{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.7.1", "colnum": "7", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "stock rundown was 750,000 tons when the loss was expected to be 1¼ million tons. As I have already told the House, and as I explained to the NEDC and have said repeatedly in public, the three-day week can be ended as soon as the miners decide to return to normal working and adequate supplies of coal are reaching the power stations. There is one other matter with which I should like to deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.7.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.12.3", "colnum": "12", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "further attempt by Mr. Gormley—he having made it first after my meeting—to persuade the members of his executive to go to the ballot. We were not prepared to have the accusation made that we were discussing the three-day week with the TUC before the immediate meeting of the NUM. I wish to deal with the record of the Government in consultation and in what have been the results of that consultation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.12.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "me time, all of us—the Government, the TUC and the CBI—recognised throughout our discussions that the reduction of inflation was a prime objective. I repeat that all of us would have preferred to find a way of achieving this voluntarily, but we should in no way underestimate the success of stages 1 and 2 of the incomes policy, for which I have paid tribute to both employers and unions. Most of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.16.4", "colnum": "16", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.16.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.16.6", "colnum": "16", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—a grave situation, in which the nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.16.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.16.8", "colnum": "16", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "no one should underestimate the success, with the co-operation of employers and unions, of stages 1 and 2. Most of us would have settled for a price inflation of 3 per cent. or 4 per cent. a year, and that is what we would have had, thanks to the vast growth of the economy and the restraint of employers and unions, but for the rapid and massive rise in world prices of foodstuffs and raw materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.16.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed for a greater flexibility for negotiators. How often we hear at this moment that there must be flexibility. Well, let those who ask for that consider the immense amount of flexibility in the stage 3 negotiations which has been used, rightly used, taken advantage of fully and accepted, by so many negotiators who have already completed their negotiations. Flexibility has been built into the code—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ussing it with the NUM executive this afternoon and he will be taking part in the debate tomorrow. There are certain things in general about it which I wish to say. All the provisions of stage 3 are available to the miners for negotiation. The offer to the miners includes payment for unsocial hours. I am told that there are different arrangements about shifts in mining from manufacturing industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the last part of the hon. Gentleman's question, as he knows that is being considered by the Pay Board, in the way in which the other 550 settlements have been considered. I cannot agree with the hon. Gentleman that the Government have been able to force anyone to reach a decision in this matter ; far from it. These are voluntarily negotiated agreements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ary people of this country—consumers, housewives and pensioners—to go about their lives in order and stability. There is to be a special congress of trade union leaders next week. I invite them at their meeting to take up this offer which I am making today here in Parliament, to come together with the Government and the representatives of management, not in a spirit of confrontation and suspicion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "e Government at this time. But the Departments were statute-barred from acting to work for a settlement, except in a situation where the Secretary of State might contemplate the use of the reserve power under the Act. In the event, despite the Pay Board's apparently helpful attitude up to and including Christmas Eve, the proposed settlement fell through. That is why we have a three-day week today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All of them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "o do so, which the present Pay Board does not have. This is the cumbersome machinery that the Government have to go through now. This report might give the Government an opportunity of upgrading the priority of the coal mining industry and it may well give them the compromise that they require for a settlement. My colleagues and I believe in the necessity for a statutory prices and incomes policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ton of coal mined replaces the necessity for 4·4 barrels of oil, why should not the Government pay a productivity employment bonus for every additional million tons of coal extracted over and above the 145 million? Let it be assessed on a monthly basis and let the bonus be paid to the National Coal Board and the NUM jointly to distribute. They may make it a flat across-the-board settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": " energy, and so on. Hardship is being caused not only to industry but to individuals, and such hardship should not be underestimated. Domestic users of electricity are making great savings, but it is nonsensical in these circumstances to find many miles of the Ml floodlit. The general public cannot understand this, and certainly I cannot. For good or ill we have a Conservative Government in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.79.6", "colnum": "79", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "Mining. That was in the days when I was at the University of Cambridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.79.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "London and County Securities for one penny piece—not 1p for each share but 1p for ten thousand. At that time, of course, they ran at about £3 apiece. They did drop rather dramatically. They were then called \"not fully paid up\" shares—10,000 for 1p. And he has the cheek and the audacity to talk about miners accepting £2·30 under phase 3. The hon. and learned Member for Lincoln (Mr. Taverne)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "as he also did by the way in which he formulated his New Year letter as Tory Party chairman. He should learn that the miners are not being exploited by extremist leaders. The hon. Member for Surrey, East (Mr. William Clark) referred in strong terms to extremist leaders and Communist militants and used phrases of that sort. But it is the miners who are telling their leaders how they want to be led.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-09", "file": "debates1974-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc4507371b4797e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "een problems in the London area, but the allocation system has been progressively improved and anomalies in the pattern of deliveries ironed out. The very fact that I am having such a quiet reception whilst I say that tonight is, I think, evidence that my right hon. Friend was absolutely right and correct in the decision that he took. Not only that, but he is owed a great debt of gratitude by all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-09a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "EMERGENCY (TUC PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Discussions about what?\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will tell the House about the timetable. I received the document from the TUC as I walked into the Chamber. I read it on the Bench while other statements were being made. The document was not circulated in Neddy until after the meeting was concluded. What the Chancellor said was based on nearly two hours of discussion with the NEDC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "EMERGENCY (TUC PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What for?\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " rightly so, about what the assurance meant. The CBI expressed its views, as all members of the council are entitled to do. After nearly two hours of discussion my right hon. Friend said that in his judgment the answers which had been given did not provide a basis for dealing with the counter-inflation policy. I have now said that I and my colleagues are fully prepared to see the TUC this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.177.2", "colnum": "177", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. Questions in this House will be answered by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Energy, as the whole House would expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "We have had those hares. They have all run round the course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.185.5", "colnum": "185", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "What about the danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.185.5", "colnum": "185", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "What about the danger—[ Interruption .] On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am told by my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.185.5", "colnum": "185", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "What about the danger—[ Interruption .] On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am told by my constituents—[ Interruption .] I am raising a point of order with you, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.185.10", "colnum": "185", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.185.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "he TUC suggestion offers any prospect of effective help in resolving the present problem. Let us be clear, however, about the very real and substantial difficulties in the TUC approach which I pointed out to the House on 19th December and which, for once—as I have been quoted by the Leader of the Opposition—I should like to read. I do not normally like reading my own words, but I shall read these—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "hat in negotiations they would not seek to follow the miners' lead. We are all aware of the difficulties which would face any trade union leader in giving an assurance of that sort.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th December 1973 ; Vol. 866, c. 1366.] That, if I may say so, was exactly what I said then and it was exactly the burden of what my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer said yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "I am glad that question was asked. The statement arose from a unanimous decision of the Economic Committee of the TUC General Council, including the leaders of the biggest unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.196.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.196.7", "colnum": "196", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.196.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": ". Alternatively, I invite the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to reply to the point later. If the National Coal Board wishes to respond to an extra demand under this heading, which would substantially increase the offer, can we be guaranteed that Ministers will not lean on the board to prevent its taking that course? I should like an answer to this either now or at the end of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "ruptcy figures very soon. As regards the effects on employment, again it is those least able to defend themselves who suffer first, as in any period of short-time working or unemployment—the disabled, those in indifferent health, those who have recently returned to work after a period of illness and who are the last to sign on and the first to go. Those are the first victims of the present policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.200.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Everyone present in the Chamber, with the exception perhaps of the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) whose memory often fails him, will recall that my right hon. Friend said that he would make the figures available as soon as possible——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.229.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "take a view on the question what we can afford to pay ourselves. The Government, after due consultation with the TUC, CBI and any other relevant interest group, should declare each year a national pay dividend—the amount by which the nation's pay can increase over 12 months without giving rise to intolerable price rises. I shall not go into detail now about the way in which this can be calculated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.245.7", "colnum": "245", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "rate trade unionists are feeling that they are being driven into an alliance of absolute loyalty with their union executives, right or wrong. What is it that is drawing the moderates—the good men and the good workers in industry—who are in the majority, into the arms of men whose interests are not moderate and are even evil? These are the answers which we must find. I shall now conclude my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.245.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": " over, the destruction of the Labour Movement follows as night follows day. The time has come when to serve the Labour Party we must challenge the arrogance and hysteria of this minority. That was said by Mr. Jim Conway, the General Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, in December 1973. If he does not know what he is talking about, I doubt whether any Labour hon. Member does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Carter", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"He grew up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Carter", "preceding_text": "ed the Electrical Trades Union. Who was the General Secretary of the ETU at that time? None other than Mr. Frank Chapple. That man, who is now apparently the scourge of the Communist Party, was then, according to the Government—as we heard from Ministers day in and day out—trying to bring the country to a grinding halt and to sabotage the electrical industry and hence all industry in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": " for doses of reality and for moments of truth, let us perform our representative function and say to those who put that to us that they must now learn the hard truth, listen to some straight talking and have a dose of reality. For tight wage control by law will not work, and by consent will never be achieved unless we are able to make a change in our whole approach to the sort of society we have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Walker)", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Bristol, South-East has he implied anything other than that he is totally behind the miners in their claim. I wish to deal particularly with the allegation made by the right hon. Gentleman about the reasons for the three-day week. It is significant that neither the Leader of the Opposition nor the right hon. Member for East Ham, North argued that a three-day week was not necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " the Labour Party to introduce that Act. That Act made the fundamental decision of reversing the policy advocated in the energy White Paper of 1967—a policy which, in fairness, the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East has now stated he considers was totally wrong. He now states that he considers that he was badly advised. The only thing that one can say about the right hon. Gentleman is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-10", "file": "debates1974-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce7395c4db49cfff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "to which one provides an increase for an industry such as this. The Leader of the Opposition has said categorically in this debate that he would not give in to the claim made by the National Union of Mineworkers. What he has said—and I do not criticise him for this—is that he does not consider that it is the duty of the Government to give in to the demand made by the National Union of Mineworkers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-10a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-15", "file": "debates1974-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "d0de6f5f0960e05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-15a.340.2", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "ers except to seek their co-operation, particularly towards a constructive and restrained atmosphere for finding a way out of the present crisis? After the TUC leaders had gone as far as they constitutionally could in order to meet the Government, why were they turned down? Does not that leave the impression in the country that all those meetings were nothing more than a public relations exercise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-15a.340.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-15", "file": "debates1974-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "d0de6f5f0960e05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-15a.342.8", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Get on with the question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I am not so sure that the trade union movement would want to make any further constructive suggestions about amendments in view of what happened last night and the way in which the Government were not satisfied with the pound of flesh, which is more than I would give. They wanted blood instead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-15a.342.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-15", "file": "debates1974-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "d0de6f5f0960e05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-15a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall that time after time my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has invited the trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-15a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-15", "file": "debates1974-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "d0de6f5f0960e05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-15a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was sacked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Howden (Sir P. Bryan) has considerable experience in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-15a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-15", "file": "debates1974-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "d0de6f5f0960e05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-15a.350.2", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "The best way to protect the interests of small businesses is for the overtime ban in the mines to come to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-15a.350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-15", "file": "debates1974-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "d0de6f5f0960e05b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-15a.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE (ROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Opposition time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "With permission of the House, may I say—I think I am speaking for the majority of the members of the Committee present—how deeply disappointed we are at the right hon. Gentleman's remarks about direct reporting by sub-committees? He said that if we had put down a motion he would have allowed it to go on the Order Paper in Government time today and therefore to be debated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-15a.489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-16", "file": "debates1974-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "99f9014214c88bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.513.2", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "programme? Council house building is the lowest since pre-war and it should be stressed that many local authorities, including Manchester, are now forced to offer 13¾ per cent. per annum on short-term loans and that for building firms there is an even higher rate of interest. What will the Minister do to stop the further reduction in the housing programme which will result from this factor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-16", "file": "debates1974-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "99f9014214c88bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I think it is remarkable that the Labour Party, when it was out of power in the local authorities, said that it would build many more houses. Then it came into office, and it is now seeking every excuse for its lamentable failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-16", "file": "debates1974-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "99f9014214c88bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will not be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member is wrong and he should be fair about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-16", "file": "debates1974-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "99f9014214c88bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Evading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will not expect me to agree with him on that last point. Nor do I think I am evading the questions that hon. Members are asking. I do not choose to speculate about what figures will be released for the whole year, because I do not know what the completions will be. The whole House will be able to form its judgment on 31st January when the figures are published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-16", "file": "debates1974-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "99f9014214c88bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the correct figure for the increase in mortgage repayments on an average house for sale between 1970 and 1973 is 120 per cent.? Does he agree that one major way of contributing towards counter-inflation policies would be to stop the obscene speculation in land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-16", "file": "debates1974-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "99f9014214c88bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The House will not expect me to comment on the suggestion made by the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-16", "file": "debates1974-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "99f9014214c88bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.611.3", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "he philosophy if one likes, with which we approach them. I believe that we can all work more closely together to provide teachers—who, after all, bear the brunt of these problems—with the moral as well as the physical support which they need. My hope is that in spite of all our difficulties—economic and otherwise—1974 will prove to be a year when the true deep-seated strength of British education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-16", "file": "debates1974-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "99f9014214c88bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPROVEMENT GRANTS (WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "Member for Rhondda, West (Mr. Alec Jones) also tried to pour scorn on the White Paper. But that White Paper describes a new range of measures designed to tackle the housing problems in those areas where living conditions are worst and to change the improvement grant system to benefit those whose needs are greatest. This surely should have the approval of those Welsh Labour Members who are present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-16", "file": "debates1974-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "99f9014214c88bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MID AND SOUTH-WEST WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "rate dropped to 2·3 per cent. Recent figures indicate a continuation of this pattern of improvement. Indeed, they show that between mid-1971 and mid-1973 the population of the five counties of Mid-Wales actually rose by 2,100, or 1 per cent. The natural change was still negative, but this was more than counterbalanced by a net change of nearly 2,900 in other components, primarily migration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-16a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-17", "file": "debates1974-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ea0d160035877b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "The latest report of the Inland Revenue showed that over £5 million was charged in penalties for tax underassessment and evasion. But although there are very few criminal prosecutions in the courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-17", "file": "debates1974-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ea0d160035877b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "y hold shares in another company controlled by that first one. There are reasonably generous transitional arrangements to allow for the orderly unwinding of the existing position. I have no doubt that this provision will cause considerable dismay in some entirely respectable quarters, and that there will be a feeling that there should be some specific exemption provided for respectable situations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-17", "file": "debates1974-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ea0d160035877b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.943.3", "colnum": "943", "heading": "COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you sure?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "igations of the period in which we live. This is where the two parties might legitimately have a different political approach to company reform. I should also acknowledge that there are people who for one reason or another think that private enterprise should be abolished instantly and completely. I respect that point of view, but I do not share it. It is not the point of view of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.943.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-17", "file": "debates1974-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ea0d160035877b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.948.2", "colnum": "948", "heading": "COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"He does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman will feel he has made a very telling point, until he suggests to the House that we should abandon the scrutiny of the capital programmes of public enterprises. He does not say \"It's all a waste of time. Let's not do it\". He dare not say it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.948.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-17", "file": "debates1974-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ea0d160035877b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "riously consider delaying any disclosure of that nature until other countries in the Common Market do the same. Must we have another lawyers' paradise in this Bill? Even on page 1 of it we are referred back to the Companies Act 1948 for definitions. It would make much easier the work not only of hon. Members but of people who must interpret the law if these matters could be spelled out in one Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-17", "file": "debates1974-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ea0d160035877b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wedgie Benn.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne) is not trying to drive a wedge between myself and my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-17", "file": "debates1974-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ea0d160035877b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " answer the hon. Member for South Angus. There is not necessarily as wide a divergence between both sides of the House over the political power of business as may appear from an elementary study of current political argument. The power of Henry Ford and the Ford empire, or IBM or, notably, of the oil companies, or even ITT threatens the independence of a nation State, including the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-17", "file": "debates1974-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ea0d160035877b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.1030.5", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "nance the \"dirty tricks\" that we read of, and now the charge is seriously being sustained in the United States that President Nixon's energy policy is being affected by the contributions which have been made to his campaign by the oil companies. That is a corrupt element in American politics. As Aims of Industry now begins its own campaign we see the same sinister forces at work. Aims of Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.1030.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-17", "file": "debates1974-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ea0d160035877b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.1030.5", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ition to contract out from paying his political levy, whereas Aims of Industry raises its money without consulting the shareholders, the workers or the consumers. This money is raised by a little group of people running the company. They put this money into a political campaign. Why? Because investment by big business in the Conservative Party gives to that firm a lower rate of corporate taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.1030.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-17", "file": "debates1974-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ea0d160035877b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman provides me with that text, and I was on the committee that drafted it. In reading it he will notice that it wholly repudiates the point which he made earlier—namely, that the object of the exercise was for the Labour Government to place in power people who shared their view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-17", "file": "debates1974-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ea0d160035877b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "en so, would not prevent the manipulation of deceptive percentages by reference to the issue price of no-par-value shares. A number of hon. Members spoke about our posture in relation to nonvoting shares. My hon. Friend the Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne) and the right hon. Member for Manchester, Cheetham took the same view and tended to think that they were all right and should not be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-17a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-18", "file": "debates1974-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "69de5c8700286c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-18a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (WORKING WEEK)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "aid that it was one way, or that there may be a further way of a more flexible use of the power available over a longer working week. No decision has been reached on any of these matters. The consultations will be carried through. I think the House will agree that it is not usual in the House to make a statement announcing that one is entering into consultations. It is right that when a decision——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-18a.1062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-18", "file": "debates1974-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "69de5c8700286c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-18a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (WORKING WEEK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend imagine what the Leader of the Opposition would have been saying this morning had my right hon. Friend taken none of these steps and had we had a cold spell and now practically a no-day working week? Will my right hon. Friend take comfort from the fact that the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-18a.1065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-18", "file": "debates1974-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "69de5c8700286c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-18a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "CHARTER FLIGHTS (FUEL SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "ily attend the shortage of aviation fuel. I have already said that the operators are doing all that they can to look after the interests of British passengers, and I assure the hon. Gentleman that any further information which becomes available and which would help the House to understand what is going on in this matter will be made generally available by my hon. Friend as soon as he possibly can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-18a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1194.6", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Jumping?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "It is far too early to jump to the kind of conclusions to which the right hon. Gentleman is jumping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1194.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " clearly enough—is to ensure that it will always work out in this way. Instead of the wage earner being able to improve his position, his position will be held down while that of the dividend drawer, the profiteer, would be enormously enhanced. Any hon. Gentleman who doubts what I say has only to read the figures in The Times today given by my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "t observers. The inequalities of income have already been sharply reduced by the very high level of progressive taxation in this country. After all, in this country we have taxation which at the maximum level is 75 per cent. of earnings and no less than 90 per cent. of investment income. That leaves very little, even for the wealthiest recipients, of investment income—10 per cent. is what is left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nobody has believed you yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I shall come on to explain. If we were to remove all the remaining income from those who receive more than £5,000 net a year, the total yield would be £400 million a year. That would be enough for an extra bonus of 30p a week for a every wage earner and self-employed person in the land. That is all the scope left for re-distribution of income. I now come to the hon. Gentleman's principal argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are better managers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " to it? Many of our neighbouring countries—I am thinking particularly of the Scandinavian countries, of Germany and of Holland, have a standard of living higher than that of the people in this country ; they have less poverty ; they have more prosperity ; they have full employment. Yet they have much greater inequalities of earned income. The pay of managers in Germany, in Holland, in Scandinavia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "bution of a stagnant national cake is no way forward. What I must ask the House to consider is whether either the motion or the hon. Member's speech has represented the true position. Is it true, as the motion suggests and as the hon. Gentleman tried to argue, that we still live in the days described by Disraeli in \"Sybil,\" in a state of two nations? Is it true that we still have a simple picture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "ade union leaders to retain the leadership of their followers. The only justification for an election would be to prove that the country wished an elected Government to stick to their policy. I would be one of those who after such an election would urge that the victorious Conservative Government should adopt as conciliatory an attitude as possible to the unions. However, I return to my arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not said that\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "on to expect. What cannot possibly be excused, as Labour Members know in their heart of hearts, are the hopes which even now are being held out by some Labour leaders, most notably the Leader of the Opposition, that if only the Government would abandon confrontation and give the miners all they want at a stroke, we could all enjoy a higher standard of living without actually having to work for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Monks", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Monks", "preceding_text": " groups who also have rights. With rights we must couple responsibility or innocent people will suffer, as they have been suffering in the last few weeks. Is this greed or a determination to wreck the system which serves this country well and is built in to our history? Possibly it is a bit of both. Recently we experienced a moving example of national family loyalty when Princess Anne was married.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Monks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Monks", "preceding_text": "ign, to their British nationality and to this House, regardless of their politics. We are one nation, and we shall prosper or fail together. A Government cannot be called divisive because it strives to protect the interests of the whole nation as against the selfish interests of groups or individuals. In fighting inflation, the Government are taking on the battle in the common interest for us all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "corner can be swift. It can be from rent strike to gun law in 36 easy monthly instalments, because that it is what it is in Ulster. I quote from no blood-curdling Right-wing Tory journal but the current issue of the Local Government Chronicle: \"The party\"—it speaks of the Labour Party— is aligning itself with law-breakers and if there is an early election this could add one more nasty ingredient\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I would rather not, least of all to the hon. Gentleman. I think that that last sentence is quite the gloomiest that I have ever read in a responsible journal. It contains within it the same utter despair that has given the so-called Loyalists the power to use arms illegally in the name of the law in Ulster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "If we give way on stage 3, we defeat not only my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Front Bench ; we defeat every leader of a trade union which has settled within stage 3 already, and we throw him to the wolves. Let right hon. and hon. Members opposite think deeply about that. I and a good many of my hon. Friends who are opposed in principle to statutory policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1307.4", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": ", following the Prime Minister's return to power, that we are confronted with an emergency and a crisis. Anyone walking into the House would think that it had occurred yesterday, or when the miners decided not to work overtime, but since the Government came to power in 1970 they have deliberately, by malice aforethought and action, aggravated and exacerbated the crisis which is now confronting us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "cause they are on strike but because they are refusing to work overtime. There is no law—there cannot be a law—which would make men and women work overtime. This is the last place that should try to insist upon such a law. What annoys me is when Members who rarely attend the House and some of whom we do not see for months and who send their huge salaries to the Cayman Islands to get them tax free—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr, Robert Carr)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr, Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": " on this subject. She is a genuine social democrat, as indeed are many members of the Labour Party, both inside and outside this House, and as are very large numbers of Labour voters. But the country is entitled to doubt whether this is the dominant voice and the dominant power nowadays within the Labour Party. Those of us who heard the way in which the debate was opened had that doubt reinforced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr, Robert Carr)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr, Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": "emocracy must allow minorities to state their case and their disagreements, and to state them as loudly as they please, provided that they do not indulge in violence or subversion, for this alone creates the appearance always of controversy and disunity in a democratic society. Secondly, and even more fundamentally, it is the the very essence of a democracy that a country should be given a choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "cessity. We both tried to get a degree of control over pay increases by voluntary means. Unfortunately, we both failed and both of us regrettably had to resort to what my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services said a little earlier was \"second best\", namely a statutory policy. This is something that both parties have to admit. It is nothing peculiar to the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " to realise the truth of that. Look at the dispute on the railways. There it is clearly not a division between the railway unions and the rest of organised labour or the rest of society, but a division and a confrontation between the different unions within the railway industry. The miners' dispute clearly is not a case of the whole trade union movement versus the rest of the country over stage 3—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE DIVIDED NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has been stopped\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "nnot change the present pattern of differentials and make it more fair, we cannot so easily restructure the pay within individual industries more efficiently and fairly, if at all, in a climate of economic stagnation as we can in a climate of economic expansion. That is why the Government based their strategy on going for economic expansion. We knew that it involved risks: we took those risks and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1335.7", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE NATION DIVIDED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why were you not here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Are we now to have a statement on the very important talks which broke down at Downing Street today? The matter was, I understand, raised in the concluding stages of the debate on the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1335.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE NATION DIVIDED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Further to the right hon. Gentleman's statement, that would be an acceptable proposition if the Chancellor had not been quite clear 10 minutes ago what the nation should be told. If he was clear about it, why is not the Prime Minister clear enough about it to tell the House? In view of the line the Leader of the House is taking—and we do not want half an hour of points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE NATION DIVIDED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Having been in opposition a number of years, I find the very thought that the right hon. Gentleman never went on television unless he had made a statement to the House first a little hard to put up with. Having said that, I will go no further than to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE NATION DIVIDED", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Let the right hon. Gentleman speak for the House and not the Tory Party.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I want to hear what the Lord President has to say about business for tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE NATION DIVIDED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I will speak for the House, and I will speak for my own Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1338.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE NATION DIVIDED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I ask the House to help the Chair. The point is not really a point of order. It is a convention of the House that Opposition Front Bench spokesmen such as the Leader of the Opposition, or whoever it may be, may ask a question on business under the guise of a point of order. It is not the convention of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1358.0", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY CORPORATIONS (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "The Government are not saying to the nationalised industries that, if they increase their turnover and that turnover with economic policies would lead to an increased surplus, they will get that surplus. All they are saying is that they will meet any book losses. That is a very different situation, which will bring about despair in the Post Office and the other nationalised industries. I conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-21", "file": "debates1974-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "52a2f051ed3b62f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1395.4", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY CORPORATIONS (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "s very odd, when one looks at the sums involved, because one sees that the Bill provides for £145 million in respect of losses in 1970–71, 1971–72 and 1972–73. For 1973–74 and 1974–75 we are talking of total payments which may not exceed £400 million or, by Treasury order, a maximum of £500 million. They are very substantial amounts, and are worthy of discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-21a.1395.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-22", "file": "debates1974-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cd86a87cfa354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1421.4", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I should like publicly to pay tribute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1421.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-22", "file": "debates1974-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cd86a87cfa354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1442.3", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was of course quite incorrect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-22", "file": "debates1974-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cd86a87cfa354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1444.5", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "EMERGENCY (TUC PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "conomic situation and its prospects, and against that background the miners' dispute and the TUC initiative. On the use of electricity in industry, my right hon. and noble Friend the Secretary of State for Energy explained that, for various reasons which I described in my answers to questions in the House last Friday, stocks of coal at the power stations were higher than had earlier been expected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1444.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-22", "file": "debates1974-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cd86a87cfa354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "EMERGENCY (TUC PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman refers to the full claim—which was referred to by my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs. Renée Short)—is he aware that from an early stage in the dispute Mr. Gormley said that the miners were not pushing the full claim and that they wanted the right to negotiate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-22", "file": "debates1974-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cd86a87cfa354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "EMERGENCY (TUC PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "iate. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members must know nothing about the negotiations, if that is the basis of their interruption. I hope that the Prime Minister does, but in view of what he has said I doubt whether he does. The right hon. Gentleman referred to the full claim. Mr. Gormley has made clear several times, and so have I, that what was wanted was the right to negotiate an honourable settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-22", "file": "debates1974-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cd86a87cfa354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1455.0", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "EMERGENCY (TUC PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will not help find a solution by adopting that attitude. If the NUM or the NCB wished to pursue this further with the Pay Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-22", "file": "debates1974-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cd86a87cfa354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1457.0", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "EMERGENCY (TUC PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I hope that, after what I have said today in Parliament, the National Union of Mineworkers will see that there is a genuine desire to give miners the best possible arrangements within the counter-inflationary policy, which has been approved by the House, and a genuine desire and will to work with it for the whole of the future of its industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-22", "file": "debates1974-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cd86a87cfa354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1556.0", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "preceding_text": "re immediately his declaring himself in favour of the events of last weekend. I think he agreed that it was trespass and unlawful entry. Approval of such an episode in any circumstances is surely bound to prejudice the whole basis of the law of private property and security against entry. It is a slippery slope, certainly for someone in his position as a member of the Law Society, to support this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-22a.1556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-23", "file": "debates1974-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a6556d9d36a2fcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-23a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "I want to address myself to you, Mr. Speaker, rather than to the matter under discussion. The House has become more and more a specialist forum for more and more specialist debates. This afternoon we are debating a highly boring, tedious and specialist matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-23a.1660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-23", "file": "debates1974-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a6556d9d36a2fcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-23a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "There is no emasculation. If I were to start telling any part of the country what will apply to it and what distribution it will be getting out of the rate support grant, I should have to recite 400 sets of figures in respect of every authority. These are not fully calculated as yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-23a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-23", "file": "debates1974-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a6556d9d36a2fcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-23a.1854.1", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "SECOND READING COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A fourth?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "a qualified airline pilot, nor, in order to qualify to become chairman of the Coal Board, that one needs to be a mining engineer. Yet, in this case, whatever the recommendations and representations of the Fulton Committee, if two persons enter the Civil Service in the Land Registry, one of them with a double-first in mods and greats and the other with a fourth in law, the man with a fourth in law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-23a.1854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-24", "file": "debates1974-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e742c1cc13b30f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-24a.1952.1", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY SECONDARY LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend is described by the Economist as the most intelligent anti-Marketeer in the Conservative Party and I bow to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-24a.1952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-24", "file": "debates1974-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e742c1cc13b30f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-24a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY SECONDARY LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " at Brussels this week—although I am not sure of the stage which has been reached—on food prices. Decisions are to be made whether the price of beef should go up 7 per cent. or 10 per cent., whether milk prices should go up 4 per cent., and whether the Germans are to have their way on cereal prices or whether we are. I am not certain whether such decisions are to be reached this week or next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-24a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-25", "file": "debates1974-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "99e9b073bb6362cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-25a.2042.0", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "THREE-DAY WORKING WEEK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": " only depriving people of their entertainment—the Minister's antics are no substitute for that—but is now seriously beginning to inhibit freedom of expression in the country? The question still remains: are we to have a positive and new initiative to end this confrontation? We do not mean a sanctimonious letter from the Prime Minister which tells the miners nothing new. If the Government continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-25a.2042.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-25", "file": "debates1974-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "99e9b073bb6362cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-25a.2141.9", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS (EQUALITY OF TREATMENT FOR WOMEN) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-25a.2141.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-25", "file": "debates1974-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "99e9b073bb6362cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-25a.2141.13", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "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/1974-01-25a.2141.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-25", "file": "debates1974-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "99e9b073bb6362cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-25a.2142.2", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "PET ANIMALS ACT 1951 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-25a.2142.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-25", "file": "debates1974-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "99e9b073bb6362cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-25a.2142.6", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "ANTI-HARASSMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-25a.2142.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-28", "file": "debates1974-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "bbf50c0cd638d325", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-28a.25.7", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "This is out of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-28a.25.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-28", "file": "debates1974-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "bbf50c0cd638d325", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-28a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "EDUCATION (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "There will be some married women returners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-28a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-28", "file": "debates1974-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "bbf50c0cd638d325", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-28a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "EDUCATION (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " the reality of the staff room and the classroom. Having provided for children to stay on until 16, we could allow them to leave school at 15 if they had a good job to go to and the prospect of day release to continue their education. If both teacher and parent agreed that a child would not benefit from staying on at school there might under those circumstances be a case for allowing him to leave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-28a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-28", "file": "debates1974-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "bbf50c0cd638d325", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-28a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "EDUCATION (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "I shall give the Secretary of State an example of it in the hope that she and her colleagues will look at it carefully. It concerns the provision of school meals by the education committee in Ealing. The borough must find an additional £600,000 for 1974–75 merely to maintain the status quo and irrespective of any cuts in expenditure. But this is a difficult matter for the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-28a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-28", "file": "debates1974-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "bbf50c0cd638d325", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-28a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "EDUCATION (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "except that it was grossly misleading and an abominable trick. The people now see the way the price of food has gone up as a result of Britain entering the EEC. The Prime Minister's promises are forgotten, the price of food continues to rise and the local education authorities have to try to decide what food will cost them in 1974–75. In Ealing it will mean at least another £600,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-28a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-28", "file": "debates1974-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "bbf50c0cd638d325", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-28a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "HEALTH AND WELFARE (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Redmond", "preceding_text": "in close touch with the feeling of the people on the shop floor. He knows exactly what they are thinking, and it was about that that he wrote to me. It is a very forceful letter. He says that his employees—they are not employed in a highly paid industry—unanimously thought that there were too many scroungers on the social services today. \"Scroungers\" is his word, repeating what the employees said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-28a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-29", "file": "debates1974-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "801ec7cd370d6c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-29a.252.2", "colnum": "252", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Tom Boardman)", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Tom Boardman)", "preceding_text": "e Paper itself stressed, our economic prospects and particularly our balance of payments are now subject to much uncertainty over the next few years from the effect of enormously increased oil prices and energy costs. This makes it essential to reassess the share of total available resources which we can devote to the public sector. This is not to say that the White Paper was not worth publishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-29a.252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-29", "file": "debates1974-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "801ec7cd370d6c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-29a.258.3", "colnum": "258", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "It was always accepted that there would be a large adverse balance during 1973.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-29a.258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-29", "file": "debates1974-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "801ec7cd370d6c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-29a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "astrous for that section which uses State schools. In parts of Lancashire, including my own area, there are still primary schools over 100 years old where in high winds pupils who have to go to disgraceful outdoor toilets have to carry a bucket weighed down with books to prevent them being lifted off their feet. That situation is likely to continue unless funds are found to deal with such matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-29a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-29", "file": "debates1974-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "801ec7cd370d6c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-29a.371.4", "colnum": "371", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "ion policy, has been designed specifically to help the low paid. As for the cuts, I do not believe it is the case that they will fall more heavily on poorer members of the community. Labour Members have made clear that in their view the Government should go for tax increases. Indeed, the hon. Member for All Saints was clear and explicit about that. The House will have listened with great interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-29a.371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-29", "file": "debates1974-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "801ec7cd370d6c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-29a.371.4", "colnum": "371", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A vivid speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "on poorer members of the community. Labour Members have made clear that in their view the Government should go for tax increases. Indeed, the hon. Member for All Saints was clear and explicit about that. The House will have listened with great interest—[ Interruption .] I say to the hon. Member who intervened that that is precisely what the hon. Member for All Saints suggested with such animation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-29a.371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-30", "file": "debates1974-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1b1b4f2f02b7ccd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-30a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "BROADCASTING OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "t (Mr. William Hamilton) says \"The Whips were not on.\" Surely my hon. Friend and also my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) who made a similar comment, are not saying that they have never spoken against the Whip. Interventions such as that do not give any strength to their case. They would do much better to keep quiet. Let me proceed on my course, for I have almost finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-30a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-31", "file": "debates1974-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7d3c488eda31a5a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI AND TUC (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I warmly welcome the fact that he responded speedily to the letter I sent him on Tuesday evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-31", "file": "debates1974-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7d3c488eda31a5a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI AND TUC (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ther of his proposals in respect of coal, which assume a prior and unconditional withdrawal of any strike action which there may be and a return to systematic overtime working, meets the situation, because his first alternative—that is, to take the stage 3 coal board offer and then to have discussions about a rosier long-term future for the industry—has been rejected fiat by the NUM a dozen times?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-31", "file": "debates1974-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7d3c488eda31a5a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI AND TUC (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "which there may be and a return to systematic overtime working, meets the situation, because his first alternative—that is, to take the stage 3 coal board offer and then to have discussions about a rosier long-term future for the industry—has been rejected fiat by the NUM a dozen times? [ Interruption .] This is an important matter, and I hope that hon. Gentlemen will shut up. The second proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.609.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-31", "file": "debates1974-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7d3c488eda31a5a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A planted question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": ". Friend, but at the moment I have no evidence of malpractice of this kind. If any hon. Member has received allegations from miners who are his constituents and they can be substantiated, I am sure he will want to draw the attention of the union to them, and I am confident that the union would want to investigate any complaint that its members were not able to record their vote in a proper manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.618.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-31", "file": "debates1974-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7d3c488eda31a5a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.618.4", "colnum": "618", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.618.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-31", "file": "debates1974-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7d3c488eda31a5a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.620.3", "colnum": "620", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read your brief.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Mr. Prior rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.620.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-31", "file": "debates1974-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7d3c488eda31a5a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.622.4", "colnum": "622", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should tell us how he knew about that question. He has cheated the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.622.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-01-31", "file": "debates1974-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7d3c488eda31a5a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Instead of the hon. Member for Derbyshire, West (Mr. Scott-Hopkins) hiding in a cowardly way behind the privileges of this House——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.623.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-01-31", "file": "debates1974-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7d3c488eda31a5a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "preceding_text": "resignation of his predecessor, my right hon. Friend the Member for Chichester (Mr. Chataway) and I got it a week later. They made him a Privy Counsellor. I then insisted in another speech on the resignation of my hon. Friend the Member for Woking (Mr. Onslow). I got it a week later, and they gave him another senior position. Therefore, not only should my right hon. Friend appoint Lord Rutherglen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-01-31a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-01", "file": "debates1974-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5d515c9a3244fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YOUTH AND COMMUNITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "rle Committee were to review the contribution that the youth service of England and Wales could make to assist young people to play their part in the life of the community. My only comment is that there is no change in the objective. The commendable objective always has been how best to provide a situation in which young people can be of service to the community. I have chosen, purely for brevity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-01", "file": "debates1974-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5d515c9a3244fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YOUTH AND COMMUNITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "ted to negotiate salary scales and conditions of service for full-time youth leaders; eighth, that a national campaign for more voluntary helpers and the development of the voluntary principle at every level of activity should be organised; ninth, that there should also be opportunities for young people to participate as partners in the youth service. May I state in parenthesis the story thus far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-01", "file": "debates1974-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5d515c9a3244fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.815.2", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YOUTH AND COMMUNITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "sted in the youth organisations in England and Scotland, part of which I have the honour to represent, and I am making a case which I think it is legitimate to make. I am here almost every Friday in the Session, unlike the hon. Gentleman, who is hardly ever here. Of course he has his alibis—he always has. Nevertheless, I propose to make my speech at such length as I will determine and nobody else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.815.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-01", "file": "debates1974-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5d515c9a3244fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YOUTH AND COMMUNITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "ualify for rate support grant. Thus they will have to be provided out of revenue raised from ratepayers. I am all in favour of this, whether the facilities be for the young or the old. When we welcome and pass measures of this sort, we should be prepared to return to our local communities and say clearly to the local ratepayers that we are approving legislation that will result in increased rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.833.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-02-01", "file": "debates1974-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5d515c9a3244fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.839.11", "colnum": "839", "heading": "RIGHTS OF WOMEN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 25th January ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.839.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-02-01", "file": "debates1974-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5d515c9a3244fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.840.2", "colnum": "840", "heading": "OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS (EQUALITY OF TREATMENT FOR WOMEN) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.840.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-02-01", "file": "debates1974-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5d515c9a3244fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.840.6", "colnum": "840", "heading": "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/1974-02-01a.840.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-02-01", "file": "debates1974-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5d515c9a3244fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.840.13", "colnum": "840", "heading": "ANTI-HARASSMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-01a.840.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-04", "file": "debates1974-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca458730fee62502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-04a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "SPEECH THERAPY SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I have had a lot of experience, over many years, with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and supplementary medicines groups. I would prefer to hear from those bodies about their views on the report rather than necessarily hear from the Opposition. Will my right hon. Friend accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-04a.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-04", "file": "debates1974-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca458730fee62502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-04a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "SPEECH THERAPY SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Lady has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, may I just say to you that as for years I have represented in Parliament the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-04a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-05", "file": "debates1974-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "f53824598c4c3909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1017.5", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "In view of the challenge thrown out by the Secretary of State, may I say that it is true that the Government have announced a cut? Reference has been made to a cut of £1,000 million, but that is not the policy of the Labour Party. No responsible Opposition leader on defence could give a specific figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-05", "file": "debates1974-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "f53824598c4c3909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1036.4", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI AND TUC (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of that and of what the TUC again confirmed to me yesterday evening—that there are still at least two major groups of workers who have to settle and that it could give no undertaking that if the miners achieved their aims as a result of industrial action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1036.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-05", "file": "debates1974-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "f53824598c4c3909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1036.4", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI AND TUC (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of that and of what the TUC again confirmed to me yesterday evening—that there are still at least two major groups of workers who have to settle and that it could give no undertaking that if the miners achieved their aims as a result of industrial action—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—those other groups would not use industrial action either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1036.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-05", "file": "debates1974-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "f53824598c4c3909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1037.2", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI AND TUC (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " there is money on the table. If this is so, does the Prime Minister agree that if an honourable compromise between these two extreme positions could be reached, nothing would be more in the interest of the country? Has the right hon. Gentleman, therefore, considered the comparable situation which exists in regard to money paid into court when a dispute takes place? Have the Government considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1037.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-05", "file": "debates1974-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "f53824598c4c3909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI AND TUC (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The relativities board will have to make its recommendations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-05", "file": "debates1974-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "f53824598c4c3909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1040.2", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI AND TUC (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition is absolutely wrong in suggesting that I must tell an impartial board what it has to do. The right hon. Gentleman asked for the machinery to be set up. I am prepared to set it up and I wish that he would support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1040.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-05", "file": "debates1974-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "f53824598c4c3909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "as evidence of a waste of resources in a similar way in land, the Government then proposed a land hoarding charge so that people with planning permission should not hoard land which could be used for housing. The situation has now changed. There is now no evidence of any hoarding of land by those with planning permission, so the Government have decided not to proceed with the land hoarding charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-05", "file": "debates1974-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "f53824598c4c3909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "mined to do and what the Bill sets out, however, is to secure by an alternative method the same protection for the residents of a housing action area as was originally envisaged but in a different way. Indeed, I believe that more important than the improvement of the housing stock in a housing action area is the interests of the people who live there. Therefore, for the first time in Clause 34(2)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-05", "file": "debates1974-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "f53824598c4c3909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"He still does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "it! By 1972 there was overwhelming evidence of the abuse of grants by speculators, especially in inner London. Many of my hon. Friends were producing constant and overwhelming evidence but we could never persuade the Government that such an abuse was occurring. In April 1972 the previous Minister for Housing and Construction, who lived in a world utterly remote from the country's housing problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-05", "file": "debates1974-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "f53824598c4c3909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Tope", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Tope", "preceding_text": "nd impetus\" is taking us in only one direction—downwards. At the root of the problem in the past has been continued underestimation of the size of the problem with which we are trying to deal. I was pleased to see in the last White Paper that the Government acknowledged that there were 3 million substandard dwellings in England and Wales. Reference has been made to London and its housing problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-05", "file": "debates1974-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "f53824598c4c3909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "preceding_text": "I join those who have spoken in support of housing associations. I had some opportunity to examine this subject as a member of the Cohen Committee during the period of the Socialist administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-05", "file": "debates1974-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "f53824598c4c3909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND PLANNING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": " us any indication of the extent to which the moneys will be spent and how much will be in Scotland. It is a pity we have to do it in this way but that is one of the difficulties with a Bill which is at least two Bills, for there are about 30 clauses in Part VI which have nothing to do with Scotland, and that is followed by 11 clauses which are purely Scottish. This makes for very bad legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-05a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether that property belongs to the Leader of the Opposition. If it does, I cannot comment on that particular case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "hat with the curtailment of power supplies industry has been maintaining outputs at about 70 per cent. of normal. But inevitably there has been a considerable increase in unemployment, an increase in the number of temporarily stopped workers, and a marked decrease in the number of unfilled vacancies. All this means hardship for the working population. The NUM must bear the gravest responsibility.