{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-13", "file": "debates1976-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "35c79a800df9132c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Peering at the right hon. Gentleman through a rather large wig—I did not know that he had been demoted that much; he really should come up nearer the Dispatch Box—my answer to him is that, as he will know, industrial expansion had stopped before he went out of office. I think that the right hon. Gentleman was Secretary of State for Employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-13", "file": "debates1976-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "35c79a800df9132c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was dealing with the question of whether we have one tier too many. The short answer is that from the moment the devolution proposals in the White Paper are carried into legislative effect, it will be the people of Scotland, through their legislative assembly, and they alone, who will decide whether to reconstruct their own system of local government and reverse the decisions of the early 1970s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-13", "file": "debates1976-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "35c79a800df9132c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e early 1970s. [ Interruption. ] I shall turn to England in a moment. I ask Liberal Members to be patient. I have already spent a great deal of time answering interventions by Liberal Members. A great part of this debate will deal with devolution to Scotland and Wales. I should make it clear that our proposals for Scotland and Wales are in no way applicable to nor appropriate for Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-13", "file": "debates1976-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "35c79a800df9132c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The policy is clear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "There is a great deal about the administration of the block grant. That is referred to in detail and is fundamental. It is referred to in detail in the letter from the Association of County Councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-13", "file": "debates1976-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "35c79a800df9132c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.232.5", "colnum": "232", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "to in-increase the grievances and disputes between the parts of Great Britain and thus to jeopardise that precious unity of which I spoke earlier. The Prime Minister optimistically hoped that we might wholly approve the White Paper, but we certainly could not wholly approve it. It may be that after the debate the Government will reconsider the particular form of devolved Assembly they have chosen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-13", "file": "debates1976-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "35c79a800df9132c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "did not have the necessary majority in the House. There is virtually an executive veto. Worse, what happens if, in the view of the Secretary of State, anything the Assembly does is ultra vires? That is much more dangerous. Although paragraph 63 states that the advantages of a judicial review should be set out, it goes on to say that there are equally strong arguments for having no judicial review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-13", "file": "debates1976-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "35c79a800df9132c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " regions of England and to the people of Scotland and Wales. We have no idea of the proposals for England. Perhaps we shall know them soon. What we are trying to do is to bring up to date our own institutions, but we are doing it in a rather timid way. I should like in conclusion to quote three lines from a speech made in Swansea in 1887 by a man who had something worth while to say—Mr. Gladstone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-13", "file": "debates1976-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "35c79a800df9132c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " the unfortunate association which was made in 1707. We intend no break up of the United Kingdom. Our aim is to be part of the Commonwealth, recognising the Queen. Indeed, the only anti-Monarchist I know in this House is the Labour Member for Fife, Central (Mr. Hamilton). He is the only anti-Monarchist I know in Scotland. The Scottish desire for self-government is not based primarily on economics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.259.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-01-13", "file": "debates1976-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "35c79a800df9132c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is true.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "e. Even in Belgium there are three distinct areas which are demanding a form of provincial or regional government that we have not seen in this island. I now turn to England, because Scotsmen and Welshmen tend to forget that there is England. I cannot understand why the Redcliffe-Maud recommendations for a provincialised England were turned down and no peep was uttered from almost any hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-13", "file": "debates1976-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "35c79a800df9132c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was a Labour plan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "s. If we are to have devolved Government in Scotland and Wales, we have to consider what recent similar example we can use for guidance, and that is local government reorganisation. It was supposed to have been beneficial, more efficient, and less expensive and to have brought people closer to the source of government. That myth has certainly been laid low. The reorganisation was a total disaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-13", "file": "debates1976-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "35c79a800df9132c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.344.7", "colnum": "344", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way because I have only one minute left. The Minister of State will have plenty of time to speak on a later occasion. English hon. Members, to whom we speak in the kindliest and most fraternal way, must realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-13a.344.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-14", "file": "debates1976-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8793e1267f6cb443", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-14a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "ARGENTINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether my hon. Friend is trying to make trouble between me and the Minister of State by asking what he has warned me about. I talk to my hon. Friend so aften that I am not always sure of what he has said to me. As regards a link between the inhabitants of the Islands and elsewhere, they must be free to choose their own destiny in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-14a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-14", "file": "debates1976-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8793e1267f6cb443", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-14a.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "e statements made by a great many Welsh Members over the years, including Mr. Deputy Speaker, and he will quote from them when he speaks tomorrow, so I shall not pursue that point today. A shorter, popular version of the White Paper is this week available in every post office in Scotland, and every household in Scotland can get a copy of that White Paper any time this week or in the ensuing weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-14a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-14", "file": "debates1976-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8793e1267f6cb443", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-14a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "te Paper, rather inelegantly, calls them \"override\" powers. They are described in paragraphs 71 to 75 and paragraphs 207 to 210 of the White Paper. Far too much attention has been concentrated on these reserve powers. The considerable powers being devolved are being forgotten and a great deal of the talk is polarising around the reserve powers, which are merely a constitutional convenience to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-14a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-14", "file": "debates1976-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8793e1267f6cb443", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-14a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "ough the Government intend to intervene every five minutes. These powers are simply a reflection of the central constitutional fact about devolution—that this Parliament remains sovereign and the United Kingdom remains a unitary State. These arrangements provide simplified machinery for expressing that. The people who oppose the power of intervention, as did the Leader of the Opposition yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-14a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-14", "file": "debates1976-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8793e1267f6cb443", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-14a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "he first time, a detailed and credible set of proposals in which a strong constitutional structure is matched by a detailed, carefully drawn-up, generous and considerable degree of devolution in subjects of government, on which we can concentrate and no doubt improve, as a basis for legislation. There are those, of course, who are apprehensive about devolution and perhaps would not have it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-14a.417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-14", "file": "debates1976-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8793e1267f6cb443", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-14a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "that of any other Department because it is more intimate in size. An Assembly will not improve on that situation. I emphasise once more that the Government's proposals for an Assembly are playing with fire, and they must explain why they think that such proposals will not inevitably lead to separation. I am sorry that there is not a more senior member of the Government here than the Lord Advocate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-14a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-15", "file": "debates1976-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "11dead45763b58fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-15a.585.5", "colnum": "585", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I shall consult my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary about the Tindemans Report to see what opportunity we can find for a debate on part of it. I am glad that my hon. Friend raised his second point because the report in The Times today is completely untrue and misleading and was no doubt intended to be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-15a.585.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-15", "file": "debates1976-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "11dead45763b58fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-15a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "ight to remind us recently that in this House in 1956 the Tories opposed the setting up of the Welsh Office. Over the years, in order to try to stem the tide, they proffered instead the facade of a Welsh ministerial presence. It was left to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to appoint the first Secretary of State for Wales in 1964 and his distinguished successors from this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-15a.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-15", "file": "debates1976-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "11dead45763b58fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-15a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "d both inside and outside the party, as a Government we have embarked on a further intensive period of widespread consultation. There will be ample opportunity for organisations and individuals to have their views heard and taken into account. Those who ask for a referendum tend not to recognise the practical difficulties involved. What questions would be asked? These could not easily be devised —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-15a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-15", "file": "debates1976-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "11dead45763b58fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-15a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And not much there, either.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "h increasingly major decisions are moving across. The Secretary of State for Wales said that this was not a new debate, but it is new to the people of England. It would be hard to exaggerate the suddenness with which this question has come to the English public and to English Members. There was virtually no consultation, I am sure, on either side, outside of the Scottish Members and organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-15a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-15", "file": "debates1976-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "11dead45763b58fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-15a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "k-up of the United Kingdom. We are caught by the commitment that was given in a manifesto on policies which I and my party in Merseyside and all other parts of the United Kingdom really did not determine. I appreciate that there were conferences in Scotland. Incidentally, the Welsh were not calling for anything like that which they are getting. They were calling for a top tier of local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-15a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-15", "file": "debates1976-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "11dead45763b58fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-15a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "t in one respect when it states, I think on page 2, that whatever proposals are put to Parliament must be capable of getting the broad agreement of the people not simply of Scotland but of the United Kingdom as a whole. We know, and the House knows, that not simply in England or in Wales hut, indeed, in Scotland there are a large number of people who are very concerned, if not immediately hostile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-15a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-16", "file": "debates1976-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "34a745a9f635fedc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-16a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "SMOKING AND HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "I am talking about a different situation. Car manufacturers produce vehicles in which people who behave recklessly can cause accidents. Tobacco manufacturers produce an addictive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-16a.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-19", "file": "debates1976-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f422b835a97b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.912.3", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's immoderate remarks will do nothing to help the situation in the British Steel Corporation. He is more familiar with the party political fence and its immoderacies than, possibly, any other hon. Member in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.912.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-19", "file": "debates1976-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f422b835a97b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBER: \"Paymaster-General.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "resources, talents and sentiments for the public good of the United Kingdom. I should now like to bring the House back to the more mundane but down to earth and practical question of how the White Paper will affect local authorities in Scotland and Wales. Before coming to detailed references to the White Paper, I should say that reliance upon the block grant which the Postmaster-General explained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-19", "file": "debates1976-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f422b835a97b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1001.3", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "heir own areas, but who nevertheless decide the result? I think that at one point the hon. Gentleman suggested that he would place upon himself a self-denying ordinance. But this is not so easy. Even if it were tolerable to this House—and I am sure that it would not be—that there were first-class and second-class Members—Members who turn up on some occasions and Members who turn up on some others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-19", "file": "debates1976-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f422b835a97b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "a bone to be thrown to the nationalist parties. I do not blame them for snaffling at it, but my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and our Government ought never to have done it in the first place. There were far more important items to be dealt with, but what we have is this so-called cool White Paper, devised in panic and now masquerading as a panacea. I am about to draw my remarks to a close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-19", "file": "debates1976-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f422b835a97b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Reid", "preceding_text": "reatest Scotsman who ever lived, Robert Burns\". Tom Johnston said: The story of Wallace poured a tide of Scottish prejudice into my veins which will boil along there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest.\"—[ Official Report, 9th May 1924; Vol. 173, c. 799, 800.] We may well believe earnestly in internationalism but, as Tom Johnston said, one cannot have internationalism without nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-19", "file": "debates1976-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f422b835a97b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Reid", "preceding_text": "y in internationalism but, as Tom Johnston said, one cannot have internationalism without nations. [ Interruption. ] In view of the mirth on the Government side of the House, let me conclude with a small anecdote for people from the English regions, from a man with impeccable working-class traditions. I assume that Labour Members would regard Jimmy Reid of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders as a serious man", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-19", "file": "debates1976-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f422b835a97b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for Sidcup—consider the best and most sensible way forward. I hope that this will be done with English Members in all parts of this House having an opportunity to visit Scotland and to assess Scottish opinion properly for themselves. But this cannot be done now, before we react to the Government's present proposals, and I must now say a word about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-19", "file": "debates1976-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f422b835a97b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about behind you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "st put our heads in the sand and say, \"Let us forget it.\" It will not go away. As for the speech of the Leader of the Opposition, I think I should commend her for her temerity in quoting Burns. At least Hansard got it right. I do not think that it was the speech that she would like to have made. It was a difficult one, because she must have been conscious of the differences of attitude behind her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-19", "file": "debates1976-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f422b835a97b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A budget.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "in certain areas there have been economic difficulties, which people have never faced before, and disappointment over the reorganisation of local government. There is the idea that somehow or other matters which have been dealt with in this House in a particular way will now be dealt with in Edinburgh and will be financed by a block grant which takes into account the needs of every single section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-19", "file": "debates1976-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f422b835a97b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"British Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "think that this Parliament could leave the financing of Assemblies to an independent board. That is the reason why—we have stated this in the White Paper—it should be dealt with by Parliament. If hon. Gentlemen feel that somehow we are getting an advantage, they are not being fair. A Parliament which will be dominated by English Members is the Parliament that will debate this matter and decide it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-19a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "What different language we are hearing from the Secretary of State today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "es as well as here. He will then see the relevance of what I have said on previous occasions. What the Government have done, what I believe is absolutely essential for overcoming the worst economic crisis that the Western world has had to face since 1945, what we certainly have to secure, and what we promised in our manifestos, is to carry out our policies in concert with the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "At the time of that General Election well over 2 million people were unemployed as a result of the then Conservative Government's confrontation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend, who always looks on the bright side of things, will have noticed from what I earlier that our overall balance of payments deficit last year was less than half what it was in the previous year. I think that that is a remarkable achievement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In my view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In my view—[ Interruption .] Sweden? When I discussed this with the Prime Minister of Sweden yesterday, he was able to point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1136.2", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—thriving, high-priced market for Sweden's principal products—forestry products—timber, pulp and paper. However, I say finally in regard to my hon. Friend's question, in which he said that we should not seek solutions solely in Europe, that he knows that we are not doing that. He knows, for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1151.4", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "LEBANON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The matter is extremely urgent. The Foreign Office may or may not have the information. It may well have information which I do not possess, but, according to my information, there has been an invasion overnight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1151.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1152.3", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "LEBANON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Speaker, to press this point, but by 12 o'clock tomorrow the situation may be such that it is too late. An invasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "EDUCATION (ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " both sides of this problem, but if he had taken a little time, as I did this morning, to consult the Secretary General of the National Association of Schoolmasters he would have got a rather more astringent reply than he will get from me. I feel that the proposals which the hon. Gentleman has put before us ought to be thrown out as the ludicrous set of specious, do-gooding nonsense that they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "EDUCATION (ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "e who pretend to believe in consultation do not listen more carefully to those who have the duty and the difficult job of trying to enforce discipline in some of our schools. It is regrettable that a former colleague who is now able to enjoy himself in this theatre should attempt to withdraw from the teaching profession a sanction without which many of those in it could not carry on in their jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "EDUCATION (ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ce a Bill to ban corporal punishment two or three years ago, even she acknowledged that it was necessary for parents to be excluded from the provisions of her Bill. The fact is that in many of our more difficult areas the teacher is increasingly in loco parentis. The teacher has the job of seeking to instil civilised values and a proper sense of order into very often extremely rebellious children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "EDUCATION (ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " rebellious children. [ Interruption .] The hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mr. Corbett), who from a sedentary position shouts his customary stupidities, is, if he did but know it, contributing towards that climate of vandalism and illiteracy which is far too prevalent in our schools today, and it is a matter which gives real concern to all those who have the future of British education at heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "EDUCATION (ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "nquents, and one reason for the need for this is the increasingly lackadaisical, permissive and libertarian atmosphere pervading many of our schools. Anyone who has read even a few paragraphs of the activities at the William Tyndale School and what free expression can destroy must consider carefully the sort of proposal that the hon. Member for West Stirlingshire is putting before the House today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1162.2", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "EDUCATION (ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Mawby", "preceding_text": "I could not remember the name of the right hon. Gentleman concerned, but I saw him during the course of the Division, and it is certain that he was in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1163.3", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (BANKING SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Industry (Mr. Gregor Mackenzie)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Industry (Mr. Gregor Mackenzie)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (BANKING SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": " habitually preach the virtues of competition in other contexts, and, secondly, their concern for the mighty banking institutions seems to be grossly overstated. To suggest that these institutions, with their vastly greater resources and numbers of account holders, need to be cosseted and protected from competition in the way that hon. Members are implying hardly seems to be complimentary to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-20", "file": "debates1976-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f67dc7aa41612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAIR TRADING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": "e. I am extremely pleased to see the Order. but I must make a few comments. It is not what is in the Order but what is not in it that worries me. I am surprised by the exclusions. I know that the Minister can say that many of them are in the Act and not in the Order. That is a fair point, but I must disclaim responsibility, because I was not a member of the Administration which introduced the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-20a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-21", "file": "debates1976-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ff5625c3f37810a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1313.10", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend confirm that many areas of Scotland, including my constituency of Dunbartonshire, West have no housing problem and that the problem must be concentrated in Glasgow and one or two other areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1313.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-21", "file": "debates1976-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ff5625c3f37810a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some have gone back to school.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right. The number of unemployed young people in December was 2,900. That compares with nearly 15,000 when we had the last big school-leaving date, which was in August. I remember the posters of Opposition Members: they should now be changing them every week as young people find jobs, because 19 out of 20 of those who left school last summer have found jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-21", "file": "debates1976-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ff5625c3f37810a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1326.5", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap at the price.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that recently an English boy serving in Her Majesty's Forces wanted to marry an Airdrie girl and that, because of his service to the country, he could not fulfil the residential qualification of 21 days? It cost him £23 to obtain a licence, together with legal fees, to marry the girl. Does not my hon. Friend think that this is a grave injustice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1326.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-21", "file": "debates1976-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ff5625c3f37810a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1329.6", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked whether I had had a report of that seminar. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State who is responsible for agricultural and other matters in the Scottish Office attended the seminar. My hon. Friend was impressed, but I do not think that he was convinced. I believe that we should all have open minds in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1329.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-21", "file": "debates1976-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ff5625c3f37810a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1391.9", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "That is typical of the arrogance we learn to expect from some Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1391.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-21", "file": "debates1976-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ff5625c3f37810a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1486.2", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Following the nonsense to which we have just been listening, I want first to repudiate the suggestion—which will, I hope, be repudiated in more detail when we have a longer debate quite soon on unemployment—that unemployment is the result of what the Government are doing, when everybody knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-21", "file": "debates1976-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ff5625c3f37810a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1488.0", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "as what provoked my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Garston (Mr. Loyden) to bring up the subject of slavery. Despite the hon. Gentleman's arrogance in referring to the nineteenth century and the rest, what provoked the image of slavery in my hon. Friend's mind was the reference to South Africa. Has the hon. Gentleman studied the conditions in which workers are forced to work in South Africa?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-21", "file": "debates1976-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ff5625c3f37810a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1488.0", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "the reference to South Africa. Has the hon. Gentleman studied the conditions in which workers are forced to work in South Africa? [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Russia?\"] Conservative hon. Members are in no position to give us lessons on the conditions of work in Russia. We have done more to criticise those conditions than any hon. Member opposite who shouts from ignorance. We know much more about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-21a.1488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-22", "file": "debates1976-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "33f786994d0afc96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-22a.1544.4", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "It may be on the Paper, but it has not been put—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-22a.1544.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-22", "file": "debates1976-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "33f786994d0afc96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-22a.1552.5", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Southern Africa.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I always realise what I have said. If the hon. and learned Gentleman had listened to the first part of my hon. Friend's question, he would have heard that my hon. Friend asked about South Africa. That is certainly a matter of foreign affairs—very foreign affairs. I said that this would be a very appropriate subject, the question of South Africa, to raise in a debate on foreign affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-22a.1552.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-26", "file": "debates1976-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "96398a194816f6fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.16.4", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "We have no evidence of any general—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.16.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-26", "file": "debates1976-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "96398a194816f6fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "that the hon. Member was satisfied with my providing him with those criteria and also grateful for the courteous letter he sent me, which was a contrast with some other comments made later on that subject. Of course we adhere to the criteria, but, as I have said on other occasions, they do not represent a straitjacket in which we are imprisoned. These criteria are guidance within which we operate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-26", "file": "debates1976-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "96398a194816f6fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUNICIPAL TRADING AND DIRECT LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Reginald Freeson)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Reginald Freeson)", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Raison) should, as usual, deal with a subject of social ownership, in whatever field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-26", "file": "debates1976-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "96398a194816f6fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUNICIPAL TRADING AND DIRECT LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Not straight away. Let me continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-26", "file": "debates1976-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "96398a194816f6fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUNICIPAL TRADING AND DIRECT LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Not straight away. Let me continue. [Laughter.] I hope that the building industry, private enterprise as well as public, takes note of the style in which this debate is being conducted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.115.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-01-26", "file": "debates1976-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "96398a194816f6fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.162.4", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUNICIPAL TRADING AND DIRECT LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do not give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-26", "file": "debates1976-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "96398a194816f6fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Industry (Mr. Gerald Kaufman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Industry (Mr. Gerald Kaufman)", "preceding_text": "e Financial Assistance for Industry (Increase of Limit) (No. 2) Order 1976, a draft of which was laid before this House on 15th January, be approved. The House will recall that Section 8(6) of the Industry Act 1972 lays down that the aggregate of sums paid plus the liabilities under any guarantees granted under Section 8 less repayments of loans or principal sums paid to meet any guarantees shall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-26", "file": "debates1976-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "96398a194816f6fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "preceding_text": " view about NVT would also wish to know whether this is just one of a number of handouts which is to be made by the Government. The Minister is a far subtler parliamentary performer than I could ever hope to be, but my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Dover and Deal (Mr. Rees) put a clear question to him a few moments ago. He asked whether the £100 million in aid had already been spoken for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-26", "file": "debates1976-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "96398a194816f6fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "at was one of the criteria which we used for the Chrysler rescue as well as the criteria to which the hon. Member for Henley fairly referred. The hon. Member for Perth and East Perthshire (Mr. Crawford) asked a number of questions which relate more to Section 7 than to Section 8. As Scotland is now totally an assisted area, it is covered by Section 7, although the Chrysler rescue assisted Linwood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-26", "file": "debates1976-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "96398a194816f6fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not being as accurate as he generally is. The criterion for Section 7 is that of an assisted area. Section 7 relates to assisted areas. Section 8 relates to nation-wide interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-26a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-27", "file": "debates1976-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3739eb4bd7baa172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-27a.244.4", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BELGIAN PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The issue of direct elections was settled by the referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-27a.244.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-27", "file": "debates1976-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3739eb4bd7baa172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-27a.310.3", "colnum": "310", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"What about the word of a Scotsman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": " legislate for many aspects of our national life. We could say that most limited bodies are run well and that there is no reason to introduce any legal requirements for their activities. British trade and industry have been highly regarded. It was once said that British quality was the best in the world and that the Englishman's word was his bond and, therefore, no legal requirement was necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-27a.310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-28", "file": "debates1976-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "b507b95c39dfcbb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-28a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The Labour Party has consistently entertained friendly relations with the MPLA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-28a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-28", "file": "debates1976-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "b507b95c39dfcbb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-28a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "ICELAND (FISHERIES DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-28a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-28", "file": "debates1976-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "b507b95c39dfcbb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-28a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "ICELAND (FISHERIES DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware—[ Interruption ]—that we hope for a successful compromise which will both be fair to our fishermen and restore our traditional friendship with the people of Iceland? The right hon. Gentleman said that the status quo would remain during these negotiations. Could he be specific on one point, namely, that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-28a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.655.5", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And the Russians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "otiation or not? Who is the liar in this matter? Someone, either here or in Europe, is lying to the fishermen of Great Britain about this matter. What is the position on the coastal State preference which the EEC is to consider? Unless we have a 50- or 100-mile exclusive area, our rich pond, which has been preserved by our fishermen, who are preservationists, will be used up by European fishermen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.655.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"8·4 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady is totally wrong, because we warned in the summer of 1974—before the election and during the election—as did the then Leader of the Conservative Party, no doubt while the right hon. Lady was offering her election bribes, that we were in for heavier unemployment in 1975.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " that this is one of the most difficult problems we have and that it is not possible to lay down an absolute rule as between individual Ministers. In the case of my own Questions, there were complaints when, like my predecessor, I grouped my Question No. Q23, for example, with Question No. Q1. I have tried to group Questions up to No. Q10, but, because of the development of syndicates, this meant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.685.4", "colnum": "685", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of the very deep and genuine feelings of many of my right hon. and hon. Friends. Indeed, I assure my hon. Friend that it is shared by the whole Cabinet. I propose to tell him this afternoon what we are planning to do about it in order to meet it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.685.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Tapsell rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.689.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "nd Mr. Clive Jenkins that unemployment is bound to remain over a million into the 1980s. This Prior-Jenkins axis is an entertaining novelty in our affairs. But I hope that the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition will tell the House at this moment that she totally rejects the defeatist nonsense to which her Shadow Secretary of State for Employment yesterday committed himself and his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.714.6", "colnum": "714", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "om any proposals for dealing with the problem of unemployment, in sharp contrast to the deep concern of Labour Back Benchers, the Labour movement both within and without this House, and the trade union movement. Those people have personal experience of unemployment and therefore will not make the type of Oxford Union speech which the hon. Gentleman made in the face of 1½ million unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.714.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.719.7", "colnum": "719", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "y of reducing unemployment at the same time, hand in hand with it. If my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer had gone to either conference or to both conferences and said, \"Accept the £6 limit and higher unemployment\", the conferences would not have accepted either policy from him. This is not a matter of being right or wrong, because there was wisdom in the attitude of the movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.719.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.719.7", "colnum": "719", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "riend the Chancellor of the Exchequer had gone to either conference or to both conferences and said, \"Accept the £6 limit and higher unemployment\", the conferences would not have accepted either policy from him. This is not a matter of being right or wrong, because there was wisdom in the attitude of the movement—[ Interruption. ] Perhaps I may give myself an extension of two minutes, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.719.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "inflation as their principal weapon in reactivating the class war on which they are so keen. They saw it as a means of attacking private enterprise industry and of securing the greatest transfer of wealth that has ever been seen in this country. That transfer took place on a wholly haphazard basis. It grieviously harmed many sections of the community least able economically to protect themselves.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give the unemployment figures in Scotland when he had deserted Scotland and migrated to South Africa to seek his living in that racist State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Kelley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Kelley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. To my knowledge, not one unemployed person has been called to take part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.788.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.790.12", "colnum": "790", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that we should get on with the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.790.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": " to remain in his Department and preside over mass unemployment. That was when unemployment was running at a level of 600,000. Today it is 1·2 million and increasing. The truth is that the last two years have been disastrous years for our country and for our people. The only coherent alternative strategy that we have heard from the Opposition has come from the far Left of the Labour Party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": ". Friends the Members for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson) and Bethnal Green and Bow (Mr. Mikardo). In saying that I mean no disrespect to the spokesmen from Scotland and elsewhere, but the problem we are discussing is not only a Scottish or Welsh problem, although both Wales and Scotland suffer severely from the unemployment afflicting so much of our country. In a sense it is not only a British problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "istory of the matter a little more carefully. It is sometimes called the Barber inflation. I think that is most unfair. It was not the Barber inflation. It was the Barber-Heath-Thatcher inflation, or the Barber-Heath-Thatcher-Joseph inflation. The right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) is nodding agreement again. I know that many Opposition Members have not listened to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-29", "file": "debates1976-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b4afd3f3772c221", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I understand the criticisms made by my hon. Friends, and I have in mind the party manifesto on which we won the election. I agree with them that in the interests of the country we must stay in power and carry on. That is what we intend to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-29a.804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-01-30", "file": "debates1976-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e74b69936d04b219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-30a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "SELF-EMPLOYED AND SMALL BUSINESSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "n important industry so basic as steel. I am very disappointed about that. I hope that the Government will take note of that disappointment, because I am sure it is shared not merely by my constituents but by hundreds of thousands of people in the steel areas, and I gather that that view is shared by many hon. Members. I hope that since hon. Members opposite could not restrain their own loquacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-01-30a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-02", "file": "debates1976-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0588be64129770ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.944.5", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend's Question were planted—it would surprise me if it had been—all I can say is that it has yielded a very good crop, unlike last year's potatoes. It is impossible to predict the price index in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.944.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-02", "file": "debates1976-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0588be64129770ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.964.4", "colnum": "964", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Edward Short)", "preceding_text": "rse, to adopt this approach would require a great deal of clearing of the decks in Parliament to find more time for this kind of discussion. Again, the burden on the House might be altered if more use could be made of what is sometimes called \"framework legislation\". It is argued that Bills should establish firm principles of law. Their detailed application should be left to Statutory Instruments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.964.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-02", "file": "debates1976-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0588be64129770ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Could not the Report stage, if we have to have one, be taken in Committee upstairs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-02", "file": "debates1976-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0588be64129770ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "k shortly. Is the distribution of time between the Government, the Opposition and Back-Bench Members—at present about a third each—a fair one, bearing in mind the Government's need to govern and Parliament's need to scrutinise? Are the interests of minority parties protected in the allocation of time? This is all the more important today because of the growth of the minority parties in Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-02", "file": "debates1976-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0588be64129770ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "son I propose that a normal Sessional Select Committee on Procedure should also be established when the need arises, as it does in every Session, to consider specific procedural matters referred to it. I believe that the Committee of Inquiry should have some of the characteristics of a Select Committee, and that there would be clear advantage in having a minority of members from outside the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-02", "file": "debates1976-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0588be64129770ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.976.5", "colnum": "976", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "That is a valid point of view. However, I think that it would be useful to have a number of fresh minds helping to reach conclusions on a Committee of the kind I have described. I believe that if the balance is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.976.