{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-13", "file": "debates1975-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "da05443d3aab915e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-13a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS (COMPILATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It is true, as the right hon. Gentleman says, that some other people are bandying figures around, headed by the Sunday Telegraph yesterday. The figures which are being bandied around are without foundation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-13a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-14", "file": "debates1975-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "445e4366f4286ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-14a.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "preceding_text": "Does not my hon. Friend agree that it is absurd to abandon all the link bases from South Africa across the Indian Ocean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-14a.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-14", "file": "debates1975-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "445e4366f4286ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-14a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "m of the question must be absolutely clear. That will be within the control of Parliament. The right hon. Gentleman sponsored legislation for Northern Ireland in which the House was asked to approve the actual terms of the question which was included in the schedule to the Bill. That must be the situation in any legislation we bring before the House. My own answer to this must be perrfectly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-14a.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-14", "file": "debates1975-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "445e4366f4286ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-14a.369.3", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING RENTS AND SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "purpose in doing this in that we believe that since that time the situation in the rented sector has got worse. Certainly, on the part of the Opposition—and, I hope, certain hon. Members on the Government side of the House—there is a reluctance to accept anything which would remove housing stock from this sector. Therefore, we regret houses being taken from the rented sector, for whatever reason.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-14a.369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": "1975–76 is likely to be in the region of 80 per cent.? Is the hon. Gentleman further aware that a large part of my constituency is made up of farming land with a paucity of industrial development? The result is that any rates increase will fall largely upon domestic ratepayers and local shopkeepers who can ill afford such increases. Can the hon. Gentleman say—or, better still, do—something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.425.3", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend accept my congratulations and those of the ratepayers of Sandwell metropolitan borough for the generosity of the 1975 rate support grant? Can he also find a few words of sympathy for the ratepayers of the Midlands generally following the increase of 40 per cent. in the water rate for 1975–76 which, together with an increase of 60 per cent. in the current year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "BURMAH OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ense of relief that it fell into the hands of the bank and not into the hands of the Secretary of State for Industry. While, clearly, we must wait for Sir Ronald Leach's report of the details, will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that the immediate cause was the fall in the Stock Market values of Burmah's holdings in BP and Shell, as a result of which the company found itself in technical breach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "It comes oddly from a Government that first bankrupted the jewel of the British aero-engine industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "It comes oddly from a Government that first bankrupted the jewel of the British aero-engine industry—[ Interruption. ] and then nationalised it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "It comes oddly from a Government that first bankrupted the jewel of the British aero-engine industry—[ Interruption. ] and then nationalised it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It was you.\"]—who did more damage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.455.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "It ill befits the hon. Gentleman and the Leader of the Opposition, who first bankrupted and then nationalised Rolls-Royce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.456.12", "colnum": "456", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member withdraw that comment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.456.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.457.8", "colnum": "457", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raised two other questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.457.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not even listening.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "preceding_text": "y headed \"The Anger of the Middle Classes\" expressed no more than the truth about the actions of this Government toward the middle classes. These people have also been hit throughout by the fall in the value of stocks and shares. I made a speech in May or June of this year, when the Financial Times Index had fallen to 271, and the Financial Secretary sat on the Front Bench with a grin on his face—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.505.4", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I cannot blame them for that. I have been described as mean, savage, inhuman, vindictive, evil, vicious, schizophrenic and un-British. I hardly recognise myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.505.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "I am interested in the hon. Gentleman's comments on the electoral system. Would he like to tell me how many Liberal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will accept that tax allowances fall to be reviewed in the Chancellor's annual Spring Budget. We have almost got to the point of downgrading the Spring Budget because we have so many Budgets and financial adjustments these days. That is not a bad thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "established point of order, Sir Myer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "l issue. The hon. Member for Wycombe was right to say that it is impossible to estimate what would be the cost of the amendment, because there is no information about the distribution of investment income among the disabled and the blind. In any case, I shall not rest my arguments on the cost. Similar amendments relating to the disabled have been moved for many years by hon. Members on both sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "n the part of Conservative Members to follow the right hon. Member for Carlshalton (Mr. Carr) in his discourse. However, as we noticed during the Committee proceedings on the Finance Bill of last December, despite all his attempts at fiery eloquence he singularly failed to get his colleagues to share his cause. Listening to him this evening I do not find that surprising, because his discourse was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-15", "file": "debates1975-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e686404ed3bda504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "for Carlshalton (Mr. Carr) in his discourse. However, as we noticed during the Committee proceedings on the Finance Bill of last December, despite all his attempts at fiery eloquence he singularly failed to get his colleagues to share his cause. Listening to him this evening I do not find that surprising, because his discourse was—[ Interruption ]—very much in the nature of a mea ex culpa for his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-15a.588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL CONTRACT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ceptions and variations. I mean, for example, the miners, the nurses—I think the right hon. Gentleman was prepared to do something there; I am not sure—and the teachers—I would guess he was ready to do the same for them. Very many of these cases which have gone beyond the social contract have been cases on which there should be no dispute between the parties or successive Governments. In addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.677.3", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL CONTRACT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, of course it does not. Because the CBI does not agree with every aspect, am I supposed not to talk to the CBI?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "that the House should have an opportunity of debating the issue so that both sides of the case can be fully deployed, not merely by shouting and interruptions? At the same time the equally time-honoured tradition of the Home Secretary, which was exercised some years ago by Sir Samuel Hoare, of recommending a pardon in such cases, should be tested against the public opinion expressed in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "ANIMALS FOR SLAUGHTER (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I think (that they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "ANIMALS FOR SLAUGHTER (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": " than my personal interest. I am President of the National Society for the Abolition of Factory Farming. I should like to take this opportunity of expressing the gratitude of the association for the excellent manner in which my right hon. Friend the Minister, and the right hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Godber) when he was Minister, received deputations from the association, and for their courtesy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.718.6", "colnum": "718", "heading": "ANIMALS FOR SLAUGHTER (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.718.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "ANIMALS FOR SLAUGHTER (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "sume he did, and I assume that that also applies to members of the committee. I hope they all attended the committee's meetings, but as to that I am not completely sure. The motion refers to the progress made in establishing international welfare safeguards\". I should like to know what progress has been made in the international welfare of animals. My right hon. Friend gave no details of progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "ANIMALS FOR SLAUGHTER (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "preceding_text": "e can cut out completely the stress on animals. I have not noticed any great difference where human beings are concerned. I also notice that although some ships are supposed to have stabilisers for the comfort of passengers, half of the time the stabilisers are not used because they would slow down the ships. I should think that that would be true also of animal transportation. Let me turn to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.786.4", "colnum": "786", "heading": "ANIMALS FOR SLAUGHTER (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": " understand other colleagues have said some words during the day, and I overheard them, in relation to my hon. Friend's interventions. I certainly apologise to his sensibility. One of the major arguments has been: why should we have live trade rather than carcase trade? Of course, the underlying assumption is that the only trade in cattle is for immediate slaughter. There are other areas of trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.786.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR NEWHAM, NORTH-WEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which right hon. Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Thank you for calling me, Mr. Speaker. I had a word with you because I wanted to explain to the House that inadvertently in the last debate I made charges and allegations against the right hon. Gentleman which I subsequently found were not in accordance with the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.819.5", "colnum": "819", "heading": "EEC (AGRICULTURAL PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "y's Order Paper we are asked to take note of two additional documents. This means in effect that hon. Members have had only since 10 o'clock this morning when the Vote Office opened to procure these two documents and the notes of guidance, which are of more than 60 pages. These are obviously very complex documents. It seems grossly unfair that hon. Members who have a very busy life during the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.819.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.823.4", "colnum": "823", "heading": "EEC (AGRICULTURAL PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I will not be drawn on that. As I have said, the Community prices should be increased on average by between 9 per cent. and 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.823.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "EEC (AGRICULTURAL PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " before we finally get round to the real issues which are important to the United Kingdom. In price-fixing discussions we must keep a balance as between the needs of our producers and our consumers. I have stressed this over and over again. The need for price increases must be demonstrated. We have also to make sure that the food is produced. 1974 was a difficult year for some farmers and growers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "EEC (AGRICULTURAL PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "by member states including the United Kingdom'. I make one preliminary point. It is difficult for hon. Members of this House, when they are attempting to amend motions by the Government, to find next day that the motions they seek to amend have been themselves amended overnight. Two additional sets of documents have been added to the motion to which hon. Members have already put down an amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "EEC (AGRICULTURAL PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "ent is not allowed to debate it.\" Now I am told that the fact that we can have this preliminary debate is a great deprivation of Parliament's sovereignty when I can now put my case to the Minister and tell him that I want 10p on sheep and the basic price of beef to rise from £17 to £22 or £23 per live hundredweight. I can tell him that before the negotiations begin, and for that I am very pleased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "EEC (AGRICULTURAL PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": " debate is a great deprivation of Parliament's sovereignty when I can now put my case to the Minister and tell him that I want 10p on sheep and the basic price of beef to rise from £17 to £22 or £23 per live hundredweight. I can tell him that before the negotiations begin, and for that I am very pleased—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] I do not want any more of this humbug that we have lost sovereignty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "EEC (AGRICULTURAL PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is changing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "t prices. The situation vis-à-vis the relationship between EEC and world prices has been transformed immeasurably since we entered the Market in 1972. These are facts which we must face. We must accept their implications. It is not simply in the case of sugar that we have had a spectacular change in relationship between EEC and world prices. In cereals also we have a situation that in 1972—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-16", "file": "debates1975-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc01989d29809f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "EEC (CONSUMER PROTECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "eight. As some one who has spent quite a proportion of her life buying goods in shops, I do not regard that as adding to my rights, but rather as withdrawing important rights with regard to both information and redress. That brief debate took place a few weeks ago. Whatever the views of the House, when it comes to the crunch we shall not be able to reject this provision, whether we like it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-16a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-17", "file": "debates1975-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a93d36960558d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-17a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "DEFENCE LANDS AND NATIONAL PARKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "reat natural beauty. A start could be made now, following the Nugent recommendation, and I hope that the Government will take it up with the enthusiasm that we would have if we were given the opportunity. The Nugent Report posits that much more attention must be given to the improved appearance and removal of derelict buildings and eyesores from defence land. That I would urge upon the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-17a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I will be guided on this matter by the wishes of the House. If it is the desire of the House that there should be questions for, say, another 15 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1029.3", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "Since I hope to catch your eye later in the debate, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1029.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1058.3", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "preceding_text": "els that the councillor has not complied with the Act. On the other hand, my right hon. Friend explained that the Secretary of State had discretion in certain cases by which he could reduce the surcharge. He went on to give the global figure of cases at the moment and the number of councillors involved. I calculate that if the total sum was averaged out, each councillor would be surcharged £4,830—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "d for publicly-owned industries. I welcome what my hon. Friend the Member for Central Ayrshire said about his own family and Saltcoats Town Council generally. I, too, have a local authority in my constituency, Denny Town Council, which resisted the vicious Housing Finance Act. It did so in good faith. It is not good enough simply to say that because a law is passed it therefore demands acceptance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "o exceptions in regard to the waiving of surcharge. Remembering that the hon. Gentleman began his speech by saying that his father should be allowed to go to prison, it is a pity that the hon. Gentleman should spoil such a declaration of principle by coming to such a petty conclusion. I think that the hon. Gentleman's father and all those who acted like him thoroughly deserve to be sent to prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "om Paisley Town Council and the problem was put to them, but they would not alter the date when the Bill became law, although it could not be operated in the circumstances. Therefore, let us not have all this selective in- dignation about people breaking the law and getting into trouble. Particularly when dealing with a Tory Secretary of State for Scotland, one can get into trouble without trying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": " explicitly laid down under the previous administration in the exchange of letters of 17th November 1973. A number of points have been raised—rightly so—about the reaction of the French. I shall read to the House the statement—I do not know whether it has already appeared on the tape—by M. Cavaillé made at 5 p.m. United Kingdom time today. This is a translation, as is normal in these cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Relatively.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "(Mrs. Ewing)—said that the pathway to Europe would be through Scotland and not the Channel Tunnel. I hope that the Scottish nationalists and, perhaps more important, the whole of the Scottish nation will bear that sentence in mind, among all the trivia which the hon. Lady spoke. She is not as anti-European as most of us thought. I welcome the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "the Government to assess the cost of not building. So did my hon. Friend the Member for Lewes (Mr. Rathbone), who has a special problem. On the other side of the House, the hon. Member for Leeds, South-East (Mr. Cohen) again repeated the question \"What is the cost of not building?\" and asked what were the consequences for the railways, as I did. My hon. Friend the Member for Maidstone (Mr. Wells)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHANNEL TUNNEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "e Chairman of the Kent County Council inviting him and his colleagues to meetings to discuss the issues that now arise. We have also written to the hon. Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Costain) so that we may go into the detailed but important matters which he raised on behalf of his constituents. On the subject of alternative costs, we have not worked out what the alternative costs would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1172.3", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "lutionaries? I have a feeling that, rather than saving the council tenants any money, they will end up making them pay more, as well as bringing disrepute on the good name of their local authorities. The issue is not about money. It is not a question of what goes on the rates. It concerns a grave and important principle, affecting the whole basis of democracy. We are undoubtedly entering a period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1172.3", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ring a period—[ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Central Ayrshire will be aware that, while I have fought strenuously for many causes, it would be a novelty if I were, wilfully and openly, to incite local authorities to break the law. Even if I had been as irresponsible as the hon. Members for West Stirlingshire and Central Ayrshire, that would not be an answer to those concerned for democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "preceding_text": "must have been rather uncomfortable for him. So much, then, for the tough guys at the Scottish Office. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, Pentlands (Mr. Rifkind) mentioned sending local councillors to gaol, and so on. But those tough guys did nothing about the school milk episode in 1971. Let us come to the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1972. I shall not go into the merits of that Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "l the circumstances of the case—a situation into which hon. Members of the Opposition were only too happy and anxious to put their Secretary of State. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart is trying to have it both ways concerning money. He is trying to pretend that a large sum was lost to the ratepayers but, on the other hand, that people paying rents actually paid more than they would have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1188.3", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRICT COURTS (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": "It may seem a little odd that a Member who represents an English constituency should intervene on a matter of this kind, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-20", "file": "debates1975-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b01178eabd918ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRICT COURTS (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "mended the 1831 Act, that the provisions of the 1831 Act now apply to Scotland. The schedule contains no reference to the amending Act. For the convenience and enlightenment of anyone who looks at the schedule, I suggest, one amendment to the schedule should certainly be a reference to the Game Licences Act 1860. I turn next to the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1887, which is cross-border legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-20a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1208.3", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The worst example of misleading figures in the newspapers this morning was the headline in The Times saying, Earnings may be rising by 37 per cent. a year, figures show\". To express the recent monthly rates of increase in wage rates or earnings in annual terms is misleading nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1208.5", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "old agreements reached in accordance with the stage 3 code. A further 0·5 per cent. stems from the London allowance, in accordance with the recommendations of the Pay Board. In addition, nearly 2 per cent. is attributable to special cases for coal miners, railwaymen and postmen, leaving roughly 14½ per cent.—about the same as the figures we were getting under the basic stage 3 rules—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1222.5", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I read the speech very carefully. It contains a number of statistics from which my right hon. Friend drew conclusions, as he had the right to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1222.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1222.5", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I read the speech very carefully. It contains a number of statistics from which my right hon. Friend drew conclusions, as he had the right to do—[ Interruption. ]—as he had the right to do. My experience of Common Market debates both within parties and between them from 1961 onwards is that in statistical matters on the Common Market truth is many-sided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1222.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1224.7", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Hamilton). The right hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe) talks of a free vote. I must tell him that the Labour Government will get, without support from his or any other Opposition Party, a free vote of the whole British people. I should make an exception, because the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Smith), when speaking in the election, said that he supported a referendum on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1224.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have already said that I shall be making a statement on this matter on Thursday. Traditionally, the question of a free vote is a matter of advice by the Chief Whips of any party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1227.3", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The argument yesterday, the argument last week in the House, and the argument throughout, has been about the guidelines. We consider those guidelines to be right. We believe that they will make a marked impact on the rate of inflation that we inherited from the Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1227.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1270.2", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "So far I find that I am being incited, as a result of the Chief Secretary's replies, to speak when I had not intended to. The replies of the right hon. Gentleman constantly leave me with the impression that he has not really grasped the inwardness of the amendment or the inwardness of the relief which he is endeavouring not to foist on the business community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": ", the major reliefs in the tax—the relief on spouses and the lower rates—are possible only because certain earlier reliefs have been withdrawn—for example, that on the agricultural value of land. Secondly, the general principle behind the tax is that all assets should be equally subject to tax. If we exempt some, we make it unfair to the remainder and we are liable to produce economic distortions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The bulk has been done by the Forestry Commission, as I understand the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1372.0", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "It depends on the amount of grants available to the individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1372.2", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Nobody has argued more strongly than Conservative Members that it is a mistake to distort economic decisions by offering special incentives either through tax relief or other means. There is no question whatever that these two examples of decisions taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1372.2", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give an example.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "her through tax relief or other means. There is no question whatever that these two examples of decisions taken—[ Interruption. ] Investment can be moved into any area one wishes if one gives enormous tax advantages to that area. But many other parts of our economy require investment far more than forests but do not get the advantage of the special tax reliefs which have been offered to woodlands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1373.7", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "We shall return at length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1373.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1374.9", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "use spouses will get reliefs which they never had previously and they will benefit from the lower rates. But people with large wealth will be worse off than previously because the means by which they have avoided estate duty for decades will be removed. It is from them that the complaints are coming, and it is they whom right hon. and hon. Members of the Opposition are fundamentally representing.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1374.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1376.0", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I confess that I am not certain on that point. We shall be dealing with it under trusts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1376.2", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " be. I confess I am a little surprised that she should choose the capital transfer tax as the one tax in respect of which we should introduce indexing. A decision to index the tax system, as is the decision to index savings, is a matter of the greatest moment. No Government would propose to introduce indexation into the tax system with regard to capital taxes while leaving direct taxes untouched.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1378.2", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not be so insolent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1378.2", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not be so insolent—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I shall make my speech in my own way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "rs which hon. Members may raise. We have already announced some changes in our plans as a result of discussions earlier in the year. We shall be introducing some amendments and further changes as the Bill proceeds through Committee and Report. We have no intention of allowing this tax to operate in a way which we consider either unjust or contrary to the social or economic interests of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1429.0", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether it would be convenient to the Committee if I were to intervene at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1429.2", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not long enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "The Committee has been discussing this question for exactly three hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-21", "file": "debates1975-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9ea7b8787809bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Within the 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-21a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-22", "file": "debates1975-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "096ba65572ded676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1453.0", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's supplementary question is unrelated to the Question on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1453.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-22", "file": "debates1975-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "096ba65572ded676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1525.0", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "preceding_text": "apology for reading quotations from that article. I do not mean the simple-minded, bottom-form Marxists such as are sitting on the Government side of the Committee, some of whom were there yesterday too, giggling and gloating as if they were the knitting women before the guillotine in the Place de la Concorde. There are people who still believe that Marx-Leninism has something to do with equality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-22", "file": "debates1975-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "096ba65572ded676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1525.0", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Big Brother.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "preceding_text": " in Europe or the United States; the lack of any concession to families; the unfairness of the grossing-up system; the retrospective effect; and this nasty little proposal in Schedules 4 and 5 by which any professional adviser is compelled to report any settlement to the Revenue within three months, and not only the details of the settlement but anything which the Revenue thinks may be \"relevant\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-22", "file": "debates1975-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "096ba65572ded676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1549.0", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "With great respect to the hon. and learned Gentleman, I do not think that he was listening to what I said. I said that legacies under estate duty are paid gross with tax in exactly the same way as transfers under the capital transfer tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-22", "file": "debates1975-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "096ba65572ded676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " if they did not avoid it through gifts, transfers or other devices. We on the Government side believe that, if there is no limit on the ability of the wealthy minority to pass on the fruits of their labour to their children, we introduce into the class structure of this country a degree of rigidity, indeed, immobility, which is deeply damaging to both its economic efficiency and its social unity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-22", "file": "debates1975-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "096ba65572ded676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about its leader this morning?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "e of rigidity, indeed, immobility, which is deeply damaging to both its economic efficiency and its social unity—[ Interruption. ] There is overwhelming agreement on this point in the country. It was strongly endorsed by The Times in a leader in August, which gave an unconditional welcome to the tax in the form in which it was then described and in which it has now been presented to the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-22", "file": "debates1975-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "096ba65572ded676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1553.4", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Fitch. Is it permissible for the Chancellor to treat the Committee with such gross contempt as to suggest that that is a summing up of the most important financial debate the House of Commons has had since the war?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1553.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-22", "file": "debates1975-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "096ba65572ded676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1621.0", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " It is appropriate that this amendment should be in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Lamont) because it was an amendment in his name and mine which in Committee on the Floor of the House on the last Finance Bill initiated the first debate in this Chamber on the principle of indexation. It was not a Liberal amendment, as we were erroneously led to suppose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-22", "file": "debates1975-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "096ba65572ded676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1640.2", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Stewart", "preceding_text": "farmer who for precautionary and not evasive reasons had put farming land into a discretionary trust within the last four years, and who was now the tenant of the farm, would be virtually forced out of business. In my constituency trusts were set up because there was at the time a 45 per cent. concession on estate duty and there is always a political danger that such a concession may be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-22", "file": "debates1975-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "096ba65572ded676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1651.3", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Wiggin (Weston-super-Mare)", "cue_text": "[Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Wiggin (Weston-super-Mare)", "preceding_text": "l nature. The Chancellor's wind-up speech this evening did no good to this House. We frequently wonder why the public regard us with less and less approval. But when the Chancellor chooses to reply in a frivolous and irrelevant fashion to a seven-hour debate in which major points have been deployed with immense skill is it surprising that the public feel that we waste a good deal of our time here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-22", "file": "debates1975-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "096ba65572ded676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1657.2", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": " unable to make their proper contribution to the national economy. I was going to say that I could see the unhappy face of the Minister responsible for small firms, the Under-Secretary of State for Industry, but I now see him smiling. I do not know what he has to smile about when legislation is passing through the Committee which will wipe out many of the businesses that he is supposed to protect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-22", "file": "debates1975-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "096ba65572ded676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1665.0", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "ity with equipment and so on. Businesses of this sort have been far too heavily penalised by taxation of all sorts in recent years and will be even more heavily penalised by these measures unless the amendment is accepted or the Chief Secretary comes forward with something very like it. In all my experinece in the House of Commons, which is considerably longer than that of the Financial Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-22a.1665.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1719.2", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Colquhoun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Colquhoun", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend accept that the tied cottage system has been an intolerable burden on farm workers and their families?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1720.7", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "I do not think that is a very helpful point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1720.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1724.4", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "However well-intentioned this scheme, was it not entirely misconceived? Is the Minister aware that 830 cattle at £15 a head costs the Ministry just over £1,200 and that that is the only help from the Government to meet the fodder shortage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1724.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1737.0", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "As the House adjourned for the Christmas Recess on the eve of what was obviously a growing economic crisis, is it not natural that my right hon. and hon. Friends and the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) who seems for some reason not to be here today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1745.4", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRITISH MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "h cross party lines. The Cabinet has, therefore, decided that, if when the time comes there are members of the Government, including members of the Cabinet, who do not feel able to accept and support the Government's recommendation; whatever it may be, they will, once the recommendation has been announced, be free to support and speak in favour of a different conclusion in the referendum campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1745.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1748.0", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRITISH MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "situation which I do not think anybody will take as a precedent. The right hon. Gentleman referred to collective responsibility, which I shall come to in a moment. The right hon. Gentleman asked how the decision of the Government would be recommended to the House and, through the House, to the country. The answer is that we shall state what our recommendation is in the light of the renegotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1748.0", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRITISH MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ally clear recommendation \"Yes\" or \"No\" in that respect. The right hon. Gentleman was anxious to know whether the vote of the people should be binding. He no doubt has given his mind to this very carefully, and it is an important question. I cannot imagine that if the country votes clearly one way or the other \"Yes\" or \"No\" hon. Members would feel able to go against that decision and vote against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1753.3", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRITISH MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It depends on what we announce. It might well be the Leader of the Opposition for the time being who will express a view on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1753.3", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRITISH MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " position on this matter for very many years, certainly over the last 10 years. My right hon. Friend was against joining Europe at the time of the first application by Mr. Macmillan's Government. Later he took the view that he was in favour, and that has been his view. I have taken the view all along that it is right to be in if the terms are right, not if they are crippling. That is the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1755.1", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (BRITISH MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Executive Committee, all of us in the House have been elected to take decisions and as long as I am Prime Minister there will be no derogation in this matter. There will always be the happiest and most comradely of relations with the National Executive Committee. No one has done more than I have for over 20 years to secure that, except my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary over the last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1770.3", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many of his hon. Friends are grateful for the arrangements that he has made for the Scrutiny Committee, particularly since the present Leader of the Opposition made no such arrangements and kept the House largely in ignorance during the whole year of EEC legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1777.2", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ebate. But certainly it is the Government's policy to get the NEB established as swiftly as possible. We believe that it could play a very important part in dealing with this problem. But the Government have not waited to deal with these matters until this present moment. One of the first measures which the Government took to deal with unemployment in the regions, about which my hon. Friend asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1777.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1868.1", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CONSULTANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Sun. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ion, it has not been able to persuade many people outside the profession of the total validity of its claim and of the need to take industrial action. I have quoted from The Times. I could have quoted also from The Guardian, from the Observer, from the Financial Times and from the Economist. Of course, opposing views have been expressed—the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail would be two examples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1872.2", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CONSULTANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ions' own insistence on a 'closed' contract with extra pay for work outside the sessional hours. Whatever we say or do about the hours of nine to five, the proposals had actually said that \"normally from nine till five\"—but I am perfectly willing to concede that there should be greater flexibility about this; it was never meant to be a rigid implication—was to be one aspect of the closed contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (CUSTOMS SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "mber was not aware of the Customs presence, the officers were on duty until 6 p.m. that day. The caravan and stop sign were burnt on 13th January, six days before his visit, and the stop sign has, unfortunately, not yet been replaced. At Killeen, the officer on duty apparently saw no reason to stop the hon. Member's car, because he is, as we have agreed, well known to many officers on that border.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-23", "file": "debates1975-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "26ed07c6f85e6a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.2075.3", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (MUNICIPALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "r-occupation. I am bound to say that that commitment seems to have slipped somewhat. We have been promised a statement on measures to improve the state of the housebuilding market and measures relevant to the owner-occupied sector for months, but we have heard nothing. I do not know whether it was a slip of the tongue when the Minister in an earlier exchange mentioned the Second Reading of a Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-23a.2075.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-24", "file": "debates1975-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6b040a87355e0cb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-24a.2186.1", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FARRIERS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ace and should be based upon as firm data as can be obtained. If that data are not available we shall be speculating and, what is worse, legislating in the dark. For this reason I consider that it is reasonable to ask whether, in preparing and presenting the Bill, those who are responsible for it have any clear idea of the number of horses in the country at present and how many farriers there are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-24a.2186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-24", "file": "debates1975-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6b040a87355e0cb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-24a.2186.1", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FARRIERS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ting and, what is worse, legislating in the dark. For this reason I consider that it is reasonable to ask whether, in preparing and presenting the Bill, those who are responsible for it have any clear idea of the number of horses in the country at present and how many farriers there are. [ Laughter. ] They should be able to make some realistic provision about likely trends in the horse population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-24a.2186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-24", "file": "debates1975-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6b040a87355e0cb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-24a.2198.3", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FARRIERS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Let us take all these points of order together because they come under one heading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-24a.2198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-24", "file": "debates1975-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6b040a87355e0cb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-24a.2208.13", "colnum": "2208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVIDENCE (PROCEEDINGS IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Deputy Speaker, your words were \"I will give nobody a chance.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-24a.2208.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-27", "file": "debates1975-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "23507bc3e052c159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Questions to the Prime Minister are another matter. The doctrine of collective responsibility is completely unimpaired.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-27", "file": "debates1975-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "23507bc3e052c159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "FARRIERS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. We appreciate that your responsibility is limited, but I very much support what my hon. Friend the Member for Petersfield (Mr. Mates) said about what happened on Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-27", "file": "debates1975-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "23507bc3e052c159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "FARRIERS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Dr. Shirley Summer-skill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Dr. Shirley Summer-skill)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I assure the House that on my part there was no manoeuvring or deviousness about what happened on Friday. It was only the Monday before that that the Legislation Committee of the Government decided what to do about a private Member's Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-27", "file": "debates1975-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "23507bc3e052c159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.41.6", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "re was an absence rate of nearly 10 per cent., one quarter of those absences being without legitimate reason. The highest incidence, in the age group of 1516 years, rose to 4.8 per cent. It is widely agreed that, although that is a serious report, it grossly underestimates the actual rate of truancy. That point was made forcefully by my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, North (Dr. Boyson) in June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.41.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-27", "file": "debates1975-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "23507bc3e052c159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.46.4", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: Yes, there is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "back a little towards discipline and structure. Our second main proposal is a moratorium on the comprehensive-grammar school battle. That is why we asked in our manifesto, and I ask again today, that the Secretary of State should appoint an impartial inquiry into the achievements and the shortcomings of comprehensive schools. There is nothing derogative or prejudicial in proposing such an inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.46.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-27", "file": "debates1975-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "23507bc3e052c159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.46.4", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "chool, which it has preached for a decade, to advocacy of smaller schools and what have been called \"mini-comprehensives\". We need also a comparative study of merits of comprehensive and selective schools in terms of the results. We have some evidence, but we have not got anything authoritative and definitive. The Pedley-Sim-Caroline Benn research, I think it is agreed, is statistically worthless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.46.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-27", "file": "debates1975-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "23507bc3e052c159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "our third point—we ask for an inquiry into the state of religious and moral education in our schools. After all, the Secretary of State is under a statutory duty to provide this, and it is quite clear that in many schools the statutory obligation is going by default. One has only to look at the Birmingham experience, where, as part of the agreed syllabus, Communism was being taught in the schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-27", "file": "debates1975-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "23507bc3e052c159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "edge about them which would have been thought intolerable in launching any drug on to the market. We have had open-plan teaching, the inquiring mind approach, progress learning and look-and-say reading. What the Opposition believe is that in future it would be very much better if no methods were introduced generally into the schools until they had been throughly evaluated by controlled experiment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-27", "file": "debates1975-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "23507bc3e052c159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": " forward, it seems to me that the arguments for televising the House grow considerably in merit. The hon. Gentleman is pretty expert in that medium, as we all know. One of the reasons why the Tory Party is on the Opposition benches is that it has \"given the appearance—I stress the words given the appearance \"—of substantially caring only for the education of a small percentage of our young people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-27a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "In my political philosophy, ownership is not secondary. I believe that efficiency is improved by an element of public ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "EEC DEVELOPMENT MINISTERS (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is conditionality?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "On the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question, that was the position until October. Much of the conditionality which certain countries were imposing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "EEC DEVELOPMENT MINISTERS (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is 'ongoing business'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "I think I made clear in my statement that I regard this as a disappointing result. This was ongoing business at the Community. There was a possibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.218.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR WALSALL, NORTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member for Runcorn made it perfectly clear that extradition involves a two-way traffic. One can only extradite if the country from which one wishes to extradite is prepared to let one do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.252.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR WALSALL, NORTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "Does not the hon. Gentleman realise that the whole august process of a Select Committee, or the possibility that one is to be set up, amounts in this context to a very grave charge indeed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR WALSALL, NORTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member was elected to serve for this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR WALSALL, NORTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is not a fact. We do not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "nce to show that the right hon. Gentleman is making these statements and carrying out these deeds in a balanced state of mind. Perhaps I may list some of the actions which bring me to the conclusion about how I shall vote tonight. Initially there was the question of the passports. I do not want to go into all the details because that would be wrong. The fact is, however, that my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "o make the choice, at the end of the day my priority would be helping people rather than having the A9, necessary though that road is. As circulars are to be issued on the subject of the curtailment of expenditure, I should like to hear precisely what the priorities are. As regards oil development areas, I understand that a statement will be made on Friday about the Scottish Development Authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "preceding_text": "cart (Mr. Taylor) is present I shall acknowledge the contribution which he made in this respect. Some years ago, when he was a Minister, I asked him to visit Holm-head Hospital in Cumnock when he was at Ballochmyle. He did so, and later we received the money necessary to improve the accommodation there. Holmhead Hospital is not a human filing cabinet. It is one of the most friendly hospital units—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. I have done the House perfect justice. I was asked to give details. I have done so. I cannot be gagged in this way by being continually barracked by hon. Members opposite. I have made perfectly reasonable statements. I am entitled to have them treated with respect even by those who do not agree with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.326.6", "colnum": "326", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I hope that I am not being unfair to the hon. Gentleman, because I usually try to be fair, but I can only imagine that he is determined to make a row about something over which no row exists. He has put words in my mouth. I never suggested that there was anything which was in the slightest way improper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.326.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "the social contract be part of the basis of the increase order, or will the order just be based on the actual increased salaries and wages paid by the local authorities? The main concern expressed in the House tonight has been that felt by many people in Scotland that next year and this year, in particular, will see a massive increase in local rates. There is every indication that that may happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "ication that that may happen. [ Interruption. ] I see that the Minister of State is in agitated conversation with one of his Government colleagues. He should look back to the debate on 4th July, when there was another such cheerful conversation, and when the hon. Gentleman said: we do not see why reorganisation in Scotland should by itself impose considerably increased local authority expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-28", "file": "debates1975-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "792adfd0a1447140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Exactly\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "In none of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-28a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-29", "file": "debates1975-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6eee25496ae0ae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman refers to 500,000 refugees. As far as I know, there are 120,000 refugees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.380.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-01-29", "file": "debates1975-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6eee25496ae0ae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.390.2", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is a soft one.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roper", "preceding_text": "In the light of my right hon. Friend's experience of political co-operation in the Community, will he tell us whether he believes that the political influence of this country in the world would be greater or less if we were to withdraw from the Community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-29", "file": "debates1975-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6eee25496ae0ae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I would remind you that, although it is the general practice that you, as Mr. Speaker, being supposedly in charge of the affairs of this House, always seemingly have the last say, you would do well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-29", "file": "debates1975-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6eee25496ae0ae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "REQUISITIONING OF EMPTY HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker. May I start on a non-controversial note by wishing you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, a very happy birthday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-29", "file": "debates1975-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6eee25496ae0ae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "REQUISITIONING OF EMPTY HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": ". I hope that the House will not grant leave to introduce the Bill. I have no doubt at all about the genuine sincerity of the hon. Member for Salford, East (Mr. Allaun), and whatever I may say in my remarks will not take away from that attitude about the hon. Gentleman. However, the Bill is yet another step in the Labour Party's inexorable policy and campaign against private ownership of property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-29", "file": "debates1975-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6eee25496ae0ae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"So did the Conservative Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "f life-style comes when the first child arrives. Many childless couples have one life-style, but as soon as the first child arrives it changes. I am sorry that it has taken so long for the major political parties to agree that we should include the first child in this allowance. I was therefore as disappointed as any hon. Member that in the Bill the Government continued to exclude the first child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-29", "file": "debates1975-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6eee25496ae0ae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "wances for the eldest child of a one-parent family. He used the three-line Whip to clear the Tea Room of his supporters and marshal them into his Lobby. Now, he uses the same argument against ending the earnings rule. I grant that, because of the Opposition's view of the need to restrain public expenditure, we did not vote officially and he had an artificially high majority of 100 on new Clause 2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-29", "file": "debates1975-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6eee25496ae0ae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.481.3", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-29", "file": "debates1975-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6eee25496ae0ae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The Minister of State began his speech on a belligerent note, which is one of his styles when he is in difficulty. If he intends to do this he might give me the opportunity of answering the first point before he rises to raise a second one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-29", "file": "debates1975-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6eee25496ae0ae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "e unwrung in this matter. I did not hold office during the 1970 Government, nor during the Douglas-Home Government, nor in the twilight of the Macmillan Government, but during all that time and before it I have been an advocate of doing away as soon as possible with the earnings rule. I have received, as have other hon. Members—only I have received them perhaps over rather a longer time than most—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-29", "file": "debates1975-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6eee25496ae0ae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-29", "file": "debates1975-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6eee25496ae0ae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.538.4", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I apologise. I realise your difficulties. However, I rise on a different point of order. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was heard distinctly to use the words \"bloody humbug\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-29a.538.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Let me say, Mr. Speaker, \"You, too, Brutus\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.614.4", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STRETFORD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has put his supplementary question with his usual objectivity. I went to Stretford as well, and I certainly did not speak for the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.614.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.616.7", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STRETFORD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "In view of that, Mr. Speaker, I really feel, with permission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.616.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.616.8", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STRETFORD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.616.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STRETFORD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) asked the question, so I was going to help him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "TRAWLER \"MORENA\" (LOSS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speed it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I announced quite recently that this subject is under inquiry by my Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.631.4", "colnum": "631", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I shall pass on that suggestion to my right hon. Friends. But, bearing in mind the borrowing requirement that we inherited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "tion food subsidies and the necessity for reducing them, they talk as though the cause of our difficulties lies always with one section of society and in the wage increases paid to people who work in industry. That argument is trotted out regularly by Conservatives. On that controversial issue there is nobody on the Conservative benches who has done as much as I have to restrain wages in industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "That is where the hon. Gentleman's lack of imagination shows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ed to the cost of living, that, whatever we do, while oi' prices are soaring we shall be faced with food subsidies. This is a message not only for the Leader of the Opposition, who neglected it. If he had acted on that message, he might have prevented the astronomical increase in oil prices, with the result that the cost of living would have been far lower and the need for subsidies equally lower—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "preceding_text": "tested benefits is not high. People have memories of means-tested benefits which cannot easily be shrugged off, and means-tested benefits are divisive. I will listen with great interest to the Minister's comments on the question of financing. I am in favour of higher taxation. I do not subscribe to the view, the lower the taxation the better. I believe firmly that the rich should be heavily taxed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Neubert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Neubert", "preceding_text": "are most in need and assists in redistributing wealth from the better off to the less well off. However much the Minister may assert this and quote bodies outside the House in seeking statistical evidence, our own experience tends to throw great doubt on the proposition. Let us take the average family. There is little variation in the type of food consumed by people in the different income groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "s. My hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner), who is here for every debate, will agree with me, I am sure, that when the miners demonstrated they did not drive to the demonstrations in Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars. The farmers, however, are fortunate enough to be able to do that. I have heard all these debates before. Along with Mr. Speaker, I first came to the House about 30 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Of course. They do not mind lolly for the boys, provided they are their boys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "held back to such an extent that it was distorting the ability to provide certain basic services, such as hospital services. Much of the wage explosion was the inevitable and predicted consequence of eventually taking the lid off the protracted statutory pay policy. The trouble was that the policy operated by the previous administration applied to pay but did not apply to prices, and consequently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-30", "file": "debates1975-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c3326fde5a5a96f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICE CODE", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. Robert Maclennan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. Robert Maclennan)", "preceding_text": "I should like first to congratulate the hon. Member for Pudsey (Mr. Shaw) on his first appearance on the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-30a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-31", "file": "debates1975-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c119ded100019281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-31a.814.2", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL LOTTERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Dr. Shirley Summerskill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It's a lottery!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Dr. Shirley Summerskill)", "preceding_text": "I must congratulate the right hon. Member for Crosby (Mr. Page) on his uncanny success in the Ballot for private Members' Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-31a.814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-31", "file": "debates1975-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c119ded100019281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-31a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL LOTTERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "There is no Whip on this side, unlike, I understand, the Government side. The support that is now being given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-31a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-31", "file": "debates1975-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c119ded100019281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-31a.856.3", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL LOTTERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or any other day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": ", we had the Government Front Bench spokesman and then an Opposition Front Bench speaker. I began to wonder whether this was a Private Member's Bill at all. Bearing in mind some of the comments that were made last Friday—at a late hour in the afternoon—and the exercises that Whips have undertaken in the past on Bills with which I have been connected, I take a dim view of Front Benchers on Fridays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-31a.856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-31", "file": "debates1975-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c119ded100019281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-31a.871.4", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL LOTTERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "It is a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was saying that I had been in the Chamber since before eleven o'clock, having met the right hon. Gentleman and his good lady at about half-past ten. I have a constituency interest in this matter", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-31a.871.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-01-31", "file": "debates1975-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c119ded100019281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-31a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL LOTTERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is another motion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether I need the leave of the House to speak again or whether this is another motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-01-31a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "My comment to the hon. Gentleman is twofold. First on 8th February 1974—when the hon. Gentleman was in Government—the Financial Times reported that industrial confidence was at the lowest point for 16 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "posals will not lead to the effect on steel in Scotland that the SNP believes. Since the review began, the BSC has announced a decision to build a direct reduction plant at Hunterston, which will be extremely important for that peninsula, and a signficant proportion of the £400 million proposed in the BSC's Strategy for Scotland has already been announced. Furtherfore, there is to be an extension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "SUGAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I cannot be precise about a common Community price. It is much too early to answer that question at this stage. I shall be in Brussels next week negotiating prices which affect sugar beet in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.956.4", "colnum": "956", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "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": "er of last year. We are committed to preserving the unity of the United Kingdom. We are looking forward to the development of a new relationship between Scotland, Wales, the English regions and the central Government. We are not looking back to the 17th century, to the position before the Act of Union of 1707. The two-and-a-half centuries since that date have inevitably moulded us into one nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.956.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "nsible to this House will have to be similarly defined and made abuntantly clear. That will be all the more difficult because the more that is devolved the less there will be for the Secretary of State to do. So, if as it appears, the Government have decided on an Executive, I hope they will not conduct their discussions, as often happens with Governments, on the principle of keeping Willie happy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "preceding_text": "d debate with them the subject of nationalism within the context of the United Kingdom, having Wales and Scotland in mind in this connection. Let me say in deference to the hon. Member for Carmarthen that I have a great respect for the people of Wales, their culture and their institutions, as I have for the people of Scotland, but these matters have nothing to do with what we are discussing today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "take. In direct opposition to everyone else who has spoken so far, I do not believe that we should adopt the Cabinet system of government. This system reposes far too much power in the hands of too few people. It puts frightening power in the hands of its top executive, who has to resist the temptation to protect his almost absolute authority by surrounding himself with loyalty instead of ability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "up an Assembly is their conviction that legislative devolution is good for Britain or even good for Scotland. What has impelled them to make this proposal is a hasty and ill-thought-out attempt to appease the separatist demands of the nationalists. Why should appeasement work any better in moderating the demand of the nationalists now than it did in moderating the demands of Hitler before the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way, the hon. Gentleman comes from the wrong nationalist party. I must remember that other hon. Members wish to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and not go on for too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "n recent weeks, on the Assembly issue, I have been cast in the Scottish Press as something of a reactionary villain, along with the benighted members of the executive of the Scottish Labour Party. The reason why that executive is taking its present attitude is, bluntly, that no group of serious people has given the subject so much informed thought as has the executive of the Scottish Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " is a partnership expressed in common membership of this Parliament. To refer again to the speech of the right hon. Member for Belfast, East (Mr. Craig), I do not like the concept of one part of the Union sending fewer Members of Parliament than it is entitled to. As long as the Union is expected to survive and flourish, its component parts should be represented here on a broadly comparable basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that Scottish National Party Members should be so ribald in this respect. I should have thought that they would be delighted that devolution is to take place. Indeed, I am amused at the response of the hon. Member for Argyll (Mr. MacCormick) who earlier attacked the Conservative Party particularly for being out of touch with the needs and requirements of the people of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-03", "file": "debates1975-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "88da653656e583ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman supports a free trade area. When I asked the right hon. Gentleman not so long ago what difference membership of a free trade area would make to our trade deficit with the eight member countries of the EEC, he said that food would normally be available at lower prices outside the Community than inside it. He differs in that from the vast majority of informed people in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-03a.1085.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1129.3", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I shall be glad to receive a local deputation. It is precisely because we are concerned with the quality of education that we want to get rid of the selective system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1142.3", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LABOUR PARTY—TUC LIAISON COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "uld answer \"Yes\" to the Question? He did, however, make a speech on that date, reported in the national Press, in which he discussed at length the social contract. Is he aware that a former adviser to his Government, Mr. Wilfred Beckerman, has said that the social contract is now about as effective in combating inflation as appeasement is in containing dictators? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1143.6", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT FORD (TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I take what my hon. Friend says very seriously. Although the discussions were confidential I can tell him what I said on the record in Canada before I went to the United States, and I will make it available if that is desired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY (CLOSURE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Nobody, least of all I myself, has ever said that as a result of revised strategy one can avoid some change in the structure of industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "e not done so because I and no one else would accord it that priority. The priority is to ensure that there is built speedily a good M4 motorway and an A55 in the north. Those are the important roads to ensure that our centres of production can send their goods to the areas of consumption. Our proposals for executive devolution have not been understood. I wish to educate the critics on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1212.3", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "e allocated we would have a powerful instrument of meaningful self-government placed back in the hands of the Scottish people. I believe that a Parliament with these powers would satisfy their needs and aspirations and make this Union stronger, always provided that we do not, as a British electorate and a British Parliament, continue with the policy of remaining in membership of the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1212.3", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "ieve that a Parliament with these powers would satisfy their needs and aspirations and make this Union stronger, always provided that we do not, as a British electorate and a British Parliament, continue with the policy of remaining in membership of the Common Market. [ Interruption. ] In a sense all of our discussion until now has been like The Guardian study, which was published on 16th January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "owers could be a further worthwhile function for the Assembly. On last year's figures, nominated bodies in Wales have about £280 million a year to spend. They are not accountable to any elected body. For example, an official in the Postal Board in Cardiff decided, of all things, that \"Anglesey\" was no longer to be a name for postal purposes. That has offended the people of Anglesey beyond measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1272.0", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "No. I would love to give way if I had more time, because if I did so the hon. Gentleman and his party would put their feet still further into the mire, and disappear down the drain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "devolution that has been achieved has not been understood by the people in Scotland. It is worth reminding the House of the attitude that was reflected in the survey carried out by the Kilbrandon Report. About 34 per cent. of those surveyed did not realise that a Scottish Office existed. Another 18 per cent. were in doubt about its existence and only 48 per cent. were fully aware of its existence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1278.4", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are different.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Powell) spoke of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom existed 100 years before the union of the Parliaments. We in Scotland, whether we calculate from 1603 or 1707, have not lost our sense of national identity, nor have we within Scotland lost our sense of identity in regard to the people of the Western Isles and their culture. I refer to the people of Shetland and Orkney and their culture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1278.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1278.4", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ho own the companies—and it will, until they face up to the fact that profits come from ownership and are prepared to join with us making this the people's oil. It was suggested that we were only making this devolution to please Willie. I wanted to know whether it was Willie Whitelaw, Willie Ross or Willie Hamilton, but I can assure the House that we are not doing this to appease the nationalists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1278.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1283.3", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "We think that a Scottish Assembly will be to the benefit of the good government of the people of Scotland. We think that it will be acceptable to the people of Scotland, and we do not consider, judging from the advice which we have been given today, that this House wants to endanger the political and economic integrity of the United Kingdom. Apart from one party in this House, the general feeling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-04", "file": "debates1975-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "25dfad59dcafec84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1304.2", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "EEC (FARMING AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's geography is not as good as his initial thinking. Although there are differences between the Shetlands and Cornwall, it is generally true to say that in the British Isles they run from east to west rather than from north to south—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-04a.1304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-05", "file": "debates1975-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3e02705d13ee2e7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1351.3", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NVT.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm that although a decision not to go ahead with the project has been taken, men are, apparently, still carrying on digging, from both ends? Is it not about time someone told them to stop?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-05", "file": "debates1975-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3e02705d13ee2e7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1358.7", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": " What about the case of Barton's, Britain's biggest independent operator, which last year actually made a profit out of selling five-year-old buses and buying new ones under the grant scheme? What about the Newport cases last November where, for example, in the Moseley case some £10,000 in costs and fines were awarded? What about the Don Everall case in which £2,000 in costs and fines was awarded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1358.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-05", "file": "debates1975-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3e02705d13ee2e7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1358.7", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "ggest independent operator, which last year actually made a profit out of selling five-year-old buses and buying new ones under the grant scheme? What about the Newport cases last November where, for example, in the Moseley case some £10,000 in costs and fines were awarded? What about the Don Everall case in which £2,000 in costs and fines was awarded—[ Interruption. ] Can I say to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1358.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-05", "file": "debates1975-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3e02705d13ee2e7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1371.4", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "That is a very fair point to make. While I am making fair points I remind the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-05", "file": "debates1975-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3e02705d13ee2e7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1374.0", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have listened carefully to the hon. Gentleman. This is not a matter for the Chair. The hon. Member must use his influence with the Patronage Secretary on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-05", "file": "debates1975-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3e02705d13ee2e7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1378.0", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Although my right hon. Friend could not have resisted the evacuation of the Turkish refugees, he could have prevented the Turkish Government from resettling them in the northern territories of the island.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-05", "file": "debates1975-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3e02705d13ee2e7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "OREDRS OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "he direction in which I think we should proceed as a general principle. Of course, there are differences. For example, some authorities will still have no SSHA houses or new town houses within their area of responsibility, so comparisons are difficult. Some other authorities could have practically no deficit in their housing account and still have relatively low rents. Saltcoats is a good example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-05", "file": "debates1975-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3e02705d13ee2e7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1421.0", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "OREDRS OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "That is not the argument, because the Labour Government were the first Government to introduce subsidies. We have always been concerned about the inability of certain people to meet the rent levels of certain houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-05", "file": "debates1975-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3e02705d13ee2e7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "OREDRS OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "ur Members who supported us upstairs in Committee—will be glad to go along with the Minister in any proposal for the period to be increased to two, three or four years. The Minister mentioned the Finer Report—a bulky document running to hundreds of pages. I ask the Minister to look at page 396. I hope the Minister will listen to what I am saying instead of making arrogant and stupid interventions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-05", "file": "debates1975-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3e02705d13ee2e7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "OREDRS OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "hen the Bill came back to this House. I hope that the Minister, in replying, will give us at least a firm statement that the matter will be reconsidered before further amendments are put down in Committee. If he does not, at the risk of giving the Patronage Secretary and Deputy Chief Whip a coronary, we may well be disposed to divide the House, because we think this is a crucial point in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-05a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-06", "file": "debates1975-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "797d7b271e6a7062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1542.2", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At least.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I am aware that the hon. and learned Gentleman has sought to challenge this view and that he has not succeeded in persuading the House. I do not wish to get involved with Lord Sandys, who has now left us but who had a considerable responsibility for the fact that the commitment exists and has to be discharged, as is recognised. There are some dependants involved, perhaps about three per person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1542.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-06", "file": "debates1975-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "797d7b271e6a7062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1555.6", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC AND CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e and its Members. There, and in other ways, I can recall many acts of individual consideration and kindness going far beyond the normal exchanges and activities of parliamentary life in our democracy. In whatever field the right hon. Gentleman's talents and experience may be deployed, and in his continuing membership of this House, which we welcome, I know that the whole House will wish him well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1555.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-06", "file": "debates1975-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "797d7b271e6a7062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1558.6", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HORSTED KEYNES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am certainly aware of the connection with the Bluebell Line, and I am sure that we all wish it every success. If my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1558.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-06", "file": "debates1975-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "797d7b271e6a7062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the proposal in the Scottish Bill. The short answer is that the Housing Finance Act, from which the Scots are moving to their new system, was different from that in England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-06", "file": "debates1975-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "797d7b271e6a7062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why are they on waiting lists?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ion. All of us, irrespective of party, must be shocked at the totals of waiting lists. I do not believe that they can be accepted purely at face value. We need to reassess waiting lists. We should divide them into three categories: category A, urgent priority cases; category B, those with some housing need; and category C, those with no need for local authority rehousing in the foreseeable future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-06", "file": "debates1975-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "797d7b271e6a7062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two weeks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ion—I welcome the emphasis now on the latter—is the slowness of planning procedures. Hon. Members on both sides of the House have drawn attention to it, and it occurs both locally and at ministerial level. Somehow we have to get the procedures better organised, and I ask the Minister why it is not possible in a routine case for the inspector's report to be on the Minister's desk within two months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-06", "file": "debates1975-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "797d7b271e6a7062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "s already have too much property which they manage badly. I do not believe that any hon. Member, on either side of the House, can say that in his postbag each week, irrespective of party, he does not get letters about repairs not carried out, broken windows, requests to pay more attention to complaints and the fact that nothing is done about transfer applications. All of us know that this happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-06", "file": "debates1975-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "797d7b271e6a7062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1715.3", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alec Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alec Jones", "preceding_text": "tinue to be taken into account. Nevertheless, there is at present no provision which would permit us to assess the language ability of a doctor wanting to enter NHS general practice in an under-doctored area or to engage in private practice. It is considered unlikely that many doctors without an adequate knowledge of English would wish to establish themselves or would attract patients if they did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-06a.1715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a specious argument.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "they have used that argument to justify abortion on demand in any pregnancy. The figures of deaths due to childbirth and the figures of death due to medically induced abortion are not comparable, because deaths due to childbirth usually occur in women suffering from disease or other abnormality, whereas deaths due to abortion in the early stages of pregnancy would usually occur in a healthy woman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1784.5", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "If there is to be a genuine effort to improve relationships between those countries and other parts of Europe, the hon. Lady should seek to make these matters clear. The hon. Lady should not support a system under which people from the Soviet countries she so likes have to come to this country to obtain something which they cannot obtain there. I hope I may be allowed to move on much more quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1784.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1786.3", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": " investigated. The sponsors of the Bill do not want these matters to be left at large. We did not want to leave the matter to be decided by a debate in which there will be all sorts of confusion. The situation is that if somebody objects to the motion today it will have to come before the House again on Tuesday, when we can vote upon it. If somebody is so wayward as to object to the motion to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1786.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1808.3", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": " so far over the three-month limit. I know at least one doctor who, having practised in this area for many years, takes the view that 14 weeks should be the normal maximum permitted limit for termination of pregnancy. But this is not a matter on which we, as lay people, should be dogmatic, nor can we form any useful view without hearing a good deal of evidence. On the question of administrability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": " to difficulties in getting a Private Member's Bill through by mentioning his own experience. His experience should have taught him that a Private Member can get a long way with help from the Government, because when his Children Bill—which did not reach the statute book under his name as a back bencher—was going through the House, it is fair to say that he got a considerable amount of assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "support this Bill and who probably will not get the chance to take part in today's debate. I shall therefore be brief. May I congratulate the hon. Member for Glasgow, Pollok (Mr. White) on presenting the Bill and on his speech today. I am sorry that the Bill has apparently now disappeared and that a Private Members' day has been altered into a Government day. I have been in this House long enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Her own passport.