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "Mr. Harry Ewing (Stirling and Falkirk Burghs) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "oint that there is inevitably a differential between the fall in output and the fall in personal expenditure that tends to operate on demand in one way, but there are also other factors, such as increased oil prices and the action announced on 17th December, which tend to operate in the other way. Therefore, it is right at this time, if one is trying to make a rational assessment of the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can explain once again to my hon. Friend. As far as increasing prices are concerned, obviously if prices of imported goods go up, in that sense it is bound to add to inflation. On the other hand, it is also perfectly true and is self-evident that when prices go up it also tends to depress demand in the country and tends to depress output.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can explain once again to my hon. Friend. As far as increasing prices are concerned, obviously if prices of imported goods go up, in that sense it is bound to add to inflation. On the other hand, it is also perfectly true and is self-evident that when prices go up it also tends to depress demand in the country and tends to depress output.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is a policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "y arrangements appropriate to the industry's future and its manpower requirements. But the NUM was not prepared even to discuss any of those proposals with the Government. Instead it proceeded to a ballot of its members. It did so not on the offer which had been put forward, as had been done previously, but quite deliberately—and everyone knows the reason—it put the issue as that of strike action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I called Mr. Heffer. Will other hon. Members please remain seated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1241.5", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Atkinson rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1241.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ulated under phase 3. He ought to know that I made a specific inquiry of the Pay Board about a certain case affecting directors' fees. The ruling was absolutely catagorical. All directors resident and employed in this country were subject completely to exactly the same rulings as anyone else. If that it not applied, it is a most extraordinary state of affairs. But that is a relatively minor point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " those whose incomes they would reduce. There are other vital questions which we should be asking, such as are we producing any increase in real wealth in the country? Can and should an anti-inflation guarantee be given generally to the community? Can we get through the next three or four years with virtually stable real incomes per head? First, with whom does the responsibility for inflation lie?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rost", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rost", "preceding_text": " good reason why the coal mining industry should still be nationalised, apart from the sacred cow of nationalisation with which we are still indoctrinated on both sides of the House? Has nationalisation proved an efficient form of management control? Has nationalisation improved productivity? Has it produced profits? Has it served national interests? Has it created harmonious industrial relations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1319.2", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "preceding_text": " phased in to cause the maximum disruption. I am convinced that this was carefully engineered, phased and planned, and that the miners have been merely thrown into the battle, largely against their wishes—because only a few months ago they voted for no industrial action. Yet, under phase 3, with the best offer of any group of workers, they are suddenly whipped into this confrontation. This problem", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1319.2", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "preceding_text": "are deeply concerned at what is happening. A small group of people are determined to wreck democratic government—not just to bring down this Government but to make it impossible for any democratic Government to govern. It is time that the Prime Minister drew attention to these people, identified them and spotlighted their numbers. I do not believe that there are Reds under every bed, by any means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way. I have 10 minutes and I need it all myself. My second question is: how is it that this small number of people can wield as much power as they do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"British.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "preceding_text": "who are as English and at patriotic as anyone in the House. I speak as one who during the war held His late Majesty's Commission. There were miners serving with us who deliberately gave up a sheltered occupation to join the Royal Navy or the Royal Marines. These are the men whom hon. Members stigmatise as enemies of the country. They are as English as anyone. All they ask—I speak as an Englishman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ttention by both sides of the House. I hope that the same will also apply when I provide figures as to the changes which have occurred in the NUM position. If the NUM had accepted this offer even without the productivity agreement, it would have meant that face workers over less than four years of the present Government's period of office would have had an increase of £18 a week in their earnings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " had accepted this offer even without the productivity agreement, it would have meant that face workers over less than four years of the present Government's period of office would have had an increase of £18 a week in their earnings. [ Interruption .] I hope the House will listen to these important figures. They would have attained an extra £18 a week—that is, an average of £4·50 per year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-06", "file": "debates1974-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "04a9a1bddda4096f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " of the present Government's period of office would have had an increase of £18 a week in their earnings. [ Interruption .] I hope the House will listen to these important figures. They would have attained an extra £18 a week—that is, an average of £4·50 per year—[ Interruption .] The Opposition might like to hear this. We listened to the figures which the hon. Member for Chesterfield gave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-06a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-07", "file": "debates1974-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "94f3dd87259e4fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1351.4", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "int of order, Mr. Speaker. You will appreciate when you hear my point of order why I could not delay it until later. I realise that you are doing your best to call supporters and opponents of the Government in a fair manner, as you normally do. Nevertheless, you are in a manifest difficulty of finding someone from the Government benches to support the Government on prices. Will you invite someone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1351.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-07", "file": "debates1974-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "94f3dd87259e4fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "It is clear that the whole dairy section of the agricultural industry knows that the national dairy herd is declining, first because of the cost of feed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-07", "file": "debates1974-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "94f3dd87259e4fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "It is clear that the whole dairy section of the agricultural industry knows that the national dairy herd is declining, first because of the cost of feed—[Hon. Members: \"Question.\"]—and secondly because of the dairy-to-beef conversion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-07", "file": "debates1974-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "94f3dd87259e4fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Is it not essential, if the housewife is to have ample suplies of both milk and beef, that farmers should have an assured market and a reasonable profit to make it worth their while producing them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-07", "file": "debates1974-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "94f3dd87259e4fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1360.3", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I am not running away from anything. Requests for price increases must be considered in the light of cost increases. I have no desire to see unnecessary price rises, but one must seek to ensure that in the Community as a whole, just as in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-07", "file": "debates1974-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "94f3dd87259e4fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1363.6", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEX EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that when the Leader of the House said that he would introduce a Bill on this matter in a matter of weeks few hon. Members believed that that would ever come about? Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that the Leader of the House has been deceiving and depriving women all his life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1363.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-07", "file": "debates1974-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "94f3dd87259e4fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1371.6", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "What I remember from that independent newspaper the Conservative —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1371.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-07", "file": "debates1974-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "94f3dd87259e4fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1382.8", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "We are engaged in a manifestly grotesque travesty of parliamentary procedure. There seems to be only one copy of the Bill.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1382.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-07", "file": "debates1974-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "94f3dd87259e4fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "within hours of Parliament being dissolved, we see that the Government—who cannot do anything to help the sick, the aged, the infirm and the lame—can bring in legislation overnight. We shall probably support the Bill, but I suggest that it shows to the electorate that when it suits the Government's purpose—whether in conjunction with the official Opposition I care not—Parliament can work swiftly.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-07", "file": "debates1974-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "94f3dd87259e4fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I cannot help the hon. Gentleman. He could have helped himself earlier if he had taken the opportunity of putting down a motion before I came to Third Reading. That was not done. I was in the act of calling the Bill for Third Reading when the hon. Gentleman sought to raise a point of order which I told him I could not take. I have tried to be as lenient as I could be with the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-07", "file": "debates1974-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "94f3dd87259e4fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1456.0", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "FUEL SUPPLIES (ELDERLY PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ited to old-age pensioners. They should also go to the disabled, the sick, the blind and so on, who will find it very difficult to manage. The Minister may say that he hopes that the strike will not occur and that, therefore, there will be no necessity for what I suggest. I hope he is right, but that does not mean that he should not at least establish a \"National Distribution of Energy Committee\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-07a.1456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-08", "file": "debates1974-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7c6d43709142068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-08a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": "r travel expenses but we are not going to collect more than our travel costs\". That would have made a headline in the newspapers in every country in Europe, and it would have been a good headline. Every headline would have said, \"At long last, the British Members of Parliament have arrived and they are not corrupt in the way that other European Members of Parliament are.\" This is sheer corruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-08a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-08", "file": "debates1974-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7c6d43709142068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-08a.1476.4", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Members of Parliament for the next three weeks will be sent to Strasbourg to represent no one. For the next three weeks until 28th February they will spend taxpayers' money and represent not one person in this country. That is undeniable. As from tonight every Member who is not a Minister will be an ordinary person. Conservatives, Liberals and the hon. and learned Member for Lincoln (Mr. Taverne)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-08a.1476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-02-08", "file": "debates1974-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7c6d43709142068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-08a.1483.3", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman deny or confirm that he gets £28·50, I think it is, per day for going to Europe and that he may so arrange it to go to one committee one night and come back the following morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-02-08a.1483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-06", "file": "debates1974-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "1da85cc1c8df2fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-06a.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Parker", "preceding_text": "ward from time to time. On occasions such as this it is customary for various widely held desires to be put forward on behalf of back benchers as to what they hope and expect the Speaker will do. I am sure I speak on behalf of all back benchers when I say that it is hoped that no undue preference will be shown to privy councillors. It is also hoped that Mr. Speaker will encourage shorter speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-06a.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-06", "file": "debates1974-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "1da85cc1c8df2fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-06a.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dagenham\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "It is a privilege and pleasure to be invited to second the motion which has been moved in such felicitous and persuasive terms by my old and valued friend, the hon. Member for Barking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-06a.4.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-06", "file": "debates1974-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "1da85cc1c8df2fd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-06a.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": " in October 1964, Mr. Speaker Hylton-Foster said: Re-reading the past, I find that the then Prime Minister—it was Mr. Attlee—presented the Speaker-Elect in March 1950, Mr. Speaker Clifton Brown, on the occasion of his third election, to a House more evenly divided, I think, than the House had been for the last hundred years. The majority was seven. We have refined the art of being evenly divided\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-06a.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ch our democracy must be based. But there is something for everyone in the Queen's Speech, not least the penultimate paragraph which refers to the consideration of … the provision of financial assistance to enable Opposition parties more effectively to fulfil their Parliamentary functions. This proves, if proof were needed, that the Labour Party is the most fair-minded party in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scottish oil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "I ask him to consider that temptation in the light of the impact on the demand management of the economy and the impact overseas. The other half of the Labour Party's manifesto has been kept carefully under wraps. I do not want to explore it today but it is clear that a mass of nationalisation proposals have been omitted. I suggest to the right hon. Gentleman, particularly so far as North Sea oil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scottish oil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman, particularly so far as North Sea oil—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Scottish oil.\"]—is concerned, where the references are so imprecise as to preclude judgment, that he should introduce certainty at the earliest possible moment. Uncertainty of any kind about industries specified by the Prime Minister and his colleagues will be damaging to investment, and, in connection with North Sea Oil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "would be that this House would assemble with a wide variety of views being held among Members, and in that respect it would be no different from when the last vote was taken, when there was a wide variety of views in the House and a majority of 112 for going into Europe. Alternatively, there would be a consultative referendum which would be in no way binding upon the House in any decision it took.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "aid. This, by any test, unless it is meaningless, is an expansion, and a considerable expansion, of Government expenditure. Some of it may be desirable in any circumstances except those which the nation faces today. Others, in our view, would be undesirable in any circumstances. How is this expenditure to be met without damaging investment in industry or damaging exports or through heavy indirect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "hich so much of the General Election was fought and it still remains at the centre of our economic affairs. The hon. Member for Northfield spoke sincerely and seriously about the need for conciliation and arbitration. I would not differ from him in any respect, except that what he is overlooking is that the means of conciliation and arbitration already exist in many forms. They have not been used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.64.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And CBI policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " all wanted a binding voluntary agreement, but is this to be an orderly growth of money incomes alone or an orderly growth of real incomes, and by what means will the right hon. Gentleman ensure an orderly growth of real incomes? We have seen that the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends will seek to repeal the Industrial Relations Act. That is part of their manifesto and part of their dogma—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.64.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has been a Member of the House for very many years. He knows the difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ent, which I had hoped he would be able to make this week, I repeat that the Government's policy will be exactly as we put it to the country. We shall enter into fundamental re-negotiation of the terms of entry into the EEC. When the negotiations are completed, however they have gone and whatever the outcome, the question of Britain's relations with the Community will be put to the British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "k, I repeat that the Government's policy will be exactly as we put it to the country. We shall enter into fundamental re-negotiation of the terms of entry into the EEC. When the negotiations are completed, however they have gone and whatever the outcome, the question of Britain's relations with the Community will be put to the British people—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"]—and their decision will be final.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o the EEC. When the negotiations are completed, however they have gone and whatever the outcome, the question of Britain's relations with the Community will be put to the British people—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"]—and their decision will be final. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] I answered that question a hundred times during the General Election, and if hon. Members wish I will send them a copy of what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ve gone and whatever the outcome, the question of Britain's relations with the Community will be put to the British people—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"]—and their decision will be final. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] I answered that question a hundred times during the General Election, and if hon. Members wish I will send them a copy of what I said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] Through the ballot box, as I have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "elations with the Community will be put to the British people—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"]—and their decision will be final. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] I answered that question a hundred times during the General Election, and if hon. Members wish I will send them a copy of what I said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] Through the ballot box, as I have said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] I said almost certainly a referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d times during the General Election, and if hon. Members wish I will send them a copy of what I said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] Through the ballot box, as I have said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] I said almost certainly a referendum—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"]—and I could conceive of circumstances in which there would be a General Election. The economic situation, industry and inflation will be debated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the nation as we found it on taking office last week and the steps we intend to propose. I should like to pick up one point by the Leader of the Opposition where he displayed less than his usual fairness in what he said. He will recall that in debate after debate in the concluding months of the old Parliament we repeatedly said that we could not blame the Government for world prices or oil prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " his usual fairness in what he said. He will recall that in debate after debate in the concluding months of the old Parliament we repeatedly said that we could not blame the Government for world prices or oil prices. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members do not accept that, they are free to refer to HANSARD. The right hon. Gentleman will remember that we repeatedly said it during the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " whose duties we have spelt out, I give the assurance that any extension of public ownership within industry will be submitted to Parliament for decisions through the full parliamentary legislative process. Leaders of all parties have emphasised that, whatever the gravity of the economic situation we are now facing, a great transformation can result in a few years' time when North Sea oil and gas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r Scotland, or even separate parts of Scotland; one for the North-East; one for East Anglia; and, when we get oil and gas from the Western Seas, one for Wales. The words I have just used are the words I used in the General Election. It was on those that we fought the election with regard to gas and oil. It is a further matter for consultation whether the authority buying the oil when it is landed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister why it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister why it is—[ Interruption ]—I will just wait until I get peace and quiet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Streakers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I am grateful. I will say no more about that but move straight to the Gracious Speech. I would first congratulate the Government upon their omissions, which are significant and welcome. It was once said that the Tories caught the Whigs bathing and stole their clothes. No one can say that the Government have stolen anyone else's clothes. They have merely shed some of their unmentionables—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-12", "file": "debates1974-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7bcf1f9ffbcc9ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "preceding_text": "ng the radical Liberals who have their rightful place inside the Labour Party. On the other hand, there are some Liberals whose rightful place is within the Conservative Party. They are the bucket, or the bowl, that catches the disgruntled, the fed-up, the discontented people from the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. I feel sorry for the genuine Liberals who are squeezed out in the middle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-12a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-13", "file": "debates1974-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c27de54d0ff1dda4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "y and industry—a confidence gained partly in return for its commitment to policies which were hostile to the trade unions. In the ensuing confrontation, it should be noted, the last Government lost the confidence of working people and then some of its own supporters as well. This Government put to the electors a new social contract as the main plank in their programme, not only because we believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-13", "file": "debates1974-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c27de54d0ff1dda4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ract based upon policies designed to bring about a shift in the balance of power and wealth. The new social contract which we are set upon achieving has implications for industrial policy as well as for taxation policy, housing policy or social policy. In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-13", "file": "debates1974-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c27de54d0ff1dda4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I am coming to the proposals, but neither I nor my party share the proposals on industrial democracy that the hon. Gentleman has put forward, because we believe them to be a form of window dressing. I hope to carry him with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-13", "file": "debates1974-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c27de54d0ff1dda4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "mic growth. Any student of the steel industry will recognise that from 1964 to 1966 steel investment went down from £180 million a year to £50 million because of the threat of nationalisation. During the period after nationalisation the industry was unable to start its investment programme, and that meant that from 1963 to 1970 steel investment was more than halved, and not under me but under you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-13", "file": "debates1974-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c27de54d0ff1dda4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "Whatever it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-13", "file": "debates1974-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c27de54d0ff1dda4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Palmer", "preceding_text": "quite a number of other countries are looking into. The point is that tariffs for energy should not be geared in such a way as to encourage wasteful use but rather to encourage saving. Those are two practical points on general fuel policy to which I suggest my right hon. Friend should pay attention. Another problem that needs urgent attention is that of the finances of the nationalised industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-13", "file": "debates1974-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c27de54d0ff1dda4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Valley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Valley", "preceding_text": "ation in which he was egged on by the right hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber) and, perhaps, Lord Carrington too. There is no doubt that the then Prime Minister was determined to have an election. The TUC's historic initiative was brushed aside and for that, judging from the record and from what happened, the right hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale must bear a heavy responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-13", "file": "debates1974-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c27de54d0ff1dda4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Valley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Valley", "preceding_text": "une of £150 million. Quite apart from other action which will have to be taken by the Government the National Coal Board has had to announce a hefty increase in prices. There is an extra bit of icing on this unpalatable cake. One of the first decisions I took when I went to the Department of Energy last week was to end the \"Switch Off Something\" campaign, which cost the taxpayer a cool £2 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-13", "file": "debates1974-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c27de54d0ff1dda4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend the then Chancellor of the Exchequer and I discussed this fully with the trade unions afterwards at great length, but they were unable to give any undertakings which would back up the initiative which they had taken in the NEDC. These are the plain facts of the case. It was an entirely unnecessary dispute because the mineworkers were offered, on 28th November, a complete review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-13", "file": "debates1974-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c27de54d0ff1dda4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ese are the plain facts of the case. It was an entirely unnecessary dispute because the mineworkers were offered, on 28th November, a complete review. [ Interruption. ] If the right hon. Gentleman sticks to the facts he will not be interrupted. The mineworkers were offered on 28th November a complete review of the manning, the investment and the pay of the industry, which they could have accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.338.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-03-13", "file": "debates1974-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c27de54d0ff1dda4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.342.2", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "preceding_text": "Mr. John Davies rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-13a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-14", "file": "debates1974-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f555b085a2854520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "ational customers—there is no way in which we could suddenly switch back to the old position of economic subservience to Britain, as the supplier of cheap Commonwealth food … Mr. Harold Wilson's alternative may look attractive in London, but it deserves the thumbs down in Canberra. Certainly Australian rural opinion must not be seduced by the economic jingoism of the British Labour leader\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-14", "file": "debates1974-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f555b085a2854520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I have to listen to the Liberal Party on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-14", "file": "debates1974-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f555b085a2854520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Minister overlooked one possibility—[Hors. MEMBERS: \"Ex-Minister.\"] I am sorry, I am a little out of touch with the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-14", "file": "debates1974-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f555b085a2854520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "in price increases, but now we are faced with the massive plans of the Government. Are they really the best use of our resources? Subsidies go to everyone, to both rich and poor, and once they are put on they are difficult to remove. Subsidies remove choice because they lead to restrictions in freedom. They increase taxation. They mislead the public about the true cost of the things that they buy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-14", "file": "debates1974-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f555b085a2854520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "y went out of office, though they left us to publish the White Paper. They presumably considered that they had dealt with the outstanding problems where these were not linked with the Brussels price negotiations which they had left unfinished. Here I agree with the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Liberal Party. It is only at election times that Tories respond fully to the farming community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-14", "file": "debates1974-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f555b085a2854520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.387.2", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer that question yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-14", "file": "debates1974-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f555b085a2854520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": " The evidence of the reviews I have just mentioned gives the lie to that totally and absolutely. In 1973 the review was the first in the European Community context, and the 1974 review, just published, produced in exceptionally difficult circumstances about which I shall say more in a moment, relieved an unprecedented situation in the dairy sector by injecting £145 million into that sector alone.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-14a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-15", "file": "debates1974-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "b7b3d17c9af0c411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-15a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SERVICES AND EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "this House in some capacity. I am sorry to have taken so long over that part of my speech, but it is in accordance with the traditions of the House, and seems to be right, that I should make those acknowledgements. I have, however, overlooked the hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Dr. Winstanley), and I apologise for doing so. I should have referred to his having returned and made a quasi-maiden speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-15a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The effect that will be produced on the wholesale price of British manufacturing industry is likely to be relatively small, outside that concerned with electricity and steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.678.4", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "preceding_text": "er a long and distinguished parliamentary career. I am sure that he will not take it amiss if I say to him that—quite apart from today's subject matter of debate and all that might hang on it—we all wait with an unusual degree of expectation the sort of contribution which this \"Establishment\" back-bench figure will make to the House as a Minister today and no doubt on many occasions in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.678.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that if he continues this analysis he must recognise that during the last 12 months of his own Government the take-home pay of British workers rose far less than the index of retail prices?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "—and some of those obstacles derive from the statutory control of incomes. Moreover—here I respond directly to what the right hon. Gentleman said about the scrutiny of Parliament; I certainly do not propose to abandon my views about the scrutiny of Parliament—I propose, as part of the operation, and I hope that I will have the support of the Liberal Party, but I do not know how that will turn out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "tion I have no power to issue consents save where the circumstances are truly exceptional, as they certainly were in the miners' case. So those who have already made agreements on the basis of the current arrangements will be expected to stick to them; and those making settlements in the transitional period will similarly have to keep in line with the rules of the Pay Code. I think also it may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ning of my remarks, and as I have said, I think, consistently in the House ever since we have discussed these matters, I regard the whole apparatus of the statutory control of incomes, apart from its industrial deficiencies, which are very considerable, and which I have already stressed, and which are becoming more apparent every day, as a cancerous constitutional growth, and I have been advised —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I know that the right hon. Gentleman is greatly embarrassed by all the hawklike companions with whom he has had to migrate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.725.3", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " reasonable. The country cannot afford an attack upon commerce and industry. We are left with that situation. I should have liked to challenge the Prime Minister to go for a national Government. Failing that, I should have liked to see co-operation with the Liberals, the Liberals holding certain positions in the Cabinet, so that we could work together, with the support of some of the Naticnalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.725.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "eve that an incomes policy backed by the force of law is essential for the nation's interests in the crucial months ahead, naturally we welcome the conversion of the Secretary of State. We believe that we have done our duty with the amendment in obtaining from the Government a statement of their actual plans. Having done so, as we have already announced, we shall not press our amendment to a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.793.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.795.2", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "sion discussions last week with the right hon. Member for Lowestoft (Mr. Prior) and made exactly the point made by my right hon. Friend today. Before discussing the Queen's Speech, I am sure that the House will want me to mention the many maiden speeches which have graced this debate and, as is the custom, to refer to a number of perhaps more domestic matters in my capacity as Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "It is the Government's intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "It is the Government's intention—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—in accordance with the clearly expressed view of the House during the debate on 24th January, to bring forward as soon as possible in the House detailed plans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "It is the Government's intention—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—in accordance with the clearly expressed view of the House during the debate on 24th January, to bring forward as soon as possible in the House detailed plans—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—for the implementation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.797.4", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Am I right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.797.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-03-18", "file": "debates1974-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "de6dde860defd5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.802.4", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is it your pleasure that the amendment be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-18a.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-19", "file": "debates1974-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4f0a88d942e9691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.827.4", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "Certainly underground working is a peculiar feature of mining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.827.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-19", "file": "debates1974-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4f0a88d942e9691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR CORNWALL, NORTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have read the following report in yesterday's HANSARD: Order. If the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe) has a further point of order, he may raise it later. Mr. Short. MR. PARDOE: Disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-19", "file": "debates1974-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4f0a88d942e9691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ncellor of the Exchequer, when he said, I do not know of any economic or political problems in this world which would be easier to resolve if Britain is outside rather than inside the Community.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 9th May 1967; Vol. 746, c. 1323.] I think that that was right then and it is right now. Our economic performance is surely not so good that we can neglect a free trade area of that size—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-19", "file": "debates1974-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4f0a88d942e9691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "e of defence and his third example of oil were patently at loggerheads with reports that have appeared in the Press over the last few days. From listening to his speech, one would think that President Nixon had never said a word in Chicago last Saturday. One would think that Dr. Kissinger had not even made an apology for what I am told was a private utterance to, of all people Congressmen's wives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-19", "file": "debates1974-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4f0a88d942e9691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a contradiction.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "in such negotiations the Government will take into account the fact that they could have allies in the European Parliament. It is rather pathetic for Labour Members to have to rely on Liberal or Conservative Members to make sure that the case for their constituencies is argued in the European Parliament. I do not accept that that rather useless body is as useless as some of our colleagues pretend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-19", "file": "debates1974-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4f0a88d942e9691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "preceding_text": "e leadership, to play a valuable and constructive part in developing the forces of the United Nations and in bringing to bear pressure in situations such as the Middle East and Southern Africa, to advance causes and principles which I think hon. Members in most parts of the House now share. Sweden, Finland, Canada, Yugoslavia, New Zealand and other countries are willing to adopt this kind of role—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-19", "file": "debates1974-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4f0a88d942e9691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "As far as Greece is concerned, we have shown our concern at the continuing failure of the Greek Government to restore democracy. Nevertheless, in considering how best we can promote the principle for which the NATO alliance stands, we shall seek to maintain a proper working relationship with the Greek Government. As for Chile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-19a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-20", "file": "debates1974-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6d6d4a16c6fe7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "BREAD SUBSIDY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shop around?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "lity breads of any kind. Those bakers who do not apply for the subsidy will not be covered by it. I trust that there will be few such, but there may be some. The simple answer, therefore, to my hon. Friend's question is that the housewife will find that the price of the ordinary 14-ounce and 28-ounce loaves should not be increased. If she finds that it has been increased in one shop, I ask her to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-20", "file": "debates1974-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6d6d4a16c6fe7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1037.3", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "BREAD SUBSIDY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "I cannot possibly say when the next increase might be due. We are living through an historic period during which wheat prices have risen very fast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1037.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-20", "file": "debates1974-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6d6d4a16c6fe7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPERTY SERVICES AGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Oakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-20", "file": "debates1974-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6d6d4a16c6fe7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION ON THE CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "preceding_text": "d that degree of support for radical policies on devolution. I join with many hon. Members in doubting the validity of judgments as to why people cast their votes in certain ways. But it is true that no Liberal candidate would succeed in passing the various panels which the Liberal Party has for assessing candidates unless he had a considerable belief in the Liberal Party's policies on devolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-20", "file": "debates1974-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6d6d4a16c6fe7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION ON THE CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "and it has not rectified the division. My hon. Friends in the Scottish National Party—perhaps I should not call them my friends, although they come from the same country—talk about self-government for Scotland, by which, I take it, they mean separation, sovereignty, complete home rule. If a barrier were erected across that part of Scotland we call the Borders, there would be two foreign countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-20", "file": "debates1974-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6d6d4a16c6fe7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION ON THE CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, Mr. Speaker, the Kilbrandon Report recommended the single transferable vote in the regions of the United Kingdom. I recognise that the Kilbrandon Report was objected to by the Scottish nationalists on that particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-20", "file": "debates1974-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6d6d4a16c6fe7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION ON THE CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ther question posed to the people in the questionnaire concerned the functions of the Welsh Office. Clearly many had no idea of its functions. Only 17 per cent. of the people of Wales realised that we had any control over education. Only 9 per cent. realised that the Welsh Office was responsible for housing. Only 14 per cent. realised that the Welsh Office was responsible for roads. I could go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-20", "file": "debates1974-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6d6d4a16c6fe7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1210.3", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH SEA ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is old stuff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "preceding_text": "inkle basis. Lord Balogh said: Only 15 blocks out of 2,665 licences were not allocated at the discretion of the Minister —that is the Petroleum Department—for a trifling payment: the initial payment was between £25-£45 per square kilometre; the maximum annual fee between £290-£350. The 15 blocks which were allocated by competitive bidding fetched £37 million… The licences were for 46 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-20", "file": "debates1974-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "a6d6d4a16c6fe7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1240.10", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should not say that, because three of my hon. Friends were looking at him, and he was roaring with laughter. It may be that he was laughing at some private joke. The hon. Gentleman does not like the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-20a.1240.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-21", "file": "debates1974-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "0493862a57762a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-21a.1366.1", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas,", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas,", "preceding_text": " of population through migration, but this has now been reversed, and net inward migration into Wales is mounting. I should have liked to put the picture differently. I would say that Wales was rapidly becoming one of the most exciting and most promising regions of the European Community, and that this was rapidly being recognised in Europe, in the United States of America, in Japan and elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-21a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-22", "file": "debates1974-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7c819b5fda346aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-22a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (RECRUITMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Oscar Murton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Oscar Murton)", "preceding_text": "Before calling the hon. and gallant Member for Winchester (Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles) I should draw to the attention of the House the fact that it is customary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-22a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "It is always refreshing to hear the hon. Gentleman offering himself as the exponent of open government, particularly after his efforts the other day on another matter. We have been in office for a relatively short time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. and learned Gentleman, who I understand leads the Liberal Party, or did lead the Liberal Party, on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I can only repeat what I said earlier. I had to work within the rules and regulations. The reorganisation of the CAP is a matter not only for me but for my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary. In the discussions, my colleages in Europe—I use that term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I can only repeat what I said earlier. I had to work within the rules and regulations. The reorganisation of the CAP is a matter not only for me but for my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary. In the discussions, my colleages in Europe—I use that term—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".]—That is right", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that. That comes again from the Irish point of view, which I agreed in relation to Northern Ireland. I was able to do something. There was a recognition in the end that the Southern Ireland Government had a difficulty which we do not have, and that therefore there would have been a distortion of the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.47.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "oniton (Mr. Emery) tried to intervene in the right hon. Gentleman's speech, and I have a letter in these terms from one of his constituents who moved to Honiton: Comfortably settled as I am in this small flat, I carefully worked out provision for my few remaining years only to find now the Labour Government proposing such an increase in the rates that thousands like me will not be able to survive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "I believe that the formula was designed to mitigate severe increases in the rate burden, wherever they occurred, and to reduce them to tolerable levels this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "here the ability to pay does not necessarily overtake that reduction. The increase in the rate will, therefore, be a serious burden to my constituents. I understand from the local Press that in my constituency an organisation is being formed proposing that people hit by the increased rate demand should decide to withhold the additional rate—that is, the excess charged over last year's rate demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Leeds?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": " also understand that a Labour Member—the hon. Member for Thornaby (Mr. Wrigglesworth) made a maiden speech. Although I did not hear it, I am told that it was an excellent speech, and I extend my congratulations to him. I understand that he referred to Middlesbrough and Jackie Charlton. It is a good job he does not have to refer to Coleford United because they are not doing as well as they should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "ause there is no sewerage in the village. In urban areas the cost of sewerage is borne by the rates. If I lived in an urban area I should automatically get my sewerage provided out of the rates, but because I live in a rural area I have to pay to have my septic tank emptied. It costs £7·70—admittedly, only once a year. I get a £2 rebate from my local authority and I have to pay the balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.85.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then vote against it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "situation in which their constituents have been placed, and their cases should have been heard far more than the cases put by Conservative Members. I make no apology for the fact that I represent a district council—as it will become on 1st April—which, under the order, will lose domestic rate relief of 12½p. Many of my constituents have already protested to me about the effect of the order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": " are here for the odd day during the week attending Parliament. One of our complaints was mentioned by the hon. Member for Bodmin (Mr. Tyler), who referred to an accumulation of factors. It is because London has an accumulation of factors which do not apply to any other local authority area that I believe it was right for London—and I could give figures for many other areas with large populations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend calls it nonsense. If he wishes me to read the brief which that body has sent to me, I shall be more than pleased to do so, but I am sure that in the interests of time he will accept what I say. Most ratepayers in London suffer from the effect of other things which the Conservative Government forced through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": " forced through—[ Interruption. ] We always get this sort of attitude —I will not call it a drunken attitude because you would call me to order, Mr. Deputy Speaker—from hon. Members opposite after a good dinner. Hon. Members opposite seem to congregate on the back benches and at least give the appearance of being slightly inebriated and careless of the real interests of the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Morris)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for St. Ives (Mr. Nott), whatever else he has done, has eaten a little into my time. I was due to rise at five minutes past 11 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.191.5", "colnum": "191", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "It was the Conservative Party which began this. It did not go far enough in giving the Government aid that was so much needed by many parts of the country. It is a matter of judgment, and in our judgment we have to do more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.191.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.191.5", "colnum": "191", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "It was the Conservative Party which began this. It did not go far enough in giving the Government aid that was so much needed by many parts of the country. It is a matter of judgment, and in our judgment we have to do more. [ Interruption. ] Every part of the country could have done with much more. Obviously in the present economic situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.191.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-25", "file": "debates1974-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4c3ad2e2ae15540a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "In moving the order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-25a.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-26", "file": "debates1974-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6f82a634123603f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-26a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERIAL BROADCAST", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed to hear that the Prime Minister will not be making a broadcast soon and I thank him profusely for the five minutes he awarded my party in 1964.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-26a.271.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-03-26", "file": "debates1974-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6f82a634123603f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-26a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The printers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-26a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-26", "file": "debates1974-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6f82a634123603f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-26a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ttern for the rest of the year. He made no mention of the rate of growth for the rest of the year. Will he let wages rise and then tax them further? Will he try to get a reasonable arrangement either statutorily or voluntarily so that the pattern of wage increases is commensurate with growth? I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman has accepted our main proposal for dealing with offsetting losses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-26a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-26", "file": "debates1974-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "6f82a634123603f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-26a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "NEWSPAPERS (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "ssion of opinion from almost all parties in the House—no doubt the Liberals would have expressed the same view if they had been here. We are deeply concerned about this question and want every possible avenue to be explored. Although I do not now have an interest in this matter, I once did, because for about eight years I worked for Beaver-brook Newspapers writing a column for the Evening Citizen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-26a.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-27", "file": "debates1974-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "d66c05f8205699e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-27a.428.7", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend find a new job for Mr. George Thomson, whose undoubted talents could be more usefully employed this side of the Channel than in Brussels, where he appears to be sabotaging my right hon. Friend's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-27a.428.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-27", "file": "debates1974-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "d66c05f8205699e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-27a.441.6", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the appointment of Mr. Ivor Richard has given great satisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-27a.441.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-27", "file": "debates1974-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "d66c05f8205699e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-27a.441.7", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Blyth?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I expect that the appointment of Mr. Ivor Richard has given as much satisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-27a.441.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-27", "file": "debates1974-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "d66c05f8205699e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-27a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "l the points involved. However, I shall try as briefly as I can to answer as many of the right hon. and learned Gentleman's questions as I can recall. With regard to the six-monthly uprating, the right hon. and learned Gentleman asked whether this meant that we had turned our backs on the proposals which the Conservatives thought up rather at the last minute in the middle of the election campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-27a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-28", "file": "debates1974-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4884b0b5a1d66532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.622.4", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I join the hon. Gentleman in his implied tribute to the \"Think Tank\". I am satisfied that it clearly did a remarkably successful job for the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.622.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-28", "file": "debates1974-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4884b0b5a1d66532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Declare an interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "—gets round to discussing the Clay Cross situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.635.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-28", "file": "debates1974-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4884b0b5a1d66532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And brothers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "—gets round to discussing the Clay Cross situation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Declare an interest.\"]—with his colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.635.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-03-28", "file": "debates1974-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4884b0b5a1d66532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.637.4", "colnum": "637", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "Bearing in mind the views of the Leader of the House expressed on an earlier occasion, would it not be appropriate for him personally to make a statement on Clay Cross—and would not Monday 1st April be the appropriate day on which to make it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-28", "file": "debates1974-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4884b0b5a1d66532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "went up by 55 per cent., well ahead of the rise in prices, and far ahead of the performance of the Labour Government that preceded us in office until 1970. The question the country may well be asking itself before very long under the present Government is whether earnings will rise ahead of prices, and whether the pledge to keep pensions improving in line with earnings is of any significant value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-28", "file": "debates1974-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4884b0b5a1d66532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "preceding_text": "that is a danger. The Labour Party is so obsessed with the evils, as it chooses to regard them, of profit that it fails to see that depriving the ordinary man of the incentive to save, depriving the investor of the incentive to invest and depriving industry of liquidity is to pave the way for the greatest slump since 1929. As if that were not enough, the Chancellor has even doubled the stamp duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-28", "file": "debates1974-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4884b0b5a1d66532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "gages that this is largely due to the disastrous decisions of his right hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber) as Chancellor of the Exchequer during the past three and a half years. Listening to Opposition Members one would have thought that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer had been Chancellor for a long time, whereas he has been in office only three weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-03-28", "file": "debates1974-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "4884b0b5a1d66532", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scilly Isles.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "heir own pocket. So too will those who choose to buy second homes. We believe that it is intolerable that the tax system should subsidise the purchase of second homes at a time when so many families find it impossible to get a home of their own at all. I am confident that my right hon. Friend will be applauded for this measure—but nowhere more so than in some of the remoter parts of these islands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-03-28a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-01", "file": "debates1974-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "7668916a3eb81d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.855.7", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Crisps.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what huge and swingeing costs the hon. Gentleman is referring to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.855.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-01", "file": "debates1974-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "7668916a3eb81d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is on the ball.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.873.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-04-01", "file": "debates1974-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "7668916a3eb81d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ask a question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "rism has continued, and the IRA has never been stronger than it is now. It was significant that the Minister did not mention the IRA in his statement. Lest the House should be misled, the right hon. Gentleman said that a bomb was placed outside a Roman Catholic public house, but bombs were also placed outside Protestant public houses this weekend. I should like to inform the House that we believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-01", "file": "debates1974-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "7668916a3eb81d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "Saturday. I condemn violence from whatever side it comes, but would not the right hon. Gentleman agree that the IRA has claimed responsibility for tearing the heart out of the towns and cities of Northern Ireland in the past few weeks? On the question of the UFF, the Secretary of State referred to an article in the Sun newspaper. Is it not possible that those who gave the interview were impostors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-01", "file": "debates1974-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "7668916a3eb81d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "f their anguish, that violence would end only when the communities so decided? Does he not realise that the IRA has no interest in peace but is interested only in capitulation—and that the Minister of State's advice to the Ulster people is like telling Londoners to make peace with the criminal underworld, to leave their houses open and to let them steal and murder? This is not the answer. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-01", "file": "debates1974-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "7668916a3eb81d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I have asked the hon. Member for Wycombe (Sir J. Hall) to contain himself. I shall he dealing with that, necessarily briefly—unless he wishes me to continue for the rest of the afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-01", "file": "debates1974-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "7668916a3eb81d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, not for the first time, is at odds with his own Front Bench. His right hon. Friends have accepted the inevitability of an electricity price rise. A moment ago they were all nodding in encouraging agreement. Therefore, he must go to his right hon. Friends who are nearer to him for the instruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-01", "file": "debates1974-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "7668916a3eb81d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " being said in some quarters that the reason for the stock market's slide is not only that the Chancellor and the Government are anti-industry, but that they are against the private enterprise sector and will not allow it to function prosperously. It seems difficult to know how we can hope to have any economic success if our aim is to cause the private sector to collapse in under-nourished dismay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.896.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-04-01", "file": "debates1974-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "7668916a3eb81d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.923.2", "colnum": "923", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "o pieces of advice are comparatively easy to follow. In a Budget debate in which there are real differences of view on both sides of the House it is more difficult to follow the third piece of advice. I arrive in this place after my third attempt. On the first occasion I fought a most distinguished former Member of the House, Mr. Richard Crossman to, whom we would all want to send our best wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.923.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-04-01", "file": "debates1974-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "7668916a3eb81d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "preceding_text": "ick turnover. Less than a year ago Sir Malcolm Stoddart-Scott died tragically and we had a by-election, and then quickly after that came the General Election. In the short time that I knew him, I found Sir Malcolm to be one of the kindest and gentlest of men—in a genuine sense, one of the nicest men I have ever met. I know that his friendship and kindness will be missed on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-01", "file": "debates1974-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "7668916a3eb81d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "offices all over the country for the monumental task they will carry out in ensuring payment by the end of July? The country will realise, but perhaps I should repeat, that my right hon. Friends and I would certainly have raised pensions. There is no dispute about that. True, it would have been in the autumn. We would probably have raised them to well over £9, probably between £9 and £9·50—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-01", "file": "debates1974-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "7668916a3eb81d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "ng in a healthy state. The fact is that all too few companies yet use inflation accounting, taking account of the effect of inflation on stock and work in progress and other factors. The return on capital in all too many companies may well be negative. They may be paying dividends, and Governments may be levying taxation, on profits which, if they were properly judged, might be found not to exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-01a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-02", "file": "debates1974-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db30984f12563188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-02a.1086.6", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has obviously misunderstood the speech. I saw in the briefing given by his office that he would make a statement on the Saturday, referring to advice that he would give to the Queen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-02a.1086.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-02", "file": "debates1974-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db30984f12563188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-02a.1093.5", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ad the speeches which have been made by the Government I gain the impression that they do not realise the extent to which every word they now say is studied with extreme care by all those involved in this industry. I can assure the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State that the industry is becoming increasingly confused and anxious about what the present minority Labour Government are up to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-02a.1093.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-02", "file": "debates1974-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db30984f12563188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-02a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman and I came into the House at the same time and I am simply reminding him that in 1964, from a position on that side of the House, he made an attack upon Lord Balogh which I think he regretted. I am just advising him in the most friendly way that perhaps he should be careful and that what he should do is record that the open season on Lord Balogh is over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-02a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-04-02", "file": "debates1974-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db30984f12563188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-02a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE OIL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "After the three-day week?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rost", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State's announcements will no doubt be most welcome, but what will he do to ensure that enough British steel is made available to give British industry the opportunity to play a bigger part?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-02a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-02", "file": "debates1974-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db30984f12563188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-02a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman's speech was yet one more example of the super, insulation of modern Socialism. I hope that his hon. Friend will attempt to reply to some of the pertinent questions put by my right hon. Friend. If he fails to do so, those concerned with this issue will have confirmation of their fears that the Government's mind is barren. I turn to what we did during the years we were in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-02a.1155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-02", "file": "debates1974-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db30984f12563188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-02a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "ts to consider things while his colleague, using the mailed fist, lightly veiled, says \"If you do not get things moving, we are prepared to shorten planning procedures.\" We have a right to know what the position is. The statement made by the former Secretary of State on 31st January was sensible, taking appropriate account of the realities of the situation. Our proposals contained real safeguards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-02a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-03", "file": "debates1974-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "afc5e21426ff5408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1247.7", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member should know that the proposals for investment are submitted in the first instance by the British Railways Board. I do not take these decisions for the railways, but I certainly have a very warm spot for electrification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1247.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-03", "file": "debates1974-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "afc5e21426ff5408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1270.3", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "h the introduction of the Bill and to read of the promise made by the right hon. Gentleman that he is to consult more fully with the British Rail Board. We on the Liberal bench consider that a rail-only tunnel has considerable merit, subject to the proviso that access points should be more widely distributed throughout the country and that there should not be one massive distribution area in Kent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-03", "file": "debates1974-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "afc5e21426ff5408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "DR. MICHAEL WINSTANLEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Declare an interest\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": " so that a previous Liberal Member, Dr. Winstanley, could take his place in this House. Why did I expect the columns to include references to this important legislation? For one thing, the motion was to be moved by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House who has been referred to on more than one occasion in reference to so-called retrospective legislation as it affects the Clay Cross Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-03", "file": "debates1974-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "afc5e21426ff5408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "DR. MICHAEL WINSTANLEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "t that the Clay Cross councillors were using the law too often, should have referred to this new piece of legislation. Some people might laugh and scoff at the idea. I guess, however, that if the media did their job properly they would report upon the fact that a Member of Parliament was brought into this House through a piece of retrospective legislation when it seems to me that he broke the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-03", "file": "debates1974-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "afc5e21426ff5408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "DR. MICHAEL WINSTANLEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": " piece of legislation. Some people might laugh and scoff at the idea. I guess, however, that if the media did their job properly they would report upon the fact that a Member of Parliament was brought into this House through a piece of retrospective legislation when it seems to me that he broke the law—[ Interruption. ]—and that if he did not break the law then he cheated, and if he did not cheat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-03", "file": "debates1974-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "afc5e21426ff5408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "DR. MICHAEL WINSTANLEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "—in this case an establishment of the Ministry of Defence—the income goes into the group practice. That should be made clear. Dr. Winstanley has held this post since 1950 on an informal basis. He held it, together with his fellow members of the practice, when he was a Member of the House from 1966 to 1970. There was never any suggestion at that time that it was an office of profit under the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-03", "file": "debates1974-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "afc5e21426ff5408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK ETC. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What, both of you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "I have often debated matters with the hon. Member for Westhoughton (Mr. Stott), although not in this Chamber, and I am much more in sympathy with him now than I have been on many occasions in my local council chamber. The occupants of the Liberal bench welcome this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-03a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1422.0", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do that in Birmingham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ee any circumstances in which extra representation of Northern Ireland, with its history, would be a means of bringing the peace that we all want. It is facing up to the facts of the real problems in Northern Ireland that is needed. It is a fact that some people march with the flag of the South. In my view, if that is what they want to do, they are entitled to do it, however much one may disagree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1441.2", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, and so have I spoken out. If the hon. Gentleman is trying to follow the smear by the Tory Press, I will say this to him: my hon. Friends from Durham know the difference between property speculation and land reclamation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "CLAY CROSS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "ies that they have suffered. At no time was any commitment given that this would involve a charge upon public funds, and we do not propose to do so. Indeed, this proviso was made clear when we were in opposition. It will be a matter for those associated with the decisions taken at the relevant conferences to consider how funds, not involving a charge on the Revenue, can be raised for this purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "CLAY CROSS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "tent and magnitude of the problem will it be possible for us to make our recommendations to the House and this we shall do. I must repeat this: my right hon. Friends and I have always made it clear that the law of the land, however unfair, however divisive, must be obeyed until it is repealed. My right hon. Friend who is now Lord President made this absolutely clear at the Labour Party conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1445.2", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "CLAY CROSS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They had no alternative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ankly that the Government faced a dilemma and what they proposed to do about it. I cannot accept, of course, the opening part of the statement, that the legislation was forced upon local government with unreasonable speed. I say that for the simple reason that the great mass of local government authorities, whether they agreed with the legislation or not, accepted it and were able to implement it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1445.2", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "CLAY CROSS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Scandalous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " on the proceedings in respect of other authorities. I hope that the Prime Minister will accept what we understand to be the advice of his Law Officers and recognise that it would be scandalous to pass any Act which, by retrospective legislation, would remove these disabilities on councillors which arise from what the Master of the Rolls described as a \"determined, wilful disobedience of the law\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1449.4", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "CLAY CROSS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) for asking my question. Is my right hon. Friend aware that Clay Cross is a special case for one reason, which is that the ex-members of the local authority are the only people in the country who are suffering the penalties of surcharge and disqualification?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1449.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1459.0", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend desist from getting down into the gutter with the hon. Member for Reigate (Mr. Gardiner), who is well versed in writing scurrilous articles about Labour Members of Parliament? Indeed, it cost him £5,000 as a result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1459.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1503.2", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot have two hon. Members on their feet addressing the House at one time. Mr. Duffy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1518.3", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman has made several points he should let me reply to them, and then perhaps I will give way. Certainly those gentlemen are at the moment defending my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, West, but I can remember the skull of my hon. Friend gushing with blood from a baton blow delivered by those same gentlemen. What is needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1532.9", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "r it he will understand what I mean. The hon. Member for Belfast, West is certainly familiar with Ireland. Consider the general appearance of a small Scottish village—he knows what I mean—and the general appearance of a small village south of the border in Ireland. He will see exemplified what I mean. I pass no value judgment on that. I assert that it has nothing to do with religious denomination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1532.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "ve brought me here to speak for a slandered people, for a slandered country, for a slandered policy, to express the anger of the people whose views have been far too often ignored, to tell this House of the bitter fury I have often felt as I walked with broken glass crunching under by feet to watch a close friend's house flame like a great open fire. Have hon. Members of this House ever seen that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1563.0", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "y would never have to pay their rents. Those are the facts, and the House needs to be told the facts. I should like the Minister of State when replying to the debate to enlarge on the question of the release of detainees. My position on the matter has always been clear. I have opposed internment without trial, and I opposed the emergency provisions, both in Committee and on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1563.0", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " not like. We have heard of two organisations that are coming off the proscription list. One is the Ulster Volunteer Force and the other is Sinn Fein. I understand that there are Protestants in Long Kesh who, on being charged before the commissioner, were told that they were there because they were members of the UVF. I do not think that anybody is in Long Kesh because he is a member of Sinn Fein.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1569.2", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "I resent the right hon. Gentleman using the phrase \"extreme Protestants\" and then looking in our direction as if implying that we are extreme Protestants. We are proud to be Protestants, but we do not deserve the title \"extreme\". The right hon. Gentleman could hardly dispute that the policy has not been successful over the last four years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1569.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-04-04", "file": "debates1974-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d431a317b89937dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1582.0", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Question accordingly negatived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-04a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-05", "file": "debates1974-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "256d48ec14dc0123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-05a.1599.8", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's Government. Shortly before the beginning of the 1970 Parliament an hon. Member with perhaps more sense than the hon. Member for Yarmouth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-05a.1599.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-05", "file": "debates1974-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "256d48ec14dc0123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-05a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Of course it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-05a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-05", "file": "debates1974-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "256d48ec14dc0123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-05a.1605.3", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then sit down now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows the courtesies of the House as well as I do. The normal courtesy is for one to get on one's own feet if one has anything worth saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-05a.1605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-08", "file": "debates1974-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2765ed67f82c0018", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.11.6", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "t is when they have most windows open at night? Is he aware that it is intolerable that tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of people are disturbed at night so that a few hundred people can derive the benefit of cheap night fares? Is he aware that my constituents warmly welcome the progress made by the last Government in cutting by five-sixths the number of night flights, from 1,638—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.11.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-08", "file": "debates1974-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2765ed67f82c0018", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-08", "file": "debates1974-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2765ed67f82c0018", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the policy of the Labour Party and of this Government. That has never been in question. It does not arise in this case, because the previous Government had not done it. Therefore, they were not involved. My hon. Friend and right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite may know that I draw a distinction between land speculation of a kind where someone sits in a Mayfair office and buys land at one figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-08", "file": "debates1974-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2765ed67f82c0018", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ent had not done it. Therefore, they were not involved. My hon. Friend and right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite may know that I draw a distinction between land speculation of a kind where someone sits in a Mayfair office and buys land at one figure— [Interruption.] —and sells it for another and where, in another case, someone works hard on the site for all the hours there are removing aggregate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.34.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-04-08", "file": "debates1974-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2765ed67f82c0018", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milne", "preceding_text": "ffectively? On the question of signatures on letters, is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the signatures of himself and his right hon. Friend the Leader of the House were actually used against me during the course of the General Election campaign and that other persons concerned, including many hon. Members on the Front and back benches in the House, were equally affected, but nothing was done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-08", "file": "debates1974-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2765ed67f82c0018", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to intervene again, but I hope that, on further reflection, the Prime Minister will withdraw a remark that he made in his reply to my right hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-08", "file": "debates1974-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2765ed67f82c0018", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I gladly accede to what the right hon. Gentleman says, certainly in respect of the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Mr. Maudling). Very many hon. Members on this side as well as on his own felt that the right hon. Gentleman had been most unfairly treated. I agree that he had been hounded. To that extent, I withdraw what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-08a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to visit Chile. I think that most hon. Members would find it singularly distasteful were any of us to do so under present circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not break the law.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ceived a letter from the hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Dr. Winstanley) suggesting that he was going to ask you to instruct me to withdraw remarks that I had made in the short debate that took place on Wednesday afternoon. He has not in fact read out the statement which I expected him to read, but he has made it clear that he takes exception to the fact that I mentioned that he either broke the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barney Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barney Hayhoe", "preceding_text": " the ingenuity with which hon. Members were able to relate to the Question—whether the House should adjourn for the stated period—matters of great national and constituency importance. From time to time I thought how nice it would be to be in their place and therefore I thank you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me to take advantage of the way in which our procedures work to raise a constituency matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David James", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to break a religious festival by having the House sitting over Easter, but it is appalling that we may have to wait three weeks before we can debate agriculture. Dorset is almost the typical agricultural county, apart from East Anglia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.174.0", "colnum": "174", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James", "preceding_text": "I recall, after that double intervention, that Dorset was once a Liberal seat. Having had a meeting with my branch of the National Farmers Union last Saturday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "March 13th and local papers, have only just been brought to my attention. Your speech seems to have attracted a lot of criticism and suggestions that it was untrue to say that the Duke and the trustees of the Chatsworth Estates had Eastbourne Borough Council in their pocket. I can give you convincing proof that the Duke does get planning permission in preference to fellow developers, like myself\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Let me emphasise that this week the topic of discussion in this place, in the Press and the media generally has been land, land and land again. Today I am raising another matter dealing with a subject of a scandalous nature, if this letter is correct—something on a far greater dimension than anything we have discussed in the past few days. Whatever attempts are made in this House to gag me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Smear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "se will be very careful. If the Government propose to carry out the former Tory Government's policy of viciousness and vindictiveness towards the trade union movement, they will be heading for trouble. I know that I must not attack our judges, but it is strange how many of them are Tories and former Tory candidates. It is equally strange how many of them seem to be biased against the trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Smear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "he former Tory Government's policy of viciousness and vindictiveness towards the trade union movement, they will be heading for trouble. I know that I must not attack our judges, but it is strange how many of them are Tories and former Tory candidates. It is equally strange how many of them seem to be biased against the trade unions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Smear\".] I am not attacking any individual judge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Lipton", "preceding_text": "s wretched car park will be completed by the time we go on to the Summer Recess. I do not know who the chairman of the Services Committee is, but the car park position is so serious that the Committee should have a meeting during the recess to have a report ready for the House when we resume. There has been some delay in constituting that Committee. All kinds of curious hon. Members now sit on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernle Money", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernle Money", "preceding_text": "period of six years when a Labour Government were previously in office nothing was done about the future of what was then the county borough. Almost every service we have and almost every aspect of the town's life suffered because some Socialist Minister kept plans for the future of the borough in his \"in\" tray in Whitehall and refused to make up his mind on the Vincent and Shanckland Cox Reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernle Money", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernle Money", "preceding_text": "n's life suffered because some Socialist Minister kept plans for the future of the borough in his \"in\" tray in Whitehall and refused to make up his mind on the Vincent and Shanckland Cox Reports. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman interrupts from a sedentary position. I should point out that none of the delay affecting the County Borough of Ipswich occurred under a Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "ded for use in furtherance of their parliamentary and constituency activities. Is it possible to have a categoric assurance that these free telephone facilities were not used by those working in the Prime Minister's private office in furtherance of their business interests and to make appointments here in that connection? We have ample evidence of the dangers arising from this kind of arrangement,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "whatever for beef. I am not referring to any great pressure group, but to genuine concern among sensible level-headed people who are not given to emotive or excitable reactions to events. I have never seen farmers so worried, and I am in no doubt that their concern about beef production in this country is genuine. Unless the situation is urgently tackled, it will raise enormous problems of supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I believe that the hon. Gentleman raised this matter with Mr. Deputy Speaker earlier in the debate and received a reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": " able to fight it, those for whom the upward spiral of prices in the shops is not just a daily headache, but a daily nightmare. Seeking greater stability for the items to which I have referred, even where most of the cost thereby falls on other less essential items, is a vital part of what the Government are trying to do. I am pleased to say that after detailed consultations with the retail trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.260.4", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "I did not say that corporate liquidity was much diminished. I said that there were pressures on liquidity as a result of the three-day week and of some of the effects of rising costs. It is the Government's view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.260.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": " because there has been considerable misunderstanding about the terms of Clause 3. I ask the House to look at the clause closely in relation to paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 of the Counter-Inflation Act, which will put the matter into its proper perspective. I notice that one hon. Member suggests that it makes it worse. He should have made that point to those who introduced the Counter-Inflation Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.277.4", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made his point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.277.8", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "t the action of this Government in introducing the Bill to deal with the problem as they see it. The right hon. Lady has been designated by the Prime Minister as the focal point of action against prices generally. That is the responsibility that she has been given, as we were told in answer to questions a short while ago. We are therefore entitled to look to the right hon. Lady and her Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.277.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "aise £150 million. That hits the private motorist and will work its way through the economy in many other ways. I read my opponent's election address in the General Election and those of a number of other hon. Members. There were few references in them to their intention to put up the prices of tobacco, drink and betting to pay for some of these other things. They have had to raise extra taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " consumption, and there will he shortages of food in the shops, because there will not be sufficient supplies to meet the extra demand artificially created. I do not know the right hon. Lady's intentions with regard to cheese. There are rumours that she may subsidise it. What will happen to it if she does? I hope that there is no question of her subsidising foreign cheese. That would be ludicrous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "dy's intentions with regard to cheese. There are rumours that she may subsidise it. What will happen to it if she does? I hope that there is no question of her subsidising foreign cheese. That would be ludicrous. [Interruption.] I am glad to have the support of the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs. Renee Short) on that. We shall make common cause if camembert and brie are subsidised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " and its production is going down. There will certainly be a shortage of cheese if an attempt is made to subsidise it. I am told that the Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will open a new cheese factory in Devon just after Easter, although already the factory is having great difficulty in obtaining sufficient liquid milk to get its production going. because there is a shortage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "t. I hope that my hon. Friend will seek an opportunity in Committee to deal with it. If hon. Members say that we are against subsidies, it is only fair to reply that I believe that there are many better ways of spending £700 million than on indiscriminate food subsidies. I have already dealt with a number of measures the Conservative Government took over the years, which had a considerable effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "nt are to adopt before deciding whether to put forward a draft order that would enable the House to abolish the Pay Board. Why is the Secretary of State not taking action on this matter now rather than later? What will be the considerations that will lead him to take the course referred to in Clause 5? The House knows that statutory control of wages was not welcomed by the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " the Labour Party so it would believe that something was being done—instead of the charade which is taking piace. The real criticism of the Government is that they fought the last election on prices—admittedly there were a few disclaiming words about world prices, although little was made of that. The general impression was given that it was the Tory Party that was responsible for price increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "y that should be so. There must be some reason, but it escapes me at the moment. As a friend of liberty, I must point out that I much dislike the retrospective powers which appear to be given in Clause 3(4) of the Bill. By that provision the Secretary of State may declare that something that was legally valid at the time it was done is subsequently invalid. I think that this is going a little far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "Before my hon. Friend is too stimulated by the hallelujahs on the Conservative benches, may I ask him whether he is aware that some of these retrospective powers can, and quite properly should, catch the profiteers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "are making big profits they do not give a damn about the people whom they are expected to serve. Conservative Members try to impress us by talking about the poor hard-done-by wholesalers and retailers. I should like them to listen closely to the following paragraph of the reply from the traders to me: As traders we categorically refute the accusations of our Members of Parliament\"— that is myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": " we categorically refute the accusations of our Members of Parliament\"— that is myself. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"] I do not give a damn for any Conservative Member, any more than I care for those who sent the letter. I believe in one thing—the truth as I see it—and I will express that. The letter continues: and also declare ourselves to be wholly opposed to any form of price control what-soever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " Election campaign the average housewife was clearly given to understand by the Labour Party that she would be the focal point of any attack on prices. Nobody questions the need to help poorer families, but it is now clearly established that the average housewife has been misled and let down by the Government. She is not better off but worse off, and is likely to be even worse off as time goes on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is why you lost the election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "e to this House no fewer than three times. Although this Bill is a comparatively modest measure, it is welcome and will provide a useful signpost for consumers to help them find their way through the High Street jungle. I must add that it is a jungle that has been considerably pruned by the record number of significant measures on consumer protection introduced by the last Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.353.2", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "used. I welcome the provisions of Clause 4(2)( c ) dealing with the need to give clear information to consumers on what element in the price is represented by VAT. I hope that the Bill will proceed swiftly to the statute book so that consumers can see for themselves just how much this Government have raised prices, not only of petrol, confectionery and ice-cream, which is a nourishing family food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.353.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It was your tax.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "statute book so that consumers can see for themselves just how much this Government have raised prices, not only of petrol, confectionery and ice-cream, which is a nourishing family food. [ Interruption .] We are not suggesting that ice-cream should be subsidised. We are saying that the price of ice-cream should not have been increased by the imposition of VAT, which is quite a different argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "tioned.\" —[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th March 1974; Vol. 871, c. 297] Here was the Chancellor, on 26th March, saying that the amount of the food subsidy would be £500 million over and above the £50 million provided by my right hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber) when he was Chancellor. The Bill increases the amount from the £500 million mentioned by the Chancellor to £700 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-09", "file": "debates1974-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "c774323ff6154231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "re was the Chancellor, on 26th March, saying that the amount of the food subsidy would be £500 million over and above the £50 million provided by my right hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber) when he was Chancellor. The Bill increases the amount from the £500 million mentioned by the Chancellor to £700 million. [ Interruption .] If that is the increase which can take place —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-09a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-10", "file": "debates1974-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "55aa11b37e205139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I have always been con-concerned to prevent the economic fragmentation of the strength of Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-10", "file": "debates1974-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "55aa11b37e205139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "EARLY-DAY MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": " dealt with on the Floor of the House rather than in camera, because it affects the right of every Member irrespective of the merit of the motion If the Clerk concerned had sent to me the reasons why he rejected the motion, the course of action which you state would have been appropriate, Mr. Speaker. He did not do so. It was rejected without any explanation whatsoever. This is the first occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-10", "file": "debates1974-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "55aa11b37e205139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "preceding_text": "tempted. That has put burdens on many people. It has caused difficulties for my staff, as I have explained before, and I recognise that it puts us in the position of having to do some overtime tonight Surely the hon. Member is not suggesting that we could not have a very good and adequate discussion on the various points of the Bill, or is his main complaint that we have to sit all night to do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-10", "file": "debates1974-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "55aa11b37e205139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ady's social policy cannot be seen as part of a coherent pattern of social priorities. I do not wish now to dwell on the previous Government's record, particularly in the area presided over by my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-East, save to remind the House that dawn in matters of social provision did not break on 4th March this year. The previous Government made major improvements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.472.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-04-10", "file": "debates1974-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "55aa11b37e205139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCrindle", "preceding_text": "l no doubt want to introduce amendments in accordance with the philosophy which they have outlined over the years. But can the hon. Gentleman at least say that his advice to employers and to people in the pensions industry would be to go ahead with the arrangements for these occupational pension schemes in the knowledge that the basic structure of the Social Security Act is unlikely to be changed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-10", "file": "debates1974-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "55aa11b37e205139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.539.2", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": " evident that there is what might be called a get-out clause— the national economic situation as a whole\". I think that the Minister ought to be prepared to say that the fine words that we have heard about the level of pensions being tied to the level of earnings is subject to that qualification. Experience has shown that under a Labour Government economic situations are liable to get out of hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-10", "file": "debates1974-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "55aa11b37e205139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "Surely the basis of the hon. Gentleman's case was an argument as to whether pensions should be related to prices. HANSARD will prove this tomorrow morning. 9.0 p.m. The hon. Gentleman argued also that pensions rose higher than wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.545.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-04-10", "file": "debates1974-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "55aa11b37e205139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.547.3", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": " been very much better if he had done his homework on this matter. I see that he is about to receive a note. Perhaps something has arrived from Job to help him out. Secondly, it would have been better if the hon. Gentleman had come clean. As I have said, while we do not believe that our amendment is appropriate, the Minister's answers do him no credit. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-10", "file": "debates1974-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "55aa11b37e205139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.551.5", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Having listened to the right hon. and so-called learned Gentle-man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-10", "file": "debates1974-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "55aa11b37e205139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I will. I repeat what I said earlier, and I am glad that I am a better legal expert than the right hon. and learned Gentleman. If only he had read the whole of Section 39 and in particular subsection (4), he would have found that that subsection makes it clear that subsection (3)( a ) predominates and that the provisions of subsection ( b ) are at the discretion of the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-10", "file": "debates1974-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "55aa11b37e205139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ber 1972, Cmnd. 5116. 9.30 p.m. I know that the right hon. Lady adopted a different approach, but the majority of that Committee was in favour of making progress on those lines. I know that other members of the Committee now sitting on the Front Bench opposite took yet a further variation in their approach, and I think that to some extent Douglas Houghton was running a one-man approach of his own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-10", "file": "debates1974-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "55aa11b37e205139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "I was shocked that throughout almost the whole of the beginning of the speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for Wells (Mr. Boscawen) the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has left his place, was laughing and talking to his neighbour and not taking the matter as seriously as he should have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-10a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-11", "file": "debates1974-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "093d4d41d366c7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-11a.642.4", "colnum": "642", "heading": "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ction illegality in a number of cases. What I have decided to do is to make it clear that we do not condone the retrospective aspect and that those who believed they were secure and found that after all, they were not, should now be made secure. There is also the question of dependants. It is natural that people allowed to stay here regularly will in due course be allowed to bring in dependants. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-11a.642.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-11", "file": "debates1974-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "093d4d41d366c7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-11a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "over a period of time—possibly because of extensions on compassionate or educational grounds—have built up different family circumstances from those which they had at the beginning? I applaud my right hon. Friend's method of announcing his intention to the nation and to the House and do not deprecate it. My right hon. Friend is not hiding behind the considerable power which is always in his hands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-11a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-29", "file": "debates1974-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2acb0053ca78b385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-29a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "PUBLIC AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend that this may be a time-consuming activity. This must be a matter for consultation. It is a matter affecting us all and should not be decided simply by a quick decision by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-29a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-29", "file": "debates1974-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2acb0053ca78b385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-29a.893.3", "colnum": "893", "heading": "LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "If the Observer was right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-29a.893.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-29", "file": "debates1974-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2acb0053ca78b385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-29a.893.3", "colnum": "893", "heading": "LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "If the Observer was right—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] —it means that the Labour Party realises that it would have done it immense harm. I am perfectly happy to accept what the right hon. Member for Fulham said if he is contradicting what appeared in the Observer", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-29a.893.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-29", "file": "debates1974-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2acb0053ca78b385", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-29a.893.3", "colnum": "893", "heading": "LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ty can modernise its older properties only if it has a surplus coming from newer properties. If it cannot make a surplus, it cannot modernise. The Minister for Planning and Local Government and his colleagues ought to reverse their instant decision and at least do something to help housing associations and societies which have provided evidence that they are losing money as a result of his policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-29a.893.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-30", "file": "debates1974-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "17c9114a8fc719b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.924.2", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am not using it as an excuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-30", "file": "debates1974-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "17c9114a8fc719b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.929.5", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.929.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-30", "file": "debates1974-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "17c9114a8fc719b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.933.2", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s, by the taxpayers makes no difference. They had full facilities and full access to documents. We have followed the report of the Fulton Committee in this regard. When the hon. Gentleman refers to single spies, as I think he did —a good Shakespearean quotation—I should say that we have not put a single spy into the CPRS, as was done by the appointment of the Tory Central Office man into the CPRS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.933.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-30", "file": "debates1974-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "17c9114a8fc719b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Horam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-30", "file": "debates1974-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "17c9114a8fc719b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": " the allegations, though I fear that this may bring the House into greater disrepute than the article that I wrote. May I draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the statement made by the hon. Member for Peterborough (Sir Harmar Nicholls) yesterday when he either misread or misquoted the transcript which he had and which you have in your possession with regard to what I said on the Jimmy Young show?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-30", "file": "debates1974-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "17c9114a8fc719b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "an's partial conversion and hope that in the end it will be a complete conversion. I am sure that he will begin to understand that this is one of the exciting big projects on the political agenda. We are going through a period in politics when it seems that all the exciting big projects are stopped and politics appears to have become about bread and cheese. There are more things in life than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-30", "file": "debates1974-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "17c9114a8fc719b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that explanation. I look forward to reminding him of those words when the positions are again reversed in a few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-30", "file": "debates1974-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "17c9114a8fc719b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "d. It is untrue to say that it is not a part of the everyday cost of living. The same is true of frozen yoghurt. Perhaps it was a luxury 10 years ago, but no one could call it that today. This is particularly an attack on old-age pensioners because such people continually rely upon sweets and chocolates to give them energy. Many smoke, but many cannot afford to do so and suck chocolates or sweets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-30", "file": "debates1974-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "17c9114a8fc719b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "That would make even greater nonsense of the words in Group 2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-04-30", "file": "debates1974-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "17c9114a8fc719b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-04-30", "file": "debates1974-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "17c9114a8fc719b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.1105.10", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "I do not think that Mr. Deputy Speaker has made any calculations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-04-30a.1105.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-01", "file": "debates1974-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "586de3f861e84625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-01a.1128.5", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman is misled by the Press. Unless he believes that the contents of the speech I made as contained in the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-01a.1128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-01", "file": "debates1974-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "586de3f861e84625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-01a.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "have had schools and to see that they do something about it. That would cost no money. It is the job of the Department to announce the level of truancy. In France there is virtually no truancy because the school attendance record is computerised and runs in concert with the family allowance. If a child is a truant, the parents of that child receive no family allowance—although there is a clawback.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-01a.1203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-01", "file": "debates1974-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "586de3f861e84625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-01a.1210.3", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "wiped out I believe that the working class child will be more deprived. The middle class will move out of London and transfer their children to other schools and consequently the centre of London will become a ghetto. The poor working class child in the centre of the city will be held back. This is a very serious situation. I should like to make one more point before I refer to Conservative policy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-01a.1210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-01", "file": "debates1974-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "586de3f861e84625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-01a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHARP REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": "an from the Rhondda; it is the language of people who have written to me and said, \"I am passionately fond of my three-wheeler\". The choice, obviously, must run from a milk float to the existing three-wheeler. The chances are that the Mini or the Daf from the production line may fill the need in the majority of cases. I am deeply concerned about the fact that 13,500 people may lose their vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-01a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-02", "file": "debates1974-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "61c09fd07be9dd32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1316.6", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not at all certain that the hon. Gentleman and his party have done all they could have done to help the agreement on a voluntary policy. As to the Government's fulfilment of their side of the contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1316.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-02", "file": "debates1974-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "61c09fd07be9dd32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1320.4", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ation set up by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Prime Minister—he will recall that some thought had been given to the concept before he became Prime Minister, a concept which I criticised a little at the time—I now believe to be a very good development in central Government. Its job is nonpolitical, whether it serves a Conservative or a Labour or, conceivably any other kind of Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-02", "file": "debates1974-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "61c09fd07be9dd32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They were recruited into the Civil Service during the right hon. Gentleman's incumbency. I do not criticise that, because both of us have recruited politically oriented people into the Civil Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-02", "file": "debates1974-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "61c09fd07be9dd32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1331.0", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "id was wrong. I have taken that action on a number of occasions, from both sides of the House, but the question was put in the context of the Cabinet Office, and I answered that in my letter. The point that I was trying to make clear to the hon. Gentleman—I thought that this was what he was after from his question, though it may not have been 100 per cent. well drafted any more than my answer was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-02", "file": "debates1974-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "61c09fd07be9dd32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1334.5", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend recognise that some of us agree with the comment of the Leader of the Opposition about Members' interests? Does he not agree that the Labour Party has made its views very clear, that it wants nothing other than a compulsory public register, and that it shall be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1334.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-02", "file": "debates1974-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "61c09fd07be9dd32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1334.5", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "elayed further by referring it to the separate parties. The Labour Party—the Government—should take the advice of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition and produce their own proposals based on our party policy decisions, which would mean a compulsory register, including coverage of the other place—because if there is any corruption in Parliament it is along there rather than here.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1334.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-02", "file": "debates1974-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "61c09fd07be9dd32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1446.5", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "NUCLEAR REACTORS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "Yes, that is all that the right hon. Gentleman said, but he expressed his disappointment that the decision had not been taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1446.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-02", "file": "debates1974-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "61c09fd07be9dd32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1446.5", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "NUCLEAR REACTORS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "that the right hon. Gentleman will accept this in the best spirit. If he wishes to defend himself before the House, as he said, he surely does not think it out of the way that the Government should want to defend themselves. On the question of timing, I merely point out that the right hon. Gentleman had ministerial responsibility. I am sorry that this sour note has been introduced into the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-02a.1446.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-20", "file": "debates1974-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "74025d748d78d79f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.4.4", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "It is nothing of the sort. The hon. Gentleman must be aware that average wages today are well above £30 a week. The Question has been deliberately framed in order to elicite a most misleading answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.4.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-20", "file": "debates1974-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "74025d748d78d79f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "It is precisely for those reasons that we are investigating this possibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.8.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-20", "file": "debates1974-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "74025d748d78d79f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.13.4", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheese harvest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "That is a question which no one from any party could ever answer, because none of us can tell what the harvest will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.13.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-20", "file": "debates1974-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "74025d748d78d79f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn King", "preceding_text": "Did the Secretary of State hear, as I think I heard, the hon. Member for Fife, Central (Mr. Hamilton) say that beef producers were not in need of a subsidy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-20", "file": "debates1974-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "74025d748d78d79f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.19.2", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the letter from Shell which has been received by companies, but that letter does not, any more than the intervention of the hon. Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne), carry evidence of the problem to which we are referring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.19.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-20", "file": "debates1974-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "74025d748d78d79f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.26.4", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Approximately one-third.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.26.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-20", "file": "debates1974-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "74025d748d78d79f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "May I go back to what my right hon. Friend the Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Mr. Amery) asked the hon. Gentleman? I would urge him to think very seriously about this. It is no good talking about misrepresentation and misinterpretation of the Sunningdale Agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-20", "file": "debates1974-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "74025d748d78d79f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "INCOMES AND SAVINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " agree with the general proposition that the only way to safeguard the small saver is to get on top of inflation. All Governments have committed themselves to doing that, but none has so far succeeded. The list of ways to go about it ranges widely. The present Government are doing it through a variety of measures —food subsidies, the social contract, or compact—whatever it is; I am not quite sure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-20", "file": "debates1974-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "74025d748d78d79f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To rent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": " be allowed to do that. It has been said on many occasions that municipalisation does not add to total housing stock. I thought that the one thing which was clear above everything else was that what everyone requires, irrespective of whichever quarter of the House they occupy, is to see more housing available. Municipalisation does not help this aim. Our one objective should be to get more houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-20", "file": "debates1974-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "74025d748d78d79f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "d not have meant what he said, namely, that, regardless of merit any Conservative-controlled council's Bill which comes before the House would be opposed if we vote against this Bill. I am sure that he could not have meant that. I turn to the main point which my hon. Friends are proposing. It is to prevent the excessive use of public money competing against the home buyer in purchasing properties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-20", "file": "debates1974-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "74025d748d78d79f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.134.5", "colnum": "134", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "preceding_text": "I thought that the hon. Gentleman was referring to the county borough which changed control. Unfortunately, I lost my seat in 1970, and I well remember what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.134.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-20", "file": "debates1974-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "74025d748d78d79f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "One must not digress too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-20a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-21", "file": "debates1974-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "3a444220c8cc1afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "n. Friend agree that he has two distinct functions in regard to policy, one as Prime Minister and the other as Leader of the Labour Party? Does he also agree that the function concerning political and policy research should rightly be connected with the Labour Party? Therefore, will he look at the whole question of transferring Dr. Donoughue's staff to the Labour Party, paid for by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-21", "file": "debates1974-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "3a444220c8cc1afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.185.2", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman always has an obsession about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-21", "file": "debates1974-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "3a444220c8cc1afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "ARMS EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "l is concerned, the contract between the company and the Chileans provides for termination on three months' notice. Rolls-Royce will exercise this contractual right at the Government's request. The policy on spares for these aircraft and their engines should obviously be consistent with the policy on overhaul, and contractual obligations to supply spares will also therefore have to come to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-21", "file": "debates1974-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "3a444220c8cc1afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "ARMS EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that one of the great principles in the Labour movement, as I have always understood it, is that we should avoid double talk and double think at all costs? Would my right hon. Friend be prepared to treat Russian dictatorships on the same kind of basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-21", "file": "debates1974-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "3a444220c8cc1afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "ARMS EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"It is the Young Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ot apologise to the House for having announced today what is right in our view in the case of Chile and South Africa. In regard to Chile, I cannot accept what the hon. Gentleman said about the supply of frigates to the Government of Dr. Allende. As for South Africa, it has been the view of our party, and I thought that it was the view of the hon. Gentleman's party—he will correct me if I am wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-21", "file": "debates1974-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "3a444220c8cc1afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "ARMS EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t of Dr. Allende. As for South Africa, it has been the view of our party, and I thought that it was the view of the hon. Gentleman's party—he will correct me if I am wrong—[An hon. Member: \"It is the Young Liberals.\"] No, I think that it is the old Liberals as well. I think that it has been the policy of both of us, but not of the Conservative Party, that we should not supply arms to South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-21", "file": "debates1974-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "3a444220c8cc1afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.192.3", "colnum": "192", "heading": "ARMS EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "t the world? He has made it clear that he and the Labour Party are the foes of dictatorships on whichever side of the Iron Curtain they happen to be. Further, does he appreciate that the idea of reviewing our whole policy on arms sales is very good and that by doing so we shall avoid difficulties in future such as the present position? Will my right hon. Friend take note that there is no question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-21", "file": "debates1974-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "3a444220c8cc1afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Peyton", "preceding_text": "ion yet again to refer to the fact that where investment is most closely controlled and influenced by the Government the effect is baleful. I refer, of course, to the nationalised industries. Recently, Mr. Richard Marsh attacked the policies of successive Governments on railway investment. I found myself in entire agreement with everything that he said, though it might have been fair and friendly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-21", "file": "debates1974-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "3a444220c8cc1afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Joel Harnett)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Joel Harnett)", "preceding_text": "ind of which we have been speaking simply provides that those which pay dividends should pay another 50 per cent, of the ACT. It was not I or this Government who decided that companies should pay ACT in the first place. I have always argued, as I think has the hon. Member for Basingstoke, that close trading companies were much better off under the classical system than under the imputation system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-21", "file": "debates1974-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "3a444220c8cc1afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Joel Harnett)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Joel Harnett)", "preceding_text": "hat companies should pay ACT in the first place. I have always argued, as I think has the hon. Member for Basingstoke, that close trading companies were much better off under the classical system than under the imputation system—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] This is where I have been unable to understand how Conservatives can keep telling us that the 1965 corporation tax clobbered close companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-21a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.355.4", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "I have already told the House that the whole question of trade with South Africa is under review, despite the fact that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.355.4", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "I have already told the House that the whole question of trade with South Africa is under review, despite the fact that—[ Interruption. ] Not everything is under review. The Wasp helicopter is no longer under review, because a decision has already been announced. That is one thing that it not under review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.355.4", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "frica is under review, despite the fact that—[ Interruption. ] Not everything is under review. The Wasp helicopter is no longer under review, because a decision has already been announced. That is one thing that it not under review. [ Interruption. ] I shall repeat what I said. Not everything is under review. The question of the Wasp helicopter is not under review, as the licence has been revoked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "With respect, I wish to know whether Declaration No. 3 qualifies Declaration No. 1, which states Members' interests (Declaration) (No. 1)\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "26; what classes of persons (if any) other than Members ought to be required to register. I am saying that the Select Committee will be free to consider any class of persons. In recent months, a great many hon. Members and people outside the House have expressed the view that parliamentary journalists, candidates, spouses and children of hon. Members should be required to register their interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "May I draw my right hon. Friend's attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "May I draw my right hon. Friend's attention—[ Interruption. ] I am sorry. My right hon. Friend has given way to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "It still appears to me from a reading of Motion No. 3—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "whatever its provisions may be, is ridiculous. It should not have been put to the House in that way. The arguments for a compulsory register are well known. It is said that a Member's constituents should know what his private financial interests are. If that is so, the proposal should apply not only to Members but to candidates. It should apply before a man is elected. But that would be difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.417.5", "colnum": "417", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I know that many of my hon. Friends disagree with my point of view, but it is shared by many others of my hon. Friends. It was shared by all the other Labour Members of the Select Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.417.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about mistresses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "If this is to be logically done, every Member would have to insist that his wife—and every lady Member would have to insist that her husband—declared in the registry what her or his shareholdings were and the size of the income from various investments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.419.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "1 will remember that in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " of what is going on in the world outside. It is this which makes our judgment of value here. I must correct the hon. Member for Tottenham on a point about the lawyers. The reason Law Officers are given higher pay in the House than the holders of other posts is to compensate them for the tremendous loss which they suffer. I do not think that the hon. Gentleman recognises this. It is a true reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pecuniary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "given. We do not know which interests the motion includes and we do not know which interests hon. Members shall be required to register. A reference to such interests is to be found in the third motion, with which I am in agreement. The third motion recommends that a Select Committee shall make recommendations on what constitutes \"interests\" and which interests shall be required to be registered.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must point out that the hon. Gentleman was doing no such thing. He was discussing an entirely different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.494.2", "colnum": "494", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "olicitor and who finds himself acting for the landlord of a house when a constituent comes to him saying that he is in dispute with that landlord. That has nothing on the dilemma which faces an hon. Member sponsored by the National Union of Seamen when someone visits him and says, \"You are my MP. I am in conflict with the National Union of Seamen.\" How does one rationalise that sort of situation?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.494.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.494.2", "colnum": "494", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": " but he has not rationalised it; he has pushed it aside. Let us be plain about this. In any circumstances, where any hon. Member has an outside interest, as a Christian, or as a Buddhist, or as a member of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators, or as a member of the Women's Institute, there will be moments when one of those interests comes up against the interests of one of his constituents.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.494.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.494.2", "colnum": "494", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why pay?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": " me—as most of the clients that Members have do not expect one—to promote legislation on its behalf. It is far more interested in political advice. If it wanted legal advice, it would go to a lawyer but it wants political advice so it goes to a politician, to know whether something affecting its business is acceptable in the world of politics. It is acceptable that Members should give that advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.494.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Definitely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is not very careful, I shall be tempted. But it would be better if hon. Members read Private Eye rather than that I should take the advantage of the privilege of the House in doing a rather ungentlemanly act. But should an hon. Member list the fact that his mistress has received a gift?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "or two hon. Members take fees from one company or another. I am inclined to accept the verdict of the poll to which reference has been made—that the public want this thing. I am not sure that, after a while, they will get much satisfaction out of it. I have listened to the arguments today and I am still not totally certain, because I have not heard all the arguments, about which way I shall vote.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "The people who voted for us did so because they supported a broad political philosophy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to give way, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I want to be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.501.6", "colnum": "501", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "While we are at it, can we also get rid of the club-like atmosphere which exists in this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.501.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "at type of Member has changed his mind to such an extent that he now welcomes compulsory registration of all interests. What is the basis of that? The hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) hit the nail on the head. He was one of the really honest Members who came right out with it. He did not actually use the words \"One man, one job\", but that was the whole philosophy behind everything he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "wever, I remain unconvinced that we need a register. I say that for three reasons. First, 1 do not believe that it is desirable for the private finances of Members of Parliament to be made public for anyone who wishes to know them. I believe that that would have a grave effect on the composition, character and quality of this House. I regard it as an unwarrantable intrusion into our private lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "First, 1 do not believe that it is desirable for the private finances of Members of Parliament to be made public for anyone who wishes to know them. I believe that that would have a grave effect on the composition, character and quality of this House. I regard it as an unwarrantable intrusion into our private lives. [ Interruption. ] We are entitled to privacy just as much as ordinary individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask him to withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": " not normally conventional—I do not think it has ever been done—for an hon. Member to declare his interest before putting a motion down. That is the only occasion. But the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East knows very well exactly what my interests are, the House knows what they are, and had there been a public register, it would not have made one damn of difference. Having disposed of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-22", "file": "debates1974-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c9afe65a077b44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "hould receive the guidance which is provided for in the motion on the potential range of relevance. After all, in all other matters within the general ambit of the rules of contempt of the House, it is the House which decides what is a contempt, not the judgment, however sincere, of each Member. Of course, Members will still have to exercise their judgment—that I accept and it goes without saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-22a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-23", "file": "debates1974-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "65a2a4b47790ac53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am continually in touch with the farming community and farming leaders. Moreover, I have told the hon. Lady that I shall be delighted to see her at my Ministry if she wishes, at any time, to discuss the problems of her constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-23", "file": "debates1974-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "65a2a4b47790ac53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.593.8", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "e cannot get to Luxembourg, to send for a copy of the Luxembourg register to establish, each month, whether any money is drawn by Tories and Liberals who are members of the European Assembly by way of payments made at the end of each plenary session? Perhaps he will establish from President Berkhouwer, who instituted the inquiry, how many people were involved, the allegations that arise therefrom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.593.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-23", "file": "debates1974-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "65a2a4b47790ac53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "PRICE SISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "May I make it clear that I do not condone anything that these two girls have done, but could I press my right hon. Friend in terms of his statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-23", "file": "debates1974-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "65a2a4b47790ac53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "It was discussed. Even if what the right hon. Gentleman says is accurate, it does not invalidate my proposition for a minute. I believe that if the Sunningdale Agreement were voted upon this afternoon, it would get the overwhelming support of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-23", "file": "debates1974-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "65a2a4b47790ac53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.679.5", "colnum": "679", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE PAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1961?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "e first attempt at a substantial upgrading of pay in the nursing profession since the establishment of the service. Pay for staff nurses went up just under 12 per cent. and for sisters by just over 19 per cent. The period for which the Secretary of State has sought to take credit, namely the time of the 20 per cent. increase in 1970, followed two or three years in which there had been no increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.679.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-23", "file": "debates1974-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "65a2a4b47790ac53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE PAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "contain the frustration, which is now breaking its banks, with imminent danger to the National Health Service as a whole.\" That is why the Government have been considering this problem very urgently. I am therefore glad to be able to tell the House that, as a result, the Government have decided to set up an independent inquiry into the pay and conditions of work of nurses and midwives immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-05-23", "file": "debates1974-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "65a2a4b47790ac53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE PAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "preceding_text": "nd that we shall get a report quickly. The committee is not to start until after Whitsun, but I assume that it will report before the House adjourns for the Summer Recess. When they came to power on 28th February the Labour Government managed to settle the miners' strike within days. It cannot be beyond the wit of a Labour Government to resolve this problem so that we do not have to wait too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-05-23a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Orchestration?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, and, of course, I accept that. But it was because this matter has become more to the forefront of public debate that it seemed to me important that the Prime Minister should do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. and gallant Member for Down, South (Captain Orr)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry West", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry West", "preceding_text": "land problem shown in speeches and statements made both inside and outside the House. I know that some Members mean well, but they fail to realise that the stresses and strains in Northern Ireland are different from those experienced in London. They fail to recognise the simple but fundamental fact that the differences of view between the two main groups in Northern Ireland are not about religion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry West", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry West", "preceding_text": " a full part in Northern Ireland society, they were equally unwilling at that time to support violence as a means of obtaining a united Ireland. But the gap between the two communities at that time was beginning to narrow. The then Northern Ireland Government, of which I was proud to be a member, were making slow but sure movement towards encouraging the minority to play a greater part in society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": " In August 1969 a disaster occurred for our Province because in that month a conference was held in Downing Street. To it were invited four of the leaders of the Northern Ireland Government, who apparently came to Downing Street as four frightened men who had lost control of the situation. The result of that conference ultimately led to the distraction of one of the finest police forces in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.916.5", "colnum": "916", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "f his recommendation in that respect. Not only was the RUC demoralised at that time, but another internal security force was disbanded and discredited. I refer to the Ulster Special Constabulary, to whom the present Prime Minister referred as the \"much hated B Specials\". That was a most unfortunate remark to make since it cast a slur on a body of men who are among Her Majesty's most loyal citizens", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.916.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": " life. That is the point I am making. Despite all that happened, the myth that somehow this was the fault of the majority continued in the Westminster mind—a mind which seemed to become impervious to the point of view of the Northern Ireland Government or of the Unionists. The Army was prevented from taking effective action against the IRA in the mistaken belief that it would placate the minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was sacked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "ing effective action against the IRA in the mistaken belief that it would placate the minority. [ Interruption. ] I know that this view is not accepted by some in this House, and particularly by many on the Labour benches, but a number of Army officers have already spoken out on this subject. One young Army officer, having served three times in Northern Ireland, resigned his commission in protest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "e in the work of the Army in Northern Ireland. That Army officer has written to the newspapers expressing his views and has made speeches. On many occasions when the Army had effective plans to deal with the IRA they were stopped because the Army was told that such action was politically unacceptable. I know that is not accepted over here, but there are many Army officers who know this to be true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.921.5", "colnum": "921", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it right for the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition to make a statement that is patently untrue? The right hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Mr. West) was never invited. He did not get an invitation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.921.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.921.7", "colnum": "921", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "With respect to the Leader of the Opposition, I was not invited to Sunningdale. Nor were my two colleagues the hon. Members for Antrim, North (Rev. Ian Paisley) and Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.921.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.921.7", "colnum": "921", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "With respect to the Leader of the Opposition, I was not invited to Sunningdale. Nor were my two colleagues the hon. Members for Antrim, North (Rev. Ian Paisley) and Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt). [HON. MEMBERS: \"He was\".] No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.921.