d39fee7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "ENERGY SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d not be dealt with in that way—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I say that seriously, in a situation in which the industrial disputes which now exist are threatening the life of this country. I am prepared, as is my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment, to consider proposals which are made and to reflect upon them. I am not prepared to enter into discussions across the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-13", "file": "debates1973-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb274204d39fee7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "ords of gratitude to the right hon. Member for Bermondsey (Mr. Mellish). With some hon. Members, the \"usual channels\" is not the most popular means of communication and I have sometimes wondered what the result would be if it did not exist. But as long as I have been operating the usual channels from my end I have been very fortunate in having at the other end the right hon. Member for Bermondsey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-13", "file": "debates1973-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb274204d39fee7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. McAliskey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Forty-five per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. McAliskey", "preceding_text": "Fifty per cent. of my constituents are Loyalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-13", "file": "debates1973-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb274204d39fee7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. McAliskey", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"This is negative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. McAliskey", "preceding_text": "re we now? A total of £3½ million has been involuntarily paid back under the Emergency Payments (Debt) Act out of family allowances, supplementary benefits, unemployment benefits, out of teachers' salaries, caretakers' and nurses' salaries and the salary of anybody who works for a Government Department. That was all very well when the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland was responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-13", "file": "debates1973-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb274204d39fee7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. McAliskey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. McAliskey", "preceding_text": ") Act out of family allowances, supplementary benefits, unemployment benefits, out of teachers' salaries, caretakers' and nurses' salaries and the salary of anybody who works for a Government Department. That was all very well when the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland was responsible—[AN HON. MEMBER: \"This is negative.\"] It is not negative when people are losing money. What will happen now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-13", "file": "debates1973-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb274204d39fee7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "oleheartedly with my hon. Friend the Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, who ended his speech by saying that it would be right if the new Executive was to put its proposals on power sharing and everything else to the Northern Ireland people for their opinion. The new Executive will not dare to put those proposals forward on that basis because it knows that they would be overwhelmingly defeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-13", "file": "debates1973-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb274204d39fee7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "an obligation to provide proper prisons. It is a disgrace to have men behind wires. Putting men behind wires, into cages, has a psychological effect on them. I was opposed to internment even when the Protestants were for it. I can say that because I have been consistent. But the Protestants will be going in, too. They are being lined up. For all I know, this speaker will be going in with the rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-13", "file": "debates1973-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb274204d39fee7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman really think it fair that because I happened to be in the Tea Room today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-13a.798.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-14", "file": "debates1973-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9050c19015ab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-14a.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINES (WORKING FACILITIES AND SUPPORT) (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-14a.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-17", "file": "debates1973-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ffdce214d7c8f441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.944.7", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "To some extent they have been obliged—as have all employers in London, both public and private—to use secretarial agencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.944.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-17", "file": "debates1973-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ffdce214d7c8f441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Third, the great mass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-17", "file": "debates1973-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ffdce214d7c8f441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.968.4", "colnum": "968", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "we were dealing with the sort of situation which the Prime Minister tried to frighten us into accepting last Thursday? Can the Chancellor explain how, at a time when energy is likely to be a major constraint on our national growth, he is subjecting the oil, coal, electricity and gas industries and the nuclear power industry in its public aspects to the same 20 per cent. cut as the Maplin airport?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.968.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-17", "file": "debates1973-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ffdce214d7c8f441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.970.2", "colnum": "970", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "roperty companies remaining free to increase their rents year by year in line with the enormous increase in the value of the property which they rent? Does not the Chancellor feel that in this situation it would have been right to mulct the property companies by a special levy of at least some thousands on the millions of pounds which they have made out of inflation in the last few years? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.970.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-17", "file": "debates1973-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ffdce214d7c8f441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.994.5", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND TENURE REFORM (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "ese are basically drafting amendments. They are designed to spell out for the avoidance of doubt what is meant by these technical terms. There is an unwritten rule—there is no statutory sanctity behind it as far as I know—that when dealing with very short leases one talks in terms of \"landlord\" and \"tenant\" but when dealing with longer leases one tends to use the expressions \"lessor\" and \"lessee\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.994.