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "preceding_text": "he difficult judgment of grave injury and serious risk and so on but has to find out about the woman's nationality. How does he police that task? The woman may say \"I speak in an odd way because I come from Southern Ireland\", or she may say \"I do not speak English very well because I am German but married to an English husband.\" Has the doctor to obtain the husband's birth certificate or passport?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1831.3", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not publish it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "travel costs. The undertaking from the doctors is as follows: Pregnancies can be interrupted up to 24 weeks if necessary. Should your patient have difficulties … she can be certain that she has not been driven to the right address. I have obtained from the paper the address, which is in my constituency. I shall send it to the Minister, because I think that the matter should be investigated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1838.3", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "se to be brief I now come to my second and final point but, before enlarging on it perhaps I may tell the House that Paul Cavadino has made a realistic survey of the situation and that had time been at my disposal I should have liked to make the report to the House that he has made to me. It grieves me very much that young girls of 14, 15, 16 and 17 are having abortions in the manner that we know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1838.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1842.1", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Delargy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Delargy", "preceding_text": "ich is no great respecter of life. On both sides of the House we should be careful of our language, whether we are for or against the Bill. This is why I am glad that the Government intend to set up a Select Committee. I had it in mind, as had many other hon. Members, to come here specifically to vote for the Bill. Perhaps they feel disappointed that they will not now be given the chance to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1844.1", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "preceding_text": "The Rev.—No, I am sorry: it is the Rev. Alan Clark, I am afraid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1854.5", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "edical profession, the Home Office, the police, and so on. It is of the utmost importance that the safeguards should be there to protect women who in some cases come from a long way off in fear and in a state of anxiety. Whatever the outcome of her journey—it may be an abortion—a woman in this condition needs the best possible advice, care and treatment, and that is the purpose of the Bill. I end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1854.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1863.4", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I will take the point of order, though strictly speaking I should immediately put the Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1863.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1868.7", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPLANT OF HUMAN ORGANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1868.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1868.8", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPLANT OF HUMAN ORGANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is my understanding that the Government Whips have objected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1868.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-07", "file": "debates1975-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "c1af1a74ffcfd262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1869.4", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH AND INDECENT DISPLAYS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 31st January ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-07a.1869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-10", "file": "debates1975-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce796f891ae1c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-10a.18.4", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Gentleman can have put forward that view only in a spirit of levity. However, the voluntary agreement comes to an end at the end of March, and we shall be considering whether it is the most appropriate method of seeking to concentrate benefits on the shopping baskets of housewives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-10a.18.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-11", "file": "debates1975-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b04911bad093bda3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that since it has emerged that he is increasing rather than decreasing the arms bill protests have been flowing in to Transport House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-11", "file": "debates1975-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b04911bad093bda3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that since it has emerged that he is increasing rather than decreasing the arms bill protests have been flowing in to Transport House—[ Interruption. ]—from constituency Labour parties and trade unions, including the Transport and General Workers' Union, which has thousands of workers involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-11", "file": "debates1975-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b04911bad093bda3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "at since it has emerged that he is increasing rather than decreasing the arms bill protests have been flowing in to Transport House—[ Interruption. ]—from constituency Labour parties and trade unions, including the Transport and General Workers' Union, which has thousands of workers involved—[ Interruption. ]—and that 91 Labour Members of Parliament, and the national executive of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-11", "file": "debates1975-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b04911bad093bda3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ders of Merseyside and Lancashire trade unionism were there. What I was attacking in that speech—I think that I had some little success in the matter—were certain neurotic comments in the Press and on the other side of the House in recent weeks which have shown a total ignorance of how Cabinet Government works. These matters are all decided on the basis of Cabinet decisions and Cabinet committees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-11", "file": "debates1975-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b04911bad093bda3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that. Certainly it is our endeavour to unite the whole nation, and when this week is over I am prepared to offer my good offices to the Conservative Party to help to unite it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.205.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-11", "file": "debates1975-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b04911bad093bda3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "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": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement. On 14th January I outlined to the House the Government's policy towards Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-11", "file": "debates1975-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b04911bad093bda3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.226.2", "colnum": "226", "heading": "DEFENCE (PROTECTION OF OFFSHORE INTERESTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "apped-out stopgaps. They are not that, and I invite him to see them at a convenient time so that he can reassure himself on that account. The new vessels he has mentioned will be specially designed. I am sure that they will have the best available accommodation, given the difficulty of the task. It will be possible to land equipment on them from helicopters, though they will not carry helicopters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-11a.226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.379.3", "colnum": "379", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "f it were taxed, would be more than £14 million a year, and that that is likely to increase over the next few years? Does he not think that it would be desirable for us to return to the principle of having a Select Committee to go into all the details instead of this proposal being passed by an order of the House which we shall not have the opportunity to amend? Will not the Prime Minister accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.381.4", "colnum": "381", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "se support he claims did not move an amendment to the Bill relating to the procedure under which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and I are required to act. I was interested in what my hon. Friend said, because the point was pressed in our discussions. Incidentally, in most votes in the Select Committee he and I voted on the same side, but perhaps for slightly different reasons", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.381.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "the method of appeal which should be made available to him. Here again there is no great difference between us. The right hon. Gentleman has said that the Trades Union Congress agreed upon certain arrangements for considering these appeals within the trade union movement. My hon. Friends, in the amendment which they have submitted and which the Secretary of State himself has described as moderate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "t would not be fair to say that the Bill merely restores the situation to what it was before 1971. I do not see how one can remove the prohibiton of the closed shop in the 1971 Act and then say that everything is the same as it was before that time. The very fact that something which existed previously is being removed straight away implies that one is anticipating a movement towards a closed shop", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "n erected against, in this case under the 1971 Act, the closed shop and it is then removed by the very nature of things the impression is bound to be given that the Government are in favour of the closed shop operating. Much more important than that are the other matters which I have mentioned. I am convinced that they make the closed shop situation more readily taken advantage of than before 1971", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Even today's?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I understand that just after the war it was so easy to sell advertising space that managements would go to almost any lengths to get their newspapers published on time. They would give almost anything away to make certain that the papers came out. The industry is liable to blackmail, because nothing is as dead as yesterday's newspaper. Sometimes I am glad that that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERH \"Oh, God!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "rculation, it is absolutely paramount that there should be better industrial relations. That means a good deal more information being supplied to all sections of the industry, whether on the printing or the journalists' side, so that they know precisely what the future holds. There is no doubt that the problems of the industry and of the journalists have become the vehicle by which some militants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.429.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentlemen opposite agree. I have been saying this. It goes on: nor of their editors and journalists; it ought to belong to the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "th all the dangers that that may have—I put it no higher, because I do not think that it is any higher—in terms of freedom of the Press, so be it. The Bill will be better for it. But whilst I entirely accept that the Press is a free Press, as I also said in Committee, and have written in certain articles since, which have been published in the only free newspaper in the country, the Liberal News —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "ade against him. In spite of that, the union set up the appeals machinery. It took a room in a Cambridge hotel and invited him to attend. When he did not attend, it appointed someone to act for him and it carried on with the case. It went through every stage and gave the benefit of the doubt to the editor on the first point but found he had done work over and above editorial duties in the dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.439.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magee", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of that, but my hon. Friend will know that in discussions on the very issue which we are debating tonight, the NUJ has repeatedly refused to take into account the views of the Institute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "All the discussions that I have had on this subject with Mr. Ken Morgan persuade me that he is ready to sign it and that he thinks that he has a good chance of persuading his union to sign it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.527.0", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is everybody's friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "t particularly because I do not wish to do anything to allow the progress towards the achievement of such a charter to be upset, as it could be by some of the actions and suggestions made by those who write to the newspapers and give their views on these subjects. A reference has already been made to the letter in The Times today from Lord Goodman. Lord Goodman happens to be an old friend of mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.527.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-12", "file": "debates1975-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "594292584a833dce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tories have consciences.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "in has always respected the principle of freedom of conscience. Of course, freedom of conscience for most people means religion. For most people when one talks in terms of freedom of conscience one means religion. People who have religions, especially in this modern age, are not the only people who have consciences. Humanists have consciences. Atheists have consciences. Agnostics have consciences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-12a.546.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-13", "file": "debates1975-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b35be43a40d318f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is Question Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": ". The fact remains, however, that unemployment in Northern Ireland is higher than in the rest of the United Kingdom. As for the Prime Minister's congratulations yesterday to the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher), that was yesterday and we will wait for what my right hon. Friend has to say in the future. Let me direct this question to the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-13", "file": "debates1975-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b35be43a40d318f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.593.5", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERIAL BROADCASTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would pay tribute to the fact also that Britain is bottom of the unemployment league among the developed countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.593.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-13", "file": "debates1975-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b35be43a40d318f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right hon. Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Will my Friend confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-13", "file": "debates1975-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b35be43a40d318f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.596.2", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Certainly. I think that my hon. Friend is absolutely right. The question of industrial investment is worrying and very important. This is why, in his measures last month, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer made available £1,800 million more for industry in 1975. This is the basis for the new and justified confidence in industry, which is reflected on the Stock Exchange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.596.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-13", "file": "debates1975-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b35be43a40d318f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.596.4", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-13", "file": "debates1975-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b35be43a40d318f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.600.2", "colnum": "600", "heading": "RAILWAY SIGNALMEN (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "preceding_text": "that the hundreds of commuters from my constituency have long since lost patience owing to the troubles on the Liverpool Street line? We all appreciate the delicacy of this matter, but can he assure the House that if these talks do not bring a promise of settlement shortly, he himself will stop doing virtually nothing and take some constructive initiative in the interests of the travelling public?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-13", "file": "debates1975-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b35be43a40d318f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.606.4", "colnum": "606", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "There is always a danger that the tapes have been destroyed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.606.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-13", "file": "debates1975-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b35be43a40d318f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman speaks myopically for only one section—not for the whole of the population, which I believe is what Members of Parliament are sent to this place to do. I admit that the hon. Gentleman is set a bad example because the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a speech which he will not be allowed to forget, spoke about one section of the community being taxed until there are \"howls of anguish.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-13", "file": "debates1975-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b35be43a40d318f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "repairer will never have the opportunity to make himself into a Lord Nuffield. All of us have our own panaceas for putting the situation right. Possibly there is no one panacea which will bring about a full cure for our economic difficulties, but there is one which would go a long way towards it and which could be easily achieved. My suggestion is that it should be possible to pay wages by cheque.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-13", "file": "debates1975-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b35be43a40d318f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "hat the community health councils will do a useful job, but there is a world of difference between a body that can register complaints and advise people on how best to remedy them, and a body that, as a result of the ballot box, exercises community choice about the policies and decisions of major services. That is what should have been provided for the health services and it has not been provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-13a.697.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-17", "file": "debates1975-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "bd0d666cff7de37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because it is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "Why does the right hon. Gentleman keep rabbiting on about the terrible EEC deficit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-17", "file": "debates1975-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "bd0d666cff7de37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "preceding_text": "May I crave indulgence to congratulate my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-17", "file": "debates1975-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "bd0d666cff7de37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.930.5", "colnum": "930", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I have tried to show that it is as permanent as anything can be permanent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.930.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-17", "file": "debates1975-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "bd0d666cff7de37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.941.2", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "hat business has not had the confidence to invest and that, if only there were new laws, lower taxes, higher prices and profits, more moderate workers or a change of Government, that confidence would be restored and the investment would take place. However, investment on the scale we needed never took place and we now know that it must take place if we are to put British industry back on its face—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.941.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-17", "file": "debates1975-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "bd0d666cff7de37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ll in its infant form from the Department and from the CBI shows that investment intentions and industrial confidence are gloomier than they have been at any other time since measurements of industrial confidence have been taken. It is no small wonder. From the date of the publication of the policy documents in 1973, it has been clear that the Left-wing architects of the Bill have been determined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-17", "file": "debates1975-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "bd0d666cff7de37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It was in the IR Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "es the trade union leader, given a Corporate Plan about a particular company, do if it looks bad and gloomy and he happens to be a trustee for the pension fund of his union which owns a lot of shares? Is he allowed to sell them? If he does not sell them, he will be held to criticism by his members for not doing so. How will we deal with that kind of situation if all these plans are made available?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-17", "file": "debates1975-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "bd0d666cff7de37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "preceding_text": "have all read advertisements for gadgets for the home which are so flexible and adaptable that they will fit either the smallest semi or the largest mansion—telescopic, collapsible and infinitely suited to almost any range of uses. That is the characteristic of the framework in this Bill. As a result, the Government are left largely free to do what they please. We on the Liberal benches fear most—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-17", "file": "debates1975-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "bd0d666cff7de37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "s this; if the Bill is passed and the NEB makes investments, we shall not see the results of those investments for two or three years. The figures that the hon. Gentleman has given exactly prove that point. It was when profits had been made and when there was confidence that markets would continue, that investments started. That was why in 1973—the hon. Gentleman was very selective in his figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-17", "file": "debates1975-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "bd0d666cff7de37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": " the most precious assets that anyone who wishes to control his destiny can have. Nowhere is the absence of misuse of information more glaring in our society than in the realms of economics, finance and industry. Those with vested interests—the Press, the City, the Treasury, and those who own and manage industry—pour out a barrage of false and scandalous information, in addition to withholding it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-17", "file": "debates1975-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "bd0d666cff7de37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": " restriction on demand have some effect on the private sector but little effect on the public sector. The lack of parliamentary control is a matter which I am glad to hear Labour hon. Members criticise. There is clearly no mandate for the Bill. The fact that the Labour Party received only 28 per cent. of the votes of the people gives it no possible justification for introducing such a fundamental—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-17a.1023.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-18", "file": "debates1975-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "730fd1db26992a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment in the statement he made recently. I entirely agree with what he said. If the hon. Member is referring to the mineworkers' settlement, to which my right hon. Friend referred, I hope he and other hon. Members will recognise that no one in this country, perhaps not even the Tory Party, wants to go back to the confrontation of a year ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1106.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-18", "file": "debates1975-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "730fd1db26992a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "fference to them whether it is a privately owned industry or is nationalised. If any hon. Member is in doubt about that, I invite him to go, as I did, to talk to the workers' action committee at Shotton steelworks. I challenged the Secretary of State on this point when he made his statement on steel a few days ago. You go and talk to them as I did, and ask them. They are in a nationalised concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-18", "file": "debates1975-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "730fd1db26992a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1176.3", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "tleman must not get worked up, because he will get a shock in a minute. I had lunch with the director and pleaded with him to meet representatives of the workers' action committee. He said to me, \"I am not prepared to deal with anybody but trade union representatives. I am not prepared to meet a workers' action committee.\" Indeed, the Minister of State's own boss, the Secretary of State, admitted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-18", "file": "debates1975-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "730fd1db26992a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may not be aware—there is no reason why he should be aware—that local government reorganisation in my constituency in the Trafford district of Manchester has brought about a rationalisation and a reduction in the cost to the taxpayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-18", "file": "debates1975-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "730fd1db26992a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "terday the right hon. Gentleman dealt with this in less than half a column and in a way which indicated that he was barely thinking about it at all, though he said he would later be talking to the TUC and the CBI. These measures are not necessarily sufficient to allay the anxieties of industry on this important subject. The Minister said nothing about the way in which the Government were to equip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-18", "file": "debates1975-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "730fd1db26992a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "han pay a visit to some of our major ports—places where the prosperity of the last century was located but where today there is an atmosphere of grim dereliction, sourness and stubborn, primitive attitudes against a background of dirty, scruffy buildings which can inspire no one. I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition will forgive me for referring to the education system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-18", "file": "debates1975-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "730fd1db26992a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Industry (Mr. Eric S. Heffer)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is why they are doing well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Industry (Mr. Eric S. Heffer)", "preceding_text": "he debate. But do they not know that something is happening in the world in relation to the international crisis? Do they not know that unemployment in Germany is now three times as high as it was in 1973? Do they not know that unemployment in the United States is now running at 8·2 per cent.—the highest level since 1941? This Labour Government control neither Germany nor the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-18", "file": "debates1975-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "730fd1db26992a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that on total returns there must be an adequate return on the NEB's activities. At a given moment it is obvious that financial decisions or directives will be made on the activities of the Board. The hon. Gentleman must understand that on occasions we may require for social reasons to assist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-18", "file": "debates1975-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "730fd1db26992a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1243.7", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Nobody is arguing about that. What I am trying to say to the hon. Member for Moray and Nairn (Mrs. Ewing) and to her hon. Friends in the SNP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1243.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-18", "file": "debates1975-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "730fd1db26992a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "I shall be very brief. I should like to give an example of one situation in my constituency which should help Opposition Members to understand what is meant by the order. Had this order existed 18 months ago, the British glass container industry might not have lost a vital part of its organisation which used to exist in my constituency and which has now gone to Western Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-18", "file": "debates1975-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "730fd1db26992a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "to deal with the case and save thousands of jobs quickly, or alternatively, we could have gone right through the long process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-18", "file": "debates1975-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "730fd1db26992a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "to deal with the case and save thousands of jobs quickly, or alternatively, we could have gone right through the long process—[ Interruption ]. The hon. Member said that there were holidays, and that would be a good reason why one could not get the IDAB together quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-18a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-19", "file": "debates1975-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "a523d76a59d4e6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I think they will want to go, as a matter of fact. As far as the Council of Europe is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-19", "file": "debates1975-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "a523d76a59d4e6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Both my hon. Friend and the Bonn deputies to whom he referred have to face two simple semantic facts. First, the Vulcan was originally employed in a strategic rôle but was then regraded and used for a different purpose. It is the non-strategic rôle which the Vulcan recently occupied for which the MRCA is equipped, and it is fulfilling that rôle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-19", "file": "debates1975-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "a523d76a59d4e6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1330.0", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that. The concept of Government control and ministerial control clearly implies parliamentary control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-19", "file": "debates1975-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "a523d76a59d4e6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1330.0", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that. The concept of Government control and ministerial control clearly implies parliamentary control. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I stand at this Box only because I have the support of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-19", "file": "debates1975-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "a523d76a59d4e6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "NORTH SEA OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I should like to indicate briefly to you, Mr. Speaker, and to the House more particularly that the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-19", "file": "debates1975-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "a523d76a59d4e6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1471.2", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "the people of England who, but for the Labour majorities in Wales and Scotland, would not have to suffer the iniquities of the present Labour Government. No doubt they will have the same sort of problems and our hearts go out to them. It was perhaps appropriate that the hon. Member for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire (Mr. Reid) and the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire spoke with a single voice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-19", "file": "debates1975-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "a523d76a59d4e6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1472.0", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are Tories\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ld speak with a single voice. Both the Labour Party and the SNP seek to uphold the breaking of the law, disrespect for the law and support for those who would flout its observance. However, it shows that there is a difference of view among the members of the SNP. Indeed, the initials could stand for the phrase \"Sorry No Policy\". I was impressed to see eight members of the SNP present this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-19", "file": "debates1975-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "a523d76a59d4e6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1473.0", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "preceding_text": "him on many other matters. But he made a substantial contribution to the debate in Committee, and I am glad that many hon. Members have paid tribute to it. In a sense, we in the Scottish National Party are being condemned out of a position of weakness in the House. On the basis of the vote at the last election, we should be entitled to five or six members of the Committee which discussed the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-19a.1473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1533.6", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "My aim throughout the working business of the Community has been to seek to liberalise the CAP. For example, I have defended access for meat supplies from Botswana and Swaziland. I believe that we should try to get permanent access for New Zealand. I met the New Zealand Prime Minister this week and we discussed what we were going for at the summit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1533.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1541.4", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wm. Ross", "preceding_text": "Why is no effort being made to get rid of the 14 tons to 15 tons of beef being held in intervention in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1541.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the Minister has accepted a measure of intervention and is positively in favour of intervention for cereals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1550.0", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (PUBLIC INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman accept that if he finds himself opposed to the terms which were accepted by the Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "As I said last week, we were planning five days for the Finance Bill. I hope that it will be possible to conclude the Finance Bill in four rather than five days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1552.4", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Including you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "In view of today's unemployment figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1552.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1558.2", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a national problem.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I answered a question last week about the possibility of regional debates. I have been considering the matter, and hope soon to have a proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1575.3", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR TRAVEL RESERVE FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Shore)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Surprise, surprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Shore)", "preceding_text": "r money back, all the worries and uncertainties, and the threat of harassment in foreign lands to which thousands of our fellow citizens were subjected—a situation for which last summer there was no adequate remedy. There will be some who will attempt to turn this occasion into an inquest on the immediate events which preceded the collapse of Court Line. For myself, I shall resist that temptation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1575.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR TRAVEL RESERVE FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terence Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wordsworth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terence Higgins", "preceding_text": "of the House at the outset. I can well understand that the Secretary of State for Trade does not feel that he could agree to an inquest on this occasion. The right hon. Gentleman said that he preferred \"recollection in tranquillity\". That is an interesting Freudian slip, because it is Andre Gide's definition of \"melancholy\". Certainly the Secretary of State has a great deal to be melancholy about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1605.3", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR TRAVEL RESERVE FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "s proposed will for ever be a charge on the responsible to benefit the irresponsible and on the prudent to benefit the imprudent. It might be appropriate to consider what could happen in the future. Let us take a hypothetical company. In order to avoid offence, let us give it an uncontroversial name, like Stansgate Dreamland Holidays. Probably it would be a member of the old Benn Bucketshop Group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR TRAVEL RESERVE FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "ent less than justice by seeking to brush aside the involvement in all this of his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Industry. He and his activities hang like a ghoul over our proceedings tonight. I echo the hope of many of my hon. Friends that the right hon. Gentleman will at some stage recognise his rôle in this matter and at least have the courtesy and decency to come forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR TRAVEL RESERVE FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "ervative politicians who came to my constituency to make political capital out of the loss of jobs and holidays was nothing less than contemptible. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths) has left the Chamber. The action of those politicians was particularly reprehensible in view of some of the things which were happening between the company and the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-20", "file": "debates1975-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "098c926d64681e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1690.3", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR TRAVEL RESERVE FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "Passengers on scheduled services and with special types of tickets would not be covered, but others travelling on scheduled services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-20a.1690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-21", "file": "debates1975-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "fc96e0d02dcf6b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-21a.1807.1", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION LICENSING (ELDERLY AND DISABLED PEOPLE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is it the wish of the House that the motion be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-21a.1807.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.15.6", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Why will not the hon. Gentleman answer the Question on the Order Paper in terms of figures? How many hundreds of millions of pounds is it? Will he please come properly briefed to this House?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.15.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "RAILWAY SIGNALMEN (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks how. I have been trying to get it into his thick skull for about three or four months, or whatever the period is. The hon. Gentleman causes more problems in this House than the rest of the House put together. I have been trying to tell him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "INDUSTRY BILL (STANDING COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "me real difficulty here. It is very important indeed that if we are going to continue to use Standing Committees, the House should have confidence in the way in which they are set up. In this instance, Mr. Speaker, it appears to us that the Committee of Selection made a mistake. On Second Reading there was a majority of 14 for the Bill and 48·9 per cent. of the House voted against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "INDUSTRY BILL (STANDING COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with you, Mr. Speaker. This is a matter entirely for the Committee of Selection. That Committee will meet on Wednesday and it may be that it will bear in mind what has been said in the House. So far as I can see, there is nothing wrong with the composition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "INDUSTRY BILL (STANDING COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " the composition of the House. It is quite clear that a Committee of 35 should consist of 18 Members of the Government, 15 Members of the Opposition and two Members of the minority parties. It happens that there are 39 Members of those parties, 34 of whom voted against the Bill and only four of whom voted in favour, and it is one of those four who has been put on the Committee to represent the 39.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.45.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "ime of year when Second Reading debates predominate and there is a time that is dominated by Report stages. We want as wide an experiment as possible. If we start with the proposition that the cameras come here to Parliament, we must ensure that we have the right cameras at the right time and in the right place. I commend all hon. Members to pay a visit to the small exhibition in Committee Room 6.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.83.3", "colnum": "83", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "No, I do not agree with that at all. The proposition is entirely fallacious. The real test of any law is its application, and there can be no more instructive application than in a court of law, as anyone who knows about the law will immediately agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.83.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": " be able to add to their general programme one more item. That is all that they are concerned about. If they were concerned with education, they would say \"We make the proposition of showing everything that goes on in Parliament and let those who want to see it do so; let the universities put it on for a whole day, or the schools for a couple of hours.\" No one makes that proposal. They do not say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "se rather dangerous days what a bulwark Parliament is for personal liberty. I am not at all sure that, if we were to proceed with this experiment, we might not do something to awaken or reawaken that awareness. The right hon. Gentleman gave voice to an idea new to me, namely, that the side which scored the most points in a debate would win Divisions. That has never happened while I have been here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": " learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Bell) said, sometimes an hon. Member will get up and make a single point in a debate and that might be taken as crystallising his whole attitude on a major subject. This is a debating Chamber, but with \"the box\" it will become the hustings. Would the standing of Parliament be improved? I believe that a little more mystique is valuable to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "oing. During those moments—alas, all too infrequent—matters of great conflict arise. After the Birmingham bombing we passed the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act. Our proceedings were followed by nearly the whole nation. People were deeply concerned about what we were going to do, yet we slipped a Bill through while most Members were dozing on the settees and couches in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.166.2", "colnum": "166", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I hope so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "With the equipment that is available today, I would think that the cameras would be completely silent. May I ask the House this. Shall we be prepared to allow many debates to be televised live? Is there really a demand for a two-hour, largely technical Budget debate? Would my wife, for one, prefer the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Ena Sharples?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.200.6", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING RENTS AND SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The effect of these amendments is to make Clause 9 work in both directions. Under the clause as amended rent officers and rent assessment committees will be required, in fixing fair rents, to take certain action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.200.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.200.6", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING RENTS AND SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEHS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The effect of these amendments is to make Clause 9 work in both directions. Under the clause as amended rent officers and rent assessment committees will be required, in fixing fair rents, to take certain action—[ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Yarmouth (Mr. Fell) has graced us with his presence. I hope he will continue to grace us with his silence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.200.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-24", "file": "debates1975-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b6ffc5584f5f780e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING RENTS AND SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": " Members on this side, who would not like the sort of people who might want to cash in on that sort of situation to win the day. What is required, therefore, is a realisation on both sides of the House that it is very difficult to tell ordinary people who might live in Hammersmith, Fulham, Bermondsey or Acton that houses which they have lived in, and in which in some cases their forefathers lived—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-24a.220.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.284.3", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, by avoiding the disaster of 2 million unemployed, which the policies of the right hon. Gentleman's party brought last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.287.7", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL POLICY (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course I have read the Bill. This is the concept of the Bill. The point raised by the hon. Gentleman is one of the matters which I discussed with the CBI and which I shall discuss again tomorrow. If there is any doubt from the drafting of the Bill whether the things I said on Merseyside and what we said in the White Paper are in question, those matters can be considered in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.287.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.289.5", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " the Order Paper, including Question No. Q16 in my name. It is the custom and practice that the Prime Minister, or any other Minister, can link Questions together as he pleases, and this is a matter over which you have no control. It is the usual practice for Questions up to, say, No. Q10 to be linked in that manner, but you have said on occasions from the Chair, presumably when it has suited you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.289.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "CONSPIRACY (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "preceding_text": "far greater sentences could have been imposed, and probably would have been, on the grounds of intimidation and assault. As I see it, what the hon. Gentleman is not doing is to claim the rights of pickets to go about their business peacefully. He seems to be claiming the right that they should be allowed to picket violently when the need arises, using whatever degree of force to obtain their ends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.304.4", "colnum": "304", "heading": "CONSPIRACY (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "preceding_text": "witnesses saw: The men entered the sites in what was described as a mad swarm. They were shouting, 'Kill the bastards.' They also shouted, 'This is a revolution and not a strike'. One man was threatened to have his legs broken if he resisted. Another man was pulled off his ladder, hit his head and was in hospital for eight days with severe concussion. Others were attacked with bricks, were stoned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.304.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.305.4", "colnum": "305", "heading": "CONSPIRACY (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not on trial.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "preceding_text": "mber has this in mind he is wilfully misunderstanding the report. I come now to the question of motive. I have to draw to the attention of the House the fact that the hon. Gentleman is well known as an extreme Left winger. He has been prominent in opposing the defence cuts and he has got into trouble—not only with his Front Bench, but also with his constituents, particularly those working for BAC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.305.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "CONSPIRACY (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. This is a deliberate assassination. The hon. Member for Esher (Mr. Mather) is embarking on a deliberate campaign of character assassination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "CONSPIRACY (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you well known for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is well known for these activities, and this has to be said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "CONSPIRACY (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "is a matter of law and is not something for us to decide here. I do not propose to divide the House today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.308.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.311.5", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shocking.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the salary of the Secretary of State for Energy should be reduced by the sum of £1,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.311.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " for our power station programme … it can also be construed as an act of faith in the British coal industry and British miners to deliver the coal … needed. It is nonsense for the right hon. Gentleman to say that he did not understand what my hon. Friend meant by his question. So, to the charge of lethargy we have to add the charge of not being wholly frank with the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "fusion, down-right dismay. The loss of confidence is mainly due to the Government's inept fiscal policy and doctrinaire nationalisation policy. Today's announcement on PRT may go some way to repair the damage that has been done, but I doubt whether it will restore the incentive to explore for the small fields. The test will come over the next two years, to show how many exploration rigs there are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Neave)—Airey the queen maker. He is the most passionate advocate of all of the SGHWR. So it cannot be to our nuclear policy that they object. What can it be? Can it be our oil policy? Our oil policy is, of course, based upon majority State participation. With his customary frankness the right hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford has confessed that \"The last Conservative Government …\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not off the shelf.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "We are going ahead with the SGHWR and I am prepared to put forward my personal opinion that we should have gone in for the light water reactors. They could have been ordered off the shelf and within a couple of years there would have been the possibility of that amount of extra electric power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "e, and that is most regrettable. The hon. Gentleman is trying to divert me from my main aim of incriminating the Government, which I intend to do. I have mentioned the two programmes which I support. There is a management direction problem with the National Nuclear Corporation. Who is to be in charge? Is it to be the GEC or the National Power Group? I hope that the Secretary of State will tell us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Wilson", "preceding_text": "cisms to make of their own plans in the 1960s. If one looks at the example of Norway, which was quoted earlier, one finds that that country started working on licences in about 1965, and certainly in the earlier stages they were far bettter prepared than was the United Kingdom. The Opposition—thankfully, say many—are no longer in office. As for the present Government, what can we choose from them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATES (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ost of it in the supplement to Trade and Industry dated 13th February. I shall return to that point in a moment. The hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch was becomingly modest in expressing his gratitude to the Minister. What he should have said was that he and other London Members of Parliament on both sides of the House had enough votes to lead the Minister to deliver the goods tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.436.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATES (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "e to try to get jobs at the expense of other parts of the country. None the less, because of London's growing unemployment problems, it was wrong for London to be singled out by the Minister when the limits were reduced. No good reason has ever been put forward for the reduction that the Minister made. The decision which the House is being asked to take, which is that the limits shall be restored—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-25", "file": "debates1975-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "977b635d08dfc7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATES (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": "We are seeing a strange transformation of attitudes to regional policy. Tonight we have had the Minister of State's arm twisted by the considerable political muscle of London Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-25a.448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.490.7", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall that his hon. Friend the Under-Secretary showed glee in announcing housing figures for 1974 which showed an improvement on 1973? One suspects that those figures will improve further during the year. Is my right hon. Friend, like me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.490.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.500.2", "colnum": "500", "heading": "CONVEYANCERS (HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Weetch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Weetch", "preceding_text": "rs' Society. But I have no financial interest in it. I accepted the position because I have a strong personal interest in conveyancing reform. Second, in the course of my speech I shall have to mention solicitors as a group in the context of my arguments. In doing this I emphasise that I mean no discourtesy, since some members of that profession are also hon. Members of this House. I seek support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.500.2", "colnum": "500", "heading": "CONVEYANCERS (HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Weetch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Weetch", "preceding_text": "accepted the position because I have a strong personal interest in conveyancing reform. Second, in the course of my speech I shall have to mention solicitors as a group in the context of my arguments. In doing this I emphasise that I mean no discourtesy, since some members of that profession are also hon. Members of this House. I seek support—[ Interruption. ]—today from both sides of the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.504.3", "colnum": "504", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Women.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "n 7th February. Four of the proposed Members were women, two of whom had voted against the Bill and the other two had not voted on 7th February. However, as must have been obvious to everyone who has stayed late in the Commons in recent nights, the motion nominating the Members to serve on the Select Committee has been blocked by a small minority of hon. Members, all of whom, so far as I am aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "preceding_text": "ommittees on the basis of that kind of arithmetic. It is not our fault that there are so few of us here to represent the women of this country, who are more than half the population. Our request for more women on the Committee was represented by the hon. member for Cathcart and some of his hon. Friends as part of the pro-abortion lobby. We reject that entirely. We are exposing ourselves by asking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "preceding_text": "ery few questions which should be pigeonholed as \"women's\" questions. I do not believe that prices is a women's question or that the care of children is a woman's question. That suggests that fathers do not care about their children. Very few matters can be specifically defined in that way. However, not one hon. Gentleman in this House has ever had an abortion or has had to contemplate having one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.506.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They have had children.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "preceding_text": "ons which should be pigeonholed as \"women's\" questions. I do not believe that prices is a women's question or that the care of children is a woman's question. That suggests that fathers do not care about their children. Very few matters can be specifically defined in that way. However, not one hon. Gentleman in this House has ever had an abortion or has had to contemplate having one. [ Laughter. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "preceding_text": " point is that the motion should not be carried without a reassessment of this matter, which has caused so much concern throughout the country. It will be seen that this is a very special Select Committee. Finally—I am not trying to be funny or frivolous, as the hon. Member for Cathcart was—if we were setting up a Select Committee on vasectomy it would be odd if it had a majority of women Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.508.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "d to take the second choice. Therefore, I shall put the Question \"That the debate he now adjourned\" The debate is the debate on the composition of the Select Committee. It is on that and only that. That is the question which I think the House must decide. I must not decide it for the House by adopting the first alternative. I shall therefore put the question now \"That the debate be now adjourned.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.509.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.509.4", "colnum": "509", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the debate is adjourned, the debate upon the motion is adjourned and can continue subsequently. The Question is, That the debate be now adjourned. Those in favour say \"Aye\"; to the contrary \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.509.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.509.7", "colnum": "509", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it, in which case the debate is now adjourned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.509.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman illustrates the paucity of his argument by his intervention, and here I must for a moment touch upon the subject under discussion. Many of us would say that this concerns the sanctity of human life and that every man and woman in this country has the right to an opinion on that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "I have a great deal of respect for the hon. Member for Northampton, North (Mrs. Colquhoun).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.526.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.528.2", "colnum": "528", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "With friends like him, the hon. Gentleman does not need enemies.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "in that my hon. Friend would be the first to agree with that. We now come to my hon. Friend the Member for Essex, South-East (Sir B. Braine). Nobody can suggest for a moment that he has not earned his place on the Select Committee. He is far more capable than any other hon. Member of discussing at length any subject that is the cause of concern, be it national or local. He will be a counterweight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.528.3", "colnum": "528", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "d with a due sense of mission and moderation, an unusual combination. She deserves a place on the Committee. We now come to my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest (Mr. Biggs-Davison), who is a distinguished Roman Catholic. Nobody could deny the right of the Roman Catholic Church to have one or two members on the Committee, because many Members are Roman Catholics. Coupled with my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.528.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": " is that my hon. Friend should have individual talents and that we should have such an idiosyncratic member of the Committee. On many of the moral issues that have been debated in the House he has taken an extremely forthright line. I choose my words with care. I remember the long debates that took place, largely at the instigation of my hon. Friend, on vasectomy. He showed the House at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOTTERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "This debate is due to finish at 7 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOTTERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arnold Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carry on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold Shaw", "preceding_text": "ble for it to mount a lottery under its own auspices. The Government are falling between two stools. The proposals in the Bill, while providing little benefit for local authorities, will pose a threat to the voluntary organisations. As I have said, the Bill is a nonevent. I shall conclude my speech shortly—although from some indications I hear, some of my hon. Friends are telling me not to do so.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "my fourth ground in my Prayer to annul the order. I believe that consideration has to be given to the other sources of revenue that are available to certain members of the Royal Household. There is widespread concern that the Sovereign's income is immune from taxation. There is widespread concern that estate duty and the proposed capital transfer tax do not apply to members of the Royal Household.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "I shall not take up all my hon. Friend's strictures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.600.3", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": " the Trustees' Report—the figures were quoted by my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Crayford (Mr. Wellbeloved) in moving the Prayer—we find that Princess Alexandra got £22,000, tax-free, in 1974. Less than half of that sum would have enabled that home in Chiswick to survive and prosper and make happy 100 or 200 battered women and children. The Duke of Kent received £30,000, tax-free, in 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.600.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.600.3", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": " expenditure on the Monarchy. Therefore, we are now having to resort to this kind of debate, which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said we are to have annually. So long as we have a debate of this kind annually, I shall seek to take part and say what I feel must be said. Let no one believe that the people of this country are any other than evenly divided on the institution of the Monarchy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.600.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "e this comment as a former Minister who had responsibility in this direction—and her efforts are infinitely more valuable and far less expensive than all the efforts of the Export Credit Guarantee Department and the British Overseas Trade Board put together. I am sure that the whole House wishes to congratulate Her Majesty and her family on the outstanding success of their current visit to Mexico.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.618.4", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "claim to speak. It involves a weary routine for the Monarch herself—a volume of work and a degree of strain which few, if any, in this House would be able, or would wish, to bear in her place. Of course hon. Members and people outside the House are entitled to ask whether the institution is unduly extravagant, incompetently-managed or lavishly-financed. I would say that it is none of those things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.618.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-26", "file": "debates1975-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6ca417a348208f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.618.4", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "inised with care. But when we scrutinise them, as the Royal Trustees have done, what do we see? We find proved beyond a peradventure, as was pointed out by my hon. Friend the Member for Somerset, North (Mr. Dean), that this is in no sense a Royal pay rise. On the contrary, the results of those recommendations represent, if anything, a decline in real living standards of the Monarch and her family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-26a.618.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "preceding_text": "he Government benches? Many of us are concerned about its possible effect in the near future on our balance of payments as well as on the level of unemployment. We welcome the strong views which my right hon. Friend has expressed about this, but has he seen the results of the opinion poll published today showing that the great majority of the population have no idea what the social contract means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONFEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if the right hon. Lady felt that my answer the other day was not clear. It is perfectly clear. What are not clear are the policies of the Conservative Party on almost anything. I have the fullest confidence, however, that under the right hon. Lady's leadership all these things will become clear in time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.697.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I totally disagree with the hon. Gentleman. I am interested in his new-found interest in OECD, because the Conservative Party spent the whole of the last election saying that they did not believe in anything that OECD printed or published on inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "lauses, new schedules and amendments to schedules. But I will see to it that all the amendments are tabled in time for amendments to them to be put down. I cannot say when the next Finance Bill will be, but the Chancellor does not now intend to introduce his Budget before Easter. The debate on the referendum White Paper will, I hope, be the week after next. I cannot, I am afraid, promise two days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.703.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.707.6", "colnum": "707", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "When my hon. Friend raised this matter a few weeks ago I said that I did not agree with him and that I found the telephone service to be excellent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.707.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgrace.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that if that new clause had appeared today, the hon.. Gentleman had nothing to complain about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.712.4", "colnum": "712", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The Bill has spent 163 hours in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.712.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (REPORT STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "preceding_text": "I was suggesting that the Opposition were being irresponsible in suggesting that there is inadequate time for the consideration of the Finance Bill. I have given an undertaking two or three times today that all the material will be made available in time. I cannot do more. I have given that undertaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.719.6", "colnum": "719", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (REPORT STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman knows quite well that that is not a matter for the Chair. The Lord President said that he would consider the time that the House has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.719.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.719.6", "colnum": "719", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (REPORT STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman has not said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman knows quite well that that is not a matter for the Chair. The Lord President said that he would consider the time that the House has—[ Interruption. ] The Lord President said that he would consider that the House should have appropriate time to consider amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.719.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "EEC BUDGET (CONTRIBUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "at. Having worked closely with the Commission on this matter, it would be ungracious of me not to acknowledge the work that it has done in producing this report, which goes some way to meeting one of our renegotiation objectives. The broad approach for recompensing members set out in the report is acceptable to us though some of the proposed details and conditions will require further negotiation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "EEC BUDGET (CONTRIBUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "slating it into simple figures, if the average rate of growth of the Community was 5 per cent. and the United Kingdom economy was growing at 5½ per cent. we should be entitled, subject to the other conditions being fulfilled, to a repayment. It is not therefore a very unfavourable ratio. Clearly if our rate of growth is less than 6 per cent. we are entitled, subject to the other conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "EEC BUDGET (CONTRIBUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "preceding_text": "diture of the Community within the last few months. I come to the last sentence of the three I quoted from the Labour Party manifesto: We would be ready to contribute to Community finances only such sums as were fair in relation to what is paid and what is received by other member countries. That is precisely the effect which this mechanism will bring about and which it is designed to bring about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.748.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-27", "file": "debates1975-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "637c0a1f9b9a8e21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "EEC BUDGET (CONTRIBUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "hether we have a reasonable deal so far. Each citizen is entitled to read the prospectus to which the right hon. Gentleman subscribed in February and October 1974 according to his own interpretation of events so far, not according to the interpretation of my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Heeley (Mr. Hooley), or the Red Queen from South Down, telling us \"If I say it three times, it's true.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-27a.769.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-28", "file": "debates1975-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5e53fcd98171fbea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-28a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [14th February].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-28a.988.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-02-28", "file": "debates1975-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5e53fcd98171fbea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-28a.988.6", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE LAW REFORM (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-28a.988.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-02-28", "file": "debates1975-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5e53fcd98171fbea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-28a.989.7", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (REPORT STAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "l up to today. The amendments number more than 700 in all so far, and there are available only a very limited number of photocopies, unmarshalled, and insufficient for the number of hon. Members who wish to receive them. An hour ago I was told that only 30 were available and no others have since come to hand. I asked that the Leader of the House should be here to deal with the matter at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-02-28a.989.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1041.4", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "LONDON UNDERGROUND (ACCIDENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Frederick Mulley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Frederick Mulley)", "preceding_text": "tal, and of these 42 have been discharged. I am sure that the House will wish to join my colleagues in the Government and myself in expressing our sympathy with the relatives of those who lost their lives and best wishes for a speedy recovery to those who were injured. I would like, too, to pay a tribute, in which I am sure all hon. Members will wish to join, to the work of the emergency services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1041.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1062.7", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "May I raise a completely different point of order, Mr. Speaker? In your discretion you permitted the Minister of State to the Civil Service Department to make a statement a few moments ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1062.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1063.2", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1063.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": " of our taxation system that is. Here we have a very important tax. The Inland Revenue's representatives admit that they are groping in the dark. If they are groping in the dark, what about the poor backbench Member of this House? What is he to do? He is put in an impossible posiiton. I hope that the Chief Secretary will take to heart, and I trust that he will tell the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1123.0", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "Bill. The right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East said that this capital transfer tax had not been debated fully. The right hon. and learned Gentleman did not have the pleasure, if that is the correct word, of sitting upstairs with us in Committee. The amount of time that was taken to consider non-capital transfer tax clauses could well have been saved in order to debate the CTT more fully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that the Secretary of State for Employment is in the Chamber because the remarks of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe) in trying to sort out Government policy referred particularly to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1198.4", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "In view of the inordinate length of the reply and in a desire to make progress, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1201.5", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "eg to move Amendment No. 332, in page 3, line 1, leave out lines 1 to 5 and insert— '( a ) is made within such reasonable time and in such appropriate form and manner, and ( b ) contains such relevant information, and ( c ) is accompanied by such available evidential documents'. Clause 3 gives relief from VAT to \"do-it-yourself\" builders—at least, that is what the marginal note to the clause says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1213.2", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "days' debate on Report. Subsequently a legion of amendments were put down by the Government as well as by my right hon. and hon. Friends. They were published only a few days ago—some of them were published only today—without any adequate time either for people in this House to consider them or—the Leader of the House has persistently ignored this—for many people outside the House who are interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1214.3", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "very few of my right hon. or hon. Friends had a lot of confidence but we hoped for the best. In the face of this shabby and ill-conceived manoeuvre, we have none at all. We believe that he has manifested not only his own character but his own total contempt for the House of Commons and his utter lack of concern for those who do not agree with him and who do not endorse his rather unpleasant views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1214.3", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " that he has manifested not only his own character but his own total contempt for the House of Commons and his utter lack of concern for those who do not agree with him and who do not endorse his rather unpleasant views. [ Interruption. ] If the Leader of the House wishes to interrupt me, I shall gladly give way. But I must tell him now—and I speak for everyone on the Opposition side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1215.2", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Mellish)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Mellish)", "preceding_text": "Why did you not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1215.4", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "The Government Front Bench is treating the House with considerable contempt. We are entitled to an explanation from somebody on the Treasury Bench in support of the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1215.4", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "entitled to a statement from the Leader of the House. In my 15 years in the House I cannot remember a Leader of the House who treated the House with such contempt as this one has. He has been thoroughly unsympathetic to the interests of back benchers. Instead of coming here tonight wearing his black tie and yawning his head off, as he has for the past few minutes, he should have sought to explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1215.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1218.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-03", "file": "debates1975-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "92141c93918322d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shut up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "mons and not the Reichstag—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"]—perhaps we may make a little progress. How are hon. Members expected to understand the issues on which they are to vote when the Leader of the House says that he will not make a statement or an announcement or give any indication of what is involved until after the vote has been taken? Surely that is a total and complete disregard of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-03a.1218.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1256.4", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "nchester is no less than £4 million, which will fall squarely upon the ratepayers? Is he aware that this is more than eight times as much as the total available for all capital expenditure on education in the coming year? In the circumstances, is he satisfied that the Government have their priorities right in pursuing this element of doctrinaire Socialism when in the case of the Trafford district—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1256.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1260.2", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What rules?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "While the matter does not technically arise on this Question, as the speech referred to was about the miners' settlement, I am happy to say, on the point raised by the hon. Gentleman so touchingly and movingly, that the House can leave it to me to ensure that the normal rules in these matters are observed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1260.2", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "served. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What rules?\"] The rules of every Government in this country. But while my colleagues and I have been urging for months, before both trade union and other audiences, compliance with the social contract guidelines, I must tell the House—and I want this to be understood—that no Minister has at any time over those months proposed any alternative policy to the social contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1260.3", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend appreciate that no useful advice is to be gained on policy of any kind from the economic sub-literates on the Opposition benches, and that far from unemployment, as offered by them, and statutory incomes policy, as undertaken by them, being the cure for our economic problem, that problem and the problems of our democracy can be overcome", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1261.2", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Certainly. Many of my right hon. Friends and I have been urging compliance with the social contract over many months. But if I want to study collective responsibility I will not look at the Opposition benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1262.0", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In so far as my hon. Friend was following the speeches which I made, from the TUC onwards last September, urging compliance with the contract, he was expressing the view of all of us and, I should hope, of the whole House since the Opposition have rejected any alternative policy. The figures which were published last month were inflated by the Tory Government's thresholds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t hon. and hon. Members opposite, will have been encouraged to see the figures published this morning showing that, despite earlier forecasts, industrial investment in manufacturing rose in the fourth quarter of last year. It was 5·4 per cent. up on the fourth quarter of 1973, when the Opposition were responsible for these matters, and 19·9 per cent. up on the fourth quarter of 1972.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1264.2", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "All my speeches from the moment we came to office have dealt with the problem of inflation. Nothing happening today is different from what we were told a year ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1270.4", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "NORTON VILLIERS TRIUMPH LTD. ORDER (BUSINESS STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend by saying that it was because the Chairman of Norton Villiers Triumph has informed us today that this money must be forthcoming this week, otherwise there will be redundancies. This is the first that the Government have heard of the urgency of the matter. I have this morning spoken to the Chairman of NVT, who tells me that he has had no conversations with Ministers since last Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1270.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "NORTON VILLIERS TRIUMPH LTD. ORDER (BUSINESS STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No. The Leader of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Perhaps it would be for the convenience of the House if I were to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1272.2", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "NORTON VILLIERS TRIUMPH LTD. ORDER (BUSINESS STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I spoke to my right hon. Friend from Bristol late yesterday morning. He was very anxious not to interfere with the pattern of business this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1272.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1272.3", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "NORTON VILLIERS TRIUMPH LTD. ORDER (BUSINESS STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"It is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "With respect, this is an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1273.8", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "NORTON VILLIERS TRIUMPH LTD. ORDER (BUSINESS STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot pursue this matter further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1273.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "NORTON VILLIERS TRIUMPH LTD. ORDER (BUSINESS STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friend the Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine), I believe that the House is entitled to an answer to one simple question: when the Leader of the House made that statement last night, was it or was it not true? If it was not true, the order should be withdrawn and taken later. If it was true, the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House should get up and say so. Was it true or was it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1274.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1275.2", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "NORTON VILLIERS TRIUMPH LTD. ORDER (BUSINESS STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer, answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the noise continues, I shall suspend the sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "CROWN DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "Not all, I am reminded. I think that 91 hon. Members indicated last week that they did not support it. However, I suggest that most people in this country would view with considerable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1289.1", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "n more votes than the hon. and learned Member's party. Every reasonable opportunity must be provided for discussion of the Bill and amendments to it. But when that has been done, the Government are entitled to ask for its enactment. That is what has happened in this case. However much the Opposition may dislike the capital transfer tax, there can be no doubt that we have a mandate to introduce it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1289.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1291.6", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How many?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Almost all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "en made any more interesting by the number of precedents that the introductory speeches have contained. I am bound to say that I have not bothered myself with them. I should like to assure the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House that I have no ritual objections to timetable motions as such. I think that we should do much better on some occasions to limit our debates to reasonable lengths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1293.2", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Do not look in the mirror.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "nterruption. ] It would be very helpful indeed if Oppositions could make their perfectly reasonable points without a long stream, a Niagara, of tiresome interruptions by people who are determined to ruin discussion and not to contribute to it. I refer specifically to the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner). I have always been among the most charitable of men. I wish to see the best in everyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Indeed. I am obliged to my hon. Friend. Of course, my hon. Friend is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1295.3", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " to a Select Committee. It is a complicated matter which clearly needs a good deal of preparatory thought before it can be introduced into Parliament. By contrast, the Government have plunged into the capital transfer tax on the ground, presumably, that some immediate meal had to be thrown to the Left wing wolves. Perhaps it was considered that they could wait until later for the rest of the meal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "large number of ordinary men and women on the shop floor. There is no doubt of the effect, on every kind of business, of the tax which we are forced to discuss so inadequately. Those businesses which are particularly affected are the unquoted companies which employ one-third of the 22 million men and women at work—over half the employees of the private sector—and it is their jobs that are at risk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "rate. Oppositions will consider themselves to be doing less than is expected of them by the keenest of their supporters if, whenever there is a major element in a Finance Bill which is objectionable to them, they do not force the Government—which every Opposition can do if they want—into guillotining the Bill. The danger we face is that we shall have timetabled Finance Bills as a matter of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Crawford", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, there has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Crawford", "preceding_text": "es. The Scottish National Party objects to this guillotine on very simple grounds of principle. They concern the rights of a minority party. However, it is not in the minority in Scotland. We polled in excess of 200,000 votes more than the Conservatives. I do not see a Member of the Scottish Conservative Party in the House. I do not think that there has been any one of them present in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1383.2", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wm. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wm. Ross", "preceding_text": "or enlargement does not exceed £400'. I understand that with this amendment we may take Amendment No. 320, in page 3, line 15, at end insert: 'save in any case where the supply of goods is at a total cost of more than £1,000'. Amendment No. 9 is designed to meet the principal objections of the Treasury Bench, one of which appeared to be that Ministers objected to small amounts of tax being repaid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1383.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "inflation and that people want to put their money into articles which they think will retain their value. I do not lay the whole blame for this situation on hon. Members opposite, but people who come to see me say \"What is the point of saving when all that happens is that the Government penalise us for doing so?\" That is an argument which hon. Members opposite would accept regarding the so-called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1415.3", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "I did not vote for televising the proceedings of the House. The widows are particularly hard hit. I hope that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury will heed my words. The Minister courteously received a deputation from the National Association of Widows who spoke about many of the problems they face. Its representatives did not raise this specific matter. But the National Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1417.1", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "proper sensitivity in that regard, clobber those who have saved for their old age? It seems a ridiculously mean and petty attitude. I hope that the Minister, who I am sure practises thrift even if the Chancellor does not—the hon. Gentleman told us that he spends his money as he gets it, but I am sure that he must practise thrift—realises that there are virtues and values in it. Let both Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1425.4", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not given.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": " certain aspects of the problem and another method is better for treating others, and, if I am allowed to proceed, I shall, I hope, make clear what I am trying to establish. If we use the tax system to give benefits of this kind, what we are doing is applying a sort of inverse means test. What happens when the tax system is used in that way? Whatever is given, most is given to those who have most.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1427.4", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must ask the Minister to address the Chair, not the Paymaster-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1427.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1428.3", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "se with incomes not greater than £3,000—Amendment No. 383. Under this there is a separate income threshold of £1,000 for each spouse. It is held that as a result there is to be double surcharge threshold for a married couple by comparison with a single person. The figures for the married couple with a total income of £3,000 will be £1,000 for the wife and £1,000 for the husband. The single person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1430.3", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I believe that if we approach the matter in the right way we can save the disabled, if no one else, from the Socialist guillotine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-04", "file": "debates1975-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e64400115361fef8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1443.12", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES (WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-04a.1443.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1463.2", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I can never understand why a lot of farmers do a whole lot of things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1463.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1467.3", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Scottish Office.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Steel and tomatoes together. May I suggest that the hon. Gentleman addresses his remarks on tomato growers to the appropriate Minister? He will then receive a clear answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I wish Opposition hon. Members would give us a wee bit of credit. The Question concerns the financial problems of the industry. We estimate that over £2 million will be coming to Scottish industry. Is the hon. Gentleman now indicating that the official policy of one of the Opposition parties is a 50-miles limit? I think that that would be disastrous. We shall do our best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1482.0", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "NORTON VILLIERS TRIUMPH LIMITED MOTION (BUSINESS STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Comons (Mr. Edward Short)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Comons (Mr. Edward Short)", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to understand why the hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) is making such a fuss about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1482.0", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "NORTON VILLIERS TRIUMPH LIMITED MOTION (BUSINESS STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Comons (Mr. Edward Short)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Comons (Mr. Edward Short)", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to understand why the hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) is making such a fuss about this matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The simple fact is that the firm needs money and needs it urgently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1482.0", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "NORTON VILLIERS TRIUMPH LIMITED MOTION (BUSINESS STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Comons (Mr. Edward Short)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Comons (Mr. Edward Short)", "preceding_text": "topic in the House. The hon. Gentleman referred to two letters. They are letters from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Industry. I did not know about those letters. The first I heard about the extreme urgency of the situation was on Monday morning. Therefore, I made a Business Statement. Such a Business Statement is made either at the end of Business or at the beginning of Business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1495.1", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ess man will now be able to pass on his business free of tax to his wife and to his children at a lower rate than in the past. The right hon. and learned Gentleman was concerned exclusively with the tiny minority of our population who are having the opportunity of avoiding tax withdrawn from them altogether. Indeed, he was representing not those who vote for him but those who pay him. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "h.\"] The Daily Mail, under the headline Making a mockery of Parliament\", stated: But the way this Labour Government is trying to force its ill-prepared and inadequately debated measure through Parliament is utterly to be deplored. Who is standing on the side of parliamentary reputation now? The Opposition are, and not the Labour Party. The Daily Express, under the headline \"Misgovernment\", states—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" The Morning Star. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "ure through Parliament is utterly to be deplored. Who is standing on the side of parliamentary reputation now? The Opposition are, and not the Labour Party. The Daily Express, under the headline \"Misgovernment\", states—[ Interruption. ] I should be happy to harken to the Chancellor's laughter if he could identify a single newspaper of repute that sided with him in this matter, but he cannot do SO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "te duty was—and this was its great merit in his eyes—an avoidable tax. That is why we believe that it should have been swept from the statute book long ago, and my hon. and right hon. Friends and I are delighted to be the agents of its disappearance. Perhaps I may now deal with the remarks of the hon. Member for Cornwall, North, who made the only pertinent comment on the clause or the amendments.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed in the hon. Gentleman. I know that he sat through the night to listen to what I had to say, and I am always grateful to anyone who does that, apart from members of the Committee who had to—other than those who went into another room for a sleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1605.8", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "isting that there shall be five years' beneficial ownership before the clause operates. Any reasonable hon. Member would regard that as a sensible way of dealing with the matter. In that way we give relief where it is intended and exclude it from the place where I hope even Opposition Members would not wish to give it. Perhaps I can say to some of my hon. Friends who have been concerned with this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1605.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1612.0", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Gavin Strang)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Gavin Strang)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is making rather a meal of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1612.0", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Gavin Strang)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Gavin Strang)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is making rather a meal of this. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] He cannot fail to be aware of the deep interest which my right hon. Friend has shown in this matter and the discussions he has had with interested parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "he Forestry Commission or by the private sector. However, I am convinced that that programme must be maintained. I have the real anxiety that if the Treasury persists with its public expenditure policy the Forestry Commission will not have the resources to make up for any decline in the private sector. Clearly the Report stage of the Finance Bill is not a time to discuss implications of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1620.4", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the question of private conversations. It is not in accordance with the convention of the House that private conversations should be quoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "agriculture. Opposition Members would know all this if they knew more of the people who live and work on the farms rather than listening to the views of the landowners. The real problem in forestry has not been dealt with by Opposition Members. The problem is the lack of investment in forestry and the lack of planned planting. Therefore, the real solution is to increase the investment in forestry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Avoided.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": " will deal with whether it be public or private in a moment. The second requirement is enhanced planning of large-scale forestry planting. It is not enough to leave these matters to the private forestry developer. Historically, private activity has been one of the main methods used to evade tax. By carrying out private development, those people evaded estate duty, income tax and capital gains tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1645.0", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "ottish Grand Committee, but he told us how difficult it was going to be for the small working farmers in Scotland, particularly for those of whom he had experience. I do not know whether that is the experience of his hon. Friends. I see they nod, but the hon. Member said that none of those farmers earned enough to pay income tax or capital transfer tax, so I assume that they do not need to worry.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1645.0", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "entleman seeks to go even further, because not only does he want to have a relief in excess of the relief under estate duty; he wants it on top of the reliefs we have already in the Bill. That is the kind of situation that the right hon. Gentleman seeks to create. I think that not all of my hon. Friends would support that kind of situation, and I am glad that the Liberal Party will not support it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1647.3", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I should be happy to give way, but I gather that the Opposition would like to debate the next new Clause. I see that the right hon. Member for Cambridgeshire would rather that I continued.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1671.1", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I am describing to the House the events—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1671.1", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I am describing to the House the events—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—I am describing the negotiations I had with NVT and my contact with my right hon. Friend about the need for the motion to be debated this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1674.3", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "But ECGD is a Government agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1674.3", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "But ECGD is a Government agency—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have answered the question quite clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must recognise that in reaching decisions of this kind responsible Ministers take decisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must recognise that in reaching decisions of this kind responsible Ministers take decisions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and then have to defend them in the House of Commons. What the hon. Member has been trying to do throughout his year on the Opposition Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " in reaching decisions of this kind responsible Ministers take decisions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and then have to defend them in the House of Commons. What the hon. Member has been trying to do throughout his year on the Opposition Front Bench—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—has been to shield behind official advice and pretend that Ministers can only produce the advice that their officials gave them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1675.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I have answered the question put to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "elopment Unit, who confirmed once more that the company should proceed with the plan as previously agreed and the Department would take care of any political repercussions should they arise. That is to say that it now appears, but was never made clear at the time, that the Government told Mr. Poore that he could close Meriden and Ministers would take responsibility for the political repercussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "hat finance until he had persuaded NVT to enter into an agreement to sell the bikes to the co-operative. In other words, the Secretary of State pressurised NVT against its commercial judgment. Why has the matter become so urgent tonight, after all the 'phone calls, after letters of warning and endless discussions —why so late at night when the national Press is not here to report what is going on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1686.0", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "tial adviser, may I ask the Secretary of State whether he wrote to his right hon. Friend the Minister of State a letter in which he said: The arrangements for research assistance will stand and will continue when the Co-operative has been launched. Did he then, in his own handwriting, go on to say: Once NVT and Meriden reach agreement, Part III of grant quickly available. Did he write that letter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1686.0", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ail, would continue until the Meriden transaction has been legally completed. Yet against this background did the Secretary of State for Industry write a letter on 6th November to the convener of the shop stewards at the Small Heath Works? Did he say in that letter: I can, however, give you the firmest assurance that there will be no discrimination by the Government in favour of the Co-operative\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1686.0", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "It is fascinating to listen to Labour Members when the trade unions are treated with such cynical contempt. When the Secretary of State takes such a view, Labour Members only laugh. In reality, the solidarity of the Left wing of the Labour Party here tonight is more important than the jobs of the workers concerned. That is the first criticism of the motion. The second criticism is that Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1694.5", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": " marketing of the motor cycles. We are talking about a very carefully evolved plan. Even if hon. Members cannot accept that this is a carefully evolved plan, why can they not accept that it would cost money in redundancy benefits and social security payments for all the men who would be made redundant if this proposal does not go through tonight than it would cost to keep this experiment in being?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1694.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "that we have before us this evening, in addition there had been the £4·95 million which has been made available already to Meriden in principle by the present Government and also the further £15 million which, in the company's assessment, will have to be injected fairly shortly if there is to be any possibility of getting a return—not immediately, but in 1979—out of three-factory operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1715.1", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "awfully. Section 8 contains restrictions on the use of these various methods of providing financial assistance. One has already been referred to; namely, that Financial assistance shall not be given under this section in the way described in subsection (3)( a ) of the last preceding section\", and that is the acquisition of loans or shares in the company. We have the precedent of a previous motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1723.2", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "they would find to be simple if only they would look at the facts. The Government could have given the entire cover, but Ministers discussed the matter and decided that the £8 million should come as a guarantee under the Industry Act. I sometimes think that the Opposition believe that my right hon. Friend takes all the decisions on every matter, as though he is not part of a collective Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1724.5", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " Friend and the trade unions production at the NVT plant has increased. Therefore, it can sell much more on the American market than in the past. Incidentally, it is not right to suggest that the American market has gone down. The American market has gone up. What has happened is that our share of the market has gone down. It is now possible for us to regain a greater share of the American market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1724.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get to the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ons and apparently I am expected to reply to all of them in about 20 minutes. It has been said that my right hon. Friend held back NRDC assistance as a form of blackmail. The true position is that last year a proposal was submitted to my right hon. Friend for approval. It concerned the development of new designs of motor cycle. By agreement between the NVT and the NRDC, the proposal was withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I do not say it was the only way. I said that it was the appropriate and the right way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-05", "file": "debates1975-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cc3ae8a5163f5c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I do not say it was the only way. I said that it was the appropriate and the right way. [ Interruption. ] I do no know whether the hon. Gentleman now puts himself above the authority of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-05a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-06", "file": "debates1975-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "339df4e28423c421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1762.4", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEMBLEY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is another very important engagement at Wembley, on 24th May, when thousands of Scots will descend on that stadium to witness the superior skills of Scottish football?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-06", "file": "debates1975-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "339df4e28423c421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1769.0", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that in the latter part of his supplementary question my hon. Friend has got a long way from Malta. I have no knowledge whatsoever of the circumstances about which he purports to know in relation to a police or any other inquiry. In view of the high regard in which my hon. Friend is held in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-06", "file": "debates1975-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "339df4e28423c421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1801.1", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "If the Chancellor had paid the House the courtesy of coming more often to listen to our debates, he would not perhaps have derived the wrong impression from my remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-06", "file": "debates1975-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "339df4e28423c421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1801.1", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "If the Chancellor had paid the House the courtesy of coming more often to listen to our debates, he would not perhaps have derived the wrong impression from my remark. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I shall answer in my own way and in due time the challenge which the Chancellor put to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1801.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-06", "file": "debates1975-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "339df4e28423c421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1802.0", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Make him withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member for Dover and Deal (Mr. Rees) made certain passing references which were becoming in the nature of an implication. I urge the hon. and learned Member to explain the situation more clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-06", "file": "debates1975-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "339df4e28423c421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1802.4", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "farms or woodlands will be less affected. It may be that the Chancellor has a farm. It may be that he has a family business or woodlands. If he has, fine—I admire his public spirit and the way in which he is so resolute in raising taxes for the salvation of the country by placing himself so fairly and squarely within the net. I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman feels sensitive on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1802.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-06", "file": "debates1975-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "339df4e28423c421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1906.4", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "people have gained their wealth from speculation or from gambling. Speculation is a form of gambling. There can be no moral justification for the wealth that some people acquire. Those of us who defend the capital transfer tax say that it is only right that the wealth that has been acquired in this haphazard and unjust way should be redistributed. I feel as though I am living in a different world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1906.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-06", "file": "debates1975-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "339df4e28423c421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1910.0", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "I have been following my hon. Friend's argument closely. It is a very simple argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-06", "file": "debates1975-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "339df4e28423c421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1910.6", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "ety. Whether it be 1948, 1968 or 1975, it is very difficult for a Government to ask working people to restrain their expenditure when they see others living in conditions which are very much more comfortable than their own. I do not believe that the argument of initiative carries very much weight in our society. It seems to me that, generally, the position to which we get in life is determined by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1910.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-06", "file": "debates1975-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "339df4e28423c421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1921.4", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "nstrument—are taxed in the same way as they would be if those assets were kept free from arrangements or settlements. There have been many suggestions from Opposition Members that my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary and myself, with my right hon. Friend the Chancellor, are deliberately setting about a course of trying to destroy small businesses. That, of course, is a preposterous accusation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1921.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-06", "file": "debates1975-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "339df4e28423c421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1923.0", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": " whether the business is successful. We had these discussions in Standing Committee at great length. I should have thought it self-evident, and we had various examples given in Standing Committee. If businesses have been making considerable profits such as we are talking about and have then been distributing them, it will be quite possible for the owners to pay the capital transfer tax out of that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-06", "file": "debates1975-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "339df4e28423c421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1958.5", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "the allegations of corruption that have been raised by the hon. Member for Belfast, South, save to say that if that is the case I should like to know the source of his information. If the hon. Gentleman cares to get in touch with me I shall be delighted to discuss the matter further. I am very keen on railways and I cannot believe that railwaymen of whatever level deliberately tried to close down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-06a.1958.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-07", "file": "debates1975-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "835cdd48eae6f17e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-07a.1974.1", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Perry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Perry", "preceding_text": "are introduced, there will always be somebody who gets round them. To be fair, I agree that the Act introduced by the previous Government in 1973 was an attempt to do the same along certain lines, and many of its provisions were good. Nevertheless, there were people who looked for a way round, and I am afraid that it is extremely difficult to make the regulations watertight. My time is running on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-07a.1974.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.4.4", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not seek to reproduce at Question Time the debate in the Committee which is going through the Industry Bill line by line. We have made it absolutely clear.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.4.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.31.2", "colnum": "31", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CONSULTANTS' CONTRACT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Dean", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member : \"To make more money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Dean", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady recognise the unhappy fact that the consultants have lost confidence because of her dictatorial and unfeeling attitude? Does she realise that this dispute is not fundamentally about pay but about the freedom of the consultant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.31.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CONSULTANTS' CONTRACT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "an speaks for all the consultants. I believe this to be one of the real difficulties. There is a conflict of interest here between the whole-timer and the maximum part-timer, between the man who can and does earn large sums from private practice and those other consultants in the Cinderella areas, the neglected specialities, who depend totally upon the whole-time emolument. What I am doing now is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CIVIL SERVANTS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the same \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am sure that those who are taking this action feel their grievance strongly. But it is also the case that they have had considerable increases since the settlement of last July. It is true that they were caught under the end of phase 3, but since then they have had threshold increases and some and possibly all of those taking action today have also had considerable increases in London weighting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why bother?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "rs and the urgings and entreaties of hon. Members of all parties have no effect, let the Government at least think of the financial considerations and of the importance to the environment. My hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury quoted the letter of the Minister of Sport urging us all to support Tree Planting Week. I shall support it in my constituency by planting a tree on Friday", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He's cutting it down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "o effect, let the Government at least think of the financial considerations and of the importance to the environment. My hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury quoted the letter of the Minister of Sport urging us all to support Tree Planting Week. I shall support it in my constituency by planting a tree on Friday [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why bother?\"] My hon. Friends ask why I should bother.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "id not seek to persuade me on grounds of logic. He simply sought to persuade me on the ground that his amendment would encourage the planting of trees. We are seeking specifically to do that because we are ensuring that there is no tax liability throughout the whole of the 150 years, if that is what it is, before the trees are chopped. That is quite a substantial relief. There is no tax liability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "penses are set off against his other income. There is, therefore, not only no income tax liability on woodlands ; there is a negative income tax, in that there is a set-off against other income. When the trees come to maturity, as the hon. and learned Member for Dover and Deal recognised, in the main they are subject to tax at a tiny level under Schedule B. Amendment (kk) is therefore unnecessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.100.3", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I thought that that was the purport of the other amendments. I hope that I have satisfied the right hon. Gentleman that there is no need for this amendment. The hon. and learned Member for Dover and Deal referred to Amendment (bbb). If the timber is sold off and income tax is borne on the net sale proceedings it would in the main be under Schedule B, as we have both recognised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I do not accept those extreme examples. In Standing Committee the hon. and learned Gentleman gave us many examples, all of which were misguided or misplaced. He should know, as indeed should the right hon. Member for Cambridgeshire (Mr. Pym), that in most cases they will be taxed under Schedule B—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.103.3", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "ed for them. That was the impression they gave me. I think I have dealt with the greater part, if not all, of the amendments which have been brought to my attention. There seems to be a wholly false assumption about the whole question of capital transfer tax in relation to forestry and woodlands generally. There is no reason whatever to assume that CTT has been responsible for any drop in planting", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.103.5", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"What about the profit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "That is precisely what I said—namely, that the Opposition appear to be arguing that the reason why owners did not plant trees was that they were no longer able to obtain estate duty relief", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.103.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"He has already sat down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "Before he sits down, will the right hon. Gentleman deal with two points which many of us have raised on innumerable occasions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "t the valuation of agricultural land is on a multiplier basis rather than a market value basis, but I cannot possibly say what the margin between a multiplier of the agricultural rents and agricultural value will be in a generation's time. It may well be that the concessions which the Government have made may not be valuable at all in a generation's time. I hope that it will be, but it may not be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"East Germany? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "x, and not avoidance. If there were evasion, no privilege would be involved, at least to that extent. When I hear hon. Members talking in the way they have been I am astonished. We must be clear what we are talking about. When they say that this is a great infringement of personal liability they seem to forget that many democratic countries have much wider powers than we are endeavouring to take —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.157.5", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I must say that this is the most impossible Finance Bill that has ever been presented to the House. Would you be so kind as to ask whether the Government will let us know on which page of the Notice Paper these Government amendments appear so that we can keep pace with what is going on? The Government have tabled hundreds of amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.157.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "inutes to pass before he tries to put words into my mouth which only a few minutes earlier I had been making clear were not the case. He has just said that we regarded all trusts, and discretionary settlements in particular, as tax avoidance devices. It could not have been more than five or six minutes ago that I was saying precisely the reverse. I do not know how many more times I have to say it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": " likely to arise in the courts with the conversions which might be expected of many discretionary settlements into other types of trust. I am sure that it will be within the recollection of the hon. Member for Braintree (Mr. Newton), who distinguished himself in Standing Committee by the moderation of his comments, that the criticism that my right hon. Friend and I were attracting on the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.208.5", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " it a trifling sum. Hon. Gentlemen opposite live in some strange world where everybody is in a position to give £1,000 a year quite easily. Indeed, he said \"Everybody is now giving away £1,000 a year. Who is not giving away £1,000 a year? \"In Cirencester and Tewkesbury this must be happening every year, but in Heywood and Royton and most points north of Watford that does not happen all that often.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.208.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.217.8", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The amendment now being moved by the Chief Secretary manifests that the debate is ending, as it began, with a correction by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.217.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-10", "file": "debates1975-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6ce9f9feed095edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.217.11", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the point of order?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "The debate is ending as it began—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-10a.217.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.261.6", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL CONTRACT (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Social contrast.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I certainly agree with the second of my hon. Friend's propositions, but not with the first. The social contract was negotiated over a two-year period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.261.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "DIRECT GRANT SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to hear that, because the meeting was obviously less enlightened than I was given to understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "GRANT-AIDED SCHOOLS (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bain", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bain", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman accept that the sudden exodus from the House when he rose to make his statement was not a reflection upon him but merely reflected the general lack of interest in Scottish affairs which is so often shown in this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "GRANT-AIDED SCHOOLS (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bain", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bain", "preceding_text": "dus from the House when he rose to make his statement was not a reflection upon him but merely reflected the general lack of interest in Scottish affairs which is so often shown in this House? [ Interruption .] Is he aware that we on the Scottish National Party bench welcome the fact that the Secretary of State has adopted the idea of the Scottish National Party in phasing out grant-aided schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Vote Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "ce of the case for having a referendum. Only by means of a referendum can we find out whether the British people do or do not consent to our continued membership. A General Election could not give us this answer, because this is an issue within the parties, not between them. How, for example, would a Conservative supporter opposed to our membership have recorded his view in the last two elections?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "I accept that there is some truth in what my right hon. Friend is saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.296.2", "colnum": "296", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "n Community\" being misunderstood. Again, should the word be \"think\" or \"shall \", or should the word be \"want\" or \"agree \"? The latter word, \"agree \", would certainly appear to be loaded. Finally, and perhaps most difficult of all, should the words be \"stay in\" \"be in \"? \"Stay in\" is consistent with the wording of the Labour Party's October Manifesto and it represents the present state of affairs.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.301.2", "colnum": "301", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "nerally and on the renegotiated terms and on the Government's recommendations. We feel that the special nature of the referendum justifies the delivery to every household of a popular version of the White Paper on the renegotiated terms and on the Government's recommendation. I am glad to tell the House that the Post Office and the Post Office workers are prepared to take on this substantial task—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.301.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stupid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ey would resign if they were defeated by the decision of the people. But, if I understand him correctly, the right hon. Gentleman has said elsewhere that the Government would not resign if the referendum went against their recommendation. Contrast Norway, which is used as an example for a referendum, where the Government resigned. But we understand that some members of the Government would resign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "'s speech did not exactly clarify the position. It is said that the referendum is advisory or consultative. I believe that if there is a high poll and a clear majority, the result will in fact be binding on Parliament, whatever one may say in law about parliamentary sovereignty. I cannot envisage that a Parliament, whatever individual Members might have thought, if there were a clear vote against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "that if there is a high poll and a clear majority, the result will in fact be binding on Parliament, whatever one may say in law about parliamentary sovereignty. I cannot envisage that a Parliament, whatever individual Members might have thought, if there were a clear vote against— [ Interruption .] It is not advisory or consultative in the event of a clear result. It would be binding on everyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": " if it is biased it will completely bias the referendum in favour of one particular view. That is a matter of considerable importance. Next, I turn to the challenge of the Leader of the Opposition when she said that we should discuss at some stage the principle of referenda. I wholeheartedly believe in democracy. That term to me means a majority of the citizens of a country in some way or another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "was put twice to the electorate. What are those saying who intend to vote against the motion? Are they saying that we should break a promise that we made twice to the electorate in one year, namely, a promise to allow the electorate to decide for itself— a promise to which the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell) almost sacrificed a career and sacrificed his seat in the House for a time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.361.2", "colnum": "361", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"My hon. Friend has never tried.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "earted consent. When the then Leader of the Opposition, my right hon. Friend the Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath), said that it would be wrong for us to be members of the Common Market without the full-hearted consent of Parliament and the people, if he meant \"Parliament\" why did he mention people \"? It is one of those obscure things. I have never understood it, and I have never heard an explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.363.3", "colnum": "363", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": " agree with much that has been said about the question itself. The first half about the Government having announced the results of the renegotiations is redundant. It will be known that the renegotiations have taken place, so why put that in? The question is badly worded. It should be merely, Should the United Kingdom be a member of the European Community (Common Market)? That is totally unbiased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "This is going back many years, to 1967. I said that with such a high percentage of our exports going to England, obviously if England were in then Scotland should be. I hope that people in England will vote against it. Since I said that in 1967 a certain black gold has been discovered in the Scottish sector of the North Sea off the Shetland coast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": " that kind to such a test. The New Zealand people have never been invited to overturn a decision of their Parliament. Decisions on certain limited issues have been handed out to the people as they have been here on a veto poll, but the people have never been invited to reverse parliamentary decisions on major matters of national policy. Perhaps I may point to the disaster which occurred in Norway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Antrim, South (Mr. Molyneaux), in a most perceptive speech, said that we were all here today because of the right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "p or down. Heavens, when the polls have been 28 points against me it has not made any difference with going on with policies I knew to be unpopular. That shows how little worth is to be attached to the solemn word of the Prime Minister given at a time when he was deliberately consulting the people in a General Election. There are one or two points I should like to make myself about the referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.442.7", "colnum": "442", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "ur fathers must be good enough for us. The right hon. Lady also argued that the Government had no mandate for a referendum, on the ground that the Labour Party received 38 per cent. of the vote in the last election. But the Conservative Party, in the 1970 General Election, received 46 per cent. of the vote — still short of 50 per cent. What is the distinction between 38 per cent. and 46 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.442.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-11", "file": "debates1975-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e6d67f37f2b286e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "EEC MEMBERSHIP (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I cannot spend the entire time allowed for my speech in giving way. I have been asked a number of questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-11a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-12", "file": "debates1975-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "029413e6c81818f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.506.6", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER : \"he Tories will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "It is no use some of my right hon. and hon. Friends fighting these old battles over and over again. I hope that we shall not get excited about it. Those who do not want to accept it will not accept it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.506.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-12", "file": "debates1975-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "029413e6c81818f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.514.2", "colnum": "514", "heading": "EEC (EUROPEAN COUNCIL MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary dealt with that this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.514.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-12", "file": "debates1975-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "029413e6c81818f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "EEC (EUROPEAN COUNCIL MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-12", "file": "debates1975-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "029413e6c81818f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT (FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "The House will be grateful to you for your statement, Mr. Speaker. In particular we take note of what you have said about the importance of having regard to the convenience of the House— something which may need to be considered not only here but by others. I am sure you will be aware that it is a very serious matter that deliveries of mail to this place are being interrupted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-12", "file": "debates1975-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "029413e6c81818f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.537.3", "colnum": "537", "heading": "HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT (FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "No. I have sought the support of hon. Members on both sides of the House in this matter of order. I have made my ruling and I have made a suggestion. No further matter for the Chair can possibly arise now. If the matter is to be pursued it must be pursued with the Leader of the House tomorrow or in other ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.537.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-12", "file": "debates1975-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "029413e6c81818f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.537.4", "colnum": "537", "heading": "HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT (FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Today.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "On a different point of order, Mr. Speaker, without any reference to your ruling which, of course, we accept. May I ask the Leader of the House, through you, whether we may have a statement tomorrow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.537.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-12", "file": "debates1975-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "029413e6c81818f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "preceding_text": "he Chancellor has three weeks in which to show that his prediction will come right. There is precious little evidence of that forecast even moving in the right direction. How very different were the remarks quoted in the Press recently by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Mr. Walden). He said that in every month of this Government the rate of inflation has not merely risen but accelerated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-12", "file": "debates1975-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "029413e6c81818f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.725.3", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (CALF SUBSIDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "preceding_text": "sternation among farmers, and lead eventually to a shortage of beef in this country. Many people may not believe what I am saying, but I am afraid that it will be true in a few years. I believe that the housewife will have to pay a very high price for the Sunday joint within the next five years due to the lack of foresight on the part of the Minister. We do not propose to divide the House tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-12a.725.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-13", "file": "debates1975-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e01e28ae87b2fa1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-13a.800.5", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did see it for myself in Glasgow.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-13a.800.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-13", "file": "debates1975-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e01e28ae87b2fa1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-13a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "\"Clear and uncertain\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend clear up the mystery which surrounds the reply to 70 Labour Members who are anxiously seeking informa- tion about the future of the Industry Bill and the National Enterprise Board —which is of concern to the trade union movement—should we remain in the Common Market? If the position is clear and uncertain, what is delaying this reply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-13a.803.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-13", "file": "debates1975-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e01e28ae87b2fa1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-13a.817.3", "colnum": "817", "heading": "HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT (FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "or the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration; namely, the situation arising from the industrial action of certain public employees whereby Members of Parliament are being denied proper contact with their constituents and also full and proper access to printed parliamentary papers which are essential to the effective discharge of their duties. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-13a.817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-13", "file": "debates1975-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e01e28ae87b2fa1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-13a.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT (FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "preceding_text": "If it would help the hon. Member for Surrey, North-West —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-13a.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-13", "file": "debates1975-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e01e28ae87b2fa1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-13a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL BUSINESSES AND THE SELF-EMPLOYED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "preceding_text": " at a conference listening to two people speak of their experiences. One was a man who had inherited a business. Because he is a man of high moral principle he decided that he could not continue as the sole owner of the business and simply transfer it to his children. He decided not to \"give\" the business to the employees but to \"transfer\" the ownership to all the people working in his enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-13a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-13", "file": "debates1975-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "e01e28ae87b2fa1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-13a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL BUSINESSES AND THE SELF-EMPLOYED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They cannot believe it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "preceding_text": "d inherited a business. Because he is a man of high moral principle he decided that he could not continue as the sole owner of the business and simply transfer it to his children. He decided not to \"give\" the business to the employees but to \"transfer\" the ownership to all the people working in his enterprise. [ Interruption .] It is now a commonly-owned enterprise and an extremely successful one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-13a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-14", "file": "debates1975-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "b41de4c3ad17f956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-14a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "cal government goes on the four items I have mentioned—36 per cent. on education, 7 per cent. on police and fire services, and 12 per cent. on interest charges. In the Budget the Chancellor should take over, for discharge by the taxpayer, full financial responsibility for those services in the coming year 1975–76. This would give Layfield time to report and for his report to be implemented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-14a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-17", "file": "debates1975-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6286a13140cb88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1128.6", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "The bigger half.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "preceding_text": "Which half of the Government will put the facts into the White Paper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-17", "file": "debates1975-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6286a13140cb88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "MR. SHELEPIN (VISA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ial answer, I do not believe that I should use the procedure which I have available to me on matters of taste or distaste. I would not have thought that the question of safety arose. No doubt there may be some demonstrations, which I hope will be peaceful, if people wish to demonstrate. That is a right which we preserve and which I am determined to preserve. But the view I have also taken is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-17", "file": "debates1975-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6286a13140cb88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " statement in time and in accordance with normal procedures. He will appreciate that where compensation figures are involved there is a very strong commercial security element. But I tried to ensure that the hon. Gentleman got it on the normal basis. As to cost, it is not possible for me to give a precise figure. It is bound to depend in some cases on arbitration. On the relative values of shares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-17", "file": "debates1975-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6286a13140cb88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ation figures are involved there is a very strong commercial security element. But I tried to ensure that the hon. Gentleman got it on the normal basis. As to cost, it is not possible for me to give a precise figure. It is bound to depend in some cases on arbitration. On the relative values of shares—[ Interruption .] The Government may be involved in arbitration on these matters, as I made clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-17", "file": "debates1975-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6286a13140cb88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "arbitration on these matters, as I made clear—[ Interruption .] If the House wants to hear my answer, I must be given a chance to answer. For the reasons that I have given and as I made clear in my statement, in the event of a valuation going to arbitration it is not possible to anticipate precisely what the amount will be, and therefore I cannot answer the question precisely. For the same reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-17", "file": "debates1975-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6286a13140cb88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1150.4", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I received representations regarding Scottish Aviation from a number of people and I will provide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-17", "file": "debates1975-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6286a13140cb88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Stonehouse). I do not intend to follow him in any detail, except to say, on behalf of my colleagues on the Select Committee which is investigating this painful affair, that we are grateful for his assurance that he will not chastise us overmuch. There are piles of rubbish lying around the corridors of this place. I am not in any way complaining about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-17", "file": "debates1975-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6286a13140cb88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPORTS COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I intervene, for the sake of the remainder of the debate, to tell the hon. Gentleman before he sits down that he will never know how tolerant I have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-17", "file": "debates1975-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6286a13140cb88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "e scheme or to introduce a similar scheme on a long-term basis. The industry requires that assurance, and it would help if the Minister can give it tonight so that the industry knows where it stands. I hope that this period of six months can be used for discussions with the industry on ways in which the scheme can be made permanent if the economic circumstances warrant it at the end of the period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-17", "file": "debates1975-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6286a13140cb88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": " by the fishermen regarding their future in the EEC. This is a matter which will be debated in the next few months before the referendum takes place. Since fishing is so important to our country, much greater safeguards might have been included in the Treaty of Accession when the Conservative Party was in power. I believe that I have answered most of the questions asked by both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-17", "file": "debates1975-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6286a13140cb88e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1371.0", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Gavin Strang)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I think it will be of help to the House if I point out that the statement in the Estimates that the number of applications was much higher than expected is erroneous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-17a.1370.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-18", "file": "debates1975-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "69efa793352ac835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1438.4", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the failure of the social contract is placing intolerable burdens on retired people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-18", "file": "debates1975-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "69efa793352ac835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1453.0", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have a great of sympathy with the point made by my hon. Friend. I should like to see this take place sooner, and so, I guess, would the whole House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-18", "file": "debates1975-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "69efa793352ac835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1456.1", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": " of the most important parliamentary occasions in our history, and I feel a duty to state the Government's position here in the House, rather than make a short, even perfunctory, statement here and a lengthy statement outside the House where it is not subject to parliamentary questioning. Her Majesty's Government have decided to recommend to the British people to vote for staying in the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-18", "file": "debates1975-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "69efa793352ac835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1456.1", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "ared possible in the battles of 1971, 1972 and 1973: more, in my view, than even a year ago, when the result of the February election made the manifesto objectives for the first time no longer a domestic, political argument but a governmental mandate for renegotiation. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House will announce our proposals for a two-day debate immediately after the Easter Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-18", "file": "debates1975-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "69efa793352ac835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ty changes; for example, in respect of steel and even possibly in respect of New Zealand. I welcome the fact that the right hon. Lady has acknowledged what she knows to be a fact, as the House does, about our relations with the United States. She will, of course, take full collective responsibility for the lower ebb of relations with the United States before we improved them last year. Presumably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-18", "file": "debates1975-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "69efa793352ac835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1469.3", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-18", "file": "debates1975-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "69efa793352ac835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1469.5", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—including the right hon. Gentleman. Remembering when the cock crowed for the right hon. Gentleman, I would say that at least he had the decency to abstain from his present Leader about a fortnight later. With regard to the question that the right hon. Lady has put—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1469.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-18", "file": "debates1975-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "69efa793352ac835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, I thank the right hon. Gentleman for what he said about consistency. In 1961, when Mr. Macmillan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-18", "file": "debates1975-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "69efa793352ac835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1471.2", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some of them\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that in the coming battle on the referendum he will be leading a coalition of the Labour, Tory and Liberal Parties and that my party in Scotland will be fighting against that coalition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-18", "file": "debates1975-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "69efa793352ac835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1476.2", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", certain, my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and I can confirm that even a month or two months ago when we were not getting our terms these matters were very much in doubt. My right hon. Friend and I agreed and so warned the EEC that we would have no alternative but to recommend the House, the party and the people to reject continuing membership. Even last week there were times in Dublin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-18", "file": "debates1975-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "69efa793352ac835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1606.2", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 125", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "preceding_text": "isive action to push the base rate down so that the words \"full employment\" start to have a real meaning in the corporate life of Scottish society. The third reason why I ask for Government action is that we are faced with the lunacy of the capitalist market system, with labour which could be productive and useful being paid, through unemployment and other benefits, to be unproductive and useless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-18a.1606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-19", "file": "debates1975-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5e35fffcee076ad6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1628.6", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "It is complacent in so far as if only the Minister had accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1628.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-19", "file": "debates1975-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5e35fffcee076ad6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1634.2", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. Will he recognise, however, that this is a matter of immense urgency for many women who daily face terrible injuries in their homes? Would he also recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-19", "file": "debates1975-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5e35fffcee076ad6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1636.4", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "That seems a remarkable answer, because the Minister is basing quite a lot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1636.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-19", "file": "debates1975-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5e35fffcee076ad6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "On that last point, as I made clear in an answer a week or two ago, the answer is No \". I do not think that an inquiry is warranted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-19", "file": "debates1975-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5e35fffcee076ad6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1643.7", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Again, that is not a matter for the Chair. I do ask the House to support the Chair. I am trying to stop what are in fact false points of order. I can only do that with the assistance par- ticularly of experienced hon. Members. As the hon. Member knows, that is not a matter for the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1643.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-19", "file": "debates1975-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5e35fffcee076ad6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1666.1", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "OIL TAXATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " Gentleman has confirmed that that is his intention. Later Mr. Reynolds said that, although the company would not withdraw its participation it seemed unlikely that the field could be developed economically. Conoco is a highly respected oil company, and I have been making my own inquiries. I am grateful to one of the smaller United Kingdom companies which provided me with a special set of figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-19", "file": "debates1975-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5e35fffcee076ad6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "OIL TAXATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " PRT at all, and to that extent the right hon. Gentleman's point is clear. I wish to emphasise that there is no bonanza in these proposals. In that case, assuming $10·5 per barrel, the Government take is 65 per cent. and the DCF return is 17 per cent.. In regard to the $9 oil the DCF falls to 13 per cent. I must remind the House that I am discussing a 300-million barrel field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-19", "file": "debates1975-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5e35fffcee076ad6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1699.1", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "OIL TAXATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "preceding_text": " reduce very significantly the burden of taxation on small fields. On a 40-million ton field it really would make virtually no difference—some difference, but certainly not enough difference to mean the development or not the development of a particular field. Therefore, I do not see justification for this further concession. It has certainly not been pressed with any great vigour by the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-19", "file": "debates1975-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "5e35fffcee076ad6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1747.18", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "y between an artificial or notional price and the real price is a hazard which should be avoided if possible, there is no point in trying to cut down the risk from a chance of one in 180 to a risk of one in 30. The risk is still very much alive and kicking, although substantially reduced. I believe that there is a far more substantial and potent reason, following the Paymaster-General's statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-19a.1747.18"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-20", "file": "debates1975-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "26a64d3516a812d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-20a.1848.0", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"' It has caused considerable offence in Wales, as I heard again last night—[ Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that it is an offensive phrase in the first place —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-20a.1848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-20", "file": "debates1975-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "26a64d3516a812d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-20a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRUSSELS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady knows perfectly well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-20a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-20", "file": "debates1975-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "26a64d3516a812d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-20a.1874.3", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO OPPOSITION PARTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "t we should vote against the motion. It is an entirely new principle that if a number of people band themselves into a political party, that party should receive public funds. What is the likely consequence? There is a huge limit, but a limit, of £150,000. What incentive does it provide? It provides an incentive for a splintering into lots of little groups, each of which will qualify for £150,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-20a.1874.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-20", "file": "debates1975-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "26a64d3516a812d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-20a.1876.1", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO OPPOSITION PARTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Votes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "I am wondering whether the right hon. Gentleman has tabled the wrong motion. If he meant what he said, plus £1 for every 200 seats \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-20a.1876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-20", "file": "debates1975-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "26a64d3516a812d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-20a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terence Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terence Higgins", "preceding_text": "erved. That is in marked contrast to the general position where prices have risen by about 20 per cent. and wages have risen by about 30 per cent. over the past year. This is because the textile market has been depressed. Average earnings in the industry are being affected by short-time working. The industry has become a victim of the social contract. This is a feature which should be brought out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-20a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-20", "file": "debates1975-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "26a64d3516a812d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-20a.2025.1", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "rices, and I should like the Minister to reply to these points. Hon. Members have referred to the 20p shirt and the £8 suit. It has been pointed out that these have not been a great gain either to the less developed countries or to the consumer. I was not quite clear whether hon. Members were arguing that they would have rather seen the low price of the imports reflected in the price in the shops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-20a.2025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.3.5", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I certainly confirm that our present trade with the EEC is roughly one-third of our total trade. On the second question, about whether or not a free trade agreement would be concluded if we left the EEC, I have expressed the view previously at this Box that I think this is a very likely outcome of the fact of our withdrawal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.3.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.5.1", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "That is a matter of judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.5.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": " address to the European Assembly, I said: I have deliberately withheld judgment on the issue of whether our trade imbalance was the result of membership of the EEC. That has been my practice in answering questions until today. That is what I have said in the past. But in view of what I thought frankly was a very one-sided statement made by Mr. Gundelach of the figures, and his explanation of hem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.29.4", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "oint of order, Mr. Speaker. Question No. 30 on the Order Paper is a Question to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister by my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield. Attercliffe (Mr. Duffy). who is not here. I had always understood that Questions to the Prime Minister could be put only in the last quarter of an hour of Question Time on Tuesday and Thursday. Is it now possible to put them on any day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.29.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "n this case we are expressing the view, rightly or wrongly, that one set of social values —clemency, and a willingness to forgive and forget—should have temporary predominance over another social value—the rule of law. We are recognising that in certain situations it is healthier for society to forgive than to risk a Continuance of resentment and conflict. The Bill is not a concession to pressure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Swain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot get away with this. No decision of the courts has been overturned. There is no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.59.2", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it right for the Secretary of State to declare that my hon. Friend told a lie", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.59.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.66.3", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "of the Local Government Act instead of under the Act that he, the Minister, had taken so much trouble to steer through the House of Commons. The auditor, apparently acting on the Minister's instructions, completely ignored my plea. As a consequence, the audit took over two days to complete. As my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) has stated, the facts were not known to the auditor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.66.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.106.3", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The by-election was not lost in Clay Cross. What happened in Clay Cross—I shall refer to it later—was something very much different. The by-election was lost in an adjoining ward for reasons I do not want to go into now", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Mr. S. C. Silkin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Mr. S. C. Silkin)", "preceding_text": "The debate is one in which strong conviction strongly expressed has been predominant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Mr. S. C. Silkin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Mr. S. C. Silkin)", "preceding_text": " of law with fairness and compassion and yet without weakening its strength in circumstances in which many responsible citizens have, without doubt, acted unlawfully—not, I believe, for their personal benefit, but rather under the pressure of opinions deeply and sincerely held, and in the deep and sincere belief that the law that they were called upon to administer was a bad law and an unfair law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Within the law.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " for his prudence and common sense, which he also showed in relation to the Housing Finance Act. By then the rebellion had ended. The Act, however obnoxious to many, was being administered. Instead of allowing the law to take its course with the surcharge and disqualification of councillors, the right hon. and learned Gentleman stepped in and made use of his power to sanction unlawful expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.160.5", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The Minister purported to remit them after the courts had upheld them, but the courts held that he had no power to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.160.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.160.5", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The Minister purported to remit them after the courts had upheld them, but the courts held that he had no power to do so. [ Interruption. ] So he brought in the Bill retrospectively to remove the surcharges and to remove the threat of imprisonment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.160.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.160.5", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The Minister purported to remit them after the courts had upheld them, but the courts held that he had no power to do so. [ Interruption. ] So he brought in the Bill retrospectively to remove the surcharges and to remove the threat of imprisonment. [ Interruption. ] It is instructive to see what he said in order to see the close parallel to this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.160.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"A lousy liar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Member for Chingford was present. I realise that it was an exciting moment. For the record, I remind the House that to call any right hon. or hon. Member a liar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-24", "file": "debates1975-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c262e350793bc3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "The public elect councillors who become bailies and magistrates. I do not know who elects Jps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-24a.208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-25", "file": "debates1975-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de17e953a7399a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should examine the engineers' settlement very closely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-25", "file": "debates1975-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de17e953a7399a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should examine the engineers' settlement very closely—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"] We do not know yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-25", "file": "debates1975-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de17e953a7399a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.254.6", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that our present economic situation demanded the support of all parties in this House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.254.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-25", "file": "debates1975-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de17e953a7399a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "LIQUOR LICENSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to liquor licensing. I wish to draw attention to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-25", "file": "debates1975-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de17e953a7399a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "estic affairs but even raise our eyes beyond Europe and discuss the other issues which concern the peace of the world and in which this country has a very great influence. Therefore, although the right hon. Gentleman spent about a third of his time discussing Europe he will forgive me, I hope, if for these reasons alone I do not discuss our membership of the Community in any detail this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-25", "file": "debates1975-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de17e953a7399a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "orgive me, I hope, if for these reasons alone I do not discuss our membership of the Community in any detail this afternoon. [ Interruption .] I thought that that might arouse a certain amount of derision, but that only goes to show that hon. Members opposite are falling below the level of other world events. There are other things in the world, believe it or not, than membership of the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-25", "file": "debates1975-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de17e953a7399a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "fore he went to the Middle East and after his return. I have also discussed them with other leaders in the Middle East. I wish to put on record that neither Dr. Kissinger nor anyone else could have done any more to bring the two sides together. I hope that the House will join with me in paying tribute to the immense personal effort that Dr. Kissinger has put into making the negotiations a success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.283.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-03-25", "file": "debates1975-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de17e953a7399a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the Arabs?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "at without interfering with their internal system. The movement of the dissidents, the Baptists, and people like Sakharov and Moroz are trying to change the system within the Soviet Union. Many of us in this House are deeply concerned with both problems. I am a Vice-President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, but I have been involved all my working life in the battle of freedom for others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-25", "file": "debates1975-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de17e953a7399a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Newens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Free elections?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Newens", "preceding_text": "to bomb Vietnam back into the Stone Age, the tragic deaths and suffering of the Vietnamese and the loss of over 40,000 American lives, have not sufficed to stem the course of history. The days of the United States domination of Vietnam are drawing to a close, whether or not the Americans give aid. It will be a step forward when at last Vietnam has achieved its genuine united national independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-25", "file": "debates1975-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de17e953a7399a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. David Ennals)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. David Ennals)", "preceding_text": "nly, it would be done only with great difficulty. I also agree with the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds that those who now call for withdrawal must prove that we could manage better outside. My experience in foreign affairs in the past 12 months tells me that Britain would be very lonely outside. We are heavily dependent upon world trade as well as world confidence in the strength of our economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-25", "file": "debates1975-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de17e953a7399a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "CENSUS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "what was produced from any of its predecessors. On the other hand, I acknowledge that several detailed sets of tables remain outstanding on particular topics, such as transport to work and migration. They are part of the main publication programme, and we are doing our best to ensure that they will be laid before the House by the middle of this year—just over four years after the census was taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-25", "file": "debates1975-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de17e953a7399a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "CENSUS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The taxpayer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "nd £3½ million for Scotland. In spite of the larger number of staff we shall be employing at the peak period and the enhanced computer resources, the cost in real terms is unlikely to differ substantially from the cost of the 1971 census. These are difficult decisions, particularly at a time when public expenditure is under great scrutiny. The costs are borne by many Government Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-25a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-26", "file": "debates1975-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d68d6b7b58c9881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.455.9", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not want to encourage English nationalism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.455.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-26", "file": "debates1975-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d68d6b7b58c9881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "preceding_text": "If the Scottish TUC does not take the Government's advice to support Britain's staying in the Common Market. will the Secretary of State ask it who is to pay the huge grants that Scotland is currently receiving from theCommunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-26", "file": "debates1975-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d68d6b7b58c9881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Still reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "preceding_text": "If the Scottish TUC does not take the Government's advice to support Britain's staying in the Common Market. will the Secretary of State ask it who is to pay the huge grants that Scotland is currently receiving from theCommunity—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—and who will provide employment for those made redundant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-26", "file": "debates1975-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d68d6b7b58c9881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Lady said about the three days for the debate on the European motion. The guidelines are part of the guidance that the Prime Minister gives to his Ministers. All Prime Ministers give guidance to their Ministers from time to time, and sometimes parts of the guidance are made public. The content of the guidance and whether it is made public are matters entirely for the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-26", "file": "debates1975-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d68d6b7b58c9881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.487.3", "colnum": "487", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I have answered that question already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-26", "file": "debates1975-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d68d6b7b58c9881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.487.4", "colnum": "487", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "e Easter Recess, and those Ministers who will speak with different voices on the question of the Common Market, will the Leader of the House take into account the fact that a large number of Government supporters are not terribly concerned about the show of Departmental differences between Cabinet and other Ministers, and that we regard it as part of our manifesto campaign to have open government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.487.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-26", "file": "debates1975-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d68d6b7b58c9881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I do not want to get involved in that question. I met the fishermen. Some of my colleagues in the House, from both sides, were with me and represented certain interests. I am anxious to see this dispute settled amicably. I do not like to use threats in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-26", "file": "debates1975-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d68d6b7b58c9881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEX DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "t say that that would be altogether bad because, as my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Drake said, vicious and unfair discrimination crops up in parliamentary Committees of Selection. I suspect that there may be some trivialities in the Bill. Judging by Clause 6(2), it would appear that women Members of Parliament could demand a women's hairdresser to be provided in the Palace of Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-26", "file": "debates1975-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d68d6b7b58c9881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEX DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Dr. Shirley Summer-skill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Dr. Shirley Summer-skill)", "preceding_text": " low grade, low paid and uninspiring A total of 9·2 per cent. of girls obtain day release for further education compared with 36 per cent. of boys; 7 per cent. of girls are accepted for apprenticeship training compared with a figure of 42 per cent. for boys; less than 25 per cent. of girl school leavers take any kind of job training. The TUC has 1,400 paid officials, only 25 of whom are men", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-26", "file": "debates1975-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d68d6b7b58c9881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEX DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": " one, which can prevent men from entering the nursing profession. There are potential problems. We recognise that a patient should have a right—this has been stated by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services—to choose a female midwife if that is her wish. That right will be retained. It is also accepted that in many situations chaperonage of male midwives will be necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-26a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-27", "file": "debates1975-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddb9db8e2758c97a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-27a.680.6", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend not agree that many people in the House and throughout our nation believe that one reason for our difficult situation is the absurd terms agreed when entering the EEC? Does he not further agree that while a \"No\" vote will enhance our chances of economic recovery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-27a.680.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-27", "file": "debates1975-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddb9db8e2758c97a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-27a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Advertising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ce on occasions when they could not have taken place, in places where the relevant people were not present at the time. I am sorry to say that a high proportion of the attributed quotations were either made by Mr. Crossman himself or were not made at all. My memoirs were submitted to the Cabinet Office in the usual way, and all the corrections that it asked me to make, which were very few, I made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-27a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-27", "file": "debates1975-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddb9db8e2758c97a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-27a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman will come to learn that the convention on these occasions is to treat them like Business Statements rather than as an opportunity to make rather trite party points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-27a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-03-27", "file": "debates1975-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddb9db8e2758c97a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-27a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to return to the original point made by the right hon. Gentleman, but he was slightly and unnecessarily rude about the question which I put to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-03-27a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.810.2", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "East (Mr. Wilson) to give that assurance, because during the last election campaign he promised dominion or federal status to Orkney and Shetland. If that were granted, the prolific east-of-Shetland oilfields would adhere to Shetland and Orkney. This is taking to its logical conclusion the procedure of the geographical allocation of energy resources advocated by those who aspire to Scotland's oil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e just mentioned, to help developing countries, and the agreement on New Zealand butter, together with the reopening of the New Zealand cheese import option. These are, in my view, significant achievements which make a reality of the manifesto objective. On the objective relating to the Community budget, again we have not secured a fundamental change in the \"own resources\" system of the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is on the basis of the 1971 agreement—an agreement which I appreciate the hon. Gentleman at that time did not support. On that basis there are certain payments to make in respect of the 1 per cent. VAT contribution in regard to duties and levies. That is offset to the tune of £125 million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he fact is that there are no powers to control private investment in the steel industry. If, as part of economic management and control over national resources, the Government—any Government in this country—are to hold back the level of new investment in the public steel sector, it is of course unacceptable that the private sector should be free to expand where it wants and by as much as it wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.828.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Norway?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamish Watt", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say why he neglected to renegotiate the common fisheries policy when he was in Dublin? Will he tell the people of Scotland whether he is prepared to allow EEC people to keep on coming in with their boats and scooping up all the fish in our waters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "nificant improvements had been gained in the Community's arrangements as far as Britain was concerned. I followed that by saying that I believed, as we on this side of the House have constantly stressed, that such improvement could have been gained in the normal development of the Community with Britain exerting her influence as a member State. I do not see that that is backing a horse both ways.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": " availability of a vast quantity of cheap food from New Zealand and the developing countries. I hope that his argument will be listened to by my right hon. and hon. Friends whose hearts bleed for the Third World. This is the great protagonist of the Third World and the under-developed countries—who wants cheap food produced endlessly for Britain instead of our being charged the cost of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.881.6", "colnum": "881", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": " should be reformed and improved in this country. I also want to see an effective European Parliament. I should like to say to those hon. Members who have been talking about parliamentary sovereignty that on Wednesday night they will find the vast majority in the House voting for a continuation of Britain's membership of the Community. Let them accept that in the name of parliamentary sovereignty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.881.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lomas", "preceding_text": "nity we could stand alone in splendid isolation or that we could reach a further agreement with the EFTA countries which would be beneficial to us all. It must be remembered that the EFTA has a market of only 40 million compared with the EEC market of about 200 million. In my constituency of Huddersfield, West, that is of vital importance for industries such as textiles, chemicals and engineering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.937.3", "colnum": "937", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "pose import surcharges on a temporary basis. I am not arguing whether that is the right thing to do. We cannot do it. We did it under a previous Labour Government, but to do it now would be against the Treaty of Rome. The Government have the support—welcome or otherwise—of most Conservative Members. I am not quite sure about the position on the Liberal bench and whether Liberal Members are united.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fred Silvester", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fred Silvester", "preceding_text": "ont runners. First, opponents of the Common Market talk continuously of a food tax. Secondly, they talk about the deficit on trade. Thirdly, they talk about sovereignty. Another way of talking about a food tax and the common agricultural policy is to regard it as a means of protecting farming. If it is described in that way, it is a form of words which is much more acceptable to most hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All one of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "ection. The question that arises is what sort of European connection is acceptable to us. I see my right hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet (Mr. Maudling) sitting very close to me across the Gangway. He knows how much I was persuaded by him in the years when he was the Conservative Minister seeking to negotiate the European Free Trade Area and when the Liberal Party, now sitting behind me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-07", "file": "debates1975-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d7f86312f756a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It did not break down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I think not. I shall give two examples. One example concerns the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing). It is a matter that he will know about well. The recent Commonwealth Sugar Agreement broke down not entirely but largely because of the simple fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-07a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-08", "file": "debates1975-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6fa864021e90eb56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1013.7", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ember will have noted from the Order Paper that we are currently engaged in a three-day debate on the European situation, during which I managed to catch your eye, Mr. Speaker, yesterday afternoon. The hon. Member can make his point in the debate. With regard to ministerial broadcasts, I think that we must to some extent have regard to the problems of the broadcasting authorities in this campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1013.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-08", "file": "debates1975-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6fa864021e90eb56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition says that she did not say that. In that case, I wish that she would repudiate that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-08", "file": "debates1975-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6fa864021e90eb56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "s which affect all our peoples. The more closely we work together in that way, the better our security will be from the viewpoint of the future of our children. I believe that people today recognise two quite different needs. First, there is the need to be part of some smaller group to which we can belong and feel and know we belong. We see that daily in a certain amount of revulsion against size.