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.923.2", "colnum": "923", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman will be patient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.923.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": " be found —everyone, that is, except the extremists who think that the answer lies in slaughter and bombing. We have resisted all the vulgarities and appalling behaviour of the IRA, and it was right that we should. It would have been utterly wrong if any British Government had succumbed to the idea that the bombers and murderers of the IRA could be allowed to intimidate them. It therefore follows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dunlop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dunlop", "preceding_text": "iticians were in the ha'penny place. Incidentally, talking about trade unions and bearing in mind some of the remarks which have been made about this crisis, I as an ordinary man and an inexperienced Member of Parliament look forward with interest to the next big strike in the British Isles, wherever it may be, and I shall be delighted to see how the Government employ British tanks in that strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. I must get on, because so many other hon. Members wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-03", "file": "debates1974-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c6e8749cf70ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The demonstrations I saw did not have masked men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-03a.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-04", "file": "debates1974-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5e2f5ba3e118630d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, but keeping outside of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t—indeed, dangerous—if I had said at that time what was coming. But I could not have postponed the broadcast, as I have explained, because of the urgent desire of the Executive that it be made that evening. The other criticism relates to my reference to sponging. I noticed that yesterday the hon. Member for Antrim, North, was wearing a small piece of sponge as a political symbol. Is he here today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-04", "file": "debates1974-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5e2f5ba3e118630d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "re by the Government—I said this at the time—to deal at once with the barricades and also to maintain essential services. These matters are critical, and we discovered this when we were in government. My right hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border knows that full well, and he acted on that basis. Then there was the well-intentioned, but also unfortunate, intervention of Mr. Len Murray—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-04", "file": "debates1974-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5e2f5ba3e118630d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "we discovered this when we were in government. My right hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border knows that full well, and he acted on that basis. Then there was the well-intentioned, but also unfortunate, intervention of Mr. Len Murray—[HON. MEMBERS: Oh.] Yes, that resulted in an evident failure and therefore gave encouragement to those who were trying to muster forces behind the strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-04", "file": "debates1974-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5e2f5ba3e118630d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ns wanted to see how it was going, and then the triumvirate moved in. We all know about the leadership stakes. That is why the Leader of the Opposition carefully referred to the present leader of the Ulster Members. I am sorry the right hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone is not here, just as I was sorry that the rest of his Northern Ireland colleagues were not here to listen to his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-04", "file": "debates1974-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5e2f5ba3e118630d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "ay in our internal affairs but the right to encourage a minority within our midst to think that some day Ulster will join the Republic. Anything on these lines should be totally rejected and will be totally rejected. Any settlement which contains anything of that kind will be total anathema to the Ulster people. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Liberal Party made one sensible suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-04", "file": "debates1974-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5e2f5ba3e118630d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " to remain part of the United Kingdom, and that that right is not diluted by our pretended right to throw Ulster out. We must recognise that, however distasteful the face of parts of Ulster loyalism may be, the reality is that the people of Northern Ireland are members of the United Kingdom with full rights of citizenship which they need to have protected. We are talking about a dialogue of death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-04", "file": "debates1974-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5e2f5ba3e118630d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1165.4", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "uncing these men, for they are the backbone of the Protestant working classes. What is wrong with the House is that it has never realised what Ulster Unionism really is. Ulster Unionism is not English Toryism grafted on to Ireland. It is a consolidated effort by the majority people who trace their heritage to the plantation settlement and who desire to remain part and parcel of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-04", "file": "debates1974-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5e2f5ba3e118630d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Stanley Orme)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Stanley Orme)", "preceding_text": "s, but they gave their own versions of what was said afterwards. I will not attempt to put the record straight. The point made by the right hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Mr. West), and I think by other Members, was that they were in favour of power sharing with Roman Catholics as long as the Roman Catholics were not Republicans. That excludes possibly 95 per cent. of Roman Catholics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-06-04", "file": "debates1974-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5e2f5ba3e118630d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1182.3", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "preceding_text": "Mr. Mather rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-04a.1182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-10", "file": "debates1974-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ea32da3eddaa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-10a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "re to increase personal allowances for the elderly, is this the best method? Secondly, having given the allowances that we have in the Budget, is this the best way and should we spend the additional cost of the amendment by additional relief to the elderly or in some other way, if those funds were available? The cost in a full year would be £50 million. It would be £30 million in the year 1974-75.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-10a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1400.5", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "nsive statement, which will give justifiable confidence to the groups of workers he has mentioned. May I put to him the fact that yesterday a large number of nurses, organised by their trade union, the Confederation of Health Service Employees, with which I have associations, lobbied the House and were able to make it clear that the nurses more than almost any other group have suffered enormously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1400.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1403.5", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the speech to which the Questions refer, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor repeated what has been said by myself, by him and by others on a number of occasions now and under the previous Government. As far as I am aware, what my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Industry has been saying is entirely in accordance with the manifesto which we presented to the country during the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1403.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1408.0", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, as the architect of our investment decline, is now seeking to find an excuse to get away from his responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "onths of it the right hon. Gentleman does not know where he stands. The rest of the country knows. I am surprised to hear questions from him on these matters because whenever he could do so he made his statements outside the House of Commons, at televised Press conferences in Lancaster House, from Conservative Central Office, the Tory Party conference and so on. There has never been such a record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "PENSIONS INCREASES (PAYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"After three months?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "il and uncertainty could have been avoided if the National Insurance system employed a modern data-processing system of the kind which has been in use in other countries for a number of years, and that, instead of coming to a complex arrangement to perpetuate the National Insurance Scheme under the present system of administration, it would have been better to try to modernise the whole apparatus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1430.3", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "otiations in the Common Market. I do not know whether they will be successful or not. I hope they will be successful, for many reasons. At the end of the day, when the conditions are known and published, does the right hon. Gentleman believe that the British people should be asked to express their view about the result as to whether we should remain in the Common Market? That is a simple question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1436.6", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ged only on the ground of composition of the Committee and not because of the way in which these matters were to be carried out. To look at these matters fairly—I say this to all those who do not want to get out of the Common Market at any price—it is up to the House to probe them. By using the procedure and arrangements laid down by the Lord President, the House can take control of these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1436.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1442.0", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " much can be pulled back. Others have ties of blood, sentiment and history with us and would like to see a pulling back if it could be secured. Others, frankly, are more concerned to see their relations with the Community broadened than to keep a market with Britain. All these factors have moved on since we discussed these issues in 1970. I regret that the Commonwealth has diversified in this way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1472.3", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "preceding_text": "they are not perfect and do not satisfy quite a few hon. Members. Nevertheless they are a genuine and substantial advance in getting a real say by this House in the negotiations. But one or two things in my right hon. Friend's speech rather disturb me. He said that politically it would be undesirable for us to leave the Community. I think that the majority of hon. Members would say the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1472.3", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "preceding_text": "ly it would be undesirable for us to leave the Community. I think that the majority of hon. Members would say the same thing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I accept that there is a strong minority of hon. Members who would disagree, and I accept their view, but it is fruitless to argue it now. I still maintain, however, that the majority of hon. Members would agree on this point with my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1496.2", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": " the Foreign Secretary, as Chairman of the Labour Party, has never consulted the Labour Party about a major statement of policy which purports to represent the party policy. The second feature about the shift between 1st April and 4th June is the setting up within the Cabinet of a European strategy sub-committee. This is an interesting arrangement. I am told—not directly by members of the Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": " a long way from the conclusions which I believe we reached at our last annual conference, when we endorsed the 1972 statement. That is what worries my hon. Friends and I most, and why we shall have to have some straight talking about where we now stand and the direction which is now plotted for us by the Foreign Office and others who support its line. I do not want to detain the House any longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1501.0", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "tary. He said during his speech that he did not know how the negotiations would end— they might end successfully or they might not. A number of hon. Members have pointed out the various alternative options—the enlarged EEC or the enlarged EFTA which the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) was advocating, and which was effectively contested by the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has been here just as much as many hon. Members who have been called to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1538.1", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "because he wanted his grandchildren to be free men. With respect to the noble Lord, I believe that he is looking in the wrong direction. Any threat to his grandchildren's freedom will not come from Brussels or from any closer co-operation which may develop, as I hope it will develop, between an association of free nations none of which can be obliged to pool more of its sovereignty than it wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1548.3", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Then let me take another example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Yes. We are about to take part in the Law of the Sea conference at Caracas. It is there that the fundamental decisions about fishing policy will be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-11", "file": "debates1974-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a43a28b82256cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1553.2", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "LIVESTOCK (WELFARE)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Roland Moyle)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Roland Moyle)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Welfare of Livestock (Cattle and Poultry) Regulations 1974, a draft of which was laid before this House on 14th May, be approved. I think it would be convenient if we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-11a.1553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1605.0", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The kind of return for which the hon. Gentleman has asked would not be worth the tremendous effort and cost that would be involved. However, I can give him figures which will be of use to him. On the basis of a sample survey which involved about 700 authorities, undertaken by my Department not long ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1605.0", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The kind of return for which the hon. Gentleman has asked would not be worth the tremendous effort and cost that would be involved. However, I can give him figures which will be of use to him. On the basis of a sample survey which involved about 700 authorities, undertaken by my Department not long ago—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] During the time of the last Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1642.2", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "port the proposition that if this part of the Bill goes through unamended in this way, and if the Secretary of State invokes the powers to regulate prices and require price lists to be published in every shop where the subsidised foods are being sold, an enforcement agency will be required to investigate from Harrods to the mobile shop in the Scots village, and the burden will fall upon the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1642.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1643.2", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman sadly underestimates the prowess of the housewife. She knows perfectly well where goods are dearer and where they are cheaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1742.7", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I would like to say a little on the matter while dealing with Third Reading, and I believe that I am entitled to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1742.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1743.1", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I am not trying to be offensive to any hon. Member of the House. I am merely telling the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1743.1", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ngs about the Bill, and I am sure that those hon. Members who are interested will remain and no doubt those who are not will go. I do not wish to oppose Third Reading but I hope that the House and, certainly, the country realise how ineffective the Government's actions in this respect will be. We have heard a great many words about the Government's action on prices, yet we have seen little action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1743.4", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "cords have been kept. What will this Bill do against that sort of background of prices shooting up as a direct result of the Government's action? What can the Bill do to help in these circumstances? I feel I can carry both sides of the House with me on at least one matter. Both sides share the same aim in that we want to do something effective to contain inflation, if ways can be found to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1743.4", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "oth sides of the House with me on at least one matter. Both sides share the same aim in that we want to do something effective to contain inflation, if ways can be found to do that. [ Interruption .] At least the retail price index did not go up by the same amount when we were in office. The retail price index in May went up in one month more than in any single month since 1947 when records began.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I think it is common ground between both sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1755.0", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": " Government are not helping people as they could with £700 million at their disposal. If they have that money at their disposal, there are many more effective ways in which people could be assisted. It is absolutely essential that the Bill should be voted down, but I fear that it will not be voted down, because there will not be enough Members in the Lobby with myself and a few of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1755.3", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Distort?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "the massive bureaucracy that will be needed to enforce the Bill. One does not need to do more than refer to the statement which the right hon. Lady made this afternoon and to consider certain items on which manufacturers will concentrate their promotional activity. It is not the sphere of government to go poking into every High Street shop trying to influence people's taste and distort the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1776.3", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the House long as it is only right that I should be brief both in stature and in what I have to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1776.3", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the House long as it is only right that I should be brief both in stature and in what I have to say. [ Interruption .] When the hon. Member for Gloucestershire, West (Mr. Loughlin) gets to know me better, he will recognise that if he listens quietly he may learn something. If I may proceed on my lordly way, I think that the Bill might well be termed a basket Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1776.3", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": " in what I have to say. [ Interruption .] When the hon. Member for Gloucestershire, West (Mr. Loughlin) gets to know me better, he will recognise that if he listens quietly he may learn something. If I may proceed on my lordly way, I think that the Bill might well be termed a basket Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"] A basket of a Bill, a basket Bill. It is a Bill about baskets, about shopping baskets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "s. I quote from one newspaper. It says The massive April rise—due very largely to the Budget—crossed the phase 3 Pay Code. … It is no good for the Government to make excuses about 'factors beyond its control'. It was not acts of God, but acts of Mr. Healey in his Budget, which put up all the prices. Did I hear an hon. Member say \"Tory Press\"? I was quoting from the Morning Star of 25th May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " It is no good for the Government to make excuses about 'factors beyond its control'. It was not acts of God, but acts of Mr. Healey in his Budget, which put up all the prices. Did I hear an hon. Member say \"Tory Press\"? I was quoting from the Morning Star of 25th May. [ Interruption .] I am glad that the hon. Member recognised it. It must have caused him even greater embarrassment than I thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "olved cuts of meat which are not normally sold in butchers' shops and it was not possible to know whether the price was lower. Other items were mis-described. No items were unit priced. Two cuts of meat were offered together at a price which on average was cheaper for one of the cuts but dearer on average for the two. I must declare an interest. I have the misfortune to own a few Woolworth shares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "s on the trade. She adds that it is better to do something than nothing. We sympathise with those sentiments. That is a very appealing claim. There is only one thing that is very wrong with it. The right hon. Lady knows, we know and most of the Press commentators know that what she has proposed will not do very much and that the result of the whole operation is nothing more than a political fraud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-12", "file": "debates1974-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "36859695c8ba14f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1785.1", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " the Bill is not political and that we should accept its sincerity, we can only marvel at its naiveté and denounce its futility. On both sides of the House our objectives are the same. We want to protect the weaker members of the community against the ravages of inflation, and we realise that there is a compelling and urgent need to do so. Despite the real misgivings we have about the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-12a.1785.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-13", "file": "debates1974-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "0feae9b1af225c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-13a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Without commenting on the hon. and gallant Gentleman's language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-13a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-13", "file": "debates1974-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "0feae9b1af225c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-13a.1825.0", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " terribly busy man and we would not want him to chair the NEDC unnecessarily? Will he consider sending my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Industry to chair the next meeting? Perhaps my right hon. Friend could then spell out to the well-heeled industrialists represented there that they have been receiving upwards of £4 million a day from the taxpayer's pocket and the housewife's purse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-13a.1825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-13", "file": "debates1974-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "0feae9b1af225c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-13a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. If he is saying that there are methods of avoiding French taxation, that is true, but I assure him that there are also methods of avoiding British taxation. I declare an interest. I have been dealing with that matter for many years. I was giving the facts of the tax systems of the various countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-13a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-13", "file": "debates1974-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "0feae9b1af225c40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-13a.1924.1", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "Sir Oscar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-13a.1924.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-14", "file": "debates1974-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde33574779231a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-14a.2053.3", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "LIBERTY OF THE CITIZEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Even if no laws were actually broken, and I do not admit that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-14a.2053.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-06-14", "file": "debates1974-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde33574779231a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-14a.2084.2", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "(CONTROL OF ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-14a.2084.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-06-14", "file": "debates1974-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde33574779231a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-14a.2084.7", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That Standing Committee B be discharged from considering the Abortion (Amendment) Bill and that the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.—[Mr. Grylls.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-14a.2084.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-17", "file": "debates1974-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c796c46f97ddb757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.10.8", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "May I draw my hon. Friend's attention to the great anger and annoyance of many people because of the recent announcement about night storage heaters and white meters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.10.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-17", "file": "debates1974-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c796c46f97ddb757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "I certainly take the strictures of my hon. Friend, but the question related to advertisements for night storage heaters. It still is a cheaper form of electricity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.13.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-17", "file": "debates1974-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c796c46f97ddb757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.32.4", "colnum": "32", "heading": "DISTURBANCES (RED LION SQUARE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "Without challenging my right hon. Friend's remarks about some of the demonstrators, may I suggest to him that those remarks certainly did not apply to the Liberation contingent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.32.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-17", "file": "debates1974-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c796c46f97ddb757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.32.4", "colnum": "32", "heading": "DISTURBANCES (RED LION SQUARE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "n that in recent years the mounted police have either not been present or have been used very much in reserve, usually as a fourth line of defence? Does he agree that on this occasion the mounted police were used as a second line of defence with what turned out to be an inadequate cordon of foot police? Will he comment on who is responsible for that change of policy? Very briefly, will he tell me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.32.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-17", "file": "debates1974-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c796c46f97ddb757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "DISTURBANCES (RED LION SQUARE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "I fully accept everything that the Home Secretary said about the importance of free speech and the freedom to demonstrate. Does he not agree, however, that it will be intolerable if the streets of our cities are to be turned into pitched battle grounds by Left-wing extremist groups?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-17", "file": "debates1974-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c796c46f97ddb757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "DISTURBANCES (RED LION SQUARE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Declare your interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend not agree that if there is any validity in his own view that there should be extra machinery for inquiry into allegations of police malpractices—a view to which he and his predecessors subscribe—then this must be an event which begs for such an investigation if only to clear up doubts on all sides and in the interests of all the participants in last Saturday's events?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-17", "file": "debates1974-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c796c46f97ddb757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "CONTROL OF POLLUTION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Mr. Denis Howell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Mr. Denis Howell)", "preceding_text": "cilities in this way. Many environmentalists make the mistake of thinking that environmental problems concern only the countryside. I, at least, passionately believe, as I know my right lion. Friend does, that the most important thing in the lives of millions of people in our cities is the quality of life in their road—the litter, the noise, the nuisance and the atmosphere. We must get this right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-17a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-18", "file": "debates1974-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0b4a917ff76cf757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "We are not discussing abolition but a commitment to phase out private practice from the National Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-18", "file": "debates1974-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0b4a917ff76cf757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.199.4", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "We on the Government side of the House do not have the hostility towards the TUC and the trade union movement that the hon. Gentleman has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.199.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-18", "file": "debates1974-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0b4a917ff76cf757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has said that he has decided to take certain responsibility for discussing matters relating to the Secretary of State for Industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-18", "file": "debates1974-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0b4a917ff76cf757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "hat it is very important that we should be in no doubt on the matter, and therefore I shall rephrase my question. Is it not right that the Prime Minister said that he has taken unto himself responsibility for having discussions on certain matters within the province of the Secretary of State for Industry? If, as I believe, that is correct—and I listened to the right hon. Gentleman—will he tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-18", "file": "debates1974-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0b4a917ff76cf757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.208.5", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "But, of course, the right hon. Gentleman would not understand this sort of situation. I do not complain of that—he is not in a position to do so. But had his manoeuvrings with the right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath) between 28th February and 4th March proved successful, he would by this time have understood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-18", "file": "debates1974-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0b4a917ff76cf757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "preceding_text": " to all the local newspapers in my constituency hoping that they would draw attention to the alarming figures of farm deaths and injuries. In this island, in the four years 1969–73, no fewer than 637 people were killed on farms, of whom 127 were children under 15, and no fewer than 36,453 were injured in that time. We all welcome steps to improve safety, but the question which I ask myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-18", "file": "debates1974-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0b4a917ff76cf757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "te in the future. The Bill makes absolutely plain that all the Acts listed in Schedule 1 will continue in force until replaced by such regulations. Therefore, there is nothing to be gained by the deletion of the qualifications in the general duties in the Bill. I have made it clear, I think, to my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley and to the House that I cannot accept his amendments. I now turn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-18", "file": "debates1974-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0b4a917ff76cf757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.351.2", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madel", "preceding_text": "That will further shorten the proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.351.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-18", "file": "debates1974-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0b4a917ff76cf757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.361.2", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Watkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Watkins", "preceding_text": "all be the duty of every employer, where an accident has occurred, to facilitate access to his premises and plant by the legal and expert advisers of any safety representatives, safety committee or recognised trade unions (within the meaning of the regulations) of his employees for inspection to obtain information required by them in connection with the accident'. The amendment places a statutory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-18a.361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady does not do justice to herself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.478.3", "colnum": "478", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "that provision should be made for continuing imports of New Zealand butter after 1977 at broadly the levels envisaged then. We were also considering possible methods of dealing with cheese. For sugar, I emphasised the need to offer continuing access for 1·4 million tonnes of sugar from the developing countries, and said that arrangements were also needed for further supplies from Australia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.478.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.478.3", "colnum": "478", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "It is intended to sustain the market in a difficult situation. In consequence, the special subsidy in Northern Ireland will end on the same date, and, subject to parliamentary approval, Northern Ireland producers will become eligible for the full rate of calf subsidy payable in Great Britain. In this meeting of the Council, I have thus taken three measures to sustain confidence in the meat sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.478.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.493.10", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "e Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970, but those words have been on the statute book since 1893. Indeed, the provisions for relieving from income tax the provident funds of a trade union have been a fundamental part of our social system and tax machinery for over 80 years. Yet, in fact, though we gather not in intention, the Industrial Relations Act robbed trade unions of this fundamental right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.493.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ject to independent review. Thus, registration as a condition of achieving the benefits and privileges of trade union status was not a Tory invention. It was recommended unanimously by the Donovan Commission, which included trade unionists in its membership, including no less a person than the General Secretary of the TUC. The Commission's report was subsequently accepted by the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.506.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "This is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "y be problems in this Chamber when an hon. Member is trying to put across what may be a provocative and controversial point of view. There have been many occasions during the past four years when I have been subjected not to isolated interruptions from sedentary positions but to a tumultuous barrage from Conservative hon. Members. I have never complained. When I first came to the House I realised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "ill happen should unofficial strikers ignore the trade union leaders, and go on striking? The Prime Minister replied, The TUC has given us this binding declaration\". He later said, …the TUC will place an obligation on the unions concerned to get their members back to work. It will then be the duty of the unions concerned to do this, including, where appropriate, the use of their rule books—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "fficial strikers ignore the trade union leaders, and go on striking? The Prime Minister replied, The TUC has given us this binding declaration\". He later said, …the TUC will place an obligation on the unions concerned to get their members back to work. It will then be the duty of the unions concerned to do this, including, where appropriate, the use of their rule books—[ Laughter. ]…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "or £100 a week for next winter? Further, the farmworkers, at Clacton, have claimed an 81 per cent. increase in pay; the technical staffs, at Harrogate, have decided to reject any TUC control of wages; and the printers, at Great Yarmouth, have decided to reject the current stage 3 offer. APEX, the clerical part of the AUEW, has decided to oppose any wage restraint while private enterprise survives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"There is nothing wrong with that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "preceding_text": "I am sure that when the Secretary of State for Employment winds up the debate he will enchant the Committee with one of his historic analogies. I expect that three quarters of his speech will be an enchanting story about Cromwell or perhaps Plymouth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that they are foolish; I am saying that the Tories are very cunning. They have had the advantage of education, public schools and the rest. I am anxious for my own people to get similar advantages. That is one reason that I am in the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "trial Relations Act, they cloaked their intentions in all sorts of pretence about working for the community. They were supposed to be going to improve industrial relations—and we know what happened. One way in which they intended to do it was through tax remissions if unions registered. It was an effort to make the unions commit suicide. It would have weakened them back to their pre-1875 position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "eking to justify this repayment of tax. It has nothing to do with the justifications that the Chancellor put forward. He was not very certain of his ground. He seemed to be getting ready for the hustings rather than concerning himself with the argument. The real reason is simply that the unions have an arm-lock on this Government. In a political debate, the Government have given way to the unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Need not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "d never have been withdrawn from the trade unions. One way or another, whosoever's fault it may have been, we will discuss in a moment. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carshalton has not disputed this proposition. I am trying to establish what he said, and I think that there is no doubt what he said. He underlined that according to his view this money should never have been been withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "or Carshalton has not disputed this proposition. I am trying to establish what he said, and I think that there is no doubt what he said. He underlined that according to his view this money should never have been been withdrawn. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Need not\"] Need never have been withdrawn. Right. Therefore, their policy was, their intention was, that the money should have stayed with the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.599.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.2", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "that. I promise the right hon. Gentleman that, if I am permitted, I will come to his argument. I am not seeking to trap him in any way. I am seeking, for the benefit of hon. Members not all of whom have been here throughout the day, to establish the proposition on which we are all agreed, and that is that their intention and their desire was that the money should have stayed with the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I understand. I am sure the right hon. Gentleman appreciates that it is not possible for me to present all my arguments in one sentence. I have tried to establish the common premises, and any one who has listened to this debate, any one who has studied the debate which took place on these matters in 1971, would concur in the view I have stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman would have been guilty of gross deception, and we are not accusing him of that. The right hon. Gentleman goes on to say that in certain circumstances he would have been prepared to agree to retrospection to deal with this matter, and indeed, there was an element of retrospection, as the right hon. Gentleman acknowledges, in the fact that the money was not collected in the first year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Could have taken.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ees to that. I am coming to the point of both right hon. Gentlemen who have argued—it has been the central part of their argument, to which I am seeking to reply, and it touches on the main argument put by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Liberal Party—that their charge is that the trade unions did not deal properly with the issue, that they had alternatives which they should have taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "should have taken. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Could have taken.\"] This is the argument I am now trying to rebut. We need not spend a great deal of time arguing about registration, as the right hon. Member for Carshalton acknowledges. He must not claim that the form of registration proposed in the Donovan Report or in \"In Place of Strife\" was in any sense the same form of registration as that in the 1971 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\") Let us come to this second—[ Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " is not the point.\"] It may not be the point but it touches upon the point because one of the reasons why the trade unions exercised the right they had under the 1971 Act, to refuse to register, was that the form of registration was far fiercer and more severe and rigid than anything contemplated by Donovan. Let us come to the second alternative since we do not have to deal further with the first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e trade unions exercised the right they had under the 1971 Act, to refuse to register, was that the form of registration was far fiercer and more severe and rigid than anything contemplated by Donovan. Let us come to the second alternative since we do not have to deal further with the first. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\") Let us come to this second—[ Interruption. ] I am trying to answer the argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Could have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e severe and rigid than anything contemplated by Donovan. Let us come to the second alternative since we do not have to deal further with the first. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\") Let us come to this second—[ Interruption. ] I am trying to answer the argument—[ Interruption. ] Let us come to the second argument which the right hon. Gentleman put forward, that the unions should have adopted the method—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e Friend Lord Diamond took one view and the previous Lord Chancel-lord took another. He may say that he wants to side with the Lord Chancellor but on financial matters and tax matters I would think that Lord Diamond is probably a better guide. These matters involve not only legal but financial considerations and, as the right hon. Gentleman has said, there are also involved some political matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Thomas. May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Hampstead and others have argued against this matter not only in the course of the earlier debate but on other occasions. Whatever he may say, he is challenging the basic housing powers of the GLC as given to it by Parliament under a Conservative Government. Conservative Members say that municipalisation does not add to the existing housing stock. That is not an original argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.629.0", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "No doubt the hon. Gentleman will rejoice that his majority has not been affected by \"gentrification\". Perhaps he will explain that to some of his hon. Friends who have shown so much concern about this process. Of course the services are a problem, but Camden is virtually one vast council estate now. There are vast areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "Fourth, I suggest to the Minister the immediate setting up of a new town corporation for the redevelopment of the 5,500 acres of derelict and idle land lying in the docks. It is a continuing scandal that the GLC and the five—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-19", "file": "debates1974-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "7bae1fe67e82047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In the period 1967–68 the housing programme went into a deep slide which was arrested only in the past 12 months. Let me quote from the Financial Times of 12th June last in which Colin Jones writes about the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-19a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "Although the Home Secretary is not responsible for the apparent campaign of some of his hon. Friends against both the police and the Special Branch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Gentleman said that my question was designed to inflame racial prejudice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.667.4", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "Am I entitled, on a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.667.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.672.5", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.672.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.672.7", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "It directly affects the future conduct of business. Is it not an abuse of the existing traditions of Prime Minister's Questions that the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.672.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.672.10", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. If the right hon. Gentleman is allowed, when other hon. Members are not, to raise points of order during Question Time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.672.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "a chance to put a supplementary question on the matter. With regard to the date of the next General Election, which is being pressed on the Government so avidly by the Leader of the Opposition, I have no immediate information to give the House. When I have, I shall see that the House is informed, of course. With regard to what I think the hon. Gentleman called staggered voting, the 1945 precedent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In my experience one of the problems is that most Prime Ministers, if they are asked a substantive Question, usually transfer it to the Minister responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.679.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "d that civil servants should be required to carry photographic passes. They do not have them at the moment because they have ordinary Civil Service passes. The first of these proposals raises the question of privilege and I shall certainly look at that, but I am sure that hon. Members would be prepared to forgo, or at least suspend part of their privilege in the present rather difficult situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABOUR'S PLANS FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "preceding_text": "I understand that unless a direct quotation is made from a document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.714.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABOUR'S PLANS FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the contrary, I checked before I left London. It was checked with his office before I left London, at three o'clock. The speakers were to be the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.749.4", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABOUR'S PLANS FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "These interruptions are, of course, cutting into the next debate which should start at Seven o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.749.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.749.4", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABOUR'S PLANS FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about nationalisation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "These interruptions are, of course, cutting into the next debate which should start at Seven o'clock. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"] I am sympathising with the right hon. Gentleman. The Daily Mail said that the right hon. Gentleman had been summoned to explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.749.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.749.4", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABOUR'S PLANS FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tly softly\" label and secure an alibi by pleading a previous engagement, in the Chamber. Although I welcome the fact that he spoke, I did not welcome the right hon. Gentleman's speech. I thought it was the most hysterical we have ever heard from him. He started with the Budget, and touched on the Common Market and many other matters before he came to the main theme. Before I come to the substance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.749.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.750.3", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABOUR'S PLANS FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Public ownership, planning agreements, the Industry Act, the National Enterprise Board—these were included in Labour Party policy in Opposition and in Government over a long period of time. They were set out in our programme of 1973, and adopted at our conference last year. They were set out in the manifesto published before the election. They were explained to the country throughout the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.750.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABOUR'S PLANS FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman has an inbuilt allergy to the idea of a newly-elected Government carrying out what they have told the country in the election they would carry out. I know he does not understand that. During the right hon. Gentleman's three and a half years after June 1970, we saw how allergic he was to carrying out his pledges: prices at a stroke, the Common Market and whole-hearted consent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABOUR'S PLANS FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman's three and a half years after June 1970, we saw how allergic he was to carrying out his pledges: prices at a stroke, the Common Market and whole-hearted consent—[ Interruption. ] The Opposition do not like being reminded of this, but they will find themselves getting it again, again and again. Then there was help for owner-occupiers, homes for all, no legislation on wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABOUR'S PLANS FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Opposition, for his own purposes, to spell it out. The point is that once the Conservative Party thinks that it is in a safe period for an election, the right hon. Gentleman knows that he is in a very unsafe period. That is why he has suddenly become the most incredible militant. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will recognise at the same time that we—I speak for all on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABOUR'S PLANS FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ck to a three-day week. He will be fighting it without a policy and without a team. It is the slimmest Front Bench we have seen this century. The only view we get from them every week is another reshuffle and more sackings. We have an Opposition Leader—whom God preserve—and the 1922 Committee, shuffling his Shadows, fiddling about with his phantoms, but never knowing what to do next. We recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABOUR'S PLANS FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "be Selsdon man all over again or the panic outpourings of aid to lame ducks in industry without public accountability. No one sitting behind him knows on which of those two policies he will have to fight in the General Election. We have seen—which the right hon. Gentleman has to defend—a cutting of the housing programme to the lowest figures in our history. Today the right hon. Gentleman referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-20", "file": "debates1974-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ee932ad396d0175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIGHT STORAGE HEATING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannam", "preceding_text": "sure that in what we have been saying we have had the support of most Members of the House. We have said, \"Let us help those hard-pressed members of the community by limiting the rise in prices to a bearable level in any one year and if possible enable the half-price system to continue.\" That is what we have achieved tonight. The Secretary of State has, in effect, accepted the terms of our motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-20a.808.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-24", "file": "debates1974-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "46ccbe5764488791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-24a.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "BRITISH NUCLEAR TEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ate the issue in the constitutional complexities of his party's organisation or the confusion of his party conferences' resolutions? What he has to do is to state that he will look after the national interest, particularly with a weapon which is not only committed to NATO but is, as the right hon. Gentleman so often refuses to reveal, available to us as a nation in the event of national emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-24a.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-24", "file": "debates1974-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "46ccbe5764488791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-24a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "BRITISH NUCLEAR TEST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ake our own decisions. But as long as NATO exists the nuclear strategic weapon is committed to NATO. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman agrees that that is so. The right hon. Gentleman referred to successful tests, or otherwise. Our test in September 1965, which was of certain limited mechanisms, was due to the failure of a test undertaken by the Conservative Government during the 1964 election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-24a.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-24", "file": "debates1974-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "46ccbe5764488791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-24a.997.2", "colnum": "997", "heading": "BRITISH NUCLEAR TEST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Indians did not sign it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t of my hon. Friend's question. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence and I were aware of the test before it took place and afterwards. Second, we have expressed our concern about the Indian tests because they appear on the face of it—and I am not saying more than that—to be contrary to the Non-Proliferation Agreement which the Labour Government played a leading part in securing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-24a.997.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-24", "file": "debates1974-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "46ccbe5764488791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-24a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton), but before the hon. Member for Leicester. East starts asking me what I know about the railways, may I remind him that if he spent a little more time on commuter trains he would know how my constituents feel. In particular, if he had to take the trouble to find a way to get to work in the City without going through that infernal \"drain\" every morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-24a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1192.4", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware of the concern felt in the polytechnics about their ability to meet the degree standards of the National Council for Academic Awards, underlined by—up to now—a lack of any clear future policy? Will he give a guarantee to the polytechnics that they have a clear future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1200.6", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "Will the Lord President undertake that the promised Green Paper will be published in the lifetime of this Parliament and that when it comes", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1200.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1200.6", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "Will the Lord President undertake that the promised Green Paper will be published in the lifetime of this Parliament and that when it comes[ Interruption ]—it will specify not only those industries which are thought appropriate for take-over by the National Enterprise Board but also those companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1200.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "sition's speech to the 17 delegates from Europe. The right hon. Gentleman said some amazing things. For example, he said that we were endangering their lives; he also said that a minority Government were not entitled to renegotiate the terms. May I remind him that we intend to renegotiate the terms and to put the results of that renegotiation before the British people? They will make the decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1206.0", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Certainly it warrants consideration by the police. But the point is that tribunals of inquiry under the 1921 Act are confined by the statute to definite matters of urgent public importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Not like this.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "preceding_text": "I am extremely sorry that this difficulty should have arisen. It is due to industrial action which has been going on since 20th June by the composing operation staff in the parliamentary printing works. It is the kind of industrial action from which we have suffered time and again in the last few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I should declare an interest. Since the Committee stage I have become a member of a co-ownership organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1229.8", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "New Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, I do.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "r whether there would be any advantages for local authorities in this proposal. I see some real ones, although they are not accepted by every local authority. It would remove the need for rent rebates and for subsidies on the houses sold. It would also remove the need to repair and maintain those houses. I suspect that no hon. Member really believes that his local authority is good at maintenance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1229.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "New Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Gower", "preceding_text": "ttern of housing, if we are to inject a mixed pattern of housing into areas which are now wholly local authority owned we must follow this type of policy. I can take the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Cunningham) to places in my constituency, and elsewhere, council estates which I know well, where some of the privately-owned houses can be identified because of their appearance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1356.6", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "g action areas. For instance, it would exclude local authority officers, councillors, consultants, civic societies, housing associations, and Members of Parliament. I intend to press my local authority to declare housing action areas in parts of my constituency in which I am not resident. The part I live in deserves to be called a housing action area but there are other parts which are even worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1356.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1365.6", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Clause 44", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "millions of pounds subsidising people who use night storage heaters and are now asking us to spend millions more on general improvement areas and housing action areas, at a time when we face a grave economic crisis. We are being told by the City columns to cut Government expenditure because of that crisis—one that we inherited from the previous Government after their spendthrift and lackadaisical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1365.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1365.6", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Clause 44", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " business jointly. I say to my hon. Friend more or less what I said in Committee. Let us see how we go. The sum of £50 may well not be satisfactory, and we may well have to reconsider it. In any case, we took the power in Committee for the Secretary of State to vary the sum, not just generally, as in the previous Government's short-sighted and skinflint Housing and Planning Bill, but by reference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1365.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1372.0", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Clause 46", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Moore", "preceding_text": "ms. The historical accident has created in the GLC a housing authority, which is used in this case as an excuse to try to participate and take away the decisions from the boroughs. That is the key. This is a fundamental change. It has not happened in London before. We are endeavouring to take away from boroughs their decision-making ability. We are endeavouring to do it without their co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-25", "file": "debates1974-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1de5dbf3603e8162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1391.4", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "After that vote, of the kind which we shall be having in the next Parliament, I shall say a few words about these amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-25a.1391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-26", "file": "debates1974-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "55105a8529bad994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "May I say that I am not opposed to infatuation with the United Nations or anybody else for that matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-26", "file": "debates1974-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "55105a8529bad994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1552.0", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "Since my hon. Friend has confirmed that no EFTA country wishes us to leave the Common Market and that there is virtual unanimity among Commonwealth countries that we should stay in.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-26", "file": "debates1974-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "55105a8529bad994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1552.2", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "uding the United Kingdom. Is that not the real argument here, and not an argument in terms of helping the Labour Party through its internal struggles? Should not the hon. Gentleman consider some of the other pressing priorities in the Community, which are more important than some of these spurious renegotiation aspects to which the Foreign Secretary is so addicted at present, such as, for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-26", "file": "debates1974-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "55105a8529bad994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1557.0", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "COURT LINE LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-26", "file": "debates1974-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "55105a8529bad994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1559.0", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "COURT LINE LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "rises which should be kept in being and that they are a model to shipbuilding in many other parts of the United Kingdom? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of the similar experience of the Bideford Shipyard on Torridgeside, when, on the bankruptcy of one of its parent companies, workers had a work-in for no pay until a new buyer could be found? What are the right hon. Gentleman's future intentions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-26", "file": "debates1974-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "55105a8529bad994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1562.4", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "preceding_text": "e last Wednesday of each month. They will provide the House with a regular opportunity to seek clarification of the programmes and timing of Community work. At present four meetings of the Council of Ministers are proposed in July. Finance Ministers will meet on 15th July, Agricultural Ministers on 15th and 16th July, Development Ministers on 16th July and Foreign Ministers on 22nd and 23rd July.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1562.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-26", "file": "debates1974-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "55105a8529bad994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1584.3", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Cambridgeshire (Mr. Pym) has made a rather intemperate speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1584.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-26", "file": "debates1974-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "55105a8529bad994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Waste\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "y is an investment in the structure of the soil, for without adequate liming the soil would be impoverished and our national resources depleted. I regard the termination of the subsidy now as a thoroughly bad and shortsighted decision and I have therefore decided to reverse it. I propose to continue the lime subsidy at its present level. The cost, £5 million, is in my view an excellent investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-26", "file": "debates1974-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "55105a8529bad994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1664.0", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH RAILWAYS BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend, that the matter is under active review and that we can expect an announcement soon after the Bill becomes law, I shall seek leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1664.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-06-26", "file": "debates1974-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "55105a8529bad994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH RAILWAYS BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If hon. Gentlemen had thought to be present and had taken an interest in the Committee stage of the Bill and had perhaps put down their own amendments, they might have had a better locus for speaking in the debate. I hope that after the review we may have a figure even greater than the £3,000 which I have included in my amendment. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-26a.1664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1728.0", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Privy Council. This is an amendment to the 1960 Order, which is a prerogative order, and no parliamentary action is required. Out of courtesy to the Opposition, I told the right hon. Gentleman about this amendment. I wrote to him some weeks ago, and I wrote to him again today to tell him that we intended to take this action. I thought that I should put the Opposition in the picture on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1728.0", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": " him again today to tell him that we intended to take this action. I thought that I should put the Opposition in the picture on this matter—[ Interruption. ] I repeat that this is a prerogative order which requires no parliamentary action whatever. I have told the Opposition about it. In any event the order with the amendment will be published in the Gazette. There is no secrecy about this at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1729.1", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree with the right hon. Gentleman and I shall present the order to the Privy Council tomorrow", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1734.2", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "These are not place men. They are gifted young people who have come to do a job for a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1734.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1734.3", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "May I turn to another subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1734.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1735.3", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Hall", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman appreciate that the feeling of back-bench Members on both sides of the House is very much against him in this matter? As Leader of the House, with a duty to the House, ought he not to take that into account and to withdraw the order until there has been time to debate it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1761.1", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ng adequate information from the new water authorities. The authorities must be told to give the information that is required. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman has made that perfectly clear. The problem of a charge for a sewerage or water service which is absent has arisen many times. The final insult was having to pay to have a septic tank emptied in addition to paying the main drainage rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1761.1", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "er the last 12 months was published on Friday. On Saturday 22nd June The Times said: The recorded rise in retail prices over the last 12 months has now edged up to 16 per cent. The annual rates of change have been 22·1 per cent. over the last half year and 25·3 over the last three months. So the rate of inflation is now accelerating. What hope, therefore, for the ratepayer next year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1761.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1767.0", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wales.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": " cities had suffered for so many years. There was no reason—and I take a highly controversial case—why householders in Cornwall should have gone on paying an average of £40 a year and householders in Manchester £93 a year, even making full allowance for the different levels of income and local authority services, and ignoring altogether the discrepancy in the quality of life between the two areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "er\", which appeared in June 1973, \"in order\", as it said, \"to finalise this matter\". \"Finalisation\", in fact, meant the postponement for the foreseeable future of any further consideration of alternative sources of local revenue. In case any doubts were left as to the Tory Government's adamant resistance to fundamental reform, they were laid at rest by the right hon. and learned Member for Hexham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": ". I reject that criticism completely, in so far as the Government do not think that this is the right time to introduce new local taxes. The system of rates, the local authorities' own tax, is well tried, well known and easy and cheap to administer.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 12th November 1973; Vol. 864, c. 36.] Just in case any doubt was left even after that, the right hon. Member for Crosby (Mr. Page)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1782.4", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple-Morris", "preceding_text": "Then, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I shall refrain from making my intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1835.1", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "e of the complaints addressed in this House tonight, when they compare their services and the rates they have to pay with the rates paid by the constituents of those Members who have been most vociferous and most opportunistic in their claims. What we need is positive discrimination in favour of areas of need and not based upon a series of abstract figures. I turn now to the purpose of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "ution that will have to be found by reform of the rating system but the short-term amelioratives that my constituents can expect from a Labour Government, because they find it intolerable that, at a time when we are seeking to curtail expenditure and to control inflation, a combination of factors, many of which are outside the Government's control, has caused a substantial increase in their rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1853.3", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "as England. Once again the Secretary of State has shown that as well as having flexible language he has flexible principles. What about Scotland? Not many rate increases have been declared in Scotland. There have been a few within the last 24 hours, and I will mention one or two. For example, Dunbarton county has just announced a 38 per cent. rise in rates. We have had an indication from provosts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1855.0", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1855.3", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU opposed relief before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ic. Hon. Gentlemen on the Government benches who said that this was something we would have to live with were the ones who brought forward arguments that because the rents of council house tenants had been increase by £26 a year immediate action should be taken to ensure that the rents were frozen. Surely one cannot say that when people are facing massive rate rises they deserve no help or relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1880.1", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "I think I can claim to be consistent. I maintained then, and have always maintained, that car parking in New Palace Yard is part of the Westminster scene. Complete elimination of cars from the site would give a dead impression. It is a matter of taste. I have nothing against orderly car parking on the site. I see that as part of the Westminster scene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "the last Parliament. Therefore, although I read with interest the previous debate, I had no opportunity to take part in it. I am pleased this evening to see many of the Members who were present on that occasion here in the Chamber tonight. However, there are two notable absentees. One is the former right hon. Member for Sowerby, who is now Lord Houghton, who, I think, was then Father of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1889.1", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Whitehead", "preceding_text": "ristol, West (Mr. Cooke), upon whom the fickle finger of fate has settled tonight in making him reply to the debate, in which the House appears—or some hon. Members appear—to be taking a totally contrary view to the one vehemently expressed in the debate less than a year ago. There was absolutely no doubt last time, small majority or not in percentage terms—few hon. Members stayed until that hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1893.3", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Mr. Charles R. Morris)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Mr. Charles R. Morris)", "preceding_text": "There is the problem of long delivery dates for slate and granite, but we should be able to do a fair amount of preparatory work and tidying up during the recess, and, while I can give no assurances about dates now, the House has my assurance that we shall do our best to complete the whole job with the minimum of delay. I want to end briefly by dealing with the Second Report of Services Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1893.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1897.2", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Money", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Money", "preceding_text": "Like my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead (Mr. Finsberg), who made a remarkably sensible speech, I find much of the debate totally mystifying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1897.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1919.3", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Get some more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "ers might say, \"Hire staff\", but we know that the quality of staff we require—I will not go into the details here—is not easy to obtain, and the staff must be trained. But one of the real difficulties is the question of telephone lines. We do not have enough lines on the House of Commons exchange to provide for a service to Bridge Street, Palace Chambers and Norman Shaw (North). It cannot be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-06-27", "file": "debates1974-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7cd95b8d437d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1919.3", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "not easy to obtain, and the staff must be trained. But one of the real difficulties is the question of telephone lines. We do not have enough lines on the House of Commons exchange to provide for a service to Bridge Street, Palace Chambers and Norman Shaw (North). It cannot be done. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"Get some more.\"] We made massive provision for extra telephones, and they have all been mopped up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-06-27a.1919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-01", "file": "debates1974-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5a71b172d7dabdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "May I help the Minister with the estimates of the motor car industry itself for production and demand? Its latest estimate, in June, of the demand in the home market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-01", "file": "debates1974-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5a71b172d7dabdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.11.4", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "In summary, the hon. Gentleman has said that private industry pays more money to the Government than is received in the support schemes. That has never been in dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.11.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-01", "file": "debates1974-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5a71b172d7dabdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.14.3", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Will the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.14.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-01", "file": "debates1974-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5a71b172d7dabdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.21.5", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman follows this matter carefully and will know that these points have been put forward powerfully to Ministers in the review. He will also have read in the papers that the prospects of possible orders from Iran Air have now come about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.21.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-01", "file": "debates1974-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5a71b172d7dabdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "preceding_text": "rder not to activate the reserve pension scheme. As my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Cunningham) helpfully pointed out, I had only been using powers set out in a Conservative Government's Act. it does not do for Conservative Members to say \"It is all right to have those powers if we are on the Government benches, but it is wrong if Labour Members are sitting there\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-01", "file": "debates1974-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5a71b172d7dabdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "th said on that occasion. The right hon. and learned Gentleman is wise to refrain from answering, because this question enters into the whole question of partnership with occupational pension schemes. We are not talking about people having been robbed of immediate benefits. We are talking about whether we are to scrap a scheme which is, by the Opposition's own admission, now seen to be inadequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-01", "file": "debates1974-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5a71b172d7dabdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "ements in the basic scheme of the Social Security Act 1973. Why have not the Opposition had the guts to admit that today? They did not oppose the national insurance uprating which brought in those £10 and £16 pensions, but when we bring in a Bill to levy the money to pay those pensions they start to oppose. They are in favour of the pensions but they are not in favour of paying the money for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-01", "file": "debates1974-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5a71b172d7dabdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.157.5", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady says \"Shame\", but it ill-becomes a political party to say one thing when in opposition and another when in Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.157.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-01", "file": "debates1974-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5a71b172d7dabdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.159.7", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "untry. Further, it is essential to use the occupational pensions board, which will, clearly, have an important rôle in the future, with a large body of expertise. I do not know why the hon. Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke), who is new to the Opposition Front Bench, should sneer at mention of the occupational pensions board. That attitude will not represent the general policy of his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.159.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-01", "file": "debates1974-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5a71b172d7dabdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "The Minister made much of the fact the he was sympathetic to widows. If he is as sympathetic as he said, why is he making widows pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-01a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-02", "file": "debates1974-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "44c8938317da2be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-02a.191.11", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " all, a major barbed wire prisoner-of-war camp, is there not a moral obligation on a senior Cabinet Minister to find out for himself what it is all about? If my right hon. Friend can go to Lossiemouth and make other worthy visits, surely he should go on this awkward visit. Some of us, having visited Long Kesh, at least understand why people are driven to commit outrages of which we do not approve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-02a.191.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-02", "file": "debates1974-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "44c8938317da2be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-02a.193.4", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "I disagree with the hon. Gentleman. My hon. Friends and other Members of the House have a right to express their concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-02a.193.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-02", "file": "debates1974-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "44c8938317da2be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-02a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT MINISTERS (SECURITY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have always found the House of Commons a safe place for democratic debate. We had some gas bombs on one occasion, but in the wider sense I agree with my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-02a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-02", "file": "debates1974-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "44c8938317da2be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-02a.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF SCHOOL- LEAVING AGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "probably fear or apprehension about what would happen if they went to school. My contention is that much of this is the result of the raising of the school-leaving age, and my Bill seeks as a temporary measure to permit young people to leave school before the age of 16 while remaining under the umbrella of the Department of Education and Science. I am not trying to send 11-year-olds down the pits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-02a.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-02", "file": "debates1974-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "44c8938317da2be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-02a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF SCHOOL- LEAVING AGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "ny of the teachers. It would significantly benefit education in a number of ways. It would benefit education by demanding an element of responsibility from a student who, in order to qualify for a younger leaving of school while remaining under the umbrella of the Department, would have to pass a basic school leaving examination. It would benefit by making more room for pupils who wanted to learn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-02a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-02", "file": "debates1974-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "44c8938317da2be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-02a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF SCHOOL- LEAVING AGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "aving examination. It would benefit by making more room for pupils who wanted to learn—[ Interruption. ] There are at the moment some 20 to 30 per cent. truants. All that I am doing in seeking to introduce this Bill is in some way to legalise truancy. There is no point in people who have left school trying to get illicit jobs and to get work without a work card, which they are doing at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-02a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is not aware of the facts of the position. Generally, over a number of years now, there has been an average decline of about 100,000 lettings a year in the rented sector market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is not aware of the facts of the position. Generally, over a number of years now, there has been an average decline of about 100,000 lettings a year in the rented sector market. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] During the last three and a half years it has been at the rate of about 150,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is not aware of the facts of the position. Generally, over a number of years now, there has been an average decline of about 100,000 lettings a year in the rented sector market. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] During the last three and a half years it has been at the rate of about 150,000. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] That was under a Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.389.4", "colnum": "389", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INDUSTRIAL ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "preceding_text": "er staff, including some who are members of COHSE and others who are members of the National Union of Public Employees, are threatening to refuse to work with agency nurses or to provide services for private patients. At Charing Cross Hospital certain staff threatened to withdraw their services, including domestic, catering and linen services, unless the private wing was closed by the end of June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.389.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.389.4", "colnum": "389", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INDUSTRIAL ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "preceding_text": "is having further discussions with the unions and is meeting consultant staff this afternoon. In all these discussions the concern of the area health authority has been, and will be, to safeguard the interests of patients as a whole. As the House is aware, it is the policy of the Government, as set out in our manifesto, and reiterated since, to phase out private practice from the hospital service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.389.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INDUSTRIAL ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grylls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And over.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grylls", "preceding_text": "Does not the Secretary of State agree that it is rather a shame—to put it mildly—that either British people or foreigners who come to London for medical treatment and are prepared to pay the full price for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INDUSTRIAL ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "No one is suggesting that private practice should be outlawed by an Act of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "o'clock this morning, but I am given to understand today that the papers will not be with us for another two days. It is impossible to hold the consultations we need. Is the hon. Gentleman aware that we shall have seriously to consider the possibility of bringing forward the Summer Recess, delaying the passage of the Finance Bill until after the recess and coming back in September to deal with it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "we need. Is the hon. Gentleman aware that we shall have seriously to consider the possibility of bringing forward the Summer Recess, delaying the passage of the Finance Bill until after the recess and coming back in September to deal with it? [ Interruption. ] The Patronage Secretary will have to get used to the position I have been in in holding the balance of power in the Finance Bill Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "ion secretary, Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas, is preparing a bombshell which will shock Left-Wing educational pundits\". Some of the contents of that bombshell are not very precise. We are not told how far the Conservative Party is yet committed. It apparently includes, if the article is correct, a possible decision by the Opposition that the compulsory school leaving age might be reduced to 15 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.420.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It could not have become law, anyway.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "ucation authority. When I say I deplore the dishonesty of that I must also say I was not keen on the smug and self-righteous assertion of the hon. Member for Chelmsford who said he would look into possible amendments on the subject of raising the school leaving age. Yesterday afternoon he had every chance of voting on a Private Member's Bill under the Ten-Minute Rule but he sat noisily abstaining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.447.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many of them do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "the choice in the world, and surely that choice should delight the hearts of Conservatives. We have a selective process as a result of which we divide our children into three groups, As, Bs and Cs. The As we shovel into grammar schools; the Bs have a choice since they may go to comprehensive schools. I should have mentioned that the As also have a choice: they can opt for the comprehensive school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "because it exists in the primary sector and works very well. But, more than that, I am a firm believer that the school should be a focal point of the community. If the parents are sufficiently involved in the school, many of the ills mentioned by the hon. Member for the Isle of Ely would largely be obviated. He referred to truancy and various other ills which have been expressed during the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "ol should be a focal point of the community. If the parents are sufficiently involved in the school, many of the ills mentioned by the hon. Member for the Isle of Ely would largely be obviated. He referred to truancy and various other ills which have been expressed during the debate. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Such as?\"] Well, truancy was mentioned. Vandalism has not been mentioned, but I shall mention it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EEC (ECONOMIC POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "n of parliamentary sovereignty. All I have ever asserted is that the ultimate sovereignty of Parliament is protected. This is true. Between sovereign States we are only affected to the degree to which we, through our Government and Parliament, agree to be bound. This is no different from the position under the North Atlantic Treaty, the Brussels Treaty or other treaties into which we have entered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.504.2", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EEC (ECONOMIC POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Stewart", "preceding_text": "rcussions on banking houses within the Community that some, such as Herstatt in Germany, have collapsed because of the extent of the losses they have made through unwise speculation. This would not matter if it were only imprudent banking houses which were to suffer, but there will undoubtedly be a chain reaction. One may take a certain view. As a banker, I must declare an interest in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EEC (ECONOMIC POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "preceding_text": "This decision is binding as guidelines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EEC (REGIONAL POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House takes note of Commission Documents Nos. R/2055/73 and R/2474/73. I must ask the indulgence of the House for taking part in what is a new procedure for the House and for Ministers in that the Scrutiny Committee sought this debate. The object of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EEC (REGIONAL POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "itted by the previous Government. It is not even in the name of my Department; it is in that of the Department of Trade and Industry, which was abolished in favour of a reallocation by the present Prime Minister. The memorandum quoted by my hon. Friend the Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow (Dr. Mabon) is not a memorandum submitted by me. It does not represent the view of the present Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EEC (REGIONAL POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "overnment who said in their manifesto that they would engage in a fundamental renegotiation and put the issue to the British people. What we are now engaged in doing is exploring these issues with the Community, and we will then come forward with a recommendation. Anyone who is in any doubt about that simply has not been participating in this debate. What we are now doing—let us be clear about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-03", "file": "debates1974-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "031d3d139b680608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EEC (REGIONAL POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "damental renegotiation and put the issue to the British people. What we are now engaged in doing is exploring these issues with the Community, and we will then come forward with a recommendation. Anyone who is in any doubt about that simply has not been participating in this debate. What we are now doing—let us be clear about it—[ Interruption. ] It is no good hon. Members opposite shouting at me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-03a.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-04", "file": "debates1974-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "199e1b14a74e4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I referred to this in my speech. I specifically said that certification procedures would take about three to four weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-04", "file": "debates1974-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "199e1b14a74e4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.582.3", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should put that question of Lord Kaldor, who is very approachable. Our proposals, which will be brought forward shortly, relate to land which is subject to development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-04", "file": "debates1974-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "199e1b14a74e4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.595.2", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.595.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-04", "file": "debates1974-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "199e1b14a74e4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.596.5", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. When the Prime Minister discusses the question of private patients, will he compel his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services to declare her interest as a recent private patient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-04", "file": "debates1974-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "199e1b14a74e4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.601.0", "colnum": "601", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No. Go to the Vote Office and ask.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry indeed about this difficulty, but the position is as follows. On the Trade Union and Labour Relations Bill, I understand that all the Committee HANSARD'S except one are now available and the remaining one will be available tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-04", "file": "debates1974-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "199e1b14a74e4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.601.0", "colnum": "601", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "ituation and this is the information I was given. If that is not the case, I shall ensure that the rest are available tomorrow. Most of the amendments will be tabled today but some of the more substantial ones will be tabled tomorrow. The Bill will be available tomorrow. If any hon. Member would like the Bill or amendments sent to his home by special delivery, he should give his name to my office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-04", "file": "debates1974-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "199e1b14a74e4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.604.2", "colnum": "604", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "g expected to conduct business in this House without the proper papers with which to do so. A few years ago this would not have been tolerated by this House. Right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House have exercised enormous patience about this situation over the past few years, but I suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that the time has come when some very firm action should be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.604.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-04", "file": "debates1974-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "199e1b14a74e4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.606.5", "colnum": "606", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has not got one.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is not the time for speech-making. What is the question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.606.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-04", "file": "debates1974-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "199e1b14a74e4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "Will there be time next week for even a short statement on the non-implementation of the promise in the Gracious Speech of help and assistance for minority parties? The right hon. Gentleman will remember that he welcomed this proposal and thanked the minority parties for making it. As my own minority party works in a situation where, when we reported to the people of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-04", "file": "debates1974-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "199e1b14a74e4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.607.5", "colnum": "607", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " on the Trade Union and Labour Relations Bill, may I ask whether my right hon. Friend is aware that last night we spent five hours discussing guidelines from the Common Market, that the papers were not available in the Vote Office, and that in chorus the whole of the Tory Opposition suggested that we should get on with the debate without the papers? Is not this another instance of their hypocrisy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-04a.607.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-05", "file": "debates1974-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f621c4373bcc172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-05a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": "ontroversial issue. Hon. Members on both sides are genuinely concerned about the sharp escalation in rates and are anxious to find ways and means of alleviating the burden and, if possible, of reforming the system. There is, I think, general agreement on that. It is unfortunate, as the hon. Member for Harwich (Mr. Ridsdale) pointed out, that there is no representative of the Liberal Party present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-05a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-05", "file": "debates1974-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f621c4373bcc172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-05a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril D. Townsend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril D. Townsend", "preceding_text": "embers will not be surprised to learn that it is now a Conservative council—will make its top priority the control of future rate increases. The council has big problems with inflation at an expected rate of about 20 per cent. and with the new London weighting—which basically I approve—giving an extra £200 to certain people. It will have great problems in containing rate increases to 20 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-05a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-05", "file": "debates1974-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f621c4373bcc172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-05a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "port taking a year, a year being needed for legislation and another year to implement it, making a total of four years. That is not good enough. We must have action long before then. An extremely useful aid to the deliberations of the committee is before the House at the moment. Within the next hour there will be an opportunity to give a Second Reading to the Rating Reform Bill, a modest proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-05a.886.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-05", "file": "debates1974-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f621c4373bcc172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-05a.904.17", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF TIED COTTAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-05a.904.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-08", "file": "debates1974-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c9a122e60848ef60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-08a.939.5", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am sure that we are all impressed by the willingness of the Liberal Party not to see prices and consumer protection as a matter of importance, and I think that most hon. Members will regard Liberal Members as living in a happy, if an unrealistic, state in not being present for these Questions. As regards the other part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-08a.939.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-08", "file": "debates1974-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c9a122e60848ef60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-08a.939.5", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "lingness of the Liberal Party not to see prices and consumer protection as a matter of importance, and I think that most hon. Members will regard Liberal Members as living in a happy, if an unrealistic, state in not being present for these Questions. As regards the other part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary—[ Interruption. ] I am pleased to see that one Liberal Member has made an appearance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-08a.939.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-08", "file": "debates1974-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c9a122e60848ef60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-08a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ing available. The Minister thinks that he can cope with the situation by continually pouring more ratepayers' and taxpayers' money—that is what it is—into the public sector. He cannot, because the sums are so enormous that ratepayers and taxpayers will not pay them both for their own and other people's accommodation, unless those other people cannot afford it. However, that is a different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-08a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-08", "file": "debates1974-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c9a122e60848ef60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-08a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to see my hon. Friend present. A great many other hon. Friends were present earlier. It is only because there is to be no vote on this Bill and because it is a relatively short debate that many of them have wandered away. But that does not mean that it is not a very serious matter to everyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-08a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-09", "file": "debates1974-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d7e5240e0548bf9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are the one who is going.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I think this is a familiar practice. As soon as speeches are made by the Prime Minister they are placed in the Library and Questions follow as quickly as possible there after. But I noticed the ingenuity of the hon. Member for Conway (Mr. Roberts), in whose constituency I shall have the privilege of bidding him farewell when I am up there this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-09", "file": "debates1974-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d7e5240e0548bf9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1138.4", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Prime Minister for that reply, but does he appreciate the urgent need for an early meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers in order that he may be made aware of the unanimous view of the Commonwealth that it would be disastrous for Britain to leave the EEC, not only for Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-09", "file": "debates1974-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d7e5240e0548bf9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed of the terms he negotiated. He supports our engaging in renegotiations, so why does he not say so? If he did not support renegotiations, he would not have tried to win votes by putting the word \"renegotiation\" in his party's manifesto at the last election. \"Renegotiation\" was his phrase. New Zealand wants to be free to sell goods to us because, especially at a time when the commodity situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-09", "file": "debates1974-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d7e5240e0548bf9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon) should regard his record in this matter with humility and sit in silence. New Zealand is well aware of the problem of selling its goods in a situation where commodity prices are falling. It wants to be able to keep the British market open, a situation which the right hon. Gentleman did nothing to defend. As for the right hon. Gentleman's other question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-09", "file": "debates1974-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d7e5240e0548bf9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ants to be able to keep the British market open, a situation which the right hon. Gentleman did nothing to defend. As for the right hon. Gentleman's other question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] The right hon. Gentleman put a whole number of questions to me, and however unpalatable it may be to the Opposition I intend to answer them because he will have to defend his position in the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-09", "file": "debates1974-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d7e5240e0548bf9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "alatable it may be to the Opposition I intend to answer them because he will have to defend his position in the General Election. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] Sooner than the right hon. Gentleman wants. As for his question about Commonwealth sugar, of course there is a world shortage of sugar; of course the Commonwealth can sell it elsewhere. My Department negotiated the agreement in 1951 on the basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-09", "file": "debates1974-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d7e5240e0548bf9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "are differences between the two. I accept that. However, on reflection the right hon. Gentleman will not say, I am sure, that there is no connection between the two. It is obvious that there is. There is often, regrettably, intimidation in strikes in this country, but where strikes are used for express political purposes—and these strikes have been widely reported on the other side of the Channel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-09", "file": "debates1974-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d7e5240e0548bf9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "preceding_text": "tion in November is strengthened by the imminent likelihood of an election for the Westminster Parliament in October this year. Her Majesty's Government ought to do the decent thing and, once a settlement is achieved, ought, as a quid pro quo, to see that the Irish have representation in this House in accordance with their numbers. My whole philosophy at the moment is \"fewer Scots and more Irish\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-09", "file": "debates1974-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d7e5240e0548bf9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no evidence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "I suppose the hon. Gentleman is right to come to the rescue of his right hon. Friends on the Front Bench. Of course he defends the right hon. Gentleman, but these things have happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-09", "file": "debates1974-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d7e5240e0548bf9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friend has misunderstood me. No money will be paid to detainees personally. This is a pilot scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-09", "file": "debates1974-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d7e5240e0548bf9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Religious faith.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "d. I am not prepared to put people's lives at risk in this way. It is not only the Government but those involved in violence who must show an earnest of intent. Although there are some people in both parts of the community who, I believe, are politically motivated, it is the sectarian murders that worry me most. People have deep inside them a desire to kill somebody from the other political faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-09a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-10", "file": "debates1974-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "db1274cc4dcd7ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacCormick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacCormick", "preceding_text": "In view of the widespread misgivings of parents in the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-10", "file": "debates1974-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "db1274cc4dcd7ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1336.2", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "As far as that is concerned everyone is entitled to his views, even the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-10", "file": "debates1974-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "db1274cc4dcd7ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "NUCLEAR REACTOR POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman has had? He has announced a programme for 4,000 MW over four years. Is he aware that this is very different from the 3,000 MW a year which he indicated in the debate on 2nd May would be the minimum programme of nuclear ordering over the next two years? Does not this amount to little more than a pilot programme? How long will it be before we can embark on a large-scale series—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-10", "file": "debates1974-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "db1274cc4dcd7ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " was frequently used when there were injustices and which, as the history of trade unions has shown, helped to remedy those injustices. I hope that the House will be prepared to accept what we have proposed as being a sensible way of proceeding. I hope it will be convenient and indeed attractive to hon. Gentlemen opposite to withdraw their clause so that we can proceed in the way I have suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-10", "file": "debates1974-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "db1274cc4dcd7ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1402.2", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ary working man. That is true, but Parliament depends upon the consent of all the people, not just one or two. It is a pity that our procedures should be upset. I welcomed the gentle and gracious approach of the right hon. Gentleman who, uncharacteristically, avoided controversy and recognised that we are still dwelling in coalition days. The one thing on which he and I would agree most cordially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-10", "file": "debates1974-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "db1274cc4dcd7ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1402.2", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " It is a pity that our procedures should be upset. I welcomed the gentle and gracious approach of the right hon. Gentleman who, uncharacteristically, avoided controversy and recognised that we are still dwelling in coalition days. The one thing on which he and I would agree most cordially—[ Interruption. ]—is that a coalition seems to be highly unlikely because there is very little to agree about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-10", "file": "debates1974-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "db1274cc4dcd7ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1402.2", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "welcomed the gentle and gracious approach of the right hon. Gentleman who, uncharacteristically, avoided controversy and recognised that we are still dwelling in coalition days. The one thing on which he and I would agree most cordially—[ Interruption. ]—is that a coalition seems to be highly unlikely because there is very little to agree about. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-10", "file": "debates1974-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "db1274cc4dcd7ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": ". I would have thought that by this time the House was sharply aware of the prospects which such advice could normally be expected to enjoy. 5.45 p.m. The right hon. Gentleman's main point was that the TUC objected to any surveillance of its affairs. That seems to be in strange contrast to the kind of treatment meted out to every other section of the community. One of the questions which bedevils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-10", "file": "debates1974-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "db1274cc4dcd7ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " in strange contrast to the kind of treatment meted out to every other section of the community. One of the questions which bedevils—[ Interruption. ]—industrial relations is just what power the TUC has. Does it have the power to deliver things, to carry out promises—I am sorry. If the Secretary of State wishes to address his hon. Friend I am prepared to pause until the conversation has finished.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-10", "file": "debates1974-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "db1274cc4dcd7ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1480.2", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-10", "file": "debates1974-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "db1274cc4dcd7ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1480.2", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps I may allow a minute or two for Liberal Members to leave the Chamber as noisily as they like. I hope to persuade the House that in moving the clause my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Waddington) and myself are reluctant to detain the House long in speaking to it. It is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-10a.1480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-11", "file": "debates1974-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "edb766f7368909e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC AND CBI (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e two cases which I think he has in mind. I would say that both of them related to large and substantial firms, both of which were characterised by capital-intensive rather than labour-intensive industry. With the right hon. Gentleman's support of big business and the great fight he is putting up against any accountability of these firms to the nation, he should use his influence with these firms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-11", "file": "debates1974-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "edb766f7368909e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1560.1", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "we must await the details, we welcome the proposals for taxation, because these were in part announced and foreshadowed by my right hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber) when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer? Secondly, we welcome the proposals for strengthening the controls over offshore operations which the previous Government already had under review. Thirdly, we welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-11", "file": "debates1974-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "edb766f7368909e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Edwards", "preceding_text": "It was not my intention to speak in the debate, and I shall not take long, but I see the burden of the Opposition's case as being a desire to curb the international power of the trade union movement while wanting no restraint on the increasing power of the multinational company. That is precisely it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-11", "file": "debates1974-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "edb766f7368909e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Edwards", "preceding_text": "rabia or in Libya, are not the Dutch workers entitled to talk to Shell on an international basis about these problems? If Shell refuses to talk, is it wrong for workers across the frontiers of the world to say \"We shall impose a sanction against you in the form of bans on overtime until you are ready to talk\"? Is there anything wrong with that in this modern world of internationalising production?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-11", "file": "debates1974-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "edb766f7368909e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1669.0", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is making a very serious charge against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-11", "file": "debates1974-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "edb766f7368909e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1676.0", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "spoke and was challenged from the Government Front Bench on the subject of the closed shop. I felt that I really ought to speak from experience of this matter. Every time we on the Opposition side of the House talk about the tyranny of the closed shop we hear giggles and laughter from Government Members who seem to think that we on these benches have no experience whatever of industrial relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-11", "file": "debates1974-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "edb766f7368909e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1704.4", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "that conscience was important, something that held a high place in socialist thinking but which on the whole the Conservative Party was alleged not to take so seriously. How can the Minister possibly distinguish between conscience and religious belief simply by asserting that religious belief is inexplicable to other people, presumably claiming that conscience is immediately explicable? I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1704.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-11", "file": "debates1974-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "edb766f7368909e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1705.6", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "o hear that sort of observation from the hon. Gentleman. You have far more experience in this respect than I do, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I find that few interventions in the House, particularly at this hour of the night, ever reflect credit upon those who make them. The hon. Gentle man's skill at casting a net and gathering in some stinking old red herring is almost unrivalled, even in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1705.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-11", "file": "debates1974-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "edb766f7368909e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1727.0", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "I rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-11", "file": "debates1974-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "edb766f7368909e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1728.0", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "ompensation that we want the man to get\"? The fact that it is unlikely to happen is irrelevant. We know that it has happened. It has happened in the past three years, when similar provisions were in existence. In the case of Moppett a contribution was ordered. Of course, it will not happen very often. We lawyers are constantly persuading people not to go to law but to find a solution by agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-11a.1728.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-12", "file": "debates1974-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "32b92a385e8bf1ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1756.9", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "We were challenged, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1756.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-12", "file": "debates1974-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "32b92a385e8bf1ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1768.1", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Conservative Government policies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. Does the British taxpayer feel a glow of pride as he pays his additional taxes to meet the heavy losses which the nationalised industries incur? I accept that in large measure those heavy losses are the result of Government policies requiring prices to be kept down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-12", "file": "debates1974-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "32b92a385e8bf1ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1790.1", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "h caused the difficulties, and they came from Ministers responsible for the policy. But other Ministers—the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, the Paymaster-General and even the Prime Minister's Parliamentary Private Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer—started making speeches saying, \"Do not believe it; it is not true.\" Everyone knows that the Government are torn apart by this dialogue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-12", "file": "debates1974-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "32b92a385e8bf1ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1807.1", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted to hear the hon. Gentleman's argument later, if I do not take up too much time. The British people will come to realise, if they do not already realise, that the preparations to which the Government are now committed, in which they will increase the gush of money down the economic drain by buying the enterprises of North Sea oil, are frightening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-12", "file": "debates1974-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "32b92a385e8bf1ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1808.1", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "duction under the Conservatives. From what he said it seemed that he could not have been listening to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who said, during Question Time the other day—declaring what was set out in the Bank of England's quarterly bulletin for June—that the value of exports had increased by 11 per cent. It was one of the largest increases, in relation to the period involved, ever known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-12", "file": "debates1974-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "32b92a385e8bf1ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1808.1", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "is why a flexible policy serves the nation best. Once some companies are nationalised, they cannot be sold back to private enterprise because no one will buy them. But this is another reason why a flexible policy serves the nation best. We have a flexible policy, and it is that policy which has our wholehearted support on this side. We want to see it maintained. I have taken the time of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-12", "file": "debates1974-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "32b92a385e8bf1ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1815.5", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I may give way a little later, but not now. I have said that the hon. Member for Henley has been up to his usual public relations tricks. It is not true that the proposals will not be put before Parliament. The hon. Gentleman is trying to suggest that there will be an election. We do not know when the election will come. It may come at the end of the year; it may not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1815.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-12", "file": "debates1974-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "32b92a385e8bf1ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1816.4", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Money", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Money", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1816.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-12", "file": "debates1974-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "32b92a385e8bf1ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1825.1", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "—I am not at liberty to give the names because this is confidential commercial information, but I happen to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1825.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-12", "file": "debates1974-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "32b92a385e8bf1ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1848.23", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIGHTS OF PATIENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-12a.1848.22"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-15", "file": "debates1974-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d6125c6fb5836fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "et so that their competitors have gone ahead. Everyone would now agree that trading with any part of the world is not at all easy, as we are finding out in our present period of membership of the EEC. We do not anticipate any adverse effects on the Commonwealth in the event of our withdrawing from the Common Market. I would remind my hon. Friend that withdrawal is not the policy of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-15", "file": "debates1974-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d6125c6fb5836fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "I must correct my hon. Friend on the figures. Our true trading deficit with the Commonwealth is currently running at an annual rate of about £800 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-15", "file": "debates1974-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d6125c6fb5836fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": " of order, Mr. Speaker. I had heard that the Government Chief Whip and my right hon. Friend the Opposition Chief Whip were to discuss this matter later this afternoon. Unless this House on the whole can gel by these sort of difficulties, it is finished. It is absolutely essential that people should not cheat, and I am not in this context suggesting that anybody—anybody—has cheated over this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-15", "file": "debates1974-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d6125c6fb5836fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": " essential that people should not cheat, and I am not in this context suggesting that anybody—anybody—has cheated over this issue—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] It is absolutely essential that the House should have some sort of agreement in this sort of situation and that an agreement between the Whips and hon. Members as to what may be done in various circumstances shall be absolutely clear. I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-15", "file": "debates1974-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d6125c6fb5836fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ern to many of us. Mr. Speaker, that you should now say that it has nothing to do with you and that it remains a purely private arrangement between the Chief Whips for the purpose of convenience and some arithmetical calculations. May we, as back benchers, appeal to you to intervene and insist that these things should be spelt our very clearly indeed as to the basis and the rules of the procedure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-15", "file": "debates1974-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d6125c6fb5836fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": " have no illusions about the gravity of the problems we are discussing. The hon. Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt) censured the White Paper and the Bill as an abject capitulation to violence, referring, as I understood him, to what the Ulster Workers' Council had done to bring down the Sunningdale structure. But that is where we came in, because Sunningdale itself was a capitulation to violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-15", "file": "debates1974-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d6125c6fb5836fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.117.2", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "preceding_text": "We are all very interested in the question of the chairman. I recognise the precision that is used when we talk about Northern Ireland. I know from the exchanges so far that an Ulster man could be a man from Donegal, Cavan or Monaghan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-15a.117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "us Government. The first step we took was to reverse that policy not only generally but also in its effect on the groups I have mentioned. Therefore, surely the most important point is that while some people try to talk about the collapse of the National Health Service the Government have stepped in without delay to produce £40 million for England alone to alleviate the effects of price increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.227.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear. hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I will make a further statement about the situation in Cyprus. The House will be greatly relieved to learn that President Makarios is alive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.248.7", "colnum": "248", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Prime Minister has also exchanged letters with the Leader of the Opposition. I am quite sure that a number of clear points emerge from all this. The first is that my right hon. Friend the Chief Whip acted in perfectly good faith. The second is that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was not on the premises. He should have been here, but he did not know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.248.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.248.7", "colnum": "248", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend the Chief Whip acted in perfectly good faith. The second is that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was not on the premises. He should have been here, but he did not know it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The third point is that the Opposition Whips knew that my right hon. Friend was not on the premises four hours and 20 minutes before Third Reading of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.248.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.248.7", "colnum": "248", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheating.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "preceding_text": "f the immediate problem is the suggestion that I made yesterday; namely, that the Opposition parties put down identical amendments in another place, which they would have done anyhow, that these are brought back here and that we then have votes on them. I am sure that that is the best way out of the immediate problem. For the future, I think there is a case for referring our custom on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.248.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, leaving aside the peripheral point? My colleagues and I had no idea where the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was, but assumed that he was probably in the House, as otherwise he would not have been nodded through the Lobby. The Leader of the House, having accepted that an inaccuracy occurred in this House, said that the only forum in which it could be put right was another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "rder, Mr. Speaker. Is there not general agreement that the vote taken the other night must be reviewed and that it cannot stand? Two propositions are put forward, as I understand it. One is that the matter should be put right by recalling the Bill, as the right hon. Member for Lowestoft (Mr. Prior) suggested. That is bound to be a highly dilatory and very cumbersome way of dealing with the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.251.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.256.3", "colnum": "256", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"John Smith.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "Although I agree entirely with you, Mr. Speaker, that charges and counter-charges serve no useful purpose and are side issues to the main problems facing the House today, since my name has been mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.256.5", "colnum": "256", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "Certainly I telephoned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.256.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.257.4", "colnum": "257", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.258.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.258.3", "colnum": "258", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "rose —[ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I have plenty of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I have plenty of time. [ Interruption. ] Mr. Speaker is not listening yet. Is it not worth recording what no one has as yet mentioned and what ought perhaps to be borne in mind—that these so-called irregularities were to do with the Industrial Relations Act which, when is was a Bill was brought into this House by another form of irregularity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "In view of the behaviour of the Opposition in this matter, I am not prepared to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.263.5", "colnum": "263", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "I was one of the Government tellers on both of these occasions and I ought to remind the House that earlier that evening there was a disputed vote which I reported faithfully and with integrity, and that a second Division was called. Had I known that there were further disputes in the other two Divisions in which I participated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do your duty\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "We cannot go on like this. We must resolve the matter. I have tried to help the House on two occasions, Let me try once more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL (DIVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "e a declaration about the results of the Divisions on these two amendments and declare them carried. May I ask whether you will agree, immediately following that, to allow the vote on Third Reading to be taken without further debate? One consideration in this matter is that if the Third Reading is delayed to another day, the House must sit into the second week in August, and I want to avoid that.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "PROTECTION OF PASSENGERS (FARES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to limit the extent to which forfeiture of fares, including deposits paid, may be included in contracts for the carriage of passengers. I have been provoked into asking for permission to bring in the Bill because of the experiences of two of my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "r small companies. I resist what is being proposed because of what it would give to a large number of companies. I do not hate these companies. It would be absurd to suggest that I do. We are talking about what type of companies should pay a higher rate and what type should pay a lower rate. It was the right hon. Gentleman who introduced the system, not we. I am surprised that he does not like it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": "e, when the matter was first raised and the undertaking was given, the Treasury could have started its discussions with the building societies earlier. I have no vested interest. In view of the categoric assurance from Government and the categoric assurance from my right hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton (Mr. Carr), who is the Opposition spokesman on Treasury matters, we cannot lose whichever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.359.3", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "ong, but it is desirable that I should explain briefly the background of the amendment to hon. Members who were not present in Committee. It is fair to say, in the light of what was said on both sides of the Committee and of the House in the debates on the 1972 Finance Bill—which is what got us into these difficulties—that it was Parliament's clear intention at the time that VAT should be applied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.382.7", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Let me give the right hon. Gentleman, who I presume is interested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.382.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.391.5", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ng down the relief for what some people would call small savers, but what I will content myself by calling those who are not big savers anyway. At the outset I ask why it is that we make these distinctions so that we may get clear in our minds why we differentiate between so-called investment income or savings income and so-called earned income. Savings income can come from many different sources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.391.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.391.5", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "estment income or savings income and so-called earned income. Savings income can come from many different sources. [ Interruption. ] If the money comes from inherited wealth then I believe that to tax money deriving from that inherited wealth at an exceptional rate is probably reasonable. To a large extent in this amendment we are dealing with those whose income comes from their life-long savings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.391.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "We are coming to a very important and interesting stage in the Bill. We had better recognise that, when all the talk and excuses for the amendment have finished, the Opposition—Conservative and Liberal—are proposing to give £40 million in tax relief to those with investment incomes above £1,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-16", "file": "debates1974-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b13a391d5a7a5a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": " right to distribute or redistribute the burden of income tax, they must accept that Parliament controls that and that we are exercising that power. The fact that this is the first Parliament since the war which has had the votes and the power to do it is neither here nor there. The hon. and learned Gentleman must realise that we approach the situation of this Government with great responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-16a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-17", "file": "debates1974-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "619ab57781a7afcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "With regard to the first part of my hon. Friend's supplementary question, I have not asked members of the Commonwealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-17", "file": "debates1974-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "619ab57781a7afcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "It is a little difficult to give straight replies on matters that I discussed with Dr. Kissinger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-17", "file": "debates1974-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "619ab57781a7afcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I think that they will proceed in parallel in a compartmentalised direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-17", "file": "debates1974-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "619ab57781a7afcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "put up the prices of these goods to some extent. For the Government to boast on the one hand that they are trying to keep prices stable by giving subsidies and then to push through increased taxes which would have exactly the opposite effect is a complete contradiction which I do not believe the hon. Gentleman as an accountant, an actuary, would like to have upon his conscience or upon his record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.488.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-17", "file": "debates1974-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "619ab57781a7afcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is for the Government to do.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "ition, when they are increasing the money supply and reducing taxation in the way that they are, to have made a passing reference to what they would suggest should be done to compensate for it. We have not heard a word about that from the Opposition. This is a very important point, and I am fascinated to know whether the hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell) will now tell us how he would suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-17", "file": "debates1974-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "619ab57781a7afcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.505.2", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loveridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loveridge", "preceding_text": "The first intervention from a Government back bencher speaks only of irresponsibility. There is no word of argument within it. It means nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-17", "file": "debates1974-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "619ab57781a7afcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.505.4", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loveridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loveridge", "preceding_text": "ss that needs liquidity for expansion. I should declare an interest. I am the head of a small or medium-sized business. It is, however, run as a partnership and, therefore, there is no direct effect on me from the amendment. 6.15 p.m. On the first aspect of simplicity and clarity, the amendment calls for a fixed rate of three-quarters of the full rate in future. Oh, how we long for some certainty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.505.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-17", "file": "debates1974-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "619ab57781a7afcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " not arise at all; but if it were to arise it might not arise for at least a year and probably longer. Then, as the Financial Secretary told us, if the courts finally hold against the interpretation which we wish to put and which we thought the Act carried in the first place, the process of repayment, we were told, would be so tortuous, complicated and lengthy that it would take months and months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-17", "file": "debates1974-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "619ab57781a7afcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "preceding_text": "In supporting the amendment, I should like to take up the underlying concept of the speech of the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Cunningham) and to explain how the amendment fits in with basic Liberal fiscal thinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-17", "file": "debates1974-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "619ab57781a7afcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.616.4", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "Of course we review things annually. That was why I accepted Amendment No. 207. The hon. Gentleman was not listening very closely to the last debate. I am glad to have it confirmed that the hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) is no longer seeking to rest upon a six-monthly review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-17a.616.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.656.6", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONWAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "speaks with authority for it; he used to have some authority when he sat on the back benches on this side of the House—now supports the idea of renegotiation, which we have pressed. All that I asked at Bangor was that the Leader of the Opposition might consider answering the questions that we have put to him about the right of the British people to a vote. I wanted to ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.656.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONWAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that I am not the shadow spokesman for Wales, either for my party or the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONWAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Gentleman's statement that he is not shadow spokesman for Wales. At the risk of upsetting his feelings, may I say that he is not a shadow spokesman for England, either? However, with regard to the question of the referendum, which I have dealt with many times, I would not have introduced into the House of Commons a measure which was unacceptable to the British people, as that measure clearly was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.658.2", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONWAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that it is possible—I am not certain—that legislation would be required. But I Shall certainly consider this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONWAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is wrong. We never had an agreement. We never discussed the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONWAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed the matter. [ Interruption. ] We never discussed the matter together, as the right hon. Gentleman will know. Concerning the statement made in 1970 by him and by me, I have already dealt with that this afternoon. But the right hon. Gentleman—he can deny it if he wishes; I shall give way to him—gave a pledge that he would not take Britain in without the full-hearted consent of the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.659.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.661.2", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the Budget?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "l thousands of millions of pounds for the three-day working week alone. It is a fact which the whole House knows—because the Leader of the Opposition used to mention it—that price increases from abroad take several months to work into the cost of living index. There is also the threshold position. In fact, every increase in the cost of living index this year has been caused either by world events—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ay was speaking on that occasion he and the TUC Economic Committee said—as I have repeatedly emphasised—that where price increases have been compensated by a threshold payment there should not be a further attempt to offset those increases by further wage increases if the threshold has dealt with it. Some wage settlements recently have gone far wider than most in the House would, I think, welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister refresh his memory about the impact of the Chancellor's Budget? It is quite clear from the changes he made, leaving aside the nationalised industry prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "lton (Mr. Carr) and refuted by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor. The right hon. Gentleman referred to nationalised industry prices. He has not explained why something that cost £1,400 million was announced to the country by his Government as costing £500 million. Did he know during the election that it would cost £1,400 million? Of course he did. Why did he not tell the country? Why did he say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Before I come to world prices, I remind the House that the right hon. Gentleman referred to nationalised industry prices, and I replied that he misled the country to the extent of £900 million, which he has to explain. The right hon. Gentleman is wrong about world prices. I warned him about their effect when he was making light of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "MAPLIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that the people of Essex generally and, in particular, of Tower Hamlets will be pleased about the report. May I, without prejudice, ask about an ancillary problem connected with the seaport at Maplin? Will my right hon. Friend assure the House that that will not be adversely affected by this decision because, as he will know, there is a vast difference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.693.2", "colnum": "693", "heading": "PAY BOARD (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "ell as other aspects of the matter. But it would be ill mannered as well as churlish on my part if I did not pay tribute, despite my objection to the system, to the candour, wisdom and skill with which Sir Derek Figgures and Mr. Derek Robinson and others on the Pay Board have conducted their tasks. Most of the difficulties have derived from the legislation and decisions of the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "PAY BOARD (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "urn to that policy. That is why we have said not merely that we will carry through the order but that we will not return to a freeze, we will not return to the compulsory control of wages. We have given that undertaking. When hon. Members are making up their minds about how to vote tonight—if they vote against the order they will be voting for the maintenance of compulsory controls of that nature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.707.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "PAY BOARD (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "uld much have preferred to try to do it another way. In an ideal world the voluntary system is the only possible course one would adopt. But it requires a balance of power within the bargaining process which has not been noticeably present in recent years. We talk about free collective bargaining, but how free is it, and how much of a bargain is it nowadays with the monopoly power of trade unions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "PAY BOARD (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ithin a prices and incomes policy it is necessary to give greater emphasis to the lower paid and less emphasis to the higher paid. That policy was followed by the Relativities Board. Under the Liberal Party such relativities could be taken care of within the policy to which the hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) has referred. In 1965 the TUC set up its own wage vetting system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "PAY BOARD (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I understand that the hon. Gentleman takes an interest in what is happening now, but I am not sure of his command of history, so let me give him a little history lesson. I shall try to do it slowly so that he can understand it. In 1965 the TUC set up its own wage vetting system in response to the Labour Party's prices and incomes crisis. That policy worked for a time, but it did not last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.746.2", "colnum": "746", "heading": "PAY BOARD (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "e to carry many Labour Members with me on that proposition. It has been Liberal policy for some years that there should be a guaranteed minimum wage. It is intriguing that many wage councils have not taken up the option of threshold wage agreements. The wage councils concerned are often those that deal with the lower paid, and indeed with the lowest paid. We believe in a minimum wage for industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.746.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "PAY BOARD (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "ay vote; it is not a common characteristic of his. If he does, I hope he will bear in mind the election manifesto upon which he fought only four months ago. If anyone should be prosecuted under the Trade Descriptions Act, it is the hon. Member. He fought on a platform of free collective bargaining, the abolition of a prices and incomes policy, renegotiation of the terms of the Common Market entry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.766.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "PAY BOARD (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "This was charming, no doubt: but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.783.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "PAY BOARD (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Encore!", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Order!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.784.4", "colnum": "784", "heading": "PAY BOARD (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "Let us consider the position, however, if there is excess demand, as there has been most of the time since the war, and suppose that there is a sustained incomes policy in a condition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.784.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.784.4", "colnum": "784", "heading": "PAY BOARD (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A U-turn in 1971.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "licy has not, since the days of Stafford Cripps, had any measurable effect on the rate of inflation in this country, except for some very short periods. That has been well established. We on the Opposition side of the House are the greatest living experts on the limitations and disadvantages of an incomes policy. We renounced incomes policy from 1966 to 1970. We renounced it in our 1970 manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.784.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.784.4", "colnum": "784", "heading": "PAY BOARD (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "icy would be less awful than the alternatives as we saw them at the time. We came to regard them as lesser evils. The experience confirmed our awareness of the limits and the miseries. I need only briefly catalogue the limitations and miseries—either too much rigidity, with one set of resentments, or too much flexibility, with another set; anomalies, delays, bureaucracy, distortions and shortages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.784.