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-02", "file": "debates1976-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0588be64129770ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.976.5", "colnum": "976", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "nquiry might consider. I should now like to mention two matters which the Government consider should be outside the scope of this review. First, we take the view that any question of parliamentary electoral arrangements should be a matter first for a Speaker's Conference. Secondly, this review should not deal with the composition or powers of the House of Lords or relations between the two Houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.976.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-02", "file": "debates1976-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0588be64129770ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I take the hon. Gentleman's suggestion. Ministers are easily tempted by the one way in which they often can avoid a difficult hurdle in Standing Committee by uttering a promise, which turns out to be of little substantial worth, by saying \"I should like to have further thoughts about the matter\". In that way the Minister makes no commitment and the matter can then be dealt with again on Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-02", "file": "debates1976-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0588be64129770ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " very little at Westminster to accommodate an increasingly important body of legislation. We must make proper arrangements to treat this important business correctly. The whole House owes a debt of gratitude to my right hon. Friend the Member for Knutsford (Mr. Davies) and his Committee for the work they undertake, but the way in which they have been treated by Parliament has been a scurvy reward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-02", "file": "debates1976-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0588be64129770ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Irving", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Irving", "preceding_text": "ould become the prerequisite of all progress. There is an element to which it is not easy to draw attention. There has been a restlessness, particularly on the part of many younger Members, over the past few months. They have quite rightly regarded what we have done—or not done—as representing no progress at all. The temptation will be to fill the Committee with a large number of impatient people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-02", "file": "debates1976-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0588be64129770ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Privy Council Office (Mr. William Price)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Privy Council Office (Mr. William Price)", "preceding_text": "lly attuned to a young, anxious, suspicious and questioning society. I fear that—in the eyes of many of my constituents—Parliament has declined during my 10 years here. I suspect that people see it becoming ever more remote, out of touch with their problems, unaware and too often unconcerned about the difficulties facing many of our people. I think that those are unfair criticisms, but they exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-02a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-03", "file": "debates1976-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "170ab712473e1944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-03a.1139.6", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "RETIREMENT OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "onstituency, as are other hon. Members, so as to keep personally in touch with the hopes and fears and the personal and individual needs of many thousands of ordinary men and women, meeting them face to face from time to time, and to know the problems of the area which he represents. To mark the fact that I am an ordinary Member I have decided, as is my right, to stay on as a Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-03a.1139.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-04", "file": "debates1976-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "09c7983e55ee8b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-04a.1222.4", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I am taking the same view on national education policy as the hon. Gentleman took when he was discharging housing finance responsibilities when again the views of democratically-elected people were expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-04a.1222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-04", "file": "debates1976-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "09c7983e55ee8b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-04a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "n and others, that the law is likely, in this matter of delicate educational structures, to get him nowhere very fast. With this Bill the Secretary of State is rather like a frightened woman with a gun—aiming it at every target and hitting only the target at which the gun is not aimed. That is exactly the position into which the right hon. Gentleman is getting himself with this badly drafted Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-04a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-04", "file": "debates1976-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "09c7983e55ee8b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-04a.1325.3", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "erially better-off areas. They go on to argue that if neighbourhood schools are located in less well endowed areas the children who attend those schools will perform less well than they would at a similar school in a materially better-off area. Under the selective system of education, children have been selected as much on social class as on ability, and the result has been to prove that argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-04a.1325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-04", "file": "debates1976-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "09c7983e55ee8b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-04a.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "d to provide their children with opportunities to exploit them to the full. A lot of hard words have been said tonight about those of us who wish to introduce this Bill. As I stand before you, Mr. Speaker, with my gently waved hair, my faint touch of lipstick and my multi-coloured jersey dress, I hope that I look like a woman who wishes to change our education system. That is what we intend to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-04a.1330.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-04", "file": "debates1976-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "09c7983e55ee8b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-04a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "LONDON COUNCILLORS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-04a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-05", "file": "debates1976-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "bfe0d22f7965be90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-05a.1400.6", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows that I shall be happy to take into account everything that he asks me to take into account, especially regarding his constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-05a.1400.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-05", "file": "debates1976-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "bfe0d22f7965be90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-05a.1409.3", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "With all due respect, Mr. Speaker, I should like my right hon. Friend to visit the town—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-05a.1409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-05", "file": "debates1976-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "bfe0d22f7965be90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-05a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "SCOTTISH ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "preciate that, I assure them that the people and the Lord Provost of Glasgow do. There will be 650 jobs from the Ministry of Overseas Development at East Kilbride. This will help to regenerate the centre of Glasgow and provide a boost to commercial life there and in East Kilbride. It will bring benefits to the whole of West Scotland. Decisions on the remainder of the 7,000 jobs will be taken soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-05a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-05", "file": "debates1976-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "bfe0d22f7965be90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-05a.1538.3", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "SCOTTISH ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "preceding_text": "shall come to Hunterston shortly. There are others in the House who pay lip service to the supposed benefits under the United Kingdom unitary economy. That is fair enough, but they should be designated as Britons and not Scots, because if they are doing down the Scottish economy in that way they do not deserve the name \"Scots\" and they are Britons and should be proud to be British for that reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-05a.1538.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-06", "file": "debates1976-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "52898b1164aac97f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-06a.1682.2", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "EDUCATION (MARRIED PERSONS OF COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Second Reading deferred till Friday next.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-06a.1682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-09", "file": "debates1976-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "993a153e20a36b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY AND MORALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Newens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Newens", "preceding_text": "t should avert their eyes from or remain silent about infringements of human rights in countries which claim to be Socialist. I therefore deplore, as do many of my hon. Friends, the persecution of Soviet dissidents irrespective of whether I agree with their views. The imprisonment, exile, and confinement in mental institutions of men and women merely for criticising Soviet society is indefensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-09", "file": "debates1976-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "993a153e20a36b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY AND MORALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "can happen. There is an appalling blot on any claim that Britain may make to be the land of the free in that in Oman we supported until 1970 a reactionary Sultan who forbade any innovation in his country and retained slavery. Since 1970 we have aided his son in the suppression of a liberation movement, not in the name of democracy, trade union freedom and human rights but in the cause of reaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-09", "file": "debates1976-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "993a153e20a36b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY AND MORALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "emocratic. I advise hon. Members to get from the Library the Interim Report of the United States Senate Committee on alleged assassination plots by the CIA against foreign leaders. It provides evidence of plots against five—Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, Rafael Trujillo, Ngo Dinh Diem and General Rene Schneider. Four of those five, some of whom I would not regard as progressive, were assassinated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-09", "file": "debates1976-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "993a153e20a36b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY AND MORALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I gave way. I dealt with that point earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.41.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-09", "file": "debates1976-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "993a153e20a36b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY AND MORALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I gave way. I dealt with that point earlier. [ Interruption. ] I am glad to notice that the hon. Gentleman has allies among some of my hon. Friends, who have been very quiet about Indonesia, Iran and other places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.41.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-09", "file": "debates1976-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "993a153e20a36b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.45.4", "colnum": "45", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY AND MORALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": " the House. We are all very much under the impression of the grim news that we read this morning. But we must not deprecate mercenaries too much. Lord Byron was a mercenary. I should have thought that many people in the Labour Party would take a pride in the record of the Attlee battalion in the International Brigade. I knew many of those people. Many did not go for reasons of idealism. Many went—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.45.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-09", "file": "debates1976-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "993a153e20a36b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.111.2", "colnum": "111", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Dempsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Dempsey", "preceding_text": "Before my hon. Friend leaves the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-09", "file": "debates1976-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "993a153e20a36b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Cohen", "preceding_text": "r against abortion, I hope that all of us will credit people who take a different view with being sincere in that view. This is an emotive issue, and I hope that we shall discuss it without bitterness or rancour. The hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles (Mr. Steel) has done himself less than a service. He implied that the Select Committee was a waste of time, and could achieve no purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-09", "file": "debates1976-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "993a153e20a36b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "I do not agree. My hon. Friend is trying now to put words into the Government's mouth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-09", "file": "debates1976-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "993a153e20a36b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "I should like to do so, but it has been introduced. The composition of the Select Committee is unsatisfactory and biased on religious grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-09", "file": "debates1976-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "993a153e20a36b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.171.4", "colnum": "171", "heading": "COMMUNITY LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "I am obliged, Mr. Speaker. Both these Orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-09", "file": "debates1976-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "993a153e20a36b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.171.4", "colnum": "171", "heading": "COMMUNITY LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "I am obliged, Mr. Speaker. Both these Orders—[ Interruption ]—deal with exemptions from the effects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-09a.171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "d clearly to convey the message to those in our country who take matters of defence seriously that Britain cannot go it alone again. The days of Suez have gone. The Suez dreamers below the Gangway on the Opposition side of the House, with their reactionary dogma, who are constantly trying to make their party move further to the Right, are not doing defence a service they are doing it a disservice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That has nothing to do with the Question on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "BRITISH MERCENARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not for money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "y offenders concerned before the courts in the usual way? Thirdly, although recent events may be the occasion for setting up the inquiry, will the Prime Minister make clear that the inquiry is about the general question of the suitability of the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 in the circumstances of today? As British citizens have within present recollection fought for many different causes overseas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "BRITISH MERCENARIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nd that is one of the purposes of the Committee. That is not the only purpose of the Committee. We must face the fact that within a few days a small group of people—whatever their background—have been able to raise a vast private army. That this is possible could be a threat to democracy in this country. They have raised a vast private army because they had access to money to enable them to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "BRITISH MERCENARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "And he gets paid for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.244.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.244.7", "colnum": "244", "heading": "BRITISH MERCENARIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is entirely out of order for any hon. Member to cast personal reflections on another hon. Member of this House. We work on the basis that we are hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.244.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.244.9", "colnum": "244", "heading": "BRITISH MERCENARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I have made it perfectly clear that my hon. Friend the Member for Warley, East (Mr. Faulds), not unlike many in this Chamber, as instanced in the register of interests which has just been published, has in fact made many visits to the Middle East and that, as far as I am aware, on some of those occasions his visits have been paid for by various bodies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.244.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.244.10", "colnum": "244", "heading": "BRITISH MERCENARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let the House cool down. I gather that that is the hon. Member for Bolsover's way of saying that he is not making the charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.244.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "BRITISH MERCENARIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "As I said before, Mr. Speaker, I thought I had made it clear that I was referring to right hon. and hon. Members in this House who on many occasions—there is plenty of evidence to support what I say—have had trips abroad which have been paid for, and that I am one of those who do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.253.5", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "to the House what is said on page 18 of that Report, which is extremely important and emphasises the whole principle. But I emphasise it all the more strongly because the right hon. Member for Lowestoft (Mr. Prior) has made it clear in the last few days that he is not merely critical of our proposed extension of the Dock Labour Scheme but thinks that the whole scheme is now long since out of date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.253.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "eme was long since out of date. It was that very question with which Lord Devlin dealt. If hon. Member would listen to the views of Lord Devlin, I should be obliged. He should not be dismissed out of hand quite so readily. I know that his views on the matter have not been printed in The Times or any other of our so-called responsible newspapers in recent days, but I should like to quote his views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Torney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Torney", "preceding_text": "When workers who are members of unions other than the TGWU leave a warehouse within the five-mile radius will they have to be replaced by registered dockers? If so, does my right hon. Friend not agree that unions like my own, USDAW, will ultimately be wiped out in areas where they have organised for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.282.4", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "When I have done the House the courtesy of apologising for certain figures I was given in good faith, I think that Government Ministers should at least have the decency to accept that apology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.282.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.282.4", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because of their contribution to Labour funds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "off ports are excluded from the Bill. Why? Why have they not been brought within the scheme? There must be only one explanation—namely, that the NUR has proved too strong for the Government and has been left out, whereas USDAW and the General and Municipal Workers' Union have been brought in. Why have those ports not been left outside the scheme in the same way as the NUR ports have been excluded?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.282.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Delargy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Delargy", "preceding_text": "In one sense we have already voted on this Bill. At the conclusion of the debate on the Queen's Speech there was a Liberal amendment opposing any extension of the Dock Labour Scheme. Behind the Liberals in the Lobby that night were all the other Opposition parties—the Tories, the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and the Unionists. There is a mixed bag if you like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.301.5", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "t worries employers considerably. I have heard and accept many of the reasons given by the hon. Member for Garston for the reduced size of the labour force on the docks. I agree with much of what he said, but it should be clear that there is another reason—that many of the docks in the scheme are now uneconomic in terms of consumer prices compared with ports that do not have to operate the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.301.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain MacCormick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain MacCormick", "preceding_text": " that this matter ought not to be one of these awful ghastly party matters, Left-wing versus Right-wing. I began by saying that this matter in any case goes much further, from the Labour Party's point of view, than the simple ideological Left versus Right battle. The Government have crashed through that barrier long ago with this measure. I ask those Labour Members who represent seats in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain MacCormick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain MacCormick", "preceding_text": "sure. I ask those Labour Members who represent seats in Scotland—[Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"] Indeed, where are they? I had welcomed the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, the hon. Member for Glasgow, Provan (Mr. Brown), and I see that the Lord Advocate is present as well. I ask them and their absent colleagues whether this measure really relates to conditions in Scotland. Is it relevant?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Thomas", "preceding_text": "at within the area of Avonmouth thousands of pounds have been spent on warehouses outside the docks by these multinational firms which are part of the oligopolistic type shipping lines, like Corrie's, Bibby and Union Cold Store. They have spent thousands of pounds in economic resources building warehouses and so on while existing warehouses and cold stores on the docks are standing empty and idle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barney Hayhoe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barney Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "leaves all that out. It is left to the Secretary of State to act or not to act on the advice of the Dock Labour Board. The option is left to the right hon. Gentleman. He is permitted either to accept or to reject each recommendation. At the end of the day it will be the Secretary of State's decision. He has only to come to this House to seek an affirmative resolution to implement what he requires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barney Hayhoe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has been no secret.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barney Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "ots. That is the kind of negotiation and consultation that took place. The Secretary of State worked out a deal to satisfy the representatives of that working party and it made things that much worse for everybody else. What a revealing light has been thrown on the activities of a right hon. Gentleman who used to be thought of as a great parliamentarian. It has been done in smoke-filled backrooms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "ch bring about such rapid changes in labour requirements and can cause such movements in labour demand. Therefore, we must bear this in mind in considering the Bill. Had that drop in employment which has taken place in the docks, and which, I hope, is now acknowledged, arisen solely from the combined effects of the improved productivity that has been achieved and from changes in shipping practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.365.2", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacCormick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacCormick", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.365.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-10", "file": "debates1976-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "76f7b1cfa180bdfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.366.3", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "This has been the biggest load of rubbish that we have ever been subjected to. A Minister of the Crown advocating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-10a.366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-11", "file": "debates1976-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d472733de210d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend should be aware of the fact that even while we are discussing political devolution, the Government are involved in a massive dispersal operation comprising thousands of Civil Service jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-11", "file": "debates1976-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d472733de210d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.442.4", "colnum": "442", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Shore)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Shore)", "preceding_text": "hat in the conditions likely to prevail in the North Atlantic market for the foreseeable future Sky-train would generate relatively little new traffic. It would, however, add excess capacity and would do substantial damage to BA's existing services. Moreover, having regard to the existing facilities that are available for cheap travel, it would confer no really worthwhile benefits to the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.442.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-11", "file": "debates1976-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d472733de210d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.442.4", "colnum": "442", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Shore)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Shore)", "preceding_text": "t conditions are still not suitable for Sky-train, would prefer the licence and designation to be kept in being and, more generally, that wider discretion should be left to the licensing system in the control of long-haul scheduled services. However, I see considerable disadvantage in prolonging the present uncertainty and have accordingly told Laker Airways that its designation will be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.442.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-11", "file": "debates1976-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d472733de210d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.483.3", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shameful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "he Lindwood plant of Chrysler in my constituency, comparing them with mercenaries. The cartoon shows two men at the factory gate. One of them holds a bag, and written on it are the words \"Angola Mercenary Re- cruitment\". The man holding the bag is saying to the workers, It's men just like you we're after—ruthless and tough, with the killer instinct. So after you've killed this place off.…\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-11", "file": "debates1976-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d472733de210d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "preceding_text": "k of financial illiteracy\". That is the first point. The second point is that it is not even true. It is wholly false and can be demonstrated to be false. It does not even make sense. To begin with, Chrysler share prices did not rise upon the announcement of this deal. Why should they? Chrysler United Kingdom has never contributed a penny of profit to the Chrysler Corporation. In the second place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-11", "file": "debates1976-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d472733de210d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "e has taken place. But I want to move on from this point. I offer the hon. Gentleman an agreement. Let him go to the bedside of the hon. Member for Henley with some friendly brokers and put his case. When they have done laughing at him, they will tell him what actually happened—namely, that it was a stream of good news from American plants, it was the winning of the European Car of the Year award—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-11", "file": "debates1976-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d472733de210d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.495.5", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "s just named. I do not think that the hon. Gentleman can answer the arguments which have been made. I do not think he has any intention of trying, except on the non-sensical assumption, which is what the Opposition's case depends on, that the employment prospects in this country are so splendid that we can redeploy the 55,000 people in a comparatively short time in areas like Coventry and Linwood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.495.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-11", "file": "debates1976-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d472733de210d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "and covered ): Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wish to support the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) in his point of order. I do not know about the dispute in the sense of how it happened or why, nor am I aware of any of the figures involved. However, the business that is to follow this evening is important. Another Division now would in many respects give an untrue picture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-11", "file": "debates1976-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d472733de210d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "decided between the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-11", "file": "debates1976-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d472733de210d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.578.5", "colnum": "578", "heading": "WEST MIDLANDS COUNTY COUNCIL BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Will you confirm that earlier this evening the Opposition achieved by accident what they failed to achieve by design yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-11a.578.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.598.4", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I have indicated my policy upon this issue. We should probably all get on better and produce a rather more rational climate on this subject if we did not make too many appeals to that abstract concept of the sense of fair play of the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.598.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.610.4", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Assuming that the Prime Minister telephones the Danish Prime Minister, will he refer to Mr. Tindemans' report, in which it is said that Europe will further its destiny only if it espouses federalism? Does he agree that Britain is utterly opposed to being part of a federal Europe?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.610.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.610.6", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister next travels to Copenhagen or elsewhere, will he take the opportunity to charter a plane, from Laker Airways, preferably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.610.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.614.5", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESS (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Despite the habit of the Prime Minister and his entourage of scattering writs like confetti, and whatever may be the state of those writs, will the right hon. Gentleman undertake to present his own evidence to the Royal Commission before it reports? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.614.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "It was an expression of opinion of the House, yes. The effects of the motion which I propose to put down on Tuesday will be to give the House an opportunity to restore the position to what it was before last night's motion was passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.626.2", "colnum": "626", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the fact that I had announced a motion to restore the position to what it was before was the reply to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.626.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has thought fit to refer to me, but would it not have been fairer to me to have told me beforehand that he was going to do so? Secondly, while certainly my signature would bind me personally, I do not believe that either the right hon. Gentleman or I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.630.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.631.7", "colnum": "631", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Mellish)", "preceding_text": "I confess immediately to you, Mr. Speaker, and to the House that the right hon. Member for Spelthorne (Mr. Atkins) informed me that he did not agree with the agreement which had been in force. I had no alternative but to accept the position that he then laid out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.631.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I have no wish to prolong the proceedings or to exacerbate them, but, in view of what has been said, I think that the Leader of the House owes it to me at least to say that he has misled the House and, therefore, has been very unfair to me in the process in implying that I—my party—had gone back on my word. That was what he did, and I hone that he will apologise to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.631.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.632.6", "colnum": "632", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.632.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "for Penrith and The Border is concerned, if that agreement has been withdrawn and another substituted for it, then of course—I have known the right hon. Gentleman for many years—the last thing I would accuse him of is dishonourable conduct. But out of the mouth of the right hon. Member for Spelthorne (Mr. Atkins) we heard that there was another agreement. That agreement was broken the other night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "No. This is a detail which still has to be worked out and finalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Clearly, however, if the price of feed is to be raised by £4·50 a ton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "nity, and getting the structure of the regions right. They would do far more to deal with these surpluses than any of the proposals before us tonight. I feel strongly that these requirements must be met. Finally, I deal with the question which my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Marten) asked. Unfortunately, he is not present at the moment. But I hope that he will read my reply in Hansard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-12", "file": "debates1976-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "8665d2138bd627d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Morris)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Morris)", "preceding_text": "r Cambridge-shire (Mr. Pym) asked for assurances about the use of intervention in cereals. The remaining cereal guarantees will end in July under the transitional arrangements negotiated by the Conservative Government. We already have intervention prices. Intervention will be available, if necessary, for United Kingdom cereal producers. I hope that that is an assurance hon. Gentlemen wish to hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-12a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-13", "file": "debates1976-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b61cb83725166b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-13a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "an assault or by having entered the area or place specified in the order, as the case may be. Then the police officer has to take him into custody. There is no question of bail, as there is in almost the whole range of criminal offences. If there were bail, it would defeat the whole object of the promoters of the Bill. We are talking of someone who has to be taken into custody and kept in custody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-13a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-13", "file": "debates1976-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b61cb83725166b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-13a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "ries he will not be in this difficulty—what he should do. And what a difficult decision it is. If he does not arrest somebody when he has got this power, there will be a complaint that he has not used the power which he is authorised to use. If he does arrest somebody and it turns out that he was wrong—or, indeed, if it does not turn out that he was wrong—there may well be a complaint against him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-13a.883.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-13", "file": "debates1976-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b61cb83725166b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-13a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The position is this. I am not a time-keeper to the extent that I am watching it with a stop-watch. I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-13a.899.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-13", "file": "debates1976-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b61cb83725166b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-13a.900.5", "colnum": "900", "heading": "MOTOR-CYCLE CRASH-HELMETS (RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-13a.900.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-13", "file": "debates1976-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b61cb83725166b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-13a.900.13", "colnum": "900", "heading": "TELEVISION LICENSING (ESTABLISHMENTS FOR THE DEAF)BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-13a.900.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-13", "file": "debates1976-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b61cb83725166b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-13a.900.17", "colnum": "900", "heading": "CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1876 (AMENDMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-13a.900.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-16", "file": "debates1976-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e017bd6135476e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.917.4", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "May I draw my hon. Friend's attention to the Labour Party's manifesto of February 1974, which clearly lays down that the Government intend to socialise the nationalised industries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.917.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-16", "file": "debates1976-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e017bd6135476e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.920.5", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ssed by the Conservative Government. We introduced the Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Bill to provide a legal regime which allows this country to manage its oil resources. We have set up the BNOC, which is similar to what most countries outside the United States have done, and we have made it clear in the participation which we are determined to get with all the oil companies in the North Sea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.920.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-16", "file": "debates1976-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e017bd6135476e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.921.3", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"In what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Because of the expertise of some of the members of the Corporation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.921.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-16", "file": "debates1976-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e017bd6135476e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "preceding_text": "ge factory are out of work today because the security forces could not deal with the situation. Many homes have been bombed and wrecked and people have had to leave their homes. Many vehicles have been hijacked and burned. North Belfast was held to ransom by the IRA for three days. It is deplorable that the Secretary of State should instruct and authorise civil servants to tell lies on his behalf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.947.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-16", "file": "debates1976-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e017bd6135476e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.948.2", "colnum": "948", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The troubles we are discussing are serious enough without our running away from parliamentary procedure. I give the hon. Gentleman another opportunity to withdraw his statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.948.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-16", "file": "debates1976-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e017bd6135476e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.948.4", "colnum": "948", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "preceding_text": "I will submit to you, Mr. Speaker, and say that misinformation was given to me. That is as much as I can do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-16", "file": "debates1976-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e017bd6135476e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.1017.3", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "FAIR EMPLOYMENT (NORTHERN IRELAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": " also played by Northern Ireland civil servants who have just as much a loyalty and commitment to Northern Ireland as the others. They would not wish me to name names, but some of those most direcly concerned properly appear by name, giving up their customary anonymity. There was only one Englishman—although he had a Dutch background, which made it slightly more acceptable—and he was in the chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.1017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-16", "file": "debates1976-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e017bd6135476e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "FAIR EMPLOYMENT (NORTHERN IRELAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thank God.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "e divide, it comes to this House, and the political representatives, or at any rate the larger number of them, of Northern Ireland, decide, so we hear tonight, that they are going to vote against it. They will go down in history as the political pygmies of Northern Ireland, men who will not recognise and cannot take their opportunities. As a Back Bench Conservative, with no kind of responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-16", "file": "debates1976-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e017bd6135476e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "FAIR EMPLOYMENT (NORTHERN IRELAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dunlop", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dunlop", "preceding_text": "I may be hopelessly out of order in doing so, Mr. Speaker, but I hope that you will allow me to say what a pleasure it is to me to be called for the first time by your good self, and on behalf of my colleagues I wish you a happy tenure of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-16", "file": "debates1976-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e017bd6135476e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "FAIR EMPLOYMENT (NORTHERN IRELAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hear. hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "e rather ominous phrase in Clause 6(2): The Agency shall also use its best endeavours to encourage all employers and all vocational organisations to subscribe to the Declaration. In other words, when competing for Government contracts, for instance, or when advertising for staff, or in any other public contest, woe betide the firm that has not subscribed to the Declaration of Principle and Intent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-16a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-17", "file": "debates1976-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "db55e8c9a30ff000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-17a.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY DEBATE (VOTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "gratitude, Mr. Speaker, what you have just said. If I may say so respectfully, your words were very well chosen and very welcome. I should like to thank you on behalf of the whole House. I should also like to say to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury that we recognise that the heat of the moment is of fairly frequent occurrence in this place. We very much appreciate what he has just said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-17a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-17", "file": "debates1976-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "db55e8c9a30ff000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-17a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY DEBATE (VOTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "preceding_text": "hop stewards' committee, a Mr. Michael Cooley; and I am very proud to be able to tell my hon. Friend that he is an ex-president of my union. He had with him documents which outlined a great many practical alternatives to arms production which the workers had themselves worked out, designed and priced, and made available to management throughout the industry. When we have co-operation of that kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-17a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-17", "file": "debates1976-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "db55e8c9a30ff000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-17a.1146.5", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY DEBATE (VOTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": " complicated it is, the fact is that the Government have saved a number of jobs. They have also saved an important export contract in terms of 70,000 or 80,000 vehicles a year exported to Iran. That represents an important asset to our balance of payments, and we would have lost it if the deal had fallen through. The Government have also ensured that the Chrysler Alpine will be assembled at Ryton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-17a.1146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-17", "file": "debates1976-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "db55e8c9a30ff000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-17a.1149.2", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY DEBATE (VOTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "at Work etc. Act—although it is true that the legislation was drafted by the previous Conservative Government. Therein lie a few faults. One of the criticisms of the Act is that it is not strong enough. I hope that, as experience is gained, the Government will take over my Private Member's Bill aimed at toughening it up. It would certainly benefit a great deal from that action. I want to conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-17a.1149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-17", "file": "debates1976-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "db55e8c9a30ff000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-17a.1149.2", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY DEBATE (VOTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "level of investment will increase, because in the past it has been appallingly low. Further, I hope that the two directors will keep a sharp eye open for any transfer of machinery outside the United Kingdom. This has been going on. There is no doubt that Chrysler International has been shifting resources, machinery and design talent from the United Kingdom. I want to see Chrysler become a success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-17a.1149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-17", "file": "debates1976-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "db55e8c9a30ff000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-17a.1198.8", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "MOTOR INDUSTRY DEBATE (VOTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. The Opposition ought to stop pretending that the powers they took under the 1972 Industry Act are powers which we cannot use and that they are powers which can be used only by a Conservative Government. The people will rightly lose patience with this House if we do not debate issues seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-17a.1198.