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-08", "file": "debates1975-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6fa864021e90eb56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Lady recognise that there are two points here? First, it is irrelevant to the comparison whether the CAP has put up prices or not, but it has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-08", "file": "debates1975-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6fa864021e90eb56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " deal of argument about the trade deficit. Indeed, the hon. Member for Renfrewshire, West (Mr. Buchan) had a good deal to say about that, as indeed had the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay). The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley), substantially answered the question last night, but unfortunately —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-08", "file": "debates1975-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6fa864021e90eb56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the balance of payments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "the steel because the British Steel Corporation was not able to supply enough last year. If we had not got those supplies from Europe we should have had to buy them elsewhere. On all of these things, membership of the Community did not have an adverse effect on our balance of trade; in fact, it helped us, in so far as some of these things cost us less in Europe than they would have cost elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-08", "file": "debates1975-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6fa864021e90eb56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "e if we are not a member of the Common Market. A number of companies here have already indicated that they feel that if we were to withdraw there would be a loss of jobs. Firms like GKN, Lucas and Vauxhall, and a number of people in the chemical industry, have indicated that if we were to withdraw investment would not be forthcoming here; and in their view it would have an adverse effect on jobs.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-08", "file": "debates1975-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6fa864021e90eb56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Lady realise that if we withdrew in that situation over the broad area of industrial goods this country would really be in a free trade relation with both groups and, therefore, all we would be abrogating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-08", "file": "debates1975-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6fa864021e90eb56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"My hon. Friend is not so lonely now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "hen in Opposition wished to, and did, defy the law, which was the will of Parliament and therefore the very embodiment of parliamentary sover eignty? Where were the doctrines of parliamentary sovereignty then, and who was having recourse to them then? Some of us who really believe in parliamentary sovereignty, against all its challenges, have felt lonely people in the Labour Party in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-08", "file": "debates1975-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6fa864021e90eb56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Reds under the bed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "bsolutely solid in favour of our coming out of Europe. I know that the party of the hon. Member for Moray and Nairn (Mrs. Ewing) is totally divided, according to today's edition of the Glasgow Herald Even the Scottish National Party is no longer solid on the issue. One party is absolutely solid, and that party wishes to do what? It wishes to destroy democracy. It is the Communist Party in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-08", "file": "debates1975-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6fa864021e90eb56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Thomas", "preceding_text": "en us and the Common Market countries. I say to my Socialist comrades in my party that I do not believe that it is difficult to go through our manifesto and list this part of it or that which we would be unable to implement if we remained in the Common Market. That manifesto is only the beginning. It is only a pale shadow of the kind of measures we would like to take to build a Socialist society.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-08a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1225.5", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Abolish it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "It is utterly inconceivable that I could answer any question which the Foreign Secretary failed to answer. All that I can do is to repeat the answer that he gave—that in or out of the Community the right of a Labour Government or a Conservative Government to operate VAT according to their choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1225.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1243.7", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "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": " prices which we have already experienced have in the main been due to world causes rather than to our EEC membership. It would be irresponsible, whatever our views of the Community, to plan for the future other than on the assumption that the general level of world food prices is likely to be higher than in the past—with the strong possibility of sharp fluctuations in both availability and price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1243.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kirk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kirk", "preceding_text": " that, the strictures which the right hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe) passed on the Minister for Overseas Development on Monday seem restrained almost to the point of modesty, especially knowing the right hon. Gentleman. It is difficult to know how the Minister, having negotiated this agreement, can now come out in favour of Britain leaving the Community and placing all this in jeopardy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "licy and accepting decisions by the Market involving and enmeshing us more. It was not easy for me in that situation. I wrote a letter to my right hon. Friend on 23rd April last year—he still has not replied—in which I said that I did not believe that that was acceptable to me or to my party. I then had to resign in October to fight a particular fight over sugar, when we did manage to get access —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "han we would be outside. That is quite untrue. It ignores several things completely. One is the effect of our entry on world prices. The prime example is sugar. The West Indians were screwing us because they could see that by the end of the year we were likely to move into a beet regime in Europe and they had to get what they could out of the situation. Our entry of Europe affected that. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "o not know. I did not think that they had time to support it, being too busy blockading ports to prevent Common Market stuff from coming in. In between blockading ports they have made the decision to support the CAP. What is proposed for us agriculturally? The CAP will provide a gross imbalance between livestock and cereals. The cereal boys are doing well, but it is that kind of policy which when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "e does not actually fall within the province of the Council of Agriculture Ministers of the Community but of the Agriculture Commission which takes simple majority decisions. They feel not only the great loss of industrial output but that their livestock industry is in danger as a result. So let us have no more nonsense about flexibility. Finally, I must say that it has given me no great pleasure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "ers also to participate in the debate. I think that this would have helped. We would have had plenty of jeering from hon. Members of the Opposition but, with respect, some of us here would have been rather happy with some of the jeering from them instead of some of the cheering. All parties are split on this subject— the Tory Party, the Liberal Party, the Labour Party— the Scottish National Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about India and Pakistan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " a barrier. Trade was a barrier. Now, under the new arrangement, those barriers are being removed, and we can see that the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific have opportunities now which they have never had previously. That is why I welcome what the right hon. Lady the Minister of Overseas Development has been able to achieve in her part in influencing the Lomé negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath) naturally compels attention when he speaks on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend wants to know what I said then, perhaps he will perform the same penance and read the speech instead of guessing about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1295.3", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I was not concerned with the question whether the consent of Parliament and people was to be one and indivisible. I was concerned with the unique nature of the necessity for full-hearted consent which has been attached to this step. However, since the right hon. Gentleman raises the point, I will place on record that the full-hearted consent of Parliament has never been given to this measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1326.3", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order With every respect to the hon. Member, who has been here for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1327.3", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "he agenda. My contacts with the European and, in particular, the Italian Socialist movement are well known in the House and, I imagine in the country. We are internationalists in the Labour Party. No one should claim that he is more pure in relation to the Socialist ideal because he is for entry or against. Whether we are for or against, we all believe in the principles of international Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hazel Grove.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "I begin, as did the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Mr. Maudling), by congratulating the only maiden speaker in this debate, namely, the hon. Member for Wilmslow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "thought was one of the best analyses of the terms, reached a different conclusion. I believe that on another occasion I gave myself five marks out of seven. We can all have our views, but what I have always found in all the trade union negotiations that I have conducted over many years is that one can never expect to get seven marks out of seven. If I get five out of seven, I am doing pretty well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Consistency.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " I am right to change my mind to vote \"Yes\" tonight and to vote \"Yes\" in the referendum. In doing so, it is a matter of great regret to me and many others that we shall be parting company with a number of our hon. Friends. We have marched a long way down the road with them. Many of the arguments that they have used, I have used. The hon. Member for Banbury (Mr. Marten) has used the same arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1354.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-09", "file": "debates1975-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b838af3eb45a2bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1366.0", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "to adopt a supine attitude waiting to see what the Community will do to us. It is clear from what I have said that we do not intend to play a negative and a disruptive role in the Community. There are many areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-09a.1366.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "being one which has been put down to me and which I have answered on a number of occasions previously. I shall not enter into competition with my hon. Friend about fractional calculations of minorities and majorities in the Parliamentary Labour Party or any other body. It is in fact the case that at the meetings concerned the majority supported my point of view rather than the other point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1386.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1403.7", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tions have been resolved, including that concerning the London dockers, who are facing great anxiety about the loss of dock employment. However, on the general issue, I commend to the hon. Gentleman the very wise words of the Opposition Front Bench spokesman on financial affairs, the hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell), who warned his party, including those on the Front Bench, about a neurosis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1403.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "Since the social contract forms the cornerstone of the Government's economic policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1404.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1406.5", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We now know that the right hon. Lady stayed in office for three and a half years when she did not agree with a decision. If there were one or two other decisions, perhaps she will one day get up and say what they were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1406.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1407.3", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including the Common Market.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not discuss this with the General Secretary, who of course is very well briefed on all international and national documents about the economic situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1407.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1416.2", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give us an assurance that if, during next week's business, the Tribune Group asks the Government to suspend the business of the House so that it can attend a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, as happened this morning, the request will be resisted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. When you give consideration to these matters, will you bear in mind that the report which the House has received from the hon. and learned Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Mr. Fairbairn) was not an accurate or a truthful report?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1417.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said that he had tabled amendments to this Bill. Is it possible to do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1422.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1422.5", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "e problem. But I have to tell the House that we have not been able to find practicable ways of solving the major problems involved. All civilians overseas who are registered will be able to vote by proxy. I am sure that the House will understand that to make special arrangements for them to vote in some other way would be a far more difficult problem than making such arrangements for the Services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1422.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman this afternoon announced that the debate on the Budget would be concluded on 21st April. Therefore, I cannot see how it will be possible for the House to discharge its duties on the Committee and Report stages by that time. Obviously, there is a misunderstanding. I should be grateful if the right hon. Gentleman would care to intervene now, or his right hon. Friend later in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "leman. It is always nice to be able to thank him for his assistance, and I do so most cordially. Before today's debate is concluded, we should like some idea from the Government of how long they think the remaining stages of the Bill will take. We regard the Bill as a wretched little measure. I know that I shall please the House when I say that I do not think that it merits a long speech from me.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": "epresentative of the majority on this side of the House after last night than my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Government Front Bench. That is one reason why I still object to the very silly preamble to the question. The very silly preamble to the question uses the phrase \"The Government\". The majority of the Government under the Cabinet are, in fact, anti-Marketeers, as was shown last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must remember that we had a full discussion on this issue in the House when the White Paper was discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is an erosion of democracy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "e House. Perhaps it will. However, this charge comes curiously from the mouths of Euro-fanatics. Those who wish to join Europe admit that they are eroding the authority and standing of the House upwards, in an élitist, bureaucratic sense. But all we are doing in the referendum is eroding that authority and standing downwards, towards the grass roots and the people. That is quite reasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "One may well ask \"Which?\"—which Government and which Ministers? That is where so much damage is being done. For whose policies are the Ministers accountable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will not find out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will have to wait until the referendum to find out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "nded by the referendum—and they may very well change their minds from their vote yesterday, and will have good excuse for doing so—or because we should be living in a fools' paradise if we believed that, having gone directly to the electorate on a particular question, Members would be likely to refuse to accept their decision if the answer was not the one that was wanted. The vote will be binding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1507.0", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": " had previously shown himself to be aware of them when, in a television programme on 28th May 1970, he referred to the decision whether to enter the EEC or not. He said: It is right that it is Parliament which should take that decision with a sense that reflects national views and national interests. The Government now suggest that the representative parliamentary principle should be side-stepped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1507.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": "d Kingdom. The right to decide policies and to make laws over a wide and rapidly growing area of our affairs, which the right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath), who was at the time in question the Prime Minister, and his right hon. Friends handed over to the Common Market three years ago, has not been restored to the British people. Nor have we taken back the Common Market's powers to levy taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1513.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1536.8", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "ed procedures and practices which are familiar to the electorate. I was glad to hear my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, West (Mr. English) restate that principle today. We had to bear in mind that any changes which were made, even if we made it clear that they were to apply only in the special circumstances of the referendum, would be bound to have implications for future General Elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1536.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1538.3", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "—and would have been a betrayal of the high electoral standards we have hitherto observed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1538.7", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "allenge, which has always been our principle in the past. In general, it would have been impossible to observe the high standards we are used to at home in electoral matters. Opposition Members may laugh at the notion that we have observed high standards in electoral matters, but I am sure that the electoral registration officers will note their remarks. One of the major difficulties of departing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1538.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1538.9", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "he acceptance of such a claim would have produced further anomalies. The problem arises from the fact that any definition in terms of nationality alone, even if it were confined to citizens of the United Kingdom having the right of abode, would potentially enfranchise several million Britons living overseas. But to require some further qualification, such as an intention to return to this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1538.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-10", "file": "debates1975-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "132c79c9872c9707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1548.1", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "REFERENDUM [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": "I simply wish at this stage, Mr. Speaker, to reply to the points made by my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-10a.1548.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.19.2", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "The figures for manufacturing I cannot put my hands on now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.19.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that we do not get the same passion displayed before each General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.25.2", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend realises all that—but I hope that the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends who put that point of view will realise the difficulties. Many people who have gone to live abroad have turned their hacks on this country and are living on the Costa Brava, in Malta, and elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.25.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.37.9", "colnum": "37", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "Every international agreement involves some diminution of sovereignty", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.37.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.40.6", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK AND PORT REORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "—he has taken a reduction in pay accordingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.40.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK AND PORT REORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which cargoes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "ndon. It is likely to mean a further reduction of 15 per cent. in the number of dockers required. That is what Mr. Nicholson and what the Prime Minister calls \"militants\" have managed to do on behalf of the decent dockers of London. There is a great deal wrong with the efficiency of our docks. In London a 12-man gang moves 50 tons per shift. The equivalent gang in Antwerp moves 350 tons per shift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK AND PORT REORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interrupt.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ur plans to extend the dock labour scheme. We have sought to find a way of dealing with the problems of dockland by methods of peace and persuasion. It will not be easy. No one can be foolish enough to think that it will, after all the recent experience we have had, including the last dock strike. Under the provisions of the scheme there has been a reduction in the number of dock workers employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK AND PORT REORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "erved their fire until we came to the legislation itself. I say this most seriously. If the motion were to be carried—Heaven forbid!—it would cause a disaster in dockland. I said at the beginning of my speech that I thought that the strike which took place recently in the London docks was unjustified. But if the motion were to be carried, it would almost make that strike retrospectively justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK AND PORT REORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " this most seriously. If the motion were to be carried—Heaven forbid!—it would cause a disaster in dockland. I said at the beginning of my speech that I thought that the strike which took place recently in the London docks was unjustified. But if the motion were to be carried, it would almost make that strike retrospectively justified. [ Interruption. ] Yes, that is what hon. Gentlemen are saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK AND PORT REORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "that it is far too partisan a document in that sense. It is directed to the aspirations, ambitions and interests of only one group of workers in and around the docks. To them I shall return. It may be said, as the hon. Gentleman and others of his hon. and right hon. Friends said, that the document will achieve peace and tranquility, but I believe that it will be the peace and tranquility of death—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK AND PORT REORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "hrough which the greater volume of trade is carried, we find, I suggest, that the larger ports have ossified under the impact of the scheme. It may be that there are other factors, but it can be said without fear of contradiction that the scheme has done nothing to make those ports more flexible in adjusting to changes to the patterns of trade and shipping and in the techniques for handling cargo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.123.2", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Channon", "preceding_text": " industrial action of first the signalmen and then the workshop supervisors. We are told that we should not use our cars. Indeed, the taxes being levied already on petrol and those threatened for people taking their cars into London make it prohibitive to do so. There are only the trains. And they are so bad that, if animals had to travel in such conditions, there would be cries of public outrage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " dirty trains. I was quoting from a letter in which that was a small point in relation to the more important matter. The organisation concerned is complaining not about the dirt on the trains but about the shortness of the trains and the intolerable conditions in which people have to travel, almost as if they were cattle, because industrial disputes have led to the number of coaches being reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says \"No, no'', but that is the ineluctable conclusion of their failure to vote on the Second Reading. They had the chance to vote on a matter of principle, and they chose not to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-14", "file": "debates1975-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c76c7ae37e839c35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "preceding_text": " trust fund, which would give him instant power to cancel if he thought that there was insufficient security. The organisers would have to undertake not to carry anyone under the age of 60. Companies now operating are prepared to have their licences endorsed to say that in no circumstances may they carry anyone under 60. This would mean that a wife under 60 could not travel with a husband over 60.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-14a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-15", "file": "debates1975-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "699bb63f49841694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-15a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "That supplementary question does not arise from the original Question. Since I am the head of the Ministry of Defence Sales Organisation, I do not mind the hon. Gentleman asking the question. In some countries we have to recognise that there is the question of ECGD creditworthiness, the possibility of purchasing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-15a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-15", "file": "debates1975-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "699bb63f49841694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-15a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend fully aware how deeply these defence cuts will bite into the work load of Hawker Siddeley which employs 4,000 or 5,000 Humberside workers? Other hon. Members and I have received deputations in Hull and Westminster which have expressed great anxiety. The Government turned down a request to make and export Buccanneers to South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-15a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-15", "file": "debates1975-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "699bb63f49841694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-15a.265.5", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-15a.265.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-15", "file": "debates1975-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "699bb63f49841694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-15a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has already answered the question on that topic. The inspiration lying behind the hon. Gentleman's question is misconceived. I did not myself interfere in this matter because the decisions had been taken by the Department under the policy approved by the Government and announced in the House on 10th June last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-15a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-15", "file": "debates1975-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "699bb63f49841694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-15a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In January I made it clear to the House, and I have repeated many times since, that I thought it right that there should be freedom to campaign in the country on this unique matter. The guidelines to Ministers were approved by the Cabinet just before Easter. It was not even a piece of contumacy on my part since I was making an important visit to Belfast at the time. I agreed with the decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-15a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-15", "file": "debates1975-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "699bb63f49841694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-15a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "e single allowance and £163 on the married allowance to take inflation fully into account. Naturally, my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe) will be opening the Budget debate tomorrow on behalf of the Opposition. I hope that he will be a good deal more cheerful than the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been today. Someone has to have a little hope for the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-15a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.417.11", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman tell me how much privately rented accommodation is being provided under the legislation introduced by the previous Conservative Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.417.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I am sure my hon. Friend accepts that it would not be appropriate for me to enter into arguments about the actions of district auditors, particularly when audits are taking place. I know of my hon. Friend's pride in what has been done by his friends in Clay Cross for old people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is always welcome at my office to discuss these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "tely I have been able to explain to correspondents how the price of land will at last succeed in being stabilised and how we shall as a community be able to plan positively. The hon. Member was for some years Director of the House Builders Federation. He must know that the cost of houses depends not only on land but also on materials and labour. Therefore, that point does not come within my scope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "sh people. Either he knew the figure was misleading or he was entirely reckless whether he was or was not misleading the people. Whatever the explanation—and it can do him no credit—the Chancellor's performance in that respect brought very grave discredit, not just on himself but on his high office. The important question in this debate is how he was able to find any foundation for that deception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.470.4", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "nalised industries. I am glad to note that the Expenditure Committee has endorsed this objective. We hope that these subsidies will be brought to an end by this time next year. Given the imperative need to contain the public sector borrowing requirement, it is, however, necessary to make some reductions in the planned level of other subsidies. The largest reduction must fall on the food subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.470.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "Not today. If the hon. Gentleman will table a Question about it, I shall see whether I can deal with it. On the other hand, I know that some of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "whose money? To do this would increase not only our borrowing requirement but also our overseas deficit and our overseas borrowing requirement. When one has been borrowing nearly £4,000 million a year from someone and living beyond one's means on it, it is not easy to say \"Just let me continue to borrow on this scale; this time I will use it for investment and growth\". Why should they believe one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "desperately want them—we have to make room for them by restraining our expenditure on something else. I find it rather sad, because I am a firm believer in high gearing, in substantial borrowing, and I would not have complained, nor would our creditors, if we had used the money to build up our industrial base. Tragically, that simply has not happened. We have just used it to live beyond our means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about yourself?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "rporated in arrangements within the Community. I do not believe that is the way forward. I believe that if there is to be an anti-inflation surcharge, it must bite—and it must not hit everybody. It has to bite those who cause inflation. At the last election I was immoderate enough to make two prophecies. I said that the major party which lost the election would have a new leader within six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What's the difference?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "introduce a prices and incomes policy, backed by statute, which in my view should be a fiscal clawback. We are moving in that direction. The Chancellor has recognised wage inflation and he has attempted to obtain a clawback through the tax system. However, what he has done is to impose a tax which hits everybody rather than the people who specifically cause inflation for the rest of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to go over what happened in February 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including the miners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "n adopted was a most disastrous way of tackling that strike. In retrospect that must be the view of the Tory Party and is surely one of the reasons why it changed its leader. If the hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) is asking whether I believe that those who go beyond what the nation can afford should be surcharged through national insurance contributions, my answer is \"yes\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "g the past 12 months. Those services are abysmally lower than they were prior to the advent of Liberal control. That is the price we have paid in Liverpool. We are concerned with the Budget. As a backbencher with none of the expertise or prerogatives of Front Bench Members, I shall look at it in terms of past elections and the promises which we made to the electorate in the Labour Party manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "f England with the whole of Scotland. What he says is just not true. The hon. Gentleman referred to wages in South-West Scotland. Wages in South-West Scotland; indeed, wages in all Scotland, in five out of the six main categories—all male, male skilled, male unskilled, all female, female skilled, female unskilled—are higher than they are in the rest of England, excluding London and the South-East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " made the investment should be first considered for receiving the salvation. The danger with Bennery is that it costs a large amount of money but prevents the Chancellor's strategy from working. The Chancellor has now pinned his strategy to increasing unemployment to 1 million, but every time the Secretary of State for Industry rescues a plant or a factory, he helps to prevent that from happening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.597.2", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EGGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": "ear in any way jingoistic or to start waving the Union Jack over the British flock of hens. But the flood of French eggs into this country has nothing to do with the efficiency of the French egg industry. The statistics seem to show that our egg producers are far more efficient than the French producers. In 1973—these are the latest figures that I was able to find—the French, who have 66,300 hens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.597.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-16", "file": "debates1975-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "3a660b46cf82ac1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.597.2", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EGGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": " of French eggs into this country has nothing to do with the efficiency of the French egg industry. The statistics seem to show that our egg producers are far more efficient than the French producers. In 1973—these are the latest figures that I was able to find—the French, who have 66,300 hens—[An hon. Member: \"Million.\"]—were able to produce only 20,000 tonnes of eggs, while we. with only 47,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-16a.597.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-17", "file": "debates1975-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "c01a7556274ce592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-17a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Try again\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am one who loves Conway, but that question was about as convoluted as any that have come from the hon. Member, and I regret having failed last year to dislodge him when I came and spoke on behalf of his opponent at the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-17a.659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-17", "file": "debates1975-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "c01a7556274ce592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-17a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When I used the term \"charities\" as I did at these meetings, I did not mean it in the legal sense, still less in the condescending sense in which it is sometimes used, but in the strict biblical sense where charity is defined in a well-known passage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-17a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-17", "file": "debates1975-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "c01a7556274ce592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-17a.661.3", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " that my hon. Friend will be careful—to avoid identifying aid too much as the source of trade for our own country. Of course, it is a fact that this can happen, but aid must be considered on the merits of the aid programme itself, as I am sure my hon. Friend would be the first to agree. On our initiative on commodities, which will certainly be put forward to the Commonwealth Conference at Jamaica—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-17a.661.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-18", "file": "debates1975-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fe91da4c42452b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-18a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "of the Left and of Communism. I have known the Minister for Planning and Local Government for a number of years. I have never been able to believe that he is this terrible man who is willing to put the British nation at risk. I have never been able to believe that he is the \"right bastard\"—if I may use those words, Mr. Deputy Speaker, with your kind permission—who would destroy the British nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-18a.926.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-18", "file": "debates1975-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fe91da4c42452b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-18a.942.6", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned date on Second Reading [ 21st February ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-18a.942.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-18", "file": "debates1975-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fe91da4c42452b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-18a.942.10", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-18a.942.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-18", "file": "debates1975-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fe91da4c42452b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-18a.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [14th February].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-18a.943.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-18", "file": "debates1975-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fe91da4c42452b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-18a.943.6", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-18a.943.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-18", "file": "debates1975-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fe91da4c42452b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-18a.943.10", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-18a.943.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.986.8", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "flation, the search for higher money wages will threaten full employment—and indeed is already doing so. The importance of the social contract lies in the change of attitudes which it implies. That change of attitudes will mean that working people will seek voluntarily to make effective the general will which exists but which at the moment is not entirely in line with ultimate individual outcomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.986.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.986.8", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You can say that again\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "t of their various convolutions. They were elected on a pledge not to bring in a statutory incomes policy. They scrapped that pledge without very much advantage to our people. However, I agree that nobody on the Labour benches is entitled to claim that we have the magic answer to all these complex problems. There has also been a good deal of confusion about what is involved in the social contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.986.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.986.8", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "im. We are constantly being offered solutions which involve monetarism. We are told that we should cut the MI monetary supply, or the M2 or the M5, which I think goes up to Scotland or Wales. I do not know what relevance these cuts have to the problem before us. We are also told to cut the public sector borrowing requirement and the public sector deficit as a solution to our inflationary problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.986.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.986.8", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": " the man in the street to know what the policies entail in terms of employment prospects and our standard of life. What, then, are the Tory so-called solutions? We are treated to statistical remedies. Somebody once said that statistics do not bleed. I could also add that statistics do not vote, and, therefore, Conservatives are a little timid in offering their views as to ways out of our problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.986.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "e in the manufacturing sector. The Chancellor was absolutely right to reduce at this stage the growth of public expenditure so as to make available the maximum real income to working people during this period of extreme pressure. I very much welcome the principle of public expenditure, but I cannot support a practice of giving it out m money terms beyond the resources available within the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " room for public expenditure. Nevertheless, the public expenditure has to be tailored to our resources. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has planned cuts in resources. We can argue about where the cuts could have been or should have been made, but we all agree that they have to be made. The Chancellor is right in setting an example in doing it in an orderly way and in not seeking to do it abruptly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "e responsibility when industrial investment fails to respond to Government measures. I hope that nobody believes that this country just needs more investment. The country needs more good investment. More bad investment would be a disaster in our present strained situation. Unfortunately, I do not have time in which to enter on the question of the National Enterprise Board. I shall avoid that trap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "atest respect and fondness, that he should at least have read the Budget speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The argument of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster differed diametrically in almost every detail from the speech made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last Tuesday. As for the content of the first part of his speech, if a Tory Minister had made so flimsy and shallow a speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1003.3", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "sure, the real position. The position is that, while the United States has, on a comparable basis, 5½ per cent. unemployment against our 3½ per cent., Germany has 1·8 per cent., France 3·3 per cent. and Italy 2·7 per cent. The Banker concludes its paragraphs with: So much for Britain's Chancellor\". The Government have shown by their own White Papers and analyses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1003.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1013.3", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ly resist the Chancellor unless he persuaded me that it was in the public interest. There are increases in staff at every level—some of which I caused by my reform of the National Health Service—and ceilings ought to be imposed. There ought to be a total review of local authority salaries in the light of the country's position. There ought to be some ceiling on various forms of public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1013.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "preceding_text": "hey came to office. If the £10,000 a year man were taxed at 100 per cent. the yield would be £50 million. If the income of everyone left with more than £5.000 a year were taken away the yield would be approximately £1,000 million. That shows that the Chancellor's claim that the Government would finance the social benefits under the social contract by taxing the rich was always a complete delusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ons between business and Government since the war as 30 years of debilitating semi-Socialism. He sees mass unemployment or complsory wage control as the only alternative to the social contract. He rejects the latter, but it is far from clear to any of us who listened to him this afternoon, or have tried to interpret many of the speeches he has made over recent months, whether he rejects the former", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And Healeyian unemployed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ought of the lecture, it had a magnificent reading list attached to it—was that the right hon. Gentleman believes in mass unemployment as a tool of policy, although he is looking for new ways to describe it. He talked first this afternoon about the number of Keynesian unemployed. No doubt we shall be hearing from him about the number of Friedmanian unemployed or the number of Walterian unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Member for Down, South to dot the i's and cross the t's. In a speech of vaulting fantasy delivered with his familiar elegance, clarity of speech and confusion of thought, the right hon. Gentleman said that we should cut the public expenditure borrowing requirement to zero in two years—a requirement which would be £10 billion but for tax measures in this Budget which he purports to oppose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-21", "file": "debates1975-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "cf867521826854cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "y this year than to increase the cost of petrol by 6p per gallon. There is a case for total abolition of the vehicle excise duty, which I considered very carefully, and for its replacement by an increase in the cost of petrol. But that would have meant an increase in the cost of petrol of 16p a gallon. I cannot understand Tory and Liberal Members attacking this increase in the vehicle excise duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-21a.1112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1218.2", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Social Contract", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "We are very sorry that the right hon. Gentleman has to go into hospital, and we all wish him a speedy recovery. Now I wish to say something that I do not think the right hon. Gentleman will receive quite so readily. We regard the social contract as now being nothing but a busted flush. We do not understand how the right hon. Gentleman can still tell us that the purpose of the social contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1235.0", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister clarify the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman took so long getting into this House, as we know from successive elections, despite the disreputable character of his campaign in Slough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for what he has just said. If I understood him correctly he said that there were 400,000 members of the Armed Services and their spouses overseas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "d the opportunities given to them by the existing law but fewer and fewer of them have availed themselves of those opportunities. We are now changing the existing electoral law. If we changed it tonight—and I have no doubt that the amendment will be carried—it is bound to be the case that some Conservative Members will say \"If you could do it for a referendum you can do it for a General Election.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1341.0", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "With respect, the right hon. Gentleman is attempting to make a mockery of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1341.0", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "With respect, the right hon. Gentleman is attempting to make a mockery of this. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The person going into the embassy or consulate in India will have to be able to prove immediately his right of abode in the United Kingdom. If he does not have the proof it will be so obviously clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "sion. The question is asked—and he must certify on his honour, under penalty presumably—\"Are you entitled to be on the electoral register in any other country?\" 8.30 p.m. It is not sufficient for that person to have a vague idea that 20 or 40 years ago he was liable to be conscripted in Chile. He has to know whether, since the fall of Allende, there has been a change in the electoral law of Chile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1345.3", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "rences between the various amendments on this topic how difficult it would be to find an agreed solution to the practical problems. The hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Renton) and other hon. Members want the extension of the franchise limited to people overseas in an official or business capacity. A similar qualification is one of the five which we devised. If the lotus eaters I have talked about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1351.3", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "on Parties have not yet got under way and that the Liberal Party did not have a chance to spend a lot of public money in doing its homework, but it is too bad that a party should put into an amendment—and amendments can become part of our statute law—the term \"British citizens\". 9.0 p.m. The phrase \"British citizens\" features in the Liberal amendment. There ain't such a thing as \"British citizens\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1415.2", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "That would be an additional complication which would immediately rule out the matter completely. Secondly, holiday addresses are often transitory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1415.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1432.2", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "This is the Committee stage of a very important Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1433.5", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": " be as wide as possible, show that at one time the Government seemed to be willing to react to the general wishes of hon. Members. The fact that other Ministers have not taken a leaf out of the Minister of State's book in interpreting the desires of the House on the clause will be a matter for worry and concern to those who will not be able to record their votes. When we come to the appointed day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1433.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1433.5", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "t seemed to be willing to react to the general wishes of hon. Members. The fact that other Ministers have not taken a leaf out of the Minister of State's book in interpreting the desires of the House on the clause will be a matter for worry and concern to those who will not be able to record their votes. When we come to the appointed day—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I can be here for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1433.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-22", "file": "debates1975-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdcaf6e535b847dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ident directly whether it is possible, under subsection (4)( c ), for him to do what we asked him to do in the debates on previous amendments . It is important that the people should realise that the position of civilians who are overseas and working with the Armed Forces rests with the Government. It has been suggested to me by a legal luminary that it would be within the power of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-22a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1457.2", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Was not that supplementary question of the hon. Member for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire (Mr. Reid) rather curious? In a speech in my constituency he expressed his deep desire for us to be part of the EEC. He may want the Scottish Assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1458.0", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I should like to take the opportunity of correcting the remarks of the hon. Member for Renfrewshire, West (Mr. Buchan). I made it obvious that at that particular meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Some steps have been taken. I wish the hon. Gentleman would give us credit for what we have done. The fishing industry has not got worse just because I met—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1472.2", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "There are about four questions involved in what the hon. Gentleman has said. I assure him that the Law of the Sea Conference is moving towards a conclusion, but I am not unduly optimistic about its outcome. It would be wrong to mislead or, perhaps, convey to people outside—I do not think that I have done it, and the hon. Gentleman should not do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "e referendum is the national count. There is no precedent for it, and it fills me with horror at the prospect of what might go wrong—from the possibility of a student prank as thousands of ballot boxes trundle towards London, to the prospect of a recount. I am told that the figure being canvassed for those willing to count at Earls Court is about £45 a day. What if there are two or three recounts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "er proposes for the rest of the United Kingdom? Unfortunately, given the layout of local government and electoral areas in Northern Ireland, the county is not suitable for that purpose. After careful consideration, my colleagues and I have come to the conclusion that, exceptionally, in Northern Ireland the most appropriate area is nevertheless—there, and there only—the parliamentary constituency.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1520.0", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"What about keeping the guard warm?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "h only four parliamentary elections. One can imagine the situation which could arise with a count lasting for five days. Who will be allowed to scrutinise the votes? Who will watch the sealing of my ballot boxes in Morayshire and Nairnshire? Who will escort them to Earls Court? I shall be in the guard's van with a little of the liquid that they make on Speyside to keep me warm on the long journey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1527.0", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman saying that he will accept the decision of the referendum however many people turn out to vote, however low the poll? I should be interested to hear this, because his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister refused to say this yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1527.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1530.4", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "preceding_text": "whole experience. I would not say the same of hon. Members opposite who happen to disagree with their Whips, but that is a matter for them. Sometimes voices from the past can be of some guidance in what should be the duties of hon. Members. I have consulted Burke, and what he says—not the principle but the way he put it—is worth listening to. In a thousand years I could not put it in a better way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1530.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1555.6", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "( seated and covered ): On a point of order, Mr. Thomas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1555.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1580.2", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And say our prayers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "e here and get into the kitchen. There has been hardly a debate on the matter in which the word \"unique\" has not been used. If it is a unique occasion and the result is likely to come through at 3 p.m. or even 3 a.m. on a Sunday, each Member should be told that on Saturday he must stand by his phone and that at 3 o'clock on Sunday morning we may all be called to the House to sit on Sunday morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1580.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1596.3", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "ng to the European Movement, although I hope that they will note that the Chancellor says: the European Movement are not justified in assuming that businesses will be able to set donations to them against tax. Contrary to some assertions, the Board of Inland Revenue have given no ruling on the deductibility of contributions to any particular organisation concerned with the EEC or referendum issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Now that my hon. Friend has given way and I am no longer speaking sedentarily, may I say that no one who was present at the beginning of my speech would believe that that was the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1613.8", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ne side is attracting more money than the other and disposes of more muscle. The Government foreseeing that, although I regret the necessity, were therefore right to say that each side should have equivalent broadcasting time—I understand that that has been negotiated without complaint—and a substantial, but not enormous, sum of money to ensure that a proper campaign could be waged on either side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1613.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1619.6", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "mmons—that matters little—but of the British people generally, it will continue unabated and at a pace which we have never experienced before. This referendum campaign is so unique, and people will think that they have got the licence and the opportunity to do what they like. Coupled with the kind of references made by my hon. Friend the Member for Renfrewshire, West to the granting of tax relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1619.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1627.3", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "The estimate which has already been given of the central count is that it would cost at least £8 million, whereas, if we do a fair sum and take, for example two extreme constituencies like Argyll with the biggest number of polling stations and a city constituency like Cathcart which has two, approximately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1646.2", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": " to separate households. To issue a copy to every voter would not only involve multiplying the number of copies to be distributed considerably but would involve addressing them to each individual voter, and at considerable expense. Already, with the printing under way, nearly 50 firms are involved. That is a major operation. It may be argued by some of my colleagues that we should not be doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "I was not under the impression at that time that it was a political campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So are we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "d more taxpayers' money for political parties. This is the foot in the door. I forecast that this is not the last that we shall have heard of political parties wanting contributions to be made to them so that their case can be better understood by the electorate. It would be entirely incorrect that this clause should stand part of the Bill. I urge my supporters to vote against it. I am only sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1659.2", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Finish it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Chairman do report Progress and ask leave to sit again. I move the motion not out of a desire unduly to delay proceedings but simply to give the Leader of the House a chance to state the Government's intentions with regard to the Bill. He has made reasonable progress with a measure which is highly controversial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1659.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1659.2", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "use a chance to state the Government's intentions with regard to the Bill. He has made reasonable progress with a measure which is highly controversial. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Finish it now.\"] The right hon. Gentleman's most serious handicap is his Friends. I could not be more sorry for him. As you well recognise, Sir Myer, having been here rather longer than some of the hon. Members who are attempting —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1659.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1659.4", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that, Sir Myer. I was endeavouring to point out that hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway are not helping themselves, their Front Bench or anyone else by continuing to interrupt me. I have said that I intended to speak only briefly, but if they provoke me into going on a great deal longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1659.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1661.1", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1671.2", "colnum": "1671", "heading": ">New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "r is meant. I had no knowledge that it had been indicated that new Clause 9 and new Clause 15, \"Validity of the total vote\", would not be moved. I consider them to be of very considerable importance. They go to the whole sense of the referendum. The Committee may recall that on two occasions I have suggested that the Government will be in considerable difficulty if there is a turnout at the level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1671.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "It is an appealing thought, too. But there is one problem. By tradition, and in practice, the Government information service closes down during General Elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-23", "file": "debates1975-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "f706f49b9a081a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1685.1", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I shall be extremely brief. I want to make one or two things clear. We on the Government side—all of us, including those who are critical of the Government—welcome the referendum. We welcome the fulfilment of the pledge that the Labour Party made in respect of a referendum and the new expansion of freedom and democracy entailed in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-23a.1685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1730.1", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " when Labour was in opposition and I asked for information on the subject. We must accept that when the Law of the Sea Conference has reported we may face a 200-mile economic zone. Inevitably, that will affect fishery limits. I do not accept that we should act immediately and unilaterally in respect of the 50-mile limit. Let us remember that Icelandic fishermen were condemned for doing just that.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1735.1", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "With regard to the Irish situation, the Irish NFU said in a Press release—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1737.2", "colnum": "1737", "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 am not sure whether the right hon. Gentleman was here on Tuesday. He may not know—I am sure he will have learned since—that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State spent three-quarters of an hour fully answering questions on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1739.0", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1975?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the right hon. Gentleman's offer of co-operation. I look forward to considering how that might be made a reality. However, he will understand that, in relation to my earlier reply, I cannot erase the history of either 1972 or 1973 or the events of January and February 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1739.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is she?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "973 or the events of January and February 1974. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1975?\"] The number of man-days lost through disputes in 1975 is the lowest for seven years. I should certainly be prepared to discuss with my right hon. Friend the possibility of some agreement between us as soon the the right hon. Gentleman has persuaded the leader of his party, who we know cannot be here this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1742.6", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "f says means must be found to take advantage of the ideas, enthusiasm and energy of British Leyland's workers in planning the future of the business on which their livelihood depends \". The report estimates that the investment programme would cost about £1,500 million at constant prices over the next seven years. This is equivalent to £2,800 million on the Ryder team's assumptions about inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1742.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1742.6", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "er contemplated. There are bound to be great risks that in an industry where there is fierce competition, and at present over-capacity, even the best-founded forecasts will be proved wrong by events. But the House should be in no doubt about the significance of this company to the national economy and the importance of putting it on to a sound basis. British Leyland is our biggest single exporter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1742.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1742.6", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Geton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t-founded forecasts will be proved wrong by events. But the House should be in no doubt about the significance of this company to the national economy and the importance of putting it on to a sound basis. British Leyland is our biggest single exporter. [ Interruption. ] I ask hon. Members to take me seriously. We did not wish for this situation. The hon. Gentleman should not be frivolous about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1742.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Before I answer the three serious questions among the four questions, I must refer to the hon. Gentleman's opening remarks. The hon. Gentleman trivialises everything he touches. This Ryder Report, this Leyland crisis, which is no doing of this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Before I answer the three serious questions among the four questions, I must refer to the hon. Gentleman's opening remarks. The hon. Gentleman trivialises everything he touches. This Ryder Report, this Leyland crisis, which is no doing of this Government—[ Interruption. ] The Opposition will find that one of the major factors was the effect on Leyland of the three day working week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " transcendental question, affecting all Departments, and because Sir Don Ryder, whom I appointed, is the Industrial Adviser to the Government at No. 10. Since the hon. Gentleman thought it relevant to raise these points, he must expect a little more. Even though the Leader of the Opposition is away today, the Deputy Leader is here and there are one or two serious figures on the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "British Leyland majority share holding after the passage of the legislation before the House. It is making arrangements for the monitoring. It would be right that when it receives and considers the annual programme prospectuses of the company, its comments on these, which it will make to the Government, should also be made available to the House. The hon. Gentleman was on a good and serious point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1751.0", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o now face a great challenge, to which I believe they are capable of responding. The company is not bankrupt. However, within a matter of days there would have been no alternative—in spite of the Government's ploughing in of help last year and the promise to do more—of its going into liquidation or a receiver being appointed. I am sure that this is the last thing the whole House would have wished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1752.2", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's point is perfectly fair. He is absolutely right that in terms of the allocation of funds which we are asking the House to approve, there will obviously be a very heavy pre-emption over coming years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1757.3", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ee, that we ought to be meeting a higher share of that world demand. All of us in different parts of the House can produce reasons why we think the British motor car industry has not been making the impact in world markets that it could. This report is designed above all to deal with that. When the hon. Gentleman considers what he has said about the report being a political report for politicians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1768.1", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Ignoring the implications contained in the last part of the hon. Gentleman's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1770.3", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFERENDUM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The House will doubtless have noted that, despite the short time available, it has been possible to reprint the Referendum Bill, incorporating the amendments which were made in Committee. I am sure that Members would wish me to congratulate St. Stephen's Parliamentary Press on this achievement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1781.3", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Havers", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Havers", "preceding_text": "I intervene for only a few moments. As so often happens in these debates, I agree with the hon. Member for Fife, Central (Mr. Hamilton). The real difficulty in this argument arises because of the constant repetition by Labour Members that this House is bound by the result of the referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "that is my reading of it and I hold to my view. In those circumstances, when we are asking the people, as never before, to make a decision about the future of their country, we have the right—indeed, the duty—to tell the people, right up to the moment when they cast their vote, exactly where the Government of their country stand on this issue and where the Parliament of their country stands on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-24", "file": "debates1975-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "4297834ee4211f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Fowler", "preceding_text": "o use a White Paper and the information that we provide to the public to better ends. On the other hand, my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, West (Mr. English) delivered what I can only take to be one of the first shots of the referendum campaign. I only hope that the referendum campaign will be conducted at a somewhat higher level than that. If it is not, even I may come to regret the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-24a.1873.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-28", "file": "debates1975-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5abbb84ff7c1dcf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.3.4", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is on very weak ground. In the first place, the Government introduced a specific tied investment relief because we were concerned about growth. If the hon. Gentleman's own administration had done this earlier, we might have had more growth this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.3.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-28", "file": "debates1975-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5abbb84ff7c1dcf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Prior", "preceding_text": "t is now being brought home to many people throughout the country. It is a policy that we deplore. Looking back over the years, with all the difficulties with which the previous Conservative Government were faced, I make no apologies for the stand we tried to take in February 1974. If the country had come with us in February 1974 we should not have got into the mess that this lot have got us into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-28", "file": "debates1975-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5abbb84ff7c1dcf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.53.5", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "had no part to play in industrial relations. The Bill introduces the law in many areas where we have so far proceeded in a voluntary manner. I grant that it has a trade union bias, but it introduces the law in that respect. I have come to the conclusion that it is not so much that Labour Members or trade unions dislike the law, as that they merely dislike some laws and that they dislike Tory laws—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.53.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-28", "file": "debates1975-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5abbb84ff7c1dcf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "cue_text": "AnHON. MEMBER: \"Or the other way around.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "preceding_text": "vision to be implemented? How will it affect the people concerned? We are entitled to an answer, if not today, certainly in Committee. We must be careful not to promise too much in any legislation of this type. We should recognise that the law cannot do everything for everyone. 'There are some people who go around looking for simple solutions to what are essentially difficult and complex problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-28", "file": "debates1975-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5abbb84ff7c1dcf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "iament, it substantially increases the influence, status and power of organised trade unions. Labour back benchers, above or below the Gangway, cannot reproach their Government for not fulfilling that part of the manifesto, particularly the phrase which refers to bringing about— a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of wealth and power in favour of working people and their families\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-28", "file": "debates1975-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5abbb84ff7c1dcf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ell to be decided by the noble Lords in the other place—people who had never turned their hands to a real day's work in their lives. The noble Lord, Lord Shepherd, raised this matter in 1963 in the other place, and I know that he has been contacted about the procedure provided in the present Bill. It is feared that a terrible situation could arise if decisions on these matters are made next door —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.102.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-28", "file": "debates1975-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5abbb84ff7c1dcf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-28", "file": "debates1975-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5abbb84ff7c1dcf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "hat part the ACAS might play in helping towards a fuller understanding of the industrial relations and other problems involved and of the best means of making progress towards their solution. I think that 1 have said sufficient to show how ill-founded is the first leg of the Liberal amendment. I assure the hon. Member for Rochdale—the sole representative of his party present throughout the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-28", "file": "debates1975-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5abbb84ff7c1dcf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " sit down. I turn to the specific points raised by the Conservative amendment, taking the last one first, because it is not unrelated to what I have just said about the Liberal amendment. We are told that we have taken no account of the particular problems of small businesses. I doubt whether there is any hon. Member who is unmindful of, or unsympathetic to, the problems of the small business man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-28", "file": "debates1975-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5abbb84ff7c1dcf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.187.4", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (BEEF PREMIUMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, chaired by the right hon. Member for Crosby (Mr. Page), took evidence on 10th April the witnesses purported to give serious evidence on an instrument already in operation. Although we are debating the matter tonight we are not allowed to make any decision. The procedural situation deprives us from having any influence. All we can do is express our opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-28a.187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-29", "file": "debates1975-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "85882082136931b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that a firm called Allied Investments, which has a lot of backing from merchant bankers and insurance companies, is responsible for private hospitals in this country? Is she also aware that it runs a private insurance scheme and the largest nursing agency, which is creating difficulties in her Department?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-29", "file": "debates1975-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "85882082136931b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.223.7", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security (Dr. David Owen)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security (Dr. David Owen)", "preceding_text": "Surveys suggest that some 400,000 persons in England and Wales have a serious drinking problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.223.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-29", "file": "debates1975-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "85882082136931b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ith in Schedule 4 of the Bill. Most of this schedule deals with matters of detail. In particular part II of the schedule simply applies to the Bill the powers that already exist under the planning Acts. But Part I of the schedule does make three important changes in procedure. The first is that CPOs under the Bill will not be required to state the specific purpose for which land is being acquired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-29", "file": "debates1975-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "85882082136931b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.249.2", "colnum": "249", "heading": "COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "will be interesting to see the dialogues which will take place between county and district authorities and local councils which have no standing in the Bill but are very jealous of their village greens and open spaces. Let us see what they say when the larger authorities designate their village greens as development land. Nothing is safe as long as the authority considers that it can be developed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.249.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-29", "file": "debates1975-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "85882082136931b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "No. I have already given way generously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-29", "file": "debates1975-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "85882082136931b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.370.4", "colnum": "370", "heading": "COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "on the rates. I should like to assure the hon. Member for Northampton, South (Mr. Morris) that there is no intention of imposing a burden on the rates. The Bill is not opposed to the Chancellor's strategy as announced in his Budget speech. There is no cause to be concerned about the cost of the scheme in the early years before it moves into surplus. Hon Members' fears on that issue are groundless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.370.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-29", "file": "debates1975-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "85882082136931b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "abby political pay-off to a bunch of irresponsible councillors who brought shame on Scottish local government. The flouting of the law was not a passing protest. It was a deliberate and politically motivated flouting of the will of a democratically-elected Parliament. Second, the issue was part of a campaign of deliberate political distortion by the Labour Party about the Housing Finance Act 1972—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.394.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-04-29", "file": "debates1975-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "85882082136931b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for an hon. Member to suggest that an advocate in the course of his duty is defending people contrary to their instructions just because they have been accused of a crime and are subsequently acquitted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-29", "file": "debates1975-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "85882082136931b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "After that question I cannot understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-29a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "First, the money has not been paid at the expense of citizens who cannot get their money. Some compensation payments have been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ignorance!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "In the light of the last answer, does my right hon. Friend recognise that there is no comparison between our position and that of Norway and the other countries he mentioned, since we are by far the largest customer in the Community? Is he aware of the fact that industrial traders do not normally spit in the eye of their best customer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "ing oil. I do not say that they are not interested in profits, but they are co-operative and they are interested in making a success of this extremely difficult and expensive operation in the North Sea. Most of the profits of the oil industry—I speak subject to correction by the right hon. Member for Knutsford—are made downstream. Will this corporation go into that element of the operation or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "lled staff, may be difficult to obtain. It should recognise that there are special problems in relation to development in the North Sea and should be willing to listen to operators who have been active before it. If the BNOC were to get off to a jet-propelled start without having obtained sufficient experience, it could well lose a lot of money instead of earning it. I could go on for much longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.592.3", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He made a speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. The hon. Gentleman was only in for a relatively short part of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.597.2", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Balogh in support of his argument. We have had many criticisms from Conservative Members, based principally upon their ideological opposition to the extension of public enterprise in any form. One of the things that strikes me as curious about this House is that when the Labour Party brings forward proposals for public enterprise it is regarded as doing that in the cause of ideology, and so it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.597.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.600.2", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is your argument.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is rather unworthily suggesting that this is a party political argument got up simply to make a party political point. Let me remind him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "It is important that the House should not misconstrue the paragraph that the Under-Secretary read from the report of the Public Accounts Committee. It has been perfectly clear all along—the Conservative Government recognised this and were about to act on it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "s to Scotland, let me remind him that 40,000 jobs in North Sea oil-related activities are already being launched in Scotland. If the hon. Gentleman has any concern for Scottish industry, he will stop advancing the argument that we should cut back production from 100 million tons to 40 million tons. That would kill stone dead the fast-developing offshore industry that exists at present in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "We have not completed the negotiations with the oil companies. The hon. Gentleman knows that very well. He knows what we are doing. My right hon. Friend has already announced those companies which have conceded the principle of participation. Negotiations are proceeding with these licence holders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So have we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "llowed control over our most important oil and gas resources to pass outwith this nation and its elected Government and Parliament. I hope that this will be seen as the start of a new period in the development of our energy policy, in which the British people assert their proper right to full control over the assets under our seas and secure a fair return from those riches. We have listened today-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": " take it over. My right hon. Friend was right to limit his original Bill to local authorities. I do not share the view of the hon. Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Mr. Ogden) that there is anything wrong in principle in public authorities using gambling as a basis for raising money. After all, the principle of the premium bond has long been established and accepted by Governments of both parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "beral Party, which is not represented here tonight. Neither, in fact, are the Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru or the Ulster Unionists. It would be interesting to know their views on this issue. 12 midnight Throughout the proceedings on the Bill I have referred to the good inter-departmental report on lotteries large and small, chaired by Mr. Witney and set up by a Conservative Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-04-30", "file": "debates1975-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "df09f6a540bffe3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "unced this week that someone has won £500,000 on the pools. We are not talking about anything like that. But nobody says that we should stop the pools—at least, I have not heard it said tonight. If my hon. Friends said that, I would back them 100 per cent. We must expound what we believe. The people of this country do not buy tickets just for the sake of winning. They do so to make a contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-04-30a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-01", "file": "debates1975-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a5926ec42c2c91b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "es from the rest of the world. However, did he sound warnings in Brussels that this could happen to our market in the poultry meat and egg sector? Is he aware that there has been a collapse today of the egg market, which is down by as much as 3p to 4p a dozen, and that the level of imported eggs into this country is now running at about 8 per cent. of the capacity of our packing stations? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-01", "file": "debates1975-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a5926ec42c2c91b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.747.4", "colnum": "747", "heading": "TRANSPORT (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr James Boyden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr James Boyden", "preceding_text": "ion and the report of his Sub-Committee and the study which it undertook. Mr. Allason was the Chairman of the Environment Sub-Committee for a considerable time. He took a great interest in the subject and steered his Committee through many sets of documents and produced extremely good reports. It was his last piece of work as a Member of Parliament, and I am sure the House will pay tribute to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.747.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-01", "file": "debates1975-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a5926ec42c2c91b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for Edmonton (Mr. Graham) on his debut as the spokesman for the Greater London Council (Money) Bill. This is clearly a pleasant departure from tradition, although it is interesting that Enfield appears to have had a lion's share of presenting the Bills, because the Greater London Council (General Powers) Bill was presented most eloquently by one of the hon. Gentleman's colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-01", "file": "debates1975-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a5926ec42c2c91b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Moore", "preceding_text": "tail we are discussing. why does the Croydon Council need the GLC? We should examine the relationship of the GLC with Croydon 10 years after Croydon became a London borough. Croydon has a population of 350,000. It did very well as a county borough. We should ask ourselves why Croydon is not independent. In 1975 its GLC rates bill was £5,890,000. Now, with massive economies, it is over £10 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-01", "file": "debates1975-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a5926ec42c2c91b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Moore", "preceding_text": "ources available. It is for this reason that I regard as essential the transformation of our society from a capitalist one to a socialist one. The first steps towards this must be the bringing into public ownership of key sectors of the economy and a redistribution of wealth and power in our society. The question of the current rates crisis cannot be divorced from this fundamental economic issue.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-01", "file": "debates1975-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a5926ec42c2c91b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cartwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cartwright", "preceding_text": "Labour Party in the GLC, together with the Labour Party in the boroughs, is attempting to work out a strategic plan for London's housing difficulties. When I think of the situation between 1967 and 1973, I recall that there was little sign of any strategic housing policy developing. The Conservative Party, which was then in control, wished to dismantle as much of the housing programme as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.835.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-01", "file": "debates1975-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a5926ec42c2c91b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The GLC bought about 3,000 and housing associations bought 6,000. There was a total approaching 20,000 bought by housing associations, boroughs and the GLC together. Even that, because of the constraints on resources, I regret to say is only a small inroad into a major problem. We must at least maintain that level of activity. If we do not, the problems will overtake us in London and other cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-01", "file": "debates1975-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a5926ec42c2c91b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Watch it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": " that that does not matter. I do not know whether he thinks that he does not have the power to do anything, and that, therefore, he should say nothing about it. I do not know whether he is happy with the standstill on GLC rents, which has continued for two years in an inflationary situation. I am sorry to see the Minister looking at his watch. The time is only 10.20 p.m. and I have barely started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-01a.873.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-05", "file": "debates1975-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cd6525e8183ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-05a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT (SCHOOL LEAVERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "No. I am referring to a plan that the TSA put to the Government and on which so far the Government have not commented. I shall look up the reference for the hon. Gentleman. I do not believe that Community Industry is a universal panacea for all our problems. On the other hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-05a.1022.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-05", "file": "debates1975-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cd6525e8183ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-05a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL PAY BEDS", "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": "truth is that even most of the people who subscribe to private medical insurance schemes for the peripheral advantages they bring, such as being able to jump the queue for cold surgery, when the chips are down and they are faced with a serious emergency of life or death in their lives, turn to the National Health Service, and that is the vital underpinning of everyone's health care in our society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-05a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-05", "file": "debates1975-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cd6525e8183ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-05a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL PAY BEDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "t them provide their own buildings, equipment and everything else. But they should not abuse the health service and then speak about freedom of choice. The hon. and learned Member for Runcorn said that these were the craziest and worst aspects of Socialist philosophy. It is Socialist philosophy certainly. That is what we were sent here to put into effect, and we shall do so—the quicker the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-05a.1110.