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK ETC. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " making an agency agreement; they simply cut the Health and Safety Commission out of farm safety enforcement altogether. Last week in another place the ex-General Secretary of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers made a quite and dignified plea on behalf of the farm workers. He said that they had been treated differently so often in the past, as if they were second-class citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK ETC. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be intolerant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the Government are persisting in their attempt to return to the form in which the Bill originally left this House. The Minister's speech was profoundly dissatisfying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-18", "file": "debates1974-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "804d761fd368991e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK ETC. BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "I must take the Minister to task for his attitude. I earlier shouted \"Nonsense\" because farmers—and I must declare an interest as a farmer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-18a.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-19", "file": "debates1974-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "7e18410c55270d2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-19a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMER CREDIT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": " heard. If he had evidence which suggested abuse—and hon. Members know that the present Director General would confirm this to be the case—he would make the point forcefully to the Minister. The hon. Member for Mid-Sussex referred to what he described as the parlous state of the nationalised industries. We discovered a £1,500 million deficit which had been concealed by the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-19a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-22", "file": "debates1974-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e72cf4a74ee5e5b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "zens still scattered about the island, and particularly those near Kyrenia, should now gain respite if the cease-fire holds. We are, however, continuing to make urgent arrangements for their protection and removal if they so wish. I am sure that the House would like to pay high tribute to the excellent work of the British forces in Cyprus, the British High Commission and the United Nations forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-22", "file": "debates1974-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e72cf4a74ee5e5b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "g office at the beginning of March and which were presumably also available to the Conservative Government. The measures I have announced today will eliminate all but 0·14 per cent. of the increase in the cost of living arising from the March measures, an increase which was wholly due to the increase in nationalised industry prices. The next question which the right hon. Gentleman asked me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-22", "file": "debates1974-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e72cf4a74ee5e5b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "HARLAND AND WOLFF", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "Yes. We have had so little time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-22", "file": "debates1974-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e72cf4a74ee5e5b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "—to deal with one small section of taxpayers on the remittance basis while everyone else was on the new system. But there is another reason. My amendment would make 50 per cent. of the pension tax-free. As I said on the previous group of amendments, the pension paid by Germany and Austria to victims of Nazi persecution was subject to 100 per cent. tax under the remittance basis when remitted here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-22", "file": "debates1974-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e72cf4a74ee5e5b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1148.7", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Clause 33", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber), and the intention of the Conservative manifesto of February. I said in Committee that I felt that I had not only to look after the interests of the Labour Party but had to be the guardian of the Conservative manifesto. According to the Conservative manifesto, it was intended that development gains tax should be up to the highest level of income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1148.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-22", "file": "debates1974-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e72cf4a74ee5e5b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Clause 33", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "It is Liberal Party policy that the widow with the large garden, the owner of the large plot in inner London, the Duke of Omnium et al will pay site value rating on the land. If at the end of the day it was decided to exempt certain categories of land, such as agricultural land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-22", "file": "debates1974-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e72cf4a74ee5e5b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should point out that I am not seeking to detain the House in any way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-22", "file": "debates1974-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e72cf4a74ee5e5b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1243.4", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Schedule 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"About time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Morrison", "preceding_text": "exempted have been exempted already. Local authorities were exempted in 1963 and others which might be exempted now include virtually only the SASC, which, in any case, is included in this amendment, and a few harbour and other public boards. They, in fact, borrow infrequently and relatively insignificant sums. At the annual general meeting of the AMC—and perhaps I should declare an interest here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1243.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-22", "file": "debates1974-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e72cf4a74ee5e5b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1246.2", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Schedule 11", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-22a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-23", "file": "debates1974-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0b3fce781744df5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-23a.1291.5", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REFERENDA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for presenting the issue so starkly. Depending on the progress of renegotiations, the vote of the British people might go the other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-23a.1291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-23", "file": "debates1974-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0b3fce781744df5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-23a.1324.2", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ce shows that for every person taken off the register two others not on the register—often part-time married women—come into employment. Thus, the total effect on employment of all the measures I announced yesterday could be to increase employment by the end of next year by between 100,000 and 150,000. I apologise to the House for having given a figure so much lower than the true figure yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-23a.1324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-23", "file": "debates1974-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0b3fce781744df5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-23a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "That is another argument for the House to consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-23a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-23", "file": "debates1974-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0b3fce781744df5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-23a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "preceding_text": "en characteristic of all who have had anything to do with this matter from the beginnng. Let me begin by setting the scene. I must do this if hon. Members are to comprehend the full significance of the proposal in the Bill to which I object. Canvey Island, which I have the honour to represent, is an island comprising less than 4,000 acres. It is generally flat, and a large area is below sea-level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-23a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-23", "file": "debates1974-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0b3fce781744df5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-23a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "preceding_text": "Hexham as Secretary of State. Inheriting this unhappy problem my right hon. and learned Friend could not have been left in any doubt, assuming that his advisers had briefed him, that there was intense opposition to the refinery proposal. The promised inquiry was held in January 1973. The usual objections were heard at length and in the end the inspector recommended that the application be refused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-23a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1594.5", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " by telling him that in the old county of Norfolk area at least 1,000 extra local government positions have been created as a result of local government reorganisation? Is he aware that the intention of the Local Government Act was not to create extra jobs but to reduce the number of positions and that 7,400 people were prematurely retired? As a result of the way that the Act was applied, however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1594.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Government amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I take it that there is no procedural reason for calling only the official Opposition amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ety of either a high rate of inflation or a high level of unemployment. Both are social evils of great magnitude, evils both for society and for those men and women who are personally affected by them. I personally feel this, and regret that there are those who tend to treat unemployment as a purely statistical economic exercise, instead of recognising the human misery and social stress it causes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "el of unemployment. Both are social evils of great magnitude, evils both for society and for those men and women who are personally affected by them. I personally feel this, and regret that there are those who tend to treat unemployment as a purely statistical economic exercise, instead of recognising the human misery and social stress it causes. [Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] I say this quite eliberately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1602.3", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tell the truth.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I should like to intervene at this point to ask the House whether it is not possible to have a debate. If one side shouts at the other, the other side will shout back. Is it not possible for both the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister to be listened to in reasonable silence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1610.1", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ix-month period and 25 per cent. over a three-month period. There has been a considerable increase since February. The Chancellor said that the sole purpose of his mini-Budget was to reduce the number of threshold payments. The Prime Minister openly stated that he supported the idea of thresholds. He urged it upon me and my Government constantly, as did the TUC from the time it raised it in Neddy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1610.1", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£1,400 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "sed industries; and at least the nationalised industries were under our control, whereas world food prices are not under the Government's control. But neither is desirable in the long run in any economy if one is to avoid distortions. It was part of the counter-inflationary policy, but both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer are constantly talking of a figure of £1,500 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "lity in this matter. It is essential that in the present economic situation we should have an effective—I emphasise the word \"effective\"—working relationship between Government and both sides of industry in the national interest. This brings me to the third aspect of the problem—namely, the impact of the Government's policies in general and the Chancellor of the Exchequer's policies in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The lights are on even if the music is not playing. When the right hon. Gentleman spoke about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1627.3", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n a standard loaf of bread, an extra 5½p a lb. for butter and an extra 7p a lb. for cheese. My right hon. Friend has announced that these subsidies are now to be extended. Then there is meat. Since 1947—since the time of Tom Williams—British farming has had the benefit of deficiency payments providing a square deal for the farmer and for the housewife. That system was scrapped in the terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "erventions—namely, taking meat off the market and putting it into store so that people cannot afford to buy it. That is what Conservative hon. Members rejoiced in. This Government have changed that system, and that is why we are getting cheaper beef in the shops. If the right hon. Gentleman had remained in office this change would not have been made. Conservative policies led to the beef mountain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e third quarter of 1971, just before the right hon. Gentleman's speech at Guildhall, took off' on a downward path to £448 million by the second quarter of last year. These figures are at constant 1970 prices. Even the £525 million to which investment rose by the first quarter of this year was less, in total, than the figures recorded in the second quarter of 1970, under the last Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman's speech at Guildhall, took off' on a downward path to £448 million by the second quarter of last year. These figures are at constant 1970 prices. Even the £525 million to which investment rose by the first quarter of this year was less, in total, than the figures recorded in the second quarter of 1970, under the last Labour Government. [ Interruption. ] The figures of investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "it must be conquered, and conquered soon. If we wish to know the source and course of inflation we must first realise that modern inflation is a new phenomenon and the old, textbook, classical remedies will not be of much help. I suppose that it is commonly assumed by members of my generation that inflation is the natural order of things. That is hardly surprising. I was born 40 years ago in 1934.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": " \"Why?\"] I ask the same question of inflation. Modern inflation and I are of the same age. In 1933 the pound was worth more than it was in 1661. The Economist of 13th July put together various price series to show what had happened to prices since the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Over the last 300 years periods of falling prices have been far more common than have periods of rising prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ve no method of enforcement, any more than the Government have. Obviously no one wants to use prison; the number of potential criminals equals the adult population. The violation of a prices and incomes policy should be not a criminal offence but a civil offence. It must be seen that the violator has broken a contract with the rest of the people and owes them damages for his anti-social behaviour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": " be a separate policy for top salaries, which brings me to former Lord Mayors of London. I do not want to be held to any specific figure, but it could be, say, about £6,000 a year, or even lower, otherwise these people will be able to exact large increases under cover of the averages for their firms, and we have to guard against this specifically. I admit immediately that the tax is not a panacea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1713.3", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "rrent year and he believes that that is not likely to have the most damaging effect upon the fortunes of these companies in the future. He has the effrontery to suggest that my right hon. and hon. Friends put forward during consideration of the Finance Bill proposals which would cost £500 million in the votes which were carried. He knows that we did not in any way vote for and succeed in carrying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1722.1", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer(Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheap!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer(Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "I think that both sides of the House will have found it helpful to have had a preview of the election speeches that the hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) will be making in the next month or two. The best thing that I can say about his speech is that it shows that, with effort, he will make a worthy successor to the right hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Walker).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1723.1", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": ", most hon. Members who have spoken from the Opposition benches tonight have very clearly indicated their view that I was wrong to do anything on Monday in order to reduce the possible rate of unemployment over the next 18 months. The House has no clearer idea now than it had at the beginning of the debate yesterday what the Opposition's real view is about what should be done about a prospect for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1726.1", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "—we must finance the gap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1726.6", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "heran. I must confess that I do not blame them because, as the hon. Member for Henley has just admitted, the last Tory Chancellor did not wait for an approach from the Iranian Government as I did—he rushed off to Switzerland in January, forcing a leading British Conservative newspaper to say how incredible and ignominious it was that the Chancellor should take to the slippery slopes of St. Moritz.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1726.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " makes about my right hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber). My right hon. Friend went with my right hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Walker) in order to negotiate a trade arrangement, which is something more than the Chancellor has secured, and there was no question of waiting days for an audience. Why does the Chancellor of the Exchequer lie to the House like this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1728.7", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ter. But the right hon. Gentleman gave us no indication how much faster, by what sort of methods, and at what cost to living and social standards in Britain. I asked him this question, and he gave me no answer. Now I come to the question of what we do about the whole complex of problems we now face. What we are still waiting to hear from those on the Opposition Front Bench is whether they believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1728.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1732.7", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Mellish)", "preceding_text": "rose in his place and claimed to move, That the Question be now put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1732.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1739.2", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "Yes.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1739.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1739.8", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I was not on the Standing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1739.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1741.0", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe (seated and covered)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe (seated and covered)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. We have not seen what these amendments are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1741.0", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe (seated and covered)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe (seated and covered)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. We have not seen what these amendments are—[ Interruption. ] It is making a farce of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1743.2", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "ng which they were entitled to sit after the last election. They had not the decency, any of them, knowing that they had ceased to be elected Members, to resign from the European Assembly. They know, of course, that that Assembly is not a real elected body, that it has no power. What has it got? It has large and considerable expenses. At this point we might mention that it is true also that every—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": ". They could have made a genuine headline for Britain all over Europe by the simple process of going along for the first time and saying, \"Look, in Britain we happen to believe in honesty, at least in financial dealings. We will take our actual expenses incurred in travelling and our secretarial costs, but the additional surplus we will not take, or we will pay it back if it has to be paid to us.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "not take, or we will pay it back if it has to be paid to us.\" [ Interruption. ] They did not do that. Since they did not do it I should like to know whether any of these new Members being proposed tonight have had this thought and have possibly given their Whips the assurance that if they are appointed they will not take this additional emolument. Or do they propose to take the money irrespective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "bt his honesty. We have talked about this matter between ourselves many times. Let me just lay it on the line quite straight from me to him. First, it is true that Members who go to the European Parliament are paid expenses which are in excess of their outlays. That is true. There is no argument about that. Second, I personally see nothing wrong with that in the absence of any pay that is offered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "nd against whether it is a useful exercise to go to the European Parliament. There is disagreement not just between the two sides of the House but right across the board. I regard it as a worthwhile exercise to go to the European Parliament. In the past year I have spent a great deal of time there arguing about regional policy. I thought that that was a matter of importance and of consequence and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1752.3", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "sembly of Europe, or, as the hon. Member for Saffron Walden would euphemistically call it, the European Parliament. They have been paired when there have been three-line or two-line Whips or no Whips at all. Yet when I or some of my hon. Friends want to go to important constituency meetings we are refused a pair. I have been barred in this way from going to my constituency for a political meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1754.6", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ou probably divined from my reply, Mr. Speaker, what his interjection was. As far as I am concerned, any hon. Member, on either side of the House, is quite free to go where he likes, when he likes and how he likes, under whatever auspices he likes—but if he does so with the authority of the House I have a right to know who is backing his action, and who is pushing it. At the moment, I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1754.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1757.0", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Clay Cross?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Lewis) reminded us that, just before Parliament prorogued on the last occasion, there was this very important debate in which hon. Members were selected to represent us in this so-called European Parliament, which is little more than a parish council, except that parish councils tend to do more good work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ave referred, it is possible that Scarborough might be replaced with a Liberal. Of course, after tonight's proceedings that seems highly unlikely. Yet, set against the argument that the hon. Member for Woolwich, East (Mr. Mayhew) is now searching for a reasonable spot to fly the Liberal flag, I can visualise the Liberals, having run second at Scarborough at the General Election, sending him north.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1760.4", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "\"Honourable Gentlemen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "One would be reasonably assured about sending people to this Assembly if they were bringing anything back—not bringing back money for themselves but something tangible for this country. One thing which has been witnessed and reported upon in recent days is that after these few short months of Common Market membership, these 19 gentlemen, lately 14 gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1761.2", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I see no connection between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1761.8", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I said I shall leave the North-East with the first President.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1761.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-24", "file": "debates1974-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcfb7875d080e2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1768.4", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-24a.1768.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-25", "file": "debates1974-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "65ee5177a3b833b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1802.3", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman recall the statement made on 3rd June by the Secretary of State and recorded in the OFFICIAL REPORT? I shall quote the relevant paragraph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-25", "file": "debates1974-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "65ee5177a3b833b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1813.0", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall that a short while ago I was the leader of the revolting MPs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-25", "file": "debates1974-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "65ee5177a3b833b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1813.4", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is a dispute at present affecting the London local government officers who work in certain borough councils, and that in Newham, Tower Hamlets and other boroughs the matter has become so serious that rubbish is now being dumped in the streets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1813.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-25", "file": "debates1974-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "65ee5177a3b833b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1813.4", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is a dispute at present affecting the London local government officers who work in certain borough councils, and that in Newham, Tower Hamlets and other boroughs the matter has become so serious that rubbish is now being dumped in the streets—[ Interruption. ] This is not a laughing matter, because some of this rubbish is being dumped outside hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1813.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-25", "file": "debates1974-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "65ee5177a3b833b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1813.4", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " ] This is not a laughing matter, because some of this rubbish is being dumped outside hospitals. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members believe it is a laughing matter, I hope they may have the same difficulty of refuse being dumped outside their street doors. Unless something is done, that is what will happen. My constituents will be coming here and dumping their rubbish outside the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1813.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-25", "file": "debates1974-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "65ee5177a3b833b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SAFETY AND RESPECT FOR THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "gence service and the co-operation of overseas services. Alas, terrorism is not a new experience since we have behind us years of the misery of Northern Ireland. In connection with Northern Ireland, there is an enormous political dimension to be taken into account when considering terrorism. There seems to be a widespread feeling in the country that for terrorism there should be the death penalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-25", "file": "debates1974-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "65ee5177a3b833b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1842.1", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SAFETY AND RESPECT FOR THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "of indiscriminate violence on the State, through an unknown number of persons. It is an act of war in time of peace. The decision on the penalty is for individual Members of Parliament—as, in the ultimate are all decisions. I can only say, as a long-standing and still convinced opponent of capital punishment for murder, that I regard the death penalty for terrorism as a totally different question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-25", "file": "debates1974-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "65ee5177a3b833b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SAFETY AND RESPECT FOR THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "preceding_text": "gious grounds and, clearly, on class grounds. How does the law prevent discrimination of that kind? When we talk about violence—I speak here with some feeling—we ought to consider what violence means to the man with a family who is told that his services are no longer required, that he is redundant, and that he is to be sacked. In my view that is an act of violence against that man and his family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-25", "file": "debates1974-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "65ee5177a3b833b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1900.3", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SAFETY AND RESPECT FOR THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "wn in statute or anywhere else—that judges never did that sort of thing in England—\"They might do it in other countries but not in England, no\"—we should boast of that practice throughout the world. We cannot boast of it because our practices are exactly opposite. On the other side, we need to recognise that the enemy is the criminal and not the police, and that the police are there to protect us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-25", "file": "debates1974-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "65ee5177a3b833b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1949.11", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Amendments.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. My copy of the Bill, which is difficult to read, suggests that Part II comprises Clauses 13 to 27. I find it rather difficult to understand how the Minister can be moving Part II when Clauses 1 to 9—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1949.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-25", "file": "debates1974-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "65ee5177a3b833b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1950.6", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Amendment No. 9.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "The paging in my volume does not seem to have any numbering. All I can do to identify the place is to point out that at the top of the page it says: Insert the following new clause after Clause 26. There is no number in my volume.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1950.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-25", "file": "debates1974-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "65ee5177a3b833b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1969.4", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I understand that, but this sort of thing often happens to Members in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-25a.1969.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-26", "file": "debates1974-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "b2586e5e0438bb9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-26a.2007.7", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "The next amendment ment is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-26a.2007.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.25.6", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Name them\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "to account that the system of permits which operates in the months of June and July for constituents of Members of Parliament wanting to visit the Houses of Parliament is being much abused by the booking up, during the course of those months, of permits by travel agencies through Members of Parliament on the Opposition benches? Further, will he take into account that the London Travel Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.25.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is not correct in suggesting that the IDC policy is not also directed towards helping intermediate areas. She ought to understand the position. She should read my letter. The IDC policy has been tightened up, but it is clear that there is need to assist other areas as well as development and special development areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "MEMBERS' ALLOWANCES AND ASSISTANCE FOR OPPOSITION PARTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ford", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many Members in all parts of the House may sleep easier in their beds this evening, and that he is to be congratulated —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "MEMBERS' ALLOWANCES AND ASSISTANCE FOR OPPOSITION PARTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fraser.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "preceding_text": "Surely the Lord President has considerable support for his view that an independent inquiry into the financing of political parties should be undertaken. Does he agree that it is quite intolerable that one large political party should be financed by the trade unions and the other party by big business, while there are other political parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "tment has more than one Minister. The hours could be reasonable—say, from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. Hon. Members would then be enabled to raise the 101 subjects which accumulate. There would be no need for votes or for Ministers to be tied to their desks or to the House. Members who wished to be here could be here. Those with constituency engagements or with other work to attend to could attend to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Walker), who has left the Chamber, has mentioned my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, The headline in the newspaper stated \"Storm over angel face\", not \"Storm over Jenkins\". The man referred to has a dangerous criminal record. He has allegedly shot several policemen. I am told that no Member of the House knew that this man had been let out on parole and was running a home for battered mothers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "preceding_text": "about the defence review. As a party we said that we would look at the nation's defence expenditure. It is a burden which we cannot afford to carry. When we came into power in March we inherited a £4,000 million deficit. There are some European countries with an embarrassing financial surplus. Yet they are not spending as much on defence as we are. There is something fundamentally wrong with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.120.2", "colnum": "120", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "nd externally, and a three-day week. Has the right hon. Gentleman forgotten our legacy and the fact that Britain was working a three-day week? But in five months we have brought out massive new policies on issues on which the Conservatives did nothing. If the House accepts the motion, Parliament will go into recess, but the Government's work in evolving policy will go on over August and September—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.120.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.122.4", "colnum": "122", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTORWAY NOISE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "isy as those at present on the roads. The project is well advanced. I have taken a careful note of the points raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley (Mr. Cryer), particularly about the noise problem which he expects to arise from the proposed motorway. If there is an inquiry into this proposal, I hope that he and those who share his views will put their anxieties to the inquiry. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KILBRANDON REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "c concepts effectively. There are no set views. Views on these things vary from time to time. Let me take the four basic alternatives which are argued politically in Scotland and Wales, though they become not as clear-cut in the regions of England. The right hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) is much lambasted by the Scottish National Party as being stiff-necked, stubborn and many other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KILBRANDON REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": " similar to that which we have at Westminster and that the leader of the largest party would form a government for Scotland or Wales, as the case may be. However, if a system of devolution were given to Scotland or Wales it would no longer be possible to have nationalist parties in those countries. People in those parties would have to split up into Conservative or Socialist groups in those areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.396.6", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor is not in the Chamber. It was the Chancellor who moved an amendment against the Labour Party's proposals for a national enterprise board.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.396.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-29", "file": "debates1974-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a4f82f119300101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": ", and through the national enterprise board, the extension of public ownership in the direction of our programe, including the participation of trade unions and workers at every stage, will ensure a great extension of democracy—the very reverse of what the Conservatives say. In conclusion, may I say that I am deeply sorry that I have been unable to answer all the points because of the time factor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-29a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.453.3", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that his hon. Friend seemed to show more glee than regret at British casualties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.456.5", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "I should like to know how the hon. and learned Gentleman knows that internal papers are already prepared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.456.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.473.6", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hansard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say where the archives of newspapers which have gone into liquidation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.473.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d working, many things have happened in the last week or two in the private sector that he supports which are extremely inimical to a united country. In reply to the third part of the supplementary question, while I do not take exception to any words used in that speech I feel that it is part of the whole truth, and I shall be dealing with this in extenso in a speech in this building this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheating!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The only amount of money to which the Government have agreed is below £5 million. Therefore, it does not need to come to the House of Commons under legislation passed by the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "GOVERNMENT WORK (DISPERSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "It is true that in this dispersal no new jobs are to go to Plymouth. However, the hon. Lady will recollect that there are a large number of civil servants in Plymouth already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.495.5", "colnum": "495", "heading": "TRIUMPH MOTOR CYCLES, MERIDEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must interrupt the hon. Gentleman. I think that this is an abuse of the Standing Order No. 9 procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.495.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Secretary of State will realise on reflection that he is asking too much. He will not admit that anyone outside his own party can have a real concern for the welfare and well-being of the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": " a multinational company in this country should be able to strike in support of another worker in that company working overseas and should have such protections and immunities for the pursuit or furtherance of a dispute as were open to a dispute in this country. Yet the amendment would restrict the right to those cases in which workers in this country would benefit from the outcome of the dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": " worker in that company working overseas and should have such protections and immunities for the pursuit or furtherance of a dispute as were open to a dispute in this country. Yet the amendment would restrict the right to those cases in which workers in this country would benefit from the outcome of the dispute—[ Interruption. ] The amendment would almost wholly destroy the object of Clause 26(3)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "ch protections and immunities for the pursuit or furtherance of a dispute as were open to a dispute in this country. Yet the amendment would restrict the right to those cases in which workers in this country would benefit from the outcome of the dispute—[ Interruption. ] The amendment would almost wholly destroy the object of Clause 26(3)—[ Interruption. ] The purpose of international trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "RENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will read the Bill, he may be in a better position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.605.7", "colnum": "605", "heading": "RENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "lord by the tenant. It provides that if any person with intent to cause the landlord of any premises to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the premises or part thereof does any act calculated to interfere with the peace or comfort of the landlord or members of his household he shall be guilty of an offence. The penalties are laid down. Under earlier legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.605.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "RENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) is innocent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "RENT BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "This is an abominable piece of retrospective legislation. In Committee, the Minister admitted that it was retrospective legislation, and said that Socialist principles allowed it in circumstances where it was deemed necessary. That is quite contrary to Opposition principle. Whether we like a Bill or not, we do not introduce retrospective legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.698.8", "colnum": "698", "heading": "RENT BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "preceding_text": "ebate that we had in Committee. They would not have been selected had not an undertaking been given in Committee to consider the matter. We have discussed the ill treatment of furniture in a furnished tenancy. In Committee I asked about furniture that was disposed of, but not by people of ill intent. We are talking about soft furnishings that may last for a lifetime—carpets and curtains and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.698.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "RENT BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": " The biggest single cause of homelessness is lack of accommodation. I have been accused by the Minister on other occasions of making the same speech several times. Perhaps he makes that accusation because he does not relish hearing again the reminder of this point that my hon. Friends and I have repeated. The biggest single cause of homelessness, almost by definition must be lack of accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-30", "file": "debates1974-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "65c55300935051cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "RENT BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": "I have been fascinated to listen to the hon. Member and the three preceding speakers. I think that Members on the Conservative side of the House are so used to being either in government or in opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-30a.726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-31", "file": "debates1974-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8701782e52c3fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-31a.796.5", "colnum": "796", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "intention of the Foreign Ministers and their Governments that these should now cease and that life should gradaully return to normal. The withdrawal of United Kingdom citizens and other friendly nationals into the sovereign base areas and the subsequent evacuation to Britain of those who wished to leave the island have gone smoothly. The Royal Air Force has flown more than 9,000 people to Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-31a.796.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-31", "file": "debates1974-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8701782e52c3fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-31a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "CONCORDE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman understand that there are many of us who think that in the interests of public expenditure it is he who ought to be put on the shelf until—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-31a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-07-31", "file": "debates1974-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f8701782e52c3fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-31a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "CONCORDE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman understand that there are many of us who think that in the interests of public expenditure it is he who ought to be put on the shelf until—[ Interruption. ] Could he now say whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-07-31a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "o do so fearlessly, so that the nation can be led to grapple with the problems which we now face. During the election I emphasised that unity was necessary in order to overcome this crisis—to prevent those who were selfish, wherever they may be, from damaging the rest of the community. What I welcome now is the Prime Minister's conversion to this theme—his conversion, in the ministerial broadcast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " are not prepared to put on one side, even temporarily, any single divisive aspect of the policies in their manifesto. They are going to pursue the divisive policies of nationalisation of the shipbuilding and aircraft industries, and of oil—if that is what it means—and land; there is to be the intervention of the National Enterprise Board, the amendment of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "e Minister and his colleagues who speak in this debate on the Address, because this is the nub of the whole matter in dealing with this crisis. Will the Government now tell us who are the parties to the social contract? It is said to be between the Government and the trade unions. It is said to be between \"the useful people\", and those who, apparently, are not so useful. It excludes the employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "with the more robust measures set out in my right hon. Friend's White Paper. The time-honoured phrase Other measures will be laid before you has never proved in any Parliament to be a formality. Perhaps in this connection I should refer to the Government's intention to introduce in this Session a Bill to make illegal the revolting practice of hare coursing. We hope that it will be uncontroversial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "atter as the Government's policies had been the subject of contumacious, even party political, remarks by the Opposition spokesman. He would go on to say that while he had intended to keep the debate at a high and uncontroversial level, he felt that such conduct on the part of the Opposition called for a reply. He would then take from his left-hand jacket pocket the material for just such a reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "y substantial improvement in the standard of living in the years immediately ahead. Indeed, it will require the utmost statesmanship and a united national effort to preserve the standard of living against the oil surcharge\". I said exactly the same thing to the Parliamentary Labour Party at the last meeting it held before the General Election. When I spoke to the TUC on 25th September I said this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What action have you taken?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "united national effort to preserve the standard of living against the oil surcharge\". I said exactly the same thing to the Parliamentary Labour Party at the last meeting it held before the General Election. When I spoke to the TUC on 25th September I said this—[ Interruption .] It is all very well for Conservative spokesmen to have gone through the election saying that we did not say these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "king together, while he was busy digging vast ditches for himself and his party to die in, in defence of his demand for a divided people and the healing virtues of industrial confrontation. Has he forgotten the actions we took in the short Parliament to heal the wounds that had been inflicted? I could—but, unless tempted, will not —weary the House with quotations from the recent election campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s, of the speculative sort most of us thought were wiped out. Shortly afterwards, when stupidity and senseless rumours spread total gloom and despondency about a million ICI shares being about to come on the market, a few brave and far-sighted men decided to test the rumour by offering to buy up a million shares, and they were not there. But the spreading of the rumour no doubt served its purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "aid this year, the danger in the period ahead, as import and other costs are beginning to settle down, is that undue wage increases could give a new twist to the inflationary spiral. I should also like, in trying to discount a little of the gloom and doom in which hon. Gentlemen opposite think that they have a professional advantage, to mention unemployment where the situation is a little obscure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " meaning that I had seemed intent on divorcing that family into the useful people who supported him that means the people who voted Labour, I presume— and the rest of us who were, presumably, useless. That was the right hon. Gentleman's interpretation of what I said in the election. He said it again this afternoon. That was a total perversion of the truth, as he knows. This phrase \"useful people\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.87.3", "colnum": "87", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "record, we all remember 1970—\"at a stroke\". We remember the right hon. Gentleman on radio saying that that was meant as a joke in the 1970 election and was not to be taken seriously. At least he was honest about it. He referred to the Government, prices, mortgages and house prices. The real test of honesty in politics is what a party says in government. Let us go back to November, just a year ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.87.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.87.3", "colnum": "87", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "spoke on 9th November. At that time he knew that, despite all his claims about growth, financed by an unprecedented printing of money, which mainly got into the wrong channels, his industrial growth had totally petered out. All the figures have proved it. The index of industrial production was no higher than the previous spring. The retail price index was just about to leap forward at the highest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.87.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.87.3", "colnum": "87", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " had totally petered out. All the figures have proved it. The index of industrial production was no higher than the previous spring. The retail price index was just about to leap forward at the highest—[ Interruption .] It is because right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite are trying to make impossible by their sneers the job of getting the country united that I am dealing with them this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.87.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "Sea oil and nationalisation shows just how much further away is the realisation of hopes we all have for an improvement in the nation's finances through the great opportunity we shall have in the future with oil. I am glad that the Gracious Speech clearly sets out the Labour Party's conversion to an assembly for Scotland. The Conservative Party has been a pace-setter for devolution for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "ar up. We are glad that there is now a moratorium in that strike. The road haulage strike has been the most critical and we must face up to the indirect as well as the direct consequences of it. Perhaps 30,000 people have been laid off directly in recent weeks and countless thousands have faced the loss of jobs. I cannot understand the Government's reluctance either to take action or show concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": "n agriculture, but the money has not alleviated it. I agree with the Minister of Agriculture that our old guaranteed price system is preferable to the intervention system. But, because of a great deal of playing about in politics, our farmers have been deprived of both the intervention system and the guarantee system. The Liberals have said that we need a temporary guaranteed price in agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew (St. Albans)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew (St. Albans)", "preceding_text": "any hon. Members, because it was mentioned in this House, that in October of last year, about one year ago there was a meeting of the liaison committee for the defence of trade unions—a Communist-controlled body—at which it was decided that in the New Year, as indeed happened, the coal miners, the power workers and the engine drivers should be called out on strike so as to deny industry its power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-29", "file": "debates1974-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cd864b8400662c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": " welcome the Gracious Speech. We won the election partly as a result of keeping our promises after the February election. In keeping our promises we dealt a blow to some of the cynicism which has been directed at politics in the past few years. A number of people took the view that politicians say one thing on public platforms and another thing when in public office. We at least allayed that fear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-29a.187.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.221.0", "colnum": "221", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "e schools are disrupted by a work to rule, and a full-scale strike is threatened for tomorrow. Many industries are and have been totally strike-bound for many weeks, including the giant Hoover Company and the Rolls-Royce factories. Even more worrying is the fact that the two disputes that are partially settled —the lorry drivers and the cleansing disputes—contain the seeds of further difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "we are facing a grave national crisis, not just in our perorations but as a matter of reality, have two alternatives if they are real patriots. They have either to tell us what the alternative is to these policies—not a return to last February—or they ought to put their full weight behind the social contract. They have a responsibility for making it work, and that is what I mean by national unity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " human rights. Probably more than any other nation our survival depends on international trade. This means that it is in our interest to promote peace and stability in the world. It also means, if I may utter a truism that we must trade with the world. If we require a certificate of social democratic respectability before we buy or sell, we shall find that our market place has become rather small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ting settlement of the dispute, but I cannot be over-optimistic. Dr. Kissinger's tireless efforts deserve success, and I shall certainly want to say nothing that would hinder him, for he needs all the support that we and others can give him in mustering his efforts to consolidate a fragile peace and prevent a breakdown that would have serious economic consequences for us and the rest of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.237.2", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. If all the speeches from our Front Bench were of the calibre of this speech, a lot of us would be happier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "giving way to the needs and realities of a sovereign Parliament. It is our aim to bring the period of renegotiation to an end by next spring so that, in the words of the Gracious Speech Within twelve months the British people will be given the opportunity to decide whether…this country should retain its membership. It is they who should be given the opportunity to make this historic choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\" How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "of a sovereign Parliament. It is our aim to bring the period of renegotiation to an end by next spring so that, in the words of the Gracious Speech Within twelve months the British people will be given the opportunity to decide whether…this country should retain its membership. It is they who should be given the opportunity to make this historic choice—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] Next paragraph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "rade unionists as well as non-trade unionists, people who are as intensely proud of being Conservatives as we are proud to have their support and loyalty. The rhetoric of class division as portrayed in the Labour election manifesto was unworthy of those who now seek to talk about a partnership between the Government and the whole of our national family. I quote from the last page of the manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "n its interpretation is that it means different things, especially during an election, to different Labour Ministers. In his speech at Cardiff on 4th October, the Prime Minister said that the Government would have to take tough measures to deal with rogue employers who made excessive wage awards. The logic of that is that employers will make excessive wage awards if excessive wage claims are made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.258.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.283.6", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "He did not speak Welsh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of what has been said by the hon. Member for Moray and Nairn (Mrs. Ewing). The constituency represented by the hon. Member for Aberdare was the constituency referred to by the hon. Lady. It was the first constituency won by the Labour Party in Wales by Keir Hardie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.283.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "aders, of the Scottish Nationals —a £28 million deal. Did they consult a single Scottish worker about that—any one of their employees? No, they did not. So there is no democracy there when their fate is being decided over their heads. That is the extension of democracy. We need control over the commanding heights, because democracy is not only a question of constitutional change. It is a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In a bath.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "any one of their employees? No, they did not. So there is no democracy there when their fate is being decided over their heads. That is the extension of democracy. We need control over the commanding heights, because democracy is not only a question of constitutional change. It is a question—[ Interruption .] Sir Hugh Fraser was the man who said that the idea came to him, I think, in an aeroplane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not look like a Bantu.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I want to make one final point. When hon. Members talk about nations and the creation of nations within Britain, they should remember that there is another country where this is done also—South Africa. They set up nation-States there, and we know for what reason. So they should be careful about their theory, because the theory that they express is exactly applicable to the South African situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-30", "file": "debates1974-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a6804ed5cf2051a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "Gentleman to read and listen to what is being said in Scotland. One of the results of the settlement in Scotland is that it appears one-sided. It is true that the CAS kept the sides talking. At the same time, the result of the settlement is basically a capitulation to the workers as opposed to the unions that might otherwise have been involved in the dispute. If the social contract means anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-30a.352.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can settle that immediately. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman heard the Leader of the House say that the matter will be debated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "The last Conservative Government had a long-term strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We certainly did. The record between 1970 and 1974 shows the most staggering increase of production and productivity which the country has ever seen. It is fair to say that the process was interrupted by the oil and grain price explosion, but that was being dealt with last winter. There is no question about the strategy we were pursuing, and the industry had confidence in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "s of land and labour. For the longer term, we have already set in train discussions with the farmers' unions and other interests. In our election manifesto we said that we intended to continue these talks with the dual objective of drawing up a meaningful longer term expansion and of determining the means whereby this can be achieved\". That was the promise that we made, and it will be carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "armers' unions and other interests. In our election manifesto we said that we intended to continue these talks with the dual objective of drawing up a meaningful longer term expansion and of determining the means whereby this can be achieved\". That was the promise that we made, and it will be carried out. [ Interruption .] We are having these discussions now with the unions. They should enable us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "l longer term expansion and of determining the means whereby this can be achieved\". That was the promise that we made, and it will be carried out. [ Interruption .] We are having these discussions now with the unions. They should enable us—[ Interruption ] I ask the Opposition to do me the courtesy of listening to my speech. I listened carefully to the Minister deploying the Opposition's argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "erruption .] We are having these discussions now with the unions. They should enable us—[ Interruption ] I ask the Opposition to do me the courtesy of listening to my speech. I listened carefully to the Minister deploying the Opposition's argument—[ Laughter .] I apologise for that Freudian slip. The right hon. Gentleman was a very good Minister in Northern Ireland, and I wish he were still there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "y are facing extreme difficulties. Protests are growing every day against the intervention system in Europe. It has not worked, and the right hon. Gentleman knows it. I cannot change the system overnight. I have already made clear to the Community that changes are needed. We shall be starting discussions next month to establish new arrangements from the beginning of the new beef year on 1st March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "tion system in Europe. It has not worked, and the right hon. Gentleman knows it. I cannot change the system overnight. I have already made clear to the Community that changes are needed. We shall be starting discussions next month to establish new arrangements from the beginning of the new beef year on 1st March. [ Interruption .] Will right hon. and hon. Gentlemen defy the Community unilaterally?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " market prices. I have been asked about private storage. We have just agreed in Brussels to the introduction of large subsidies—£262 a tonne—to cover the costs of the private storage of beef. This should also help to produce a better phasing of supplies on to the market and reduce the pressures of the present surplus. But the most important step that we can take over the coming weeks is to ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.415.0", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ree times. Before I leave the beef sector I should like to refer briefly to the action that some farmers have taken in the last few days to try to exclude Irish cattle from this country. I can understand their feelings in the current state of the beef market. But I cannot condone, and I hope that no one in the House would wish to condone, any action which means taking the law into one's own hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.415.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Member has a deep interest in the industry. I would only say that it was not possible to get an Australian deal on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Member has a deep interest in the industry. I would only say that it was not possible to get an Australian deal on this. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I did the negotiations. I believe that, through the Community, unless it was agreed by the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "ions prevailing—the small group of people, in mostly single-person units, who farm in the western highlands of Scotland. I should like to give one or two figures which have been passed to me by these people. I received a letter only this morning from the Loch Duich Branch of the Scottish NFU. This branch, by normal standards, has relatively few members, but it is a branch which must be considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.421.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.430.2", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Can you help us? We have one hon. Member whispering the speech which we are listening to and the mouthpiece behind him repeating it. It is most disconcerting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Weetch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Weetch", "preceding_text": "facturing and commercial town in East Anglia. Before I say anything about my constituency in any detail I should like to pay tribute to my predecessor, Ernie Money, who before the 10th of this month was the hon. Member for Ipswich. I do so without reluctance, because of his diligence in the constituency for the causes which he embraced and the work which he did while he was a Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "preceding_text": "o have been well warned about the strength of feeling regarding the acute agricultural situation. On the first day of the debate, on Tuesday, which was a day of general debate, no fewer than 10 speeches referred to agriculture. I was astonished that the Minister's speech showed so little sympathy and so little apparent understanding of the great crisis facing the nation. It was an unworthy speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "preceding_text": "griculture. I was astonished that the Minister's speech showed so little sympathy and so little apparent understanding of the great crisis facing the nation. It was an unworthy speech. [ Interruption .] I do not like to attack the Minister—he is an agreeable fellow—but I must draw attention to the fact that he left the Chamber very early in the debate and was not back until about five minutes ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unworthy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "preceding_text": " fellow—but I must draw attention to the fact that he left the Chamber very early in the debate and was not back until about five minutes ago. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"] I appreciate that the job of the Minister is arduous, but I hope that the next time we debate agriculture he will spend a great deal more time in the Chamber and not treat the House with the contempt he has treated it with today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "with a degraded product, whose value has been much reduced by the very process of intervention. Even if permanent intervention had been successful in pushing up the market price, I would still regard it as a fundamentally wrong approach. Beef is for people to eat, not to pile up in stores. One does not cure an oversupply by choking off demand.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th June 1974; Vol. 875, c. 1592.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-10-31", "file": "debates1974-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "1ca88be3edb48c87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.526.5", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman cannot say that with truth. He and his party destroyed the guarantee system which had been built up over the years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-10-31a.526.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-01", "file": "debates1974-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "7f2fb7b5422656be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-01a.614.3", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "When there are three or four years ahead of one, and negotiations are going on with the medical profession, the courteous thing would be at least to listen to the views of the medical profession before making that decision. It is for that reason that I call the right hon. Lady's action arrogant.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-01a.614.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.694.4", "colnum": "694", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I fear that the hon. Gentleman must be getting reports from Brussels which are, shall I say, coloured in one way or another. My right hon. Friend and the entire Government are determined that there shall be a regional policy in the Community if we remain within it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.694.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I will come to the question of co-operation. It is an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I will come to the question of co-operation. It is an important point. [ Interruption .] Very well, let me deal with it now. I see no fundamental objection to the concept of co-operation but my concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "e the call on people that the true nature of our crisis demands. Whichever party had been elected would have been expected to make such a call. The Government's response in no way measures the challenge to which the nation yearns to respond. The Government's proposals are at best imbued with the sense of relevancy with which the sailors varnished the deck-chairs on the state decks of the \"Titanic\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I was not claiming that the Labour Government had withdrawn all intervention. I said that in two key areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Frivolous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "nally all the matters in which public money is involved.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th March 1970; Vol. 797, c. 1141.] When we look at the affairs of Rolls-Royce, I do not suppose that the House needs to be reminded that there was another example of how the light-hearted approach of the Secretary of State to matters of public accountability has so often landed the taxpayers with an extremely heavy bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.762.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And none today.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "hat the feature that is most important in our nationalised industries is not the fact that they are monopolies. If it is, and he wishes to oppose monopolies, it is a pity that he did not do it when he had the chance when his Government were in power during 17 of the years since 1951, because there was no significant de-nationalisation in the whole of that period, and nobody seriously proposed any.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ccasion. Then we heard from the hon. Member for Rochester and Chatham (Mr. Bean), the hon. Member for Lincoln (Miss Jackson) and the hon. Member for Rossendale (Mr. Noble). All spoke with a knowledge and understanding of the industrial problems of their constituencies, and I know that this House looks forward to hearing them again. The Secretary of State for Industry does not appear to be with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "e. They preach the merits of investment for private gain, or even selfish gain, yet they fail to discern the merits of investment for public gain. It is an undeniable fact that participation is as good an investment for the Government as an investment in the North Sea is for the oil companies. The cost of the initial investment will be considerable, but the rate of return will be very good indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": " perhaps being encouraged by his Government. Does he not realise that that is a contradiction of the Conservative Party's case? The right hon. Gentleman and his party are saying that perhaps it is all right to encourage foreign companies and foreign countries, but the British Government themselves cannot get involved in this project. We shall have a chance to debate this issue on another occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "ve way now. I have done so already on many occasions. What I cannot understand is this. After 30 years of expanding public enterprise in this country, I am astonished that the Tory Party is so narrow and so hidebound that it refuses to recognise Britain's publicly-owned industries. I thought that the right hon. Gentleman and hon. Members opposite were interested in knowing about public enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "ccasions. What I cannot understand is this. After 30 years of expanding public enterprise in this country, I am astonished that the Tory Party is so narrow and so hidebound that it refuses to recognise Britain's publicly-owned industries. I thought that the right hon. Gentleman and hon. Members opposite were interested in knowing about public enterprise. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I should like to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "I thought that in this debate the Opposition wanted to know the Government's case for public ownership. I want to give the House some facts about successes of public ownership. I cannot understand why hon. Gentlemen opposite will not listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "o know the Government's case for public ownership. I want to give the House some facts about successes of public ownership. I cannot understand why hon. Gentlemen opposite will not listen. [ Interruption .] I am very sorry that right hon. Gentlemen opposite have decided to shout me down so that I cannot give the facts about public enterprise. Do the Opposition want to hear about public enterprise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL LOANS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Robert Sheldon)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Robert Sheldon)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Local Loans (Increase of Limit) (No. 2) Order 1974, a draft of which was laid before this House on 23rd October, be approved. This order increases by £1,000 million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-04", "file": "debates1974-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7bcd48aabd6b19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL LOANS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Robert Sheldon)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Robert Sheldon)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Local Loans (Increase of Limit) (No. 2) Order 1974, a draft of which was laid before this House on 23rd October, be approved. This order increases by £1,000 million —[ Interruption .]—the amount available to the Public Works Loan Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-04a.831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I would not answer the question in the form in which the hon. Gentleman puts it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.872.5", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I believe that some hon. Gentlemen on the Opposition side have a vested interest in high unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.872.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend meets the Heads of the EEC Governments, will he explain to them something which they do not perhaps really understand—the massive feeling of the ordinary people of this country, as well as of all Members of Parliament, of the history of this place? It would be a very serious issue indeed if there were any chipping away of the authority of the House of Commons, which has a status—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.892.7", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "s.\" That was the argument used against me during the General Election. They have, in fact, said to the Minister \"We have got large increases; you must face them.