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-17", "file": "debates1973-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ffdce214d7c8f441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "o which he launched, not merely of the common agricultural policy, with which I know that he is not over-friendly, but also of the entire concept of the common customs tariff and the common external tariff—was so far-ranging that it cannot possibly commend itself to any hon. Members who have with any con- sistency at all supported the case for accession by this country to the European Communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-17", "file": "debates1973-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ffdce214d7c8f441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No; it is a good word.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Member for Stepney (Mr. Shore) covered my feelings about the whole question. What he said about the balance of trade with the Common Market is true. Many hopes that were held out to those who were encouraged to vote for entry are now falling flat on their faces. They are not materialising. It may be out of order to quote the word used in the front page headline of The Guardian today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-17", "file": "debates1973-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ffdce214d7c8f441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or 1 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "—he would know that there is a substantial area of doubt. There is no doubt about the positive effect on the cost of food in that respect. The Government have made it clear that the cost of food, as a result of the order, will go up by ½ per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-17", "file": "debates1973-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ffdce214d7c8f441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "appreciate the position. We must look at the net effect of the 1st January changes on food prices as a whole and get the whole matter in perspective, which is what the hon. Member for Acton (Mr. Spearing) wanted me to do. The changes in food prices are not likely to be more than ¼ per cent. to½ per cent. That represents about one-tenth of 1 per cent. on the cost of living as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.1082.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-17", "file": "debates1973-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ffdce214d7c8f441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (TREATIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "k that there are practical problems about this proposal. I am not sure whether the authorities have enough telephone lines to be constantly in operation if such a fund ever becomes really active in terms of monetary intervention in world markets. I am not sure whether air transport from this country and from other parts of Europe to the Duchy of Luxembourg is as good as it is to some other cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-17", "file": "debates1973-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ffdce214d7c8f441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (TREATIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milne", "preceding_text": "deed, there is ample evidence in the lifetime of the Community that various countries have had restrictions placed upon their regional development policies. There was intervention by the Community in the case of Belgium and Italy, and the possibility of the spread of Fascism to southern Italy is at the moment being used as an argument against increased aid. I want to come back to the order itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-17a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1117.10", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister reject the blandishments of his hon. Friends, because a moral obligation is involved and we are committed to the United Nations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1117.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1149.4", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "(SUMMIT CONFERENCE) EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "On the matter of energy supplies, did my right hon. Friend carry to his colleagues at that meeting the message that this country and both sides of the House are resolute in refusing to submit to blackmail?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "BOMB INCIDENTS (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tugendhat", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about Northern Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tugendhat", "preceding_text": " sort occur should also ask to be joined in sympathy with speakers from the two Front Benches. Although it is a convention, its importance is in no sense diminished, nor is the strength of one's feelings diminished when incidents such as this occur. My constituency, for obvious reasons, has been singled out during the course of this year for bomb outrages of every sort in streets and in stations.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are laughing at it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend has surely been right, at a time when earnings levels are endangered by fuel shortages, not to resort to fiscal measures which would reduce take-home pay or put up prices further. As to the social impact, my right hon. Friend has announced measures which will substantially reduce the gains to be made from property speculation. He has also imposed a 10 per cent. surtax surcharge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1171.4", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has asked for the facts of the case and I have given them, serious as they are, to the House. I have said that we could not let this situation continue. We had to take immediate and decisive action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1171.4", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "it in a way which leaves us in a position where we are able, as soon as possible, to resume the expansion of our productive capacity, and the growth of our exports. But I must say to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition and those who have interrupted that we cannot hope to achieve that if we simply ignore the central issue that faces us as a nation. We have to deal with inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he efficiency of their work. Finally, it makes provision against erosion of living standards by rises beyond a certain point in the cost of living. All these provisions are permitted under stage 3. All are included in the offer made to the miners. The fact is that anyone who argues that stage 3 should be more flexible is, in effect, arguing that there should be no prices and incomes policy at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "be more flexible is, in effect, arguing that there should be no prices and incomes policy at all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, that is the argument—that there should be no incomes policy and no limits on incomes of any kind. Who would benefit from such a situation? We know who would not benefit—and that is the vast majority of working people in this country. Tom Jackson put this very well last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " there should be no incomes policy and no limits on incomes of any kind. Who would benefit from such a situation? We know who would not benefit—and that is the vast majority of working people in this country. Tom Jackson put this very well last week— [ Interruption .] I know that Labour Members do not like to hear these things quoted, but this is what he said: I believe if this stage 3 is broken\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1173.