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-05", "file": "debates1975-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cd6525e8183ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-05a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL PAY BEDS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "uld remain within the National Health Service. I know of no country — [Interruption.] —where a wholly State system has been able to maintain a high level of medical care. I am very concerned indeed about the effects on emigration. [Interruption.] One organisation tells me that within the last six months there have been 59 resignations of consultant colleagues who are planning to leave the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-05a.1134.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-06", "file": "debates1975-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8e0f99dbbc519717", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Direct Grant Schools", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "t that those who seek a disciplined and hard-working schooling for their children are being forced to accept at short notice a complete change of their whole planning of their children's education? Will he also accept that some of the details in that circular are not yet even worked out to give a proper reassurance to the parents and the staffs of those schools, especially teachers who are faced —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-06", "file": "debates1975-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8e0f99dbbc519717", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1203.2", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Voucher Schemes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "Yes. I would agree with that. It would be unduly competitive as between schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-06", "file": "debates1975-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8e0f99dbbc519717", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "preceding_text": "ation which was eventually stabilised—but not until China had realised what the Soviet Union was about. Then China decided to lock the back door on possible Soviet entry into China. They came in. despite MacArthur, and occupied Northern Korea. This situation has been re-enacted in Vietnam. I recall the days of 1954 before Dien Bien Phu and the French Foreign Legion fighting a war it could not win.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-06", "file": "debates1975-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8e0f99dbbc519717", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1296.3", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "eve in many other things for which the right hon. Gentleman stands. We must cut ourselves down to size. We must evaluate the situation and have more cutting down than we have done so far. As an exporting, industrial nation, anxious to improve its economic situation and desperately short of resources that are being dissipated, we should put the Army into employment, as is done in some other States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-06", "file": "debates1975-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8e0f99dbbc519717", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "WEALTH TAX (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"There are many Members.\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "I am not expressing an opinion whether such legislation is necessary. I am merely asking the House to consider whether it is right that we should go on and on loading ourselves with a manpower difficulty. There is a manpower problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-06", "file": "debates1975-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8e0f99dbbc519717", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1386.7", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "WEALTH TAX (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "tly but with an economy of words for which I would praise him, referred to the fact that there is not one Scottish Member on that Committee. I do not intend to detain the House long, but there are a number of further points which I should like to make. I have come increasingly to observe that the present Government have little consideration for the convenience and standing of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1386.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-06", "file": "debates1975-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8e0f99dbbc519717", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1386.7", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "WEALTH TAX (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "r regard shown by Government Departments for the House of Commons. I wish to go on to refer to the undesirable proliferation of Committee activity which deflects attention from the Chamber. We have currently sitting six Standing Committees and 23 Select Committees and we have not yet decided on a sensible way of handling European business, though the Procedure Committee has reported on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-06a.1386.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-07", "file": "debates1975-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e422e04f676511d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-07a.1555.3", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where did you get that figure from?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "ay be that those words exist in the faint hope nursed by the Government that they may still receive some support for their motion and their White Paper from the junior partners in a foundering coalition. I suspect that hon. Members below the Gangway will disappoint them. The Tribune Group once boasted that it had 91 members of like persuasion. I wonder how many we shall see in their Lobby tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-07a.1555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-07", "file": "debates1975-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e422e04f676511d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-07a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "ful. It provided the Ministers of the Eurogroup countries with a valuable opportunity to review the progress of practical co-operation in the Eurogroup sub-groups and to discuss some of the key issues of allied defence. I agree with what the hon. Member for Sevenoaks said about the Western European Union. I do so because a long time ago I was the leader of the United Kingdom delegation to the WEU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-07a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-08", "file": "debates1975-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7e37f2a956f2d693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-08a.1602.0", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Shrewsbury Pickets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friend would be wrong and would not be serving the cause of the two men, or the causes which I believe he has at heart, by suggesting that. The difficulty about answering all these questions is that I may be led into making remarks which I would, perhaps, sooner not make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-08a.1602.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-08", "file": "debates1975-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7e37f2a956f2d693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-08a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Leader of the House has kindly given that answer to the hon. Gentleman. I make no complaint on this occasion, but hon. Gentlemen must not expect me to start allowing Written Answers to be read out in this way, as a matter of custom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-08a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-08", "file": "debates1975-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7e37f2a956f2d693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-08a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On the basic rate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "lowed his line of argument, and I have collected a list of claims and settlements since the Budget, between 17th April and 7th May. I hope that the House will permit me to go through the list quickly because it shows the enormity of the problem and the lack of evidence of any diminution in wage-push inflation. On 18th April the engineering and shipbuilding workers accepted a 31 per cent. increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-08a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-08", "file": "debates1975-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7e37f2a956f2d693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-08a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "t British Steel will yield by the time Lord Stansgate has finished with it, God alone knows. Our credit has deteriorated very sharply indeed. In this situation the Chancellor now has to finance a borrowing requirement of a vastly greater amount. That brings me to the right hon. Gentleman's statement, which we all believe, because we know him to be a sincere and truthful man, that he does not wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-08a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-08", "file": "debates1975-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7e37f2a956f2d693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-08a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "us in the face. After all, Prime Ministers are not normally favourably disposed towards Treasury Ministers, charitable as he is, will admit that any of the problems facing us are due to his mistakes. Therefore, the situation deteriorates. The country looks for firm action, but none is forthcoming. We know that a Chancellor can only be as strong as him Prime minister—and there by hangs many a tale,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-08a.1739.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-12", "file": "debates1975-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "79494a8ab5ad2642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman will know, because he is as expert on the question of targetry, as I am, the problem is that targets relate on the one hand to aid expenditure and on the other hand to gross national product. Until one knows what GNP is, one cannot estimate the percentage of aid expenditure. This has always been the great problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-12", "file": "debates1975-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "79494a8ab5ad2642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.25.2", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "Of course I do not resign", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.25.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-12", "file": "debates1975-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "79494a8ab5ad2642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "preceding_text": "ent of the Environment and Home Office sub-committee of the Expenditure Committee, Session 1974, by McKinsey and Co. referred to information on new towns and said: Obtaining information from Government Departments is a slow and painful process, often ending in failure, since much of the information was not available in a form that would allow expenditures related to the new town to be established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-12", "file": "debates1975-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "79494a8ab5ad2642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "he stimulation of a greater degree of industrial democracy through the planning agreements and in other ways. I ask the House to accept that in our judgment this is a very necessary Bill. I have promised and intend to be brief, but before I conclude let me make it clear that one of the reasons why the Opposition have found it hard to give the Bill the necessary speed of movement through Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-12", "file": "debates1975-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "79494a8ab5ad2642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "l procedures of Government committees, to which some public reference has been made, as have the Shipbuilding and Aircraft Bill, the Meriden Co-operative, the Kirkby Co-operative and the Scottish Daily News. Any amusement that there might be about the implication that in some way this is a Bill that divides the Government is wholly misplaced. It is the policy of the Government and I advise anyone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-12", "file": "debates1975-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "79494a8ab5ad2642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made the point, and I have given a completely effective reply to the kind of attitude which he illustrated. The Committee took no fewer than 11 sittings to examine the first three clauses of the Bill, a rate of progress which, if it had continued, would have required nearly 300 hours to complete the Bill. However, this extremely slow progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-12", "file": "debates1975-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "79494a8ab5ad2642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.185.2", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (LOANS)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Dr. John Gilbert)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Dr. John Gilbert)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-12", "file": "debates1975-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "79494a8ab5ad2642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "on the statute book. Since there is much charm in anomaly, I should like to be assured that there is no imminent danger of a Law Commission being let loose in Northern Ireland. However, in a more serious vein, may I refer to Article 3 of the order, since we should like to wish Lord Chief Justice Lowry well in the new and delicate task he has undertaken as Chairman of the Constitutional Convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-12a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-13", "file": "debates1975-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "477b595645797a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-13a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "May I invite my hon. Friend to go further? Will he confirm that some of the largest trade unions with members employed in the defence industry are in favour of substantially cutting arms spending provided that alternative civilian work is made available?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-13a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-13", "file": "debates1975-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "477b595645797a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-13a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Rodgers", "preceding_text": "No, it would not be better to say that, because we have made it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-13a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-13", "file": "debates1975-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "477b595645797a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-13a.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ZAMBIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s it is today. It is remarkable that we can still, because of the former British connection, meet and express views representing every region and ocean of the world on every kind of economic development. I am disapopinted that the hon. Gentleman has not realised the importance of this. This was the best Commonwealth Conference that any of us can remember since the Commonwealth Conferences started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-13a.247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-13", "file": "debates1975-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "477b595645797a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-13a.316.5", "colnum": "316", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SPRING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and learned Gentleman reads his words tomorrow and regards his words as responsible, I am afraid that neither I nor many other hon. Members will agree with him. The situation in the economy is serious—I said this last week at Question Time and the Chancellor spelled it out in the Budget debate—but it is not by any means hopeless. There are many very hopeful signs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-13a.316.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-13", "file": "debates1975-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "477b595645797a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-13a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFIT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " the delay and the Government's marked lack of enthusiasm in searching for office accommodation, that the Secretary of State was refused the resources by her Treasury colleagues to implement the scheme before 1977. I suspect that there is very little agreement between her and the Treasury about what this scheme may mean and that this is the principal reason why no benefit level is stated for 1977—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-13a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Denmark is the problem.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I appreciate what the hon. Gentleman has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I appreciate what the hon. Gentleman has said. [An Hon. MEMBER: \"Denmark is the problem.\"] As the hon. Member for North Angus and Mearns (Mr. Buchanan-Smith) knows, this is not a pro-EEC or anti-EEC argument, and he was not trying to suggest that it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.440.3", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend aware that that will mean an increase of £14 a year on the rent of the average council dwelling? Is he further aware that in view of the Chancellor's increase in the standard rate of income tax from 33 per cent. to 35 per cent., because of tax relief and mortgage interest the average person now buying his house will receive a further subsidy? This year a person buying an average house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.440.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": " English housing, will he also look at the Government's English housing initiatives? Over the past few months the Secretary of State has said \"No\" to a Scottish environmental board, \"No\" to a Scottish construction industry liaison group and \"No\" to Scottish participation in the Building Societies Association Liaison Group. Will he stop saying \"No\" and start saying \"Yes\" to decent Scottish housing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.454.6", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTTISH DIVORCE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "oes the Lord Advocate agree that it would appear that the entire legal profession in Scotland, a vast section of the public, Members of all parties in this House and the right hon. and learned Gentleman himself are all agreed that Scottish divorce law should be reformed? In these overwhelming circumstances, why are the Government digging in their heels and refusing to have a debate on this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.454.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "FERRANTI LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Section 7(4) of the Industry Act 1972, which must have been the basis of the legislative backing for his announcement, does not allow him to give such aid to a company unless there is no practical alternative means of helping that company, Section 11 of the Heads of Agreement proves that there is an alternative method of helping the company in partnership with the private sector at a much greater—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "no less than £90,500 has so far been spent by way of compensation to people in Northern Ireland who were victims of what was euphemistically called \"interrogation in depth\"—that is, torture. I will not go into the argument whether it is torture because I have the authority of the former Lord Chief Justice of England for condemning the actions as illegal, which is all that matters for this purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "I accept that it will be the responsibility of the local authority to decide, yea or nay, but I can see no reason why this possibility should be open to it. I can see no justification in logic, honour or anything else for this provision to be in the Bill. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will recognise that and vote with us at least on this clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.530.4", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Fortunately it is not for me to adjudicate on the amount of sense which hon. Members on either side of the House have. I suggest to the hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Raison) that he should not be deliberately provocative. There is a bit of give and take in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.530.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "In that case, the gentleman who has been in touch with me must be telling me an untruth. I have had representations from a Clay Cross Liberal Party, and I am delighted that there is such a party. My hon. Friend the Member for Rochdale (Mr. Smith) spoke there during the last election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "In that case, the gentleman who has been in touch with me must be telling me an untruth. I have had representations from a Clay Cross Liberal Party, and I am delighted that there is such a party. My hon. Friend the Member for Rochdale (Mr. Smith) spoke there during the last election—[ Interruption. ]It is progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": " we say, is too long. It is five years, starting at the earliest on 1st April 1976 and in some cases not until 1st April 1977. It is said that, without a measure like this, there will be burning resentment in the breasts of many who feel that they are being hard done by. But the very passing of the Bill will cause resentment to many others who will have to pay up for faults which were not theirs.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "ntil I became certain in my own mind that this Bill was being used for the wrong purposes and the wrong objectives by hon. Members opposite. What the hon. and learned Member for Dover and Deal (Mr. Rees) requires, judging by the kind of language he uses, is to have a torch shone into the recesses of his mind, showing him some kind of enlightenment which might help him to get rid of his prejudices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "ly, the House must accept that there are those among its Members who believe that there is another way to divide. I intend to go into the Lobby and to vote not purely on the basis of the conduct of individuals and not judging them as individuals but because I believe that, for the nation as a whole and for all those involved, the time scale is such that we should bring the matter to a suitable end", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. The House has given this comparatively short Bill full consideration both in Committee and again today. The Opposition, and certain of my hon. Friends on some aspects, have expressed themselves most forcibly in their dislike of the Bill and have been critical of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "given this comparatively short Bill full consideration both in Committee and again today. The Opposition, and certain of my hon. Friends on some aspects, have expressed themselves most forcibly in their dislike of the Bill and have been critical of the Government. [ Interruption. ] We cannot complain about that. It is right that these matters should be fully debated. In view of the Bill's origins—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "most forcibly in their dislike of the Bill and have been critical of the Government. [ Interruption. ] We cannot complain about that. It is right that these matters should be fully debated. In view of the Bill's origins—[ Interruption ]—it is hardly a matter for surprise that the Opposition should take a different view from the Government on the way in which this whole matter should be cleared up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "bbiness of the arguments which have been advanced by otherwise intelligent men in support of this despicable measure. Few things more shabby have occurred during the passage of the Bill than the nasty little attack which the Secretary of State has just perpetrated upon my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Wimbledon (Sir M. Havers) behind his back and without giving him the courtesy of notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "½ million. If the Labour Party cannot raise £1½ million to pay off the money which Clay Cross councillors and other councillors ought justly to pay to ratepayers in their particular boroughs. I can only say how sorry I am that this great Labour Party is unable to face up to its responsibilities. After all, the Labour Party received £10 million back under another piece of legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ouncillors and other councillors ought justly to pay to ratepayers in their particular boroughs. I can only say how sorry I am that this great Labour Party is unable to face up to its responsibilities. After all, the Labour Party received £10 million back under another piece of legislation—[ Interruption. ]—and that was £10 million to which it was not lawfully entitled. It went back to the unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "as been missed, in the light of the speech that we have just heard it is worth reiterating that at present British central Government public funds are carrying a burden of approximately £100,000 sustained in the form of compensation payments made to certain individuals in Northern Ireland as a result of the wrongful and illegal actions of the former Secretary of State for Defence, Lord Carrington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " am suggesting, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that when we are proposing to exonerate certain people from the financial consequences of their actions, it is relevant to recall that, without any opposition then from hon. Members who are now on the Opposition side of the House, one former Minister, Lord Carrington, was responsible for imposing upon public funds a burden of £100,000, which is now having to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "igned to take out of public life. My hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead (Mr. Finsberg) has just said that the Secretary of State, right to the last, has been scrabbling around for precedents. Worst than that, he has been scrabbling around for every nasty thing he could say. At the end of his speech he made a scurrilous attack on my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Wimbledon (Sir M. Havers)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "There was never a time when it was more important for this House to give a lead to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "s more important for us to make it clear that we expect all persons in authority, from ourselves downwards, to observe the law, and I need not spell out the reasons for that because they were spelt out clearly and cogently by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Wimbledon in the speech which the Secretary of State criticised. If we pass this Bill, it will be, to borrow the words of Mr. Levin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I have already explained that my right hon. Friend omitted to inform the hon. and learned Member for Wimbledon by an oversight which is to be regretted. At the same time, it was to be expected that the hon. and learned Gentleman, who wound up the Second Reading debate and was in the purlieus of this House, would be present in the Chamber while the Bill was being debated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-14", "file": "debates1975-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5dbd9349abe24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "on. Friend omitted to inform the hon. and learned Member for Wimbledon by an oversight which is to be regretted. At the same time, it was to be expected that the hon. and learned Gentleman, who wound up the Second Reading debate and was in the purlieus of this House, would be present in the Chamber while the Bill was being debated. [ Interruption. ] If it justified the kind of intemperate remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-14a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-15", "file": "debates1975-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "906bbf317a80da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION LTD.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And information.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Gentleman's enthusiasm for the Industry Bill. As regards the debate next week, we shall have a chance to see whether he will vote for the provision of the necessary interim capital and also for the British Leyland Bill. But I am a little surprised at his reflections on the lack of financial investigation undertaken in the Ryder Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-15", "file": "debates1975-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "906bbf317a80da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STIRLINGSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister reassure the people of West Stirlingshire about jobs for Scotland by instructing the Leader of the House to bring forward the Scottish Development Agency Bill to the Floor of the House as soon as possible, because the Government are holding it up just as much as the major Opposition party in England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-15", "file": "debates1975-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "906bbf317a80da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STIRLINGSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d his education. The coal mining area in that part of Scotland is well known to me. I have had a lot to do with it in the past. If the Opposition had known about coal, we would not have had the three-day week, would we? What my hon. Friend said about the Tory and coal owners' treatment of the Scottish coal industry leads me to apologise to him for once criticising his literary style in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-15", "file": "debates1975-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "906bbf317a80da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STIRLINGSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker. I always find it a more refreshing view when I turn towards you. Having once criticised my hon. Friend's literary style, I would only say that his use of the word \"obscenity\" about the Tories' treatment of the coal industry in Scotland was an understatement", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-15", "file": "debates1975-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "906bbf317a80da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "d an important factor. If we were to remove the vehicle excise duty we would still require some facility for the registration of cars, which would involve considerable administration. If we took that action we would not greatly diminish the number of civil servants required for the operation of vehicle excise duty, because a considerable number would still be required for the registration of cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-15", "file": "debates1975-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "906bbf317a80da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "I cannot speak for the hon. Gentleman's constituents, only for my own, and I would certainly say that my constituents would not stoop to dishonesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.772.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-15", "file": "debates1975-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "906bbf317a80da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "We shall, after 6th June. I had not expected to arouse so much animosity from the Opposition. I wandered into the Chamber almost like Wordsworth's lonely cloud to see what was going on. Seeing the paucity of Members on the Labour benches I thought that I might lend the Government a little support. I had hoped for the quiet, moderate reception that my hon. Friends accorded to Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-15", "file": "debates1975-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "906bbf317a80da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "the Labour benches I thought that I might lend the Government a little support. I had hoped for the quiet, moderate reception that my hon. Friends accorded to Opposition Members. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They were not here.\"] Precisely. Opposition Members have been heard in almost deferential silence, the kind of silence that is generally accorded only to the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-15", "file": "debates1975-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "906bbf317a80da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I am inclined to accept that. May I declare an interest? First, I have no hesitation in saying that in my leisure moments I am a yachtsman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-15", "file": "debates1975-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "906bbf317a80da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "and shot full of nonsensical anomalies. It will be ineffective for its declared purpose. It is unfair, arbitrary, senseless and hurtful to those who have no need to be hurt. Above all, it embodies the greed, the envy, the malice and the incompetence which are the hall marks of British Socialism today. I know that all my hon. Friends will be in the Lobby tonight to vote against the 25 per cent. VAT", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-15", "file": "debates1975-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "906bbf317a80da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I should like to make two brief comments. First, it is quite clear from what the Financial Secretary has said that he is not living in the real world at all. He appears to be unaware that it now costs about £5 to get a man to the doorstep just for advice on a piece of equipment, let alone putting in a part or doing anything about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-15", "file": "debates1975-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "906bbf317a80da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "rs which they have reported to the Committee in the course of the debate. Possibly there may be some misunderstanding about this matter in the sense that one has heard the word \"retrospection\" used so often tonight. Of course there is no retrospective effect in the sense that, whereas the tax will apply to existing contracts, under our proposals it starts to run only from the date of introduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-15a.840.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-19", "file": "debates1975-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "267dddfc5cac780a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.984.4", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": " Principality of Wales to the other concerning the activities of Conservative Members. It is obvious to all hon. Members that belatedly the Conservatives have recognised that they are in a tiny minority in Wales opposed to the Bill. I am still waiting for the assurance that I shall get my Bill by the end of July. I assure the hon. Member for Caernarvon (Mr. Wigley) that it will be our wish to get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.984.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-19", "file": "debates1975-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "267dddfc5cac780a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can never teach any hon. Member the quality of ignorance or talk about pomposity. He knows nothing. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-19", "file": "debates1975-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "267dddfc5cac780a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1005.6", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I believe genuinely that there is a feeling that the time has come when we must look at the way we carry out our business. We now have the great complication of European legislation, and any modern Government, of either party, intervene to a great extent, and increasingly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1005.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-19", "file": "debates1975-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "267dddfc5cac780a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1055.3", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "GRAMMAR AND DIRECT-GRANT SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Then what is it? If it is not a statement of the law, it is a piece of bluff and bluster, and it should be exposed for what it is. I think that I have disposed of that argument satisfactorily, and I can pass on to two further matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1055.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-19", "file": "debates1975-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "267dddfc5cac780a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "GRAMMAR AND DIRECT-GRANT SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "ffects of his policy on educational stanlards one has to look a little more deeply to see what it is that is being aimed at and what is being concealed. The reality is the old reality. There is nothing new about it. It is the intention of the Conservative Party to carry on with what it has always done—to defend wealth, privilege and place and to strive against the democratic advance of education.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-19", "file": "debates1975-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "267dddfc5cac780a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "PREVENTION OF TERRORISM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did say so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "preceding_text": " O'Rourke illustrate that beyond any reasonable doubt. I do not wish to spend the few brief minutes I have discussing how the Act has worked. I am more concerned about the situation which appertained before the Act was passed, the situation now and the situation in the future. As all hon. Members seem to agree—although some did not say so in November—the Act has been an erosion of civil liberties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-19", "file": "debates1975-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "267dddfc5cac780a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "PREVENTION OF TERRORISM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "preceding_text": "ble Bill. But I am beginning, as I am sure are many of my hon. Friends, to receive an increasing quantity of mail attacking that Bill. An employer wrote to me the other day saying that he was a chief executive of a large concern and that he hoped that I would support action to amend that Bill. Naturally, I wrote to ask him whether he had consulted his employees on the subject before writing to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-19", "file": "debates1975-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "267dddfc5cac780a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "PREVENTION OF TERRORISM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "preceding_text": "im whether he had consulted his employees on the subject before writing to me—[ Interruption. ] I digress a little. However, we are still waiting for legislation of certain types to protect the individual within our society. In the next few months I believe that in Britain there could be a tremendous increase in conflict arising from our continued membership of the Common Market, if that is to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-19", "file": "debates1975-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "267dddfc5cac780a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1145.2", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "PREVENTION OF TERRORISM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "ernment. But even tonight there are many hon. Members, not exclusively on this side of the House, who have sincere and deeply held convictions in opposing this measure. I recognise that. Earlier tonight I was in Belfast with some of my hon. Friends. I understand that the Home Secretary, in appealing to the House for extension of the legislation, referred to my opposition to the Bill last November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-19", "file": "debates1975-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "267dddfc5cac780a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1160.3", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "PREVENTION OF TERRORISM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has already said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "Before my right hon. Friend concludes, will he assure the House that he intends, in taking account of all the circumstances, not to renew the legislation at the end of the next six months but to introduce new legislation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-19a.1160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-20", "file": "debates1975-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9effb015e9dc3a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-20a.1203.4", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The present system is not one under which the Government are able to lay down the law on what is or is not a proper wage settlement. One of the difficulties with which we have had to deal all through these months is to try to clear up the mess left by the Conservative Government, who tried to lay down such rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-20a.1203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-20", "file": "debates1975-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9effb015e9dc3a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-20a.1211.3", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS' CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister accept my apologies for not being here on 13th May to hear his original answer? Is he aware that I was commending to the steel workers of Ebbw Vale accept- ance of the Government's policies for remaining in the Common Market? Is he further aware that the local Member seems to have shifted somewhat in that direction? May I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-20a.1211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-20", "file": "debates1975-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9effb015e9dc3a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-20a.1211.3", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS' CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "hat I was commending to the steel workers of Ebbw Vale accept- ance of the Government's policies for remaining in the Common Market? Is he further aware that the local Member seems to have shifted somewhat in that direction? May I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] If one is allowed by his back benchers to congratulate the Prime Minister, may I first congratulate him", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-20a.1211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-20", "file": "debates1975-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9effb015e9dc3a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-20a.1248.3", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL (Clauses 5, 17, 23, 25, 28, 49 and 60)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "e long additional wage demands are generated in the public sector, leading to higher public spending overall. The right hon. Member for Down, South pinned the responsibility for inflation on Governments. I think that I am saying something very much along those lines, because Governments have assumed a buoyancy of the tax revenue and therefore indulged in expenditure beyond the resources available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-20a.1248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-20", "file": "debates1975-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9effb015e9dc3a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-20a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL (Clauses 5, 17, 23, 25, 28, 49 and 60)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "for all hon. Members on both sides of the Committee to realise that without indexation of the tax system this sort of effect on poor people particularly is almost inevitable. We must also realise that inflation is no friend of the poor and that those who cause inflation are no friends of the poor either. The National Institute Review for November 1974 shows what has happened over the longer term.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-20a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-21", "file": "debates1975-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "cd08e91ee11ade51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1392.3", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I read my right hon. Friend's reply. As is well known, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and I are always in complete agreement—as are all members of this Government, on all occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-21", "file": "debates1975-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "cd08e91ee11ade51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1404.2", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend wants to have it both ways. He wants us to take a position which we have not taken, so that he can attack that position. The Government have not taken that view. They have not reached a conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-21", "file": "debates1975-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "cd08e91ee11ade51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1440.0", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "her we could get the Secretary of State to take some miniscule interest in what goes on in this House just for one brief moment. Could he think about the implications of what he is doing and find out whether he knows what the implications of Ryder are in or out of the Common Market? Perhaps he will tell the House whether the Ryder assumptions are based upon us being in or out of the Common Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-21", "file": "debates1975-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "cd08e91ee11ade51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "that the Prime Minister was talking when he referred to the politico-industrial ambitions which are bringing that company to its knees, or was it in reality one of his own Ministers that he had in mind? Was that phrase the signal of the end of the road for the Meridens, the Kirkbys, the Bear Brands, the Ferrantis and the steel review intervention? Is that what the Prime Minister was trying to say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-21", "file": "debates1975-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "cd08e91ee11ade51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "er-investment, which has come about because of lack of profit. Until we allow industry to make reasonable profits, the necessary investment will not be made. That is true of large sections of British industry. No party has done more harm to the cause of investment—which they now wish to espouse and to encourage—than the Labour Party by their constant, tedious repetition of their attacks on profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-21", "file": "debates1975-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "cd08e91ee11ade51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Gentleman addresses the question to Sir Don Ryder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-21", "file": "debates1975-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "cd08e91ee11ade51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " this is really Rolls-Royce Mark II, with the unprofitable aero-engine company brought into public ownership and hiving off the profitable part into private ownership. If that is all the hon. Member is suggesting, his party has learned nothing and forgotten nothing in two years. The second point I wish to put—because I do not think that that was the intention of what the hon. Gentleman was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-21", "file": "debates1975-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "cd08e91ee11ade51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1534.3", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "tent even in that case, I pay tribute at least to his consistency if not to his wisdom. There is a sentence in the Ryder Report which in my view has received far too little serious attention. It reads: If the UK were to opt out of vehicle production, it is not easy to see where the process of opting out would end. This Government do not intend to preside over the descent towards a tourist economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-21", "file": "debates1975-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "cd08e91ee11ade51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1551.0", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "That is what I said about this order, at this time and in this situation. I now come to a further reason why this situation is especially applicable. I refer to the alternative to a receivership. Many of my hon. Friends feel that not a penny more should be put into this industry, and that receivership is the correct action to take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-21", "file": "debates1975-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "cd08e91ee11ade51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1552.3", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "very penny that goes in, hundreds, thousands, millions, even billions of pounds of inflated money go after it. There are two reasons for British Leyland's present state. One is the result of Government intervention. The other is the worship of size which swept the country as a fashion in 1968. For example, we had huge tower blocks, large comprehensive schools, huge local government reorganisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1552.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-21", "file": "debates1975-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "cd08e91ee11ade51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "ce of the Ryder Report, but I cannot go all the way with him in his criticism of the Government's approach to the £50 million. I listened with great interest to the delightful speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, North (Dr. Boyson). I was amused, but not impressed, by its medieval overtones. There will always be differences between the two sides of the House, and I am not convinced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-21", "file": "debates1975-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "cd08e91ee11ade51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "n. and learned Friend, I do not want to see British Leyland broken up because that would jeopardise so much in the country, but I accept that there is a danger that we might be feeding irresponsibility into the community, into the unions, into management and into the Government and all Members of Parliament. I accept that such irresponsibility can be fed by more and more money. Perhaps I am wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-21a.1567.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot get away with making wild accusations such as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend and those who are cheering him will remember that we did not have free trade in these products before we went into the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ive my hon. Friend the facts? There was a tariff for all lamb, including New Zealand supplies, amounting to about 8 per cent. There was a duty of about 15 per cent. on cheese imports—except those from the Commonwealth, which were duty-free. Butter imports were duty-free but strictly controlled by import quotas. I hope that my hon. Friend will realise that there is no cheap food in the world today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1595.1", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I think it is reasonable to have a market which has been guaranteed, with prices negotiated every year, in a large community. I see nothing wrong in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1609.4", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REFERENDUM", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Come on, Nelson.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Skinner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1609.6", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REFERENDUM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I sympathise with my hon. Friend on his affliction and express the hope that on this issue he will now see more clearly through one eye than he sometimes does through two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1609.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1610.2", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REFERENDUM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This is a matter which is much argued. I do not agree with what my right hon. Friend said. As I made clear, no one can say that no jobs have been lost. Some have been lost. Equally, jobs have been gained as a result of a change in the movement of trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1620.1", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS \"It will be debated today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I cannot give an undertaking about when it will be debated, but I can give an undertaking that it will be some time this Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1637.6", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "n can be tackled and substantially reduced. That means that there are no excuses for the different pattern of events that we have experienced here. We could have acted last year and we did not. It would have been difficult, but far less so than to correct the situation we face now. Indeed, the Bank of England itself pointed Jut in its excellent commentaries, at which we always look very carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1637.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "It must have been the figure in real terms. If not, on what terms was it based?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "May I just finish and then I shall be perfectly willing to give way, although I have a long way to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1651.2", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " is not the way of a Socialist Government. However, at least we might have been able to pay our own way instead of being so dependent on borrowing from abroad, and we might not have leaned so heavily on future generations for repayment of our debts. After we had been in office for a few months the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister asked my right hon. Friend the Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1651.2", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "m, would he have to be in office before he was prepared to take his own personal responsibility, and accept his Government's responsibility, for the state of the nation under his Government, as a result his Government's policies—and, above all, his and their responsibility for unemployment?\"—[ Official Report. 2nd November 1971; Vol. 825, c. 32.] The Prime Minister has now been in office for over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "ardly been felt at that time. This was natural trade, not the increase in oil prices. Even so, by that time our trade balance on normal trade was heavily negative. Therefore, we had nearly £4,000 million a year deficit, with hardly any effect from increased oil prices. The right hon. Lady will concede that even by her rather idiosyncratic notions of collective responsibility, she had at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": " But in the first four months of 1975 we have done just that, and it would be right for the House to recognise the magnitude of that achievement. I wish the right hon. Lady had said more about that instead of trying to depreciate it. Tory parties, we have noticed, are always somewhat cyclical in their readiness, rhetorically, to sell Britain short. The cycle starts on the day they get into office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ome of our overseas neighbours. She ignored the fact that when the Labour Government came to office we were told how serious unemployment would be as a result of what the Conservatives left behind. Let us forget that. What she said this afternoon does not correspond with what her right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph), mentor and Svengali, said about unemployment today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " said that the figures were thoroughly misleading, and had been so for years, in measuring the slack in the economy, and that the published unemployment figure greatly exaggerated the number of people available, willing and ready for work, and, on the other hand, it greatly understated the number of jobs for them to do. So he went blathering on and on about the statistics. This was his conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1662.3", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tions and variations that you get such a high permitted guideline that it can in fact produce inflation which it is meant to curb. You also get … a lot of rigidities introduced and you, if you are not careful do not manage to get the people where the jobs are. So you can operate it for a short time, but no country in the world has been able to do it for very long. That is a sound statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1662.3", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "alition Government of all parties in their White Paper on full employment accepted the Keynesian doctrine that where investment of all kinds was insufficient to maintain employment the State must step in with capital spending programmes. With Keynes the emphasis was on roads, bridges, the draining of swamps and the rest. The NEB concept is an updating of what we all agreed in the 1944 White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at happens when a man has been a distinguished Cabinet member and is sacked from the Tory Front Bench. I now wish to conclude my remarks. Those on the Opposition Front Bench now seem to dissociate themselves from everything the previous Tory Government did, when they were members of that very Government. I do not know of any precedent in maritime history of rats leaving the ship after it has sunk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " learned how, to use industrial power to override the will of the Government and to seize effective control of the Chancellor's cheque book, even of the Government's printing presses. At the end, therefore, if inflation is to be averted, the authority of the Government and of this House has to be restored. The question that will not go away is, who governs Britain? It still remains to be answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1758.1", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are the Chancellor; you should know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " I shall explain the detailed facts in a moment, although a few days ago the hon. Member for Leek (Mr. Knox) was given the facts in great detail in answer to a Written Question. The fact is that the right hon. and learned Gentleman once again dodged the question. What does he think the public sector borrowing requirement should be reduced to? He gives no answer whatever to that important question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Lady we had the phrase \"renegotiate the guidelines\" and no more. From the right hon. and learned Gentleman we got the usual mass of flabby rhetoric which in the end collapsed into another appeal for cutting public expenditure still further. However, the fact remains that hon. Members on both sides of the House agree that we must get the rate of settlements down in the next wage round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "portunity for combating unemployment. In the last few days, in particular, we have had some very interesting and valuable ideas from both sides of industry, especially from members of the General Council of the TUC, notably from Mr. Jack Jones. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has already declared his intention to meet the CBI and the TUC next month to see how far matters can be progressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-05-22", "file": "debates1975-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "102155393efb9416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1761.2", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "demonstrated that it has nothing to contribute to the vital search for a solution to the problem of inflation. It has proved that it is nothing but a tedious and partisan irrelevance at a time when the whole nation is crying out for a combined national effort. For these reasons, I ask the House to reject the motion with the contempt that it deserves. I am confident that when the House has done so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-05-22a.1761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-09", "file": "debates1975-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "d67c0974cc9af98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did she say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Lady for what she said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-09", "file": "debates1975-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "d67c0974cc9af98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman on improving on his Oxford Union speech, I agree, if he will allow me to say so, with what he said about the fact that in the referendum campaign there were some right hon. and hon. Members on both sides who contributed greatly to the support for their cause, and there were some about whom my own views on counter-productivity certainly applied, on both sides of the campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-09", "file": "debates1975-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "d67c0974cc9af98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY CORPORATIONS (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "ment can get down to some of the very real problems that face the country. In my view, the Bill will be of more importance to the income, employment and general welfare of the British people over the next year or two than the Common Market, about which I trust we have learned a little during the past three weeks. I do not believe that the House would wish to debate today what happened in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-09", "file": "debates1975-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "d67c0974cc9af98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY CORPORATIONS (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "preceding_text": " 1976 and 1977? Why is it that, without any effective parliamentary intervention, we are to be taken for another ride into next year on the same tiger as has already grown teeth which we were told did not exist a few weeks ago? Surely Parliament should be able to supervise and check this terrifying process. The previous Bill brought forward by my party when in government was certainly not perfect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-09", "file": "debates1975-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "d67c0974cc9af98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY CORPORATIONS (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "We are very much aware of the performance of the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-09", "file": "debates1975-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "d67c0974cc9af98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING COMMITTEE ON REGIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "t include the Committees on Statutory Instruments. The right hon. Gentleman modestly referred to what he called a very large legislative programme, though other people might have found some rather rougher adjectives with which to describe that legislative programme. Perhaps I may remind the House of what we have had before us this Session. Thirty-eight Bills have already received the Royal Assent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-09", "file": "debates1975-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "d67c0974cc9af98a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING COMMITTEE ON REGIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Selfish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ntribute. Perhaps their main point of view would be that they would like to pay less tax towards grants, loans and premiums to the regions and they would prefer that the industrial development certificate control be relaxed, because every time a new business of any size comes to my constituency it is denied an industrial development certificate in the hope that the business will go somewhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-09a.188.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-06-10", "file": "debates1975-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "d67e0f97c341f5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-10a.220.4", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Raphael Tuck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-10a.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-10", "file": "debates1975-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "d67e0f97c341f5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-10a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": " clarification. I was going to suggest that the amendment, which he moved so ably, was very meagre, very temperate. I am constantly astonished by my right hon. and learned Friend's moderation, shown not only in speeches at the weekend but in his amendments. I should have much preferred to see the whole of the contribution of the self-employed allowed for tax. That would have restored the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-10a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-10", "file": "debates1975-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "d67e0f97c341f5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-10a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member has evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-10a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-11", "file": "debates1975-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "652f09a84410847c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-11a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "An hon. Member \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "ivation\" published by the Department of the Environment and referring to multiple deprivation, suggesting that that was at its worst in the West of Scotland? If the Secretary of State for the Environment wishes to wear a Scottish hat for certain purposes, is it not fair that Scottish Members should be entitled to question the right hon. Gentleman? We are being accused of asking too many questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-11a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-11", "file": "debates1975-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "652f09a84410847c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-11a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": " a further background to my decision. Judgments of this kind are immensely serious and they reflect inevitably a mood of anxiety and concern. One is driven over the edge of the abyss not by the specifics of a situation but by its political context. I fear that we are witnessing the first dangerous stages of what could prove to be a historic catastrophe for the Labour Party and the Labour movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-11a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-11", "file": "debates1975-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "652f09a84410847c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-11a.421.2", "colnum": "421", "heading": "CHILD PROTECTION (MEDICINES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "sperately worrying to have a poisoned child on one's hands. The House has twice given me leave to introduce a Bill to tackle the incidence of accidental child poisoning, but the Government have stone-walled further progress with monotonous regularity with the cry that no Bill is necessary because the whole thing can be done under present legislation. If that is the case, why has this not happened?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-11a.421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-11", "file": "debates1975-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "652f09a84410847c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-11a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY PENSIONS [MONEY] (No. 2)", "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": "The hon. Member for Wells (Mr. Boscawen) spoke the greatest truth so far this afternoon when he said that this is not the first time the House has laboured to do its work under a money resolution defining the parameters of possible policy. This is the continuing practice of all Govern- ments. If hon. Members will pause and be slightly adult in their response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-11a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-12", "file": "debates1975-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b6cd72ad38c1fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "On the first part of the right hon. Lady's question, if it is in order to answer it, I am sure that the Committee will be meeting again later this afternoon at 4.30", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-12", "file": "debates1975-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b6cd72ad38c1fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.666.0", "colnum": "666", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-12", "file": "debates1975-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b6cd72ad38c1fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "In that broadcast I was merely commenting on long-term aspects of how I saw Parliament developing in the future. This trend has been going on for a very long time. Modern government is becoming so complex that Parliament has been forced to legislate much more on principle. I said that, providing there is adequate machinery for scrutiny of executive acts, this was acceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-12", "file": "debates1975-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b6cd72ad38c1fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "In that broadcast I was merely commenting on long-term aspects of how I saw Parliament developing in the future. This trend has been going on for a very long time. Modern government is becoming so complex that Parliament has been forced to legislate much more on principle. I said that, providing there is adequate machinery for scrutiny of executive acts, this was acceptable. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-12", "file": "debates1975-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b6cd72ad38c1fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Dealing with British Leyland, I agree with the right hon. Gentleman that this is not the most convenient time. However, the House has embarked on the British Leyland project—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-12", "file": "debates1975-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b6cd72ad38c1fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.669.6", "colnum": "669", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "he House. I intend to make no comment whatsoever on the contents of yesterday's personal statement, since that would be totally improper. However, I had always understood that it was the convention that a Minister who resigned was allowed to make a personal statement. I had not understood that the House had consented to extend this practice to a Minister who had been fired. Had this been the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.669.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-12", "file": "debates1975-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b6cd72ad38c1fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "ed. The activity being carried out by Bristol Channel Ship Repairers is a form of PR activity that is becoming more insidious. I have a letter from this firm written, in ballpoint pen, from an address at 24 Royal Crescent, Bath. We receive dozens of letters like this every day. This letter is signed by R. C. Jones-Bateman. When I checked around I found that everyone had received letters like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-12", "file": "debates1975-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b6cd72ad38c1fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " a priest or a doctor? What is wrong with that? This is trivial. Perhaps the most absurd of all for this great and ancient House is No. (8): land and property of substantial value or from which a substantial income is derived\". Surely any hon. Members with any knowledge of history know that those who first came to this place held land or property and it was admirable that they should have done so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-12a.782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "The Bill before the House is to make hare coursing matches illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Do so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "The Bill before the House is to make hare coursing matches illegal. [Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"] If the House would like me to spend some of its time now talking about the general issue of sports and their illegality or legality, I could make my speech considerably longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "No, I have not seen hare coursing—nor have I seen a man hanged, a woman raped or a baby battered. It is not necessary to witness cruelty in order to condemn it. Finally, I want to mention the two changes in the Bill that we have made since 1970. First, the penalties have been increased. This partly reflects the change in the value of money since 1970.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has reached an important point in his speech since he now seems to be presenting the conservationist view. He suggested that if hare coursing were abolished, the hare population would decline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.866.5", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": " prototype letter. Whereas, in all fairness, I must say that, although I had more letters, not from my constituency but from all over the country, urging me to support the Government's Bill, I was very much more impressed by those who said that coursing does no real harm and that it should be allowed to continue. I have never been against coursing but I have always been against cruelty to animals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.866.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Human?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Young", "preceding_text": "nt of the spectators. I do not dodge the issue. I am a complete abolitionist of blood sports, and I do not hedge on that. I will support every measure that comes before this House that seeks to abolish these sports. On this Bill, let us accept the argument put forward by the pro-coursing lobby that the aim of the exercise is to test the skill of the dogs. The stimulation is a human living ceature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "preceding_text": "wards to give the quarry a chance, and 60 per cent. to 70 per cent. of hares get away. The object is not to kill. The impression one gets is of a natural drama. The hare seems preconditioned to the chase. The dogs and the quarry are splendidly matched. The greyhounds possess superb speed and clear sight but lack manoeuvrability. The hare has speed, much more agility, and a knowledge of the ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "etary who moved the Second Reading. I was extremely surprised at her irresponsible approach to a small but important piece of legislation. To compare hare coursing to rape or murder is to cheapen the debate, to cheapen the hon. Lady and to cheapen the great office she holds. I hope in the closing minutes left to us in this debate that we shall be able to lift the debate to a slightly higher plane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When will the hon. and learned Gentleman pursue any argument?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "ursing has been put in two ways. First it has been said that it is wrong that an animal should be killed in the course of sport or for sport. That opens up the whole question of how far field sports are justified in the twentieth century or, indeed, in any subsequent century. In the time available I do not propose to pursue that argument, although I shall be delighted to do so on another occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the fishmongers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "orts, I hope that every member of every angling and gun club will have noticed what Labour Members have sincerely said and have noticed the very qualified remarks which the Under-Secretary made on this subject. If we are to use this as the touchstone by which to judge the Bill, we must logically go on to abolish angling, shooting, hunting and every field sport that involves the death of an animal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "rom my observation, it was the greyhounds rather than the hare that were exhausted. I come to the kill. The squeal of a hare is an unattractive sound, but the squeal of many animals at the moment of death is unattractive. I can only recall that in practically every case the death seemed to me to be remarkably quick. Indeed it was almost instantaneous, one quick snap and the hare's back was broken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.905.3", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": " other, that that was one of the most graceful sights I have ever seen. I say that without shame. By the way, very few hares were caught. Living in the country, in my constituency, as I do, I have seen all the conditions in which hares live. I have followed the harriers. I have shot many hares. I am ashamed to say that I have also missed hares. I am not certain what happened to the hares I missed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.905.3", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "ut a new crime on the statute book. The real issue is whether we should turn into a crime this limited form of hare coursing which happens to be one of the oldest sports known to man. We have with us today a Home Office Minister for whom, like many other hon. Members, I have a great respect. She and I have been allied on what I believe to have been better occasions. She will recollect what I mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.905.3", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "oursing want it to be abolished altogether along with hunting with beagles or harriers. But, of course, the Bill abolishes only hare coursing matches—that is to say, it abolishes the properly organised hare coursing. It turns that into a crime, and what I must confess—because I know many of them in my constituency—to be law abiding decent people of all classes who run hare coursing into criminals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.905.3", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "bolishes the properly organised hare coursing. It turns that into a crime, and what I must confess—because I know many of them in my constituency—to be law abiding decent people of all classes who run hare coursing into criminals. [ Interruption. ] If this activity, which they have conducted well and in an orderly manner in carrying on a long tradition, is made a crime, they will become criminals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-13", "file": "debates1975-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "da36f0a2f6de8ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.911.0", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "While discussing the Government's intention, will the hon. Lady make one thing clear about which the House might have been misled? The hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Helfer) said that this was a question of individual conscience and a free vote. Mr. Speaker himself said that this was a matter for a free vote. Is this the case when it is clear that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-13a.911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.931.5", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " resign? Instead of giving lectures and quoting statistics, will she turn her attention to the consequences, in human terms, of the devastating rate of inflation—for which her Government are responsible—on the people who have not gained the spoils of the big battalions to protect them against the effects of inflation—people who will suffer a sharp cut in living standards, whose jobs are in danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.931.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "natively, at the very least, bring in some new form of short-term lease which does not confer longterm security. The North Wiltshire approach, which has been discussed recently, is a start, although I have doubts about how widespread its value might be. Better still, we should take seriously the approach of my hon. Friend the Member for Kensington (Sir B. Rhys Williams) for some form of shorthold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.991.3", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Perry", "preceding_text": "He said a considerable amount. I recall the halcyon days of 1971 and 1972. I think that about 15 of the hon. Members present served on the Committee considering the Housing Finance Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ttee on the Housing Bill 1974 much was made by Government Ministers of the need to produce a comprehensive charter for tenants. The Minister for Housing and Construction made many passionate and eloquent speeches saying that he was considering this and that something would evolve. What he said was enough to prevent at least two of his hon. Friends, having spoken in favour of an amendment I tabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "e Birmingham 50–50 scheme. I noticed that when that was mentioned there were Labour Members who said that the idea came from a Labour council. So what? If it is a good idea, jolly good luck to it. We are not so hidebound as to reject good ideas coming from Labour local councillors. Incidentally, it is now only a Labour council because of the fiddling over the casting vote of the Lord Mayor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": " further and said \"We shall make available an increasing amount of money to local authorities to lend.\" Within the last couple of weeks, they have cut it. I do not notice any screams from the guardians at Transport House of Labour's election manifesto. Perhaps they are selective guardians and, having been beaten as a result of the referendum are shy about saying what else should remain sacrosanct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Reginald Freeson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rents.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Reginald Freeson)", "preceding_text": "is two-fold. Extending security of tenure to most furnished tenants was an essential stop-gap until the programme of social ownership has been carried out. This situation points also to the need, set out in our policy circulars on \"Housing Needs and Action\" and \"Housing the Single\", for a much greater variety of provision for smaller households by local authorities, and indeed by private builders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "ous ways by hon. Members on both sides of the House. If my hon. Friend is dissatisfied, I can only hope that he will show an interest in some of these aspects of housing policy in future. My right hon. Friend has referred to a review of housing finance upon which the Department has embarked. During the course of the review we shall not stop at undertaking the most challenging investigation of all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "preceding_text": " All the way through in considering this report, one has the feeling that the judgments reached in many cases are far too shallow. Similarly, we have had very little evidence of a serious examination whether other sources of money could have been found to help the company in this situation. The opportunities to seek re-cycled Arab investment, opportunities for investment consortia in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Fraudulent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "preceding_text": "ld be some contribution from within to set alongside the vast contribution the long-suffering British taxpayer, or the long-suffering creditors of the British Government, are being dragooned into making. This is all being done on a prospectus which, if it were introduced in a normal commercial context, would be criticised throughout the financial Press as flimsy, if not extra-statutory or illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Can you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": " I apologise for enmeshing my hon. Friend the new Under-Secretary in the details of the car industry so soon after his appointment but my next question is where British Leyland is to produce its sports cars. I declare an interest as an MG owner. I am not particularly convinced by the great rash of publicity that is trying to persuade people to buy more MGs under the slogan \"You can do it in a MG\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the gear lever?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "r-Secretary in the details of the car industry so soon after his appointment but my next question is where British Leyland is to produce its sports cars. I declare an interest as an MG owner. I am not particularly convinced by the great rash of publicity that is trying to persuade people to buy more MGs under the slogan \"You can do it in a MG\". [HON. MEMBERS: \"Can you?\"] You can in the GT version.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Printing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": " us relate the commitment of £265 million to reality. In our constituencies, it may be difficult for the noblest of charities, with the greatest effort, to raise £500. The Government own no money. We are committing the money of individual, human working people. We are not getting it out of the ground or issuing it from treasuries. We are extracting it from the efficient to give to the inefficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what they like to imagine. But I believe that if one insists on anachronising society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what they like to imagine. But I believe that if one insists on anachronising society—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"] I know that none of those who have been comprehensively educated will understand language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1131.4", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Knight", "preceding_text": "he Jaguar management and unions—I hold no brief for either of them—have connived together in a scheme which will cheat the taxpayer because the management have agreed with the union that they will form the men's work pattern so that, working full time, they can still draw unemployment pay. This is an appalling scandal, and I put down a Parliamentary Question about it and asking that such cheating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1131.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Without guaranteeing a constitutional framework, I can assure my hon. Friend that the ongoing dialogue for which he asks will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "There is certainly a letter that is being sent out to shareholders of British Leyland, but my reading of it—and I have read it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "There is certainly a letter that is being sent out to shareholders of British Leyland, but my reading of it—and I have read it—[ Laughter. ] It is dated later this week, which is why I have not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Frank?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " the Under-Secretary rose to deal with it. The fact that the letter is dated later this week is a matter of no importance to the Committee. It would have been of interest to all of us to have a chance to see the information it contained. If it means anything at all, that letter must deal with the way in which large sums of public money are to be handled. The Government are perhaps being less than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-16", "file": "debates1975-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de21b83eabc3bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lord Ryder.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the management of British Leyland has been treated with the courtesy to which, as human beings, it is entitled. My information is that it was given the expurgated version of the report at about the same time as its contents were made available to the House and the Press. I also complained that there had been a deficiency of fairness. In this respect I wonder whether Sir Don Ryder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-16a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-17", "file": "debates1975-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae977b308a1010e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are the same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "I did not say \"equality\"; I said \"equal opportunities\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-17", "file": "debates1975-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae977b308a1010e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree with me that standards in the primary schools—and I was teaching just over a year ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-17", "file": "debates1975-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae977b308a1010e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1183.4", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "In my three days in this office I have not had a chance to have discussions with anybody, let alone parents, about direct grant schools. I do not think it is necessary to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-17", "file": "debates1975-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae977b308a1010e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1191.6", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandelson", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that he said—and I quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1191.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-17", "file": "debates1975-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae977b308a1010e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is exactly as we have explained it to the union and the board. I do not believe that it would help at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-17", "file": "debates1975-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae977b308a1010e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "SIMONSTOWN AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister give the House an undertaking that all military collaboration with South Africa, not just at Simonstown, will now cease?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-17", "file": "debates1975-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae977b308a1010e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1200.3", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "SIMONSTOWN AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "Dealing with the hon. and gallant Gentleman's first point, certainly I am extremely happy to pay tribute to those individuals in South Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1200.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-06-17", "file": "debates1975-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae977b308a1010e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1205.2", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "SIMONSTOWN AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Humbug.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman must surely know, the maintenance of an agreement of this kind with a country whose regime is abhorrent to many people both in this country and elsewhere has been regarded by many as a sign of support for that régime which does not help us in our dealings with other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-17", "file": "debates1975-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae977b308a1010e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1205.5", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "SIMONSTOWN AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend realise that his statement will be welcomed by the United Nations Organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-17a.1205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-18", "file": "debates1975-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "9992b672db8a3f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-18a.1479.6", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEX DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Richardson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Richardson", "preceding_text": "I seem to be speaking yet again and I hope that hon. Members will not get sick of the sound of my voice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-18a.1479.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-18", "file": "debates1975-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "9992b672db8a3f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-18a.1514.3", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEX DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Lady has in a sense proved my point. I am not sure that she meant to do so. I am arguing that there should be in certain circumstances situations in which members of the different sexes should be allowed to discriminate on the grounds of sex, as with the setting up of what is by definition an all-women band. We only want women of one sex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-18a.1514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-18", "file": "debates1975-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "9992b672db8a3f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-18a.1558.2", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEX DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "And independent schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-18a.1558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-19", "file": "debates1975-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "a100e4eae10e1363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-19a.1649.1", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "d whose support of the police and other public authorities I am well aware, may, on reflection, think that it would be fairly cumbersome to introduce a board of this sort or a committee of citizens right from the beginning. It would be almost impossible to proceed in these circumstances with any effective investigation or any effective application of police discipline. It would be very cumbersome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-19a.1649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-19", "file": "debates1975-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "a100e4eae10e1363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-19a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady refers to the pound. I hoped that she would pay a tribute to the excellent record which we are achieving. She knows that statements of that kind are encouraging people to campaign against the pound, when we have cut by 75 per cent. the deficit with which her Government left us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-19a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-19", "file": "debates1975-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "a100e4eae10e1363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-19a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "SAFETY OF SPORTS GROUNDS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "There have been occasions when I have shouted at him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-19a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-23", "file": "debates1975-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "252f84bbb5490afc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-23a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (PAY SETTLEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "stion. The figures do not bear out the suggestion that this was not a negotiation, which is apparently the implication of the hon. Gentleman's remarks. The settlement is above the amount proposed by the arbitration award, and certainly we should have preferred the arbitration award to be accepted. But although it is above the amount proposed by the award, it is below the amount claimed by the NUR.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-23a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-23", "file": "debates1975-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "252f84bbb5490afc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-23a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (PAY SETTLEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "preceding_text": "greement was based on fair play and justice for the basic rate railwaymen? In spite of the hysterical shouting by the Opposition, does he not agree that the new money element involved in the settlement is still one of the lowest to be reached in the public sector over the past 12 months? Would he not also agree that the leaders of the NUR have said repeatedly that they believe in a pay policy but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-23a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-23", "file": "debates1975-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "252f84bbb5490afc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-23a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (PAY SETTLEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wanted a serious debate on this subject I am surprised that he did not select today's Supply Day rather than this tuppenny ha'penny motion which is on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-23a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-23", "file": "debates1975-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "252f84bbb5490afc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-23a.79.3", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNIONS (POSTAL BALLOTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "anvassed with a much greater degree of liberality than the right hon. Gentleman finds possible to tolerate. It does not do him justice for him to seek to shelter in this timid way. He has been in the House a great deal longer than I have, and I have always hoped that I would hear from him candid debate rather than a sheltering behind artificial rules. I do not wish to detain the House much longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-23a.79.