\" The question is: How much of them is the Minister going to face? The domestic and commercial rating system is breaking down in the face of increases of this order. We know this full well, in talking about the increases of the next order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.892.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Of course we must abolish the slums. I understood that even Government policy was to recondition and modernise older houses. I understood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "basis of the evidence and give us his views. The 12-month rule is a fundamental provision. I am not surprised that hon. Members want us to get through it quickly, because they are afraid that this is not a contract of any kind. But, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his speech at the bankers' dinner made this the cornerstone of the strategy, we are entitled to see how solid the cornerstone is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "tle later, and I shall do my best to answer the questions she has put about the special responsibility that I have to the House. I say to her, and to the rest of the House, that least of anyone have I the right to complain about people putting questions in the House and demanding answers. I have spent a considerable part of my life putting questions to Ministers and getting unsatisfactory answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It is true that the Budget conceivably pushed up the trigger one or two points, but the second Budget knocked them down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "on this critical matter. I say on behalf of the Government that it is a matter of great practical importance that people throughout the country should not believe that we have any intention of reinstituting a freeze or statutory control of incomes. If people believe that it may happen, they will be all the more encouraged to break the social contract and prevent the system from working. We repeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "History has moved on a bit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.910.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.914.2", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What are you going to do about it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " that were used by the Leader of the Opposition were completely misleading for the reasons that I have stated. I think that that is generally acknowledged by all the people who have considered the statistics. I return to the aspect with which I was dealing which I believe is of great importance. It is of particular importance if the House wishes to know the Government's attitude to the guidelines?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman is of course well aware that he is talking much codswallop now as he has on previous occasions. When he talks of the faith of the British people in the Government, is he not aware that at an election a few weeks ago, when the policies of this Government were fully put before the people, as they had been in February, they were overwhelmingly endorsed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "If anything is calculated to divide this nation, when what is wanted is unity, it is to proceed with doctrinaire measures which put both our standard and our way of life at risk. I doubt whether this Government can think again and turn away from that course. There is strong evidence that they are so much in the hands of the extreme Left wingers that they must go ahead with these divisive measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.935.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are the Liberals?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "vide rather than unite the nation. The leader of the Liberal Party ended his speech the other day with these words: My criticism of the Queen's Speech is that it is much more a lecture on the doctrines of Socialism than it is a programme to meet the needs of the nation.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th October 1974; Vol. 880, c. 267.] I wondered whether there had been some obscure telepathic communication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Never mind about that. I am reminded of one of those splendid little things which only he can say. During the General Election he said: and it was generally agreed that I fought the election in a spirit of great fairness and tolerance. Then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "t. The next entry to which I should like to refer is: Within available resources, My Government will continue to maintain and improve the National Health Service and, following consultations, will introduce proposals on democracy in the Service\". Vintage Castle! What does that kind of stuff mean? We have had no explanation of democracy in the health service—perhaps in the operating theatre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "sion of our foes. I believe it is time that we stopped destroying ourselves in this envious and acrimonious strife. The Secretary of State for Employment spoke of Milton's vision of our country in a very moving way. He will no doubt recall the words: Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. We shall never succeed if we go on in this way of envious disunity. Let the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "of our country in a very moving way. He will no doubt recall the words: Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. We shall never succeed if we go on in this way of envious disunity. Let the Government—[ Interruption .] I am not sure whether the right hon. Gentleman is laughing at that thought but for me this is so good. It is bathos, as the hon. Gentleman said. We cannot go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-05", "file": "debates1974-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "55b4289ef156cc9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Certainly. I listened to the speech today by the hon. Member for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire (Mr. Reid), who referred to that point. I consider it a reasonable request, made by a number of hon. Members, that the Government should from time to time make their decisions known to the House and to the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-05a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-06", "file": "debates1974-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1777a3c703e2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The last part of the hon. Gentleman's question has nothing to do with me. I have never made any comments on that kind of thing. Having once served on the lower deck, I regard it as too trivial to bother about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-06", "file": "debates1974-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1777a3c703e2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1051.4", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman cares to put down a Question about that, I will answer it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1051.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-06", "file": "debates1974-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1777a3c703e2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1055.5", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Alleged?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "As the Foreign Secretary and others have made it clear today that the privilege of economic and social, let alone military, association with the United Kingdom is to depend upon very strict conformity with or observance of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights, will the hon. Gentleman make it clear on what grounds he discriminates between the alleged moral deficiencies of apartheid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1055.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-06", "file": "debates1974-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1777a3c703e2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1063.2", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend confirm that it is the official policy of the Labour Party to stay in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1063.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-06", "file": "debates1974-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1777a3c703e2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE ACT (IMPLEMENTATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "preceding_text": "he law must not be allowed to place a charge on the taxpayer. So I propose the following. The lost rent income will be recovered by the local authorities concerned, and not by the process of surcharge. Local authorities will be empowered to make good the losses over a period of years out of future rents; alternatively they may decide that the losses shall be borne in whole or in part on the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-06", "file": "debates1974-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1777a3c703e2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE ACT (IMPLEMENTATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "preceding_text": "ouncillors as a direct result of the aftermath of the Housing Finance Act. The loss of rent income in Clay Cross beyond the £7,000 already surcharged will fall to be recovered from local rentpayers or ratepayers at the discretion of the new district council. These proposals, which will be embodied in early legislation, accord with the crucially important need to maintain the observance of the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-06", "file": "debates1974-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1777a3c703e2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE ACT (IMPLEMENTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "n deliberate disobedience and flouting of the law which had been passed democratically by this Parliament. Are they to be distinguished from the Clay Cross councillors, and what will the Clay Cross councillors themselves think of that situation? Are they to be the scapegoats of the indecision of the Labour Party? The right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues bear grave responsibility in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-06", "file": "debates1974-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1777a3c703e2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "on the figures beyond peradventure, as the lawyers say, that there are substantial decreases for those women. If the hon. Gentleman then says that that is all very well but the level of contribution which these women will be paying is higher than was assumed under the Social Security Act 1973, I take that as a fair question and I answer it at once. Everyone will be paying more under our proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-06", "file": "debates1974-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1777a3c703e2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Alec Jones)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Alec Jones)", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke), I begin by following the pleasant custom of congratulating the two maiden speakers who took part in tonight's debate, and I do so for the first time from this Dispatch Box. It is somewhat appropriate that they are truly \"maiden\" maiden speakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-06", "file": "debates1974-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1777a3c703e2cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ith the lowest income will have the smallest increases in contributions. I turn now to the question of the self-employed. It is a vexed question that arouses a great deal of heat and excitement. I say to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar and other hon. Members that I do not dissent from their glowing tributes to the self-employed in which they used terms like \"hardworking\" and \"industrious\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-06a.1195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1219.4", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows full well that even within the Community intervention has not worked. I thought the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends wanted to put a support in the market, in the sense that the guarantee system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1219.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1223.6", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1223.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1233.4", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "I surely do not have to remind hon. Gentlemen that my right hon. Friend and this Government have been in power only since March of this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n relation to the Counter-Inflation Act—I presume that he is referring to the parts of the Act dealing with the Price Code—it must be a matter for the Price Commission to report upon, and for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to look into these matters. With regard to the second question, which relates to a Finance Bill matter, I cannot anticipate my right hon. Friend's Budget Statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1240.2", "colnum": "1240", "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 understand that some questions on sugar have been answered this afternoon. The hon. Gentleman, none better, will know how much of the problems—not all of it, with the present world shortage—arises from the totally inadequate and humiliating terms of the Lancaster House conference and the aura à Coeur and the total failure to put it in the protocol. I am sure that he will understand that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1245.2", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I watt to put two points to the Leader of the House. First, will he dissociate himself from the totally improper remarks concerning Sir Arnold Hall made by his hon. Friend the Member for Watford (Mr. Tuck)? Secondly, will he reflect very deeply on the fact that Mr. Bernard Levin never gives such bad advice to the Government or to anyone else as the Government provide for themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1245.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1246.3", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "In view of what the Leader of the House has just said, will he nevertheless recognise the very real anxiety in all parts of the country about the bills of indemnity which the Government appear to be about to bring in for crooked councillors? Now, from what—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1246.4", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You know, Mr. Speaker, that I very rarely seek to interrupt proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1246.4", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You know, Mr. Speaker, that I very rarely seek to interrupt proceedings—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That is absolutely true and will be on the records of the House, in spite of the girlish laughter from the Opposition Benches. Is it in order, Mr. Speaker, for an hon. Member to make an accusation which clearly implies criminal culpability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1246.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1247.2", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I regret very much this kind of imputation, either against individuals or against bodies, either inside or outside the House. My jurisdiction applies only to the House. It would be quite improper to make such a suggestion against a Member of the House. I am afraid, however, that what the hon. Member said was not out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1247.7", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shut up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I regret delaying the House, but as some of the councillors to whom the hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Kershaw) has referred are constituents of mine, including justices of the peace, I should like to ask you, Mr. Speaker, without wanting dictation from the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1247.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] May I have an answer to my question? In view of what the Prime Minister said this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "May I refer to the Clay Cross matter in a less contentious fashion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1254.4", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "If the Government decide to have a referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1254.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1257.7", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker. On a point of order, you will recall that earlier my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Mr. Kershaw) made some remarks about the Clay Cross coun- cillors, to which exception was taken by —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1257.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1257.7", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker. On a point of order, you will recall that earlier my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Mr. Kershaw) made some remarks about the Clay Cross coun- cillors, to which exception was taken by —[ Interruption. ] Everybody knows precisely what I am talking about. The remarks were taken exception to by the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1257.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1257.7", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "one (Mr. Mendelson). [ Interruption. ] Yes, indeed. If the House and hon. Members on the Government side will allow me, I wish to raise this matter on a point of order because I believe that a wrong impression will have gone out from the House as a result of the point of order raised by the hon. Member for Penistone. There was earlier an immediate roar of support for the hon. Member for Penistone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1257.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1268.0", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL RATE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": " rating revaluation was taken away from the local authorities and given to the Inland Revenue in 1948 by a Labour Government it was done, to quote what was being said at the time, \"in the interests of greater efficiency\". No wonder local authorities are a little rueful at these persistent Labour Government postponements, again on the grounds of a shortage of staff in the Inland Revenue Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1268.0", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL RATE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "ld Committee of Inquiry into Local Government Finance. I believe that the Press statement issued on 9th September by the Secretary of State for the Environment announcing the postponement spoke about avoiding any risk of prejudicing the outcome of the wide-ranging review. What could be interpreted as more of a prejudgment or pre-emption of the Lay-field Report than the postponement of revaluation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1333.3", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "NATIONAL THEATRE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "put forward by the European Commission for the abolition of VAT on all in the art world, and we said that we would implement it as soon as it became Community policy. The Minister's record on the wealth tax is appalling. Instead of pressing the Chancellor for exemption for the great collections in our country houses, the great works of art which are so valuable to this country, he has lain supine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-07", "file": "debates1974-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c71490c0a0f489e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "NATIONAL THEATRE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "e original play that was done on the closing of the Shelton works. It was very popular at Stoke and was strongly supported by the people in the area. It was the best kind of live theatre because it arose from something that was important to the people. It was put into the most marvellously artistic terms and has been a very great success. I should have liked to see that put on the stage in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-07a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-08", "file": "debates1974-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "849cd804e268f7a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-08a.1398.3", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "on of independence. The Orders in Council which impose sanctions on Rhodesia are, of course, made under that section. Parliament renewed the order last year. There was a vote, in which, I believe, a number of hon. Members now present took part, although some who used to enliven those proceedings are now missing from our ranks. However, I shall not be surprised if we end in much the same way today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-08a.1398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-08", "file": "debates1974-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "849cd804e268f7a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-08a.1402.0", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "different people draw different conclusions from it—the nature of sanctions will continue to be limited by failures in their application, particularly because of the refusal of South Africa to comply with the mandatory United Nations sanctions resolutions. Nevertheless, the effect is not negligible, and it is cumulative. There is a lack of new investment capital and a shortage of foreign exchange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-08a.1402.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-08", "file": "debates1974-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "849cd804e268f7a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-08a.1407.2", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Not in England.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The spread of violence is occurring week by week, and I have not seen it denied. Whether it is due to terrorism is a matter of semantics, because the terrorist in one man's eyes is the patriotic citizen in another's— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-08a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-08", "file": "debates1974-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "849cd804e268f7a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-08a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "d then for appeals to be made to hon. Members by the Government to be brief in order to make their convenience the better. If we are to have subjects of this importance for debate, they should he given a full day. It is no good people who want to be able to go somewhere else whining when trying to get the matter through to completion and complaining when hon. Members exercise their right to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-08a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-08", "file": "debates1974-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "849cd804e268f7a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-08a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "g in preventing sanctions-breaking by Japanese firms. On 11th September the Japanese Government made it an offence for Japanese firms to export goods to Rhodesia via third countries, and they are currently examining other ways in which sanctions might be more strictly enforced. There are indications that Rhodesia is now feeling the pinch of higher costs of ocean and rail freight and raw materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-08a.1499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": " which arises from having held two General Elections in seven months, which no hon. Member would want to become a regular feature of our life. The situation was further complicated by the fact that the second Dissolution occurred in the recess. But the motion is in line with recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Suspension of Bills, called the Donoughmore Committee, which reported in 1929.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.44.3", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "om one side of the House to another does not mean that I have changed my view about those merits. There is no need to go into them this afternoon because there will be other occasions to do so. I make one exception to that when I say that the Channel Tunnel provides the chance of a new epoch for the railways and it would be sad if they were denied that opportunity. The real purpose of the motion.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.44.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "be aware of the difficulties of obtaining labour or resources in such competing circumstances. My hon. Friend, the Mem ber for Kingston upon Hull, Central (Mr. McNamara) advanced the argument, which I know can be advanced, that it will require only 10 per cent. of the labour and resources of the construction industry. He must realise that 10 per cent. of the construction resources of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "hannel Tunnel. It is my guess that there are occasions when back benchers can rescue them from their collective responsibility. It might be considered a bizarre idea, but in private many of them say that the idea of the Channel Tunnel is not for them. Therefore, we have this great responsibility tonight to get rid of the project once and for all. I am told that the settling date is 31st December.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "out the effects that inflation and other side effects will have on the total cost of the project, but they ought to be considered. Some of my hon. Friends mentioned misuse of public resources. They should remember that in the context of this business we are not talking about any public money. We heard from the hon. Member for Maidstone (Mr. Wells) about the financing of the Channel Tunnel project.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "preceding_text": "Order. It is a little unfair, when there are so many hon. Members who wish to speak, that those who have had the opportunity to address the House should intervene at length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "ount for no more than about 25 per cent. of our requirements, instead of 35 per cent. or even more. By far the most important source of supply is the countries which were parties to the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement. As the House well knows, and the right hon. Gentleman readily recognises, the previous Conservative Government were highly concerned to ensure a continuing supply from those countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson) should not get so excited. The 1·4 million tons was negotiated and accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "We are in the position that we were in a year ago that the contract with Australia could not probably be a permanent feature for all time of our sugar supply, but if it were to be reduced in any way it ought to be phased out and not come to an abrupt end. The risk we face at present is that it may come to an abrupt end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "It is for the Commission and the European Community to negotiate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "heir closed season, have a distinct competitive advantage over the specialist port refiners in the United Kingdom. This was recognised by the Community when my right hon. Friend the Member for Grantham was involved in negotiations. Unless special terms are negotiated for United Kingdom refiners, some of the 1·4 million tons might be diverted elsewhere, and as we know many jobs are at stake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "ised by the Community when my right hon. Friend the Member for Grantham was involved in negotiations. Unless special terms are negotiated for United Kingdom refiners, some of the 1·4 million tons might be diverted elsewhere, and as we know many jobs are at stake—[ Interruption ] We negotiated a higher margin for United Kingdom refiners and that is something the Government must keep in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "urances that the immediate supply position would improved by the middle of the month. Apparently extra supplies had been secured by the Government from Commonwealth producers and these were about to arrive in the shops. On 6th August the Daily Telegraph told us: The sugar shortage will ease week by week and should be 'significantly better' by next month, the Minister of Agriculture said yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "which were nothing to do with any deep-laid plan to upset the principles which my right hon. and learned Friend for Hexham agreed. There were some perfectly sustainable arguments about why there was a desire not to deal with one issue at one time. The truth is that for all of us this issue looms by far the largest and, as has been said, it embraces a series of different and interrelated questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "lan to upset the principles which my right hon. and learned Friend for Hexham agreed. There were some perfectly sustainable arguments about why there was a desire not to deal with one issue at one time. The truth is that for all of us this issue looms by far the largest and, as has been said, it embraces a series of different and interrelated questions. [ Interruption. ] There is the big question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that it is. I am merely stating a fact. They are not as independent as they have claimed. Their sources of supply, prices and so on are controlled by the Government. The Government are blamed when there are shortages. Why should they not say \"We will take into public ownership and control the whole of the sugar refining interests of this country\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.182.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "preceding_text": "I call the hon. Member for Renfrewshire, West (Mr. Buchan).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: Consummation.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I look on that as almost a marriage proposal. I accept on the spot. I am glad to receive the indication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.193.2", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "eet they be given an absolutely copper-bottomed guarantee. Farmers have always, been prepared to accept the vagaries of the weather. If the Government are to ask them to grow more sugar the farmers must have a chance to make money by so doing. They do not want the type of promise that the pig farmers and the beef farmers have had and have learned to rue. I was interested to read in the Economist —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "oposal from the Commission on the way of financing the subsidy is the best in all the circumstances. They are going to review that method after the first 200,000 tons has been imported into the Community to make up the shortfall. Perhaps the Parliamentary Secretary will be able to confirm this fact. So the hon. Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing) need have no anxieties about that. I have none—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-11", "file": "debates1974-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "64d5bf810162f5a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "me other ministerial meeting, at which the Foreign Secretary was present. As I understand it these negotiations can be completed by the Commission within the available time, and the real question is that concerning price. I am sure that the House will feel that there is no doubt about the good faith of the Commission or of the Council of Ministers that the 1·4 million tons will be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-11a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-12", "file": "debates1974-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "91b96c89b8925513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-12a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MUDEFORD, DORSET", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister should decide to come to Mudeford, or any part of my constituency, would he explain to my constituents why Labour Members of Parliament, Mr. Joe Gormley and spokesmen for the National Coal Board were so silent during both the February election and the last election about the influence of Communists in the National Coal Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-12a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-12", "file": "debates1974-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "91b96c89b8925513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-12a.235.6", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDINBURGH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "In view of the Prime Minister's promise of early legislation—at least we on this bench hope that there will be early legislation—is it not time that the right hon. Gentleman visited Edinburgh, among other things to tell the incumbents in Parliament House that he has no designs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-12a.235.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-12", "file": "debates1974-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "91b96c89b8925513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-12a.264.3", "colnum": "264", "heading": "CORPORATE TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "purposes companies should have the right to reduce the closing valuation of their stocks and work in progress for the accounting period which ended in the financial year 1973–74—on which their current tax bills are based—by an amount by which the increase in the book value of stocks and work in progress exceeds 10 per cent. of the trading profits of the business in the same accounting year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-12a.264.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-12", "file": "debates1974-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "91b96c89b8925513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-12a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "ENERGY CONSERVATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "How much on a gallon?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "available. I should make clear that if my proposed treatment of liquified petroleum gas should result in conversion to gas fuelling by many private motorists, I shall have to review the situation. The new rate on petrol will come into operation next Monday—at 25 per cent. It is esimated that it will yield in addition about £200 million in a full year and add about 0·55 per cent. to the RPI—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-12a.269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-12", "file": "debates1974-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "91b96c89b8925513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-12a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "preceding_text": "rease out of all proportion to what was originally envisaged. Has there ever been a major construction contract the cost of which has not increased time and again? Concorde may be the most acute and horrible example, but it is not the only one. Does anybody truly believe that if the unfortunate Channel Tunnel project finally receives the approval of the House, as I earnestly hope that it will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-12a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-12", "file": "debates1974-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "91b96c89b8925513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-12a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is not one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "lling drastically and dangerously over recent years. I know that profit is a dirty word, but without profits there can be no investment and no jobs. Falling profits are not only a matter for this Government. On wages the Government are relying on the social contract, an arrangement between themselves and the TUC. I have a simple question which I hope will be answered in the wind-up speech tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-12a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-13", "file": "debates1974-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "592a094578ef2c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have been informed that the Question which I tabled, Question No. 9, has been coupled with Question No. 2", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-13", "file": "debates1974-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "592a094578ef2c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.400.2", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "As I said, it is unfortunate to say the least to suggest that 14,500 families—in fact the figure is much higher that is the official recorded figure and there are many more homeless families who do not apply—apply to local authorities on grounds of homelessness, or that even a majority of them are doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-13", "file": "debates1974-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "592a094578ef2c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "EEC MINISTERIAL MEETING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I fully realise the right hon. and learned Gentleman's difficulties about that matter, and I would not like to make them more onerous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-13", "file": "debates1974-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "592a094578ef2c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "hy she has been unable to make an announcement about a petrol allowance for the disabled? Surely she must have known about the matter. Will she give an assurance that when this allowance is introduced it will be retrospective? Will she bear this matter in mind, because she knows, as does everyone else, that the cost of petrol is likely to rise to £1 a gallon by the end of the year? That is a fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-13", "file": "debates1974-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "592a094578ef2c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "ed as to be unworkable. The right hon. Member for Carshalton will recognise that, in order not to take up the time of the House, there are details concerning, for instance, exceptional treatment in the price code of shortages of materials, such matters as the inclusion for report of Category III companies, which I am not touching upon now because there will be further opportunities to debate them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-13", "file": "debates1974-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "592a094578ef2c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "failed, but it is also true that every voluntary attempt has failed. So we are starting off all square. I believe that the concept of a tax on inflation, both on prices and incomes, is something that the Government will have to become committed to if they are to contain inflation. The right hon. Member for Carshalton (Mr. Carr) said that he felt that industry was being placed on a kidney machine.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-13", "file": "debates1974-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "592a094578ef2c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "It is probably better to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-13", "file": "debates1974-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "592a094578ef2c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "ng about the £5,500 million. Sums in respect of that expenditure had already been committed. The decisions had been made. With the greatest respect to the Treasury Bench, however, I suggest that it should have been possible, if no more than as a gesture, to try to raise the extra £800 million by means of taxation even in the middle of a tax year rather than by increasing the borrowing requirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-13", "file": "debates1974-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "592a094578ef2c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "ch there has been a great deal of talk. There is a widespread belief that we now have a bottleneck in finance for investment and the CBI industrial survey, showing the rapid increase in the number of firms concerned in credit and finance, to some extent confirms this view. The Chancellor believes this, as presumably does the Secretary of State for Trade. There is a view on the Labour back-benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-13", "file": "debates1974-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "592a094578ef2c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "ping that in one way or another, excellent banking system or not, the Paymaster-General going round persuading the Arabs or not, a sufficient amount of that debt will be taken up to see that we get through without the money supply exploding. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has shown some boldness. He said that, rather like Soames Forsyte, he will not be loved, and I suspect he is right about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-13a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's concern in these matters is well known. Part of the difficulty is that, unless we managed to get round the definition problems, any relief from VAT would produce uncovenanted benefits for the commercial theatre and nudie shows of the kind one sees in Soho—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL CONTRACT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The BBC.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course I read what my right hon. Friend said, which was in fulfilment of something that I had said in Cardiff during the election. I was asked about \"rogue employers\", a phrase I had used—and there are one or two around—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.585.2", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL CONTRACT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, indeed they have not, and it would be unfair to ask them to do so. Equally the right hon. Gentleman cannot invoke them to impose a veto on the actions of Government, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REDISTRIBUTION OF INCOMES AND WEALTH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. If the right hon. Gentleman, by that rather silly question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.589.5", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EEC (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall flatter my hon. Friend by suggesting that he is too intelligent really to believe the kind of nonsense which inspired that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.589.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "s to determine what might be done. Something similar to the FFI might improve the financial facilities for agriculture. I must confess that I had not thought that long-term fixed-interest finance was one of the afflictions of agriculture. I now want to bring this speech to a conclusion. The Chancellor has met the needs of our time this time. He has courageously and with confidence applied himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, the financing of the public sector borrowing requirement is very difficult. He is asking for information about it, as I would be. There were one or two woolly bits in the Chancellor's Budget speech on this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "d work in progress for the accounting period which ended in the financial year 1973–74—on which their current tax bills are based—by an amount by which the increase in the book value of stocks and work in progress exceeds 10 per cent. of the trading profits of the business in the same accounting year.—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 12th November 1974; Vol. 881, cols. 262 and 264.] That was followed by \"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I was not contemplating, despite what I hear of the power of the Left wing and the Tribune MPs, that the Chancellor would be engaging in that spree next week; but the right hon. Gentleman knows as well as I do that the essential nature of nationalisation is not buying up in the sense of an individual purchasing an article; it is a transfer and exchange of rights to receive future revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoff Edge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoff Edge", "preceding_text": " to industry. It is not selective in terms of the regions, the size of companies or the industrial sectors which receive aid. For example, we are not asked to use Finance for Industry only to help small and medium-size firms, whatever those vague terms may mean. Category 1 firms with over £50 million of annual turnover could benefit from Finance from Industry, so presumably all firms could benefit", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": "l be taken from the market funds which could have funded the borrowing requirement in general. To the extent of £1,000 million, which is no insignificant sum, that amount of money will not now be available to fulfil the borrowing requirement. I do not need to dwell on the tragic results that will occur if, for any reason at all, the borrowing requirement is not met either from home or from abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "here be investment\" as if that will be enough to produce it is to misunderstand the fundamental nature of the capitalist system in this country. It is ludicrous to believe that industry, sitting there short of cash, is anxious to invest and that all that needs to be done is for it to be told to invest and all will be well. Industry is frightened because it cannot see where profits are coming from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "urposes and any reduction in the rate of corporation tax reduces the value as an incentive of tax allowances offered for investment. I chose relief on stock appreciation because it is simple and immediate and is directly related to one important element of the problem. I recognised that it was not possible to carry out immediate relief to cover companies with closing stocks below £25,000 in value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-14", "file": "debates1974-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2f549ccbdc6e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ncile the five key objectives I mentioned the other day—full employment, growth, social justice, stable prices and external confidence. I must confess that, like many hon. Members, I was disappointed that we did not hear during this debate from some of those Tory Members who expressed their views during the General Election. The right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph), for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-14a.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-15", "file": "debates1974-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "11e3e5fc3868066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-15a.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that the refinery is being picketed by strikers, to the extent even of preventing food getting through for the canteens? This is bound to have a rapid effect on the production of the refinery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-15a.754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-15", "file": "debates1974-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "11e3e5fc3868066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-15a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to press for a settlement that would in any way be inflationary, but can the right hon. Gentleman explain why there should not be a payment now to take some account —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-15a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-18", "file": "debates1974-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "20fa6be461f1a28a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seven.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "tion in favour of the proposition for entry was the immense gains which would accrue to Britain straight away in terms of membership of the Community, with a home market of 250 million people, as they used to say. Indeed, I remember that during the White Paper campaign in the country it was actually put to the British people that the decision to go in was worth about £5 a week on the average wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-18", "file": "debates1974-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "20fa6be461f1a28a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that the election is over, and that was not put forward in any such spirit whatever, as will be made clear when we debate the matter properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-18", "file": "debates1974-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "20fa6be461f1a28a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "MINEWORKERS (INCENTIVE SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " questions in my original reply. I should not be prepared to use the kind of language he used about a body blow to the industry's future or to the achievement of the aims we wish to secure for the country this winter. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy has already answered Questions on that subject. Certainly, in normal circumstances coal stocks are satisfactory for the winter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-18", "file": "debates1974-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "20fa6be461f1a28a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING RENTS AND SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "—whether it be in the public or the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-18", "file": "debates1974-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "20fa6be461f1a28a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING RENTS AND SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "both ways. The Bill discriminates against the private sector in that the provisions of the Counter-Inflation Act will apparently still apply to this area of housing provision. Moreover, the relevant clauses which rightly make it possible to phase rent increases appear extremely complicated and I am sure need further elucidation. I should not like to have to advise private landlords on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-18", "file": "debates1974-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "20fa6be461f1a28a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.974.6", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING RENTS AND SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "I do not own any property that I rent to anyone. The Government know that that Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.974.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-18", "file": "debates1974-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "20fa6be461f1a28a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING RENTS AND SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "in this respect by a crash programme. There is no sign of that. There is a lot of talk, but that is all. The one area in which money is proposed in the Bill could certainly be shifted, and it could be used in that way. I do not wish to quote again from the report of the independent Housing Research Foundation because it must be becoming extremely annoying to hon. Members on the Government benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-18", "file": "debates1974-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "20fa6be461f1a28a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING RENTS AND SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "ng other things, that it was an attack on the freedom of local government because it brought in the fair rents scheme. True, under that Act local authorities are now required to charge fair rents and to provide adequate rebates for families in need—and not before time, either. Our Act did that. But let us not forget that it is local councils themselves who play the major part in fixing fair rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-18", "file": "debates1974-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "20fa6be461f1a28a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING RENTS AND SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Clay Cross?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": " matter. Are the Government saying that no Government at any time should call upon the services of any individual who has not served on or been elected at some time to a local council? We are entitled on Second Reading to ask who wants the Bill. It is not the homeless or the people on the growing waiting lists, and it is not those who accepted the fairness of our Act, and there were many of those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-18", "file": "debates1974-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "20fa6be461f1a28a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DAVYHULME SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": " a satisfactory long-term solution for the Manchester conurbation as a whole. I have also been pleased to see that the authority has been in close touch right from the start with local residents. Two meetings have been held, and this is something new for the residents in my hon. Friend's constituency. The responsible authority has taken an interest in complaints and has been prepared to meet them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-18a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1100.7", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Small?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "preceding_text": " that the social contract should be attacked by two groups of extremists—the Marxists of the Communist Party and the \"Groucho Marxists\" of the Conservative Party? Would he not agree that both have a vested interest in the failure of the social contract? Does he further agree that there is real danger to the social contract arising from the failure of a small minority of trade unionists to observe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1100.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister bear in mind that there is no exultation on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "The Bill says \"circulating in the locality\". The Scotsman circulates in the locality", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1155.3", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "will receive serious consideration, but it raises the question who will be in charge of prosecution in these matters and who will take the decision to prosecute? According to Clause 11, land which may be held inalienably on behalf of the country can now by Government decision be used for private enterprise, for construction companies of non- Scottish origin. That is what the Government seek to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Colonialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "ion. I hope that that is noted in the Glasgow Herald , owned by an SNP member, Sir Hugh Fraser. What will they do with the devolved oil in Shetland? Ninety per cent. of so-called Scottish oil is not, in fact, Scottish oil—it is Shetland oil. Now the SNP is saying that it will give Shetland the right to be independent, or to have devolution. But it has already said that the oil belongs to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I have a note here about that. It says \"Middle class easier\". It is a real problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ol has not been put in the Bill, and is indicative of the sort of power which the Government could exercise if the Bill were to pass unamended. I hope that the Minister will say to what extent the delay which previously prevailed will not now happen as a result of the Bill. If the procedure outlined by the Minister is correct, there will still be a full-scale, extensive and lengthy public inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend the Member for North Angus and Mearns (Mr. Buchanan-Smith) opened his speech by welcoming to the Government Front Bench the hon. Member for Lanarkshire, North (Mr. Smith), who is to reply to the debate. I am sure that we all welcome him in that way and are looking forward to what he has to say. I should also welcome myself to the Opposition Front Bench, when speaking on this matter.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1245.2", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. Robert Maclennan)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. Robert Maclennan)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Food Subsidies (Tea) (No. 2) Order 1974 (S.I., 1974, No. 1913), a copy of which was laid before this House on 18th November, be approved. The order replaces the first order which was made shortly before the recess and came into operation on 1st September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timothy Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timothy Raison", "preceding_text": " that. It once again proves the point that subsidies are not an effective way of helping the poorest people. I accept that tea is heavily consumed by old-age pensioners, and I understand the Minister's argument there, but it seemed to me, from some rapid arithmetic, that the amount of money the average old-age pensioner spends on his tea is probably only about 2p a week—certainly a very small sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Colquhoun", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Colquhoun", "preceding_text": "it. The Conservatives showed an alarming lack of courage during the passage of the Bill because, by and large and fundamentally, of political reasons. They were afraid to be seen to be voting against the British housewife. The Liberals at least have the courage of their convictions on this issue and are to be congratulated. Tea is essential to the British nation—as essential as the air we breathe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1267.8", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go and get one now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, this is not good enough. Like most Englishmen, I enjoy my cup of tea, and there is nothing I should like more than to be able to get one cheaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1267.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1267.8", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": ". If the Government get away with this once they will try to get away with it again. There will be occasions when they will have no legal authority to do things and when they will be able to quote precedents for acting unconstitutionally. It is perfectly proper to take a consitutional point at this time of night, because that is far more important than anything to do with subsidies or cups of tea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1267.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1267.8", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "again. There will be occasions when they will have no legal authority to do things and when they will be able to quote precedents for acting unconstitutionally. It is perfectly proper to take a consitutional point at this time of night, because that is far more important than anything to do with subsidies or cups of tea. [ Interruption .] The other point which has not been covered by the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1267.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1269.3", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman has only just come in.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Dr. Hampson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1269.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-19", "file": "debates1974-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5bc404389977a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1270.2", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Vote.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "preceding_text": "authorities will be heavily in the red next year. We have the rates burden. The authorities do not know where to turn. Everything that can be saved should be saved. My right hon. and hon. Friends are saying that of all subsidies that have been put forward the money involved in this subsidy should be saved. The money could be used for so many of the good causes in which Labour hon. Members believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-19a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am not too sure that my hon. Friend is glad that considerable progress has been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1319.0", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "NEWSPAPER EDITORS (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ons and I will reply to each of them. On the first question, that of the possible effects of a closed shop in journalism, if that were to arise, I believe that much the best way for the House to deal with that is in the debates on the Bill which we are presenting on the matter today or tomorrow. Of course, we shall have ample opportunities to discuss the issues involved when the Bill is presented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1321.3", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "NEWSPAPER EDITORS (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's last question is on a matter which was also referred to by the editors when they came to see me yesterday, although they did not request the Government to take any legislative action about it. They merely asked us to take note of it. Therefore, that was in a very different category —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1321.3", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "NEWSPAPER EDITORS (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Progress.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " were not asking for any Government action about it, nor were they making any protest about any Government legislation in connection with that matter. I repeat to the House what I said to them. What we are doing in this respect is not to introduce any innovation. What we are seeking to do, as in so many matters in industrial relations, is to restore the situation to that which existed before 1971.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "NEWSPAPER EDITORS (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " could deny that. We shall seek to remove those anxieties. But their fears are misplaced and their proposed remedies are unworkable. That is why we have to search for remedies which will be more successful and which will work successfully. That is what I am doing, not merely as a member of the Government but also as a defender of freedom in the newspapers and in the trade union movement generally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " there should be an element of social justice for ratepayers as well—not only domestic ratepayers but small shopkeepers, many of whom have had to bear a heavy burden this year and will do so again next year? If it is correct that there should be a rent freeze for council tenants, what about other ratepayers? If it is all right for the tenants, why should not other people get help with their rates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "te relief, that no householder faces excessive rate increases, whether he lives in town or country, whether in a Labour-controlled or Conservative-controlled area. No householder should be made to face an excessive rate burden. What action do the Government intend to take to prevent excessive rate increases next year? During the last election we put forward positive proposals on the rating system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Channel Tunnel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "least between responsible Members, on this issue. That makes it all the more important for us to get our priorities right. That is why, at a time when rate burdens are so high and Government expenditure needs careful watching, it is utterly intolerable that the Government should press ahead with ludicrous, unnecessary and expensive schemes such as the whole of their land municipalisation proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "pened to the inquiries which were set in hand by my right hon. Friend the Member for Crosby (Mr. Page) regarding staffing in local authorities? What investigation is the Department carrying out at present? I know that the right hon. Gentleman will seek to argue that the reorganisation of local government is to blame. The truth is that all parties were agreed on the need to reform local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right hon. Gentlemen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "out councillors who refuse to carry out their legal duties under the Housing Finance Act not through error, as the Secretary of State said—because they would not be surcharged if they had made an error—but because they deliberately chose to take the course of action that they took, did not use reasonable grounds for delay, were encouraged to do so by some hon. Gentlemen, and thereby broke the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "st civilised in the world. There is no other country which has roads, street lighting and libraries equal to ours and which looks after its sick and maimed as we do. No other country in the world provides water and sewerage systems as we do throughout the entire nation. These are measures of our civilisation. We have to pay for these things, and whether we pay directly or indirectly I do not mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "sial way. That was a little difficult, to say the least, and the more I hear Conservative Mem- bers commenting on this subject my desire to try to be non-controversial becomes more and more weak as time goes on. It is a fact, unpalatable though it may be, that the Conservatives by implementing the disastrous local government reorganisation have imposed by far the largest factor in the rate burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1416.4", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "I listened with interest to the complicated explanation offered by the hon. Member for Ripon. I understand that he used to write speeches for the Leader of the Opposition. If today's example is the best that he can do, it may be that that is a reason for the right hon. Gentleman's lack of popularity. I move on to some other points about local government reorganisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1416.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "us 90 per cent. of student grants, from local authorities to the Exchequer, the transfer of a burden of £348 million. Do not let the right hon. Gentleman say that we did nothing. When rating revaluation took place in 1973, after a deliberate delay of 10 years by the Labour Government—as they are doing again now—Anthony Barber gave relief to ratepayers of one-half of any increase above 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1447.3", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": ". One teacher came to me saying \"It is dreadful. I have to make my children draw on both sides of the same sheet of paper because money is so tight\", as though that was really to be deplored. Another teacher came to me saying \"I worry when I see a five-year-old child destroy in five minutes a piece of paper which costs 5p., and I wonder what benefit that child gets out of it.\" Another constituent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1447.3", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": ", should get a free pass on the buses because she has just passed her 60th birthday?\" This is a matter that hon. Members and ratepayers can judge for themselves. Is it right, for example, that the London borough of Greenwich should be changing at this moment from discs to cassettes in its record lending library? That is a small matter, but the bill at the end of the year would be worth examining.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1452.0", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "It would rather depend upon how radical those proposals were and when the committee brought them forward. The hon. Gentleman would need as much time as I would to examine them and to see that we felt they were right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1455.0", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "nfer a general benefit on the community as a whole, not simply on those who are connected to the system. We also have to bear in mind that the amount given by way of relief has to be recovered from the other properties in a water authority's area. Nevertheless, the Government think it right that this substantial relief should be given, and I hope very much that the House will welcome our decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1458.2", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "The House will be bitterly disappointed that the right hon. Gentleman has given no assurance about the special situation of Trafford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1458.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (TRACTOR CABS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "preceding_text": "I point out before we enter into the debate that, as the Minister realised, this much be a restricted debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1465.2", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (TRACTOR CABS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "preceding_text": "ure that this is out of order—far too many of these accidents concern children. I appreciate that that last point is not covered in the regulations we are now considering. The regulations are very welcome. At this stage I should say that I may have been discourteous to the Parliamentary Secretary. I am not sure whether this is the first occasion that he has addressed the House in his present post.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-20", "file": "debates1974-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a68933efd32fb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1479.3", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (TRACTOR CABS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That should teach the whole House how wrong it is for the Chair to allow latitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-20a.1479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-21", "file": "debates1974-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "765ed10c7a780548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The consultations are now complete, and I am happy to tell the House that we are now in a position, as soon as we can find parliamentary time, to have a debate. I do not think this will be possible before Christmas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-21", "file": "debates1974-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "765ed10c7a780548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1532.4", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I think I gave the figures for which the right hon. Gentleman asks in my original reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1532.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-21", "file": "debates1974-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "765ed10c7a780548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1532.4", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I think I gave the figures for which the right hon. Gentleman asks in my original reply. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If I did not, I am sorry. I do not know what the single new rate would be, but I know the calculations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1532.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-21", "file": "debates1974-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "765ed10c7a780548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1540.5", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1540.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-21", "file": "debates1974-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "765ed10c7a780548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1641.2", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (SEAT BELTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is late now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "When we reached the end of last Session and dealt with the Committee stage of the Road Traffic Bill on that occasion, I had hoped—and the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare (Mr. Wiggin) would have called me to task had I been neglectful in this respect—to reinsert the provision in respect of seat belts, but I regarded five o'clock on a Friday as not the most convenient time to debate these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-21", "file": "debates1974-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "765ed10c7a780548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (SEAT BELTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "I believe that there are about 2,000 rules and regulations. I cannot repeat them all, so I shall mention just a few. The hon. and learned Member for Runcorn spoke of the impossibility of enforcement, and my right hon. Friend half admitted this. The various rules, regulations and orders relate to speedometers, emission of smoke from exhaust systems, rusting, steering and dangerous protruding parts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-21", "file": "debates1974-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "765ed10c7a780548", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (SEAT BELTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "gerous protruding parts. [ Interruption .] I thought that would bring a laugh. I was referring not to the pleasant contours of motor cars but to jagged parts. There are also rules and regulations concerned with road fund licences, insurance certificates, roadworthiness certificates and registration. I could continue at length as there are many others. I have been driving almost daily for 42 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-21a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-22", "file": "debates1974-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "44fe6ee217186fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1680.3", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "May I put an unpopular view? Do not these appalling events, as the notorious strike of the Protestant workers, emphasise that the well-intentioned vanity of successive Governments in seeking to continue to cajole and coax the people of Northern Ireland into a settlement is an illusion that we shall have to face?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-22", "file": "debates1974-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "44fe6ee217186fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1680.3", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "wish of the overwhelming majority of British people —that we saved further blows falling upon innocent people, upon the Army, upon the police and upon our precarious economy by unequivocally announcing that we must have a phased withdrawal of the British presence so as to leave the people of Northern Ireland, as we shall have to do in the end, to determine their own tragic, self-inflicted destiny?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-22", "file": "debates1974-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "44fe6ee217186fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1703.2", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "NATIONAL REFERENDA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ent of Parliament backed by the full-hearted consent of the electorate. The natural way to ascertain the full-hearted consent of the electorate, I am the first to assert, is to put it in the forefront of an election manifesto and to have an election. But at the 1970 election great care was taken by all concerned not only not to put it in the forefront of a manifesto but not to put it there at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-22", "file": "debates1974-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "44fe6ee217186fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1706.1", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "NATIONAL REFERENDA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Mrs. Hayman), who received my own vote upon that principle at the February election. The basis upon which this debate takes place is that the electorate has been consulted by the ballot box in a General Election in the manner desired by the opponents of the theory of referenda, as to whether this is how they wished the matter to be dealt with, and a majority was returned to this House accordingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-22", "file": "debates1974-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "44fe6ee217186fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1720.1", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "NATIONAL REFERENDA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Because I know that I can always vote on a future occasion to repeal it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-22", "file": "debates1974-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "44fe6ee217186fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1732.2", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "NATIONAL REFERENDA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "preceding_text": "hich come to the minds of hon. Members? To let the present Prime Minister have the last word, it was in a radio interview on 6th June this year, when he was trying to explain his shifts and manoeuvres over this issue, that he said that at one time he had had doubts about a referendum. because it fundamentally changes the whole basis of our democracy and of parliamentary control among other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-22", "file": "debates1974-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "44fe6ee217186fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "NATIONAL REFERENDA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "mming, tacking, twisting and turning, for no other reason than that we lost that election. There can be no doubt that had we won the 1970 election there would have been no talk of a referendum. We would have said that the British public had decided at the election. They knew for three years that we had been negotiating to get in. Now we are in. We consulted the British people at the 1970 election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-22", "file": "debates1974-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "44fe6ee217186fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "NATIONAL REFERENDA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "r a referendum—and why not Durham, too? I happen to be a native of Durham and the representative of a Scottish constituency. I believe that our culture in Durham is different from that in Cornwall. Cornishmen say that they have a different culture from everybody else in the rest of Britain. Why should they not have a referendum on the question whether there should be a separate Cornish Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-22a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-25", "file": "debates1974-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0f50d79766c3b7a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "TERRORISM", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": " it with respect to affairs in Northern Ireland. The Bill itself will specify the IRA at least, but additional proscriptions which may well be necessary will be made by order. It will be an offence to belong to a proscribed organisation or to support such an organisation financially or in other ways. The maximum penalty will be six months' imprisonment or a £400 fine or both on summary conviction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-25", "file": "debates1974-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0f50d79766c3b7a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "nment rejected the policy of the empty chair in Brussels. That was right, and the right hon. Gentleman opposite agreed with it. I determined to go to the Council of Ministers and do my best for the British farmer and the British people. I do not claim that I always got what I wanted—no one ever does—but let us consider what I have done. I obtained an increase in the calf subsidy worth £35 million,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.69.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-25", "file": "debates1974-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0f50d79766c3b7a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "d increased capital formation is necessary for the expansion of production. It is interesting to note that there have not been anything like as many Members on the Government benches as there have been on the Opposition side. A further interesting thing is that those who have been on the benches opposite have almost without exception been moderate Socialist. The Left-wingers have not been present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-25", "file": "debates1974-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0f50d79766c3b7a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "No. I have spoken for too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-25", "file": "debates1974-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0f50d79766c3b7a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": " the British people 'We shall take beef off the market and turn nice fresh beef into frozen beef to keep up its price'.