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1175.3", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Mr. Heffer rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A three-day working week?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". As a nation, we have real prospects and opportunities ahead of us, thanks to the availability of energy supplies which will shortly be within our control, but we shall not be in a position to take those opportunities if we seek to tackle our immediate problems either by feebly giving way to inflation or, in anything but the short term, abandoning plans for expansion. The right economic strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1182.2", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: £80 million.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "th food prices or with rents. It is true that at last he announced some complicated measures against property speculation. Well, well, well! After the number of times we have pressed the Government to take action, all we have got now is the application of cosmetics to the unpleasant and unattractive face of property speculation, with an expected yield to the Treasury of £85 million in a full year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1185.4", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "t. No one can be allowed to opt out. No one can sit back and enjoy the fruits of the labours of others. Second, that effort must be directed to maintaining full employment within the limits set by our energy supplies. No one, whether for private profit or for any other motive, has the right to exploit our national difficulties for sectional advantage. That includes the property speculators. Third—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1185.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1191.7", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "Is it right for the right hon. Gentleman to suggest that I or any other hon. Member is not sober?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1191.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1191.7", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "Is it right for the right hon. Gentleman to suggest that I or any other hon. Member is not sober? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1191.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Wilson rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1191.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman and his Government have now reached the paralysis that they cannot find an answer to the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman and his Government have now reached the paralysis that they cannot find an answer to the question—[ Interruption .]—it is about time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman and his Government have now reached the paralysis that they cannot find an answer to the question—[ Interruption .]—it is about time—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—it is about time that we went on to that side of the House as the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "This must be for the Secretary of State. I believe that he can find the answer. He did in Northern Ireland. We gave the right hon. Gentleman full backing in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "This must be for the Secretary of State. I believe that he can find the answer. He did in Northern Ireland. We gave the right hon. Gentleman full backing in Northern Ireland. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am sure that he will confirm that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " Northern Ireland. We gave the right hon. Gentleman full backing in Northern Ireland. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am sure that he will confirm that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] He is confirming that. The Prime Minister has never asked us to tell the Secretary of State what particular agreement to reach. I believe that he can do this without an inflationary settlement if he is given this flexibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "BERS: \"Answer.\"] He is confirming that. The Prime Minister has never asked us to tell the Secretary of State what particular agreement to reach. I believe that he can do this without an inflationary settlement if he is given this flexibility. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If the right hon. Gentleman is so much the slave of the rigidity of stage 3, it is time that he abolished it and got out of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " has never asked us to tell the Secretary of State what particular agreement to reach. I believe that he can do this without an inflationary settlement if he is given this flexibility. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If the right hon. Gentleman is so much the slave of the rigidity of stage 3, it is time that he abolished it and got out of office. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If hon. Gentlemen want to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " if he is given this flexibility. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If the right hon. Gentleman is so much the slave of the rigidity of stage 3, it is time that he abolished it and got out of office. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If hon. Gentlemen want to know—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] If the Secretary of State says that he cannot do it, then let us handle these negotiations and we will do it for him. I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "EMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If the right hon. Gentleman is so much the slave of the rigidity of stage 3, it is time that he abolished it and got out of office. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If hon. Gentlemen want to know—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] If the Secretary of State says that he cannot do it, then let us handle these negotiations and we will do it for him. I believe—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—I believe that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.6", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I believe that the Secretary of State can do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.10", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1196.