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-23", "file": "debates1975-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "252f84bbb5490afc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-23a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "want a world in which excellence and merit are accepted only in the sphere of sport and music, which the hon. Member for the Isle of Ely (Mr. Freud) threatened. Nor do we want a society in which academic achievement is discounted because all cannot achieve it. This will mean a levelling down, not a levelling up, in the standard of education. I am sure that some hon. Members read the Evening News —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-23a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-23", "file": "debates1975-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "252f84bbb5490afc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-23a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Miss Joan Lestor)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"SO what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Miss Joan Lestor)", "preceding_text": " opportunity to go to a grammar school,\" was always the geographical maldistribution of the grammar school—even if one accepted, as we did not, that it was a good school for certain groups of children to attend. In fact, the availability of grammar school places varied enormously throughout the country. The same is true of the direct grant schools, which Conservative Members are so keen to defend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-23a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-24", "file": "debates1975-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d87ba4a869a2c40e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-24a.230.2", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I have said, what is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-24a.230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-24", "file": "debates1975-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d87ba4a869a2c40e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-24a.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about law-making functions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with the right hon. and learned Gentleman that the Council of Ministers is a policy-making body. It is not engaged only in negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-24a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-24", "file": "debates1975-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d87ba4a869a2c40e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-24a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "I do not burke that issue, but it was after three years expansion of the forces and expanding expenditure. During that period, members of the forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-24a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-24", "file": "debates1975-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d87ba4a869a2c40e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-24a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do get a move on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "ut because those 4,000 people are spread over the country, they are regarded as expendable. That is the simple answer. But for the individuals involved, redundancy is a traumatic experience. The 4,000 personnel involved are unfortunate enough to be a pawn in the Government's hands—a Government who at this time are ruled by the Left wing in this as in other spheres. Let me say this to the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-24a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-24", "file": "debates1975-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d87ba4a869a2c40e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-24a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "What concerned me most about the Under-Secretary's speech introducing the order was its almost self-congratulatory note and the suggestion implicit in it that the order and all that it implies was enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-24a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-25", "file": "debates1975-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "fae2c7e1b930c3f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not necessarily accept the hypothesis with which the hon. Gentleman began his supplementary question, but every one of us on the Government side of the House remembers that on a very early page in the Labour Party manifesto we said that our first and most important task was to overcome inflation, and I believe that the steps now being taken will achieve that end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-25", "file": "debates1975-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "fae2c7e1b930c3f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Careful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " Party manifesto we said that our first and most important task was to overcome inflation, and I believe that the steps now being taken will achieve that end. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"] Those are questions that should be addressed to other Ministers. I have little doubt, having been at least an observer of some of the discussions, that there is more prospect of our overcoming inflation with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-25", "file": "debates1975-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "fae2c7e1b930c3f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am being tempted on to Tom Tiddler's ground. The answer is a mixed one. Britain's view is taken very seriously by our colleagues in the Community and other nations in the world. At the same time, I cannot depart from what I said on the 8 o'clock news—I do not know whether anybody listened to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-25", "file": "debates1975-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "fae2c7e1b930c3f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.443.5", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Such questions are more appropriate for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy, but I must remind the hon. Gentleman that our policy on the national control of oil—a policy which was shared by the previous Government—has been accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.443.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-25", "file": "debates1975-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "fae2c7e1b930c3f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A hydra-headed monster?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "be a creature of the NEB. It will be responsible to me as Secretary of State. I am surprised that a body as august as the CBI did not realise that we never mention specifically the Secretary of State for Industry, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for Scotland or the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The \"Secretary of State\" is a hydra-headed individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-25", "file": "debates1975-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "fae2c7e1b930c3f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.496.5", "colnum": "496", "heading": "SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "preceding_text": "employ, their belief that they can run industry properly. What is one of the things they are to do in this wretched Bill? It is to promote industrial democracy in undertakings under the agency's control. In the 25 years since the war we have learnt nothing about how to run our nationalised industries. Is there any industrial democracy in the coal industry, the railway industry or the gas industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.496.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-25", "file": "debates1975-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "fae2c7e1b930c3f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "bringing jobs to Scotland have been in the public sector. One thinks, for example, of the thousands of jobs in the Civil Service and why it is that we are able to have those jobs in Scotland. It is simply because they are in the public sector. It is a great pity that the House of Lords took away that function from the Scottish Development Agency, and it will be our job to restore it in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-25", "file": "debates1975-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "fae2c7e1b930c3f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She has only just come in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the hon. Lady was here when I started speaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-25", "file": "debates1975-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "fae2c7e1b930c3f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.542.3", "colnum": "542", "heading": "SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Lady should be here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "I have paid compliments to many people who have played a part in bringing industry to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.542.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-25", "file": "debates1975-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "fae2c7e1b930c3f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I prefer to call it the Scottish Nationalist Party because having heard some of the rubbish emanating from those benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-25", "file": "debates1975-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "fae2c7e1b930c3f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "preceding_text": "I was interested in the dialogue which the hon. Member for Renfrewshire. West (Mr. Buchan) conducted with SNP Members. I thought he administered a fine rebuke to their absurd case. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Fife, Central (Mr. Hamilton) has left the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-25", "file": "debates1975-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "fae2c7e1b930c3f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "is reason that I am against the Scottish Development Agency. A less democratic concept we cannot have. Recently we have heard a great deal about sovereignty. This House consistently passes the power, the blame and the opportunity to the executive. What will happen in this case? Although it is the Secretary of State—and I have the greatest regard for the right hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-25a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.663.4", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perhaps for promotion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is not a member of the Tribune Group. Nor would I have regarded it as a matter for dismissal had he been so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.663.4", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ave regarded it as a matter for dismissal had he been so. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Perhaps for promotion?\"] The promotion that he deserves in all the circumstances is the result of the most successful stewardship of the export trade of this country for many years past under successive Governments. One day I should like to hear the Conservative Front Bench pay tribute to what has been achieved on exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "mbers opposite can actually read what the group says? To be serious, however, does he agree that one of the most important problems facing us at the moment is how to deal with our serious economic situation? Therefore, is it not clear that there must be selective import controls and a tightening up of control on the outflow of capital, that we must consider taking over our own overseas portfolios—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": ", does he agree that one of the most important problems facing us at the moment is how to deal with our serious economic situation? Therefore, is it not clear that there must be selective import controls and a tightening up of control on the outflow of capital, that we must consider taking over our own overseas portfolios—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that we must make further cuts in defence expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "y large at present, and I have already paid tribute to the work being done by hon. Members in Committees. I am sorry that the burden is so great. The right hon. Gentleman is correct to say that there should be certainty in these matters. But let me make it clear that the one thing that is certain is that the Government will proceed with the Bill dealing with the aircraft and shipbuilding industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Another referendum?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "May I join with the Liberal and Conservative Members in referring to the Boyle Report? If the Government are embarrassed in their negotiations with the TUC because Boyle has reported, surely in a free country the Government can publish the report and allow not only us but all our constituents to consider the recommendations and whether they should be implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.676.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.676.4", "colnum": "676", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And Members of Parliament?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "There is no legislative crisis. A great deal of hard work is being done by a lot of hon. Members to get through a programme which is absolutely relevant to the problems of the country. It is important to deal with cruelty, whether of animals, children, or anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.677.2", "colnum": "677", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The Government have made no attempt to suppress any diaries. Action has been taken by the Attorney-General in his official capacity as a Law Officer. The Government have not even considered these diaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.677.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.677.6", "colnum": "677", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": " am not, therefore, asking that the question of sponsorship should be referred to the Committee of Privileges. Nor am I asking that the question of the sponsorship of the NUM should be so referred, because Mr. Joe Gormley, President at the national level of the NUM, has not only not associated himself with the statements of Mr. Scargill but has dissociated himself and the national union from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.677.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (NO. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "ds introduced for farmers on matters which worried those engaged in agriculture. Although we are still highly critical of the detailed powers of direction given by the Secretary of State and of the lack of parliamentary control, I should have been inclined to recommend to my right hon. Friends to give the amended Bill a Second Reading had it not been for the speech today by the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (NO. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shameful—\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to comment in any detail on the rather sour and ill-tempered speech that we have just heard from the hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Edwards).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (NO. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "re established in Mid-Wales, I should not object. The Bill confers wide and extensive powers on the Secretary of State and the agency. They must be used with propriety and respect for individual rights. But, if the powers are great, the problems are greater. We shall debate the agency's activities in this House not only at Question Time but on the Adjournment. If the agency overreaches its powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.779.3", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (NO. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three weeks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "n the State sponsorship and public accountability of the means of production, distribution and exchange. It does not lie in the destitution of mass unemployment and the destitution of cutting back public expenditure to the bone—remedies which have been attempted before and resulted in the untold misery of the two decades between the wars, as well as the many years of bitter experience before that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.779.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.804.4", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.804.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.804.7", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I said I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.804.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-26", "file": "debates1975-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ac87e113f6dadca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "n a war-like situation some of the niceties of planning procedure could be abbreviated. After all, the Gardiner Report said this at the end of paragraph 113: If no Government sites are available, emergency legislation should be passed to give the Secretary of State general powers to acquire suitable sites at once without the delays consequent on normal compulsory purchase and planning procedure.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-26a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-27", "file": "debates1975-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "07c7232bf6b893c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-27a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Carry on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " important feature of the new procedure is the introduction of time limits. I am conscious that I am setting the scene for the Committee stage of the Bill, and to skimp these matters would be bad for the House, and I am sure hon. Members will not expect me to skimp them. When I was on the back benches I always thought that Cabinet Ministers spoke for too long, and that is in my mind at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-27a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-30", "file": "debates1975-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f771d3626c3f06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-30a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "I can certainly give that assurance. Perhaps I may add that my right hon. Friend apologises to the House for not being here today, but he is attending an important meeting of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD in Paris. That is the reason for his absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-30a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-30", "file": "debates1975-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f771d3626c3f06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-30a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "It has been a useful debate because we have been made aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-30a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-06-30", "file": "debates1975-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f771d3626c3f06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-30a.1133.2", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "CLYDESIDE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McElhone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McElhone", "preceding_text": "ions, when I have sought to describe the gross and terrible unemployment and bad housing which existed in that area during the period of the last Conservative Government. I wish on this occasion to describe to the Government the depressing picture of the city today. Many attempts have been made by hon. Members to get something done about the tragic situation in the city during the last four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-06-30a.1133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1178.8", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Servile.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that we are all concerned in Scotland at an unemployment figure of 180,000 and that we are nearly entirely dependent on American and English companies to supply the Scottish people with jobs? Is he also aware of the sheer apathy of the Scottish industrialists in believing and investing in industry in Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1178.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1184.4", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLESBROUGH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rently 400 companies in the Northern Region, including Middlesbrough, are doing, or intend to do, North Sea oil work. Twelve of them are currently engaged on large-value North Sea contracts Northern industry has between 15 per cent. and 20 per cent. of the British share of the North Sea hardware market. and the estimated value of work so far undertaken is £200 million, which represents 5,000 jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1186.2", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTE (OFFICIAL ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ters and will express views on this subject to him if he thinks them of interest. We did not express any view on the question of direct elections. As the right hon. Gentleman and the House know, the Parliamentary Labour Party has decided to nominate Members, with the agreement of the House, to go to the Assembly. No doubt those Members will have their eyes and ears open and consider these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1188.0", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC AND CBI (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that earlier this year, with a number of my right hon. Friends —it was the first time that this had ever been done by any Prime Minister—I had very long and serious discussions with the STUC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "DOMESTIC INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "not prepared to foot the bill for excessive settlements through sub- sidies or borrowing or by loading excess Costs on the public through increases in prices and charges. We shall take action through the Price Code to encourage compliance by private employers. I propose to employ the system of cash limits more generally as a means of controlling public expenditure in the short term. My Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "DOMESTIC INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "rrowing or by loading excess Costs on the public through increases in prices and charges. We shall take action through the Price Code to encourage compliance by private employers. I propose to employ the system of cash limits more generally as a means of controlling public expenditure in the short term. My Government—[ Interruption. ]—are already consulting the CBI and the TUC about the proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "DOMESTIC INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, 8·4 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I remind my hon. Friend that all of us on this side of the House fought the last election on a manifesto which pledged us to treat the reduction of inflation as our first and overriding priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "DOMESTIC INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "yed by wage inflation at its current levels. I hope that I can rely on my hon. Friend to join me and the TUC in seeking to fulfil the pledge that we made in our manifesto to bring the rate of inflation down. My hon. Friend raised the question of unemployment. Let me tell him that the Government—I have said this to him many times and I do not believe that he really disagrees with me—are paralysed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "DOMESTIC INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " me and the TUC in seeking to fulfil the pledge that we made in our manifesto to bring the rate of inflation down. My hon. Friend raised the question of unemployment. Let me tell him that the Government—I have said this to him many times and I do not believe that he really disagrees with me—are paralysed —[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]—and prevented from taking action to bring unemployment down so long as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "DOMESTIC INFLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Does the Chancellor realise that after 16 wasted months we are back in almost precisely the same position as we were during February 1974?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton", "preceding_text": "deposited with that bank are to be channelled into some enterprise which appeals to the National Enterprise Board. This sort of development has occurred in other countries. Some months ago the previous Secretary of State for Industry implied that he would like to see funds that were deposited with banks and insurance companies directed under his aegis or the aegis of the NEB into its pet projects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " or of the west country to be represented on a territorial basis. If the Labour Party is becoming converted to the idea of consulting the people, I welcome that. The Liberal Party, which, if I am not being indelicate, polled nearly six times the number of votes polled by the Scottish National Party, is a United Kingdom party, yet it is proposed that the Liberal seats should be cut from two to one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1386.0", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You gave way to him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. He never loses the common touch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "s a matter of courtesy, have asked which of our two delegates we wished to retain. Therefore, I think that this matter has been handled appallingly. The Government have decided simply on numbers. They have been close. They have not told anyone what they have decided. They have simply used the Order Paper in another place to announce which delegate they will drop. I say to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1393.2", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Crawlers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I have not sought to criticise the individual members of the delegation. That is not for me to do. I have said how extraordinary it was that there was a very long queue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1398.2", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has the European Parliament done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "ected? The Government's original commitment was that they were entitled to have a majority of 19 out of 36. But the European Parliament is not a place for governments; it is a place for representatives of the people of Europe. The Governments of the Community have their places and vetoes in the Council of Ministers. That is where the national interest is safeguarded—not in the European Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-01", "file": "debates1975-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "8dc69eaf53484756", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1400.5", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a verb.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "It is a phrase which people choose for themselves. They speak for themselves and I am not going to adjudicate on adjectives.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-01a.1400.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-07-02", "file": "debates1975-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "474611218c75914c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-02a.1467.3", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Private landlords operate under the Rent Acts of 1965, 1968 and 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-02a.1467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-02", "file": "debates1975-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "474611218c75914c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-02a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I apologise if that is what the hon. Gentleman said rather than what I thought I heard him say. It is not a great point. It may have been a slip of his tongue rather than a slip of my ear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-02a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-02", "file": "debates1975-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "474611218c75914c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-02a.1560.0", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Penhaligon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "re most people are not members is the so-called white-collar section. For all that, the workers should have an avenue to obtain the information and to be able to question the management on it. There are some areas in the country where there are virtually no trade unions. Half my constituency falls into that category. Outside the three big companies, active trade union membership is not to be seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-02a.1560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-02", "file": "debates1975-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "474611218c75914c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-02a.1613.2", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "When I was talking earlier the hon. Member described me as \"the blacklegs' QC\". That proves beyond doubt that he thought I was arguing the case of those people. The argument is clear. We are in favour of disclosure. None of the political parties, to my knowledge, is against it. All will act in favour of it—the Liberal Party, the National parties, and preeminently the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-02a.1613.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-03", "file": "debates1975-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "a3a7ab031f592f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1656.5", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "Naturally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1656.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-03", "file": "debates1975-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "a3a7ab031f592f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1672.3", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend on the first part of the question. All I can say is that nothing that happens in the next week will change the Government's attitude to the report. There will be no question of any guillotine falling, or anything like that, between now and publication. As to the second part of the question, while I am not in a position to announce the details of the Boyle Committee's recommendations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-03", "file": "debates1975-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "a3a7ab031f592f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1672.3", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " The Government accept this, but I think the House itself may wish to consider it, and I propose to initiate discussions through the usual channels and in every way to get back-bench opinion on the question whether the time has not now come for Members' pay to be linked directly and automatically with other relevant salaries. What they are is a matter for discussion. I am sure that the House will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-03", "file": "debates1975-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "a3a7ab031f592f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1674.0", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "that it was taken in the way it has been. With regard to the NEDC, the right hon. Gentleman is quite right in indicating that Sir Ronald McIntosh said that it would be a good thing to extend the membership of the NEDC to include consumer interests. The right hon. Gentleman may not have been aware that Mr. Michael Young, from the Consumers' Association, has been a member of the NEDC for two months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-03", "file": "debates1975-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "a3a7ab031f592f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1st August.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I agree with the right hon. Gentleman. I have discussed this matter with him. I pay tribute to the work that is done by the Procedure Committee. However, there are many younger Members in the House who have children, and I am anxious that we should not go too far into August before we begin the Summer Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-03", "file": "debates1975-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "a3a7ab031f592f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1686.0", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": " country, and especially in agricultural circles. Almost all the time for general debate is now in the hands of the Opposition. That has been the situation for some weeks past. We look to the Opposition to provide time for a debate on agriculture, but so far they have not done so. I very much regret that I can find no time before the recess, but if hon. Members are willing to sit well into August—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-03", "file": "debates1975-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "a3a7ab031f592f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1688.0", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the other place?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "On the question of attacks, if we were to refute all the attacks made on us we should have no time to do anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1688.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-07-03", "file": "debates1975-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "a3a7ab031f592f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1782.2", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Mr. Heseltine rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-03", "file": "debates1975-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "a3a7ab031f592f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1782.3", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "l—the disclosure of information. Let us be quite clear where we all stand. This is not, in the main, an issue. There is no political party that is not in favour of disclosure. I do not believe that there is any political party that would not be prepared to legislate for disclosure or to have disclosure of information backed by legal enforcement. Certainly the Conservative Party is committed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-03", "file": "debates1975-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "a3a7ab031f592f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1788.1", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "abour Party. That is because the existing private enterprise system has let the British people down over the years. The hon. Gentleman referred to investment as though there had been a fall in investment only in the past 16 months. The hon. Gentleman knows that in the private enterprise system there has been a fall in investment of a greater scale than in any great industrial country in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-03", "file": "debates1975-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "a3a7ab031f592f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1789.1", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "dard of living, we need to extend public ownership on a much greater scale than is happening at present. Private enterprise is constantly attacking the Labour Party for its policy of extending public ownership. It does so because its power and privileges are tied up with the private enterprise system. My right hon. and hon. Friends are not pushing forward an octopus and taking over every industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-03a.1789.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-04", "file": "debates1975-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1651595c7f7e17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-04a.1919.1", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Chief Secretary will take that on board. Then we come to item 1,001.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-04a.1919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-04", "file": "debates1975-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1651595c7f7e17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-04a.1926.1", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Devious\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "e that, I have always opposed. I agree with the comment of the hon. Member for Inverness that his starting point is that it is a nasty word anyway. I do not know whether the word \"additionality\" is in the dictionary, but one should always be suspicious of curious words and phrases like this and realise that nasty and complicated words usually disguise nasty and complicated thoughts and programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-04a.1926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-07", "file": "debates1975-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "0b675b0c75491b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.31.2", "colnum": "31", "heading": "STANDING COMMITTEES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "This is not a matter over which I have any power at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.31.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-07", "file": "debates1975-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "0b675b0c75491b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "hat there may well be upwards of £2,000 million of public money involved, and this money will be applied not to reducing the huge borrowing requirement which is exercising the mind of at least part of the Government today but to buy out oil companies which will undoubtedly go and invest that money elsewhere in the world. I believe that the Government's policy in this Bill is wholly irreconcilable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-07", "file": "debates1975-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "0b675b0c75491b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what he was saying.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "by which the Committee structure can be improved? It is not enough to say, as he does, that the system should be changed and that these abstract notions should be ventilated and looked at. Does he not accept that when controversial measures are introduced the best way to get them through and scrutinised is to introduce a timetable motion at the beginning? Let us have three or four months allotted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-07", "file": "debates1975-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "0b675b0c75491b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is in a flippant mood. We are moving towards the need for a daily review with the Brazilian type inflation which her Government have introduced. In the Weimar Republic the index of the value of money had to be changed every hour just before the final collapse.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-07", "file": "debates1975-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "0b675b0c75491b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "erence to Inland Revenue data, that an extremely important new departure in Inland Revenue practice was contemplated in the Bill. I believe that the matter is of relatively limited importance as regards the Bill, but I have sought to move an amendment to widen it, nevertheless within the Bill because it is important that we examine the whole rôle of the Inland Revenue in cases of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-07", "file": "debates1975-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "0b675b0c75491b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.274.5", "colnum": "274", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "this matter has been handled. My hon. Friend the Member for Inverness (Mr. Johnston) has today already made our protest in the European Parliament. He has indicated that the basis of the United Kingdom delegation has upset the balance that has been traditionally accepted by the Community and that he stood in the European Parliament today representing 5⅓ million people, as the sole delegate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.274.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-07", "file": "debates1975-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "0b675b0c75491b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.274.5", "colnum": "274", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Liberal Party with six Members of Parliament and 2 million votes, when all the minority could hope for were the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table, has changed. That is why I protest at the present selection of the 36 delegates to the European Parliament. I have not underestimated the change. It is the right hon. Gentleman and his croney on the Opposition Front Bench who have not changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.274.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-07", "file": "debates1975-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "0b675b0c75491b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.283.5", "colnum": "283", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "preceding_text": "vely and authentically Scottish. The right hon. Member for Devon, North suggested that the Scottish National Party might be the best Europeans we have. The Scottish people have always had very much closer connections with the European countries that we have had with some of our neighbours in these islands. In a sense it will be a case of our returning home, to get back to our neighbours in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-07a.283.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-09", "file": "debates1975-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b6166a263ae78ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-09a.505.2", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is always very quick to leap to the defence of people who expect educational privilege at public expense.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-09a.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-09", "file": "debates1975-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b6166a263ae78ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-09a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Strange as it may seem, I am always willing to give further thought to anything that the hon. Member for Banff (Mr. Watt) says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-09a.521.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-10", "file": "debates1975-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7a11232cb2c4367", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-10a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend also will be awaiting the publication of the White Paper with anxiety. With his knowledge of the manifesto—and I think my knowledge is equal to his—he will remember that the important and key section of the manifesto said that the Government's highest priority would be the attack on inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-10a.741.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-14", "file": "debates1975-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "c243ba67b3c76776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-14a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Phipps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Phipps", "preceding_text": "an intellectual justification—I believe that was his phrase—for the capital transfer tax as it applies to agriculture. In the next five or six minutes, I shall try to give such a justification, because I believe that there is one and that it is an extremely important justification for the future of agriculture. Having said that, I have my own reservations and doubts about the capital transfer tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-14a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-14", "file": "debates1975-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "c243ba67b3c76776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-14a.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ade clear that support buying as a fallback device would not be discarded. We shall be operating the EEC cereals régime, which includes support buying. Support buying is not unfamiliar to us in other spheres. The hon. Member for Westmorland asked for an assurance that the increased output of milk and sugar would be profitable. We hope that this will be so. If it is not, we shall not get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-14a.1185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-14", "file": "debates1975-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "c243ba67b3c76776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-14a.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ble and where it is likely to be needed. We must get that done in a timely way. That is what we are doing. I have been asked about imports. The cost of imports is very considerable. I was grateful to those hon. Members on both sides of the House who referred at length to the question of grass conservation. We are examining this subject at present. Our research people are on to it. As regards eggs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-14a.1185.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-15", "file": "debates1975-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "b094f0340df95bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-15a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "EUROPEAN SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The Russians have included a specific parameter of 250 kilometres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-15a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-15", "file": "debates1975-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "b094f0340df95bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-15a.1326.0", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "EUROPEAN SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "far been deprived of the right to move across frontiers. I hope that all hon. Members will regard this as desirable. On the other hand, let us not be completely mealy-mouthed about this issue The record of the West is not spotless. I believe I am correct in saying that the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Mr. Maudling) was at the Home Office when Rudi Dutschke was excluded from this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-15a.1326.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-17", "file": "debates1975-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da125044c328133a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1724.2", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe) and the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition know what the Bill contains", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-17", "file": "debates1975-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da125044c328133a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1748.3", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "out of order, when previously they had argued that it was impractical in the immediate situation, and wrong in principle to have a higher VAT rate in addition to the standard rate. Whether they are Conservative or Liberal, they should make up their minds precisely which argument they wish to use. The object of my brief intervention in the speech of the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-17", "file": "debates1975-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da125044c328133a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1786.0", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "e home, yet the Treasury come before us with this measure and excuse it because it is said that it would create anomalies if there were to be a 25 per cent. rate on a domestic appliance and a basic 8 per cent. rate on the repair of that appliance. 6.30 p.m. The Financial Secretary said that the kind of servicing that we used to know has disappeared to vanishing point. What exactly does that mean?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-17", "file": "debates1975-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da125044c328133a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "ses for which we stand and for which we shall continue to fight. One problem in discussing Finance Bills is that we deal with concessions, but we never discuss ways in which money could most usefully be spent. We look at one side of the accounts and rarely at the other side. We have to ask whether these are the right ways in which to spend money. We are talking about a very substantial sum indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-17", "file": "debates1975-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da125044c328133a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "side. We have to ask whether these are the right ways in which to spend money. We are talking about a very substantial sum indeed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"] The amendment would cost up to £90 million in the first full year; the average length of hiring agreements is between four and five years. It means that the total cost over that period would work out at between £200 million and £250 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-17", "file": "debates1975-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da125044c328133a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1825.1", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "preceding_text": "I can only hope that the result of the next Division will be as propitious as the result in the last one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-17", "file": "debates1975-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "da125044c328133a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1906.2", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Mellish)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Mellish)", "preceding_text": "votes that were or were not cast. I want to make it perfectly clear to the whole House—and the only way in which I can do it is on a point of order—that I reserve my position and that of the Government and my party as to what action we shall take following the most exhaustive inquiries into the pairing. I also want to hear from the Opposition Front Bench with regard to the nodding that took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-17a.1906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-07-18", "file": "debates1975-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e095e2604c887dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-18a.1952.3", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICYHOLDERS PROTECTION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Court Line?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": ". I have taken the view—I announced this on 29th October, in my original statement—that the measure that we were proposing would, if the House accepted it, be operative from the date of that announcement The hon. Member knows as well as any one that the problem of retrospection, however our sympathies may be moved, creates such enormous difficulties and precedents, that it would be very dangerous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-07-18a.1952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.6.2", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will know that the possible combination of showrooms is under discussion. I have written to the consultative committees about it. I hope my hon. Friend will also recognise that some of the most wasteful appliances that are in use are old appliances, and if they were replaced by new ones energy would be conserved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.6.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "New Clause A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "With respect, the hon. Member for Derbyshire, North-East (Mr. Swain) has entirely overlooked the wording of the new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "New Clause A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "cillors were surcharged after six weeks and the surcharge worked out at £6,985 each—jointly or severally. As a consequence of this amendment, that six weeks' surcharge, which is now the subject of perhaps a bankruptcy order, will carry on automatically until it becomes £1,000 per member, again jointly or severally, under the amendment. There was a deuce of a lot of money outstanding at Clay Cross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "New Clause A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": " on automatically until it becomes £1,000 per member, again jointly or severally, under the amendment. There was a deuce of a lot of money outstanding at Clay Cross. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman is trying to marry two male prostitutes, and they will not have it. He is trying to convince me and my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) that this is quite a reasonable thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "New Clause A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": " trying to marry two male prostitutes, and they will not have it. He is trying to convince me and my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) that this is quite a reasonable thing to do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I apologise to the male prostitutes. Under this amendment even the Clay Cross councillors would be worse off financially because of the continuation of the amount up to £1,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.120.5", "colnum": "120", "heading": "New Clause A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that in his present position he should be a little more scrupulous about observing the laws in this place introduced and passed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.120.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "New Clause A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Most certainly I will give the hon. Member for Derbyshire, North-East the protection of the Chair when it is necessary. Can we proceed with the debate in an even temper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "New Clause A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "that ordinary men and women were prepared to be sent away from their families to Australia for refusing to obey the law. If in Tolpuddle there had not been men prepared to refuse to accept the law which made trade unions virtually illegal, there would be no trade union movement today. The same kind of stand was made by the women of the suffragette movement and by people serving other great causes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": " The Minister can even say it sitting down; we will not complain. Supposing North-East Derbyshire Council decided to raise the sum by levying a rate and a ratepayer objected on principle to having to pay any part of that loss, however small. Is that person to be taken to court and subjected to the full rigours of the law or is he also to be excused? Can we have a \"Yes\" or a \"No\" from the Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "hat the House of Commons is now being asked to do. One is tempted to say that it is farcical—we know that it has no practical effect—but it is worse than farcical. It is contemptible. We know that the Secretary of State wished to drop the clause but, on his own admission now, the matter was put before the Parliamentary Labour Party to decide. What an astonishing insult to our Parliamentary system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "I have known my right hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Mr. Strauss) since 1945. Sometimes I have respected his views, and on other occasions I have treated his views with less respect. This is one occasion on which I take the latter view. This matter requires some repetition of history affecting the case. I shall not indulge in tedious repetition because I am not a lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "he other place—namely Lord Home of the Hirsel—at his first conference after being elected said \"Every word we say and every action we take from now on must be in the interests of winning the next General Election\". Was that partisan politics? Was that a speech in the interests of politics? Was it a speech in the interests of democracy? If hon. Members want any more history, we can give it to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "eech in the interests of democracy? If hon. Members want any more history, we can give it to them. [ Interruption. ] Unlike the hon. Gentleman, I have some political hairs on my chest and they are not getting grey. At no time since 5th October of that year have the Clay Cross councillors made any representation to me, as their Member of Parliament, and I am in Clay Cross every week without a miss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "ery week without a miss. [ Interruption. ] I take my wife with me, not somebody else's wife. The News of the World is full of Tories. At no time have the Clay Cross councillors made any approaches to me or to my right hon. Friend for help or assistance in this matter. The resolution of the conference was carried by a large majority. That was the will of the Labour Party speaking at its conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It must be right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": " difficult to understand how the Secretary of State could, even this evening, pretend by implication that there were not political pressures when only four days ago, at a meeting of the Labour Party, in response to the pressures placed upon him, he is reported to have explained why it was necessary to oppose the stand which we on the Conservative side are taking. According to the Daily Telegraph —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "l consideration in this matter only on the Government benches and that the Opposition were not taking politics into account. We have our political considerations. The Opposition have purer political considerations. It infuriates me that Opposition Members, who raised no objection when illegal actions were committed and when the Minister, now the Chairman of the Conservative Party, Lord Carrington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "re behind you\". When it becomes a question of the rule of law, we have to consider seriously whether the local population are right in the demands they are making upon their elected representatives. I understand that some of my right hon. and hon. Friends will abstain or, perhaps, vote in the Opposition Lobby tonight against the party decision of a few days ago. It is for them to make their choice", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-04", "file": "debates1975-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7403e14d12f3b28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "fact a probability—that the case can be opened for the first 11 in order to follow up with an appeal. Let no one imagine that it is purely academic. We have constantly been told during this debate that the Government intend to rescue their friends. I remind the House that on a previous occasion when we were dealing with the parallel Bill relating to Scotland, we made clear not only by our actions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-04a.173.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.225.6", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman receives such an invitation, will he take advantage of the opportunity to explain to the TUC how he can reconcile his own commitment to more open government and to proper accountability by the British Government to the British people, as he expressed to the TUC last year, with his suppression of the Crossman diaries, with his lack of inclination to disclose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.225.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Court Line.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "You are entirely correct, Mr. Speaker. How can the Prime Minister reconcile those matters with his refusal to give the Ombudsman the necessary papers so that he can pursue the Clay Cross affair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This was very fully debated in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tion. She has been told by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and myself in the economic debate that we are carrying through, as is normal at this time of the year, a searching probe into public expenditure which will be published at the proper time in relation to the Public Expenditure White Paper. While the right hon. Lady is talking about this, she still has not, after all these months, indicated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "EUROPEAN SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend and I attended in Stockholm a meeting convened by the Swedish Prime Minister of Socialist Heads of Government and Party Leaders, at which Dr. Mario Soares, the Leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party, was also present. This gave us an opportunity to express once again to Dr. Soares the importance we attach to a speedy return to what is known as pluralistic democracy in Portugal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "EUROPEAN SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ght to return to Germany will be allowed to do so. That is not a bad first dividend. We want to see this followed up. The right hon. Lady mentioned the Brezhnev Doctrine. She will know that I have said publicly here—and this has been the view of many keen and suspicious Western observers in the past—that what happened in Czechoslovakia could not have happened had the Helsinki agreement come first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "EUROPEAN SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "early all of it was confirmed by Mario Soares in Stockholm last week, when he set out, with brutal frankness over a period of 90 minutes, the whole situation that democracy faces in Portugal. As I have said, we have expressed our deep concern—I used stronger words to the Portuguese President, as did my right hon. Friend—about this, and so did other Western leaders. I hope that this has registered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "EUROPEAN SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "that it is prepared to give maximum aid and economic co-operation only on the basis of a pluralistic democracy and not, as it was urged, in any circumstances. I think this is right. With regard to the Soviet Union, this point was made very clearly by some of my Western colleagues, and finally, on the last night, by myself. I am sure that Mr. Brezhnev will now consider very seriously what was said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "EUROPEAN SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ion to the right hon. Gentleman. I think it is a fair one. There is some evidence, and it has been fairly widely publicised—indeed, some was given to me by the hon. Member for Stretford when we met—of financial assistance from East European countries to party machines, or a party machine, in Portugal. That is a different thing from Government help and support. I think it was important to register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.240.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where are the troops?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "muneration. ( b ) The appropriate Wages Council shall ensure that the specified minimum rate of remuneration is reached within the allotted time period and that such rate is maintained and wherever ACAS is of the opinion that this will not be achieved, and so advises the Secretary of State he shall have power to instruct the specified Wages Council to implement the conditions of 2(A)( a ) above. '", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " simply that I was given a change in duties after the Committee was formed. For the hon. Gentleman's information, I attempted to make a change in my party's representation on the Committee. However, I was advised by the Committee of Selection that once a Bill had started it was not possible to change a Member on the Committee. Therefore, since I have become Chief Whip of the party in the meantime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It hurts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "he meantime—[ Interruption. ] I find the amusement of the Government Whips interesting, because they never fail to pay daily visits to my office to find out how Liberal Members will act in the Lobby in the evening. Their derisory laughter will be borne in mind on the next occasion they pay a visit. I consider the charge of the hon. Member for Newton to be an absolute disgrace, and unworthy of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "mbarrassment caused to Labour Members when figures of this kind are read out, because they are wage settlements made during the lifetime of their Government. I mentioned settlements of £22 a week. The Government must be proud of their record. I want a national minimum wage laid down by statute—a policy for which I have argued in this House during the three years I have been a Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-05", "file": "debates1975-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe56ed1cdec127e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "minster (Mr. Bulmer). We are trying not only to make progress, despite the Minister's efforts to raise the temperature, but also to approach this matter in a more conciliatory manner, particularly on the narrower question of agriculture. Because I hope that in another place a view will be taken about agriculture remaining separate, will not advise my hon. Friends to press this matter to a Division", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-05a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-06", "file": "debates1975-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8dceb961c86974ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.485.2", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I must leave Mr. Brezhnev to interpret his declaration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-06", "file": "debates1975-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8dceb961c86974ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to disclose the secrets of the Cabinet, which are kept tightly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-06", "file": "debates1975-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8dceb961c86974ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "COURT LINE LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "preceding_text": "\" and \"buts\" and qualifications, the Ombudsman came to the conclusion that: insufficient regard was paid in the statement to the principle that undue confidence should not be created or maintained. I do not wish to comment on whether that conclusion is justified, because my right hon. Friends are perfectly capable of justifying themselves and it would be improper for me to attempt to justify them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-06", "file": "debates1975-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8dceb961c86974ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "COURT LINE LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "y that for this reason. Any reading of the report of his own inspectors and of the report of the Ombudsman indicates a pattern of events over a period of some nine to 12 months where officials of his Department and indeed of the Department of Industry were giving advance warnings of the company's difficulties. Again, I shall not weary the House by documenting this. I hope that it will be accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-06", "file": "debates1975-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8dceb961c86974ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.612.2", "colnum": "612", "heading": "TEXTILE CLOTHING AND FOOTWEAR INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Were you a Labour mayor?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made his point well. In a Government statement on 23rd July reference was made to dumping. Those of us who have been concerned with the problem of textiles over many years did not know whether to laugh or cry. In 1966 I led a deputation of Lancashire mayors to the President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-06", "file": "debates1975-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8dceb961c86974ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.612.2", "colnum": "612", "heading": "TEXTILE CLOTHING AND FOOTWEAR INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You are the Whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "e textile industry on the question of dumping instead of on the side of the Civil Service. Can we not get our embassies abroad to play a part in helping us to prove dumping? We always feel that it is impossible to meet the criteria required to prove dumping. I ask the Government to restrict imports. I am prepared to stand by that statement, whatever some of my Liberal colleagues may feel about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-06", "file": "debates1975-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8dceb961c86974ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "TEXTILE, CLOTHING AND FOOTWEAR INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Fletcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ce rescued my constituency from total collapse. He will recall the action that he took. There were once 16 coal mines in my constituency and all have now been closed. New industries, many of them related to hosiery and knitwear, were introduced into the area thanks to the efforts of my right hon. Friend in a more junior capacity. It is a great mistake to judge my right hon. Friend on his speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-06", "file": "debates1975-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8dceb961c86974ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "HOUSING (LIVERPOOL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Garston (Mr. Loyden) and the Minister for allowing me to intervene briefly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-06a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-08-07", "file": "debates1975-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a352e336f861f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-07a.703.8", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "Is it not also inequitable that the Prime Minister can enjoy his round of golf with his golf clubs taxed at 8 per cent. VAT—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-08-07a.703.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-13", "file": "debates1975-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "3e0ce4e356ba1116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-13a.864.5", "colnum": "864", "heading": "RT. HON. MEMBER FOR WALSALL, NORTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Right honourable Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I apologise for not having given you prior notice. My point of order concerns developments over recent hours relating to the Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Stonehouse).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-13a.864.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-13", "file": "debates1975-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "3e0ce4e356ba1116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-13a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "preceding_text": "ectly acceptable for anything but charities. However, the Minister should appreciate that charities and Churches follow long-term policies. After all, many of them have been in existence for hundreds of years, and some of them have existed for thousands of years. Planning of development cannot take place in 10 years. It is fair enough if the Opposition want to abolish wealth in the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-13a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-13", "file": "debates1975-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "3e0ce4e356ba1116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-13a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Hornsey (Mr. Rossi) said that on Second Reading I was urbane. Very well—from urbanity to rurality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-13a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-13", "file": "debates1975-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "3e0ce4e356ba1116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-13a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "when the compulsory purchase order arrives, \"We are terribly sorry, but you cannot have a public inquiry into this. You cannot complain to that extent, because you should have sent somebody along to represent your interests on the structure plan.\" No wonder the Council on Tribunals has reservations, and grave reservations, I should imagine. What the right hon. Gentleman has put to us is no answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-13a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-13", "file": "debates1975-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "3e0ce4e356ba1116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-13a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "I was not criticising but merely introducing the amendment because it should give the right hon. Gentleman an opportunity to explain the situation. For him to say that he has followed the 1946 precedent does not carry the matter much further. Therefore, I ask the right hon. Gentleman to explain the 1946 precedent, if he wishes to explain it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-13a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that in constituencies like Cambridge potential student landlords and landladies are being frightened off both by capital transfer tax and the Rent Act 1974?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1129.3", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am very happy to feel that in the bracing air of Blackpool, over two weeks, not only have some hon. Friends of mine, who voted against the procedures, now accepted the Government's policy, but that Her Majesty's Opposition, who abstained on the vote and on the legislation, have now, I understand, at least from the speech of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition at Blackpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1131.5", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, like a number of others—not only in his own party—is becoming utterly pathetic in trying to pretend that there are disagreements where there are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1132.2", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Before I answer the Question, I hope that the right hon. Lady, will allow me for one moment to express our congratulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That rendering of what I said was about as perverse as the right hon. Lady's reference at Blackpool to what I had said about Labour being the natural party of government, when she attributed all kinds of arguments which had never been considered by any of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1155.2", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "n the first place. I should like to know from the Minister what he thinks it means. The hon. Gentleman knows that it means nothing. He did not understand it; he just read out a document from some anonymous source, about a subject he does not understand on a policy he does not represent from a Government who do not represent anybody anyway in a Bill which is idiotic, absurd, obscene, mad and wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1184.3", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "The way the matter was put across and the way Conservative Members are talking today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1184.5", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "isions should not be extended to other categories, for example, the absentee landlord, who is not affected by blight to the same extent as is a person who has to dispose of his home. If the Opposition believe that the blight provisions ought to have been extended to cover such cases, I can only ask the right hon. Member for Crosby why he did not do it three years ago, in the Land Compensation Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We were here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": ". I say clearly now that at 2.30 this morning there occurred what I thought was an absolutely disgraceful episode. I hope that hon. Gentlemen opposite will read it in Hansard. When we debated the date for the LAMS, the Minister replied with what was frankly a threat of blackmail to the local authorities. It was abso- lutely outrageous I ask hon. Gentlemen to read Hansard to find out what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "ble Friend, Lord Hughes, the then Minister of State, thanking the Government for the concessions that had been granted and saying that the Government had acted in the best interests of the Churches? The hon. Gentleman continually presents a distorted picture which does not represent the views of the Churches in Scotland. They are delighted with what the Government have done. While I am on my feet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1292.4", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ople have the land? Let us be clear about this matter. This Bill does not transfer any land to any people. It is not meant or designed to do so. It does not remove the profits on any land transaction to any people. It merely removes a jealousy that Mr. Slag Heap makes a profit from an armchair. Provided that Mr. Slag Heap is not Lady anybody else, they resent it. Let us be clear about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1292.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ke, how they will be applied in North Wales, South Wales, my constituency or theirs, by this planning officer or that. I was called here to represent not a constituency, not a party or a country, but each human being—Mrs. MacGregor, Mr. Snodgrass, Mrs. Smith. We are interested in Mrs. MacGregor's garden. It may be said that the Bill is not intended to apply to Mrs. MacGregor's garden, but it does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "aps all too well. In the early stages, the public—and I suspect to some extent the media—were taken in as they had not read the Bill, or, understandably, had not understood the Bill as presented and did not recognise the implications. But there were other obstacles the right hon. Gentleman had to face. There was his own side of the House. How was he going to sell this fundamental bit of Socialism?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": "s not an insidious attack but is a frontal attack on the whole concept of property ownership. Therefore, I oppose the Bill root and branch. I read with interest the proceedings before the Standing Committee and I have also listened to the debates on the Bill in the last two days. I have been unable to find any feature in the Bill or in the proceedings so far which would encourage me to support it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "If there is time, I will deal with that suggestion at the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were silent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "Bill relating to land is inevitably complex and complicated and the greater the degree of change affecting land, the longer and more complicated the Bill is bound to be. I want to pay tribute to all those who have assisted the Government with this Bill, whether within the Government service or outside. I pay a particular tribute to my hon. Friends who sat day and night through the Committee stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "the individual, without any real right of appeal or protest, that upon which his independence and ultimately his freedom depends. It would give the State a complete monopoly in the basic wealth of this land, to be administered by faceless bureaucrats, and give the most terrifying powers to politicians. It is a denial of basic human rights. \"—[ Official Report , 29th April, 1975; Vol. 891, c. 246.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": " Bill\", this denial of basic human rights, an official Opposition amendment—not a maverick—could not attract more than 15 of them. Some of their supporters at the conference last week must have been misled by those on the platform, who said, \"The Government are in the majority and we cannot always win. \"They must be thinking some peculiar thoughts about the standard of opposition here. I remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": " permission were heavily penalised by the price of land that they needed for their own requirements, by their own decisions. We tried to put that right in 1967 by the Land Commission Bill, which, as the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight (Mr. Ross) said, would have worked, given a chance. But it was strangled in its infancy by an impatient Conservative Government as one of their first acts in 1970—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-14", "file": "debates1975-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d93e1e9e6dfb8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Conway (Mr. Roberts) mentioned Wales. Wales has been given different treatment because it is different. The problems in Wales are different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-14a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-15", "file": "debates1975-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae93eb106d2b991", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I was asked by people—including the Opposition and the NFU—to go for 10 per cent. I had discussions with my colleagues before I went to Europe and I was able to go to 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-15", "file": "debates1975-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae93eb106d2b991", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1423.6", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "SCHEDULE 4A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ters, I hope that we can agree that these Lords amendments must be rejected on these grounds. If they were to be accepted we should have written into the legislation something which their Lordships did not intend and which even Lord Goodman did not intend. As I have indicated. Lord Goodman is a remarkable man. He engages in many sophisticated negotiations, but in some matters he is a babe in arms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1423.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-15", "file": "debates1975-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae93eb106d2b991", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1423.6", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "SCHEDULE 4A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "s it. Secondly, we believe that to write into the charter the words the right of editors to commission and publish any article would carry the matter very wide. I am all in favour of trying to protect the legitimate rights of editors, but I do not think that the House of Commons should seek to lay down what may be regarded as a law about the right of editors to commission and publish any article\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1423.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-15", "file": "debates1975-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae93eb106d2b991", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1423.6", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "SCHEDULE 4A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "charter the words the right of editors to commission and publish any article would carry the matter very wide. I am all in favour of trying to protect the legitimate rights of editors, but I do not think that the House of Commons should seek to lay down what may be regarded as a law about the right of editors to commission and publish any article\". [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Let us think about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1423.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-10-15", "file": "debates1975-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae93eb106d2b991", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1441.0", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "SCHEDULE 4A", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Women's institutes!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "n over in this way, why could not something similar happen within chapels of the NUJ? If we consider what is on record from the International Socialist , its view would probably be that the NUJ was rather an easier apple to pluck off the tree than many of the constituency associations of the Labour Party. If it can happen to those associations, what magic has the NUJ to prevent it happening to it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-15", "file": "debates1975-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae93eb106d2b991", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1441.3", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "SCHEDULE 4A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "I think I heard an intervention about women's institutes. I do not know how the hon. Member's constituency association works, but if in his area it would be in the interests of the extreme left, the broad left, or the International Socialists to attempt to take over the women's institutes, which I doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-15", "file": "debates1975-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae93eb106d2b991", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1441.3", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "SCHEDULE 4A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "ncial newspaper industry we saw action taken against small outside contributors. There were indications at earlier meetings—at the ADM in 1974, if I remember rightly—and there had been articles in the Journalist to the effect that some members of the NUJ would like to achieve a situation where there would be a very severe limit upon the number of contributions which could come from outside people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-15", "file": "debates1975-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae93eb106d2b991", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1498.3", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "SCHEDULE 4A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " said. This debate is a refutation of the view which my hon. Friend was attributing to me—that in some way or other I am not in favour of the House of Commons pronouncing on these matters. The House of Commons has done very well today. That is one reason why I believe in the House of Commons. Debates of this character, when we are not subject to a Government who have closed their minds in advance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-15", "file": "debates1975-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae93eb106d2b991", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1510.10", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "SCHEDULE 4A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "Scottish Nationals and their ritualistic performances must not be allowed to draw attention away from what the House has done. We shall, therefore, vote against this whole package of amendments because we do not think that they provide an effective defence for the freedom of the Press. I ask my hon. Friends now to register that view, and by so doing I hope that another place will take the message—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-15a.1510.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-16", "file": "debates1975-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "1be387798483c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-16a.1585.3", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the concern about the textile industry, and a statement has been made in the House. I shall be in Lancashire tomorrow, when I have a full programme of engagements meeting representatives of the textile unions. I have this afternoon given a Written Answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Rossendale (Mr. Noble)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-16a.1585.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-16", "file": "debates1975-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "1be387798483c6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-16a.1666.1", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICE CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "for at least six quarters, I think I am right in saying. All this means that there are still costs in the pipeline, including some past pay settlements as well, which are not yet fully reflected in prices. So we shall see, or are seeing, a marked and substantial improvement at present. It would be optimistic to suppose that there will not be a further hump to be got through, most of it the result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-16a.1666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-17", "file": "debates1975-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "a917320afa17f9bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-17a.1720.2", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "n to which I attach importance is that there should not be undue reliance on end price support alone. This can cause problems and conflicts. I have repeatedly made clear that we see a rôle for direct aids, including, where appropriate, those granted nationally. The CAP needs to be made increasingly flexible, so that it can deal more effectively with differing national and regional problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-17a.1720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-17", "file": "debates1975-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "a917320afa17f9bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-17a.1733.1", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "preceding_text": "must take note of this—the decline in production in this country. I shall return to that point later. This morning I looked at some recently arrived figures referring to Wales. They show that the number of milk producers in Wales declined by 7.5 per cent. compared with the previous year. We, the most efficient producers, are losing our share of our market to less efficient continental competitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-17a.1733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-17", "file": "debates1975-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "a917320afa17f9bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-17a.1742.0", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"1947.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "e want to see more long-term policies, so that assurances can be given to farmers which will enable them to maintain and even increase supplies of food over the years ahead. This was, to me, the major omission from his speech. I was surprised that he did not talk of the need for long-term assurances and policies rather similar to the ones embodied in the 1957 Agriculture Act. The Minister has had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-17a.1742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-20", "file": "debates1975-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "17752498433901f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.20.6", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "the injection of Government finance should be staged. Each stage will depend on the evidence of some tangible contribution, and the company's work force and management must get together to ensure that there is an improvement in performance and industrial relations. We shall have to be satisfied on that score. The return on capital and other matters must surely be left to the British Leyland board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.20.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-20", "file": "debates1975-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "17752498433901f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not' right honourable' \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-20", "file": "debates1975-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "17752498433901f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SEAMEN'S DISPUTE (P. & O. Ferry)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I cannot think it would help towards the settlement, which I believe everyone wants, if I were to answer the specific questions which the hon. Gentleman has put to me.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-20", "file": "debates1975-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "17752498433901f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Lady is referring to the precedents for a Royal Commission. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services did not conclude her meeting with the doctors until well after Question Time on Thursday, and I regret that I had to be out of London on Friday or I would have announced it to the House then. There are precedents. I am sure that the right hon. Lady is aware of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-20", "file": "debates1975-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "17752498433901f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ver capacity, can be guilty of the accusation of being a male chauvinist pig. Indeed, my right hon. Friend has been criticised considerably by the junior doctors' national officer who happens, I think, to be a lady doctor. But it is a fact that from time to time great anxiety is expressed. We see this reflected in the media and all the rest of it. I want to make clear, in answer to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-20", "file": "debates1975-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "17752498433901f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.44.4", "colnum": "44", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has reason to know that I will never make any attack on him because I remember, when my former PPS was ill, the dedication with which the hon. Gentleman gave service to him when he came to my room. So he will understand that anything I say is not personal. No, Sir, I do not agree with what the hon. Gentleman has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.44.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-20", "file": "debates1975-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "17752498433901f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "ONE-PARENT FAMILIES", "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": "the adult of the kind advocated by the Opposition when they were in office. Here I hope that we shall be spared the facile patter that we expect from the hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr. Fowler) to the effect that if his party had been in office it would have introduced its tax credit scheme, which would have been in full operation now and would have solved the problem of poverty at a stroke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-20", "file": "debates1975-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "17752498433901f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "ONE-PARENT FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley (Woolwich, West)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a Socialist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley (Woolwich, West)", "preceding_text": "e for my children—an allowance which is not available for people whose income is not as great as mine—while one-parent families remain on the poverty level. I do not have to explain this matter to the Undersecretary of State because he and I have only to look at what the Child Poverty Action Group says about the work done by his wife and mine when they were low-paid employees of that organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-20a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-21", "file": "debates1975-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "61a999dd65d18902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-21a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RABIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This reply is too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I heard of a case when I was on holiday last year of a French yachtsman who walked his dog on the quay being immediately fined £400 in a magistrates' court. Offenders are now liable to a year's imprisonment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-21a.239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-21", "file": "debates1975-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "61a999dd65d18902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-21a.240.3", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RABIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the question of smuggling, I agree with my hon. Friend that the maximum publicity should be given to this matter for the reasons he has given. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Harborough and others for what has been said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-21a.240.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-21", "file": "debates1975-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "61a999dd65d18902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-21a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "k forward very much to the next election when the SNP candidate in South Ayrshire explains to the Ayrshire miners that one of the consequences of his party's argument—perhaps an SNP candidate will not be standing against me after the speech of the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Mr. Wilson)—on North Sea oil is that we must accept the demands of the Scottish coalfields and the Scottish coal industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-21a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-21", "file": "debates1975-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "61a999dd65d18902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-21a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": " appear to be looking for a nail on which to hang their coat, but their arguments show that they do not have the matter properly in perspective. We want to discuss the powers of the Scottish Assembly at the time when that legislation appears rather than discuss such basic matters in a debate on the Agency. To start talking about relationships with a non-existent and hypothetical body at this time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-21a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-21", "file": "debates1975-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "61a999dd65d18902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-21a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "The provision in Clause 11 is a common form for any enactment which confers powers of compulsory acquisition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-21a.386.