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-18", "file": "debates1976-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "43242679b35877b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-18a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that although there will certainly be dissenting voices, and although we are disappointed with some of the content, or lack of content, of the Green Paper, the Opposition have for some time accepted the principle of direct elections to the European Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-18a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-18", "file": "debates1976-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "43242679b35877b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-18a.1294.2", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "SCOTTISH BANKNOTES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "preceding_text": "t that situation, altough of course the Patronage Secretary will never succumb to those efforts. The Scottish note is now more widely accepted than it used to be. Abroad, there are also some difficulties. A letter in The Guardian this week from a Scottish reader pointed out that, at the Gare du Nord in Paris, the rate of exchange for the Scottish pound was shown as lower than that for the English—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-18a.1294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-19", "file": "debates1976-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e8ffdcaf710e3c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1482.6", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MINISTERS' SPEECHES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is a rather long question to answer, but I would ask the right hon. Lady a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1482.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-19", "file": "debates1976-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e8ffdcaf710e3c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MINISTERS' SPEECHES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady had better wait for the Budget to find the answer to that question. The Leader of the Opposition, who dodges every question, has never yet said what she would cut—apart from increasing defence expenditure by £5 billion and apart from her election bribes on rates and mortgages. Will she now tell us what she is going to cut? I have asked before, and ask again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-19", "file": "debates1976-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e8ffdcaf710e3c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Whatever may be the merits of this particular case, would you not agree that the action of the hon. Gentleman who raised it and the part played by the Leader of the House in his reply represent a grotesque abuse of the procedure of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-19", "file": "debates1976-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e8ffdcaf710e3c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1499.0", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": " of Members of all political persuasions and of many parliamentary generations that there should be a loosening of the provision and that the opportunities for immediate debate should be increased. May I suggest to you, therefore, that there is now an urgent need not for private consultation with you but for a public consideration by Members of this House about whether we should take early action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-19", "file": "debates1976-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e8ffdcaf710e3c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "portance to it, is capable of advocating a policy that is as realistic and at the same time as responsible as that. If, neverthless, we found that our interests were being threatened by the unilateral action of other countries, or if a series of unilateral moves brought about a change in international law, we would have to be ready to take the action necessary to protect our own fishing interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-19", "file": "debates1976-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e8ffdcaf710e3c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "her there was to be a renegotiation of the common fisheries policy and whether Mr. Lardinois was correct in his statements. On this topic. I would have taken the hon. Lady's persistence much closer to heart had she been present for the recent fisheries debate at the European Parliament. She appears to dissent. If she persists I shall quote from the report of that debate in the European Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-19", "file": "debates1976-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e8ffdcaf710e3c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1620.1", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " being used was the most economic one. There are things that the industry can do but, as my hon. Friend has said, I am in no mood to be generous. A Treasury representative is not sitting here but everyone in the House should be concerned, as I gather hon. Gentlemen on the Opposition Front Bench are concerned, about public expenditure. So from that point of view we have to examine all these things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-19", "file": "debates1976-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e8ffdcaf710e3c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1620.3", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I think that hon. Members lose more time by shouted interruptions than by anything else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-19a.1620.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-20", "file": "debates1976-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d821e54ed658d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-20a.1737.5", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "I know that hon. Gentlemen on the Government Benches do not like what I am saying. It is penetrating too deeply. However, it must be said and I shall keep saying it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-20a.1737.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-20", "file": "debates1976-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d821e54ed658d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-20a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "ority because of that fear. Perhaps the Bill could be strengthened by putting in a clause that would prevent local authorities from doing that. The extension of shortholds is not mentioned in the Bill, but my hon. Friend the Member for Kensington (Sir B. Rhys Williams) is here and perhaps he will be able to speak on that as a valuable extension to the Bill. I have detained the House for over long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-20a.1738.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-20", "file": "debates1976-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d821e54ed658d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-20a.1763.2", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "CORPORAL PUNISHMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-20a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-20", "file": "debates1976-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d821e54ed658d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-20a.1763.6", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "CRIMINAL APPEAL (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-20a.1763.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-20", "file": "debates1976-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d821e54ed658d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-20a.1763.10", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [13th February].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-20a.1763.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-20", "file": "debates1976-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d821e54ed658d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-20a.1763.17", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1876 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-20a.1763.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-23", "file": "debates1976-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "8134cf3600ac4d7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-23a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR SAFETY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": " ensure that the reactors meet proper safety standards. The United Kingdom is more fortunately placed with reserves of fossil fuels than our Community partners. Our own immediate nuclear programme is relatively modest, but we cannot be complacent about reactor safety. Our regulatory procedures are under constant review and we are always ready to discuss our arrangements with our European partners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-23a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-24", "file": "debates1976-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b6216b2fd8664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-24a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Once again the Prime Minister has avoided the question. Is he aware that his Government, in the next four years, will be spending more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-24a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-24", "file": "debates1976-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b6216b2fd8664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-24a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (EAST-WEST RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Hooley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Hooley", "preceding_text": "tic flow of money from the United States, and it could not exist militarily without the gigantic flow of arms from the United States. It would have some difficulty in surviving diplomatically without the rigid and continu-out support it has drawn from the United States. In those circumstances, it is not improper to describe Israel as at least a quasi-colony of the United States in practical terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-24a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-25", "file": "debates1976-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "1a38861cee26488d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "The subject of industrial democracy is being given close attention, as my hon. Friend will know, not only by British Rail, but by all nationalised industries. The only efficient and effective way by which the senior management of British Rail can visit various parts of the country is to use a special car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-25", "file": "debates1976-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "1a38861cee26488d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "The forecasts have not been greatly adjusted as compared with three years ago, partly because the view is taken that the rise in petrol prices will have less effect on car ownership and car traffic than many commentators suppose, and partly because we assume that economic growth will be resumed by 1990 or 2000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-25", "file": "debates1976-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "1a38861cee26488d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.378.9", "colnum": "378", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Dean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Dean", "preceding_text": " question a full battery of their own Ministers and to put down Questions to the Secretary of State for the Environment, with just as much chance of being called as I have. In betting terms, the odds are three to one against my being called at all. I know that you cannot alter the situation, Mr. Speaker, but hon. Members representing English constituencies are not getting a fair crack of the whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.378.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-25", "file": "debates1976-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "1a38861cee26488d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "preceding_text": " Secretary of State for the Environment runs in Scotland, much to our regret. Therefore, Question Time to the Secretary of State for the Environment is the only opportunity we have to get our Questions on his responsibilities answered. If the hon. Member for Leeds, West would accept that these responsibilities should be devolved to Scotland, no one would be happier than my hon. Friends and myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-25", "file": "debates1976-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "1a38861cee26488d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.394.9", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "ught to bear on this Bill. The Paymaster-General said in that same debate that the general policy for the Trustee Savings Banks would be the maintenance of a very high level of liquidity with little expansion. We have had no such clear assurance about the Giro. 4.15 p.m. Finally, and most telling of all, I come to the rôle of the Financial Secretary, whose arrival we shall no doubt welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.394.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-25", "file": "debates1976-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "1a38861cee26488d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.394.9", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "tion being given to the role of the National Giro whose services it seeks to extend in relation to other sections of banking in either the public or the private sector or to various bodies responsible for the supervision of the banking system.\"—[ Official Report, 17th February 1976; Vol. 905, c. 1220.] I feel tempted to start again now that T see that the Financial Secretary has finally joined us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.394.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-25", "file": "debates1976-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "1a38861cee26488d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.510.8", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benton", "preceding_text": "The Socialists are going into banking, and it is taxpayers' money that will be used to finance that. This is a brief but thoroughly unsatisfactory Bill, and nothing that the Minister said in winding up the debate leads me to believe that Giro will not expand in an uncontrolled, exaggerated manner that will lead to a massive loss in the years to come. I do not propose to waste any more time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.510.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-25", "file": "debates1976-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "1a38861cee26488d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "preceding_text": "I think that I had better go on. This is a short debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-25a.519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-26", "file": "debates1976-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "66f203adcacd372a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-26a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot accept that. I have tried to tell my hon. Friend in a courteous way that he should not fight old battles which have been lost. Britain is now a member of the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-26a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-26", "file": "debates1976-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "66f203adcacd372a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-26a.609.7", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will study carefully the new provisions tabled by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-26a.609.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-26", "file": "debates1976-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "66f203adcacd372a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-26a.630.2", "colnum": "630", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "s not agree that no clause in the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill which formed the basis of the Second Reading debate even remotely mentioned the inheritance of tenancies? Therefore, will not the right hon. Gentleman give very serious consideration to honouring this House and allowing it to have a Second Reading debate on these clauses, which are a big departure from the original Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-26a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-26", "file": "debates1976-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "66f203adcacd372a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-26a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ck Benchers are entitled to a fair share of the brief time available, 15 hon. Members have indicated to me their wish to speak in this next short debate. In my judgment it is selfish for long speeches to be made under those circumstances. It is not my responsibility to control the length of speeches, neither do I want it to be. However, it is necessary for me to remind the House that we have only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-26a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-26", "file": "debates1976-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "66f203adcacd372a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-26a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade (Mr. Clinton Davis)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade (Mr. Clinton Davis)", "preceding_text": "int to which I shall come back when I have developed certain other matters more broadly in relation to the policy itself. What it really comes to is that, on the first issue before the House and before the country, the first test of the policy that has been adumbrated and accepted by the Opposition—because they are not going to divide on it—is that they do not want to apply the policy in practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-26a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-26", "file": "debates1976-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "66f203adcacd372a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-26a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY (SPECIAL CONSTABLES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "en the traditional constabulary and the Atomic Energy Authority constabulary but that it is quite another thing to vote against the Second Reading of the Bill—not to vote against it on a reasoned amendment, but to vote against it pure and simple. I know perfectly well that the hon. Member for Dundee, East does not want his party to be tarred with even one bristle of the Scottish Tartan Army brush—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-26a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-27", "file": "debates1976-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "731a2ef3b3cd3d59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-27a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE (SCOTLAND) (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": " opportunity. If there is to be any justification for a separate Scottish legal system, we should look at each problem with fresh eyes and not simply follow what is done in England. It is especially ironic that the hon. Gentleman, who is a member of the Scottish National Party, should be so barren of ideas of his own that all he can do is to imitate an out-of-date and imperfect Act of the English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-27a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-02-27", "file": "debates1976-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "731a2ef3b3cd3d59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-27a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "Yes. I should be strongly in favour of a way of dealing with Private Member's legislation so that it should not be contingent upon the legislation preceding it. We have seen an unhappy experience with worthy legislation on a number of Fridays recently. However, the hon. Gentleman must bear in mind that he and a number of other hon. Members have interrupted me during my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-27a.861.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-27", "file": "debates1976-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "731a2ef3b3cd3d59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-27a.875.7", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 13th February ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-27a.875.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-27", "file": "debates1976-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "731a2ef3b3cd3d59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-27a.875.15", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1876 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-27a.875.14"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-02-27", "file": "debates1976-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "731a2ef3b3cd3d59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-27a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOLICITORS (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-02-27a.875.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-01", "file": "debates1976-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "87adb80d8afa3198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-01a.908.2", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for accepting that after the next election we shall be in a position to carry out all our plans. The hon. Gentleman has taken off into orbit again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-01a.908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-01", "file": "debates1976-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "87adb80d8afa3198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-01a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (SEAT BELTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marks", "preceding_text": "We feel that to bring in an order under the affirmative procedure for the number of times that may be required would take up a great deal of the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-01a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-02", "file": "debates1976-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "b81263fcda2c4907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "retary of State for Industry was answering Questions yesterday from my hon. Friend and others on this matter. It is true that I met Sir Richard Dobson after he had been appointed by the Board—I did not interview him, as has been stated—following the consultations with the National Enterprise Board. Indeed, all the relevant Ministers were involved before that appointment was made, including myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-02", "file": "debates1976-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "b81263fcda2c4907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will recognise that some people, even on the Opposition side of the House, have sympathy with limiting the level of top salaries. However, why it is proving so difficult to obtain the services of younger men to head up these industries? Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that there has been some unfavourable and perhaps unfair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-02", "file": "debates1976-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "b81263fcda2c4907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "Opposition side of the House, have sympathy with limiting the level of top salaries. However, why it is proving so difficult to obtain the services of younger men to head up these industries? Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that there has been some unfavourable and perhaps unfair—[ Interruption .]. Is the Prime Minister aware that that is not actually one of the jobs that I am looking for?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-02", "file": "debates1976-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "b81263fcda2c4907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1094.6", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady was kind enough last week to forecast all that the present Government will do in the next four years, which will be well into the next Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1094.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-02", "file": "debates1976-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "b81263fcda2c4907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1106.8", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS &c.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the Glanford and Scunthorpe (Areas) Order 1976 (S.I., 1976, No. 188) be referred to a Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1106.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-02", "file": "debates1976-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "b81263fcda2c4907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1106.9", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS &c.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1106.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-02", "file": "debates1976-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "b81263fcda2c4907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1109.2", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "TRANSPORT (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Transport Act 1968.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-02", "file": "debates1976-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "b81263fcda2c4907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "So far as I know, Colin Tennant is not an agricultural worker. I recognise what the hon. Member is after. I think that we have gone as far as we can, bearing in mind the limitations and weaknesses of the voluntary system. Perhaps that can be made clearer on Amendment No. 14. I would encourage a gentle bit of blackmail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-02", "file": "debates1976-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "b81263fcda2c4907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": ", but I concede that it would be easier administratively for anglers to know that a whole stretch was covered. I take the point, but I think that we have gone as far as we can. The Secretary of State will be able to require that information, but is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that we should enable someone to say \"No, you can go and get stuffed?\" Will we follow that up with all the paraphernalia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-02", "file": "debates1976-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "b81263fcda2c4907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-02", "file": "debates1976-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "b81263fcda2c4907", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": " is unfair of him to use language of the kind that he did when we are trying, successfully I think, to create better opportunities for more anglers in Scotland. Therefore, although my hon. Friend is entitled to express his disagreement, I hope that he will not overdo the jargon and that he will look carefully at some of the facts, however unpleasant he may find them. May I also say to SNP Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-02a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-03", "file": "debates1976-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a61244e9297ae37d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-03a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING (CARAVAN SITES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "s. Although I undoubtedly have sympathy with the owners of holiday caravans, I believe that the Bill should be viewed in a broader perspective than by just concentrating on particular constituents' problems. I assure my hon. Friend the Minister that I give the Bill a cautious welcome. I echo the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Goole (Dr. Marshall) who I think gave it a lukewarm reception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-03a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-04", "file": "debates1976-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3f43d425da1084d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1535.3", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This is a question of which periods one takes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-04", "file": "debates1976-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3f43d425da1084d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1551.0", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ents or performance. Those are obvious examples of the kind of practice I have in mind. In short, we have here taken a broad and, I believe, realistic rather than a purely narrow and legalistic view of discrimination. Part I also extends the definition of discrimination to cover victimisation of those who assert their rights under the legislation. Part II of the Bill makes discrimination unlawful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-04", "file": "debates1976-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3f43d425da1084d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " on the same point before giving way. I know that the proposed change will not satisfy some hon. Members on both sides of the House. For example, a Bill has been presented by the hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Bell) and others that seeks to repeal Section 6, which it describes as a vindictive prescription…devised and insinuated into our laws by narrow and intolerant persons\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-04", "file": "debates1976-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3f43d425da1084d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "on 6, which it describes as a vindictive prescription…devised and insinuated into our laws by narrow and intolerant persons\"— [ Interruption. ] I did not hear that comment. I am not sure whether it came from the Back Benches or from higher up. I do not regard myself as a narrow or intolerant person. I am deeply concerned in this, as in other fields, with the protection of freedom of speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-04", "file": "debates1976-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3f43d425da1084d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "t, for the sake of this new and growing element which is amongst us. But the creation of new rights in response to such a situation simply creates the ground for new \"resentment\", to use William Deedes' word, and new grievances. Let there be no misunderstanding. The search for new grievance is eternal. There is no limit to the grievances which can be found by those who are determined to find them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-04", "file": "debates1976-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3f43d425da1084d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "d will carefully consider any further representations that may be made to it. They are quite prepared to put in a new clause to say \"You will not have those sorts of opinions.\" The Bill proposes to eliminate the need for intent altogether. It strikes it right out in this restriction of freedom of speech. This really cannot be called a Committee point. It is central to the whole concept of the Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-04", "file": "debates1976-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3f43d425da1084d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1635.0", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly true. The resentment of members of working men's clubs will be strong. The Government might have gained voluntary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-04", "file": "debates1976-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3f43d425da1084d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1701.6", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROL (LEAD CONTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall see that the matters arising from tonight's events are drawn to the atten- tion of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-04a.1701.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-05", "file": "debates1976-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e2d5fe6f5f9045a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-05a.1815.6", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1876 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-05a.1815.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-08", "file": "debates1976-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0d36f85e47da177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "t to express the concern of many people that conceivably there could be a repetition of what happened with decimalisation. The important distinction between the two is that, whereas decimalisation applied across the whole trading board literally overnight, metrication is moving sector by sector and therefore is more easily monitored. Also, it is subject to the Price Code, and we have the facility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-08", "file": "debates1976-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0d36f85e47da177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT AND PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is because of the Common Market.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": " statement. It is the most complicated review we have had and is difficult to follow. Both because of its importance and of its implications, it is fair to ask for a debate in Government time so that all the implications may be considered. The House will agree that the basic causes of the right hon. Gentleman's difficulties are, first, hyper-inflation at home and the soaring costs that go with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-08", "file": "debates1976-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0d36f85e47da177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT AND PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Common Market.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "entleman's difficulties are, first, hyper-inflation at home and the soaring costs that go with it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is because of the Common Market.\"] Let hon. Members wait. They can have their turn in a moment. The White Paper indicates that the increase in costs in two years is more than £1 billion. The second factor is the sinking pound. Those are the reasons for food prices going up so fast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-08", "file": "debates1976-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0d36f85e47da177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT AND PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "on Market. We regret the weakness in the Government's negotiating position as a result of these factors for which the Government must take a collective responsibility. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that inflation at home is still grossly excessive even at its reducing rate and that this, combined with the sinking pound, makes agricultural expansion even more urgent and important than before?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.32.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-08", "file": "debates1976-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0d36f85e47da177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT AND PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ask a question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": " which the Government must take a collective responsibility. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that inflation at home is still grossly excessive even at its reducing rate and that this, combined with the sinking pound, makes agricultural expansion even more urgent and important than before? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long!\"] In these circumstances import saving is becoming even more significant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-08", "file": "debates1976-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0d36f85e47da177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT AND PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman should ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We heard a very long statement from the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-08", "file": "debates1976-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0d36f85e47da177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT AND PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "when we debated agriculture about 10 days ago? Am I right in saying that the misalignment is approaching 10 per cent? The cause of that misalignment cannot be brushed aside. The representative rate of the green pound is basic to confidence in agriculture. Although the Minister may be pleased that he rejected the 2 per cent. change, I am certain that be will have to return to the subject very soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.33.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-08", "file": "debates1976-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0d36f85e47da177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL TENANCIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "It is extremely difficult to put that interpretation on the winding-up speech of the Parliamentary Secretary or on the words used by the Minister in answer to the intervention by his hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Torney). At any rate, a nod and a wink—call it what you like—there was no absence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-08", "file": "debates1976-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0d36f85e47da177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL TENANCIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Arrogant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "Committee I introduced for Scotland the same proposals as those put forward for England and Wales. I therefore hope that the Opposition will not continue to shelter behind the apparent procedural argument, as though the Government were harming the fabric of the House and bringing democracy into disrepute. The Government were right to do it in this way. That deals with the second piece of nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-08", "file": "debates1976-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0d36f85e47da177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.123.5", "colnum": "123", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Outrageous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I do not wish to waste the time of the House, but we have only two hours left for this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-08", "file": "debates1976-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0d36f85e47da177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "at that type of broadcast was more compelling than third person reports by journalists. The Select Committee said that it was justified in finding that the experiment was successful and that broadcasting could be arranged satisfactorily \"on a permanent basis\". That is the answer to the intervention of the hon. Member for Bristol, West (Mr. Cooke). I hope that we can have a vote before Ten o'clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-08", "file": "debates1976-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0d36f85e47da177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC (DRIVERS' AGES AND HOURS OF WORK) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "ty obligations. Later it says, The proposals also provide, however, for any member state to apply up until the end of 1977 for exemption from particular aspects of the new regulations provided that she can satisfy the Commission that implementing them would present real difficulties. As I shall show, there are immense difficulties. Before we contemplate approving this measure I shall want to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-08a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-09", "file": "debates1976-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "067601dba46b568a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-09a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Iceland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Rodgers", "preceding_text": "Ireland occupies an important strategic position in the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-09a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-09", "file": "debates1976-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "067601dba46b568a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-09a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Iceland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Rodgers", "preceding_text": "Ireland occupies an important strategic position in the—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Iceland!\"] Whatever Ireland may do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-09a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-09", "file": "debates1976-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "067601dba46b568a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-09a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ticle in the union publication, he was unable to quote anything attacking the public expenditure cuts. But he quoted some remarks about the next Budget which I shall have the opportunity to discuss with Mr. Jones and other members of the TUC General Council on many occasions in the coming weeks. I must press on, Mr. Speaker, because I take seriously your warning about the need to curtail speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-09a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-09", "file": "debates1976-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "067601dba46b568a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-09a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "frastructure which is temporarily halted by this White Paper. But it will be physically impossible to achieve the improvement on which we can build further progress towards our social objectives unless we make room for it now by levelling off public expenditure for a few years once recovery is well under way. I now turn to the amendment put down by the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-09a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-09", "file": "debates1976-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "067601dba46b568a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-09a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "her words, it is on the basis of an economic miracle that it is held that we can maintain this level of public expenditure; and if we do not have it, public expenditure will have to be cut far more. The Chancellor should be honest enough to say that this is highly probable, if not certain. I have not the time to continue so, alas, I will not be able to go into where I believe the cuts should fall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-09a.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-09", "file": "debates1976-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "067601dba46b568a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-09a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a good one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is my successor as Chairman of the General Sub-Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-09a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.400.4", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is doing the peaceful settlement in Rhodesia no good by this display of latter-day Blimpism. It is about time some Opposition Members faced up to the responsibility of this situation. What is required for a peaceful transition to African majority rule is a simple statement by Mr. Smith to the effect that all this can eventuate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.400.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take it from me that one of the most inexplicable occurrences is that ordinary citizens who wish to leave some of the Eastern European countries to marry citizens of this country are unable to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I am naturally interested to hear the concerns of my hon. Friends. I think it right that whenever action is taken like this it should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.410.3", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "It was demonstrably undesirable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.411.4", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I find it extremely interesting that the hon. Gentleman, so recently after his right hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet (Mr. Maudling) has been condemning the actions of the Mozambique Government in complying with United Nations sanctions, should now be leaping up and calling for the matter to go before the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.411.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.417.2", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend is right. He has considerable influence, but I am bound to say that it is greater in economic matters than in the European sphere. I have always sat at his feet on economic matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "There was no large increase in real profits between 1970 and 1974 because of the effects of inflation which had occurred as a result of all the years which had gone before. The inflation between 1970 and 1974 was largely an inheritance. The surge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "No one can define the exact boundaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.441.4", "colnum": "441", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ers by any descripton. We should encourage people who can grow or help to grow two blades of grass where one grew before. Those abroad will not come home to the tax climate which the Government are creating in this country. These people have had their incomes squeezed by inflation, taxation and incomes policies. Their lives have been strained by difficult labour relations by floods of legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.441.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "preceding_text": "Having made this declaration of faith in free trade—not a particularly Socialist attitude—will the hon. Gentleman advise the House whether the Government are prepared to allow the free entry into the United Kingdom of cheap Arab oil in preference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.554.2", "colnum": "554", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my hon. Friend has got hold of some cheap Arab oil. The next proposal which some of my hon. Friends have made—in particular my hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) in his article in the Daily Telegraph and my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, West yesterday-is that we should borrow. Now, we have borrowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.565.2", "colnum": "565", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Government have been decisively defeated and discredited on a matter central to their whole economic policy. Such a defeat is unprecedented in modern times. In the light of the decision of the House of Commons, I call upon the Government to resign, or to seek a vote of confidence on this issue forthwith. In the absence of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tonight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Leader of the Opposition asked for a statement tomorrow. I think that I am correct in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.568.6", "colnum": "568", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "to challenge the Government. If we succeed in challenging and defeating the Government as decisively as we have tonight, traditionally we have the right to expect the Government to make an immediate response to the decision of the House of Commons. It is for that reason, no doubt, that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition has demanded that the Prime Minister should state his position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.568.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.568.6", "colnum": "568", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "te his position—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow.\"]—because it is his Government's future that is at stake, and he should do so tonight as soon as he can be brought here. On an occasion such as this the Prime Minister should have been in the Chamber. Failing that, he should be immediately readily available. I suggest that it is only courteous and right to give him an opportunity to come down to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.568.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.568.6", "colnum": "568", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is behind the Speaker's Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": " \"Tomorrow.\"]—because it is his Government's future that is at stake, and he should do so tonight as soon as he can be brought here. On an occasion such as this the Prime Minister should have been in the Chamber. Failing that, he should be immediately readily available. I suggest that it is only courteous and right to give him an opportunity to come down to the House—[ Interruption .]—in order to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.568.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am already dealing with a number of points of order. I am not prepared to suspend the sitting at the moment because it has been said quite clearly that a statement will be given to the House tomorrow. As I understand it, the Leader of the House has said that the Government will make a statement tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.569.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He announced it himself!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Strauss", "preceding_text": "t of order, Mr. Speaker. All the points of order so far raised on the Opposition Benches have been on the assumption that when a Government are defeated on a vote, it is their duty to declare their proposals and policy the same evening. But I am sure that you are aware, Mr. Speaker, that when Mr. Winston Churchill was defeated in this House on a vote, he announced that he would make his decision——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.571.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.571.6", "colnum": "571", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House today in this House has exactly followed that precedent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.571.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.571.8", "colnum": "571", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask the Leader of the House to ascertain whether the Prime Minister is present within the precincts and, if so, to bring him here at once?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.571.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.572.5", "colnum": "572", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "osition, but it is out of order and very unworthy of the House to do so when I am on my feet. We have had a statement from the Government Front Bench that a statement is to be made in the House tomorrow. That follows precedent. The question as to who makes the statement is not for me. A statement has been made by the Leader of the House on behalf of the Government. The next business is EEC Orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.572.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.572.11", "colnum": "572", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It has. I am now moving on to the next business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.572.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.573.6", "colnum": "573", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "to the Solicitors (Scotland) [Money] Resolution. One of the reasons for my hon. Friends being particularly annoyed by the Public Expenditure White Paper was that there was so much money for Scottish solicitors. It is quite clear that we cannot proceed to discuss these two motions. It is futile and fruitless to discuss them if we are to proceed to dissolve Parliament and to have a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.573.