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is misleading the House about that. I challenge him to publish my letter to him in which I said \"some or all\" of that pithead time. The figure that he quotes is for all. He knows that he could have got agreement for a great deal less. The right hon. Gentleman bitched it. Therefore, I leave that to the right hon. Gentleman with confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1197.3", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I was trying to conclude. The people of this country seek no confrontation. They seek co-operation and conciliation. They resent the fact that confrontation has been thrust upon them. So I say to the right hon. Gentleman: let the people decide. Then we can create the conditions—a consensus of a united people—to give a chance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1197.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A U-turn?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "preceding_text": "How?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gilbert Longden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gilbert Longden", "preceding_text": "he Opposition admitted this afternoon that we could almost be back to normal, subject to any deficiencies there might be in our oil supplies. We are back to where we were before stage 1, and all the Leader of the Opposition has to offer are cures for the effects of inflation. He offers no cures for the cause. The miners are not breaking the law. I do not know of anyone who suggested that they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gilbert Longden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gilbert Longden", "preceding_text": "e stage 1. That is the situation to which we are now returning. I said that I disagreed with the right hon. and learned Member for Aberavon that the statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday was not a step forward on the road to a fairer society. I believe that it was. I am glad that at long last the Government have done something about the great fortunes made by property speculators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The golden calf.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "on the one hand and there are private individuals on the other who have some human and almost spiritual merit. It was the public expenditure cute which brought the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) back into the fold. The prodigal son came back because he sniffed the fatted calf. He thought that it was there. When he got there he was told that it was not the fatted calf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1271.7", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shut up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "What about the price?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1271.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With the support of the Tory Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "e introduction of the Coal Industry Act. I resent it when the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East, who was a member of the previous Government and had energy responsibilities, accuses the present Government of being unfair and unreasonable to the miners, for in fact it was his Government that closed 276 pits. It was under that Government that tens of thousands of miners were made unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Both parties have been wrong on this matter. We closed exactly as many pits as the Conservative Government before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-18", "file": "debates1973-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f0e90531eebe381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " this major disruption of industry, but we have aggravated the shortage of fuel oil by using it instead of coal. If we were getting full production from the mines, we could have been saving in our power stations up to 50 per cent. of the fuel oil normally used. This would have made an enormous contribution. When they say that no warning was given, I remind the Opposition that when the coal strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-18a.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The North Sea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ts to the situation. I think that we can all agree that there will now be a much harsher and more difficult climate in which the United Kingdom will have to operate. We know that in many respects the change in the world situation may bring a hitherto unexpected revolution in our prospects as a member of the world community before 10 years are out. By the end of the decade oil from the Celtic seas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1359.4", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Can the right hon. Gentleman swim?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "al action were to stop, we should still face the economic problems resulting from an oil shortage and increased oil prices, but the three-day working and other restrictions would not be required. It is fairly argued, \"What are the Government doing on the other side of the coin? How are they trying to settle these disputes?\" That is the task into which I have found myself thrown in at the deep end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1359.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1359.4", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": " what we do not earn, our prospects of continuing to make our living abroad would be poor indeed. The effects on output and employment at home would be serious, and it is against that background that I wish to look individually at the three particular disputes confronting us. The first concerns the Electrical Power Engineers' Association. I do not wish to make any detailed statement at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1359.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1363.3", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "al treatment under the present proposals. Of course it is true that in the current energy situation we need miners. Of course it is true that they have a difficult and dangerous job which few of us in this House would like to do. Of course it is true that the miners are patriotic people who have served our country well in peace and war, and that has been recognised widely by my right hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1368.2", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": ". Friend pointed out yesterday. Nor can anyone deny that the measures taken by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer are designed in the same way. There has been action against property speculators. It is considerable action. There has been action through the 10 per cent. surcharge to ensure that the richest in our society bear their share of the burden at a time of national crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1368.2", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": " on the lower and middle-income groups. In the last fortnight many of these policies have been urged on me by various trade union leaders, and I can point to the fact that many of the points have been met. Of course, it will be said \"Oh yes, but others have not\". Such is life. The Opposition will say that the measures do not go far enough. They do not want to see us have reconciliation. They want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1368.