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.468.3", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. McElhone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ble for creating the Scottish Daily News and Robert Maxwell for managing it, we are entitled to be sceptical about the outcome. If the previous Secretary of State for Industry, against all the available advice, decided to back a three-factory solution for our motor cycle industry, it can be no surprise that two of those factories are now in the hands of the receiver, within months of his decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "The strategy adopted here is the consequence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.544.2", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": " is so prevalent in industry, yet British managers are not prepared to share a stand at the Motor Show with shop stewards working in the car industry from whose presence I believe that they would benefit a great deal. These are the people who make the cars. Surely they have a right to be there and to listen to the complaints of traders and buyers of their products, and to hear any words of praise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.546.2", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "Why does the hon. Gentleman think that people who produce a product have no responsibility for trying to sell it? If he is trying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.546.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": " in times of slump. That has been true when industry has been both more and less profitable. Let us look, for example, at the last period under the Conservative Government led by the right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath). In the three calendar years 1971, 1972 and 1973 industry was given a bonanza by the Government. Does anyone still remember a Chancellor of the Exchequer called Anthony Barber?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I may be ignorant about boards of directors. However, it is usually possible, when a small number of people are involved, to come to a decision, especially when one of them is recognised by the others as being the chairman, who will make the final decision if necessary", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.605.2", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman undertook the act of abstaining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.605.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.616.6", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "developing nations, whether in energy or transport, matches up to the areas of concern in industrialised nations' public sectors. Developing countries which may, for understandable reasons, be reluctant to engage in the involvement of further private investment in their countries, have no theological or ideological problems in terms of the involvement of public sectors of industrialised countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.616.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I can answer one of the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester (Mr. Nelson). I must apologise for not hearing the Secretary of State. Run though I did, it was a short speech and I did not get here in time to hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "That investment did not prove to be sound. I bought the shares at about 14p. The price fell to 5p. Lo and behold, the Labour Government came to my rescue and paid me 10p per share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "w them as well as I do—where the unions have been unable to persuade the employees to abandon their staff associations in favour of the unions. I wish to express no preference for a system of staff associations as against unions. I merely make the point that the people who opt for staff associations are as entitled to have their wishes heard as are people who have opted for the trade union system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-22", "file": "debates1975-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a68f3645fa90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "A large manufacturer in my constituency is trying to introduce worker participation in decision-taking, and has insisted on a shop floor election of representatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-22a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-23", "file": "debates1975-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1ee8897626e0464d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-23a.704.4", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "An industrial dispute such as the one which is the subject of the Question—a straight conflict on free collective bargaining between the trade unions and the employers—is something that a Minister cannot automatically resolve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-23a.704.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-10-23", "file": "debates1975-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1ee8897626e0464d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-23a.714.4", "colnum": "714", "heading": "BOMB EXPLOSION (KENSINGTON)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-23a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-23", "file": "debates1975-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1ee8897626e0464d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-23a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "n all, this adds up to a total of over a quarter of a million square feet. Today's announcement covers 22 new factories, ranging in size from 5,000 sq.ft. to 25,000 sq.ft. Our previous programmes covered 72 new factories. This makes a grand total of 94 new Government-financed factories approved by this Government—94 in 19 months, compared with 25 in three and half years by the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-23a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-23", "file": "debates1975-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1ee8897626e0464d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-23a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "his own inspector, he should be prepared to hear at first hand the consequences of his decision. Nor is it any good his talking about public expenditure, because what we are now concerned about is not spending—that has been done—but whether payment should be made unfairly by the ratepayers or fairly by the taxpayers. I have two other points that I wish to make. Both concern priorities about which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-23a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-24", "file": "debates1975-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1275d6ff6854f306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-24a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": "Yes, it would be the responsibility of local authorities to hold a local poll. I acknowledge what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has drawn to my attention, and I correct what I said. The electors in a local poll would decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-24a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-24", "file": "debates1975-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1275d6ff6854f306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-24a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David James", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David James", "preceding_text": "se, I have no evidence to believe that greyhounds are very skilful at swimming. Nevertheless, it is with great regret that I oppose the motion of my hon. Friend the Member for Harborough (Mr. Farr) because, although it seeks to clarify a bad Bill, it can only make it worse. In my submission, the Bill is essentially an attempt by ignorant townsmen to legislate against the interests of country folk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-24a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-24", "file": "debates1975-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1275d6ff6854f306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-24a.944.6", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boscawen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boscawen", "preceding_text": "It is not totally untrue. It takes place and the hon. Gentleman knows it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-24a.944.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-24", "file": "debates1975-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1275d6ff6854f306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-24a.966.2", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his suggestion. I hesitate to follow his request for I know that the Government are in such case that were they to ask any of these distinguished legal advisers to be present they would probably make an even bigger mess of another Bill that they are studying before it is presented in the middle of next month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-24a.966.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-24", "file": "debates1975-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1275d6ff6854f306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-24a.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend puts the matter succinctly. That is what is in all our minds. However, if the Minister is not prepared to send out after the Attorney-General, we must do the best we can without his advice. That is where we were before the Division. I do not want to take up the time of the House any longer than is strictly necessary to deploy the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-24a.977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1001.5", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "In view of the shattering rate of inflation in the public sector and the increasing burden of price increases that have been imposed upon consumers, will the Minister wake up to the seriousness of the problem?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1001.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "I am happy to be able to reply that there is no risk of any shortage of liquid milk in the foreseeable future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Wiliams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is common sense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Wiliams", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Lady says is not well founded. I should be intrigued to see the evidence on which she bases that allegation. That applies to any hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1015.3", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "There is no reason why there should be a direct effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan William", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan William", "preceding_text": "No such figure is calculable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "These are important issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1040.5", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "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": "sfaction, as reflected in the motion, a bit of cool cheek. If anyone wants to disqualify himself from making a serious contribution to the debate, he will do as this motion does and as the hon. Gentleman did, and insinuate that the current troubles of the National Health Service—and it has some real troubles—began when the present Government came into office and I took over this job in March 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1040.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ned morale. Therefore, I am not to blame either. I can tell the House what were the three things undermining morale seriously when I took over at the Department of Health and Social Security. The first thing that everybody said to me and my hon. Friend the Minister of State when we walked into the premises was \"Morale has never been lower in the National Health Service\". I was given three reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1050.4", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "nsational headlines about a crisis in the National Health Service. Morale, we are told, has collapsed. Doctors are said to be emigrating on a record scale, and British graduates, we are told, are no longer coming forward for training in surgery. Standards are supposed to be falling through lack of finance, and the Press is stopping at absolutely nothing. The Daily Telegraph even carried the story—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1050.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The doctors' strike.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lynda Chalker", "preceding_text": "Per haps the Secretary of State will tell the House how many wards have been closed in the last four weeks because of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1074.2", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will not:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ing homes scattered around London to which one would have to travel, which would then necessitate far fewer hours presence in the Health Service…In other words, one would be forced to one's contractual hours by closure of private beds attached to a hospital such as this one\". That is the reality of what will happen if we separate the two functions. The Government recognise that will happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1074.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ernment intend to carry out this licensing system, according to paragraph 10 of the consultative paper, could not be more explicit. The paper states: \"It\"—the private sector— would not be allowed to make it more difficult to provide a comprehensive national health service by absorbing, either nationally or more locally, any undue proportion of scarce skills achieved by training at public expense\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1074.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1075.3", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Abortion clinics.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1075.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "ed and, therefore, such a move was unnecessary. The hon. Member for Loughborough (Mr. Cronin) calmly said that it would be an affront to Parliament if it were included because all the evidence had been taken. What surprises me is that the hon. Gentleman should not consider it an affront to Parliament that those recommendations by the Select Committee have been ignored by the Government of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "to act as specialists in order to determine which of their patients merit urgent or non-urgent appointments, although they know in advance the difficulty in securing even urgent appointments. The Minister of State should know this to be the case since he is a doctor himself. Not surprisingly, the Essex doctors have concluded that the situation amounts to a breakdown in the National Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thompson", "preceding_text": "and the social services, because there is an important overlap. Reference was made earlier to geriatric care. I do not want to labour the matter, but I think that the provision of suitable accommodation outside hospitals would help not only geriatric patients but also many mentally handicapped and mentally ill persons. I have said that we are looking forward to the coming of the Scottish Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "ns with them are conducted. That is what disheartens them most. They are fed up and are ready to explode on almost any issue. That is what has happened with the junior hospital doctors. The other example is perhaps even more depressing. A group of nurses told me recently that they no longer felt as proud as they used to feel when asked what they did. They hesitate over saying that they are nurses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": " bad. However, I believe that those figures are a considerable underestimate, certainly according to the doctors to whom I have spoken. As a result of the Secretary of State's letter, I looked into one speciality. The right hon. Lady might have done that since she mentioned the subject. I inquired into radiology, where at least 33 senior specialists, six Conservatives—I should say six consultants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "d people. They can obtain the good jobs. People smile when they are amused. They also smile when they are anxious. I should like to know the reason for the Secretary of State's smile. Those figures are bad enough, but the profession tells me that it thinks that the true figures are much higher. In radiology we appear to be losing at least twice as many highly-trained X-ray specialists as expected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1148.6", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "lity of applicants is making many jobs extremely difficult to fill with suitable people. I have some horrifying figures which illustrate this. However, I ask the Secretary of State whether it is correct that she has just sent a circular to the anaesthetists asking them to lower their standards because of the difficulty of filling jobs. I should like to hear the answer to that question. Is it true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1148.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "The profession has a vested interest in the matter, but not all doctors think the same. Even the BMA's own poll of doctors showed that they could claim only 75 per cent. support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about NALGO?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "fession. We have heard all these slogans before. These were the slogans we heard in the years from 1946 to 1948. We are now hearing the same kind of misrepresentation. I wonder whether the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition, who goes to Blackpool and makes a commitment to restore pay beds understands the divisions. It is not merely the nursing unions that feel so strongly about pay beds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ommitment to restore pay beds understands the divisions. It is not merely the nursing unions that feel so strongly about pay beds—[An HON. MEMBER: \"What about NALGO?\"] That organisation represents a great many administrators, but it is not just the unions that adopt such a view. There is a substantial body of opinion that believes in separation of private practice from the National Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "of private practice from the National Health Service—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"] I refer to many major newspapers, many doctors and also to the Royal College of Nursing. That college now says that it would like the policy to be conducted by agreement. There does not seem much chance of it, although I hope that it can be done by a measure of agreement. The Patients' Association does not oppose the idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"You started it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "h the doctors than does the Conservative Party, but let that party be under no illusion. The problem of pay beds in the NHS would not just disappear if there were ever to be—I hope not—a change of Government. The Conservative Party too would face this problem. It does nothing but harm to the NHS to have a division between the staff of the NHS. This is why the problem has reached such a proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "DIRECT GRANT SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "or those who pay for their children to go to direct grant schools the local education authority contributes an average of £120 per annum. That money is taken from the education budget. My party's criticism of the phasing out is that it was too sudden and too inflexible. Were it not for that, I think all my colleagues who support the principle would vote with me with the Government in the No Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "DIRECT GRANT SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "th the hon. Member and the hon. Member for Ripon (Dr. Hampson). I am glad to see that in the process he was converted to some of the beliefs about comprehensive education which many of us hold. The two debates we have had today—this one very brief, the previous one rather longer—have been about the same thing, about Conservatives defending, as they ever will, privileges and favours for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "DIRECT GRANT SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Frederick Mulley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Frederick Mulley)", "preceding_text": "s to education debates a great knowledge and sincerity. I assure him that it is with no misgivings that I am unable to agree with the propositions that he has put forward tonight. This debate is about regulations which will give effect to the plain and quite unmistakable commitment that we made in our October 1974 manifesto, that we would bring to an end the system of direct grant grammar schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "the publication presumably would have been included in the new definition of a committer of a criminal offence—such as the printers who set the type, the makers of the newspaper, and others who deal with all the many aspects of the printing of a newspaper. It would have applied to all those who assisted in the printing of the diaries, if that had been carried out in defiance of the Judge's ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Then I shall not respond, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was saying that we have this new offence of assisting in committing a criminal offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1221.8", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Kimball", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Kimball", "preceding_text": "The words we have just heard you utter, Mr. Deputy Speaker, suggesting that the Bill be read the Third time have been the nightmare of the members of the society of which I have the honour to be chairman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1221.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": " argument about Press freedom, the argument about the Industry Bill, and even the argument about the Community Land Bill, will shrink into insignificance when compared with the much greater anger that will be developed in the country if the Lords are stupid enough to oppose this Bill. In fact, the amazing thing is that it could be the death-knell of the Lords if they oppose the hare coursing Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman will find that I am trying to dismiss his argument lightly, but nothing he says can refute the number of people who have put precisely these arguments, some in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "fficiently familiar with the activities of the hon. Member for Walton and his group of friends on the Marxist side of the Labour Party to know quite well where the political parentage of the Bill lies. I mention this at the beginning of my remarks because I do not want anybody in the country, and certainly not in this House, to be under any illusion about the matter. I turn now to the Bill itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unnecessary cruelty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "g the possibility of cruelty occurring. Cruelty is increased by the Bill and not reduced by it. If any hon. Gentleman denies that, let him rise to his feet and give logical arguments to support his view. We believe that if the Bill goes through its effects will be more rather than less cruel to the species concerned. If Labour Members are not concerned about cruelty, what are they concerned about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "preceding_text": "nt-backed Bill, the democratic process is at its weakest, because we have to admit that we have no strong second Chamber. The hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) said that if the Lords opposed the Bill, that would be the end of them, but I hope he realises that if the Lords were abolished, some other second Chamber would have to be put in its place, which would probably be far stronger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "preceding_text": "e minorities. As a minority Government they have to face the fact that they are unrepresentative. To continue with the effects of the Bill—more hares will be shot and wounded and there will be more hunting for the pot with coursing dogs, but with no judges or officials, and no Coursing Club rules. Several thousand dogs will have to be destroyed because there will be no work and no market for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-27", "file": "debates1975-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9827688be1e515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The latest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mather", "preceding_text": " which existed when that report was written. The Government should have taken note of that recommendation. The Bill will also create a new criminal offence, the effects of which are uncertain but which is bound to bring the law into disrepute. I should like to quote three passages which summarise the latest authentic information about this sport. The Scott Henderson Report on hare coursing itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-27a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-28", "file": "debates1975-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddb981dd0a172b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-28a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC POLICY (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It must have taken most of the morning to draft that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-28a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-28", "file": "debates1975-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddb981dd0a172b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-28a.1287.5", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTTISH ASSEMBLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "we shall, of course, be more than ready to listen to any public debate upon it and to have consultations upon it, we are already starting, and, indeed, have started, on the drafting of legislation. On the question of a guillotine, that matter does not arise, because the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition and the Conservative Party are in support of the White Paper that we have published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-28a.1287.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-28", "file": "debates1975-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddb981dd0a172b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-28a.1287.5", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTTISH ASSEMBLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " debate upon it and to have consultations upon it, we are already starting, and, indeed, have started, on the drafting of legislation. On the question of a guillotine, that matter does not arise, because the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition and the Conservative Party are in support of the White Paper that we have published. [ Interruption. ] The White Paper we are drafting is intended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-28a.1287.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-28", "file": "debates1975-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddb981dd0a172b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-28a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTTISH ASSEMBLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no ministerial responsibility for the various comments that I have been reading, which bear no relation to the facts. We shall introduce the legislation at the earliest possible moment. It is complicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-28a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-29", "file": "debates1975-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7fe306d14b99ab2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-29a.1586.6", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another referendum?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I hope that we can do so as successfully as we did on 5th June last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-29a.1586.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-30", "file": "debates1975-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8142dafc357a379a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1735.0", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will recognise that inquiries are all very well. We want evidence of future trends. I think that it will be agreed that we are not yet in a position, nor is the industry, to recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-30", "file": "debates1975-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8142dafc357a379a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1737.3", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! Long live the Union.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman prepared to repudiate the offensive remarks of the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Mr. Mudd)? Does the hon. Gentleman accept that it is riot possible for fishermen in one part of the United Kingdom to keep fishermen from another part out of their area?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1737.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-30", "file": "debates1975-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8142dafc357a379a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1753.0", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I welcome the solicitude of all hon. Members for my constituency and the assurance given by my right hon. Friend about the discussions that are taking place between Members and the Secretary of State this afternoon. May I make this simple point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-30", "file": "debates1975-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8142dafc357a379a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1753.0", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "e should be faced with a mini-Jarrow if anything went wrong? If money were not forthcoming from the Government, or from other sources, would my right hon. Friend accept that the state of this nation would impel us to take other means of dealing with the Chrysler multinational company in this country in pursuance of the undertakings that we have been given? I suggest that if the money that we seek—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1753.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-10-30", "file": "debates1975-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8142dafc357a379a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1755.2", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How long?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-30", "file": "debates1975-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8142dafc357a379a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1757.3", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "To answer that question properly would intrude for more than the 14 minutes during which I have intruded into the time of public business. This matter has been fully debated in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-30", "file": "debates1975-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8142dafc357a379a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1757.3", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "\"Answer.\"] My right hon. Friend and I have repeatedly said in economic debates in the House and elsewhere that the size of the public sector borrowing requirement is a matter of considerable anxiety. My right hon. Friend has described to the House the very painful cuts which have been made in the coming year's expenditure, out of which the Opposition will seek to make the most political advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-30", "file": "debates1975-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8142dafc357a379a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1854.1", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICYHOLDERS PROTECTION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": "nts. I am sure that those who preceded me in my office also regard the work that they have done as very skilful. I have been asked about the liquidator's costs and the Department's fees. It is true that the estimates of the legal costs are £500,000, and that the liquidator's and special manager's remuneration is estimated to be £700,000, and that the Department's fees are estimated to be £282,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-30", "file": "debates1975-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8142dafc357a379a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "LEGAL AID", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Mr. Peter Archer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Mr. Peter Archer)", "preceding_text": "It will not surprise my hon. and learned Friend that, not for the first time in our careers, I agree with 90 per cent. of what he says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-30a.1939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-31", "file": "debates1975-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3235cc59fb7e8715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-31a.1948.6", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ere. In the financial year which ended last June the deficit on Rhodesia's balance of payments rose to a record peak of nearly R$80 million. The allocations for foreign exchange, travel abroad by Rhodesians and imports have been drastically cut back. On the regime's own admission, improved sanctions' surveillance has contributed markedly to the worsening of the economic climate in Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-31a.1948.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-10-31", "file": "debates1975-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3235cc59fb7e8715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-31a.1962.1", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "elieve that it is taking the correct decision in assisting, indeed precipitating, a peaceful settlement. But one should remember the lesson of Angola. There is a bloody conflict in Angola today, but in many ways it can be put down to the fact that the Portuguese stayed too long and then refusal to get out largely led to the civil war. We do not want too many simplistic conclusions and assessments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-10-31a.1962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-03", "file": "debates1975-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dd7edd454bbab8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-03a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "If I may say so to the hon. Gentleman, this is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-03a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-03", "file": "debates1975-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dd7edd454bbab8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-03a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN SECONDARY LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Without notice of that question, I think I am right in saying that it would not be possible to table a motion afterwards, but it would be possible to do it before the instrument was referred to the Standing Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-03a.35.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-11-03", "file": "debates1975-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dd7edd454bbab8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-03a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN SECONDARY LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "sion in this House and that amendments can be put down to that substantive motion. What the right hon. Gentleman appears to be suggesting is that one substantive motion alone should have precedence—that emanting from the Standing Committee—and that the Government should put down their amendments to that motion. That, once again, gives too much weight to the views of a small number of hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-03a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-03", "file": "debates1975-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dd7edd454bbab8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-03a.104.6", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN SECONDARY LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "Every one of my hon. Friends who is seeking to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-03a.104.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-11-03", "file": "debates1975-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dd7edd454bbab8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-03a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN SECONDARY LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Then put the amendments down beforehand to make sure.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "But surely the hon. Gentleman realises from what he has just said that the effect of denying the Standing Committee the opportunity to come to a resolution will be to force more and more of these matters on to the Floor of the House. If anyone feels that there should be a debate in this House or a debate at all on such a subject, he will stand up and resist its going to the Standing Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-03a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-03", "file": "debates1975-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dd7edd454bbab8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-03a.105.2", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN SECONDARY LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I think here we should wait and see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-03a.105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-04", "file": "debates1975-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7ff9406f134df28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.271.4", "colnum": "271", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "These niceties of discussion in this Chamber become a trifle irksome at times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.271.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-04", "file": "debates1975-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7ff9406f134df28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.271.4", "colnum": "271", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "ent appropriate to their situation. It is not for me to speculate on what that form of government would be, but it seems to me that a federal type of government would be perfectly feasible in Ireland. The problem of Northern Ireland is not merely a matter for those who reside there. It is very much one for the people of England as well. I represent a constituency with a 40 per cent. Catholic vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.271.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-04", "file": "debates1975-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7ff9406f134df28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security (Mr. Brian O'Malley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security (Mr. Brian O'Malley)", "preceding_text": "l that the first inflationary movements from purely domestic reasons arose from the trigger mechanism in the incomes policy of the previous Government, for which the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher), who is present tonight, has a responsibility as a member of the then Cabinet. When the hon. Member goes on to say that the self-employed are not getting a fair deal from this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-04", "file": "debates1975-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7ff9406f134df28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "In order to make sure that some important points are made, I have read certain parts of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-04", "file": "debates1975-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7ff9406f134df28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "f a Minister with special responsibilities for small businesses. It is surely an indication of the priority given to this matter by the Government that that Minister has not been able to be present for this discussion of the self-employed and the small business man. Many people are not aware that such a Minister exists, but I hope that the hon. Gentleman concerned is aware of his responsibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-04", "file": "debates1975-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7ff9406f134df28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "loying 6 million people, and it cannot be denied that the Government have done a great deal of damage to the self-employed and to small businesses. They have imposed penal taxation, which has knocked the heart out of business men and destroyed enterprise. The Government have imposed an enormous bureaucracy, a multi-rate VAT, and capital transfer tax. In March we issued a warning to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-04", "file": "debates1975-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7ff9406f134df28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Joel Barnett)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Joel Barnett)", "preceding_text": "elf-employed. If any self-employed friends of the hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr. Fowler) had heard his speech tonight, he would have lost a large number of them. There was not one jot of constructive thought throughout the whole of his speech. The same comment applies to the speech of the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Taylor). The only constructive points came from my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-04", "file": "debates1975-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7ff9406f134df28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I am happy to withdraw the word \"humbug\" in that sense and apply it to the whole of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-04", "file": "debates1975-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7ff9406f134df28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "m concerned. The Government have provided substantial tax relief through the stocks scheme introduced in the last Budget, plus a 5 per cent. bonus to compensate for the year's delay. The suggestion that the self-employed and small business men have been hurt by the corporation tax system and its rates was exposed by the right hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe), the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-04", "file": "debates1975-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7ff9406f134df28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "nsider its representations. It has promised to resubmit its proposals, and my hon. Friends will be meeting its representatives shortly to consider them. Further considerations were advanced about the capital gains tax. There were many complaints about the way in which capital gains tax affects small business men and the self-employed. Inflation hits small business men and other people in business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-04", "file": "debates1975-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "e7ff9406f134df28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.355.5", "colnum": "355", "heading": "SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "y pandering to prejudice. The small business man is helped by the capital transfer tax. Under the system we have introduced, a small business man—indeed, anyone—can leave his business to his wife and pay no tax, although tax would have been paid under the estate duty system. The truly small business man and the small farmer are not only not hurt by capital transfer tax but positively gain from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-04a.355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-05", "file": "debates1975-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ded7b29b8cdb0aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "The service cuts to which my hon. Friend refers are a matter of management responsibility for the British Rail Board", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-05", "file": "debates1975-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ded7b29b8cdb0aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"My tenants?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "That is a tragic answer. Why does the Minister persist in pursuing in Northampton and other development corporation areas a policy that is against the wishes of his own chairmen appointed by him, against his own general managers, and indeed against the desires of my tenants and my constituents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-05", "file": "debates1975-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ded7b29b8cdb0aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": " Secretary of State will have, being a member of the various consortia who will operate the oilfields. He went on to say: …obviously it is expressly provided in the Bill that confidentiality will be preserved in all the operations of BNOC, and this includes the civil servants. But that is not strictly correct, because the only specific provision for confidentiality is under model clause 31—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-05", "file": "debates1975-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ded7b29b8cdb0aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "e Department of Energy sponsors the BNOC, it is responsible for the whole of the oil industry. Ministers therefore have a continuing responsibility for the health and confidence of the whole industry. Having read the speeches of Lord Balogh in another place, I have the impression that the current attitude is that what is good for the oil industry must be bad for the British people, and vice versa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-05", "file": "debates1975-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ded7b29b8cdb0aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM AND SUBMARINE PIPE-LINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no, no. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "lue in the face and said that the Government were deaf to rational argument. That is an odd and colourful situation for two Front Benches to get themselves into. The right hon. Gentleman seems to have forgotten one interesting point while pontificating about PRT. He has not put down an amendment to Clause 9(1), which says that the Corporation shall not pay petroleum revenue tax. Therefore, he was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-05", "file": "debates1975-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ded7b29b8cdb0aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.539.3", "colnum": "539", "heading": "ROAD VEHICLES (LIGHTING REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": " the number of pedestrian casualties was noticed. There was a small adverse effect on the more numerous non-pedestrian casualties. Overall a negligible effect on total casualties was noted. The police said: It would be wrong to make any comparisons with accident figures now because of the big increase in traffic and the extensive redevelopment that has taken place in Birmingham. I move on quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-05", "file": "debates1975-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ded7b29b8cdb0aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.548.3", "colnum": "548", "heading": "ROAD VEHICLES (LIGHTING REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "I was making a passing reference to the speech of my hon. Friend, who helped the House considerably. I hope that there will be many more speeches of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-05", "file": "debates1975-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ded7b29b8cdb0aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.548.3", "colnum": "548", "heading": "ROAD VEHICLES (LIGHTING REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ivers Association, which says: This Association is responsible for insuring some 3,000 London taxi-cabs for its members. Obviously we have considerable information in respect of the accidents that these vehicles become involved in and there is no evidence to suggest that such a piece of legislation as this would reduce the accident rate, in fact we believe that it would have the opposite effect. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-05a.548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is it not obvious that further cuts in public expenditure in the next two years will only worsen unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is it not obvious that further cuts in public expenditure in the next two years will only worsen unemployment—[ Interruption. ] In view of today's survey by the CBI of forthcoming lay-offs, is not unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is it not obvious that further cuts in public expenditure in the next two years will only worsen unemployment—[ Interruption. ] In view of today's survey by the CBI of forthcoming lay-offs, is not unemployment—[ Interruption. ]—now reaching such levels that there will be more than sufficient workers in the years ahead both—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.596.5", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I have no responsibility for—nor a very great interest in—the life style of the hon. Gentleman, but I take his assurance that he does not live his life in a cloistered way. However, the British concept of a public sector borrowing requirement is not one that is used in other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman does anything to make up for the deficiencies in his record by that type of sermonising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY (CHEQUERS MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Lady has had a chance to study the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY (CHEQUERS MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "stion.\"] I shall answer it, but I am not having one sentence taken out of context. The right hon. Lady will have an opportunity to comment on the White Paper after due time for reflection. We have said that there should be much greater emphasis on investment. The right hon. Lady's Government were lamentably unsuccessful in this matter. Most of the money they printed went into property development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.607.2", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY (CHEQUERS MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether machinery of that kind is required, but the monitoring of these problems is a continuing activity of Government. I prefer to say as little as possible about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.607.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.610.4", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BELIZE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. The people of Belize have expressed through universal suffrage their support for their Government who want self-determination and independence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.610.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BELIZE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "As one who has visited Belize on a parliamentary visit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "That is one way of putting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Six.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Normally Parliament opens on a Tuesday, and there are five days for discussion of the Gracious Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "d unworthy of their profession. I am glad that the Editor of The Times should speak out so strongly against it. But if someone should seek to refer such matters to the Press Council and if the Council should start or seek to interfere with the absolute right of the editor to print any material under the charter, as provided by the House of Lords, that might be considered contrary to public policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " the large sums of compensation which could be involved as the amendment does not provide for compensation only to individuals. Although the issue of whether or not the charter had been breached would not normally come before the courts, the powers of the High Court could be applied to enforce payment of compensation. Those powers include sequestration of funds and all the associated consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "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": "I understand fully if the right hon. Gentleman makes a comment on my legal qualifications; I do not quarrel with him on that score. But he must not dismiss the Lord Chancellor in the same breath as he dismisses me. If he will refer to col. 363 of the Official Report of the debate in the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "tainly be applicable to newspapers. Therefore, the points I have made are wholly valid. Much has been said about the freedom of access of contributors. Does what has been said apply to the freedom of access of those who wish to write to news papers? I will give an example of a problem which has arisen in the last few days. I have written a letter to The Times in support of the Bishop of Southwark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.660.2", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": " I have decided not to stand for re-election at the next General Election. It is a matter of some sadness for any hon. Member who chooses to do that. Even the hon. Member for Stretford (Mr. Churchill) probably has some feelings of sympathy about that. I have never paid all that much attention to the Whips, but I warn the Government that if they do not deal with the situation of the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-06", "file": "debates1975-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66190c282e669297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "at assurance from the right hon. Gentleman, but in fact he is massing his forces to vote down that part of the Lords amendment. Both the Hailsham and Goodman amendments deserve the support of the House. The Goodman amendments have been supported by cross-bench opinion. In another place they have been supported by the Liberals, by the Conservatives and by a former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-06a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-10", "file": "debates1975-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "94888af49afb6a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-10a.895.5", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " anticipate the discussions. But the Japanese are very interested in this matter, as the hon. Gentleman knows. If I remember the figures aright, 73 per cent. of all Japanese energy is oil, and 99·7 per cent. of the oil they use is imported. The Japanese estimate that they will need to double their consumption of oil over the next few years, so their interest in the North Sea is very strong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-10a.895.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-10", "file": "debates1975-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "94888af49afb6a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-10a.920.3", "colnum": "920", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND BORROWINGS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "rage interest rate of about 7¾ per cent. Drawings on the first credit tranche are repayable after between three and five years, and the interest rate varies from 4 per cent. to 6 per cent. over time. The Fund will require to be satisfied that United Kingdom policies are likely to achieve medium-term recovery of the balance of payments. I am confident that our existing policies will do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-10a.920.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-10", "file": "debates1975-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "94888af49afb6a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-10a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Tugendhat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "rather rueful terms about the way in which they are forgotten by everybody outside, while the political prisoners in Greece attract so much attention, and in rather rueful fashion they compare their own lot with that of prisoners in Greece and the attention that was paid to them. Since then, things have looked up on that front in some respects. Much more attention is now paid to Russian prisoners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-10a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1126.3", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Does not the situation which has arisen at the William Tyndale Junior School make it essential—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e were differences between the CBI and the TUC, and between both of them and the Government, they accepted the objectives, as the House has been told, and welcomed the proposals that we have put forward. As for Chrysler, I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will recognise that, for reasons given in the House already by my right hon. Friend and myself, it is better at this stage to say nothing at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "e by my right hon. and hon. Friends today have special importance since they reflect the fact that we have had rather more time to consider the matter than we had at earlier stages. My right hon. Friend the Member for Crosby (Mr. Page)—I refer to him first—made several strong points against the clause as it stands. I pay special tribute to him. He seems to me to be a one-man Opposition in himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "s could not foresee what the Government meant to do. Even at this late stage, if the Government believe that statutory undertakers, certain other commercial undertakings and agriculture should be exempt, surely the demands of charities far exceed anything else. My contention is supported by the result of the vote in the other place, when, with a majority of 99, their Lordships told the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "riculture should be exempt, surely the demands of charities far exceed anything else. My contention is supported by the result of the vote in the other place, when, with a majority of 99, their Lordships told the Government—[ Interruption. ] I would say to the Undersecretary that this is not a laughing matter. I know that they wanted only some charities exempt, but no charity workers are laughing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "e value. It is a Bill for confiscation at a value that takes no account of the development value of land. It is also a Bill giving the States the right to confiscate, with reduced powers of objection and a reduced right to demand a public inquiry. We are mindful of our duty to try to preserve the rights of individual citizens, whether they be rich or poor, and many landowners are very poor people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "preceding_text": "ent that these modifications to the Acquisition of Land Act start off by saying. Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, the Acquisition of Land Acts shall apply in relation to the compulsory acquisition of land under section 15 of this Act with the modifications made by the following provisions of this Part of this Schedule. We are all considering this legislation, but none of us understands it well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "preceding_text": "ay say that under the provisions of the Bill the way that positive planning will work and be paid for is that for every £1 million which is paid to citizens by the State for land, the State will expect to make £4 million and, therefore, a profit of £3 million. However, who will pay for that profit? It will be the other citizens who get the land from the State. That was the whole basis of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1290.2", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "f making representations at any inquiry into the order. Therefore, under the Bill any owner, lessee or occupier who objects to a compulsory purchase order would be entitled to legal assistance and representation for the purpose of making representations at the inquiry into the order. I am in some difficulties here because in principle I sympathise with the spirit of legal aid being given in cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1290.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1298.4", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": " his innocence at a public inquiry. The hon. Member for Luton, West (Mr. Sedgemore) said that when he was a member of an inquiry he never bothered about the lawyers' arguments. Of course not, because he is typical of Left-wing Socialism. I am ashamed to think that the English Bar ever admitted anyone with so few principles. I would be the last person to wish to increase public spending in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1298.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ld not do it.\" The civil servants, according to their lights, gave the Minister his answer. There is a great gulf between us about the Bill. As the Minister has said many times, we have here an issue as to whether the State should take greater power over the private individual. We think that the Bill is the beginning of the helter-skelter down the road to the fulfilment of the Communist manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": " have no more talk about the cost of legally representing an individual before the big battalions. It is said that the acceptance of this proposal would be anomalous. It is said that if it is granted in this case, why should it not be granted in other cases? My answer to that is that if we cannot immediately have the others, let us at least make a start. In any event, this whole Bill is anomalous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "nomalous. [ Interruption. ] It is no good the Government saying to my hon Friends that this proposal should not be accepted because it would be anomalous. The whole of this legislation is a grotesque anomaly, and one of the easiest ways in which we could mitigate the full effects of the Bill would be to introduce the so-called anomaly of legal aid representation before the tribunal in these cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Mr. Fairbairn rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "absolutely clear that he would not exercise his discretion to extend a local authority's time: what he would do is move in some other organisation which would be prepared to ensure that these matters are concluded by 31st December. His hon. Friend said on 13th October that if it were not prepared to do this by 31st December, the Minister would do it: that he had a good deal of power in the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "preceding_text": "knows that county authorities are now undertaking a cycle of meetings at a time when an abnormally heavy work-load is falling upon their shoulders. The Government will lose nothing by showing flexibility in this matter and I hope that, even in a Bill as bad as the present one, they will display some vestige of good will. Having heard the powerful arguments advanced from various sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "by (Mr. Page) and the hon. Member for Ashford. I have to answer their points because they concern the important case. That case is that between today and the 31st December there is insufficient time for authorities to get together for the making of the schemes embodied in the land acquisition management schemes. If that is so, how is it that local authorities managed to get together some time ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1368.3", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "No. I have given way eight times. It is enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1368.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1369.7", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "at the right hon. Gentleman will comment on this aspect. Having been in local government for a number of years, I am aware of the procedures of local authorities. Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm whether the schemes he has mentioned with some local authorities say they are in a position to send have been considered by the elected members? Does not the right hon. Gentleman intend to answer me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1369.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is getting a little tetchy. I do not blame him. He has been out of bed for three hours or so. I was proposing to get up, but it so happens that I have a bad leg and it takes me a little longer to get up than it takes him to do so. Hon. Members opposite know that to be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1374.0", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I certainly had no intention of addressing the House tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1374.1", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ue to debate this subject at this hour, in view of the Minister's unwillingness to answer a question which has been put to him with such brevity and reasonableness. I hope that the Minister will reconsider his attitude and now rise to his feet. Failing that, I should like to give notice that it will be my intention to seek your permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to move a motion to adjourn the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "preceding_text": "I want to take up a point raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Crosby (Mr. Page). No one could possibly argue that this was not a Bill designed to take away the rights of the individual citizen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "or example, a year lease—to seek to frustrate his tenant's development by serving a notice of election. This amendment would prevent that happening, whilst at the same time permitting a freeholder, whose tenant's lease has not long to run and who himself proposes to develop the land when that lease has expired, to serve a notice of election and ascertain the authorities' intentions as to the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "Of course I welcome that intervention so late in the debate by the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths), who was my predecessor at this Box. I only wish that his intervention had not been so silly. The right hon. Member for Crosby (Mr. Page) said earlier that we had rejected every amendment from another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1421.0", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "The Minister deserves some congratulations on at last getting it right, but if he wants to make progress with his Bill, it was hardly sensible to say that the intervention of my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths) was silly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1448.3", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Would the Minister like to have the sitting suspended for two or three minutes to enable him to consult his advisers, so that he can make the position clear beyond peradventure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": " Rossi) about the effect of the Bill on the Labour Party and the Labour movement which he so vividly described. I am also impressed by the way in which he accepts so blindly, almost hysterically, anything that the investment managers tell him. When he was talking about the miners' pension fund, I expected some of my hon. Friends from mining constituencies to complain about the Government's action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "ading about the pension fund element of investment in property. As I have said before, I understand that the proportion of investment by pension funds in property—not only in property affected by the Bill—is 17 per cent. As I have said before in a long statement, only a fraction of that 17 per cent. will be affected. That is the position, and that is why my hon. Friends from mining constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1468.3", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "That is precisely what I am trying to say to the House. That was also the burden of the rather long speech I made in the first instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1468.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-11", "file": "debates1975-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "16cd9f102349de39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1478.2", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNITY LAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ient thing to do. If a fine analysis were made of all that is going on in the Lords at the moment, with employment, and trade union legislation, and a whole host of other things, it would be seen that we do not even bother to say that we shall waive our privilege; we close our eyes and allow things to go through. This sort of thing is not good enough. We ought to insist, as Members of the Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-11a.1478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1510.0", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "I think the House will be interested to know that the net gain over the period that I have discussed was 448 officers. This is the biggest increase since records were first kept, and I agree with my hon. Friend that this reflects great credit on the present administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not blaming me for that. I have been in my present office for only II weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1536.2", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "etary of State for saying that he gave me short notice of the statement. Perhaps that is the only thing in it for which I should be grateful. We find it a deeply disappointing statement but it lives up fully to the standard we now expect from the right hon. Gentleman. It is a classic example of misrepresentation and hypocrisy. I dare say that Lord Goodman will have something to say about that too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1536.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1536.2", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "ve something to say about that too. [HON. MEMBERS: So what?\"] How dare the Labour Party seek to lecture us on respect for Parliament and the law? Is not the right hon. Gentleman once more putting Socialism before freedom? Is it not absurd for him to pose as the great conciliator when every concession has had to be wrung out of him by force of argument and under pressure from dissenting colleagues?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1536.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1536.2", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All the Conservative ones have gone home.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": " law? Is not the right hon. Gentleman once more putting Socialism before freedom? Is it not absurd for him to pose as the great conciliator when every concession has had to be wrung out of him by force of argument and under pressure from dissenting colleagues? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] Where are all those Cabinet cowards of the cocktail set now? Where have they all disappeared to this afternoon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1536.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1536.2", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "ure from dissenting colleagues? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] Where are all those Cabinet cowards of the cocktail set now? Where have they all disappeared to this afternoon? [An HON. MEMBER: \"All the Conservative ones have gone home.\"] So would Labour Members if it were not for a three-line Whip, the Whip that we hope will throw out the right hon. Gentleman's statement. Is not this attempt to label—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1536.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1537.0", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope that the House will quieten down. The Minister has made a statement and he is entitled to be questioned on that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1539.5", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Speaker, I think that it has a great deal to do with you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1539.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1539.5", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "\"Sit down.\"] I shall wait for Mr. Speaker to tell me. I shall not sit down because a mediocrity on the Opposition Benches tells me. We on this side of the House are concerned about the suspension of trade unions' right to organise. What has happened in the House of Lords has stripped organised workers of basic rights. The normal procedures have been outraged and an important principle is at stake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1539.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1541.0", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "t we must wait until about next November before we can yet again talk about trade union rights. Can you advise Back Benchers, Mr. Speaker, on the best way in which they can protect the rights of those whom we are sent here to represent? If you are now saying that there is no way in which we can legitimately raise these issues in the House, we shall have to take extraordinary measures to reinstate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has raised a perfectly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Gower", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman misunderstands the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Gower", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman misunderstands the position—[ Interruption. ] I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will listen to me. I am trying to explain what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-12", "file": "debates1975-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7b2297c36137a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1559.5", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Gower", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. What is more, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I think that you can confirm that my reference to the right hon. Gentle- man was an apologetic one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-12a.1559.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caerwyn E. Roderick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caerwyn E. Roderick", "preceding_text": "untries. Turning to less controversial matters, I applaud the Government on their intention to introduce legislation to set up Assemblies in Wales and Scotland as promised in the last two election manifestos. I have heard it asked \"Why should not the English regions enjoy such privileges?\" and I agree. Why should they not enjoy those privileges? If that is their desire, they should press for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "preceding_text": " that. I cannot say \"Thank you for waiting 10 years until I got here\", but I am pleased to see this pledge in the Gracious Speech, because I am convinced that it will be of benefit to future generations of children in Bolton and elsewhere. I am sure that when hon. Members think of Bolton they think of industrial Lancashire and, perhaps, of Bolton Wanderers, the team which is doing well at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "The general question has been debated. The details have never been fully and properly worked out. Now that we come to consider it in detail we realise just how much there is to work out. I am sorry that those who come from Scotland do not fully realise that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "herself the triumph of one of the greatest social experiments introduced in this country. Speculative, much criticised and even scorned when it was inaugurated, it is now a proven success. Before coming to the House she was a local tutor for the Open University—operating on the other side of the Pennines—now the biggest university in Britain. It is among the top mail order businesses in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.32.6", "colnum": "32", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "national scale, are greater than any in recent memory. Unemployment in this country was up 90 per cent. by July of this year over the fourth quarter of 1973. Unemployment in Japan was up 56 per cent. over the same period, and in the United States it was up by 84 per cent. In France it was up by 113 per cent. and in West Germany by 265 per cent. It is a common problem to all the advanced countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.32.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am using the figures published for last year in my right hon. Friend's Budget Statement in April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is an interesting point. The Opposition have been on about the public sector borrowing requirement for two months. Now that they find they are beaten on that, they go back to inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ndamental importance of the attack on inflation approved by this House—by some of us, anyway——with overwhelming majorities in the summer. Right hon. and hon. Members opposite know that this policy, which they failed to endorse in the House carries the overwhelming endorsement of the British people, as shown by the miners' ballot, by the TUC and by the overwhelming support of people in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "l leavers. We have done so not by general reflation measures, which are expensive, slow-acting and might operate contrary to the policies that the House has approved. Less than £100 million of expenditure by the methods used by my right hon. Friend has the same effect in creating jobs or saving jobs as a classical Keynesian reflation of £1,000 million, and it takes effect in a quarter of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he National Enterprise Board was signed yesterday and will take effect tomorrow. I want to deal with what the right hon. Lady said earlier and has said so often in public and in the House now. I do not complain about the right hon. Lady concentrating her speech on the problems of inflation, unemployment and public expenditure. I just question her and her Government's credentials on these subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.38.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Private enterprise.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hannam", "preceding_text": "Who are \"we\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.42.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ng policy. That is where the Conservatives are so wide of the mark. They should remember the words of Disraeli—\"Expenditure depends on policies\". We have increased expenditure based on policy. It was our policy to increase pensions to £10 for a single pensioner and £16 for a married couple—an increase of nearly one-third in money terms—at a cost of £1,000 million. The Opposition did not oppose it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Lady. I did not know whether it was the hon. Gentleman, and I wanted to be sure that she did. We have had three since 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.66.3", "colnum": "66", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "ix months for claiming benefits. People are not allowed in unless they can support themselves and they must take any job which is offered to them. If they do not work they cannot draw unemployment pay. In France it is similarly impossible to draw social security benefits as a newcomer. In no other country is it possible to draw the enormous benefits which Britain pays. I rang the American Embassy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.66.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.66.3", "colnum": "66", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "they must take any job which is offered to them. If they do not work they cannot draw unemployment pay. In France it is similarly impossible to draw social security benefits as a newcomer. In no other country is it possible to draw the enormous benefits which Britain pays. I rang the American Embassy—[ Interruption. ]—to inquire about the rules governing the entry of visitors to the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.66.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.66.3", "colnum": "66", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "ment pay. In France it is similarly impossible to draw social security benefits as a newcomer. In no other country is it possible to draw the enormous benefits which Britain pays. I rang the American Embassy—[ Interruption. ]—to inquire about the rules governing the entry of visitors to the United States. [ Interruption. ] When I outlined the case at Skelmersdale the person to whom I was speaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.66.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "preceding_text": "ns to protect our North Sea interests. Then there is the general point that I have raised a number of times in this House that this country bears too heavy a proportion of defence expenditure, and we should look to our European allies for assistance. Our defence assists them and there is nothing wrong in asking them to make a larger contribution to our defence. We all belong to the same Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-19", "file": "debates1975-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d57bfe036c5c4e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": " we are spending on fuel. We see a similar story in manufactured items, where the import bill in 1974 was £3,902 million, which exceeded food imports at £3,372 million. It is time to introduce import controls if we are not to see key sectors of our manufacturing industry collapse. But we should not introduce them to protect inefficient industry, to let it shelter for ever behind high tariff walls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-19a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "ICELANDIC FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ter? Is he equally aware that many of us believe that the Icelanders, whose basic industry is fishing, must have an extremely understanding attitude adopted towards them by the other nations? My hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) sailed for 10 years as a seaman in the Atlantic and on many occasions experienced gales of the force which my right hon. Friend mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ve thought that was a bona fide Question from him, not a Question put in by another Member without his consent. I accept that it was wrong to do that. I did it on that one occasion with the wrong view of bringing these facts to the attention of the Leader of the Liberal Party. I accept that I ought not to enlighten his darkness by this device. It would be hypocritical of me to say that I am sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "is House, but I confess that I have been very surprised today. It is improper for any hon. Member to put down a Question in the name of another right hon. or hon. Member without his specific consent. We may have to tighten up some of our procedures to ensure that it does not happen again. I understand that the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Cunningham) has expressed his regret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "cause when the right hon. Gentleman left office, when he left this job, the oil crisis had not begun to bite on the British economy. The quintupling of oil prices had still to come through and we were just entering the worst industrial recession for about 40 years. The right hon. Gentleman knows that. I am particularly pleased that the Opposition have selected this day to debate industrial policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "head by a journalist who approached me the other day and said that he had been trying to get in touch with the Opposition to ask them for a statement about Chrysler. He said that he had been told, uncharacteristically, that they were not prepared to make a statement on the subject and that even when he approached Conservative Central Office he was told that it was not prepared to make a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman is saying—and it is absolutely right—is that in our type of capitalist society, unless profits are made, there is no investment. Profitability is the essence of the existing capitalist system. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is precisely because of the growth of machinery in our type of society that there has been a fall in profitability?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In-vestment in what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "That is one of the myths it suits the Left to believe. The cyclical investment pattern of the early 1970s was that investment bottomed out in about 1971 and then began to rise steeply. We had the biggest annual increase for many years in 1973–74, but then we went back to the point which investment reached in the early 1970s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " cost, their party dogma must be served to the last. We shall be debating the Bill on Second Reading, which, I understand from the Whitehall-leaked rumours, is to be in the not-too-distant future. Therefore, it will be appropriate to wait till that moment. As we have heard so much from The Sunday Times , I do not believe that the House would wish me to refrain from quoting from The Times of today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Therefore, it will be appropriate to wait till that moment. As we have heard so much from The Sunday Times , I do not believe that the House would wish me to refrain from quoting from The Times of today. [ Laughter. ] I can understand the laughter from the Under-Secretary of State for Industry. I am not sure what other defence he has got. I should like to quote from the first leader in The Times .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "fair margin of the money they earn. Otherwise they will simply say \"If we have the problems and the Government take the money, we might as well refuse to take on the problems.\" When taxation becomes penal, leading towards the equal society that hon. Members talk about, it erodes incentive. This way we shall not need a revolution to bring about a Communist society, because it will be there already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": " be bothered by the utterances in the Financial Times of such people as the hon. Member and things might improve. If we were allowed to get on with our own business and attend to our own affairs, operating our prosperous and successful division of Chrysler, instead of suffering interference from people outside, or these idle, incompetent and greedy motor industry workers in Scotland and elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "gent action is needed, that is, nationalised industries' costs and prices. There is no attempt to deal with that. On the contrary, there is a programme for further nationalisation, and how the right hon. Lady, knowing as she must that nationalisation is synonymous with yet further inflationary forces, could have supported such a measure and still claim to be a Social Democrat I simply do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "n the stifling bureaucracy of the organisation and its structure, which cause these deficiences. There are a number of things we already know. We know that there are powerful work forces in the nationalised industry. We know that the pay in the public sector has risen faster than that in the private sector. We know that productivity is usually lower in the public sector than in the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will have the decency to admit that the Conservative Government divided the country on a policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will have the decency to admit that the Conservative Government divided the country on a policy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"] The Conservative Party knows that it divided the country over the Industrial Relations Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will have the decency to admit that the Conservative Government divided the country on a policy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"] The Conservative Party knows that it divided the country over the Industrial Relations Act—[ Interruption ]—whereas we have tried to seek consensus. Hon. Gentlemen opposite should be ashamed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady is on a very important point about the nationalised industries. Is she saying that electricity, transport and the other nationalised industries will now be subject to definite cash limits —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady is on a very important point about the nationalised industries. Is she saying that electricity, transport and the other nationalised industries will now be subject to definite cash limits —[ Interruption. ] Can she also say some-thing in reply to the suggestions of my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Lady intend to answer the points made on behalf of Scotland and Wales from this Bench today, or is she going to ignore these two countries in this very important debate about industry? Bearing in mind that Scotland is self-sufficient in food and energy, is it not noticeable that there is only one Member on the Labour Benches from Scotland, and not one Welshman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-20", "file": "debates1975-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e1b532e75b8dd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": ", or is she going to ignore these two countries in this very important debate about industry? Bearing in mind that Scotland is self-sufficient in food and energy, is it not noticeable that there is only one Member on the Labour Benches from Scotland, and not one Welshman? [ Interruption. ] Would the right hon. Lady, therefore, care to make up for the lack of attention given to these two countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-20a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-21", "file": "debates1975-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "305913e35e9cfff9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-21a.346.9", "colnum": "346", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "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": "ew contract, which they welcomed overwhelmingly and on which they can build in the future. That is why we have offered an urgent joint examination of their long hours of work. Yesterday, I suggested that we should immediately set up a joint working party to plan the reduction and eventual elimination of their excessive hours. I do not pretend that it will be easy, but that is the right way forward", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-21a.346.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-21", "file": "debates1975-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "305913e35e9cfff9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-21a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " confrontation with the medical profession. Has it never occurred to the right hon. Lady that we are seeing a period of strife unparalleled in the history of the Health Service? Has it not occurred to her that she bears massive responsibility for that development? As matters stand, the right hon. Lady will go down in history as Calamity Castle, the Minister who wrecked the National Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-21a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-24", "file": "debates1975-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "36c938031151eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEVOLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Dean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member was not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Dean", "preceding_text": "Bearing in mind that on the last occasion devolution was debated in the House the time was taken up almost entirely by Scottish and Welsh Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-24", "file": "debates1975-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "36c938031151eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can confirm the last point made by the hon. Gentleman, including what he said about members of the UDR. The hon. Gentleman has raised questions of operational matters for the Army, dealing with the delicate issue of the border. It has been reaffirmed this morning that the Army is operating there in the manner in which it feels it is correct to operate as a security force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-24", "file": "debates1975-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "36c938031151eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.497.7", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "State this afternoon some concrete proposals to translate those intentions into fact. We look to the Secretary of State to outline the Government's plans to review the organisation and disposition of further education provision in our schools and colleges. How will he ensure that resources, and teachers especially, are effectively deployed? What proposals has he to make day release more effective?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.497.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-24", "file": "debates1975-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "36c938031151eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "d the Member for Southend, West (Mr. Channon). That is that this is again increasing the power of collective central Government at the very time when we are having this great argument about devolution. I believe that the demand for devolution has arisen not because there is too much government from London but because there is too much government from anywhere, and that people can be over-governed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-24", "file": "debates1975-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "36c938031151eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "orth-East (Mrs. Short), that if there had been an insistence upon a total bipartite system without the experimentation for comprehensive schools, there would have been no experiment. The beginnings of the comprehensive school, in Anglesey, the Isle of Man, London and Coventry, simply came because there was freedom for experimentation. That is now being stopped, as if this were the end of the line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-24", "file": "debates1975-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "36c938031151eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "en. It is just the same with the centralised collapse of the Post Office. Dear old ladies will not get their post this Christmas because of the mail monopoly. And there is to be a similar closing of railways and public services. Why should we not have pirate bus services? Unless we do we shall cut off some places so that they become like medieval villages. Perhaps I may ask the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-24", "file": "debates1975-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "36c938031151eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "appening to their children. If the Government are prepared to think again about this matter and to deal with the real problem and withdraw or postpone this divisive measure until they have made an effort to grapple with the genuine problems of education, I will, on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends, give them a pledge: we shall not deride such a change of heart nor boast of it as a victory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-24", "file": "debates1975-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "36c938031151eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.615.2", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Gardiner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Gardiner", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Lady give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-24a.615.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is 8·4 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The downward phase in the cycle began under the Conservative Government even before we felt the effect of increased oil prices on this country. The hon. Gentleman knows what is happening all over the advanced industrial word in exactly the same degree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.664.3", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ve a long way to go in the negotiations before anyone can hope to save any part of the Chrysler empire, in view of the negotiations with which we have been presented. We are striving might and main to save the whole operation, if that is possible, and certainly to save Linwood, because of the high level of unemployment there. There are powerful difficulties in concentrating production on one area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.681.7", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "lves. Hon. Members opposite may laugh, but let them listen to the case that I am going to make. I begin with the Paymaster-General. The Paymaster-General in speech after speech genuinely argues the case for profits and profitability. On the other hand, there are those, like the Secretary of State for Energy, who argue precisely the opposite. In a speech on 15th October to the Aluminium Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.681.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.681.7", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ithin the Cabinet Room in this country that he chose to expose his thoughts to, of all people, members of the Costa Rican Government. Where does the Chancellor of the Exchequer stand in all this? He often seeks to present himself as a bluff, robust exponent of harsh economic truth, but even he speaks with a most uncertain voice. If we look at what was reported in the national Press on 2nd October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.681.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "duce the level of employment by a general reflation at this time. That would involve an unacceptable increase both in our balance of payments deficit and in our public sector borrowing requirement. We could not expect to finance either of those increases at a time when our inflation rate is still running so far above that of our competitors, except in ways that would be destructive to the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Inflation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "y high increase in the savings ratio. It is running at 13 per cent. to 14 per cent. in Britain as against under 10 per cent. in normal times. One of the many uncertainties which bedevil forecasting at present is our ignorance about the precise reasons for this very high savings ratio and our consequent inability to predict whether and to what extent it will fall as inflation and unemployment fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey:", "preceding_text": " and the pressure on resources is bound to reach its peak. That is why I warned the House in July that public expenditure programmes could not be allowed any significant increase in the two years beyond the reduced level planned for 1976–77. The precise size and distribution of the required cuts in programmes will of course be announced as usual in the annual public expenditure White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wands-worth?