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The business of the day does not depend on the mood of the House, and I can only follow the Order Paper. The next business is the Prime Minister's motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The business of the day does not depend on the mood of the House, and I can only follow the Order Paper. The next business is the Prime Minister's motion. [ Interruption .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The business of the day does not depend on the mood of the House, and I can only follow the Order Paper. The next business is the Prime Minister's motion. [ Interruption .] [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] Order. The answer to the question is that I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-10", "file": "debates1976-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbf5a100c899073d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE BAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The business of the day does not depend on the mood of the House, and I can only follow the Order Paper. The next business is the Prime Minister's motion. [ Interruption .] [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] Order. The answer to the question is that I do not know. [ Interruption .] Mr. Pearl.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-10a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "o an Opposition who have made their policy on unemployment as clear as that, because that statement has not been withdrawn by the Shadow Chancellor, nor was it repudiated by the Opposition in this week's debate. The whole House knows that the Tories are committed to massive increased expenditure—of course they are. We have been through all this before in many debates. They are committed to Maplin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "with obscurantism on the main issue of the debate, public expenditure; with a party which has demanded a policy which, on its own admission, would mean increased expenditure this year—it has not denied it; with a party which has advocated a housing policy, including massive rent increases and a local authority housing policy based on ghettos, mainly for slum clearance, the disabled and pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "on. Friends were associating, in their funny way, with a party whose proposals this week would mean staggering increases in food prices, and, I repeat, to underline the strange nature of this unwritten alliance last night, a party whose proposals would mean massively increased defence expenditure. It is not necessary this afternoon to go over all the issues raised in the public expenditure debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) has had more than his fair share of sedentary interruptions today. We must get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ded to abolish the regional employment premium, we not only maintained the premium, we doubled it. We are making massive provision for the regeneration of industry, not only through direct financing through the National Enterprise Board but in the successive schemes for modernisation and development of individual industrial sectors including wool textiles, machine tools and the foundry industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the references—the CBI and the Financial Times . Those hon. Members who can read and study statistics will have seen them. I am referring here particularly to industrial production plans, capital investment intentions and new orders, particularly export orders. We have all recognised that a pick-up in employment lags some months behind the first signs of an increase in the other economic indices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ted when the legislation went through last summer. What happened then was a curious inverse of what happened last night. On that occasion the alliance was in a different posture. Then it was my hon. Friends who voted against the Government's incomes policy while the Conservatives did the abstaining. Last night it was the Conservatives who voted against it while our hon. Friends did the abstaining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "re. Then it was my hon. Friends who voted against the Government's incomes policy while the Conservatives did the abstaining. Last night it was the Conservatives who voted against it while our hon. Friends did the abstaining. [ Interruption .]We are always hearing from right hon. and hon. Ladies and Gentlemen on the Conservative Benches about Marxists. They seem very pleased with their new allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "] Right hon. and hon. Ladies and Gentlemen opposite have always seized on the Tribune Group when they have used that definition. Now they are welcoming its Members as allies. Even so, I say to my hon. Friends, the fact that on anti-inflation policy they were out of step with the TUC General Council, with last September's Trades Union Congress, with the Labour Party Conference's unanimous decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.640.2", "colnum": "640", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said at Question Time in answer to the hon. Member for Blaby that I would refer to the position of sterling. The counter-inflation policy is basic to strengthening the economy and stabilising the value of the currency. Sterling has been relatively firm for some months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "she implied it. The right hon. Lady implied the traditional formula—that all we require is for the party in power to go out and for the party in opposition to take over. I do not believe that in that context the right hon. Lady, in her heart, can claim that the measures that this country will require will be carried on the authority of any one political party in this House. It will need a certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "rope has been commendable to the people of this country. There is no question that jobs depend upon investment; there is no doubt that investment depends upon stability, and that stability depends on political continuity. Since the war we have had a three-year cycle of government. On average no Government has lasted more than three years. They have usually spent the first year in office reversing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "our European partners. Why is it that the leaders of all the political parties—minority and majority parties—can sit down with the right hon. Gentleman in Downing Street and discuss security in Northern Ireland? Why is it that on such issues we can get agreement, and yet when we deal with the question of the economy we have to fight it in the full gladiatorial atmosphere of a parliamentary debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialism?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "preceding_text": "wn defence policy. It has been telling people that it has been cutting defence expenditure. It has been deliberately mobilising the opinion of foreign generals and foreign defence ministers to support that claim. In fact, it is not true. The White Paper shows that it is not true. There is a simple word for that sort of behaviour but I understand, Mr. Speaker, that it is not permitted in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "preceding_text": "e support 80 per cent. of the Government's policies but there are just some odd things about which we are a bit worried\". On the other hand, they are trying to suggest that they disagree fundamentally—and this is their absolute right—with the central economic strategy of the Government, upon which the achievement of almost 100 per cent. of the Government's policies is based, let alone 80 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "preceding_text": "ntosh) directed his attention to the Government. The hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East (Mr. Thomas) directed his attention to his hon. Friends below the Gangway. I want to take up the logical and courageous argument put forward by the hon. member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne East. He asked what the Tribune Group will do tonight. That is the question that the whole nation will ask as it listens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.725.5", "colnum": "725", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With our money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": " that after today's insults and humiliation they will get their money in real currency. The Prime Minister sometimes likes to boast that he is a national leader, but he has been described in an unforgettable phrase by Paul Johnson as \"the Chatham of the Cod War\". If the Prime Minister has to pay the price for the support of people outside his own party, he will pay them with a cheque that bounces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": " in this country which produces the profits out of which this country can provide its social, welfare and educational facilities. I hope that the shock and confusion that has been created for the Treasury Bench and for the Prime Minister on his birthday by the result of the Division last night will bring reality back to this House. I have been a Member of Parliament for only four and a half years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "signation. We are not in a situation in which, over a period of weeks or months, the House of Commons has been consistently refusing Supply to the Government. The demands of the Leader of the Opposition and other Opposition Members for immediate resignation are completely beside the point. The right hon. Lady knows very well that she has no case for that demand. All the constitutional authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": ", there is a great political interest for the United Kingdom and the British people. It should be clearly seen at home and abroad that the Government have behind them the confidence of Parliament. That is a powerful reason for having the debate and a vote. That is an equally powerful reason for all Labour Members to give their full backing to Her Majesty's Government when the Division takes place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "er could do worse than follow. He said: it is grave, not because of any personal consideration—because none of us would desire to hold on to office for a moment longer than we retain the confidence of this House—\".—[ Official Report , 8th May 1940; Vol. 360, c. 1266 That is the standard which the Prime Minister should apply. The question is whether the Prime Minister will live up to that standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": ". He seems to find it unaccountably difficult to escape from it to the Chamber. Where does the Prime Minister stand on the White Paper? He dwelt in his speech on the past policies of his Government, but there was not a word about their future economic policies. To the extent that he addressed himself to economic matters, he asked the House to believe that there were no real cuts being made at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " has put itself in the position where it is able to prevent the occasional sanities which the Right might force upon it. How much longer are those who supported the Government last night to be expected to go on making sacrifices in the cause of party unity? How much longer are those who sit below the Gangway to go on calling the tune? Finally, what about the position of the Prime Minister himself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.741.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer is describing the Government's position. Will he please explain where is the Leader of this Government? His whole position as Leader and Prime Minister of this country is at risk tonight, yet he does not have the courtesy to come to the House. Where is he? If there is a good reason why he is not here, let us be told. Where is he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.746.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Happy birthday to you\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I well understand——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.746.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I well understand why the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe) is reluctant to face the facts, but if, as he has pretended, or rather his right hon. Friend pretends he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.747.5", "colnum": "747", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is quite clear that the House is in danger of bringing disgrace upon itself if hon. Members will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.747.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman was rightly described in a Conservative newspaper yesterday as a sheep in a rage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"What about spending?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "his House nine months ago, her medieval and metallic charms as an iron maiden are unlikely to seduce the trade union movement, because every policy she has sponsored from the Opposition Dispatch Box since she became Leader of the Conservative Party has been calculated to provoke the maximum hostility from the working people of this country. When the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.749.4", "colnum": "749", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The reason why we are having this debate today is that 37 of my hon. Friends thought it right last night on this issue to contrive a situation in which they knew that the Conservative Party would defeat the Government on public expenditure. They chose the day before two by-elections, in order to contrive this defeat of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.749.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.749.4", "colnum": "749", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "hose like my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson), who has never hesitated to express his views in the House but has never conspired with the Conservative Opposition to defeat a Labour Government. All I say to those of my hon. Friends who thought it right to behave in that way yesterday is this: they had every right to share the credit won by this Government for successes but only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.749.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-11", "file": "debates1976-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b89e537e1915dccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "Mr. Norman Buchan (Renfrewshire, West) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-11a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-12", "file": "debates1976-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f63891e587119b68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-12a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COMMON OWNERSHIP BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Garrett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Garrett", "preceding_text": "e concept in the early, crucial stages of common ownership is of immense importance. I do not wish the House to get the impression that I am completely against the principle of common ownership. Hon. Members will be aware that I was responsible for introducing a basic example of common ownership to the Palace of Westminster. The Federation Brewery—and we all consume its products from time to time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-12a.831.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-12", "file": "debates1976-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f63891e587119b68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-12a.898.4", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH BANKNOTES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-12a.898.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-12", "file": "debates1976-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f63891e587119b68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-12a.898.8", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [20th February] .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-12a.898.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-12", "file": "debates1976-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f63891e587119b68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-12a.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1876 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-12a.899.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-12", "file": "debates1976-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f63891e587119b68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-12a.899.9", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDECENT DISPLAYS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-12a.899.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-15", "file": "debates1976-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "88ee6fa0d678ff4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT LAND TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "armed by this tomfoolery. The extra cost will be borne by the ordinary people. There will be the extra cost of employing lawyers, more accountants, and the extra cost of employing narks and spivs who will have to find the land, tell the local authority about it and try to get a special position under the prior rights procedure. Once again we shall find that where there is interference in a market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-15", "file": "debates1976-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "88ee6fa0d678ff4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT LAND TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " and now many of them cannot get rid of it. What happened in December 1973? The Tories, eventually shamed by the public clamour and indignation, suddenly put the rate of tax up retrospectively from 30 per cent, to 75 per cent, in their panic. During that period they dealt such a severe blow to the credit mechanisms of this country that the Bank of England is still attempting to pick up the pieces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-15", "file": "debates1976-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "88ee6fa0d678ff4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT LAND TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "That is the kind of point I should have expected the hon. and learned Gentleman to make at this time of night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-15", "file": "debates1976-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "88ee6fa0d678ff4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "LOCAL LOANS (INCREASE OF LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "I am much too modest to believe that. I said that that morning the Secretary of State for Wales had announced in the Welsh Grand Committee that the housing allocation for Welsh housing alone was running at between £20 million and £30 million more than the estimated figure in the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-15", "file": "debates1976-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "88ee6fa0d678ff4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1083.3", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "LOCAL LOANS (INCREASE OF LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "educe that it will be used to buttress the current expenditure of local authorities, or will it be for worthwhile capital projects? What interest will be needed to serve these loans? Many of my hon. Friends have come back to this point again and again. We need a reassurance on that matter. Finally, how is it likely to affect the rate burden? These are small, niggling points, which have worried me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1083.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-15", "file": "debates1976-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "88ee6fa0d678ff4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "LOCAL LOANS (INCREASE OF LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "preceding_text": "If the Opposition want me to go on, I shall do so. The whole area of public and local authority loans should be reviewed. The problems began when, in 1956, the wretched Tory Government threw the poor defenceless local authorities on to the market for a substantial proportion of their capital spending. It is time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-15", "file": "debates1976-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "88ee6fa0d678ff4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "LOCAL LOANS (INCREASE OF LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for St. Ives is also concerned with Welsh housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-15a.1089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-16", "file": "debates1976-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "36cce4f4d17fa7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that the rate of unemployment in Scotland has been consistently higher than in any other part of the United Kingdom, and that we find ourselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-16", "file": "debates1976-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "36cce4f4d17fa7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that the rate of unemployment in Scotland has been consistently higher than in any other part of the United Kingdom, and that we find ourselves—[ Interruption .] Indeed, if we can make this comment to the peanut gallery on the Tribune side here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-16", "file": "debates1976-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "36cce4f4d17fa7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I was about to say in reply to the previous question that it is crucially important to maintain numbers in training and to increase them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-16", "file": "debates1976-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "36cce4f4d17fa7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It is crucial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-16", "file": "debates1976-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "36cce4f4d17fa7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESS (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " accordance with the traditions of this House. She is absolutely right, in that, whatever differences may divide us in this House on policy and political philosophy, on occasions such as this nice, kind words like hers have been uttered. I hope that I shall not spoil the atmosphere by saying that I totally reject the second part of her question—I am not sure that she is all that keen on it either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-16", "file": "debates1976-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "36cce4f4d17fa7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESS (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. Lady has said that for once she will answer a question from me. It is the first time that it has happened in 12 months. We have been asking what expenditure cuts the Opposition would make. The right hon. Lady's whole case depends on the votes of last week. My right hon. Friend who succeeds me will have the responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-16", "file": "debates1976-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "36cce4f4d17fa7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1124.2", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESS (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Finally, may I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-16", "file": "debates1976-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "36cce4f4d17fa7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1126.3", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESS (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, who on occasions such as this always speaks what is in his mind. I am grateful to him for what I think he meant as a compliment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-16", "file": "debates1976-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "36cce4f4d17fa7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESS (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "is post as Prime Minister and the leadership of our party he will most justifiably and honourably have the good wishes not only of the Parliamentary Labour Party but of all the ordinary folk in the great Labour movement outside this House? One feature which distinguishes it is that it was his decision to relinquish his office and the leadership of the party. He goes without any knives in his back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-16", "file": "debates1976-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "36cce4f4d17fa7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESS (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend. Of course, that is true. We have our different ways in the different parties. I have always found the knives of the Conservative Party, as I have watched events over 30 years, less kindly and more lethally planted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-16a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-17", "file": "debates1976-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "25f5347d5628e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1306.4", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member has gone a little way from his original Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1306.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-17", "file": "debates1976-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "25f5347d5628e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1314.2", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "—on new building. The figures quoted in the White Paper for investment in new building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-17", "file": "debates1976-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "25f5347d5628e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1315.4", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "May I speak in support of the hon. Member for Ilford, North (Mrs. Miller) and ask that the Minister does as the hon. Lady has asked? Further, may I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1315.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-17", "file": "debates1976-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "25f5347d5628e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Coal-owning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "ester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) leave to bring in the Bill. The hon. Member referred to \"bully boys\" in the trade unions, yet his current Leader is running around the country trying to woo the trade unions in order to gather a few votes in whatever elections may ensue, either locally or in parliamentary by-elections. It is all rather ironic, since the hon. Member comes from a coal-mining family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-17", "file": "debates1976-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "25f5347d5628e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1360.2", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I accept that there is a great backlog but I do not accept that there has been a decade of falling housebuilding figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1360.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-17", "file": "debates1976-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "25f5347d5628e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1361.1", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I intend to continue with my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-17", "file": "debates1976-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "25f5347d5628e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1361.3", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I could also make comments about the other side's interventions from a sedentary position, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I propose to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-17a.1361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-18", "file": "debates1976-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4b4b453138e32e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-18a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n. Lady's views about fomenting. Mozambique has shown great patience and tolerance, because throughout this period it has not invoked the sanctions for which the Security Council has called. We proposed and invoked them when the Conservative Party was split three ways. Will the right hon. Lady say whether she supports the United Nations sanctions? Does the Conservative Party support the sanctions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-18a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-18", "file": "debates1976-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4b4b453138e32e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-18a.1545.0", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "immed milk problem, on Friday last week, and, myself voting against, accepted the Report in its entirety? Am I to take it that the new inclusion in the weights and measures debate of an EEC document is at last a recognition of the fact that this House is not being given sufficient time to discuss EEC Directives before they are accepted—and accepted without our having had the chance to debate them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-18a.1544.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-18", "file": "debates1976-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4b4b453138e32e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-18a.1584.0", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Newton", "preceding_text": "y on this matter that she took the trouble to write a careful, thoughtful and long letter to me. Therefore, I shall not attempt to quote it all. However, I should like to refer to it briefly in the course of my speech. The letter starts by referring to the \"fear\" which this Act has instilled in my constituent. That is something that the Secretary of State and his hon. Friends should bear in mind.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-18a.1584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-18", "file": "debates1976-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4b4b453138e32e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-18a.1718.0", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "DEVOLUTION TO SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Perhaps my hon. Friend will address himself to this crucial question. In the so-called Constitution Unit there are 34 members, 19 of whom are supportting 15.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-18a.1718.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-19", "file": "debates1976-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a0569b1aa1f6e02e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-19a.1880.6", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEX DISCRIMINATION (AGE OF RETIREMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-19a.1880.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-19", "file": "debates1976-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a0569b1aa1f6e02e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-19a.1880.21", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "FREEDOM OF SPEECH (RESTORATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-19a.1880.20"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-19", "file": "debates1976-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a0569b1aa1f6e02e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-19a.1881.2", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-19a.1881.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-19", "file": "debates1976-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a0569b1aa1f6e02e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-19a.1881.6", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "SCOTTISH BANK NOTES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-19a.1881.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-19", "file": "debates1976-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a0569b1aa1f6e02e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-19a.1881.12", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "HOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 20th February ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-19a.1881.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-22", "file": "debates1976-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0aaa83d8a49504fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-22a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (DEFENCE EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Craig", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"In the first year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Craig", "preceding_text": "s? What will be the cost in Northern Ireland of the security benefits which will have to be paid to skilled men who, because of the peculiar situation in Northern Ireland, are likely to be unemployed for a very long time? When all these considerations are added up, the cost will be enormous. I have heard the cost of redundancy payments and security benefit put as high as £3 million or £4 million——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-22a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-22", "file": "debates1976-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0aaa83d8a49504fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-22a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "us consideration to the terms of the clause. I do not believe that any Northern Ireland Minister could have envisaged such a clause applying in Northern Ireland without the reference to Her Majesty's Forces and without clarification about the use of the confidential telephone. The clarification throws a new light on the confidential telephone operation. One of its features is that it is anonymous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-22a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-23", "file": "debates1976-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "57251feaab15cc08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-23a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There must be some relation between the supplementary question and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-23a.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-23", "file": "debates1976-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "57251feaab15cc08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-23a.200.4", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The short answer to the first part of my hon. Friend's question is \"Yes, Sir. I have known them like this quite frequently over 30 years\". I pay tribute to my hon. Friend and to others who are regarded, not without reason, as being on the Left of the party when they have found it necessary or right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-23a.200.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-23", "file": "debates1976-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "57251feaab15cc08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-23a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "way in which hon. Members table Questions to the Prime Minister and the form of wording are severely limited. Therefore, it follows that supplementary questions bear a fairly distant relationship to the matter at hand and are related only tenuously to the original Question. If I may say so with respect, Mr. Speaker, there is an increasing irritation in the House that you are interrupting too much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-23a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-23", "file": "debates1976-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "57251feaab15cc08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-23a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Member for his courtesy. It is my responsibility to see that supplementary questions are related to the original Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-23a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-23", "file": "debates1976-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "57251feaab15cc08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-23a.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will know, from your long experience, that this place reeks with privilege and patronage of the worst kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-23a.203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-23", "file": "debates1976-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "57251feaab15cc08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-23a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "ike to see developed and argued more fully in a subsequent debate. We would also like a fuller discussion on what is intended about the transfer of other, non-housing assets to local authorities, to which there has been reference. I believe that there is a very good case for selling off some of these assets. I do not see why the freehold of some industrial premises should not be put on the market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-23a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-24", "file": "debates1976-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1e49fea10775da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.375.4", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "It is strange that the hon. Member should call in aid the Scottish Council document. If the hon. Member cares to read it and not quote it out of context, he will see that the Scottish Council repeatedly rejects any proposal which will lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-24", "file": "debates1976-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1e49fea10775da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "Political differences and differences in policy emerge from time to time in all parties. My mind goes back to the 1966 election manifesto of the Scottish National Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-24", "file": "debates1976-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1e49fea10775da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "I advise the hon. Gentleman that porridge is certainly good with salt, but it is even better with a spoonful of treacle in it in the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-24", "file": "debates1976-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1e49fea10775da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.383.9", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I do not consider the unemployment figures of yesterday disastrous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.383.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-24", "file": "debates1976-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1e49fea10775da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETINGS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, by the nature of the question, has not had the opportunity that I have had to read both the précis and the actual document. Let me assure him that when he reads them he will discover that the information provided for the House is exactly a replica of that in the document, although the document may expand the point in a number of particulars. But the document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.404.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-24", "file": "debates1976-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1e49fea10775da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.476.7", "colnum": "476", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS (FELIXSTOWE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Bradley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Bradley", "preceding_text": "ry the House with an elaborate explanation of the individual clauses of the Bill, which are simply put and make their intention very clear. The principal purpose of the Bill is to enable the British Transport Docks Board to acquire the ownership of the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company. In recent years Felixstowe has become one of Britain's most successful, flourishing and fastest-growing ports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.476.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-24", "file": "debates1976-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1e49fea10775da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS (FELIXSTOWE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who signed it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "o European Ferries Limited following their take-over of the Company, and that we hereby require Mr. Keith Stainton,\"— that is a breach of Privilege if anything is— the Member of Parliament of the constituency of Sudbury and Woodbridge, to do all in his power both personally and by the encouragement of his colleagues towards the defeat or withdrawal of the British Transport Docks (Felixstowe) Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.492.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-24", "file": "debates1976-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1e49fea10775da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.555.16", "colnum": "555", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS (FELIXSTOWE) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have put the Question and ordered the Lobbies to be cleared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.555.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-24", "file": "debates1976-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1e49fea10775da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS (FELIXSTOWE) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Fowler (seated and covered)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-24a.556.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-25", "file": "debates1976-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "17dbd1fd65695182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-25a.625.4", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESS (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Good-bye\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Since this may be my last opportunity to say it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-25a.625.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-25", "file": "debates1976-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "17dbd1fd65695182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-25a.629.0", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption ,", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I note that the hon. Member refers to a fifth ballot. It is not for me to make forecasts about that. The hon. Gentleman will have noticed, however, the much greater dignity surrounding the question of the leadership of the Labour Party as compared with the action of so many of his hon. Friends, particularly the weightier ones—by \"weightier\" I am talking of bulk and not intelligence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-25a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-25", "file": "debates1976-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "17dbd1fd65695182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-25a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "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": "On 5th March I told the House that direct rule in Northern Ireland would continue, that it would be positive and not negative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-25a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-25", "file": "debates1976-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "17dbd1fd65695182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-25a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "rking for the Department of Health and Social Services or the Department of Education. These, too, are a part of direct rule. There is no question of there being a vacuum. My own belief is that the recent public opinion polls which indicate that a very large number of people in Northern Ireland accept with equanimity and even approval the idea of continued direct rule are not too far off the mark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-25a.649.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-26", "file": "debates1976-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "28cf35641391dda8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.767.6", "colnum": "767", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " made , That, notwithstanding the Order of the House of 5th November 1974, in the last Session of Parliament, relating to nomination of members of the Committee of Selection, Mr. Bryant Goodman Irvine be discharged from the Committee of Selection and Mr. Jasper More to be added to the Committee for the remainder of this Parliament. That this Order be a Standing Order of the House.—[ Mr. Lamborn .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.767.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-26", "file": "debates1976-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "28cf35641391dda8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "PERSONAL LIBERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": " house, the tenants had started to let it rot. Eventually the landlord's wife was able to move in, only to face shortly afterwards the crowning indignity. On 7th July the bailiff arrived, because the arrangements for them to regain possession had not been cancelled. The bailiffs were only persuaded not to evict the landlord's wife when she was able to produce her passport and marriage certificate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-26", "file": "debates1976-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "28cf35641391dda8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "PERSONAL LIBERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ount of choice we have.\" Perhaps it was, for some, a question whether to take a holiday in the Riviera or the West Indies. There is no choice for the vast majority of people. There has been a great transformation and now the basis of the Welfare State is generally accepted. The main theme of the Opposition has been set by the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition. Speaking to the Institute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-26", "file": "debates1976-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "28cf35641391dda8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "PERSONAL LIBERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "e superfluous. The right hon. Lady continued: What lessons have we learned from the last 30 years? First, the pursuit of equality is a mirage\". It has not been a mirage for most people in this country. She continued: What is more desirable and more practicable than the pursuit of a policy of opportunity, and opportunity means nothing unless it includes the right to be unequal. The right hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.794.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-26", "file": "debates1976-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "28cf35641391dda8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.857.6", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF SPEECH (RESTORATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.857.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-26", "file": "debates1976-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "28cf35641391dda8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.857.10", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.857.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-26", "file": "debates1976-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "28cf35641391dda8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.857.14", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 20th February ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-26a.857.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-03-29", "file": "debates1976-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fd2ff05781f2be27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-29a.877.5", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis", "preceding_text": "untryside Commission, or the local planning authority, or the parks authority, or even with the House itself? Will he prepare and publish a short factual report showing how the tarmacadam road leading from the A5 to Ffynnon Llugwy came to be authorised, to what extent environmental interests influenced the decision, and what he proposes to do to prevent a recurrence of this unfortunate experience?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-29a.877.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-29", "file": "debates1976-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fd2ff05781f2be27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-29a.910.5", "colnum": "910", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " or so to reach the present stage. I do not know, but I am willing to have a modest bet with my hon. Friend that he will be retired before we reach the second stage about which he is so worried, because it will demand the unanimous agreement of all the member States before they ever get there. Perhaps I might deal with the real matters which affect us now rather than with fears about next century—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-29a.910.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-29", "file": "debates1976-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fd2ff05781f2be27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-29a.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I have already given way once to the right hon. Gentleman, have I not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-29a.917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-29", "file": "debates1976-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fd2ff05781f2be27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-29a.917.2", "colnum": "917", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The Select Committee will be free to consider any of those matters, except the principle of direct elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-29a.917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-29", "file": "debates1976-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fd2ff05781f2be27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-29a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ent\" is a little confusing. The Foreign Secretary used both phrases, Parliament and Assembly. I have seen many occasions in Europe when the use of words in English or French has led to confusion. The European Parliament or Assembly is different from our concept of Parliament. Our concept of Parliament is a body that is omnicompetent, that derives its authority from its own existence and exercises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-29a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-30", "file": "debates1976-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "88ce375af862df61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-30a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Kirk", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Kirk", "preceding_text": "try but I would not like to try myself. Nobody should be compelled to carry out the two. The hon. Member for Newton also said that possibly the European Parliament spent a lot of its time discussing matters such as the harmonisation of jams, jellies, marmalade and chestnut purée, which we and the hon. Member for West Bromwich, West (Miss Boothroyd) spent a lot of time last week immersed in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-30a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-30", "file": "debates1976-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "88ce375af862df61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-30a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Kirk", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is an anomaly already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Kirk", "preceding_text": "ble anomaly in as much as we shall be alone among the countries in the Community in allowing the citizens of one other member country—the Republic of Ireland—to vote for European elections and for domestic elections, while refusing it to all the others. This is the sort of anomalous situation to which the Select Committee can bend its mind and on which I would like the views of the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-30a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-30", "file": "debates1976-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "88ce375af862df61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-30a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Kirk", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Not lately.