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awdry", "preceding_text": "I am referring to the entire nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1402.2", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "om now, a £400 million saving on our balance of payments will be achieved and that that is one way in which to correct the economy. It is those calculations which fit into the calculations of the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West when he talks about an enormous rise in the level of unemployment as a solution to the problem. I can see, Mr. Speaker, that you are getting somewhat upset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1402.2", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "n which to correct the economy. It is those calculations which fit into the calculations of the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West when he talks about an enormous rise in the level of unemployment as a solution to the problem. I can see, Mr. Speaker, that you are getting somewhat upset—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—but this may be the last occasion on which I shall speak in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "e Prime Minister suddenly lurched into the announcement of the most serious crisis since the war, accompanied by the most drastic and damaging measures for a 40 per cent. shut-down of industry and by the news that the Chancellor was to break his clearly given pledge of 27th July—repeated by the Leader of the House on 15th November—and introduce an autumn Budget. I do not accuse the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1465.1", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "to be squeezed out for the time being—which services are essential and which are less so, which purchases can be cut down and which should be maintained. Where the local authorities are concerned, my right hon. Friends have already provided guidance by circular in a number of cases, and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment met the representatives of the local authorities", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AND ENERGY SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " support grant will be reduced only in line with the savings in expenditure and if, like the rest of the public sector, the local authorities reduce their current expenditure in accordance with the Government's request, that will not lead to one extra penny on the rates. That should be perfectly clear. If, on the other hand, any local authority deliberately sets out to flout the national interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHARLWOOD AND HORLEY (re-committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "The Minister who says, \"Quite right\" should be aware that this is Government business. If the Government had conducted their business properly and had not stuck a knife into the common man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHARLWOOD AND HORLEY (re-committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friends will join me in dividing the Committee on the clause. We cannot allow this occasion to pass without expressing a strong protest, not only at the denial of democracy enshrined in the clause but at the denial of justice for people with similar claims. We have also been forced by the Government to sit for three hours, keeping staff here and causing them to suffer great inconvenience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-19", "file": "debates1973-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dcf1655ee6b9257c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1560.1", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS (LAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Oakes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Oakes", "preceding_text": "the British Government were allowing a compulsory purchase order to be placed on the building. To whom would an appeal be made against the Minister's order? I presume it would be to the court, as there would be no other source of appeal if the Minister decided to allow an order. My hon. Friend the Member for Paddington, North (Mr. Latham), who has clearly done a great deal of research on the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-19a.1560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-20", "file": "debates1973-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "854126975672f9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-20a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Gentleman, and sharing with him a fairly spartan childhood, I have to say that what he has said is absolute rubbish. Bacon has risen in price between 21p and 29p per pound, and eggs have risen in price by 22p to 24p per dozen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-20a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-20", "file": "debates1973-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "854126975672f9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-20a.1612.0", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "CHILEAN REFUGEES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman fully appreciate that people arriving from Chile present themselves on our shores in effect as refugees? The seven who came were all academics, graduates who had been working as civil servants in ministries under the Allende Government. When they arrived they had no contacts and the question of transferring them from visitor status to the status of people with places in universities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-20a.1612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-20", "file": "debates1973-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "854126975672f9c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-20a.1631.2", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "EEC MINISTERIAL MEETINGS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gilbert Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gilbert Longden", "preceding_text": "As the common agricultural policy, until its terms can be renegotiated, which we all hope will be soon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-20a.1631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-21", "file": "debates1973-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "016f2dcdedf40983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-21a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "HELICOPTER FACILITIES (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Brown", "preceding_text": "suggested that for him to make any inquiries of Scotland Yard about the helicopter is tantamount to interfering, and almost treason. That is an example of someone suffering from the flights of just one helicopter, apparently being used by the police each day for surveillance. I hope that before a decision is made to introduce any more heliports into London there will be a far deeper investigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-21a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1973-12-21", "file": "debates1973-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "016f2dcdedf40983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-21a.1847.3", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "HELICOPTER FACILITIES (LONDON)", "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": "inally given for seven years, which has been extended more than once. It is true that the planning consent expires in 1975 but, contrary to what my right hon. Friend the Member for Tauton (Mr. du Cann) says, I understand that the Greater London Council has formally notified Westlands of its decision on the application for a permanent planning consent. I hope that this is simply a misunderstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1973-12-21a.1847.3"}