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "We have debated this matter many times. If the local authorities stick to their planned programmes, there should be no significant increase in the rates or rate poundage next spring, and cash limits will then be applying to about 75 per cent. of local authority expenditure—that is, to capital expenditure and to two-thirds of current expen- diture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "l Government Departments will be published around the beginning of the financial year and the Government will then welcome the opportunity of debating them. I now turn to the alternative policies put forward by the Conservative Front Bench—if they really justify the name of policies, because the right hon. and learned Gentleman's speech presented the usual spectacle of confusion and contradiction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": " constantly works against stability, consistency and continuity. I end by quoting some words which I hope will strike a chord in the hearts of some Conservative Members at least. They come from a pamphlet published recently by an ex-Conservative Member of Parliament, a much respected lawyer and an ex-Minister—Sir John Foster. He said: Britain, the country with the most primitive electoral system\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "her than the Middle East; at any rate, going to the Middle East and to the International Monetary Fund—to borrow huge sums of money in order, we are told, to pay for the deficit on the balance of payments; that is to say, to ensure, since a deficit on the current account is always equal to a surplus on the capital account, an even larger surplus on the capital account than we would otherwise have?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Reid", "preceding_text": "riers of nationalism—our institutions—have given us a prickly pride against alien domination. In law, English methods and concepts are profoundly foreign. Put bluntly, we need self-government to satisfy our people's belief in their own identity, to ensure external recognition as a full and dignified member of world society, and to satisfy a fundamental need for self-control over our national life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ay—the Secretary of State for Education and Science, in quite a long speech, hardly referred at all to the problems of education and was almost totally opaque as to his future intentions. Today, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who I recognise is always embarrassed by support from these benches and I therefore would not wish to give him too much support because this must be very difficult for him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "Yes, give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.787.7", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " barrier. Interestingly enough, at the end of the article he said—it might be an oversimplification to say this—that the upper classes in this country had produced since the war only officials, no entrepreneurs; the working class had produced no labour leaders, only strike organisers. That is the view of an outsider to this country, a fairly shrewd observer. I think it is a reasonably painful one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.787.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "It is the bit that I am talking about. My right hon. Friend made it clear that substantial economies would be necessary in 1977–78 and 1978–79. That will be the time to make resources available for exports and investment, as my hon. Friend the Member for Horsham and Crawley (Mr. Hordern) said in a very good speech this evening", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-25", "file": "debates1975-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b5cb477337746669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.795.0", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The fact remains that the additional expenditure has been put upon us by the very people who are now asking for cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-25a.795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-26", "file": "debates1975-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "a277de7b1c444838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-26a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "INFLATION ACCOUNTING (SANDILANDS REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "The later questions put by my hon. Friend went very much wider than my statement and raised the whole general question of industrial strategy and financial strategy, as I think he will understand. My hon. Friend may be in danger of confusing two separate things. As I understand it, the Sandilands Report is about a way of presenting the accounts of enterprises in a way which most of us accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-26a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-26", "file": "debates1975-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "a277de7b1c444838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-26a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF TERRORISM (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Litterick", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Litterick", "preceding_text": "r father simply said \"These belong to my daughter. She is interested in Amnesty International and the anti-apartheid movement.\" We now know from that incident another truth about the operation of this legislation. It is that the West Midlands Metropolitan Police Force regards any connection with Amnesty International or the anti-apartheid movement as prima facie evidence of terrorist potentiality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-26a.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "It is in no way a question of my personal point of view. As it stands at the moment, it is a question of the decision of the House, taken, I believe, with great responsibility in the early aftermath of the worst of the incidents that we have had—the Birmingham incidents—and taken by a very large majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "aken, I believe, with great responsibility in the early aftermath of the worst of the incidents that we have had—the Birmingham incidents—and taken by a very large majority—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that is undeniable—and taken, I believe, because the majority of the House took the view, as I still do, that this is not a matter in which one should allow old prejudices or traditional views to sway one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1036.5", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the speed of his reading but not on the perception that he brought to it. If this is what he feels on a first quick reading, I am very surprised at the squalor of his deal with the Conservatives who took a very different view of devolution when they voted on Tuesday night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1036.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC AND CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members may put it to the test. Nobody knows where the Conservatives stand. They sat on their hands when the vote was taken. Half of them wanted a statutory policy and half of them did not know what they wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1039.5", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC AND CBI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the miners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Government's £6 pay policy could be destroyed if any group of people, whether dentists, dustmen or doctors, were to breach that policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1039.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1039.6", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC AND CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "iners\" has been thrown across the Floor of the House. I remind hon. Members that the miners' conference, last July, in Scarborough, accepted this policy. The miners had a pit-head ballot of individual votes which showed a three-to-two majority in favour of this policy. This is now the policy of their executive. I might say that they showed much more courage in this matter than the Opposition have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1039.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC AND CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Lady. I know that she would not wish her reference to Left-Wing militants to be taken as referring to the junior hospital doctors. They are currently challenging a wage policy which was accepted by this House and, indeed, by the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC AND CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Lady. I know that she would not wish her reference to Left-Wing militants to be taken as referring to the junior hospital doctors. They are currently challenging a wage policy which was accepted by this House and, indeed, by the country. [ Interruption. ] They are challenging, and the Government and Opposition are resisting the challenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC AND CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d the Government and Opposition are resisting the challenge. [ Interruption. ] I have plenty of time to answer. I cannot answer while an hon. Member opposite who is acting as a PPS is out of control. If hon. Members will allow me to try to remember the original question, I shall endeavour to answer it. I was saying that I welcomed the fact that in this House, on the question of the Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC AND CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "h Service—[An HON. MEMBER:\"Speak up.\"] We have all said that the policy must be carried through. The right hon. Lady referred to the danger from Left-Wing militants. I have made clear my anxiety about the threat to our community from Left-Wing and Right-Wing militants, with only one group of whom the right hon. Lady tends to associate herself—but only in the United States, and not in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC AND CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " from Left-Wing militants. I have made clear my anxiety about the threat to our community from Left-Wing and Right-Wing militants, with only one group of whom the right hon. Lady tends to associate herself—but only in the United States, and not in this country. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members may not like it. I have been asked a long question and hon. Members are going to get the answer in the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1045.4", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot undertake that. I visited the West Midlands a fortnight ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1045.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-11-27", "file": "debates1975-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "176be18be62af017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1047.8", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Or two passports.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Make sure he has a passport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-11-27a.1047.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-01", "file": "debates1975-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "45b026d8e9145d0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1247.4", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Between 1970 and 1974 the hon. Gentleman trotted through the Division Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1247.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-01", "file": "debates1975-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "45b026d8e9145d0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1262.0", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS (JUNIOR DOCTORS AND CONSULTANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the miners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "that she has been open and conciliatory towards the junior doctors? The offer of an independent audit of the claim was put to them earlier than today. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the fact that doctors, juniors and consultants, are prepared ruthlessly to put the health of patients at risk is despicable, and that it is time we stood up to those people who will put their self-interest first?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-01", "file": "debates1975-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "45b026d8e9145d0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS (JUNIOR DOCTORS AND CONSULTANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "st 10 minutes we have wandered away from consideration of the great risks being run as a result of the impasse that has been reached. As a member of the South-East Thames Hospital Authority I received a report half an hour ago that King's College, Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals in London are now at grave risk and that at the end of the week the risk will be severe. Other hospitals in the region—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-01", "file": "debates1975-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "45b026d8e9145d0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that my hon. Friend heard the Minister's speech, but I do not think that he heard his intervention during the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury (Mr. Crouch). The Minister intervened at that point to say the very opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-01", "file": "debates1975-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "45b026d8e9145d0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1334.3", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": " of areas, especially in Kent. In the Chamber we talk glibly about the eradication of male hops as though it were no more than the pulling up of a nettle or the squirting of a bit of poison. I assure the House that the eradication of the hop is very different from that. It is a long and deep-rooted plant. Just going out with a fork will not grub it up. A man has to get in a JCB digger or the like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-01", "file": "debates1975-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "45b026d8e9145d0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Gavin Strang)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Gavin Strang)", "preceding_text": "ave always believed that, basically, the Labour Party was the party of the farmers, whereas the Conservative Party was the party of the landlords. I do not think there can be any doubt that anyone reading this debate will see that wherever there is a clash of interests between the farmers and the landlords he can rest assured that the Conservative Party will come down on the side of the landlords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-01", "file": "debates1975-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "45b026d8e9145d0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "FISHING VESSELS (GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "ider approaching the matter on a North Atlantic basis and taking some initiative on a narrower basis than perhaps all fishing nations, to seek some resolution and at least to set the pace a bit more than they are doing at present for resolving the question of international limits. As for the Common Market countries, I beg the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North and also those who sit on the SNP Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-01", "file": "debates1975-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "45b026d8e9145d0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "FISHING VESSELS (GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "preceding_text": "stry to square the importance which the Government and Opposition attach to it as a provider of food for this country in the future with the ending of aid which is vital if it is to continue? We all know of the difficult economic situation with which the Government are faced. We also know of the considerable good will between the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and the fishermen of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-01", "file": "debates1975-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "45b026d8e9145d0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1406.3", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "FISHING VESSELS (GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e argument is put forward that the continuation of this subsidy is vital to the industry, it is a slight exaggeration. Obviously, no matter what the subsidy is—even though it may be only 3 per cent. of the earnings—it may be vital to the owners of some vessels, because it may be the difference between a profit or a loss. I am not an economist, but I would have thought that that was fairly obvious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-01", "file": "debates1975-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "45b026d8e9145d0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1407.5", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "FISHING VESSELS (GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "he number of days at sea before a vessel qualifies, and similar factors, there must be an element of guessing. Hon. Members can read Hansard tomorrow. I assure the House that the Minister was not misleading it. He was merely saying that the money set aside totalled £6¼ million in the first year. That was only a factual point. I thought I was being asked what had been claimed as expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1407.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-01", "file": "debates1975-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "45b026d8e9145d0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "FISHING VESSELS (GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I notice that the hon. Gentleman, with his usual lack of courage, has dodged the question I have put to him. He is not saying that he admits that there has been law-breaking by Scottish or English fishermen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-01a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1436.4", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Put it in the Library\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "—is that he was presumably basing himself on a single sentence or two from my letter which has been circulated by Mr. Nicholson. If the hon. Gentleman had read the whole of my letter he could not, I hope, have sought to give circulation to the complete misrepresentation which he has now repeated in the House. If lie read the whole of the letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1436.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1449.3", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "ween design teams ought to be stopped, and that is a matter that the new Corporation and the organising committee will have to consider in the first instance. On any basis, however, it ought to be possible for unified control to eliminate wasteful duplication in this area and deploy the resources more efficiently. Again, there will be administrative savings from elimination of duplicated services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1449.3", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "he organising committee will have to consider in the first instance. On any basis, however, it ought to be possible for unified control to eliminate wasteful duplication in this area and deploy the resources more efficiently. Again, there will be administrative savings from elimination of duplicated services. [ Interruption. ] Sales operations will be able to cover a wider range of consumer needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hayman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hayman", "preceding_text": "of the industry and a further reliance on that side. We were all over-gloomy 12 or 18 months ago about the prospects for civil aviation world-wide. Here, of course, I am referring to the decision which many of us linked in our minds with the concern of management for nationalisation—the decision to cancel the HS146. That decision was one which the Government said at the time they would put on ice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1512.3", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep it simple.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " described the Bill as a piece of industrial archaeology. I think it is a piece of industrial geology. When historians sink bore-holes into our industrial history, they will find a stratum of ineptitude and failure which will surely be known as the Varley-Benn discontinuity and will be found to be completely lacking in any interesting material or valuable resources, intellectual or administrative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1553.3", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "because of unfair foreign subsidisation. But agriculture is the most highly protected industry in the country. On that basis it is impossible to say that shipbuilding is inefficient. My second point concerns the so called investment strike. How many hon. Members realise that the private sector of shipbuilding alone has invested £77 million over the past 10 years, with little Government assistance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1553.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1565.1", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Millions of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " any facts. However, we are told by hon. Members, and I am sure they are genuine—the hon. Member for Welwyn and Hat-field (Mrs. Hayman) told us so, and I entirely believe her—that some of the workers want nationalisation. Other hon. Members say that other workers do not want it. I believe that to the extent that some workers want nationalisation, and even some middle managers want nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1565.1", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "wonderful if nationalisation were a magic wand. But there is no magic wand. Nationalisation does not change attitudes. We on this side of the House would welcome any nationalisation success. In other countries where nationalisation has been introduced, it seems to have been managed better. But I think nationalisation is a disaster. If the Government can extract some success from it we shall cheer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1565.1", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ralised or decentralised. Whichever it is, it will still break the delicate and important links with customers which successful shipbuilders have forged. I am lost for words to describe the absurdity of putting ship repairing into this nationalisation measure. From the evidence that I have, the remarks of the Secretary of State were inaccurate. Not all ship repairers are linked with ship builders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Chancellor?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": "ion for research, and so on—making £600 million, which is specified and specific. But there is no estimate for the compensation, nor is there any estimate for the guarantees. How come, first, that a Money Resolution put before the House has no limit specified whatsoever? There is no limit to how much can be spent for compensation, and no spokesman of the Government has told us what that will cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ationalised. The same applies to shipbuilding. Shipbuilding is not all that profitable to start with, but when the \"Loch Ness Ministers\" have finished with it, it will be one of the biggest loss-makers that there has ever been. I suppose that the sort of sums that we hear about in relation to the Post Office, the steel industry and the whole of the public sector are going to be charged up against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1597.1", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "e such estimates, the House is being denied the information that it should have in considering this Money Resolution. The most charitable interpretation that can be put upon this is that Ministers are deliberately concealing information. The uncharitable interpretation is that they do not know. If they do not know—the Minister is nodding; I do not know whether that means he knows or does not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1598.3", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "We have gone through this matter in great detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1598.3", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ock compensation. Nevertheless, it is the only answer. He is quite right to talk about the possible effects of compensation stock on the growth of money supply. I do not quarrel with the points of principle which he has made. All I can say is that if a problem is created the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have to take it into account in formulating future policies. I cannot go further than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1627.0", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "HERBERT LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Audrey Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not necessarily\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Audrey Wise", "preceding_text": "on are right when they say that this is public money or taxpayers' money—but the workers at Alfred Herbert have an interest both as taxpayers and as workers. We want to know if there will be more far-reaching changes in management than there is evidence of so far. It is far better to use taxpayers' money in this way than to use it for unemployment benefit, redundancy pay or supplementary benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1627.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1628.3", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "HERBERT LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "No. It is a short debate. I must ask the Minister to deal more carefully with the point about redundancies because it is simply not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1633.1", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "HERBERT LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Les Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Les Huckfield", "preceding_text": "nts be unemployed. That is the logic of what the hon. Member for Tonbridge and Mailing (Mr. Stanley) said from the Opposition Front Bench. That is the logic of every case that the Opposition have made in every debate we have had about putting money into companies. I can only say that their policies have pretty well laid waste the whole of the industrial Midlands since they have been in Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-02", "file": "debates1975-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "351fe24c06169699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1639.3", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "HERBERT LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. I have not time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-02a.1639.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-03", "file": "debates1975-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1a65b3eefe6b26b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1661.2", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made clear, we are not yet committed to publishing a White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1661.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-03", "file": "debates1975-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1a65b3eefe6b26b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1678.0", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "est and very strong views about this matter, but there is always a balance to be considered. There is the balance between accountability of development corporations to the Minister, who, in turn, of course, is accountable to the House, and, at the same time, the natural desire and, indeed, the advantage in local development corporations \"ganging their ain gait\" and providing the necessary answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-03", "file": "debates1975-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1a65b3eefe6b26b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1688.3", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "BURMAH OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "If I may say so to the right hon. Gentleman—I do not blame him for putting the question—that is an entirely separate question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-03", "file": "debates1975-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1a65b3eefe6b26b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEVELOPMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "a cavalier fashion. This is the first of the six-monthly debates to be held since the British people decided that our destiny lay within Europe. The 5th June is now almost history, and I believe it best to leave it as such. Today I seek to draw no conclusions from the referendum campaign or its results, save to mention the simple fact that we are now irrevocably in membership of the Common Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-03", "file": "debates1975-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1a65b3eefe6b26b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1729.3", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEVELOPMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": " very critical of the Government in this matter. The situation was that if we had seen the British delegation appointed in the same proportional way as the West German delegation, for instance, there would have been seven entitled to go, but, in fact, the Liberal representation was cut from two to one because of an unholy and undemocratic alliance between the Labour and Conservative Front Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-03", "file": "debates1975-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1a65b3eefe6b26b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1813.4", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEVELOPMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": ", because so many of the countries concerned are linked with us in the Commonwealth. Like others, I felt anxiety that entry into the Community might estrange us from the Commonwealth. In view of the many points at which the Commonwealth countries and the Community are linked, we should have found ourselves further removed from contact with the Commonwealth if we had remained outside the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1813.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-03", "file": "debates1975-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1a65b3eefe6b26b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1827.3", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": " would never work, which never did work, and which collapsed disastrously. Whatever difference of view there may be about the future government of Northern Ireland, one thing on which all, I think, will agree is that, though it is still on the statute book, although the coffin lid has only just been screwed down upon its scarcely cold corpse, there will be no resurrection of the 1973 constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-03", "file": "debates1975-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1a65b3eefe6b26b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1897.9", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TIED COTTAGES AND THE COUNTRYSIDE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Le Marchant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Le Marchant", "preceding_text": "countryside. Let me make it quite clear that I do not intend to refer to legislation which is pending. I freely admit that I believe that productivity would be seriously affected were there to be a significant change in the tied cottage system. As you know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, in Scotland the farm workers do not want a change in the tied cottage system. They realise how it would affect their jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-03a.1897.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1910.1", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "edecessors were no different from the other 1,800 or 1,900 detainees. Every one has been involved in some way. It is not the law that I shall detain these people until the campaign is over. The commissioners released 400 people last year; that is the law. It was the UDA that claimed responsibility for the bomb in Dublin, not the Provisional IRA. Therefore, both sides of the community are involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman assumes that South Armagh is a built-up area, with thousands of terrorists available to shoot. I do not think that he understands the nature of the terrain or the nature of the border.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1920.2", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "rth—perhaps the only one—that seem not to be a part of the North. I make no other comment about that. Liberation, in that sense of the term, is, I believe, the wrong word to use. What I say to the hon. Gentleman is that the General Officer Commanding is satisfied with the weapons that he has. If he wishes to extend the scope of the weapons available to his soldiers, I shall consider his proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1921.1", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are these men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I have just given the House the figures for arrests on serious charges. One active service unit of the IRA has been broken up recently. It is not something that I particularly wanted to say loud and clear, and although it is time it was said, it would be much better, from the police point of view if it were not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1925.7", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend attempt to continue the education of hon. Members opposite by explaining to them that there are differences between good public expenditure and bad public expenditure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1925.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1926.2", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Compensation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no difference between Government money provided in subsidies to the shipbuilding or aircraft industries when they are privately owned and the same money being supplied under public ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1931.6", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us another.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "e a much more far-reaching, agreed mandate for the Community as a whole. I believe that the agreement which my right hon. Friend and I were able to secure after lengthy discussion in Rome—very lengthy—namely, that the United Kingdom should have a separate voice both at the Ministerial Conference and in the four commissions which will subsequently be meeting at official level, achieved our purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1931.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1931.6", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "a separate voice both at the Ministerial Conference and in the four commissions which will subsequently be meeting at official level, achieved our purpose. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us another.\"] The Community will be represented by a single delegation, and the spokesman will be the Presidency of the Council with the Commission. But during the Ministerial Conference the United Kingdom and Luxembourg—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1931.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "th by my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary at the Ministerial Conference and by our officials in the commissions, we shall be able to draw attention to particular problems and be able to make a United Kingdom contribution which reflects our own very different situation and experience. Therefore, we secured our objective, the economic mandate, including minimum selling price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1936.1", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, and that is what we achieved at Rome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1936.5", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, we were speaking for Britain. We have been criticised by the Conservatives because we spoke for Britain. There was no sign, no hope, of getting in advance of the Paris conference any agreement on either MSP or energy sharing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1936.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1936.5", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed this. As for the final part of the right hon. Lady's question, she may be reassured by what I am about to say. At the end of the discussion a number of my colleagues, including the President of France—after an 11-hour meeting, 9½ hours of which were spent on this issue—said that as a result of the Council's discussion on this subject we had, as a Community, come out stronger, not weaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1936.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1937.7", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rts on Tuesday morning of a most dramatic kind occupying several column inches about a row we had on this subject on Monday. It had never even been mentioned when those newspapers went to press. The hon. Gentleman must not be so easily misled. I agree with the hon. Gentleman that short discussions are better than long ones. One way of having a short discussion is to give in. This we refused to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1937.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1939.2", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's opening words are totally wrong. We secured—as I say, it was not easy—not only the right of British representation, which perhaps he opposes—I do not know", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1942.2", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Then what is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r interests went beyond those of the Common Market. The Leader of the Opposition did not address herself to that and nor has any other Opposition Member. If the answer is \"Yes\", we were right to act as we did. Is the Conservative Party so regretful that we have now got what could not have happened perhaps for many years—that we have now got into a European energy mandate the minimum selling price—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1967.1", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Sims", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Sims", "preceding_text": "I have yet to complete two years as a Member of this House. Therefore, it would be presumptuous of me to comment in detail on some of the proposals that have been put before us. I speak from limited experience, so I do not intend to criticise the Report in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.1967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.2001.1", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "f the monarchy and everybody associated with it, and that as early as possible they will take the advice of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, our right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Jenkins), and prominent Ministers then at the Treasury, who made the point to the Civil List Committee that all members of the Royal Family should be taxed in the same way as everybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.2001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.2011.5", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": ", the Sovereign herself pays no tax. The Duchy of Cornwall, as the estate of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, is exempt from tax, but in fact 50 per cent. of the revenue of that estate is assigned by the Prince of Wales to the Consolidated Fund. The sums that the remaining members of the Royal Household receive, whether by specific annuity or specific contributions to expenses, are taxable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.2011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-04", "file": "debates1975-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "753de59072d7a1dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.2016.1", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend agrees with me. This is burned into his soul. He must have had it at birth. It was in his mother's milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-04a.2016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-05", "file": "debates1975-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "367288e1cc854537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-05a.2089.3", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "for introducing and proceeding with such a Bill. I know that there are, arguably, some precedents for the Title of the Bill, but nevertheless the Title is misleading. It provides no clue to what the Bill is about. It should be called the \"Complaints against the Police Bill\". If that had been its Title its inappropriateness would have been plain to everyone. We must keep this matter in perspective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-05a.2089.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-12-08", "file": "debates1975-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b5d0bb00b9364ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.22.5", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ban it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "preceding_text": "In view of that helpful answer, may I inform my hon. Friend that, on analysing a sample of this liquid, the public analyst found that it contained 10·3 per cent. sulphuric acid, which is above the level constituting a poisonous substance? Is it not, therefore, particularly dangerous in the hands of children, for whom it is presumably intended?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.22.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-12-08", "file": "debates1975-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b5d0bb00b9364ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE OIL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Are there any cuttings from the Morning Star?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ould be shouted from the rooftops. However, even these benefits depend on our oil development going according to plan, but what is happening? The story is starkly but, I believe, accurately told in a series of newspaper headlines which began back in June and bring us up to date. They read as follows: British platform yards facing orders crisis\". Then, Benn brings pressure for oil platform orders\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-08", "file": "debates1975-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b5d0bb00b9364ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ut never actually advocates, no one would be more surprised than the oil companies whose interests he has been mistakenly, in my opinion, seeking to promote in his speeches. I do not wish to detain the House much further, so I shall say only a little more. The link between oil and politics applies nationally and internationally. I do not know whether there are any SNP Members still in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-08", "file": "debates1975-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b5d0bb00b9364ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.89.3", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "d for the Argyll field a 57 per cent. discounted cash flow return. It is no wonder that the oil companies are trying to peddle the petroleum revenue tax system to Australia. The companies will be better off under it than if the Australians designed their own system. The Government have not imposed a proper rate of tax on the industry, and will allow excessive profits to be incurred over the years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.89.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-08", "file": "debates1975-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b5d0bb00b9364ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "preceding_text": "he SNP. The people of Scotland, Merseyside, teesside, Tyneside or anywhere else will not tolerate the present levels of unemployment. It is time that we took a tougher line with the oil companies and took them by the scruff of the neck and said \"Place your contracts here and here, so that you provide jobs for the workers in areas which are particularly threatened with high levels of unemployment.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-08", "file": "debates1975-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b5d0bb00b9364ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "e North Sea and abroad. What we have seen today, in the criticism of the Government's participation policy, is yet another stage of the moving front of Conservative policy. Hon Members will remember that little more than a year ago the taxation proposals of the Government were first issued. There was a great howl from all the oil companies who spoke about Draconian measures and all the rest of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-08", "file": "debates1975-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b5d0bb00b9364ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFSHORE OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "were first issued. There was a great howl from all the oil companies who spoke about Draconian measures and all the rest of it. [ Interruption. ] It is right that proposals should be modified as they go through Parliament. That is the purpose of Parliament. Some companies still complain that the Government's new policies are excessive. But I believe that our taxation policies are just about right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-08a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": " whole area of means testing, which is the exact opposite of the policy of the previous Government, who introduced the family income supplement scheme, with all its implications. The hon. Gentleman will understand that our long-term pensions scheme, the noncontributory invalidity benefit and the mobility allowance are all designed to cut back substantially over the years the area of means testing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.209.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "icy of the previous Government, who introduced the family income supplement scheme, with all its implications. The hon. Gentleman will understand that our long-term pensions scheme, the noncontributory invalidity benefit and the mobility allowance are all designed to cut back substantially over the years the area of means testing—[ Interruption. ] How does the hon. Gentleman suggest that there is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "arch ones. I sent the information to him. The House must recognise that the figures are coming in periodically. At present I have only the figures to the end of June, and they arrived only last week. I did not have them at the time the hon. Gentleman raised this matter. I hope that he is not suggesting to the House that he is encouraging junior doctors to stay out on industrial action in the hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.216.4", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "This is a very relevant point to my talks this afternoon. I put it to the House very seriously. I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not encouraging the continuation of industrial action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.216.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.216.4", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " afternoon. I put it to the House very seriously. I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not encouraging the continuation of industrial action—[ Interruption. ] I should be grateful, Mr. Speaker, if I could be allowed to complete a sentence. I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not encouraging the continuance of industrial action in order to enable later figures to be obtained. At the time of the pricing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.216.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "the House that, if a Minister wishes to make a long statement instead of an answer of normal length to a Question, he or she asks the permission of the House to reply to that Question after Question Time. Today, in answer to Question No. 5 asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Thanet, East (Mr. Aitken), the right hon. Lady the Secretary of State for Social Services read three pages of typescript—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.259.2", "colnum": "259", "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": " hanker after the 1971 provisions in one form or another. That is what they want. We say that our system provides a series of safeguards in different ways dealing with different aspects of the matter. There are safeguards for individuals excluded or expelled from a union in a closed shop. We have ensured that a new piece of statutory machinery is added to the common law remedies already available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.261.5", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Prior", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Prior", "preceding_text": ", dignified, normal worker to the jaded, cynical, irresponsible trade union official, the more support the Bill gets. That is no exaggeration. I say that this Bill is the enfranchisement of the corporate society and the disfranchisement of the individual. It gives status to the organised body, and it destroys the status of the individual citizen. It elevates the irresponsible trade union official—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.261.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ion movement and the Government is one way of ensuring that some of the battles—not all the battles by any means, because of the inbuilt differences within our society—take place through discussion rather that confrontation. Nobody knows better than Opposition Members the methods of Governments in confrontation. That is why the Opposition are on the other side of the House and we are on this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "to ensure fairness? The situation is not fair at the moment. I do not think anyone would argue that in the recent non-readoption of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Overseas Development Mr. Tony Kelly was treated with the degree of fairness he should have had. I do not suppose anyone would deny that probably criminal offences were committed by a number of newspapers in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh., no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "what I have been saying. If the NUR wants to have a strike and decides through its procedures to have one, it is right that that should be the declared policy of the union. However, my concept of democracy is also that if an individual who is a member of that union does not go along with that view, he should have the right to resign from the union and to join another which he is qualified to join.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "preceding_text": "ent which many people have, which again can be a cause of disputes and difficulties. It is the exaggeration, the exaggerated statements and hyperbole that we have heard in this debate which have depressed me most. I wrote some of them down and was tempted to quote them, but when one sees them in cold print, they seem so futile and ridiculous that I will not take up the time of the House with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "of journalists or to spend much money to do that. That, however, was the accusation, and that was the way in which the Prime Minister tried to stir up people against the media. If he achieved his aim, and if the Bill allowed a journalist to say \"That is it. Shut the Press\", we could find ourselves in the middle of a General Election with no Press, television or radio. What happens to freedom then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is relevant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "sser argument if the House cares to call it so—that the Committee stage is perhaps also the less necessary in this sense as the issues here have all been debated at considerable length in this House over the past two years and, of course, the intention of completing the repeal of the Industrial Relations Act was part of the Government's programme. However, I do not need to enlarge upon that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "what this House now proposes and if it were to insist on altering the Press freedom provisions as we send them to it, the Government would seek by some other means to pass the measures on Press freedom which the House has agreed upon. We believe that those measures should be accepted. I have said that we wish them to be accepted, and we think that that would be the correct way in which to proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.378.2", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I find a certain constitutional difficulty here. Since the proposals to which the Minister is so anxious that the House of Lords should be compelled to agree contravene the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.378.2", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I find a certain constitutional difficulty here. Since the proposals to which the Minister is so anxious that the House of Lords should be compelled to agree contravene the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, Article 12 states that no man shall be compelled to join an association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman has raised a question on the substance of the matter, which we have debated on numerous occasions during the passage of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman has raised a question on the substance of the matter, which we have debated on numerous occasions during the passage of the Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] It has been replied to on many occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look at Article 20.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman that he is anxious to catch the eye of the Chair later. Surely he can make all his points then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "ages that Back Bench Members have in the Committee stage, such as speaking on more than one occasion, are removed, and all is only by grace and favour. It is true that the right hon. Gentleman has gone some way to say that grace and favour will be pretty extensive. I am not sure that he realises how far he has gone. At the time the Leader of the House was not in his place, any more than he is now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": " earlier stages of this affair, in encouraging the Administration as it shyly lurches its way towards the elimination of embarrassments—embarrassments that concern the protection of the individual. What a pity today that the right hon. Gentleman came before the House of Commons in the guise of Faust, having sold his soul and almost everything the right hon. Gentleman used to believe in to a devil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was a Tory Act\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "wo-chamber Parliament, but the right hon. Gentleman prefers to ignore the Second Chamber. Whatever the future of another place may be, so long as it exists it is the Second Chamber of this Parliament. The people cannot afford to have ignored, by the Opposition, the ministerial arrogance which the present Government are showing. We have had the television licence case and the sewerage rate dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ot think the law is important. They do not think that civil rights and the rights of the individual are important— until they can twist them to fit their own perverted doctrines. I would have thought that some of them might at least take the matter of principle seriously, even though they have none themselves. The rights of the individual and after all, the Shrewsbury pickets are just individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": " doubt that Labour Members would like to bring back Sir Alec, because he is now in the House of Lords. He was put there by them, as was Lord George-Brown, who is also against their proposals. Yet they pretend that the other place is a constitutional anachronism created by someone else. The noble Lords who were put there by the Government are opposing their filthy legislation which is so unpopular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-09", "file": "debates1975-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b114c15286c85c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: They will be up to Blackburn.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "is procedural motion without two simple questions being answered. The Secretary of State is quite incapable of answering them—no blame to him, because it is not the job he is paid for. The Leader of the House is paid to explain the procedure. If he is incapable of doing that, he had better appoint one or two more paid political advisers, because at least they can perhaps come up with some answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-09a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-10", "file": "debates1975-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "288a4805e366133d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.433.2", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "It is typical of the hon. Lady that she allows her prejudices to take wing and is never disturbed by the facts. She fails to mention that provision was made for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-10", "file": "debates1975-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "288a4805e366133d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman that the leader of his party did not vote against the monster of local government reorganisation. Therefore, his party must accept its responsibility. The financing of local government has concerned me for a long time. The previous Conservative Government produced a Green Paper in 1971 on the radical reform of local government finance. It came to nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-10", "file": "debates1975-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "288a4805e366133d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "I have noticed in recent days the touchiness of the hon. Member regarding the question of separatism. I should have thought that the responsibility was on the SNP to publish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-10", "file": "debates1975-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "288a4805e366133d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEE (AVAILABILITY OF REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Whenever there is a slight delay—usually only hours—in relation to printing, Opposition Members quickly jump to their feet to complain. I would like to say on behalf of many hon. Members on this side that we appreciate the difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.459.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-10", "file": "debates1975-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "288a4805e366133d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "I take it that the hon. Gentleman and the Conservative Party are resisting cuts in arms spending. But am I not right in saying that they are pressing for cuts in almost everything else?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-10", "file": "debates1975-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "288a4805e366133d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.491.4", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "e end we have no credible policy, or a strategy which even our allies question—the effect on fellow members of the Alliance must be considered, too—we shall end without a defence policy. We are moving dangerously close to that position. If that is so, it is about time that we on these benches had a profound look at defence. We need to consider, for example, what we are defending ourselves against.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.491.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-10", "file": "debates1975-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "288a4805e366133d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. The alleged saving of £4,700 million in 10 years is spurious. It relates solely to what the Conservative Government considered three years ago in a different economic climate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-10", "file": "debates1975-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "288a4805e366133d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "he Press do speculate on this matter, they produce for us evidence of the extent of concern. In the hon. Member's reading, no doubt today's Daily Express was included. It contained a report about an alliance between Mr. Jack Jones and Mr. Hugh Scanlon and the Secretary of State for Defence to soft-pedal on defence cuts on the grounds that, if defence orders are axed, thousands of jobs may be lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-10", "file": "debates1975-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "288a4805e366133d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "We shall consider the matter. I can give my hon. Friend that assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-10", "file": "debates1975-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "288a4805e366133d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.611.9", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": " this, one thing stands out. The motorist as such holds no brief for these restrictions. He finds them confusing, unrealistic and unjustifiable and as something else with which to cope. There is no need for the Order to be brought forward again. It is a pity that the Government have missed an opportunity to allow this legislation to lapse. Unfortunately, like all Socialist Governments, they enjoy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-10a.611.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.639.4", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "Have we come to Question No. 9?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.639.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Daily Record\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will recall that a fortnight ago he disparaged my initial reactions to the White Paper on devolution. Does he accept that every newspaper in Scotland, whatever its political viewpoint, has fundamentally criticised the White Paper? Will he now enter into detailed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "SEEMA BHOLA (ADMISSION TO HOSPITAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": "I should like to associate myself with the Minister in expressing deep sympathy with the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bhola, on the loss of their young child. Does the Secretary of State realise that in the eyes of my constituents and millions of decent people it is her responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "SEEMA BHOLA (ADMISSION TO HOSPITAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": "the Secretary of State realise that in the eyes of my constituents and millions of decent people it is her responsibility—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—I repeat, it is her responsibility to see that patients can gain immediate admission to hospital in an emergency? Does the Minister realise that, whatever the rights and wrongs of the dispute with the doctors, it is the Secretary of State's duty to ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.652.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "SEEMA BHOLA (ADMISSION TO HOSPITAL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": "s the Minister realise that, whatever the rights and wrongs of the dispute with the doctors, it is the Secretary of State's duty to ensure—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that the hospitals are open night and day? Does not the Secretary of State agree that the time has come to resolve the unhappy dispute with the doctors so that my constituents can gain admission to hospital when they need urgent treatment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.652.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.654.2", "colnum": "654", "heading": "SEEMA BHOLA (ADMISSION TO HOSPITAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Without dissenting from your ruling, may I point out that you have now allowed one question from one side of the House which gives a totally false and damnable impression of what hon. Members think about this case?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.654.7", "colnum": "654", "heading": "SEEMA BHOLA (ADMISSION TO HOSPITAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a further point of order, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Shersby), if I can call him the hon. Member, made a statement to the effect that my right hon. Friend is responsible for the death of a child—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.654.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "SEEMA BHOLA (ADMISSION TO HOSPITAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that the responsibility for this situation rested on my right hon. Friend. I am certain that any hon. Member who thinks about the matter will not accept that proposition. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to make a statement dissociating herself from the standards and shameful remarks of her hon. Friend. If she does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "TERRORIST OFFENCES (PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Show the opposite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "nalty—very quickly to their door. What of the more practical objections based on arguments about martyrdom, and the taking of hostages and reprisals? Before the will of the people is overridden, surely opponents of capital punishment have at the very least to show that martyrdom is likely to make more terrorists than would be deterred by the death penalty. I do not believe that they can show that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "TERRORIST OFFENCES (PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scaremongering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "e here as representatives, using our own judgment. That is an argument which I recall the hon. Member himself using when he saw fit to quote Burke in the similar debate this time last year. But what I am saying is that if people, in their immense frustration, are going to resort to this sort of retaliation, reprisal or counterterrorism—if that is even a possibility—we should do something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.685.2", "colnum": "685", "heading": "TERRORIST OFFENCES (PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "preceding_text": " and changes occur in every aspect of our lives. There is no going back from the all-embracing legislation that was enacted in 1957. We have to realise that our future will be more perilous. I earnestly hope that the Minister of State will convince the Home Secretary of the strength of public feeling and ask him to realise that something must be done, perhaps in consultation with the Parole Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "TERRORIST OFFENCES (PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Helene Hayman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Helene Hayman", "preceding_text": "rotecting public safety in this country and bringing peace to Northern Ireland. It would make it more difficult for the security forces and the police to get information. It would make it more difficult to get convictions. This is not, as the hon. Gentleman seemed to think, because juries have doubts; it is because juries have a revulsion against sentencing to death the people who are before them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "TERRORIST OFFENCES (PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "prompting on my part. The Commissioner has told me that he has in no way changed his views. He has also added that in his opinion the prospects of the police being able to deal successfully with kidnappers would be weakened and the risks to the lives of hostages made greater if the death penalty existed for terrorist murder. In short, he thinks that it would make his job harder rather than easier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-11", "file": "debates1975-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "24bdea936663c676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "TERRORIST OFFENCES (PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "group of people who will think that we are out of our minds are the terrorists themselves. They are not deterred by life imprisonment and they are certainly not deterred by life imprisonment with the promise or hope of amnesty. They are deterred by capital punishment. If they had any spokesmen in this House—I hope to goodness they have not—which side do hon. Members think they would be voting for?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-11a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-15", "file": "debates1975-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "41e706221f3f6873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY REPORTS (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Mellish)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Mellish)", "preceding_text": "In the absence of my right hon. Friend, I have been asked to reply. The CPRS Report will be available for the debate tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-15", "file": "debates1975-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "41e706221f3f6873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.961.5", "colnum": "961", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY REPORTS (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "Only the right hon. Gentleman could have made such a silly observation as that. Plainly, the Chrysler situation, with its grave impact upon thousands and thousands of jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-15", "file": "debates1975-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "41e706221f3f6873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.962.2", "colnum": "962", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY REPORTS (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "Will the Patronage Secretary accept that, although I have hitherto always been in total sympathy with him, this reply is not good enough?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.962.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-15", "file": "debates1975-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "41e706221f3f6873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY REPORTS (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "What a nasty mind the hon. Gentleman has. The CPRS Report will be as it was given to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.963.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-12-15", "file": "debates1975-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "41e706221f3f6873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.967.3", "colnum": "967", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Eric G. Varley)", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. My discussions with the Chrysler Corporation are not yet complete, but I shall be in a position to report their outcome to the House tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-15", "file": "debates1975-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "41e706221f3f6873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.968.2", "colnum": "968", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "I hope to be in a position to make a comprehensive statement to the House tomorrow, but I cannot go further than that. I hope that my hon. Friend will not think that I have been discourteous. I have taken big steps to keep my hon. Friends and Opposition Members informed as much as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.968.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-15", "file": "debates1975-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "41e706221f3f6873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "agree that it is very important that the Chrysler decision, whatever it may be, is put into the context not only of the CPRS Report but of the Government's views on the Report of the Select Committee on Expenditure? Is he not aware that it would be impossible to do justice to these matters and to their importance to the country if he were simply to make a statement during the course of the debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-15", "file": "debates1975-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "41e706221f3f6873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE AND PRIVATE PRACTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "The wording I have read out to the House more adequately reflects their point of view. They will put these proposals for urgent consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-15", "file": "debates1975-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "41e706221f3f6873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Speed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Speed", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) but I gather that there will be a revolution in Birmingham if the so-called free heating scheme comes to an end. For the hon. Gentleman, apparently, the party is not over indeed, it has not even begun. However, I am sure that he will find his answer next May when the electors of Birmingham return a Conservative metropolitan district council there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-15", "file": "debates1975-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "41e706221f3f6873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Speed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Speed", "preceding_text": " to an end. For the hon. Gentleman, apparently, the party is not over indeed, it has not even begun. However, I am sure that he will find his answer next May when the electors of Birmingham return a Conservative metropolitan district council there. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member laughs. I beg a pint of best \"Fed\" across the Table of the House that the Conservatives win back Birmingham next May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-15", "file": "debates1975-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "41e706221f3f6873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "preceding_text": "of my hon. Friends said that he hoped that the Government would come out against the Bill. I do not think there is a cat's whisker of a chance of that, because earlier this year the Minister for Planning and Local Government supported his hon. Friends below the Gangway when they wanted to extend the powers of local government to go into undertaking, taxi driving, soliciting and estate agency work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-15a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "pointed directors on the board of Chysler UK. I think that our decision can be related realistically to the attitude that the Government have taken to the motor cycle industry. I am pleased that my hon. Friend has raised the question of that industry, although it is not strictly within the scope of this statement. The last time that we debated this matter, my hon. Friend did not bother to turn up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "e gall to speak about it. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the money he is prepared to spend to bolster up a failing capitalist private enterprise disaster would have been better spent on some of the publicly-owned industries of Great Britain that are struggling under difficult circumstances because of the undermining of their efforts by private enterprise, which, indeed, they are subsidising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Eric G. Varley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Eric G. Varley)", "preceding_text": "led in three key documents. The first of these is the Ryder Report on British Leyland. The second is the Report of the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee. I apologise to the House and to my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. Duffy) who is Chairman of that Committee, for the fact that it has not been possible to publish the Government's reply to the Report in time for this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "ited Kingdom's export of complete cars. In particular, exports to the United States of America have flourished. In the financial year up to October, they were running at a level of 36 per cent. above the previous year. There have been real achievements in the first few months. But I repeat that it is no good being complacent. It would be foolish to pretend that there is not still a long way to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ded conviction of that his speech this afternoon proved it beyond my worst fears. He claims that the Government are saving jobs, creating a long-term viable company, helping our balance of payments and saving public expenditure. If those assertions were true we would support the Government. But we oppose the Government's plans because we refute the claims made for them by the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "It is a dangerous task for hon. Members opposite to lecture us about unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1243.2", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "ut into a company in this way without taking public equity and public control. I should have thought that the logical answer would be public ownership, relating this issue to British Leyland. We could then have seen what we could make of the whole enterprise. As I have said, there will be grave anxiety. It is against that background that I shall vote with the Government tonight and tomorrow night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1243.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1290.3", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Let him say it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1290.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1291.2", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I meant no attack on the Chancellor of the Duchy. I appreciate the intervention of the Secretary of State and am glad that he has made this point clear. The facts are as I stated. He did not contradict me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1296.2", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ey were not prepared to share. I shared, as I am sure many hon. Members who are concerned with the motor car industry and in particular with Chrysler shared, the horror at the way this was sprung upon us. That was implicit in some of the remarks that were made in the debate. However, we have to face the facts and find a solution. We believe that this solution is the best one. What does it achieve?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "r is clear. It is that they knew that they were publishing a document which Parliament said they should not publish. Therefore, their action was a deliberate breach of the rules of the House. They knew that they were flying in the face of the rules of Parliament. For that reason, we thought it right to recommend that some penalty should be imposed. Are the penalties so harsh as to be unreasonable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "iding what is the appropriate penalty. That has never been the policy of the Committee of Privileges or of the House. In the past the Select Committee—and I have innumerable cases here—and the House in following or rejecting the Committee's advice, has always decided what has been the effect of the conduct of those concerned before deciding what penalty was appropriate. This is extremely relevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "play its part. The difficulty of a member of a committee charged with investigating highly technical subjects was raised by me in a letter to the Chairman of the Committee of Privileges. I imagine that that letter is the property of he Select Committee, and I suspect that I would probably be debarred from appearing in the Chamber for six months or more, or taken to the Tower, if I were to read it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "at the document did not leak from my office or staff. That is all any hon. Member can say; he cannot go further than that. I took precautions to ensure the truth of the statement, but I can go no further than that. If the adviser happens to be a journalist or write articles, he has to undergo a self-denying ordinance. He has to say that he will not write articles for anybody at all in that period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they now?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "endment. Perhaps I should draw the attention of the House to a letter published in The Economist on 13th December from the political editor of the Sunday Mirror. He quite clearly issues a threat to hon. Members and virtually states that he will recommend his colleagues to withdraw from the Lobby and the Press Gallery if the House takes the ludicrous step of backing the Select Committee's decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-16", "file": "debates1975-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cdb59d04765084f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They already have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "at to hon. Members and virtually states that he will recommend his colleagues to withdraw from the Lobby and the Press Gallery if the House takes the ludicrous step of backing the Select Committee's decision. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they now?] I very much hope that if the House decides to do anything so ludicrous as to support the Committee's extraordinary recommendation the Lobby will withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-16a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1374.3", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The answer to the first part of my hon. Friend's supplementary question is that our expenditure, as a proportion of gross domestic product, is still higher than that of some of our NATO allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1386.2", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "Direct election to the European Parliament has a distinct aroma of federalism. Will my right hon. Friend ensure that if such a question is raised the British Government will oppose completely any such proposal?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Regions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ese issues, whether they are concerned with the problems of Northern Ireland, Wales or Scotland—or, indeed, any other area—are always cleared either by way of correspondence between Ministers or meetings between Ministers before meetings take place in Brussels. I hope that I can claim that I am extremely scrupulous, for obvious reasons. After all, I care about the regions. I come from one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": " bound to increase our imports and the terms of trade are more likely to move against us than in our favour. So we shall be hard put to continue improving our balance of payments at the same rate as this year. There is another constraint. The size of the public sector borrowing requirement is already as high as we can expect to finance without either printing money, as did the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "We are putting a lot of money into that sector. I shall be explaining in a moment what we are doing about training.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "We are putting a lot of money into that sector. I shall be explaining in a moment what we are doing about training.—[ Interruption. ] The particular problem the hon. Gentleman has in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1411.3", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ave risen sharply and have added considerably to the difficulties facing our yarn industry. We are also anxious about certain textile imports from Portugal. The Community will soon start negotiations with Portugal aimed at agreement to restrict exports of a range of products to EEC markets, and in particular the United Kingdom market. I cannot forecast what the outcome of the negotiations will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1440.5", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "We cannot solve this problem by that type of action. We need something more substantive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1440.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Rodgers", "preceding_text": " that there is room for savings in that area of expenditure. How-ever, it would be unforgivable if we stumbled forwards without adequate preparation. The substantial workforce in the defence industry is entitled to be in-formed and consulted. A planned programme should take place so that people now employed in a rather ludicrous occupation can be guaranteed full and gainful alternative employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": " my area of Gwynedd and rejected the establishment of a skillcentre there. The employment picture for young people is particularly depressing. There are more than 5,000 unemployed school-leavers under 18 in Wales and only 896 vacancies at career offices. That means that five young people are chasing each job, yet in Great Britain as a whole the ratio is two and a half for every registered vacancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1513.0", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "It cannot be while inflation is still running at 24 or 25 per cent. and, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Worcester said, we are paying ourselves 51 per cent. more for producing 5 per cent. less than two years ago. All that the Chancellor can do is prepare for the upturn when it comes. For heaven's sake let us have less complacency and more humility from the Chancellor about his forecasting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "oday we are debating unemployment. It would not have been much good for the Government to debate unemployment in the House today if we were not to point out that 55,000 jobs could have been lost by the closure of Chrysler. One of the considerations that we have had in mind throughout these anxious weeks has been to save as many jobs as we could legitimately save. That is what we have sought to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e Government putting in all the money and Chrysler taking no risks. If those figures are compared with what would be the losses if we accepted the total closure to which right hon. and hon. Members are committed—they are committed to a full-scale closure of Linwood and the West Midlands—the loss to the country in the first year, in terms of unemployment benefit and tax loss, would he £100 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask Chrysler.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e the clever business men, who would bankrupt the whole country. Their policy shows how much they really are concerned about fighting for jobs. I have sought to describe the worst losses that the country could suffer if the plan were to fail. I say that those losses would be more than covered by the figures that would be paid out in unemployment benefit. We deny that the plan is doomed to failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about The Times ?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "r £90 million for nothing. Perhaps the Chrysler company knows more about business than does the Opposition Front Bench, but that is no great compliment. Although there are so many defeatists on the Conservative Benches and throughout the country, I am glad to say that a few patriotic comments have crept into the Daily Telegraph, even on this subject. If Conservative Members read Mr. Kenneth Fleet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "eth Fleet—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What about The Times ?\"] We gave up The Times years ago. Anyone who expects much support for this country from The Times should have abandoned the idea long ago. No wonder the Conservatives get it all wrong, if they take their policy from The Times. Let them read Mr. Kenneth Fleet in the Daily Telegraph instead. Let them read how the capitalist system is supposed to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "We have had sufficient debates of this kind recently to understand how profoundly unsatisfactory a method it is of dealing with large sums of money. We shall spend £2 million a minute over the one and a half hours that we have for this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "eals a substantial deficit in the accounts of Chrysler UK over the next four years. Unless the right hon. Gentleman can explain where the money will come from, or where my calculations are deficient—I am prepared to accept that they may be—to go into the Lobby tonight behind the Order would be an act of irresponsibility. Perhaps I can take the commitments which we know from the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1536.7", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "£40 million in the first year, which is not the £30 million. It is £40 million in the first year. I am so glad that the right hon. Gentleman agrees with the figure. It is £40 million in the first year and £65 million in the following three years, divided fifty-fifty between the two. In other words, as I said three minutes ago—I do not know why I need to explain it to those who negotiated the deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1536.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1537.2", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "That is correct. That is £105 million, by anyone's standards. That is all I am saying. Therefore, the losses are budgeted—we now have total agreement—up to £105 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1537.4", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "cial Report, 16th December 1975; Vol. 902, c. 1166–67.] Does that add up to £105 million, or does it not? I hope that Labour Members below the Gangway will vote for the sort of answers that we are getting tonight! I hope that for not even a single percentage point of equity they are prepared to support this sort of total inability to answer the most fundamental questions on the deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1537.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1540.3", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can help the Minister of State by quoting some of the newspapers that normally support his party. It so happens that, by a curious coincidence, I have with me the Sun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1540.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1540.3", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can help the Minister of State by quoting some of the newspapers that normally support his party. It so happens that, by a curious coincidence, I have with me the Sun. [Interruption] I am happy to choose the Daily Mirror if it helps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1540.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "preceding_text": "must declare an interest. I, in the elegant words of the hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson), am perhaps one of those responsible for this payment of \"Scotgeld\", as he called it. It is perhaps the first time in history that money is being paid by England to Scotland out of what is owned by Scotland. The future of the workers at Linwood could be secured by three days' oil revenues from Scottish oil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "CHRYSLER UK LIMITED (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "preceding_text": "tsman, in its editorial, describes the Chrysler deal as a black day for Strathclyde. Hon. Members will have to realise that people in Scotland see these things differently from the view from London. We believe that there is a future for Linwood—a future in a Scottish context within the concept of a Scottish motor corporation which will bring together the elements of the motor industry in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1568.0", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "HILL LIVESTOCK (COMPENSATORY ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. E. S. Bishop)", "preceding_text": "ether they would be able to receive support of this nature under the EEC rules, this represents a major achievement. In particular, there is virtually no change in the areas that will benefit from hill livestock subsidies. Hill areas that were fully eligible under the former schemes will qualify under the new Regulations. The farmers' unions have expressed their appreciation of these achievements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1565.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-17", "file": "debates1975-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36187ad49e860fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "HILL LIVESTOCK (COMPENSATORY ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wm. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about bog?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wm. Ross", "preceding_text": "4 the figure was 51,000, and this year it was 63,000. This all adds up to a clear demonstration of a lack of confidence, and points to a shortage of beef in the very near future. We are confronted for the first time in legislation with the term \"less-favoured area\". This is qualified by Regulation 2(1)( a ), which says that a less-favoured area consists predominantly of mountains, hills or heath\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-17a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-18", "file": "debates1975-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "28a1b54ec07ac75a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "A widow receiving the basic widow's pension in this year receives £637, if she has no other income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-18", "file": "debates1975-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "28a1b54ec07ac75a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1643.7", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "There is no conflict between the solution put to the House on Chrysler and the strategy agreed at Chequers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1643.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-18", "file": "debates1975-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "28a1b54ec07ac75a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1647.3", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRUSSELS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "With regard to the OECD's prediction of a figure of 1¾ million unemployed in the United Kingdom by the end of next year, will my right hon. Friend accept that he is looked upon as one of the most honest members of the Government—?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-18", "file": "debates1975-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "28a1b54ec07ac75a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1653.4", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Codswallop!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will have seen the reply of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1653.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-18", "file": "debates1975-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "28a1b54ec07ac75a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1696.3", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "srespect to right hon. or hon. Members on either side of the House who have spoken in the debate when I say that perhaps the most eloquent contributions have been the speeches which were not made. I refer to those right hon. and hon. Members who voted with their feet and went home, thus being eloquently in favour of the immediate adjournment of the House for Christmas, which they have anticipated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-18", "file": "debates1975-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "28a1b54ec07ac75a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1710.0", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask them again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "ch we were elected, that, in GDP terms, our contribution should be roughly equivalent to that of our principal allies. That was the policy on which we fought the last election and on which we got 1 million more votes and 42 more seats than did the Conservative Party. That objective was included in our manifesto and we are working towards it. We can claim that this has the assent of the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-18", "file": "debates1975-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "28a1b54ec07ac75a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1714.3", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "It is absolutely true. What is more, if an hon. Member chooses to start off on this footing, he gets that kind of reply, and the hon. Member for Christchurch and Lymington must understand that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-18", "file": "debates1975-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "28a1b54ec07ac75a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1714.3", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "ving said that to the hon. Member for Christchurch and Lymington, I shall pass on to my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer the hon. Member's question whether any possible relief can be given. I think that the hon. Gentleman is making a valid point. Of course, some relief was given yesterday. The hon. Gentleman paid tribute to that. But I shall pass his point to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1975-12-18", "file": "debates1975-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "28a1b54ec07ac75a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1737.2", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR REACTOR PROJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": " is an experimental reactor; it is in no sense a prototype and continuing with it would not have given us a commercial capability. Some fears have been expressed that termination of the Dragon project may affect the views of our partners in the European Communities on the siting of JET or any other Community project in the United Kingdom. Why should this be so? We did not close the Dragon project.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1975-12-18a.1737.2"}