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Kirk", "preceding_text": "e at all without a directly elected European Parliament. As I have said, I have never disguised my view that it is essential for the Community and the peoples of the Community that there should be a greater element of parliamentary power within the Community. I said that in my first speech in Strasbourg in January 1973 and I have continued to say it ever since. I have said it when I was here, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-30a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-30", "file": "debates1976-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "88ce375af862df61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-30a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "rned to do so, for I see no meaning in a person presenting himself to the electorate at a General Election except within the framework of a party. The meaning of a Member is to be the bearer of a message from the people to Government. His function is to exercise on their behalf the control which can be exercised only through party. Without party there is no democracy. Those who talk without party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-30a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-30", "file": "debates1976-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "88ce375af862df61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-30a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "That is the same bogy as the widespread impression that decisions are taken by Permanent Under-Secretaries rather than by Ministers. Knowing my hon. Friend of old, I thought that he was too sophisticated to bring out these hoary old chestnuts which are disproved day after day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-30a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-31", "file": "debates1976-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "0e68e176a824f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-31a.1300.2", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On if you win.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am not always amiable, but it depends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-31a.1300.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-31", "file": "debates1976-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "0e68e176a824f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-31a.1462.0", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to see that the hon. Gentleman has cheered up a bit from a few moments ago. We are conscious that he must be feeling the pressures of Government business. He has been on Committee after Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-31a.1462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-31", "file": "debates1976-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "0e68e176a824f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-31a.1533.0", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "FIDUCIARY NOTE ISSUE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Thomas", "preceding_text": "There still seems to me to be a gap left. When we talk of inflation we mean rising prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-31a.1533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-31", "file": "debates1976-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "0e68e176a824f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-31a.1533.5", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "FIDUCIARY NOTE ISSUE", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Sheldon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Sheldon)", "preceding_text": "I had hoped to be as full and as frank as time permitted, but the time available is not enough to do as much as I should like, let alone as much as hon. Members opposite would wish. I shall start by saying something about the fiduciary issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-31a.1533.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-03-31", "file": "debates1976-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "0e68e176a824f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-31a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "FIDUCIARY NOTE ISSUE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "I find it difficult to make the kind of comparison with the United States that many others seem to make so readily. Our system is different, but in terms of the objective—no doubt my right hon. Friend the Chancellor will be dealing with this next week—there are no fixed rules—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-03-31a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-01", "file": "debates1976-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea7c6a7e3b5f350a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1587.0", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "We have collected three items, not very substantial, to go to a sessional Select Committee. I hope to set it up at the same time as the Select Committee on the reform of Parliament, in the very near future—I hope this week. But many hon. Members, almost all, are heavily involved in Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-01", "file": "debates1976-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea7c6a7e3b5f350a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1646.1", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "preceding_text": "dren and we are losing talent that way. We are always on about the lack of a forward-looking National Health Service, which at the moment suffers from a lack of money. I could go on endlessly pointing to areas in the social programme where more money is needed to keep up the present standards. There seems little point in contributing vastly to a NATO defence system which invites attack on Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-01", "file": "debates1976-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea7c6a7e3b5f350a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1646.1", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Obviously.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "preceding_text": "ly pointing to areas in the social programme where more money is needed to keep up the present standards. There seems little point in contributing vastly to a NATO defence system which invites attack on Britain. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members may laugh. We are a small island in the middle of and in partnership with a number of other countries. I am not a militarist. I am not a military strategist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-01", "file": "debates1976-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea7c6a7e3b5f350a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1692.4", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "s no way of conducting the policy of this country in an area vital to the citizens of this country. The Secretary of State reminded me of a Latin tag which students of moral philosophy have been asked to comment on; Meliora scio, detereriora sequor.\" In the absence of the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell) I will translate. It means roughly \"I know what is better, I do what is worse \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1692.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-01", "file": "debates1976-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea7c6a7e3b5f350a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1701.1", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence (Mr. William Rodgers)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence (Mr. William Rodgers)", "preceding_text": "s pupil, on the basis of his performance tonight, but there was a good deal of the pot calling the kettle black. The right hon. Gentleman's period in the Cabinet from 1959 to 1964 was marked by a fall in the percentage of gross national product going to defence. At the same time, his period as Chancellor of the Exchequer ended with a massive balance of payments deficit and a major economic crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-01", "file": "debates1976-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea7c6a7e3b5f350a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was what the right hon. Gentleman said last year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "urrent defence programmes will work out. No one can say for sure whether there will be progress in the MBFR talks. I was glad to note that the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnet hopes that there will be progress. While, however, the present cuts are acceptable and the search for economies continues in any well-run Department, I do not see room for further similar cuts in the foreseeable future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-01", "file": "debates1976-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea7c6a7e3b5f350a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "talks. I was glad to note that the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnet hopes that there will be progress. While, however, the present cuts are acceptable and the search for economies continues in any well-run Department, I do not see room for further similar cuts in the foreseeable future. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That was what the right hon. Gentleman said last year.\"] For me at least, enough is enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-01", "file": "debates1976-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ea7c6a7e3b5f350a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "ntervention drawing attention to their record when in Government. When they are in Opposition, they adopt a totally different stance. I noticed the declaration of Conservative defence policy yesterday contained in three pale sentences quoted from what the Leader of the Opposition had said. If a week is a long time in politics, two years speaking from this Bench on defence can feel like a lifetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-01a.1706.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-02", "file": "debates1976-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "563fadfcded30e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-02a.1867.2", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH BANK NOTES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-02a.1867.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-02", "file": "debates1976-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "563fadfcded30e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-02a.1867.6", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS DUTIES (DUMPING AND SUBSIDIES) (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-02a.1867.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-02", "file": "debates1976-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "563fadfcded30e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-02a.1867.10", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PASSPORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-02a.1867.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-02", "file": "debates1976-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "563fadfcded30e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-02a.1867.14", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF SPEECH (RESTORATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-02a.1867.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-02", "file": "debates1976-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "563fadfcded30e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-02a.1867.18", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 20 February ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-02a.1867.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.7.3", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "I think that most of us in the House will be happy to hear that the Minister is so confident that this industry has a real future because, contrary to general belief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.7.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "I think that most of us in the House will be happy to hear that the Minister is so confident that this industry has a real future because, contrary to general belief—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] Is the Minister aware that, contrary to general belief, many people are affected, in widely scattered areas of the country, and that this matter is of interest to the majority of hon. Members in this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.7.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.24.5", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "There are one or two nationalised industries which would meet the objectives set down by the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.24.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Norway did not go in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "preceding_text": "eal with the Icelanders—so many thousand tons of their cod for so many thousand tons of our herring. That is the way in which we must act in the future. If hon. Members of all parties had got round the table prior to the EEC negotiations, perhaps they would have recognised a good ally, Norway, whose fisheries are akin to ours. Norway looked after her interests when she went into the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "preceding_text": ", it is obvious that it would be better if we had a completely new deal on fishing. Surely the fact that the Government do not know what they are about, or do not take the problem seriously, is indicated by those on the Front Bench. This is a time for hard bargaining. The future of the industry is at stake. Let us get some tough horse traders on the Government Front Bench. Let us get some results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.148.9", "colnum": "148", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "n the future of the industry, of jobs and of the security of supplies of fish, the industry needs help now. We condemn the Government for refusing to give the help which is needed. I turn now to the common fisheries policy. The Government have shown that they are operating under a number of basic misconceptions. I was disappointed at the Minister of State's weakness on the common fisheries policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.148.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Hugh D. Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Hugh D. Brown)", "preceding_text": "ound it possible during the debate to congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) on becoming Prime Minister, because that is part of the reason why I have so few supporters tonight on the Benches behind me. I have enough competition normally, but when my right hon. Friend is speaking to the nation obviously I have severe competition in getting an audience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Hugh D. Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Hugh D. Brown)", "preceding_text": "having said that. The right hon. Gentleman said that that statement had been made at a meeting with the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, but he did not quote the source of that comment and he will therefore appreciate that it will not be regarded as an authentic opinion or statement on behalf of the Government. I had better say that now, because I might not be in the Government tomorrow—who knows?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Hugh D. Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Hugh D. Brown)", "preceding_text": "s been no Government activity is most unfair to this or to any Government. I really feel that the right hon. Gentleman was overdoing it in making some of these points. His suggestion that the Government have not understood the industry is yet another cliche. These cliches together add up to nothing, even if they help to fill out a speech. This is a rather significant week, to some extent, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Hugh D. Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Hugh D. Brown)", "preceding_text": "bright note for most Scottish fishermen and there are forecasts by many leading figures that the year 1976 could well be a record year for the inshore fishermen. A renewed note of optimism has been prevalent throughout the inshore section of the industry for the past couple of months and there have been enquiries for new construction at many shipyards—the first move in this field for over a year\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Hugh D. Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Hugh D. Brown)", "preceding_text": "t throughout the inshore section of the industry for the past couple of months and there have been enquiries for new construction at many shipyards—the first move in this field for over a year\". [ Interruption .] The hon. Gentleman should ask Commercial Fishing . That is a sound comment by an unbiased source. It is certainly not a source biased in favour of the Government. That is a sound comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The first quotation I made dealt with the trawling industry. That answers that point. As for whether it is profit or loss at present, I do not wish to dodge the question but I am not prepared to comment further until we have had detailed discussions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.156.4", "colnum": "156", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.156.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.156.5", "colnum": "156", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am indebted for the encouraging remarks from hon. Members who do not know what we are talking about. The right hon. Gentleman did not make it clear whether he was referring to pounds or crowns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Secondly, may I ask the SNP Members: do they also disown the candidate in Inverness-shire who says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Secondly, may I ask the SNP Members: do they also disown the candidate in Inverness-shire who says—[ Interruption .] He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "It is most indulgent of the Minister to give way, but it seems obvious that he must be very short of material if he is reduced to this level. With reference to his second question, I do not know what on earth he is talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-05", "file": "debates1976-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e7f3df6623f5a249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.158.6", "colnum": "158", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "eated references to my right hon. and hon. Friends who are in Luxembourg at the moment. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will be there tomorrow morning to discuss fishing in particular. As I say, I take exception to the way the official Opposition have approached this matter. They left us with it. They signed the Treaty of Accession. They signed all our rights away in terms of anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-05a.158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-06", "file": "debates1976-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a760c1f2f5bd02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-06a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ctoral popularity—I forbear to identify their party—led them to reflate too fast or to run the economy at an excessive pressure of domestic demand. These were the two-year periods of 1958–60 when the volume of semi-finished and finished manufactured imports grew by no less than 51 per cent.; of 1962–64, when it grew by 32 per cent.; and in 1971–73, when it grew by 45 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-06a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-06", "file": "debates1976-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a760c1f2f5bd02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-06a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "For that reason, I do not believe that general and prolonged import controls offer any solution to our problems. Selective import controls are, of course, another matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-06a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-06", "file": "debates1976-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a760c1f2f5bd02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-06a.266.4", "colnum": "266", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS TAX CHANGES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I shall be introducing new provisions to govern the treatment of property passing under survivorship clauses in wills; and to stop from today what the Press has labelled \"The General Franco device\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-06a.266.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-06", "file": "debates1976-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a760c1f2f5bd02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-06a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition made a controversial speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-06a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-07", "file": "debates1976-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f05d73d1338cdd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "In reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Raison) on 28th July last year, the Government announced their aim, as stated in Cmnd. 6115—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.416.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-07", "file": "debates1976-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f05d73d1338cdd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Why could not the Minister have given that straightforward answer, saying what the purpose of the visit was, when my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Smith) asked him? Why did he have to be so arrogant and uninformative until one of his hon. Friends asked a question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-07", "file": "debates1976-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f05d73d1338cdd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "that that means an extra contribution of £104 for the man at the top of the scale, for which he will receive no additional benefit? Does the right hon. Lady realise, and did she tell the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that this more than offsets any reduction in tax, even if the TUC agree with the tax relief given by the Chancellor in his Budget yesterday? In short, does the right hon. Lady believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-07", "file": "debates1976-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f05d73d1338cdd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.444.7", "colnum": "444", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ce succeeding to his present office. He went on in 1964 to help Mr. George Brown to construct the National Plan, but even with that experience behind him—a miracle which would have made the feeding of the 5,000 look like a three-card trick—he confirmed the present Chancellor in office. It was his first act as Prime Minister, and he may well find it to have been his most serious mistake. I move on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.444.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-07", "file": "debates1976-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f05d73d1338cdd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "on, of which one hears so often from the Benches opposite. As for more local theories, my hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead, West has already questioned the methodology of Wynn Godley's \"Economic Policy Review\". Having followed his work over the years, when I read in Appendix B in Section 2 on Economic Methodology that the parameters are assigned a priori I fasten my seat belt for a bumpy ride.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-07", "file": "debates1976-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f05d73d1338cdd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.560.3", "colnum": "560", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "I have nothing to add to what my right hon. Friend said yesterday. He was as clear as he could be at this stage of the negotiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-07", "file": "debates1976-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f05d73d1338cdd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "I hope that at some stage it will be possible to go further. We have also the growth of medium-term finance for industry, and it will be made available more fully. We have had the loan capital changes and the assistance to exports through ECGD. The export assistance operated by our embassies and the realistic exchange rate give further opportunities to industry to export.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-07a.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-08", "file": "debates1976-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "c043bed70eb483e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.634.6", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no relationship between the value of sterling and nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.634.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-08", "file": "debates1976-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "c043bed70eb483e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.634.6", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no relationship between the value of sterling and nationalisation. [ Interruption .] The value of sterling is dependent upon a number of factors, as hon. Members know, in relation to our—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.634.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-08", "file": "debates1976-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "c043bed70eb483e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.634.6", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ip between the value of sterling and nationalisation. [ Interruption .] The value of sterling is dependent upon a number of factors, as hon. Members know, in relation to our—[ Interruption .] The Opposition seem to be very tetchy at present. Are they frightened that I may call a General Election, or something? I am afraid that they will all have to contain their personal ambitions a little longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.634.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-08", "file": "debates1976-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "c043bed70eb483e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "working techniques? He can do it, first, by reducing the burden of income tax and making investment more worth while. What about income tax? I accept that the Chancellor is hedged around by problems, partly inherited and partly of his own creation. He inherited a massive borrowing requirement from the Conservative Government. I hope that no one will allow the people of this country to forget that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-08", "file": "debates1976-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "c043bed70eb483e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "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": "tives for the higher paid. But the hon. Gentleman did not appear to follow through his arguments. We are all trying to reduce the rate of inflation, including wage inflation, by agreement with the trade union movement. I hope that the hon. Gentleman agrees on reflection that, however we go about that, it is unrealistic to imagine that we can completely remove the Price Code, as he seemed to imply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-08", "file": "debates1976-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "c043bed70eb483e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "ut the need for adequate control of the general public expenditure level. Most observers would accept that our control has been improved in two important ways. The first improvement has come about by the extension of the use of cash limits, which have been welcomed by the right hon. Member for Knutsford (Mr. Davies). The second has come about through a more rigorous control of contingency reserve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-08", "file": "debates1976-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "c043bed70eb483e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "It is no use the hon. Gentleman talking about rubbish. I am not going to be provoked. I have only five minutes left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-08a.765.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-09", "file": "debates1976-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f3f48b2586487e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-09a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH BANK NOTES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-09a.882.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-09", "file": "debates1976-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f3f48b2586487e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-09a.882.6", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 20th February ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-09a.882.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-12", "file": "debates1976-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "f1d0071bc8e79a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.885.5", "colnum": "885", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " established, but will he take somewhat further and a little more seriously the question raised by the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire, East (Mr. Henderson) and reflect on whether the time has come for the Government to spell out in some detail, perhaps in a White Paper, just how malleable and under what degree of mercy an independent Scottish Government would be at the hands of these oil companies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.885.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-12", "file": "debates1976-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "f1d0071bc8e79a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.903.8", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take this opportunity of agreeing with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.903.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-12", "file": "debates1976-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "f1d0071bc8e79a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.934.0", "colnum": "934", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ied. They deserve a debate on their own. They should be considered when Ministers assess the scope for expansion and they should be borne in mind when considering incomes policy. On incomes policy, very few hon. and right bon. Members in this House have consistent records. I am not included among those who have been consistent. Today I will not argue the case for or against incomes policy as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.934.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-12", "file": "debates1976-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "f1d0071bc8e79a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is a man of great intelligence and originality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-12", "file": "debates1976-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "f1d0071bc8e79a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "preceding_text": "It falls to me from the Opposition Benches to perform the happy task of congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Wirral (Mr. Hunt) on an outstandingly able maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-12", "file": "debates1976-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "f1d0071bc8e79a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "that what matters is how much money they receive after the Inland Revenue has taken its share, and what that money will buy in the shops. They know that it is crazy to repeat the sort of experience we had last year, when earnings went up by 29 per cent. but living standards hardly rose at all. Their trade union representatives know it too. As Mr. Jack Jones wrote in a notable article last weekend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-12", "file": "debates1976-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "f1d0071bc8e79a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ach agreement on a policy for incomes in the coming round which will meet the nation's needs. But we are already at one about the objective. The Government and the TUC agree 100 per cent. on the need to achieve a pay policy that will reduce inflation still further in the coming year—to well under 10 per cent. to quote the TUC Economic Survey. I agree with Mr. Len Murray when he said the other day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-12", "file": "debates1976-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "f1d0071bc8e79a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "PROTEIN DEPOSIT AND PRIVATE STORAGE AID", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "preceding_text": "eme will bear unduly and additionally on the United Kingdom. Fifthly, it was produced at virtually no notice and, despite what the Minister said tonight, without thorough consultations about the implications, both technical and financial. The Grain and Feed Trade Association has described the consultations as a mockery. It was asked for its views without being given the full details of the system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-12", "file": "debates1976-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "f1d0071bc8e79a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "PROTEIN DEPOSIT AND PRIVATE STORAGE AID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "s. That is the positive way of dealing with the problem instead of tinkering with it. We have heard tonight mostly from anti-Marketeers. I am proud to be a pro-Marketeer. It is easy to criticise the CAP, but we should try to rectify the mistakes rather than dump the whole arrangement. I have never believed that the CAP was static. It is flexible: we learn from our mistakes, as we do anywhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-12", "file": "debates1976-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "f1d0071bc8e79a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "PROTEIN DEPOSIT AND PRIVATE STORAGE AID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"My right hon. Friend was once.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "May I reply to the debate and respond to questions and comments? It has been a useful debate, although some passions have been aroused. I understand the view taken by those of my hon. Friends who have always been critical of the CAP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-12", "file": "debates1976-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "f1d0071bc8e79a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "PROTEIN DEPOSIT AND PRIVATE STORAGE AID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "eve that the effect on producers should be relatively small and temporary. One must also bear in mind—I say this to hon. Members on both sides—that the markets for pig and poultry meat are currently firm and are expected to remain so, certainly during the life of the scheme. Egg prices, too, are better than they were at this time last year. I know and understand that strong feelings are expressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-12a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-13", "file": "debates1976-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5af53dcdd32e1ec6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-13a.1137.4", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI AND TUC", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend, but on this as on so many other matters the Opposition, I regret, are not only divided but have a split mind. It is only a few weeks since the right hon. Lady would a wooing go. I thought that she was making good progress with the trade unions. Who could fail to respond to her charm?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-13a.1137.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-13", "file": "debates1976-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5af53dcdd32e1ec6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-13a.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI AND TUC", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a second-best policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-13a.1139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-13", "file": "debates1976-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5af53dcdd32e1ec6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-13a.1144.4", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "TRANSPORT POLICY (REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "uggest that the House is in great difficulty over this matter. There is no challenge to the fact that as a practice the Press receives advance copies of these documents; indeed, that has been the practice for many years. However, on this occasion I understand that the document has been given a very much wider circulation and has been in the hands of almost everybody interested in transport policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-13a.1144.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-13", "file": "debates1976-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5af53dcdd32e1ec6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-13a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "TRANSPORT POLICY (REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his new post. Is he aware that this is possibly the most detailed and best researched consultative document ever to be produced by any Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-13a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-13", "file": "debates1976-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5af53dcdd32e1ec6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-13a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "TRANSPORT POLICY (REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have you seen it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his new post. Is he aware that this is possibly the most detailed and best researched consultative document ever to be produced by any Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"] I am prepared to tell the House if you wish, Mr. Speaker, but if I do I shall immediately be ruled out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-13a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-14", "file": "debates1976-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29cd273d98b30584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-14a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "ms of the workers on Merseyside and in Birmingham, Glasgow and Dundee are exactly the same and that a concerted effort is required by all on a United Kingdom basis to solve the workers' problems. A divided working class has always been a defeated working class. If the SNP succeeds in dividing the working class, it will be acting in the interests of the capitalist class which finances its policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-14a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-14", "file": "debates1976-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29cd273d98b30584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-14a.1388.0", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "SCOTTISH AND WELSH ASSEMBLIES (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that he was not totally accurate when he said that every party represented in this House was in favour of devolution? The Scottish National Party seeks devolution merely as a means of achieving separation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-14a.1388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-14", "file": "debates1976-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29cd273d98b30584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-14a.1448.2", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "TOXIC WASTE PLANTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": "here is a danger of local authorities, charged with responsibility for finding the necessary sites, accepting proposals in a hurried and unplanned manner. Indeed, with local authorities acting individually, with no national or regional plan to follow, and no co-ordination, we could end up with a patchwork of ill-conceived and hastily erected plans throughout the country far in excess of our needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-14a.1448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-14", "file": "debates1976-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29cd273d98b30584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-14a.1448.2", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "TOXIC WASTE PLANTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": "ndividually, with no national or regional plan to follow, and no co-ordination, we could end up with a patchwork of ill-conceived and hastily erected plans throughout the country far in excess of our needs. [ Interruption .] I hope that the hon. Member for Feltham and Heston (Mr. Kerr), who has just walked into the Chamber, will not waste the time of the House, because we are a bit behind already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-14a.1448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-26", "file": "debates1976-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "59c7abebd175c084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-26a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not take this opportunity to make any announcement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-26a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-26", "file": "debates1976-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "59c7abebd175c084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-26a.126.4", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF TERRORISM", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-26a.126.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "nown as Child Interim Benefit for one-parent families, taking account of income tax, supplementary benefit and other means-tested benefits, he will find that the only people who will benefit fully from the new scheme are single mothers under the age of 16, who would have been excluded from the scheme but for Conservative amendments which were accepted in Committee? When will the Secretary move on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "will find that the only people who will benefit fully from the new scheme are single mothers under the age of 16, who would have been excluded from the scheme but for Conservative amendments which were accepted in Committee? When will the Secretary move on—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—it may be too long but it is a clear exposition of what the hon. Member for Keighley (Mr. Cryer) said a moment ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend will remember that a target date was set for equal pay for women. Will he give a 10-year target date for reducing the pensionable age of men to 60? Will he put forward proposals for reducing the pensionable age of men year by year until that target is reached? Does my right hon. Friend accept that it is deplorable, now that we haxe sex equality, that we are not prepared to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.173.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.186.8", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Tell him how.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "I am not asking for one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.186.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that that is too simple a view. I hope that the right hon. Lady will not give countenance to that view because it is misleading. The plain truth is that the 3 per cent. limit, or a figure in the area of 3 per cent., whatever the final negotiated figure may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. Friend meets the TUC, will he remind its members of the memorandum recently submitted to the Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend believe that the abolition of pay beds in NHS hospitals will abolish queue-jumping? There is queue-jumping in NHS hospitals today by local dignitaries, hospital staff, prominent members of society and perhaps MPs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "in itself is pretty unprecedented—to fight the Bill, are primarily concerned for the future of health care in Britain, which must mean primarily the 98 per cent. of patients in NHS hospitals who are not private patients. It is they who will be the losers when doctors have to spend their time travelling between NHS hospitals and private clinics. It is they who will be the losers when the NHS loses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ow think should advance a little further should not change one iota from the state it was in when they voted against it. That is the position we are in this afternoon. I know the pressures that will have been put on my right hon. Friend from the medical profession as soon as he walked into the Elephant and Castle, just as they were on me. He will find that his honeymoon period is remarkably short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " into the modern world, and 27 years later the profession thanks him for it. It did not at the time. The profession then said exactly the same things as the right hon. Gentleman has been saying about me, when he spoke of my having left behind poisoned relationships, and the rest of it. The profession in those days called Nye Bevan a medical Fuhrer, and said that he was introducing a Hitler regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "poke of my having left behind poisoned relationships, and the rest of it. The profession in those days called Nye Bevan a medical Fuhrer, and said that he was introducing a Hitler regime. [ Interruption. ] Oh, yes. Let hon. Members opposite read Michael Foot's book on Nye Bevan. Indeed, I suggest that no Tories ought to take part in this debate till they have read Michael Foot's book on Nye Bevan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" \"Name them\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "I should be less than honest if I did not voice my grave concern about the probable effects of phasing out pay beds, which is what the Government seek to do. I know that my views will not be echoed by many of my right hon. and hon. Friends, although some have told me privately that they agree with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-27", "file": "debates1976-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "eb39de2821c9c1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "ate insurance schemes are wealthy people. Many people would rather spend their hard-earned money on subscriptions to BUPA so that they are given medical care when they require it rather than spend that money on drink or bingo. In a free country why should they not have this choice? I should like to hear more about the oil sheikhs who are supposed to be coming to this country for medical treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-27a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-28", "file": "debates1976-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3b796c7008e9733c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-28a.359.4", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "preceding_text": "As the most persistent offenders, apart from Cuba and Egypt, are the oil-rich States of Iran, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, ought not we to consider some form of rate surcharge on the embassies of those States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-28a.359.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-28", "file": "debates1976-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3b796c7008e9733c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-28a.370.6", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman's general proposition that one of the most fruitful lines of development in the Community should be to concert foreign policy. Indeed, it was in the belief that that was possible that I first became a supporter of our entry into the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-28a.370.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-28", "file": "debates1976-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3b796c7008e9733c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-28a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "It is not possible to go into many details about suggestions made by our colleagues in preparation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-28a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-28", "file": "debates1976-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3b796c7008e9733c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-28a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "The figures for the sale of council houses reached a high level around 1972 and then dropped inevitably in 1973, with a deteriorating economy, as there was unquestionably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-28a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.552.3", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Government have no influence on, and have played no part in, the decision of the Committee of Selection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.552.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the House waits to hear what my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock has to say. My right hon. Friend the Lord President will no doubt be making a statement about future business in due course. I repeat—and the right hon. Gentleman had better accept it from me —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the House waits to hear what my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock has to say. My right hon. Friend the Lord President will no doubt be making a statement about future business in due course. I repeat—and the right hon. Gentleman had better accept it from me —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—if there are to be the relations between us in the future that have existed in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.554.6", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend rightly said earlier that sacrifices should be fairly borne. Does he not agree that in the last period the trade unions have fallen over backwards to accept sacrifices? Will he now clearly indicate that the other side of the coin is an extension of egalitarian principles and of public ownership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.554.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.557.4", "colnum": "557", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the best way to deal with all these questions, including that put by the right hon. Lady the Leader Opposition, is to debate the matter on Monday not on the motion tabled by the right hon. Lady and her colleagues but on the Adjournment of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "We were suggesting that the Adjournment debate should be for one and a half hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "We were suggesting that the Adjournment debate should be for one and a half hours. [ Interruption. ] The official Opposition can state their own view, but I gather that they did not have an objection to a debate of that character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "We were suggesting that the Adjournment debate should be for one and a half hours. [ Interruption. ] The official Opposition can state their own view, but I gather that they did not have an objection to a debate of that character. [ Interruption. ] If there is any desire for a somewhat longer debate, I am sure that we would take that into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman has made a sensible proposal about the way that we should deal with this matter. Let us first see what happens when the House is in full possession of the facts, then let us see whether we proceed to a further debate. I have already indicated that if the official Opposition thought, following the debate, that they were not satisfied, there would be an opportunity for a further debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.564.