\" I was wrong. The right hon. Member for Grantham reminded us earlier that the Tories started intervention buying. True, it was only just over 100 tons by the time the Tories went out of office, but he was already taking steps to expand cold-storage facilities to take 50,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-25", "file": "debates1974-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0f50d79766c3b7a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.130.3", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "h the principle of 'deficiency payments' which does not prejudice the forthcoming general scheme for beef which will be applied from 1st February and which the Commission will propose at the end of the month. In other words, that which is seen as temporary is the guaranteed deficiency price payment structure and the other thing which is seen as in danger of being accepted as a permanent principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-25", "file": "debates1974-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0f50d79766c3b7a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.164.8", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "British farmers have once again tasted guaranteed prices, and I know what they will want on 1st February. It is that we shall fight for. One wonders why the Conservative Opposition have become so steamed up and are trooping into the Lobby against my right hon. Friend's successful mission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.164.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-25", "file": "debates1974-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0f50d79766c3b7a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.164.8", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": " I know what they will want on 1st February. It is that we shall fight for. One wonders why the Conservative Opposition have become so steamed up and are trooping into the Lobby against my right hon. Friend's successful mission. [ Interruption. ] My right hon. Friend got the farmers everything they wanted. He got them guaranteed prices and partial intervention. What else do the Conservatives want?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.164.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-25", "file": "debates1974-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0f50d79766c3b7a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "Having taken the action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-25a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-26", "file": "debates1974-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "b5db323dd6e12091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Percentage of GNP.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "It is not fair to compare a continent with a small nation like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-26", "file": "debates1974-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "b5db323dd6e12091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC POLICY (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend said that, on the assumptions that were then listed and published, it would be possible to get inflation down to near 10 per cent. by the end of next year. In my speech at Guildhall I referred to my own broadcast. The figure of 8·4 per cent. was a literal calculation, based—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-26", "file": "debates1974-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "b5db323dd6e12091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC POLICY (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The country is in a position to form its own assessment— indeed, it made an assessment in October on the progress up to that time. The trouble that the country faces is that the right hon. Gentleman made his assessment before it even began, and he has had a continuing vested interest in increasing Britain's problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-26", "file": "debates1974-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "b5db323dd6e12091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC POLICY (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Britain's problems. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I shall take as long over my answer as the right hon. Gentleman took in putting his question. The right hon. Gentleman is going round the country preaching gloom and desperately hoping that we shall not see an answer to the problems he has in mind. He will know that in a number of those cases anxiety has been frankly expressed by my right hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-26", "file": "debates1974-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "b5db323dd6e12091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.304.6", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "They are in the Government Actuary's report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.304.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-26", "file": "debates1974-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "b5db323dd6e12091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.313.2", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "preceding_text": " The mistress said \"I will keep both you and the baby because I like your work so much.\" This happened four times, until the mistress was keeping the maid and four babies. Finally the maid said that she would definitely have to leave, because she could not stand a place with so many children. That is exactly how the right hon. and learned Gentleman is behaving. He would have done the same himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-26", "file": "debates1974-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "b5db323dd6e12091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": " Labour Party. Would that they had been. It would probably have been a more sensitive party if they had led it in this House. They would have appreciated the needs of the self-employed. They were creative people, with sensitivity and sensibility—the things for which my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe) appealed. They would not have connived at this imposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-26a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.616.4", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Prime Minister recalls that his public engagements included a visit to the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. Even accepting that his lack of military experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.616.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.616.4", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get back to the gutter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Prime Minister recalls that his public engagements included a visit to the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. Even accepting that his lack of military experience—[ Interruption. ]—perhaps precludes him from understanding the feelings of the country's fighting men, does he not feel that there is an anomaly at that ceremony—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.616.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.616.5", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would take the last part of the hon. Gentleman's question more seriously but for the first part. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman, on consideration, as he is not really like this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.616.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.628.2", "colnum": "628", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The Church of England measure is an extremely important matter for a great many people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF TERRORISM (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "preceding_text": " the people who might have been thinking of doing something similar know that they are up against a really efficient law enforcement service. They know it as a matter of fact now, because a number of people were arrested. That is what law enforcement is about. It is about demonstrating the effectiveness of the law and its enforcement agencies, which has happened. Here we are, a panic-stricken mob—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF TERRORISM (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "use the Home Secretary's words, bound to be frightened even though they had nothing to do with what has happened and were appalled by it. The Home Secretary described the Bill as Draconian. I should like to have seen in the long Title some reference to Ireland. I am frightened by the prospect of many of these Draconion provisions being used against working people if something is not done about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF TERRORISM (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": " some time ago the subject of the six men who, after a parade, were called to account. I mentioned that, in Birmingham at the same time, 2,000 men with 20 drum and fife bands had what they called a victory parade, during which the most obscene gestures were used. Those men were wearing top hats and stoles and carried rolled umbrellas. If that does not constitute a uniform, I do not know what does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.753.8", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "s of the layman and the average constituent, the man in the street. I am forced to ask why the provision is for three persons rather than two. From what I have heard in general gossip, my guess would be that the figure three derives from the law of unlawful assembly which relates to gatherings of three or more people who, with certain common purposes, arrange to commit a crime leading to violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.753.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.753.8", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "k why the provision is for three persons rather than two. From what I have heard in general gossip, my guess would be that the figure three derives from the law of unlawful assembly which relates to gatherings of three or more people who, with certain common purposes, arrange to commit a crime leading to violence—[ Interruption. ]—or indulge or behave in certain other ways. However, I should like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.753.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "tee that the broadcasting authorities have publicly stated —and one would not expect that public statement not to be honoured—that they will take fresh account of the new situation created by the passage of this legislation into law. If that is honoured, surely the Committee will agree that it is a much better way of dealing with these matters than a form of censorship enforced by the criminal law", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "known for their rather liberal attitudes towards political offenders. Now, to people in the north it just seems that when you start shooting people like that that there is no defence against anything, that, that their whole system of law is going to break down. I mean how can you justify that? He replied: It's a clear cut case. They were part and parcel of the corrupt British system in the north.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "ertainly\"— and that is a categoric statement according to my interpretation of the word— in Britain there has been collaboration between the IRA and the extremist organisations totally unconnected with the Irish problem. One does not have a great deal to go on but, in view of the three factors running through my mind and this article by Lord Chalfont, I felt that I had to put down Amendment No. 6—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.807.3", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "hon. Members: \"What about Report?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "the removal of doubt\" were inserted, no court could hold that the existence of the subsection was intended to advance the position further than the most generous interpretation which could be put on it without the subsection being there. If it were possible for the Government to go along those lines by making an amendment in another place, since there is not one to that effect on the Notice Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "preceding_text": " the context of detention, and evidence of membership in that sense. In my experience, in a large number of cases membership of a proscribed organisation—not in the context of what the public think or how it looks—is only a make-weight. The evidence of someone going against the law whether it be that of detention or otherwise—is always far more weighty than membership of a proscribed organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is irrelevant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "preceding_text": "looks—is only a make-weight. The evidence of someone going against the law whether it be that of detention or otherwise—is always far more weighty than membership of a proscribed organisation—[ Interruption. ] I hope that hon. Members will listen. If practical experience in Northern Ireland from day to day is not a matter that the Committee ought to take into account, it is a sad state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "preceding_text": "proscribed organisation—[ Interruption. ] I hope that hon. Members will listen. If practical experience in Northern Ireland from day to day is not a matter that the Committee ought to take into account, it is a sad state of affairs. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is irrelevant.\"] It is relevant. This whole matter of proscription and of offences against the state is being looked at by the Gardiner Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I will give way, but I should like to make this point first. The whole matter is being looked at by the Gardiner Committee. I can only tell the Committee that in the sense in which the argument is being deployed tonight, this aspect has never crossed my path, living, as I do, with this problem from day to day. I hope that this aspect will go through tonight with the understanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "o prove membership of the IRA. The point was specifically put by my right hon. Friend when he said that if there is a specific reference to this kind of evidence, it will appear to the court to mean that it is either conclusive or prima facie evidence. I will undertake, before Report, to see whether we can devise a form of words which can be put into the clause which will make it absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.814.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There will not be a Report stage.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "I understood the Minister of State just now to give an undertaking to the Committee of what he would do on Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.815.4", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " the person who possesses the document is a member of the proscribed organisation. It is in that sense a valuable subsection, in the same terms as the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act. If it were amended or withdrawn, there is a real danger that the equivalent subsection in the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act would be placed in doubt so far as its construction was concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.815.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "a degree of decorum. The Government Front Bench has hardly distinguished itself in presenting the case for the subsection. I suspect that there is, if not a better case, at least a clearer case than that which has been presented. We owe it to the country not lightly to brush aside anything which might conceivably be of assistance. We have been given the assurance that there will be a Report stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craig", "preceding_text": "It is correct that it would be a chief superintendent in the Irish Republic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-11-28", "file": "debates1974-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "e44c1ff2b4110085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brotherton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have been asleep.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brotherton", "preceding_text": "inister of State. Northern Ireland Office all turned their backs on these benches—it was rather like watching a member of one's own Front Bench address the House—and told their Left wing that this measure was essential for Scotland, and at the same time the Lord Advocate was playing Sancho Panza to those four Ministers whom I have mentioned. I want to know what has happened in the last four hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-11-28a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-02", "file": "debates1974-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "36caacf97eb28e22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "TEACHERS' PAY (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": " in the Scottish schools, if the EIS accepts it, a £7-a-week rise in their December pay cheque, compared to last April? Will my right hon. Friend also remind the teachers that it is their job and that of their leaders to implement the Houghton recommendations immediately the committee reports, and that that will give the teachers the biggest rise they have ever had? Will my right hon. Friend also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-02", "file": "debates1974-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "36caacf97eb28e22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1218.5", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": " Lord Halsbury to give them more than they have ever had before. So much for the nurses. There is only one group in the hospitals more important than the nurses—the con- sultants, the people who actually deliver the fundamental curative health care. Will the right hon. Lady place herself at the head of marching doctors, to get an enormous increase? Let me remind her of the truth about the doctors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1218.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-02", "file": "debates1974-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "36caacf97eb28e22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "1,200 million in toto. This was a very considerable cut which was spread more or less right across the board. It meant that the Department of Health and Social Security had to face a cut of £111·2 million at that time. My right hon. Friend has indicated that she has been able to replace that money—and more: that she has been able to put back £450 million by means of Supplementary Estimates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-02", "file": "debates1974-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "36caacf97eb28e22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the right hon. Lady? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "e a decrease? If. as appeared from something else the right hon. Lady said, more and more proportionately of the NHS budget is to go on salaries, is the decrease in capital expenditure to be proportionately greater? I ask the Minister of State to tell us when we are likely to have a statement about this, because it is a matter which we in the House, the NHS and the country view with great concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-02", "file": "debates1974-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "36caacf97eb28e22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": " greater use of the postal and telecommunications services as a result of the demand created by the low prices. That destroys any hope of achieving proper financial controls and disciplines and leads inevitably to the first major point which I wish to raise, which is that as a result of this policy there is too much Government intervention in the public sector and in the Post Office in particular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-02", "file": "debates1974-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "36caacf97eb28e22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "On the pension fund, I should like to raise an important matter to which the Minister has not referred at all. Will he tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-02", "file": "debates1974-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "36caacf97eb28e22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "preceding_text": "I hope that this debate will not be followed, as was the last debate, by Opposition Members trying to put the pay and superannuation of Post Office employees at risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-02a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-03", "file": "debates1974-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "862ac3d4e2ce9da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1351.5", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Roy Mason)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Roy Mason)", "preceding_text": "either. We propose to withdraw from Brunei the Gurkha battalion at present stationed there. We would withdraw our forces from Gan and Mauritius. We do not think it would be right in present circumstances to make any changes in the arrangements we have with the Sultan of Oman. We intend to enter into negotiations with the South African Government with a view to terminating the Simonstown Agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1351.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-03", "file": "debates1974-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "862ac3d4e2ce9da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "rcraft, shipbuilding, the Vixen wheeled reconnaissance vehicle and helicopters—have been contacted by the Ministry. They will be making their own assessments of the extent to which their employment levels will be affected, no doubt after discussions with the unions, and then we shall be ready to talk to them about the situation. It is not fair to make a comparison between the Warsaw Pact and NATO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-03", "file": "debates1974-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "862ac3d4e2ce9da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "accept that if Simonstown goes it will be more expensive to operate beyond the Cape. It is self-evident from what I have said that there will be fewer reasons for us to deploy east of the Cape. Although the Royal Navy will still be able to deploy world-wide, it will be going east of the Cape in smaller numbers and making fewer visits. That means that, if necessary, it can take more afloat support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-03", "file": "debates1974-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "862ac3d4e2ce9da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "It is true that there will be no saving in costs, but it is right to withdraw the Gurkha battalion from Brunei.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-03", "file": "debates1974-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "862ac3d4e2ce9da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1367.3", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ndividual proposals. I regret that we cannot accept what the former Foreign Secretary, the right hon. Member for Fulham (Mr. Stewart) said about that. Second, the right hon. Gentleman is not entitled—in fact, he is completely unjustified—to say that the former Conservative administration would have put forward such proposals as he has done or that they had it in mind to put forward such proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-03", "file": "debates1974-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "862ac3d4e2ce9da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1368.0", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "DEFENCE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman had to bark at the end of that supplementary question. The Chiefs of Staff are, of course, primarily involved. What I indicated to the House was that it was my job—I thought that I had succeeded—to carry them with me. The Chief of the Defence Staff and the Chiefs of Staff would not like any cuts at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-03", "file": "debates1974-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "862ac3d4e2ce9da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bridlington.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ibility of the individual union to carry out the recommendations of the review body. I believe that the unions associated with the TUC would be eager to carry out such recommendations. Of course, it is a voluntary body. The whole process is done by a voluntary method. No one is denying that. Indeed, it has the virtue that it is much more likely to work that way than it is by some legal provision.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-03", "file": "debates1974-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "862ac3d4e2ce9da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rupert Murdoch.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e see the standards of the News of the World dragged a little lower into the gutter— not always an easy thing to detect—or when we see almost at the same moment the Sun debasing journalism, as it has done in my opinion, we must assume, I suppose, that it is all due to the divine inspiration of the editors concerned and has nothing whatsoever to do with the appearance of Keith Murdoch on the scene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-03", "file": "debates1974-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "862ac3d4e2ce9da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "iscussions, the proprietors also explained to me how many millions of pounds Fleet Street had already lost because of strike action arising from the 1971 Act. Therefore, so far from people in Fleet Street—proprietors, editors or anyone else—having any right to make an accusation against the Government in general or me in particular, we saved them. We saved Fleet Street from catastrophe on 8th May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-03", "file": "debates1974-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "862ac3d4e2ce9da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "treet—proprietors, editors or anyone else—having any right to make an accusation against the Government in general or me in particular, we saved them. We saved Fleet Street from catastrophe on 8th May. [Interruption.] Yes, we did. The hon. Gentleman is a bit late in getting in on it. I said that we did our best to encourage them. If that encouragement had not been forthcoming, the whole operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-03", "file": "debates1974-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "862ac3d4e2ce9da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "preceding_text": "onal companies, we shall be doing far more for the ordinary man and woman in the street, whether it be in Tokyo, Bonn, Rome. Manchester or Dundee, than will 1,000 regulations and directives from the EEC Commission. I also welcome the amendment to paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 1, which I do not see in the same light as does the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Smith), the spokesman for the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-03", "file": "debates1974-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "862ac3d4e2ce9da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1485.3", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EEC (ENERGY POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Alex Eadie)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Alex Eadie)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House takes note of Commission Documents Nos. R/1472/74 and R/127/74. I am glad that the opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-03a.1485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-04", "file": "debates1974-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d16256b849dbd99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1611.3", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "CHURCH OF ENGLAND (WORSHIP AND DOCTRINE) MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "who, as St. Paul found, talk in incomprehensible tongues. In that Second Epistle St. Paul has to deal with the brethren who are speaking in languages which cannot be understood. He said that what was needed was an interpreter, that these were not necessarily the voices of holy spirits but of lunatics, and we have certainly heard the voices of many lunatics amongst the clergy in the last few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-04", "file": "debates1974-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d16256b849dbd99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1611.3", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "CHURCH OF ENGLAND (WORSHIP AND DOCTRINE) MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " dichotomy in this argument which one does not need to be a theologian to see. It is extraordinary that such a measure should have been put forward without the recognition of this fact. We are being asked, to all intents and purposes, to disestablish the Church of England and yet retain it as the official Established Church, and this is the problem. I apologise for having intervened in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-04", "file": "debates1974-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d16256b849dbd99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "CHURCH OF ENGLAND (WORSHIP AND DOCTRINE) MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": " The Archbishop dealt with the matter convincingly in another place on 14th November. Is it because we do not trust the bishops that we are unwilling to confer the degree of autonomy that the Church apparently wants? If that is the answer, it would scarcely be a logical reason for voting for the measure, because it is not the Church that appoints the bishops. Is it that we do not trust the clergy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-04", "file": "debates1974-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d16256b849dbd99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "CHURCH OF ENGLAND (WORSHIP AND DOCTRINE) MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All charities are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I was aware as I used the phrase that I might be asked that question. One advantage which arises from establishment is the right of the bishops to sit in another place. That is a significant advantage, giving the Church secular power over the citizen. The Church, by definition, is also a charity and, therefore, is relieved of taxation on much of its activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-04", "file": "debates1974-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d16256b849dbd99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1670.3", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "CHURCH OF ENGLAND (WORSHIP AND DOCTRINE) MEASURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ted by their commissions, where they paid the expenses of those who attended, where they regulated the agenda and authorised the conclusions. I assure the House that I do not put this argument as a half-serious one; I make it as a deeply-felt argument. The very catholicity of the Christian Church is the stamp which was placed upon it by the imperial authority of ancient Rome in the fourth century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-04", "file": "debates1974-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d16256b849dbd99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1709.0", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "hould make selective assistance under Sections 7 and 8 of the Industry Act 1972. It is evident that the Government do not regard the advice they receive from the Industrial Advisory Board as being in any way particularly relevant in deciding whether to intervene in a given situation. I believe I am right in saying that the advice of the board has been rejected more often than it has been accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-04", "file": "debates1974-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d16256b849dbd99b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "rt-term problems and decry the industry's ability to overcome them. The industry is basically strong and efficient. In view of the help the Government have given and are giving, I am not at all despondent about the future. Since taking office in February, the Government have given a massive injection of additional capital to Scottish fanning of £45 million to £47 million. That is not chicken feed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-04a.1780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-05", "file": "debates1974-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "29ec6fbc0f839ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-05a.1936.0", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman has had a chance to develop his knowledge by reading HANSARD. I think that he will already have seen the very full letter sent by my right hon. Friend to Mr. Denis Hamilton, which was published in yesterday's Press. I agree with the right hon. Gentleman and others who have raised this matter in the House that this is a very important question. It is a fact that one cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-05a.1936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-05", "file": "debates1974-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "29ec6fbc0f839ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-05a.1936.0", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "agree with the right hon. Gentleman and others who have raised this matter in the House that this is a very important question. It is a fact that one cannot— [An HON. MEMBER: \"Answer.\"] This is a very important question. I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase \"freedom of the Press\" used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial Press is not free at all —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-05a.1936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-05", "file": "debates1974-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "29ec6fbc0f839ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-05a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "BAKING INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "Without wishing to apportion blame, may I ask why the bakers are not prepared to go back to work even though arbitration has now been started? Will the right hon. Gentleman tell me in confidence —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-05a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-05", "file": "debates1974-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "29ec6fbc0f839ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-05a.1993.5", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "th. Perhaps that possibility is greater than it was 18 months ago, when some of us first argued in public the case for the withdrawal of the Army. Secondly, there is the damaging argument, \"You are giving in to terrorists.\" I shall deal with both arguments, and then give way. On the question of the bloodbath, why is it that the Catholic men of violence do not think that there would be a bloodbath?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-05a.1993.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-05", "file": "debates1974-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "29ec6fbc0f839ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-05a.1993.5", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "the Army. Secondly, there is the damaging argument, \"You are giving in to terrorists.\" I shall deal with both arguments, and then give way. On the question of the bloodbath, why is it that the Catholic men of violence do not think that there would be a bloodbath? [An HON. MEMBER: \"They do.\"] Quigley and Morley in Long Kesh, representing the Provos, said, \"We don't think there will be a bloodbath.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-05a.1993.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-05", "file": "debates1974-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "29ec6fbc0f839ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-05a.2043.2", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James", "preceding_text": "ould be well served by having a much more effective border which could be closed. I know that the concept of the Council of Ireland caused great offence and misunderstanding as well as arousing great suspicions among Labour Members. With the likelihood that Scotland and Wales will have a substantial measure of devolution in the foreseeable future, and in the belief that we shall remain in the EEC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-05a.2043.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-06", "file": "debates1974-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f120309ae38ab1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-06a.2122.3", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was a Minister in the Conservative Government which passed the Industry Act, which I am now using for this purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-06a.2122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-06", "file": "debates1974-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f120309ae38ab1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-06a.2124.3", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Elliott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Elliott", "preceding_text": "equer. I should, therefore, like to suggest that there be an urgent review of skill requirements in the sphere of private business. I should like now to comment on the self-employed. On the Opposition side of the House we have received with considerable pleasure the news of a vote in another place. I hope that in due course the Government will not attempt, in this House, to overturn that decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-06a.2124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-09", "file": "debates1974-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e324dc0280acfffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-09a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I was not enunciating a new principle. What I was saying—I think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman, with his genius for understanding, understood me—was that I did not draft the Queen's Speech. Therefore, I was not responsible for any ommissions from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-09a.27.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-12-09", "file": "debates1974-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e324dc0280acfffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-09a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "HS146 PROJECT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "seltine) put to him? What is the Government's assessment of the economic viability of the aircraft, and when was it made? Secondly, will the right hon. Gentleman say which was the heaviest handicap the project had to bear? Was it that it was not economically viable, that it was not subject to an unbreakable treaty or that it happened to be destined to be constructed at Hatfield and not at Bristol?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-09a.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-09", "file": "debates1974-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e324dc0280acfffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-09a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "FUEL AND ELECTRICITY (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Common Market? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "I intervene in the debate because, like the hon. Member for Conway (Mr. Roberts), I did not have the opportunity to question my right hon. Friend when he made his statement this afternoon on energy conservation. I took especial note to see who was called, and I saw that on my side of the House the emphasis was on those who are known to be extremist in these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-09a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-10", "file": "debates1974-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24827a0982950e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-10a.224.2", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "I can understand the right hon. and learned Gentleman wanting to forget the miners' strike and the industrial legislation with which he has been concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-10a.224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-10", "file": "debates1974-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24827a0982950e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-10a.225.7", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if I have not understood the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-10a.225.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-10", "file": "debates1974-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24827a0982950e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-10a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the Minister's explanation of the amendment, but I am a little surprised that he should feel unable to speak on technical matters and be so diffident about it, because that feeling is not shared by many of his colleagues who find it easy to speak on these matters even though they have an equal lack of knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-10a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-10", "file": "debates1974-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24827a0982950e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-10a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "This may be a small clause, but it is of immense importance to the fishing industry. All fishermen will find it inexplicable that the Government appear so inflexible on what is an extremely important matter. They will not understand why the Minister cannot accept a very reasonable request for consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-10a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-10", "file": "debates1974-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24827a0982950e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-10a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the morning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "nd that is required under Section 1 of the Act. But the only condition placed upon him selling the land for the purposes required under the Act is if it is no longer needed for any purpose under the Act. If that does not mean nothing I do not know what does mean nothing. Even at this time of night I am capable of seeing that. I hope that the Minister will consider this matter again in the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-10a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.498.5", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and I have had regular sessions debating this fascinating subject. He knows that Fife loos deposit sewage into the Forth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.498.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.518.3", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "preceding_text": "this House as other than what it is—a body ultimately responsible to the people but mandated by no one. Against the strong arguments of my hon. Friends, I have said, and will say now, that I shall never change that opinion. I shall ever hold to it. When it does, parliamentary democracy will die with it and one may make one's peace with plebiscitary democracy, that friend of tyrants and demagogues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "What happened was that the rebellion collapsed overnight and the murders stopped.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "entenced to 20 or 30 years in prison, but they are well aware that as political prisoners they will probably be released under an amnesty long before that time is up. I am told that most of them reckon on two or three years inside at the most. I do not believe that the threat of imprisonment deters these people in the slightest. To be a guest of Her Majesty is not altogether unpleasant these days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": " as if we are discussing simply hanging, they are wrong. We are talking about the execution of enemies by a country at war. We must also consider the people's view. An overwhelming number of people want Parliament to tell our enemies loud and clear that they will die if they kill. If a referendum were taken now or in six months' time on this issue, the vote would be in favour of the death penalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "h penalty for terrorist killings. One hundred and fifteen people have written to me expressing the opposite view. Very few of the 8,000 want vengeance. Some want justice, but that it not quite the same thing. However, not one of the 115 people has suggested an alternative deterrent. What worried me about the speech of the hon. Member for Ladywood was that he never suggested an effective deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": " a backlash. I am not being alarmist. There was a backlash after the Birmingham massacre and it was held in check because people realised that new measures were being taken by the Home Secretary to protect them. Now they are not so sure. They want to know why the Birmingham bombers were not charged with treason, for which the punishment is death. It seems probable that they were guilty of treason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "than that which exists now. Prison is no deterrent in the current situation, here or in Ulster. The IRA is convinced that there will be an amnesty and a political bargain. The other day the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced firmly that there would not be, and the whole House believes him. There is no question of any disbelief in this House. But I doubt whether the IRA believes him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "nt state of mind that I must support the amendment. It is an extremely effective speech in convincing people like me who are wavering, but my right hon. Friend is wrong if he thinks that there are not people whom we represent—not the business men in Birmingham whom the Tories represent but the workers whom we represent, people on the shop floor in Birmingham—who are talking in exactly those terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "r a long time. It has nothing to do with what we are debating. The method is another matter. Of course we would all agree that, if we decided to implement what we are urging upon the House, the only tests for carrying it out would be speed and humanity. Let us not be diverted by such emotive considerations as have surrounded gallows and hanging for so long. I come now to the question of deterrence", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.643.10", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "In view of the cheers from the benches opposite perhaps I should tell the House that the public debate on this subject has been noticeable for the gross distortion of facts by Members of the Conservative Party, including the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe) who speaks for his party on these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.643.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "ntributions structure was the best that could be devised. I give the previous Government credit for having done that and moved further towards earnings-relation in contributions than any previous administration. We backed the then Government in bringing those proposals forward. Clearly, what we have is not an ideal situation and we shall need to reconsider the whole question of the self-employed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.646.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EEC (COLLECTIVE DISMISSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "hat the memorandum was available but that it was available before the Committee sat. In that case there was no Committee. It is only when the Committee sits, has the documents put before it and is called to order that it is a Committee. Therefore, my hon. Friend must be right. The memorandum was not available to the Committee as a Committee, in the same way as it is not available now to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EEC (COLLECTIVE DISMISSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Tugendhat", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "As the Government have said that they will accept the amendment, and as the whole discussion concerning the amendment arose from a purely internal Labour Party dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EEC (COLLECTIVE DISMISSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The ground has shifted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "preceding_text": "proposed dismissals poses … difficulties. whereas in the latest Explanatory Memorandum there is the much more positive statement that the proposal may also contain a provision for the public authority to be empowered to veto the redundancies. In common with the majority of other Member States, the Government is opposed to this provision\". Presumably the Government have shifted their ground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-11", "file": "debates1974-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "68d5b3e6df3b0611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EEC (COLLECTIVE DISMISSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "Yes, they did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-11a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-12", "file": "debates1974-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "226d11f8395e6b6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-12a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The Government have never disguised the seriousness of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-12a.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-12", "file": "debates1974-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "226d11f8395e6b6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-12a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 9½ per cent. mortgages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "g the election campaign Ministers did not give highly optimistic estimates when it happened to suit them at the particular moment. We all remember the famous 8·4 per cent. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will never live that down. That was what he said the actual rate of inflation was—8·4 per cent. We shall see whether he was right. We were told yesterday that the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-12a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-12", "file": "debates1974-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "226d11f8395e6b6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-12a.801.3", "colnum": "801", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "t forecast was inaccurate. We are entitled, in our turn, to have some estimate from Ministers, in order that local authorities can make their preparations. We shall be very interested to learn from the right hon. and learned Gentleman tonight whether he is prepared to tell the House what his Cabinet colleague is prepared to say outside it but which he is not apparently prepared to tell the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-12a.801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-12", "file": "debates1974-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "226d11f8395e6b6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-12a.802.7", "colnum": "802", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "rred. Why is there no reference to this in connection with the rate support grant? Why have local authorities not been told to curtail that expenditure? In a Written Answer on 20th November we learned of the amount of money being spent on acquiring dwellings in Greater London. The most expensive example was Camden which in the last six months has spent no less than £14 million on acquiring houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-12a.802.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-12", "file": "debates1974-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "226d11f8395e6b6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-12a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "ivate lives but that is outwith our debate—in an inflationary age as to ensure a fair deal for the taxpayer without causing serious harm to important public services and injustice to the staffs concerned? That seems to be the dilemma facing us all. The situation is far too serious to use this limited occasion to make minor points of a party nature. The General Election is behind us for the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-12a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-12", "file": "debates1974-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "226d11f8395e6b6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-12a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": " months of existence of the Executive this was something on which every member of that body concentrated his mind. We recognised that there was a serious housing problem, and yet we were not fully aware just how grave it was. The inquiry had only then been commissioned and we did not have the findings of the report, but we were well aware of the very bad housing problem. I think I should say this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-12a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-13", "file": "debates1974-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7dd680f41f78efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-13a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or cheer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "I almost feel that the House should stand in silence", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-13a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-13", "file": "debates1974-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7dd680f41f78efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-13a.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "roposal of the European Commission that the arts should be zero rated for the purposes of VAT. The hon. Member for Crewe (Mrs. Dunwoody) was forthright in her views of VAT this afternoon and I hope that the Minister will be urged on by what she has said. I agree with the hon. Lady that it was a mistake not to zero rate the arts from the beginning. I am afraid that I had no responsibility for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-13a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-16", "file": "debates1974-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d8d54d1593b28e12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER : \"It is not funny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I thought that the hon. Lady was going to blow a gasket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-16", "file": "debates1974-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d8d54d1593b28e12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1126.0", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "EEC (HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "greed to the long-term ideal of general and complete disarmament. I am all for it. But I do not expect it by 1980. That was the phrase that I used last week in respect of economic and monetary union. We accept it as a long-term objective, but it was not accepted by anyone as an objective by 1980, any more than total disarmament was, and that was the phrase that I used. Regarding the regional fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-16", "file": "debates1974-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d8d54d1593b28e12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1126.0", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "EEC (HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman will agree, is that I emphasised the need for reasonable freedom, especially in the present world situation, to follow national policies of regional help without it being questioned by fussy interference from the Commission or anybody else. I wish that he had made that plea for this country. I wish that he had laid claim to that when he negotiated the terms of entry in 1971. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-16", "file": "debates1974-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d8d54d1593b28e12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "EEC (HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Labour Party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "see. It is obviously very desirable in principle, but no one has begun to say what they mean by the term. Perhaps the Leader of the Opposition will tell us this week what he means by political unity. I doubt whether he knows. For example, the unity of the Conservative Party is desirable, but I have no idea if everyone would define its unity in the same way or define how its unity will be achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-12-16", "file": "debates1974-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d8d54d1593b28e12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "the United States is doing to spread its military power throughout the world? The right hon. Gentleman does well to speak of Soviet growth and investment in the Indian Ocean. Will he also mention that in the Government's defence review we have agreed to further development by the United States at Diego Garcia, for them to have a base there? It is not one-sided. I am not defending the Soviet Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1167.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-16", "file": "debates1974-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d8d54d1593b28e12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1186.3", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "y the Warsaw Pact. I should say, in all fairness, that the figures reveal that most of the European members of the Warsaw Pact, except the GDR and the Soviet Union, spend a lower proportion of their GNP on defence than does Great Britain. The Russians spend considerably more. As far as possible we should seek to bring about the earliest possible withdrawal of all Soviet forces from eastern Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-16", "file": "debates1974-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d8d54d1593b28e12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "\" and it was serious. The most significant thing about this shadowing operation was that the \"Kriva\" destroyer never had to take on fuel throughout the exercise. The \"Leanders\" were taking on fuel every three days. What more vivid corrobora-tion could there be that in terms of quality the Soviet navy is now fast advancing to a state where it will be ship for ship, the most formidable in the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-16", "file": "debates1974-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d8d54d1593b28e12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "t it is the most important single sector of all defence expenditure if forward planning is to have any significance. What would our predecessors—not just those who sat on the Government benches 59 or 70 years ago, but Clem Attlee's old Cabinet—have thought of priorities which gave free contraceptives to children under the age of consent and cut back on the essential requirements of the Royal Navy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-16", "file": "debates1974-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d8d54d1593b28e12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence (Mr. William Rodgers)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence (Mr. William Rodgers)", "preceding_text": "that in the time available I shall deal inadequately with the questions which have been asked in more than 20 speeches today. Certainly there are some matters which, to do them justice and to defer to the right hon. and hon. Members who have asked questions, I shall have to leave aside. I intend no discourtesy, and I shall write to the right hon. and Members concerned when it may seem appropriate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-16", "file": "debates1974-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d8d54d1593b28e12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "MILK (PRICE CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "ts. I wonder whether the public realise that the pint of milk on their doorstep represents the best milk distribution service in the world. I am full of praise for the Co-operative Society, Unigate, the Express Dairy and the smaller firms for the service they give to the public. But their end price is controlled and they as well as the producers must have a fair return to cover distribution costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-16a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-17", "file": "debates1974-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "beec25e1ae98d95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1350.3", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The view of the Government and myself over a period of nearly 20 years has been that such matters are best dealt with in private. I have never publicly said anything about cases where some of us have tried—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-17", "file": "debates1974-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "beec25e1ae98d95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1358.2", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF SCHOOL-LEAVING AGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "rls who were keen, willing and suitable to become nurses. When they became nurses, not in June when they finished their examinations but at the end of August when school was over and they had had a few weeks' holiday, their experience of having spent two months under the LEA without a syllabus and without a curriculum made them, by and large, far less suitable for the career which they had chosen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-17", "file": "debates1974-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "beec25e1ae98d95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1360.0", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF SCHOOL-LEAVING AGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "them get away from school and pursue a looser form of education under their local education authority. My Bill simply seeks to enable students to leave after their examinations, to provide a means of egress from formal, and entry into informal, education. One enlightened headmaster in my constituency takes his post-examination students on a 12-bore shooting course. This is a totally admirable way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-17", "file": "debates1974-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "beec25e1ae98d95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1388.2", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "posals on capital transfer tax in the Bill. The Chief Secretary spoke of the benefit to the surviving spouse. If the total estate is left to the widow or widower, there is a benefit strictly to the surviving spouse—but at what penalty to the children! The amount payable on the second death is much greater under the new rules than under the old estate duty rules with the surviving spouse exemption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-17", "file": "debates1974-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "beec25e1ae98d95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1402.3", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "because it is considered to be earned income. But consider the man who has not belonged to a superannuation scheme. He may have earned a larger salary during his working life, but he has not received any allowances for contributions to superannuation. He has had to save his own money and when he retires he receives investment income. If that is more than £20 a week he will have to pay a surcharge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-17", "file": "debates1974-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "beec25e1ae98d95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1402.3", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "tisfy more and more of the people who are putting money into this country. He has to try to maintain a balance between the Left wing of the Labour Party and the so-called moderates. This is difficult, and in fact he will never satisfy the Left wing, the Marxists and the rest. The longer that the Chancellor tries to satisfy that element in our society the more and more will our economy go downhill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-17", "file": "debates1974-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "beec25e1ae98d95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1407.5", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "tabled by the Opposition. I listened to the speech of the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) with great attention. I do not think I have ever heard inflation denounced more convincingly. Satan never rebuked sin with such eloquence as she denounced inflation. There was nothing missing. Inflation finished a prostrate opponent. Then one waited; for surely something ought to have followed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1407.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-17", "file": "debates1974-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "beec25e1ae98d95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "tish Leyland and 37 in Nissan. In any case, whether or not we have a downward float, we must still put this position right. But there is no easy way out through import controls. That would invite retaliation, whatever the hon. Gentleman says. It would also totally distort our own economy into the bargain. The consequences of allowing the pound to fall are considerable, and we should not deny that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-17", "file": "debates1974-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "beec25e1ae98d95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1474.3", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name the Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "e need to maintain private industry. To be fair, there is a Minister in the Government with responsibility for small businesses, and he has the sympathy of the House. He believes that all these expressions of concern are meant, but they are not meant. His colleagues do not mean what they say, because when it comes to deeds every effort is made to destroy what Ministers claim to be concerned about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-17", "file": "debates1974-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "beec25e1ae98d95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1474.3", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the sugar agreement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " see a difficulty. There is a promise of relief next year which the Chancellor says is a bankable asset. What on earth does that mean? It certainly does not mean that interest will be paid on it. The use of the phrase is a loose and irresponsible use of words with which the Chancellor is not familiar and it misleads companies, which is a serious problem when small business is in desperate straits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-17", "file": "debates1974-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "beec25e1ae98d95f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "This is an extremely rum affair altogether, as regards both procedure and contents. I should like to ask a question or two first about the procedure. We are told by the Paymaster-General, and we are told in the Explanatory Memorandum, that both these regulations have been approved by the Council of Ministers. At least, the term \"approved\" is the one which is used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-17a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "CROWN AGENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": " business that they would contemplate carrying out, there are clearly possibilities that much of it can be recoverable as their assets increase in value or as they make certain changes. Therefore, the position is a little flexible, but we hope that there will be the possibility of recovering some of the money. Nevertheless, it is not precisely a loan, but a grant which we hope will be recoverable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1609.2", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " made it plain at the General Election that we did not agree with the large amount given to local authorities for the purchase of private housing. We never agreed with that policy, and I repeat that statement now. If the Chancellor is prepared to bring Government expenditure under proper control, he has a better chance of keeping the money supply under control as well, and this, too, is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1609.2", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Piddling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "estion of energy saving. The Secretary of State's measures the other day were pitiful. We must realise that we cannot afford a deficit of this kind on purchases of overseas oil. A saving of £350 million, eventually, was the Secretary of State's proposal. That is one month's oil deficit and less than the £404 million of last month's current account deficit. That is the scale on which he is working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1615.1", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I want to deal with the international and the national aspects of our problem in turn, and first, the international context, to which the right hon. Gentleman gave surprisingly minuscule attention in his somewhat lengthy speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why February?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "tries. There is enormous potential here if we take our chances. I believe that my visit to Saudi Arabia last week opens the door to a big increase in British exports at least to that country. As I told the House on Friday, a joint working party consisting of officials of our two countries will be meeting in February to develop a medium-term programme for increasing British exports to that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1623.4", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The retail price index is now rising again, as I warned it would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1623.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1631.0", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman counts himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1631.4", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I dealt with the whole problem of inflation at some length earlier in my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1710.1", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "his policies. I should not have thought that that was a ground for complaint. They did not criticise the main part of his speech, which referred to the international situation and other aspects of our problems. My right hon. Friend explained that he was not the sort of person who would turn the other cheek; it was not his normal custom. He reminded me of the statement made by the explorer Dampier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1712.1", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "asic stage 3 rules. Where is the wages explosion which the right hon. Gentleman says we are experiencing? Most of the 26 per cent. is accounted for by the methods I have described. The right hon. Gentleman has never understood the situation and has never attempted to understand it. Moreover, never having understood the situation, he never wanted to understand it. What was the range of settlements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1714.5", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I have called attention to some of them—the ones which I thought had exceeded it with the least excuse— and I have already mentioned other cases, too. What I am saying is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1714.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1716.1", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was done in 1966.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "spute after another. It would be wrong for anyone to suggest that we should return to such a statutory policy. We must make it clear to the people of this country that we are determined to carry through the policy of consent upon which we were elected. We do not propose to abandon that policy in a somersault, as the Leader of the Opposition did after having promised not to have a statutory policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1730.1", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We understand it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House will in no way misunderstand the point which I am making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1752.1", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "rospects and possibly the standard and status of the company in Britain. The fifth point concerns the import of Japanese cars. Last year we imported just under 90,000 Japanese cars while the total of British cars exported to Japan was only 1,200. We are not asking for a total ban on car trading with Japan, but we are asking for fair terms of trade. Above all, and this is the sixth and final point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So are you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "o men's lives, then it is no surprise that some of the disputes should be the means by which these matters are brought to the attention of the community. I say this with deep feeling because I believe that much of what is wrong with Britain lies in the sort of debate we have had tonight, in speeches about industry which are not coming from people with industrial experience—who are ready to attack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-18", "file": "debates1974-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f7176db5b4699ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "oes and villians approach to the problems of Leyland and British industry is the right approach. Those who work in the industry, whether industrial workers or shop stewards or full-time officials or technical people or salaried management, right up to board level in British Leyland, would not think very highly of a debate which sought to make this problem the occasion for searching for scapegoats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-18a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-19", "file": "debates1974-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "573e225ab6761772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1789.1", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Will the Home Secretary accept the congratulations of almost the whole House on upholding the rule of law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1789.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1974-12-19", "file": "debates1974-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "573e225ab6761772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1812.3", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We are in.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bid well", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that continued uncertainty on the question whether we are in or out of the Common Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-19", "file": "debates1974-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "573e225ab6761772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "preceding_text": "spapers have given to this thoroughly disagreeable enterprise. I appreciate that my right hon. Friend has no direct departmental responsibility, but he will accept that I warned him that I intended to raise the matter if given the opportunity. I seek from the Government an undertaking that the iniquitous Holiday Magic company should be wound up. There is provision for this under the Companies Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-19", "file": "debates1974-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "573e225ab6761772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TOO long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "preceding_text": "e matter if given the opportunity. I seek from the Government an undertaking that the iniquitous Holiday Magic company should be wound up. There is provision for this under the Companies Act. [ Interruption. ] I am glad to have support from capitalists on the Opposition side of the House. I hope that hon. Members do not think this is a funny matter, because it is not funny for the people involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-19", "file": "debates1974-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "573e225ab6761772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1877.0", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ubject of housing insulation, which has been woefully neglected by successive Governments for many years and should receive urgent attention now that we are in this terrible new phase of energy shortage. I thought that my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, South (Mr. Morris) showed a blissful degree of optimism when he said that he hoped to go away feeling that matters were being well managed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-19", "file": "debates1974-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "573e225ab6761772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "s, if only the terms had been right on agricultural policy and on the budget and so on, he would have seen no difficulty whatever in supporting our application to join and the signing of the treaties. Many matters are now coming before the House which have caused a good deal of trouble, but they are matters which the House would not think of discussing at all if they involved domestic legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-19", "file": "debates1974-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "573e225ab6761772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1910.3", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I was trying to suggest that if in practice an issue was raised in draft in Brussels as a proposal about which the House of Commons felt so strongly that it indicated that it would not support the Government and their policies, the Government would be justified in saying that that was a major issue. I would not put it any higher than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1910.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-19", "file": "debates1974-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "573e225ab6761772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1928.1", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Yes, but the hon. Gentleman has not heard it from a Labour Minister. If we have a perpetual series of Labour Governments he can sleep safely in his bed. I cannot vouch for the right hon. and learned Member for Hex-ham. What I can say is that there will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-19", "file": "debates1974-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "573e225ab6761772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1943.2", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "ld in the same period of about £1,559 million. That means that, apart from the Six, we had a visible non-oil trade surplus, so far in 1974, of nearly £400 million. Since our current non-oil balance of payments deficit this year has been only £230 million—a remarkable figure—it follows that, but for the deficit with the Six, we should have had a non-oil payments surplus this year of £1,700 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-19", "file": "debates1974-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "573e225ab6761772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1987.0", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "preceding_text": "question will be studied to see what mechanism might best be adopted should such situations arise, and this is being done in what one might describe as very good time, before they do arise. I have no complaint about that. It should be placed on record, however, as far as the Community is concerned that this was agreed upon as long ago as 1971 and it does not cause the Community any major surprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1974-12-19", "file": "debates1974-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "573e225ab6761772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1997.1", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How can it do that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "rtant but the Council of Ministers. Let me say again—for I do not believe that it can be said too often—that the essential power of this House, in respect of control of what goes on in the Community, is exercised by its power and influence over the individual Ministers whom it may and does send to Brussels. If the House can influence the Foreign Secretary it can influence what goes on in Brussels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1974-12-19a.1997.1"}