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.571.2", "colnum": "571", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "What is the objection to having this afternoon a debate on the decision of the Committee of Selection? Is the Lord President aware that, in view of the record of the Prime Minister as gerrymander-in-chief of the Boundary Commission, the reputation of the Government in this matter is very low already?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.572.2", "colnum": "572", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I said that I thought that a convenient time was possibly Tuesday, again after 10 o'clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.572.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "CLERK OF THE HOUSE AND LIBRARIAN RETIREMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "I am very happy that we should reserve our main comments until then. Naturally, we are sorry that they are both retiring. Perhaps I might just say a preliminary \"thank you\" to both of them for their service and for their kindness and wish them well in their retirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Valley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Valley", "preceding_text": "er sectoral committees analysing the situation in a range of key manufacturing industries and making recommendations for actions by Government, industry and the trade unions. What is more, we are even managing to make sense of the 1972 Industry Act. Under the right hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Walker), it was simply a ramshackle machinery for handing out public money in a mainly purposeless way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": " have considered closely with particular industries the basis for further schemes aimed at improving the competitive position of whole industries in the medium term. Schemes for the ferrous foundry, clothing and machine tool industries were introduced last autumn. The initial response has been encouraging. Over 230 applications were received, involving a total potential investment of £140 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.582.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "with it much later. I am trying to explain to the hon. Gentleman what he will do. I know what he will do tonight. If he gets the chance, he will stand up and vehemently tell us what ought to happen, and he will vote in the same fashion as all his colleagues. They will be one happy band of brothers. But he would not do that in government if he got the Front Bench job that he is currently shadowing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ade, which is what the Act appears to require, but also that, in judging whether we are near the ceiling, we should take into account future commitments, whether for next month, next year or five years' time. We are grossing up everything and making the figures appear larger because we are not taking account of any money which may be trawled back. We are trying to give a more variable assessment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "s massively eroded the real ceiling of the existing legislation, because there was no provision in the initial legislation to ensure that the £550 million was in real terms. We must accept that in real terms world inflation—including our inflation—has eroded the real impact of the original legislation. As regards controls, I have indicated that Orders will be necessary for each subsequent tranche.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "l terms. We must accept that in real terms world inflation—including our inflation—has eroded the real impact of the original legislation. As regards controls, I have indicated that Orders will be necessary for each subsequent tranche. [ Interruption. ] It may be two and a half times as big, but in real terms it still does not work out very much bigger in spending power than the original tranches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "mplete my speech within a limited time. That is what I am trying to do. At the same time I am trying to answer the debate. I hope that the hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) will allow me to develop my speech in my own manner. Each subsequent tranche of money will have its own Order. There will be a Committee stage and consideration in another place for the new legislation which is coming forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY AND OTHER PENSIONS AND SALARIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "hey have gone home in the cosy knowledge that the Bill will slip nicely through. Let us expose the hypocrisy that exists in this place. In fact, the Bill in no way represents Labour Party politics and the ideas for which the Labour movement has stood over the years. The Clay Cross 11 stood far more closely by the standards of the Labour Party than this Bill does. I shall not vote against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY AND OTHER PENSIONS AND SALARIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": " The Clay Cross 11 stood far more closely by the standards of the Labour Party than this Bill does. I shall not vote against the Bill. [HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I was not elected as a Labour Member of Parliament to go into a Lobby with Tories on the basis of a hypocritical reasoned amendment that represents a total divorce from reality. I shall not vote against the Bill. I shall abstain, like a number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-04-29", "file": "debates1976-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "a8d25eba1e71c431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY AND OTHER PENSIONS AND SALARIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moate", "preceding_text": "ded. My hon. and learned Friend thinks that it should be a high figure. For some reason he endows Boyle with some degree of sanctity, as though that was the greatest wisdom and the rate for the job, and that everything else ought to flow there after. Others believe, as I do, that on balance salaries should be rather low, and that the end result of lower salaries would be a better House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-04-29a.684.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.819.6", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — North Sea Oil (Production)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I have dealt with that matter in answer to an earlier Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.819.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.826.0", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Coal (Exports)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "out the getting of coal in relation to safety considerations—that safety will come first and the mining of coal second. We are looking at the whole question of imports. My hon. Friend will know from previous answers that I have given him that the amount of coal imported will be substantially reduced this year. He will recollect that it was previously 2½ million tons, but it will be reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.826.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "preceding_text": "o the hands of the public bureaucratic machine—the party bosses and organisers of the great State industries. It does not want ownership in the hands of the workers. It would go a long way to stop it, but it does not seem to have gone far enough this time. So this is one tiny little clause that has got through, despite the deep antipathy of lion. Members opposite to working people owning anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "preceding_text": "s which are appallingly inconsistent. That is the background against which we must consider the Bill. My favourite moment nowadays, when we are discussing economics, usually comes at about this time—he is a little late today—when the Lord President of the Council comes ambling in—the old Pied Piper himself—to remind us that Labour policies are working. That is his theme, and he keeps repeating it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "It is no use the hon. Gentleman disagreeing. He has not thought it through. The effect of frequent changes in duty rates in line with inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "It is no use the hon. Gentleman disagreeing. He has not thought it through. The effect of frequent changes in duty rates in line with inflation—[ Interruption. ] If the hon. Gentleman has finished, I shall continue. Frequent changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "eman what I gather most hon. Members will have understood already. The course that he is suggesting would have appalling consequences for investment and employment in industry, as well as on distribution. I ask the hon. Gentleman to have some words with his Liberal friends, who might understand the matter a little more. The hon. Gentleman's indexation proposals, or any of his proposals, are made —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.974.5", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. and learned Gentleman gets too excited, I should tell him that an inspector of taxes would have to swear on oath to a justice of the peace that there was suspicion of fraud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.974.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not last Wednesday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "preceding_text": "s that of those 103 nominations made by the Conservative spokesman, exception was taken to only one. That was the only time we voted—and, incidentally, we lost. One of our chaps was absent, so the voting was four on the Conservative side and three on our side. Alas, on that occasion I could not have the casting vote. In our efforts we have tried to be fair to all the minority parties in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way, Mr. Speaker. Time is getting on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The Standing Orders stood in very much the same form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "t and no doubt they accepted the Prime Minister's doctrine. He suggested what I am suggesting. On 6th March 1962 he said that he did not accept the criticism made of the Committee of Selection—as I do not accept the criticism today—and suggested that the matter be referred to the Select Committee on Procedure to see whether there should be a change in the Standing Order to deal with the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ive Prime Minister should be greeted with such scepticism. A Committee was established for the purpose. It did not take a great deal of time to present its work. It produced a report within a measurable time which made a recommendation to the House, not altering the Standing Order that had been in operation but sustaining that situation. That is exactly what I propose that the House should do now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It does not make any difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "ed parliamentary skills of the Leader of the House can possibly disguise the paucity and meagreness of the offer that he has made It speaks volumes only for his power of salesmanship that he was able to make it at all. First, there is no argument about the honour and honesty of the hon. Member for Thurrock (Mr. Delargy). The hon. Gentleman has been a respected and well-liked Member for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "In that case, the right hon. Gentleman envisages the Committee of Selection confirming the appointment of Committees and inviting Members to serve on them in a speculative way, with no assurance that what they did would endure beyond the deliberations of another Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " be forgiven, but on this occasion it is serious. I should like to quote to the House what the hon. Gentleman said in the course of a recent broadcast: We have to decide how it is that the Government can get its business through even though it has not got an overall majority on the Floor of the House, but you must remember that the Government has still got a majority of 40 over the Conservatives\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "e of me, because he is much more familiar with the jargon of that party than I am. I come back to the Leader of the House, whose skills many of us have admired. One can only be sorry when someone with those formidable skills finds himself confronted with such a rotten case that not even the great shining garment of his eloquence is sufficient to cover up the horror of it. The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ect Committee on Procedure. I thought I heard one hon. Gentleman opposite say \"Do not get cynical.\" It is Labour Members who make me cynical. The right hon. Gentleman suggested that a Select Committee on Procedure should be set up. We agree that the setting up of such a Committee is well overdue. But we object to letting the Government's programme of legislation go ahead as if nothing had changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-03", "file": "debates1976-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "945594cab7dd24f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawshaw", "preceding_text": "If that is what my right hon. Friend said, I accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-03a.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1044.5", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Following the —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1044.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1044.5", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "llowing the —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am most grateful for the welcome that lion. Members on the Government Benches are giving me. Following the excellent supplementary question by my hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Fry), is the Secretary of State aware that many employers have already lost confidence in the ability of the examination authorities to maintain proper standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1044.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1044.5", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": " (Mr. Fry), is the Secretary of State aware that many employers have already lost confidence in the ability of the examination authorities to maintain proper standards—[ Interruption. ]—and are likely to have their confidence further reduced if the Schools Council's recommendation for examination changes are carried out? Is he further aware that employers are likely to set their own examinations?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1044.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1063.4", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott (Westhoughton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott (Westhoughton)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend section 22(5) of the Social Security Act 1975. This Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1063.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1164.5", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "have them coming to me in my surgery and saying \"Our farmer is perfectly happy for us to stay where we are, but we want to get into a more convenient bungalows where we can end our days.\" The hon. Member for Ormskirk (Mr. Kilroy-Silk), who is not in his place at the moment, said that mobility was the prerogative of all other workers. Is it? What about the 10 families which the National Coal Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1164.5", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "hs of the tied cottage population? Only one-tenth are in farm tied cottages. The hon. Member for Ormskirk said that tied cottages accounted for low wages. If so, why is it that 50 per cent. of workers in industry who are not in tied cottages remain within the industry? Unlike most hon. Members opposite, I started my working life as a farm worker. I was in the Women's Land Army. I was a dairy maid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"SolidArise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "d certainly the organised trade union and labour movement, in support of this Bill and their comrades, the agricultural workers. My hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Miss Maynard) has the complete backing of the great steel constituency which she represents and, indeed, of the entire trade union and labour movement in that city. I want to \"solidArise\" with the agricultural workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "then, or perhaps after that stage, that the farmer will know whether his house can be made free for another worker. But even then there could be many more months before the man is rehoused—indeed, it may be years—if the authority is difficult and the farmer has to take it to court. Who is to look after the stock all that time? I pose that question to those on the Labour Benches below the Gangway —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1188.2", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "Before the Minister does that, will he apply his mind to a point which I made when his right hon. Friend was referring to Clause 6, which exempts those who are tenants of the Crown? I attempted to make it clear that in cases of estate duty, and so on, farms were transferred to the Crown in place of estate duty and that the tenants, who were the same tenants, suddenly became tenants of the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1188.2", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "nants of the Crown? I attempted to make it clear that in cases of estate duty, and so on, farms were transferred to the Crown in place of estate duty and that the tenants, who were the same tenants, suddenly became tenants of the Crown. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Gentlemen may check that if they wish, but it is quite true. Will the Minister deal with the difference between the position of that person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1189.6", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "ficial journal of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales. The headline on the leader reads: Tied cottage plan can work if enforced The first sentence reads: With all its defects, the Bill to abolish the agricultural service house system is very far removed from what most farmers had feared and it provides yet more testimony to the NFU's moderating role in safeguarding farmers' interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1189.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1207.0", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I should declare at the start that I have a connection with the Police Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1207.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "HON. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "preceding_text": "ed or unamended, which is likely to cover the position of the Atomic Energy Authority police. We do not know when there is likely to be a similar Bill before Parliament for Scotland. In the meantime, from the passage of this Bill, the authority police will be armed and they will come into contact with the public—we hope not in an emergency. Complaints could arise particularly as they may not have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-04", "file": "debates1976-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "e159fcc0d096a6d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1223.9", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cope", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The House is debating new Clause 1 and discussing with it Amendment No. 7 in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths). My hon. Friend may require the leave of the House to speak again and I am sure that it would be the wish of the House that he should be given permission", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-04a.1223.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-05", "file": "debates1976-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d6918bdb0fd06c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1278.5", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "he Minister to say whether short-life properties awaiting redevelopment are included in the official figure of 56,000 empty council houses under the annual relet survey—yes or no? In view of what the hon. Member for Liverpool, Garston (Mr. Loyden) said about the scandalous number of empty properties, will the Minister oppose requisitioning powers while thousands of council properties remain empty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1278.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-05", "file": "debates1976-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d6918bdb0fd06c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1298.2", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-05", "file": "debates1976-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d6918bdb0fd06c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "PAY POLICY (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " area of 3 per cent. is wide enough to include a figure of 4½per cent. It will also have been surprised to hear the right hon. Gentleman say that this agreement is more simple than the £6 limit. Can he give us an indication of the effect of these proposals on the level of demand in the economy, and an assurance that they will not add to the risks of reflationary pressures later in the year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-05", "file": "debates1976-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d6918bdb0fd06c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "PAY POLICY (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " than the £6 limit. Can he give us an indication of the effect of these proposals on the level of demand in the economy, and an assurance that they will not add to the risks of reflationary pressures later in the year? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\"] The leaders of the TUC have had days in which to consider these matters, and this House is entitled to have a few minutes at least to consider them today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-05", "file": "debates1976-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d6918bdb0fd06c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "PAY POLICY (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "when the nation is in crisis it is prepared to show statesmanship and genuine patriotism? My one question is about price control. I understand, as I am sure we all do, the problems involved, but what is so difficult for ordinary people outside to understand is that many of the increases come from those over whom the Government have a measure of control—for example, the railways and the Post Office", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-05", "file": "debates1976-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d6918bdb0fd06c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "PAY POLICY (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\")—at least it is intelligent—[ Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": " of the increases come from those over whom the Government have a measure of control—for example, the railways and the Post Office [ Interruption. ] Nothing can be said by the Tory Party on this matter because it does not believe in subsidies in any form for State-owned industries and the rest, so hon. Members opposite can shut up. My right hon. Friend must make it abundantly clear to the public —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-05", "file": "debates1976-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d6918bdb0fd06c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1311.2", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "PAY POLICY (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " of the 4½per cent. on public sector salaries. It is not likely to have a significant effect beyond what was already included in the cash limits which, as he will know, assumed an increase of between 5 per cent. and 10 per cent. This is slightly below the lower end of that. The effect of the deal on the rate of inflation, given the increase in output and productivity which is now under way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-05", "file": "debates1976-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d6918bdb0fd06c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants the precise statistics on the age at which an animal ceases to be a calf, I shall be happy to provide them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-05a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-06", "file": "debates1976-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b36eca66a7c43b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1449.3", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Adley. Question No. 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-06", "file": "debates1976-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b36eca66a7c43b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1468.7", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "servative Party to understand how industrial relations in Britain should be run, although the Conservatives were warned time after time, both publicly and privately, of their folly and of the catastrophe to which their policies would lead them. We reversed that policy. That is why, for two years running, we have secured the strongest bastion of all against inflation—that is a voluntary pay policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1468.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-06", "file": "debates1976-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b36eca66a7c43b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1476.3", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Would it be unbearably impertinent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-06", "file": "debates1976-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b36eca66a7c43b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1476.4", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am not saying anything about the timing of such a debate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-06", "file": "debates1976-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b36eca66a7c43b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1479.5", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The House of Commons has had a number of occasions on which to discuss these matters during the Budget debates. Furthermore, there will be continuing opportunities to discuss these matters in the proceedings on the Finance Bill. I have no doubt that the House will desire to have a more general debate at some stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1479.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-06", "file": "debates1976-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b36eca66a7c43b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1484.1", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETING OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "t which I have made and which I have deposited in the Library. He will then discover the basic error in his assumption. The demand of the fishing industry is for a 100-mile exclusive zone. I described that to the Council as unattainable, which I believe it to be. In fact, it is more than that. It is also a figure which I do not believe is necessary to sustain the interests of our fishing industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-06", "file": "debates1976-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b36eca66a7c43b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1485.4", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETING OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Unlike the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell), the right hon. Gentleman was actually a member of the Government which negotiated the previous fishing policy and towards the end of the life of that Government was Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1485.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-06", "file": "debates1976-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "6b36eca66a7c43b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "still appears to be content to diminish its defence effort. If the hon. Gentleman tries to blame us for this, he conveniently forgets the efforts that the Conservative Government made in 1970 to repair the damage done over long years by his right hon. Friend the present Chancellor of the Exchequer. Cut after cut was inflicted upon the Services from 1964 until the end of that unlamented Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-06a.1503.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-07", "file": "debates1976-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e9cf3026e863903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-07a.1736.8", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETONATORS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [30th April].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-07a.1736.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-07", "file": "debates1976-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e9cf3026e863903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-07a.1736.16", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMIS-SIONER (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-07a.1736.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-07", "file": "debates1976-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e9cf3026e863903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-07a.1737.2", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [20th February].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-07a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-07", "file": "debates1976-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e9cf3026e863903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-07a.1737.6", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-07a.1737.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-07", "file": "debates1976-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e9cf3026e863903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-07a.1737.14", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIRECT ELECTIONS TO THE EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have selected the amendments concerning the European Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-07a.1737.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-10", "file": "debates1976-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f2ed69294cadfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-10a.191.6", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine)", "preceding_text": "The Chair has selected the two amendments tabled to the motion on the subject of direct elections to the European Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-10a.191.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-11", "file": "debates1976-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3677751fdfecf36f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.206.8", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that our defences have been cut to the core. Neither would I personally allow them to be cut to an extent that would endanger our security, or would mean that they were approaching bedrock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.206.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-11", "file": "debates1976-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3677751fdfecf36f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.224.2", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the Question.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not surprised at the right hon. Lady's ingenuity in bringing the local elections into a Question about a speech that I made at Blackpool two weeks beforehand. I have listened to what has been said about the subject of my speech recommending the acceptance of a bargain along the lines proposed by the Chancellor. I am still waiting to hear from the right hon. Lady whether she recommends it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-11", "file": "debates1976-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3677751fdfecf36f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "oyment. I agree about the plight of the young people. The Government must pay special attention to that, so that when young people leave school they have the prospect of a job. But let us not hold out false hopes. The best return to prosperity for this country lies in an export-led upturn in production. If we can get that—and it is already beginning now, although I do not want to give the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-11", "file": "debates1976-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3677751fdfecf36f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e Government must pay special attention to that, so that when young people leave school they have the prospect of a job. But let us not hold out false hopes. The best return to prosperity for this country lies in an export-led upturn in production. If we can get that—and it is already beginning now, although I do not want to give the figures—[HON. MEMBERS \"Why not?\"]—because I want to be accurate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-11", "file": "debates1976-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3677751fdfecf36f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": " But the wife of a small business man probably takes home the books to work on over the weekend. That happens in thousands of small businesses. If the hon. Gentleman does not believe what I am saying, I suggest that when he calls at his local garage to fill up with petrol he should ask \"Who does the VAT in your business?\" Almost invariably he will find that it is the proprietor's wife who does it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-11", "file": "debates1976-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3677751fdfecf36f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "preceding_text": "We have been talking a great deal about the salaries of middle management, but we are not concerned here only with middle management. We are concerned also with those in other fields, in the professions, in the universities and in the arts—those who are perhaps the brightest and the best in our society, who contribute most, who are being crucified by the Government's tax system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-11", "file": "debates1976-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3677751fdfecf36f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are 'your' people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "terton) makes the normal case. If one argues against his hon. Friends and those whom he represents and the richer element of society, one is a Communist. That is the only type of thinking that one can expect from the hon. Member for Macclesfield, unfortunately. He has never got beyond that type of primitive thinking. The hon. Gentleman had better understand that if our people are prepared to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-11", "file": "debates1976-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3677751fdfecf36f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "n which the Chancellor told the House on Wednesday of last week that the TUC had won as part of the so-called deal was the indefinite postponement of the raising of the school meals charge. He told my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey, East (Mr. G. Howe) that there had been no secret deals with the TUC. But that was not true. The Chancellor was not telling the truth to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-11", "file": "debates1976-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3677751fdfecf36f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.367.2", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": " unbeknown to us, the differentials may have narrowed too much. I stress that the differentials about which I am speaking are those applying after the conditional tax package. I have no information about and I claim no understanding of what would be the ideal ratio between the man on average earnings and the man at the top, but nor am I certain that we should have the narrowest ratio in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-11a.367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-12", "file": "debates1976-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f85cf192d88b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-12a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the constructive approach that he adopted in January—unlike the exaggerated approach of the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Sproat). The industry was proclaiming in January that there would not be an industry in March, so I have news for the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South, as well as a reply for my hon. Friend.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-12a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-12", "file": "debates1976-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f85cf192d88b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-12a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "CRIMINAL PROFITS (EXPROPRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "tendency to be excited by violence, daring, risk and all that is involved in adventure and which, rightly or wrongly, provides its own selling point. One factor which demonstrates this point is that the films which have lasted the longest and which are the most popular are those detailing the exploits in the war—exploits which are as near to criminal activity as the exploits of man may ever reach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-12a.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-12", "file": "debates1976-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f85cf192d88b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-12a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": " That is why the present balance gives us much concern. I agreed with the Minister's peroration—I think that he has got the message—relating to merchant shipping and its protection. He said that the Royal Navy had the capacity to deploy world-wide. I agree with him—but not in the numbers required. I wish to give the House a brief progress report on HMS \"Belfast\". I hope that that will be in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-12a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-12", "file": "debates1976-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f85cf192d88b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-12a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "preceding_text": "I am sure that hon. Members on both sides of the House were glad to have a report on HMS \"Belfast\" from the hon. and gallant Member for Winchester (Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles). Those who have visited it must feel considerable gratitude for the work that he and his fellow trustees have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-12a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-12", "file": "debates1976-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f85cf192d88b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-12a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "preceding_text": "nged. Sixty years ago the First Lord of the Admiralty was the second most important figure in Government. Despite the fact that the new Under-Secretary has made a jolly good speech, he has yet to be able to claim similar status. Sixty years ago no debate on the Navy estimates would have closed at 8 p.m. with final winding-up speeches from the Front Benches because the House had run out of Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-12a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-13", "file": "debates1976-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0adc3a9d8116ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-13a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The House and the country will have noticed the grumpy and trivial way in which the hon. Gentleman responds to a great national achievement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-13a.652.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-13", "file": "debates1976-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0adc3a9d8116ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-13a.664.4", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Grimond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-13a.664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-13", "file": "debates1976-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0adc3a9d8116ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-13a.664.6", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I should like, on behalf of a great many Members, to congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his bed of thorns. We recognise that he is taking on the leadership of the Liberal Party out of a sense of public responsibility and duty, but I hope that he will get some enjoyment out of it while he is doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-13a.664.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-13", "file": "debates1976-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0adc3a9d8116ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-13a.667.2", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. I am sure that this creates a great deal of resentment. On the matter of differentials, we must make sure that energy, enterprise and responsibility are properly rewarded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-13a.667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-13", "file": "debates1976-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0adc3a9d8116ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-13a.669.0", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will inform the Minister of Agriculture and the Home Secretary of what the hon. Member for Christchurch and Lymington (Mr. Adley) has said. I cannot have groups of efficient Ministers and then undertake to do all these things myself. That seems to be one of the disabilities of Prime Minister's Questions. They roam over a great many matters with which I am supposed to be dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-13a.669.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-13", "file": "debates1976-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0adc3a9d8116ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-13a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Clause 26", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members did not realise the foresight of the Government in introducing the capital transfer tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-13a.750.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.956.5", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "May I assure the Attorney-General, in regard to the last part of his answer, that this is also our experience on this side of the House? We have no reason to believe that the office of the DPP is falling in esteem at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.956.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.956.5", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "May I assure the Attorney-General, in regard to the last part of his answer, that this is also our experience on this side of the House? We have no reason to believe that the office of the DPP is falling in esteem at all. [ Interruption .] Hon. Gentlemen may laugh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.956.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "preceding_text": "s being expelled from Malawi will form part of the overall quota of 5,000 passport holders for the whole of Africa. We have been unable to discover from the Malawi Government, despite several efforts to do so, the reason for this group being expelled and the people concerned have been unwilling to give a reason. We have been unable to discover any evidence of discrimination On the grounds of race.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "preceding_text": "over from the Malawi Government, despite several efforts to do so, the reason for this group being expelled and the people concerned have been unwilling to give a reason. We have been unable to discover any evidence of discrimination On the grounds of race. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am talking about this particular incident and not the general policy of Africanisation which has an element of racial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.973.4", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandelson", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that most decent Members of the House on both sides strongly deprecate the community slander contained in the question of the hon. Member for Gains-borough (Mr. Kimball) and that it is deeply resented by all decent people in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.973.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Clause 48", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": "ade a magistrate, such as the hon. Member for Dudley, West (Dr. Phipps), who is apparently a magistrate, that the powers are required. I regard with great admiration the powers of the hon. Gentleman, but judging from his remarks this afternoon I do not regard him as the best expert on tax or on law in this place. If he is a typical example of a magistrate, I am concerned what the situation may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1041.6", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Clause 48", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "arrant. The right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East suggested on Second Reading the substitution of a High Court judge. I am sure that he is aware that it is contrary to precedent for a High Court judge to be placed in this situation. What is more, it would be extremely inconvenient, to say the least, if, in the case of a serious fraud, an inspector of taxes had to go to a High Court judge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1041.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Clause 52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "this legislation upon myself and many colleagues will be crippling, to say the least. I consider it an appalling injustice that Government action should suddenly cause people to be deprived of legitimate expectations about their economic future. I shall quote one more letter and then leave the railwaymen till we get into Standing Committee. One of the things said a second railwayman, a Mr. Barber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1095.4", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Clause 52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "That we must discover. But I doubt whether the experience Mr. Jones gained from the International Brigade is relevant to the situation of this country at the moment. Neither the Chancellor nor Mr. Jones has ever created anything in his life—not a nut, not a screw, not a car or anything. All they are doing is pursuing an obsessive hatred against management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1095.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1098.3", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Clause 52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "\"Quite right, too,\" the hon. Gentleman says, but what is sauce for the ministerial goose is also sauce for the managerial gander—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1098.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Clause 52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "I understand the right hon. Gentleman wanting to say something as soon as he arrives in the Chamber, but if we were to behave strictly according to the rules of order, these matters should not even be raised, let alone in the way they have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Clause 52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "e. That subject was pretty well exhausted and I noted the contribution of the hon. and learned Gentleman. I not the concern expressed by a number of hon. Members concerning ministerial cars and the benefits Ministers are supposed to have from the arrangement for pool cars. Pool cars are fundamentally different from other cars provided by companies. I will explain the difference. I have a pool car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Clause 52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "On the way to an appointment that is possible, I suppose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Clause 52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "It varies. There are occasions when the car goes in for service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Clause 52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "It varies. There are occasions when the car goes in for service—[ Interruption. ] There are occasions when the car—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Clause 52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": ". I asked earlier how railwaymen would be assessed, but I did not receive an answer. The only answer we received from the Financial Secretary was that the proposal did not apply to home loans up to £25,000. But I never asked about that. I asked what would happen to a loan provided by an employer to an employee. The beneficial element in the interest will be taxed if the employee earns over £5,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1118.2", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Clause 64", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " have carried out is that put forward in an article by the late lain Macleod, which appeared in The Times on 18th June 1968. In it he said: For some curious reason the Treasury seem reluctant to accept even incontestable propositions in the year of their birth. They are noted, filed away and appear years later as Government amendments. That is precisely what happened with the capital transfer tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1135.4", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of making any such commitment tonight. I had only just started my remarks. I want to be brief as I know that Opposition Members want to come to a vote as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1135.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-17", "file": "debates1976-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3d90bcb2f6235f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "clusion but not seal it, bring it back to the House and, hopefully, obtain agreement and then go back and have it endorsed, without putting a satisfactory agreement at risk, that would be the right thing to do. but what we want out of all this, apart from a change in our procedure, about which the Leader of the House was forthcoming, is a satisfactory deal for New Zealand for the supply of butter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-17a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "and there is now a very serious drain of management? Is he also aware that we shall never have a successful economy and never again have full employment while management is treated as badly as the Labour Government have treated it? When will the right hon. Gentleman get his colleagues to take action on taxation, differentials, better pay and a better understanding of British management's position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1188.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1238.3", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "COUNCIL AND NEW TOWN HOUSES (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "ng so pigheaded about it? Why do they not realise that their obsession with social ownership deprives many people of what they want? Evidence for their pig-headedness is to be found in the way they introduced a total ban on the sale of New Town houses in 1974. As the Minister for Planning and Local Government knows, the waiting list argument on which their theory was based has largely disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1256.3", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "COUNCIL AND NEW TOWN HOUSES (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman may not, and this is not the sort of tone in which to conduct our affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "COUNCIL AND NEW TOWN HOUSES (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "s hands and those of his widow, will be released and made available to young families wanting to move into the inner city area because of the job opportunities that it offers. That is the kind of freedom that we should like to give council tenants. The Minister also asked how we dared talk in these terms when we were so much opposed to leasehold reform. We were not all opposed to leasehold reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "COUNCIL AND NEW TOWN HOUSES (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Action, not words.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "nt. We wish to see a growing involvement by tenants. We are applying these policies. The previous Government did nothing, but we have been active. Ever since we came to office we have wished to pursue this further, and we are now involved in studies which will lead to Government action. We have put a lot of effort into this policy by day-to-day contact, study groups, seminars and policy circulars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS (FELIXSTOWE) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "quent touch with the Clerk to the your office. I have also been in frequent touch with the Private Bill Office. Through the good offices of the Private Bill Office, I have been constantly furnished with a wide variety of documents. For the past fortnight, until roughly midnight on Sunday, I have been on an IPU delegation to the Middle East. I was, in fact accompanied by various other Hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1306.3", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS (FELIXSTOWE) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stainton", "preceding_text": "irculated a transcript or extracts therefrom. In addition, important in this matter is the respective efficiency of private enterprise and nationalisation vis-à-vis the British Transport Docks Board. Although I was overseas last week, I understand that last Thursday the British Transport Docks Board announced its preliminary financial results for the last financial year. Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1306.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1312.2", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS (FELIXSTOWE) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. If you are proposing that a motion be made for further consideration to be adjourned, it would be a matter for debate whether we should accept that motion. I have a new point of order which I should be obliged if you would consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS (FELIXSTOWE) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1350.4", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS (FELIXSTOWE) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1350.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS (FELIXSTOWE) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Johnson", "preceding_text": "rose in his place and claimed to move, That the Question be now put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1351.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS (FELIXSTOWE) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the Bill, as amended, be now considered. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS (FELIXSTOWE) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The House has decided to put the Question, and I am obliged to do so. To the Contrary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-18", "file": "debates1976-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a5b1127a7b1a42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1373.2", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "PRICE CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "with interest. Meanwhile, I throw out a challenge to him. Perhaps he would care to take a handful of these Orders to show to his constituents with whom he is in such close contact and invite them to say whether they understand the language. If we are to have these schemes, those trying to comply with them and to support the Government should at least be given a document which they can understand —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-18a.1373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1412.0", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "Yes, I think that I can give that assurance in general terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1412.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1424.0", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "MR. PATRICK MEEHAN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "asked Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ered only by a public inquiry as to why, for instance, evidence of paper from the safe of Mr. Ross was found in the pockets of a man who is now acknowledged to be innocent, or of his accomplice who is now acknowledged to be innocent, and how the parade was falsified? Many other questions must now be answered, as to how, again and again, both the courts and the Secretaries of State have frustrated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1424.2", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "MR. PATRICK MEEHAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman, but I have not yet heard an allegation against an individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1424.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "MR. PATRICK MEEHAN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": " clear that a free pardon had to be granted? Would the Secretary of State agree that, no matter how we dress it up, this case is a blot on the fair name of Scottish criminal justice, which is known to be one of the best systems in the world? Is this not one of the worst incidents since the case of Oscar Slater, and therefore would it not be wise to be as open as possible from now on? May also say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1432.2", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "the New Zealand Prime Minister that we would do all we could, and New Zealand appreciates the action that we have taken. No commitment has been made, and we shall discuss details later. We have secured a fair deal on sugar. We got that at the Lomé Convention. The present talks are still in progress. There was not, as some people suggested, a breakdown in the talks; they were only postponed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1435.0", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I agree that there are problems about how we can improve our scrutiny and surveillance of what happens in the CAP. That is why I am always willing to report to the House after I have been there. A new proposal was made by Commissioner Lardinois. I said that I was prepared to examine it but I refused to commit myself because I wanted to have talks with New Zealand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend will not exaggerate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1438.3", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman that even at 2 o'clock in the morning I was aware of what was happening here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "eg to move, That this House calls on Her Majesty's Government to dispel the damaging uncertainty about the future of banking, insurance and pharmaceutical manufacturing, by stating categorically that they have no intention of nationalising companies in these industries. This debate is about the threat of nationalisation to banks, insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "wing. Not only is it a familiar process to remove the private sector and to put it into State hands but it is part of a deliberate attempt to bring about what the Labour Party regards as a fundamental shift of power in society. That is what the debate is about today —the fundamental shift of power in society from private citizens to the hands of the State to be used as the Labour Party so decides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1471.2", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ully selected quotations from the speeches that colleagues are supposed to have made. If the hon. Gentleman wants comments on that speech, he should put down a Question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I noticed that the hon. Gentleman, in the midst of a great deal of irrelevant trivia, did not make use of that quotation in the course of his extensive address to the House. It is clear, however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "s is a bogus provoking of uncertainty in the hope of gaining political advantage from it. The Government's policy on these issues is crystal clear. It is well known—even to the modestly literate members of the Opposition Front Bench. First, let me deal with banking. I can give a complete, simple declaration that the Government have no intention of nationalising any company in the banking industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "is excessive, the remedy lies in proper exchange control. If it is not possible through the normal processes of profitability and market attraction to get funds for production in the places where it is needed, the remedy is in the Industry Act and the National Enterprise Board, which must have the necessary funds to enable it to operate. What is not a remedy, and what I could not possibly support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grylls", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grylls", "preceding_text": "as efficient in cost-effectiveness terms as American research scientists. Is not this a matter of which we in this country should be proud? As the right hon. Gentleman said, it is because of its innovations that we are getting high export figures and managing to cure disease. I hope that Government supporters sitting below the Gangway, who always tell us to copy what is going on in Eastern Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1532.3", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Moore", "preceding_text": "icult—with like industries in this country. For example, the electricity supply industry, which is one of the best managed in this country, is roughly comparable in terms of size of the population it seeks to serve with the electricity supply industry in the States of Pennsylvania, California and New York. There is a consuming population in this country of 50 million people if we exclude Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": "ey tried everything they knew—and I do not blame them for it—including speeches up and down the country, to urge business men to invest, but there was a fall in investment when the Conservatives were in office. The poor industrial relations, which have been a part of our post-war history, culminating in the confrontation of February 1974, and the three-day working week, I suppose, must have been —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1545.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I have answered the question. The speech by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on public ownership requires to be examined overnight by the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Repetition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "t difficulty is that I like him so much that I find it difficult ever to be unpleasant about him, and yet on this occasion I find it equally impossible to congratulate him, and therefore I am in considerable difficulty. I was recalling the fact that this afternoon he described himself as \"half-kiwi\", and not until this moment did I appreciate that fractions of birds could join a migratory species.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think so. As I was trying to explain to the House, we had already been delayed for many weeks. The price review had been put off. I believe that the price review should be announced just after Christmas so that farmers can understand the situation and plan for the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1603.2", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": ", to carry the can. Then, if we feel strongly enough, we have to take action and to debate the matter. That must be the way. I want finally to suggest one or two courses which must be adopted. First, if the Minister comes to the Scrutiny Committee and asks us for what might be described as a concession, he must be far more frank than perhaps he was over skimmed milk. Secondly, we must be informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1633.6", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade (Mr. Clinton Davis)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade (Mr. Clinton Davis)", "preceding_text": "ect and to seek to improve the Bill. We are involved in further discussions with some of the professional organisations, which are designed to achieve that objective, although those that have taken place already have been of a detailed character. Before I turn to the Bill itself, I think it would be appropriate if I were to outline the Government's approach to the reform of company law as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1633.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-19", "file": "debates1976-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4af3f44cc21291f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1637.0", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "y in the not too distant future to consider the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth directives. But, obviously, having just mentioned them, it goes without saying that these are matters which are bound to have considerable effect on companies legislation. For all these reasons, I see the next few years as being the greatest period of radical reform in company law in the history of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-19a.1637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-20", "file": "debates1976-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "500964995ce9eb35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-20a.1714.2", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "RHODESIA (SPORTS TEAMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend not agree that there is nothing very sporting about racial discrimination and the consequent human—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-20a.1714.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-20", "file": "debates1976-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "500964995ce9eb35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-20a.1724.1", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "d that the representations made by the right hon. Gentleman are genuine and that the number of amendments put down gives rise to these anxieties. On the other hand, the Bill was given an unopposed Second Reading, and it has been considered at 21 sittings in Committee. It was announced last week that we hoped to conclude proceedings on the Bill in a single day, a single half-night or a single night", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-20a.1724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-20", "file": "debates1976-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "500964995ce9eb35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-20a.1871.1", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted to do so. I am receiving precisely what the Prime Minister received when he was the consultant adviser to the Police Federation many years ago. The amount which is provided by the Police Federation for the task which I am glad, statutorily, to perform is substantially less than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-20a.1871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-20", "file": "debates1976-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "500964995ce9eb35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-20a.1873.5", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "d sexual discrimination experts—I chose my words carefully. Boards and commissioners are laid one upon another. There will be increasing numbers of professional full-time recipients of complaints. We know that to justify their salaries and expenses, if they find they are not getting enough work they will go about the countryside saying \"Complain more because there is not enough work for us to do.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-20a.1873.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-20", "file": "debates1976-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "500964995ce9eb35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-20a.1878.2", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "oons, we have a right to say that this seems a little hypocritical. It seems quite legitimate to point out that the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths), in addition to being consultant to the Police Federation, for which he refuses to disclose how much he is paid, is also consultant to Cremer and Warner, Brandts Ltd., Caravans International, and, until September 1975, Felixstowe Dock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-20a.1878.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-21", "file": "debates1976-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "75bd4b5ef52c24e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-21a.1976.1", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "sh to detain the House much longer because hon. Members will want to discuss other aspects. Even if we cannot do it in the Bill, as I have tried to do, perhaps not very successfully, by the amendments which I tabled but which were not selected, I hope that we shall be able to enunciate the doctrine of rape on a man by a woman. That would be pursuant to Section 2 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-21a.1976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-21", "file": "debates1976-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "75bd4b5ef52c24e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-21a.1981.2", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to be long. My hon. Friends seem to be under the impression that I am trying to talk out the Bill. I do not propose to be long-winded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-21a.1981.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-21", "file": "debates1976-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "75bd4b5ef52c24e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-21a.2000.5", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the House long on this amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-21a.2000.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-24", "file": "debates1976-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4946c3e818f63f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would be more constructive and more sincere in his purpose if he were to raise those points where they could be properly discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-24", "file": "debates1976-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4946c3e818f63f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STUDENT-TEACHERS (PROTEST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 9, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the decision yesterday by the Executive of the National Union of Students to call on all student-teachers in England and Wales to occupy their colleges as a protest against unemployment among teachers. As the House knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.30.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-24", "file": "debates1976-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4946c3e818f63f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Mellish", "preceding_text": "I do not think that anyone can quarrel with the hon. Member for Thanet, East (Mr. Aitken), either on the subject he has chosen for debate or on the way in which he has raised it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.44.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-24", "file": "debates1976-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4946c3e818f63f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Thanet, East (Mr. Aitkin) not only on a distinguished speech but on having brought this matter before the House and resisted the pressures which were naturally brought to bear upon him to do no such thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-24", "file": "debates1976-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4946c3e818f63f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "I at least agree with the last sentence of the speech of the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell). There is a sense in which those who have ears to hear ought to hear the full story and not the perversion of the statistics which takes place whenever the right hon. Gentleman opens his mouth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-24", "file": "debates1976-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4946c3e818f63f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.78.4", "colnum": "78", "heading": "IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "I have the Floor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.78.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-24", "file": "debates1976-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4946c3e818f63f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.101.4", "colnum": "101", "heading": "IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "in. Moreover, persons born here of new Commonwealth parents and those who have arrived after 1st January 1973 as dependants may themselves, as they become of marriageable age, frequently wish to bring in wives from overseas. For these reasons it is not wholly valid to assert, as my hon. Friend the Member for York (Mr. Lyon) is disposed to do, that there is a completely \"finite\" pool of dependants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-24", "file": "debates1976-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4946c3e818f63f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEYCHELLES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tugendhat", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rockall.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "It must be some time since the United Kingdom annexed any territory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-24a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.265.2", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTTISH TUC", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It was the full extent of Lord Barber's depredations, under which the money supply increased by about 23 per cent.—which I have always understood from at least the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe) is the cause of our troubles, which led to the great inflation of 1974—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend pointed out that miracle have happened in other countries and that one could certainly happen here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " happen as long as the Opposition remain so totally divided on the remedies that they would put before the country if they were to have the opportunity of returning to power. I must agree that they have not done much to impress themselves upon the country so far. As long as these divisions continue between them on their economic and financial policies, they are not likely to get much satisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t they have not done much to impress themselves upon the country so far. As long as these divisions continue between them on their economic and financial policies, they are not likely to get much satisfaction—[ Interruption. ] If I am asked a very important question about the speech at Scarborough, I must give it the attention that it obviously deserves, and I intend to do so. As regards sterling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.267.4", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Further public expenditure cuts now would mean more unemployment. They would not improve our industrial base; they would lead to immediate unemployment. It is the general view of most people, except for the unpatriotic members of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.267.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the Opposition deeply resent his accusations of unpatriotic conduct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.268.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have not been able to get a word in yet. I thought that the right hon. Gentleman was getting up to tell me that he shared the view that sterling was not over-valued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"8·4 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "shared the view that sterling was not over-valued. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] That would have been the best answer to accusations of lack of patriotism. I think that there is little doubt that, if the TUC's recommendation goes through and is accepted by the unions, by the end of 1977 the rate of inflation will put us in line with our major competitors, such as the United States, Germany and France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.269.5", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "First, I always strongly deprecate terms of abuse about Members on either side of the House. Secondly, a term of abuse, whilst deprecated, if not directed at an individual Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.269.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "DEVOLUTION TO SCOTLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "y different and that the solutions proposed by the Government are also substantially different. Therefore, in these circumstances what is the sense of having a single Bill? Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that if he had not been in his present position on the Government Front Bench but had, instead, still been a Member of the Back Benches, he would have been strongly against this proposal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.284.4", "colnum": "284", "heading": "CHILD BENEFIT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Social Services (Mr. David Ennals)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Social Services (Mr. David Ennals)", "preceding_text": "With permission, I should like to make a statement on the implementation of the child benefit scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.284.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "CHILD BENEFIT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "rther increases in November, and in July the level of FIS will be increased. Our record is one of which we are proud. I have to say, of course, that this Government would wish that they had been able to go further, but I do not accept for a moment that we have abandoned the original scheme. In fact, I have made it clear that it is our intention in time to bring it in, and to do so in its entirety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.286.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.306.8", "colnum": "306", "heading": "PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. My understanding is that when a motion is made that a Bill be referred to a Second Reading Committee, rather than being taken on the Floor of the House, it is necessary for Members objecting to that motion to stand in a number not fewer than 20.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.306.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SPRING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "esy, I shall not press him too hard. However, if I could have the attention of his junior colleague, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Privy Council Office, who, I thought, spoke rather rashly, the hon. Gentleman said—I do not know whether you heard him, Mr. Deputy Speaker—that he did not give a damn, or something like that. In any event, he used some words which are not ordinarily parliamentary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.384.5", "colnum": "384", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SPRING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "actured goods. If we take from that sum the cost of our fuel imports, which clearly distorts the figures, and compare today's import penetration of 50 per cent. with the situation 10 years ago, we find that in 1966 the percentage of imports of finished and semi-finished manufactured goods in our total import bill was only about 30 per cent. The penetration therefore has almost doubled in a decade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.384.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-25", "file": "debates1976-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "d558f0e3a72c36fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.385.4", "colnum": "385", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SPRING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "be wrong for us to try to proceed with the Bill tonight. Therefore, we suggest that the House should meet tomorrow and hear what conclusions Mr. Speaker has reached and what advice he gives to the House on the matter. In the meantime, I suggest that the best service the House can do to all concerned is to conclude this debate, which has clearly gone on for as long as everybody in the House wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-25a.385.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister now acknowledge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I repeat my question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I am laying no blame. I am asking the hon. Gentleman to come clean. Does the Tory Party favour a sustaining of the house-building programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.426.5", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The house-building programme by local government will be sustained at its present level so far as the resources projected in the White Paper on Public Expenditure are concerned. We shall provide resources that will sustain the present increase. It is no answer to that to suggest that because there is a drop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.426.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.426.5", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "xpenditure are concerned. We shall provide resources that will sustain the present increase. It is no answer to that to suggest that because there is a drop—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"]—in one particular quarter compared with the previous quarter the annual figures will go down. There are always variations between quarterly figures throughout the year. I return to my question: does the Tory Party intend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.426.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.426.6", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "t is no answer to that to suggest that because there is a drop—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"]—in one particular quarter compared with the previous quarter the annual figures will go down. There are always variations between quarterly figures throughout the year. I return to my question: does the Tory Party intend—[ Interruption. ]—to sustain the house-building programme? We must take the answer to be \"No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.426.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.428.2", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And rabbits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "The subject of pigeons on British Rail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.428.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.437.5", "colnum": "437", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETINGS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I will make a statement about the business to be taken in the Council of Ministers of the European Community during June. The monthly forecast for June was deposited yesterday. At present, five meetings of the Council of Ministers are proposed for June. The Foreign Ministers' meeting, which begins on 31st May, will continue on 1st June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.437.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.437.5", "colnum": "437", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETINGS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "preceding_text": "cast for June was deposited yesterday. At present, five meetings of the Council of Ministers are proposed for June. The Foreign Ministers' meeting, which begins on 31st May, will continue on 1st June. [ Interruption. ] Foreign Ministers will meet again on the 28th and 29th; Energy Ministers on the 10th: Agriculture Ministers on the 21st and 22nd; and Social Affairs Ministers on 29th and 30th June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.437.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.437.5", "colnum": "437", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETINGS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "preceding_text": "continue on 1st June. [ Interruption. ] Foreign Ministers will meet again on the 28th and 29th; Energy Ministers on the 10th: Agriculture Ministers on the 21st and 22nd; and Social Affairs Ministers on 29th and 30th June. [ Interruption. ] There will also be a tripartite conference on 24th June of Finance and Employment Ministers, the Commission and European employer and trades union organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.437.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETINGS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ng of Foreign Ministers on 14th and 15th May, Ministers at the Foreign Affairs Council on 1st June are likely to resume consideration of the Tindemans Report and direct elections to the European Assembly. They are also likely to discuss passport union. On 31st May, Ministers will sign the Commercial Cooperation Agreement concluded in March 1976 between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the EEC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETINGS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "June, Ministers will resume discussion of the overall Mediterranean approach and relations with the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Ministers at both Council meetings will consider the problems posed by the prospect of 200-mile fishery limits and the current state of work in the four Commissions set up following the Conference on International Economic Co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETINGS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " draft directives on the safeguarding of employees' rights in the case of mergers and on the education of migrant workers' children. They will also consider uniform payment of family benefits and may consider the outcome of the tripartite economic and social conference to be held on 24th June. The tripartite conference on 24th June is expected to focus on the employment situation in the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.443.0", "colnum": "443", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETINGS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " the Community. Quite uniquely, the Government have invited the House of Commons to set up a Select Committee which is monitoring the Government's attitudes and commenting on the Government's decisions. If the Select Committee, of which I am honoured to be a member, wants to influence Government decisions before they are taken rather than comment on them after they are taken, the Select Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.443.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.447.2", "colnum": "447", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not finished yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the statement of the Lord President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.447.4", "colnum": "447", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I was seeking to give the House the very first opportunity to hear the Government's view about how we should proceed, in view of your statement, Mr. Speaker. I was indicating to the House how the House of Commons itself could deal with this problem tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.447.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.447.4", "colnum": "447", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I was seeking to give the House the very first opportunity to hear the Government's view about how we should proceed, in view of your statement, Mr. Speaker. I was indicating to the House how the House of Commons itself could deal with this problem tomorrow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Of course, it will be open to the House to decide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.447.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.447.4", "colnum": "447", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no doubt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "tatement, Mr. Speaker. I was indicating to the House how the House of Commons itself could deal with this problem tomorrow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Of course, it will be open to the House to decide—[ Interruption. ] It will be open to the House to decide this matter not by shouting but by votes. In the course of the debate tomorrow, in order to remove any element of doubt on the subject of hybridity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.447.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, Hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Will you rule whether it is in order for the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) and several others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.448.5", "colnum": "448", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "I apologise to my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover. I shall try to get it right this time. Will you rule, Mr. Speaker, whether it is in order for the hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) and several other Opposition Members to use terms such as those which have been used in the past five minutes, including \"Leader of the Reichstag\" and \"Fascist\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.448.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.448.7", "colnum": "448", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "May I say that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.448.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.448.10", "colnum": "448", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "As I am sure you would be the first to confirm, Mr. Speaker, I have said nothing which is a challenge to your ruling. I am simply proposing to the House that we should have a motion tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.448.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheat.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "As I am sure you would be the first to confirm, Mr. Speaker, I have said nothing which is a challenge to your ruling. I am simply proposing to the House that we should have a motion tomorrow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheat!\"] I am proposing that we should have a motion tomorrow which can deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.448.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.449.5", "colnum": "449", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are cheating.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "am proposing is that the House of Commons tomorrow should have the opportunity to deal with the consequences of your ruling, Mr. Speaker—the consequences for people in the shipyards and in the aircraft industry in this country. Our recommendation tomorrow, on which the House of Commons itself will be able to pronounce judgment, is that we should be able to proceed with this Bill with utmost speed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.449.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.449.10", "colnum": "449", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No! Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, Mr. Speaker, to remove any element of doubt from the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.449.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8", "colnum": "450", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Our, out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I was trying to tell the House when I was interrupted how the Government believe we should proceed with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8", "colnum": "450", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. You are cheating.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I was trying to tell the House when I was interrupted how the Government believe we should proceed with this matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Our, out.\"] What I suggested, which is apparently so objectionable to some hon. Members, was that we should have a full debate on the matter tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8", "colnum": "450", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no doubt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " on the matter tomorrow. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No. You are cheating.\"] That seems a perfectly reasonable proposition to me. That debate would arise on a motion which I have already read to the House. What I was indicating to the House when I was interrupted was that there is no challenge to your ruling, Mr. Speaker—and you have confirmed that. To remove any element of doubt about the state of hybridity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8", "colnum": "450", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "n a motion which I have already read to the House. What I was indicating to the House when I was interrupted was that there is no challenge to your ruling, Mr. Speaker—and you have confirmed that. To remove any element of doubt about the state of hybridity—[HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no doubt.\"]—we would at the Report stage be willing to introduce the necessary amendment to make the technical change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8", "colnum": "450", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "hon. Members opposite had listened a bit earlier they might have learned something. I am suggesting that we debate it tomorrow. If we do, I believe that we shall be able to overcome these technical difficulties and at the same time proceed speedily and get this Bill on to the statute book. I now come to the business for today. As I said earlier, clearly we cannot make progress with the Bill today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8", "colnum": "450", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sieg heil!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "tomorrow. It would not be convenient to proceed with the Industry (Amendment) Bill, which is also on the Order Paper for today, so I will ask the House to consider today the Second Reading of the Bail Bill [ Lords ], followed by the Public Lending Right Bill [ Lords ]. This is the first time in my experience that there has been such an objection to inviting the House of Commons to settle a matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8", "colnum": "450", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ustry (Amendment) Bill, which is also on the Order Paper for today, so I will ask the House to consider today the Second Reading of the Bail Bill [ Lords ], followed by the Public Lending Right Bill [ Lords ]. This is the first time in my experience that there has been such an objection to inviting the House of Commons to settle a matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sieg heil!\"] That is what we are proposing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.450.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.451.2", "colnum": "451", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sieg heil!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "That is what we are proposing. Only those who are afraid of the merits of that debate will fear the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.451.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.452.3", "colnum": "452", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheating.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman seriously thinks that the difficulties in the shipbuilding industry have been caused by this Bill, he can know precious little about shipbuilding. What I have proposed for the House tomorrow is a debate in which we can discuss the matter. I suggest that the right hon. Gentleman should keep an open mind until he has heard the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.452.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.455.2", "colnum": "455", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.455.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.455.4", "colnum": "455", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must tell the House that we shall soon be moving on to the next business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.455.7", "colnum": "455", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheating.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "All these matters are open for debate tomorrow. The Government have given the House the earliest possible opportunity to discuss this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.455.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If the motion which we propose is carried, discussion of the Bill will proceed in the House. It will include what I have already stated and the kind of amendment to which I have referred. I believe that all this heat will very quickly evaporate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A ruling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "n it. I gather that these matters are not put in writing, but when representations were made at the time, the previous Speaker indicated to the Ministers responsible that he did not believe that there was any element of hybridity in the Bill. That was the indication, and that has been our belief right up to the incidents of the last day or two. In view of the statement you made today, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So you should.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I apologise for continuing On this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I do not think there would be any advantage in descending to the right hon. Gentleman's level,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I should like to answer the point made by the hon. Member for Pontypool (Mr. Abse). I want to make it clear that my predecessor acted as I would have acted. The Public Bill Office was satisfied in the early stages that this was not a hybrid Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not know how far it is right for me to go into the details. The hon. Gentleman will know that it is the custom for the Department concerned to advise the Public Bill Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.464.2", "colnum": "464", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He made a mistake.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman. There is no reflection at all upon my predecessor. I am sure that both sides of the House realise that. The normal process was followed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.477.8", "colnum": "477", "heading": "BAIL BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "This situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.477.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.477.14", "colnum": "477", "heading": "BAIL BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member would only listen to some of the debate, instead of coming in, immediately making his points of order and precipitately leaving again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.477.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "BAIL BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": " who are accused of offences and who do not subsequently receive custodial sentences. Inevitably, this is a technical Bill, but I wish to emphasise that we are dealing here with often conflicting but necessary matters which must be reconciled in the interests of the protection of society and the liberty of the individual. This House has a long and honourable record in resolving these two problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-26", "file": "debates1976-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d59ff764d5703baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.583.2", "colnum": "583", "heading": "PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "That would mean that everyone would get a fair share of the help available. This debate is taking place late at night, but it is an important debate and I hope that it will be a lively one. The House is not unanimous on this subject, although I believe that there is a majority on both sides of the House who are in favour of the Bill. It is the policy of the official Opposition to support the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-26a.583.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.627.2", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yours\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think I shall have more important matters to discuss with the Italian Prime Minister than the machinations of the Opposition, but I hope it is being borne in on them that there are a great many jobs at stake today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.627.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, I think that potatoes have done exceptionally well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.630.7", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It will depend what the vote is about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.630.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In answer to two supplementary questions this afternoon, the Prime Minister remained obstinately in his seat and refused to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.632.4", "colnum": "632", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "y of this House of Commons. The Bill was examined in the minutest detail so that at times Ministers in charge of the Bill had the feeling that they were even being required to explain the reasons for the spaces between the words. The Committee sat as long as the Opposition wanted it to sit. There was no guillotine. Yet during 140 hours of debate no challenge of hybridity was made against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.632.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.632.4", "colnum": "632", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "11th May, were devoted to considering Schedule 2—the focus for the controversy that has arisen. The hon. Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop), who was a member of the Committee for all the 58 sittings and the 140 hours, made six speeches during the debates on Schedule 2. Yet neither he nor anyone else on the Opposition side raised the question of Marathon or alleged that the Bill was a hybrid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.632.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": " such care for parliamentary, governmental, party political, industrial, financial or propaganda purposes all missed the apparent significance of the phrase which led you, Mr. Speaker, yesterday to rule that this Bill was prima facie hybrid. Mr. Speaker, I want to make absolutely clear, that none of us on this side of the House is in any way seeking to challenge the ruling that you gave yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for his courtesy. I think that the House would like to know the exact point he is making by these lengthy references—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "ormal processes, to the authorities of the House, and was cleared as a Bill which was not a hybrid Bill. That is all I am saying. It is not that your Department, Mr. Speaker, is in commission to any Department of State. You take your own independent advice. That is the only point I am making. This controversy that has arisen, in the opinion of the Government, concerns at most a hairline hybridity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "for the \"Key Victoria\" classifying it as Maltese Cross Al mobile self-elevating drilling unit as a major part of the structure—namely, the drilling legs—is non-integral with the platform, which floats only when the structure is being moved from one location to another. It is a very great pity that Hansard does not publish illustrations, because I have in my hand a photograph of the \"Key Victoria\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "mobile self-elevating drilling unit as a major part of the structure—namely, the drilling legs—is non-integral with the platform, which floats only when the structure is being moved from one location to another. It is a very great pity that Hansard does not publish illustrations, because I have in my hand a photograph of the \"Key Victoria\"—[Hon. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"]—in its normal operating position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.636.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.641.2", "colnum": "641", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.642.4", "colnum": "642", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Anything that disputes the ruling that I have given is not relevant. I have to tell the House that we are not discussing the question whether this was a ship or whether it was not a ship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.642.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.642.7", "colnum": "642", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "He is getting very near.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.642.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.644.5", "colnum": "644", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "All I am seeking to do is to give all the evidence to the House, and the House is entitled to have that evidence. The issue in dispute is the meaning of paragraph 6 of Part II of Schedule 2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.644.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.645.5", "colnum": "645", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "That was very much the point of order that I hoped to put to you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.645.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. As I understand it, the House must decide whether it will dispense with the existing Standing Orders. That is the issue. Therefore, surely we should know whether your ruling is based upon serious and weighty matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.646.4", "colnum": "646", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is how it seemed to me. What the House is considering is whether, in view of the ruling I gave yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.646.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.646.10", "colnum": "646", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "You said yesterday, Mr. Speaker, in that supposedly historic ruling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.646.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "My point of order, Mr. Speaker, is this: is there not a lack of order in this House and would you not advise 11 of our faithful Members of this Chamber to attend a much more important occasion than this, namely the Scottish National Party annual conference at Motherwell?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": " that hon. Gentlemen on that side should scoff at that letter and scoff at someone such as Sir Anthony Griffin, who has given service to both Governments when Controller of the Navy and was in fact appointed by the then Conservative Government to that post. It is utterly disgraceful that they should laugh and jeer in that way. Conservative Members who laugh should be utterly ashamed of themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.651.2", "colnum": "651", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "Admiral Griffin went on to say the following—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "pon the Leader of the House and say that he is solely responsible for this shabby manoeuvre. The Government as a whole are guilty; the Government as a whole must take responsibility. But it is particularly the Leader of the House who must take especial blame. He cannot have had much satisfaction from even a cursory reading of the Press this morning. The article \"Guilty Man\" in the Daily Telegraph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "and sense of betrayal when, in his zeal to see the aircraft and shipbuilding industries nationalised, he is prepared to 'get around' what the Speaker has ruled, to throw standing orders out of the window and. in effect, to reduce MPs of all parties to mere rubber-stamp cyphers\". The article then goes on to comment on how rickety and frail are the structures and fabrics which protect our liberties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "w and. in effect, to reduce MPs of all parties to mere rubber-stamp cyphers\". The article then goes on to comment on how rickety and frail are the structures and fabrics which protect our liberties—[ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman is perfectly well aware of this, even if some of his more loud-mouthed colleagues are prepared to ignore it. I am sure that any mention of The Times will also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.659.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now give us the Daily Mail.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "rimitive in its ideas of State intervention in industry, unwanted by the mass of the people, a matter for private apology by some ministers and Labour MPs. By steaming on with it the Government have acted as if they had behind them a clear electoral mandate, when in fact they are a minority government, all along and very much so in terms of votes and now in a minority in the House of Commons also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman said: What the Government and the Prime Minister, in particular, are doing is to show full-hearted contempt for the democratic processes of this country; full-hearted contempt for the normal legislative processes of this House of Commons. The stain will remain indelible on the right hon. Gentleman for ever.\"—[ Official Report, 2nd May 1972; Vol. 836, c. 235.] I should like to end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.670.2", "colnum": "670", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "All I can tell the hon. Gentleman is that my party disagreed with the 1973 Act. The Government are acting like the footballer who is sent off. First, he says that he thinks the referee is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.670.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.682.3", "colnum": "682", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "They were known. In his submission the hon. Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop), who raised this matter, talked about Marathon producing the oil rig which has now been classified as a ship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.682.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must not criticise my ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, you really should have been listening to what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.684.5", "colnum": "684", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Glasgow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " demand that the industry be nationalised. I have received similar telegrams from Cammell Laird shop stewards and the Merseyside Joint Construction Unions. That is the voice of the organised working people in the shipbuilding and ship repairing industries. The telegrams that I have read out can be multiplied by my hon. Friends from Scotland, Bristol, Sheffield, the North-East Coast, and elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.684.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.684.5", "colnum": "684", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " Friends from Scotland, Bristol, Sheffield, the North-East Coast, and elsewhere. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Glasgow.\"] I said Scotland. Working people want to see the Bill implemented at the earliest possible moment because they know that its their only hope of safeguarding their livelihoods in the future. In fact, there would now be no shipbuilding industry were it not for the Government pouring in money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.684.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " But there is a clear distinction between a variation, and a retrospective variation at that, which affects only internal procedures of the House and a variation which prejudices the rights of third parties—the rights of citizens in regard to their own property and interest. Devil's advocates may say that there is no such distinction. They say that it is all part of the sovereignty of Parliasment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "f the protective provisions of a written constitution. What is involved here is the principle of non-discrimination among citizens. The law must apply impartially to all and must treat alike every citizen in similar circumstances. This principle lies much at the heart of the matter. It is the principle of equality before the law which is itself one of the great bastions of a free and fair society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.709.4", "colnum": "709", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "bviously be a free vote, as many hon. Members have said. That would still leave the question of pushing through a hybrid Bill, but at least it would give some credibility to the pretence of having a decision of the House. This is the second occasion in recent weeks when the Government have resorted to bending the rules. One wonders whether there is a department of dirty tricks starting to operate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.709.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. The Secretary of State for Industry was talking of the responsibility of the Scottish National Party Members. We need no lectures from the Secretary of State or his colleagues on that point. It is because we are aware of our responsibility that we are here, with the support of the people, and there will be more of us here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.710.2", "colnum": "710", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As to the documents which have come to the House, when one of those documents—a telegram—was referred to, the Scottish National Party spokesman deliberately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.710.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We are being deluged with bogus telegrams—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": " the latest edition of \"Erskine May\" is in such short supply owing to today's demand that I have had to use my own old copy, which was published when Sir Barnett Cocks was editor. I understand that the sentence I am about to read has been written into \"Erskine May\" for some years. and I expect it still to be there. The sentence is of great constitutional importance and the quotation is very short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "his place—I do not complain of that; he has listened to a great deal of the debate—said that changes were often made by majorities. But that is not my experience. The changes that have been made in Standing Orders have followed either formerly a Speaker's Conference or more recently a decision of the Procedure Committee, and when they have been made they have generally been made without Divisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": " special groups. If the Bill had been declared a hybrid Bill because of the Marathon situation at the very beginning and petitions had been heard, Marathon would not have petitioned because that company did not want to be included in the Bill. The procedure is arranged to allow for this, so that those who are discriminated against should be able to petition and to get the same treatment as others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "y Opposition Members assert it to be. I am deeply disturbed because in recent years I have become worried about the erosion of powers in this House. I was deeply disturbed about the referendum, which I voted against. I have been deeply disturbed at decisions arrived at between the Executive and powerful outside groups, because those decisions are reported to this House and we have to enforce them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "Select Committee, withdraw the Bill, change it and come back with an agreed timetable so that the matter may proceed quickly through the House.\" I am sorry that my right hon. Friend came to the Dispatch Box and virtually said \"In these circumstances, the majority must win.\" That principle frightens me. There is one thing that has tempted me not to vote for my party tonight, although I shall do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "h an agreed timetable so that the matter may proceed quickly through the House.\" I am sorry that my right hon. Friend came to the Dispatch Box and virtually said \"In these circumstances, the majority must win.\" That principle frightens me. There is one thing that has tempted me not to vote for my party tonight, although I shall do so—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I shall vote on the arguments I have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": " one occasion that all was fair in love, war and parliamentary procedure. I say that to the hon. Member for Tiverton. It would be churlish of any of us not to pay a tribute to his ingenuity and his assiduity in spite of all the inconvenience that he has caused to so many people. I pay tribute to him because all sections of the House must watch with the greatest care the pro. cedures of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has Mr. Speaker given you permission?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "ussions that I had with you and your advisers just before the debate yesterday. I went to see you to make representations, as others were making, and you indicated to me not a final decision, but the likely decision that you would make to the House. I then asked you whether you would give me your view about what would happen if we were to put down the kind of motion that is on the Order Paper now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "he situation and would not deny to the majority in this House the right to get on the statute book a measure that had passed so many parts of its procedure in this House. Not a single example could be quoted by either the right hon. Member for Sidcup or the Leader of the Liberal Party to substantiate their claim that in any sense at all we have interfered with the rules in the middle of this game.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "n this House. Not a single example could be quoted by either the right hon. Member for Sidcup or the Leader of the Liberal Party to substantiate their claim that in any sense at all we have interfered with the rules in the middle of this game. [ Interruption. ] This Bill started out as a Public Bill. It was accepted by all the authorities in the House as a Public Bill. It is still, in our opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Doubt?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "at should proceed as a Public Bill, but in view of Mr. Speaker's ruling it was necessary that we should take steps to put it in order. We shall also take steps, as I indicated to the House yesterday—although I gather that there was a little noise going on at the time—to ensure the introduction of an amendment on Report which we believe will remove any element of doubt on the question of hybridity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " ensure the introduction of an amendment on Report which we believe will remove any element of doubt on the question of hybridity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Doubt?\"] I understand that Mr. Speaker has ruled that there is doubt, and I accept that. If the House had listened a little more carefully to Mr. Speaker today it would have heard exactly what he said. Mr. Speaker did not say that this is a hybrid Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The motion says consideration of the application of any such Standing Orders to this measure. What we say is perfectly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.754.5", "colnum": "754", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "In order to be able to make quite clear to the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.754.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.754.5", "colnum": "754", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "In order to be able to make quite clear to the House of Commons—[ Interruption. ] In order to be able to proceed with the Bill, which is necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.754.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.754.5", "colnum": "754", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheating.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "In order to be able to make quite clear to the House of Commons—[ Interruption. ] In order to be able to proceed with the Bill, which is necessary—[ Interruption. ] In order that the House of Commons should be able to proceed with this Bill and to introduce the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.754.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.754.5", "colnum": "754", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "pon to withdraw it yesterday, and the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) withdrew it. But I suppose that Opposition Members think that they will get a few more cheap headlines in the Tory Press by yelling it again. People talk about the reputation of this House of Commons, but some Opposition Members ought to have a little more regard for what will be the reputation of the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.754.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I hope that you heard the remark made by the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.755.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-05-27", "file": "debates1976-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "1345127b2cb8cde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.755.4", "colnum": "755", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I hope, Mr. Speaker, that you heard the audible remark made by the Leader of the House just now. I hope that you will order him to withdraw it, although it is typical of the kind of argument that we expect from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-27a.755.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-05-28", "file": "debates1976-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "a17858abec97f750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-28a.780.3", "colnum": "780", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughterl", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I know that there is an argument for such a Bill of Rights and a written constitution. There are, however strong arguments against it because some of these so-called entrenched provisions have often been used in some of the countries to which the hon. and learned Gentleman refers to block all forms of progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-05-28a.780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "£ STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ct of the recent depreciation, broadly speaking, a 4 per cent. fall in the value of sterling adds 1 per cent. to the retail price index within a year, and the bulk of that addition comes through within about six months. For that reason, as I said on the radio the other day, the achievement of an inflation rate of less than 10 per cent. is likely to come rather later than this coming winter unless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.927.5", "colnum": "927", "heading": "£ STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I apologise for laughing, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Gentleman's innocence was, I guess, a little disingenuous. To deal with his first question, we shall have to see how the bankers do react—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.927.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.941.4", "colnum": "941", "heading": "ICELAND (FISHERIES DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "Is not the truth of the situation that the Government have not had a policy for fishing since they have been in power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.941.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "ICELAND (FISHERIES DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brotherton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brotherton", "preceding_text": "ted, but will he tell the House how many people he thinks will be put out of work because of this settlement, especially at the Findus factory, where many hundreds of his constituents and mine work? Will the right hon. Gentleman justify to the House the waste of time and money involved in the Royal Navy embarking on the cod war, which the Government did not have the will to see through to the end?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "ICELAND (FISHERIES DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.994.5", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Unless the House gives leave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.994.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.994.7", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I was under the impression that the hon. Gentleman had made a fairly substantial contribution to the debate. If he has the permission of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.994.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.994.12", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "On a further point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Surely the House cannot be interpreted as the group of tricoteurs below the Gangway. Also, surely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.994.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "As long as one hon. Member objects to the proposal that the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Mr. Douglas-Mann) should have permission to address the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.994.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "lame on the Government. I have made very plain my views on the question of mature students who went into the teaching profession under the special recruiting scheme. I did so in a speech in the House just before we rose for the Whitsun Recess, and I shall not repeat what I then said. The hon. Member for Dumfries (Mr. Monro) used to be called the Silent Senator from Dumfries. I do not see him here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1088.7", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "h —who went against his own party on an issue on which he felt deeply—we may be able to have some respect for such a Member. The truth is that on no single issue which required an element of courage because it was unpopular has the SNP stood up to be counted. It has fought on every populist issue and has run from every unpopular issue. It has neither the courage of its convictions nor the courage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1088.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1089.3", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "hanan-Smith). As I understand it the amendment is being brought forward as an excuse for an attack on the present position. Nothing else was said in his speech. The hon. Gentleman adduced no argument whatsoever in relation to the particular clause and its merits. He dealt only with the present situation. As we have had smears from the SNP, so we have had humbug and hypocrisy from the Tory benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1089.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the way he moved the amendment, but he owes us rather more of an explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "rmline (Mr. Hunter), if progress had been made in Committee we would have had a situation in which a young person who reached the age of 16 between 1st March and the end of September would have been able to leave school on 31st May this year. That is the situation that will exist after this year, but because of what happened in Committee and the fact that we did not get the Bill through Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-07", "file": "debates1976-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "04dab187e7239706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "ster cannot continue in this fashion. There must have been consultations. I hope that there have been consultations with the STUC. Has the Minister talked to the STUC about this matter? Has he talked to the CBI and the education authorities? He must tell the House before we finish with this debate, otherwise further progress on the Bill will be very difficult. I hope that he will answer the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-07a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the recent Financial Times survey of business forecasts, which showed the recovery in the economy to be in full swing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the recent Financial Times survey of business forecasts, which showed the recovery in the economy to be in full swing? [ Interruption .] Is he aware that this contained high investment intentions, although unfortunately, investment has been flagging?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I notice that the right hon. Gentleman said \"in a year or two\" That is sufficient unto the day in some ways. But I would put that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I note what the hon. Gentleman said, but I am afraid that there will not be a vacancy for him after all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1196.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1209.0", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, Ministers take responsibility for decisions made by the British Government. I am sorry that he finds the reasons that I gave for interest in this proposal unconvincing. We have not said that we support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1210.2", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings (Mid-Bedfordshire)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings (Mid-Bedfordshire)", "preceding_text": "g which lasted, according to the tribunal, from February 1973 to January 1974. No union officials were involved, but no union officials put a stop to it either. After this things were said to have improved according to the tribunal and a letter described as an \"olive branch\" was sent to these ladies, but they had had enough. Of course they got the sack. The last page of the tribunal report stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1210.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "Mr. Hastings rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1223.4", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It rests with you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "ration of nine Bills today. Priority of production was given to amendments to be considered in Committees at 10.30 a.m. I apologise for the inconvenience caused to the House by this delay, but the House owes a great debt of gratitude to the servants of the House in the Stationery Office who worked very hard last night to try to meet the requirements of the House. The fault does not rest with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1223.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to go on reading extracts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to go on reading extracts—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"] I think the hon. Gentleman is mistaken. He has mixed up two documents and is referring to another document, of which I have a copy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "e truth. The previous council rushed through a plan for comprehensive education that had been approved by the Secretary of State but not implemented. When the local elections were fought on Tameside on 6th May, the Conservatives fought on a clear manifesto that if they gained control they would not continue with the plans for compulsory reorganisation. Their actions so far are perfectly justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "s in Tameside have caused in that area. Perhaps the hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Montgomery) suffers from some of the same disabilities, though at least he does not lack the experience of being deeply involved in the affairs of an education committee. Perhaps we can bring some sense to the debate. I should like first to state my interest as a parent. I have a child in a grammar school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1255.3", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1255.7", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "omprehensive education under any terms whatsoever, who are doctrinaire. The hon. Member for Chelmsford said in his opening speech that education in our country had grown organically. But I am sure the hon. Gentleman would be the first to admit that within the framework of organic growth there are on occasion leaps forward, and that those leaps forward take place when a Bill on education is passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1255.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1257.0", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "The House has listened to an impassioned and, I suggest, very stupid speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1299.3", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "racy. We have seen this before on many occasions. Education is being debased. Whenever the Government get into difficulty over the cost of living, they bring out a new index. Whenever they have trouble with sterling, they find ways of hoodwinking the public into believing that the situation is vastly improved. Everybody, inside or outside this House, knows that educational standards have declined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1300.3", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "We support variety in education. We support public schools, direct grant schools—the lot—because they give parental choice, but the Labour Party is concerned to bring in, overnight, one system, and one system only—regimentation of the mind. The Labour Party wants regimentation of the same type as was found in Nazi Germany prior to the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1307.2", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "ardness. In their efforts to denigrate the education system, the Opposition overstate their case so monumentally that increasingly few people listen to it, although some people are able to drive the point home morning, noon and night in newspapers which they own. We are subjected to a constant barrage of propaganda on the evils facing schoolchildren and teachers. I speak as an experienced teacher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1327.4", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": " of 5 up to 11. The reading is assessed and the exercise is repeated each year. This has already thrown up schools and teaching methods which are not producing satisfactory results, and the corrective measures are being introduced and implemented. Are Labour Members really against this as well? The basic supposition in the new clause is that we have reached a situation where public anxiety is now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1327.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "s Labour Secretaries of State have argued against examinations at any level of study or achievement. If Labour Members had been here for much of the debate, they would have heard their hon. Friend the Member for Hillsborough argue that the only worthwhile assessment is daily contact with the teacher. He denied that there was any need for external assessment of performmance or ability at any stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "rgue that the only worthwhile assessment is daily contact with the teacher. He denied that there was any need for external assessment of performmance or ability at any stage. [ Interruption .] But the most surprising thing about the hon. Lady's speech was her audacity in even mentioning the Bullock Report as a means of refuting what my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, North (Dr. Boyson) had said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1332.5", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I thought that the anxiety that has been expressed was about teaching methods and the way subjects are taught.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1332.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1350.3", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "ing the anxiety of parents about what is happening to their children. If every year they had the right to exercise a preference whether they were happy with their school or whether there was another school which they thought more suitable for their children, I should have thought there would be pressure on the schools to ensure that their standards met the expectations and requirements of parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1363.5", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I would not put any of them at the top of the list. I would put the child at the top. The interests of the children must be paramount in our consideration of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1363.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "We welcome a new hon. Member to our debate, but we do not welcome the utter moral arrogance shown by some hon. Members opposite who think that they are the only ones with passion and concern. They have a kind of religious purity about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1372.0", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I always enjoy the interventions of the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Mr. Flannery). They show that we on this side have a lot of educating to do in getting our view over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "sfer from one local education authority area to another was written into the London Government Act 1963. Members of Parliament for the areas affected have had to fight for every child concerned to get into different schools. Each local education authority has virtually built a barbed wire fence round its area and is concerned only to fill its schools. It is not concerned about the children at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1377.0", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": " the head. That is the last direct reference to the Minister of State that I shall make, although I must add that his speech showed that he believes that the man in Curzon Street knows best; leave it to him and the chaps in the local education authorities, and let the parents, children and teachers get on with the job—because they will be dealt the hand and that is the hand they will have to play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1380.2", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Sinclair", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman means the rich parents.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Sinclair", "preceding_text": " not shown it in the Bill or in the debates. 12.45 a.m. What we are seeking to do in the first of these new clauses is to transfer more power to parents. There would be a triangle of the head teacher, the child and the parents, trying to work out what is the best school for the child. Surely it is a healthy change of emphasis to give more power to the parents and less power to the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1380.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-08", "file": "debates1976-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "69615a9a5d7e15ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1395.3", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That further consideration of the Bill, as amended, be now adjourned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-08a.1395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1414.5", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that. It is not even accurate. However, the question of policing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1414.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "preceding_text": "t be possible for bus company witnesses to be questioned by bus users, particularly where their services are undergoing cuts? Finally, does my hon. Friend not agree that to employ solicitors and other spokesmen for certain groups of bus users is a very costly business? Would it not be a more effective and democratic way of proceeding if those people were allowed to have greater active involvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1435.2", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1435.3", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. No one knows", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1438.3", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "TRADE UNION DEMOCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "cy in other spheres of life as we have in the trade union movement. The hon. Member showed his complete lack of knowledge of trade unions when he referred to Jack Jones as the President of the TGWU. I should have thought that even the most junior schoolboy knew that he was the General Secretary. That shows the paucity of the hon. Member's case. The AUEW is the most democratic body in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1445.2", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am grateful to you for the careful thought that you have given to our request and to requests from other parties, and for the ample reasons that you have set out. But would it not be desirable for the Procedure Committee to give consideration to the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1446.2", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": " of the nation's affairs. The debate is about more than a set of statistics, about more than the one figure of 4½ per cent. It is about a whole way of life of which economic policies are but a part. It is about values and standards which are beyond economics. It is about freedom under a just law. It is about parliamentary democracy and about Parliament as the only forum of the whole nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1446.2", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "longer honour the new wage bargaining rules, due to take effect on August 1. Therefore, the Chancellor dare not act before next week. But then he dare not act before the autumn either, because there is a Labour Party conference coming up. So we have the miracle cure—more borrowing while the overspending and the nationalisation goes on. Drift, debt and decay are the whole course of this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1446.2", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "y lip service to them, they do not hesitate to put enormous new taxes upon them which penalise and discourage them from expanding. Such taxes encourage a one-generation society and prevent people from passing on the fruits of their labours to their families. If we cut off the continuity of society from the efforts of the past and cut off the continuity to the future we shall get a selfish society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1452.3", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "e coercion and in order to keep a job a person must join a trade union. Many people thought it could never happen here but it did happen here as part of the price of the social contract, or should I say the anti-social contract? The other way in which the Government have devalued the rule of law is the way in which they bowed—moderates along with those below the Gangway—to the Clay Cross comrades—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "What I am aware of is that the electorate totally rejected the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1454.0", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Douglas-Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give him a job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Douglas-Mann", "preceding_text": "are, I raised this matter on the following day because I was unhappy about it and I made it clear to my Whips that unless I was satisfied on this point I would not wish to support the Government on the remaining stages of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Bill. I have now discussed this matter at length with the Government Chief Whip and I can assure the right hon. Lady that I am completely satisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"She did move it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "I heard the right hon. Lady the Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) say that the motion of no confidence was not lightly put down. I did not hear her move it, and I do not know whether that was a Freudian slip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "ot lightly put down. I did not hear her move it, and I do not know whether that was a Freudian slip. [Hon. Members: \"She did move it.\"] Very well, she did. At any rate, having heard her interesting speech, I can quite understand why the motion was not lightly put down. Whatever the right hon. Lady's motives in insisting on this vote of no confidence, with the support of a unanimous Shadow Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "resting speech, I can quite understand why the motion was not lightly put down. Whatever the right hon. Lady's motives in insisting on this vote of no confidence, with the support of a unanimous Shadow Cabinet—[ Interruption ]—I shall perhaps return to her motives a little later —the debate gives the Government an opportunity to restate their objectives and their strategy and political intentions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gobbledegook.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "e fuelled by a return of inflation. We therefore have the objective of increasing industrial efficiency and enabling the wealth-producing manufacturing industry to earn sufficient surplus so that it may invest in the necessary new plant and machinery. Another important objective, and here I part from the right hon. Lady, is to use public expenditure as a means of increasing real personal freedoms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1518.2", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "they are liable to be tried and punished according to the law of the land. The Chancellor of the Exchequer mentioned this a couple of days ago and repeated it in a parliamentary answer. The faceless men, whoever they are, are not United Kingdom residents. But if they are, their existence is the fault of those who have failed to prosecute them. It certainly is not a matter for general condemnation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "going up. Do not let us become overwhelmed with enthusiasm, because the level of industrial output is now lower than that achieved at the time of the three-day week, and it has a long way to go yet. Let us acknowledge that inflation is down, but when it was roaring, as the Government are fond of saying, at a figure in excess of 30 per cent. last year, that, too, had nowhere else to go except down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "ve been prone to denounce those who stand and try to assert the truth about our economic problems. They try to convolute the truth. The Prime Minister was saying today that he wanted to place conciliation in place of confrontation. If he does not recognise that everyone who has had responsibility in Britain wants to achieve that as well, he does less than justice to what we have been trying to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "country from 1970 to 1974, he was trying then—and those of us who were supporting him were doing the same thing—to confront the British people with the truth. The truth still remains to be confronted —of course with conciliation too. What is wrong in the long term? We know—we have heard it in speeches today and in many other debates—that as a country we are still over-manned. That is not deniable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1556.5", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "servative Party to force us into panic measures which had no economic justification and which could only have wrecked the basis on which we have made so much progress in the past 12 months. We have had this campaign at regular intervals and it has come to a climax over the past 12 months. At about this time last year, the newspapers were full of stories that the July Budget with expenditure cuts —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1556.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-09", "file": "debates1976-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "eb5ad5716ce39182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1559.0", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman is a bit of a card—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-09a.1559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-10", "file": "debates1976-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ded8e4cba016cb83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1655.6", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary said that I would make a statement very soon. I cannot say anything more, except that I shall keep the right hon. Member informed through the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1655.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-10", "file": "debates1976-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ded8e4cba016cb83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Member that, as I have frequently said in the Community, we believe that what was agreed at the Dublin summit in relation to New Zealand's access to the market here was a solemn pledge given by the whole Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-10", "file": "debates1976-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ded8e4cba016cb83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1663.4", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hon. Lady. It is not the case, as we understand the situation, that there was a broken pledge. On the evening I saw the right hon. Lady, when I had returned from Scotland and saw her within half an hour, I had not acquainted myself with the full facts, because I was anxious to see her quickly. Having acquainted myself with the full facts, I am afraid that I cannot accept her version of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-10", "file": "debates1976-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ded8e4cba016cb83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1663.4", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " it, but what should restrain both sides of the House is the fact that we have to work together if parliamentary democracy is to continue. I do not think that it would help to have a public version of all that went on. I would prefer, if possible, to see the usual channels restored in other ways. After all, there will be an occasion in the decades to come when the Opposition will be in Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-10", "file": "debates1976-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ded8e4cba016cb83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1667.3", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I take my hon. Friend's last point completely. I hope that with the upturn that is coming that will be so. As regards control of the money supply, I hope that we can learn from the mistakes and excesses of the previous Administration. The House should absorb the figures of the increase in the money supply last time because they hold a great lesson for us. In 1973 the increase in the money supply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-10", "file": "debates1976-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ded8e4cba016cb83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1670.0", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yesterday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "I have asked the right hon. Gentleman almost every week about an economic debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-10", "file": "debates1976-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ded8e4cba016cb83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House accept that I am not a fractious fellow and that I am easily satisfied?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-10", "file": "debates1976-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ded8e4cba016cb83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1724.1", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "s the singing: Oh flower of Scotland, when will we see your like again? That fought and died for your wee bit hill and glen, And stood against them, proud Edward's armies, And sent them homeward tae think again. That is all anti-English. All I am saying is that when people get to that situation, they cannot expect a cosy relationship in sharing Armed Forces. They cannot have their cake and eat it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-10", "file": "debates1976-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ded8e4cba016cb83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1745.3", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "There is that. It would be up to Shetland entirely, but that is the policy of my party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1745.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-10", "file": "debates1976-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ded8e4cba016cb83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "At least he is against cutting out our insurance policies. he shares that with us. The Royal Air Force has suffered immensely damaging cuts under this Government. It seems to have been singled out not for severe surgery but for what looks like rough butchery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-10", "file": "debates1976-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ded8e4cba016cb83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "At least he is against cutting out our insurance policies. he shares that with us. The Royal Air Force has suffered immensely damaging cuts under this Government. It seems to have been singled out not for severe surgery but for what looks like rough butchery—[ Interruption .] It is extraordinary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-10a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.11.6", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is American oil.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ake it clear to the country that there is no such thing as Scottish oil, any more than there is such a thing as English national gas, which at the moment is used in Glasgow? Will my hon. Friend also make it clear that most of the financing in \"Scottish\" oil, so-called by the Scottish National Party, comes from the British people as a whole, from British industry rather than from Scottish industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.11.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "preceding_text": "—require confidence on the part of all the people living there that decent conditions will be established and maintained. This will need a lot of work and money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "preceding_text": "nfidence on the part of all the people living there that decent conditions will be established and maintained. This will need a lot of work and money. [ Interruption. ] Fears of growing unemployment, especially among the young, must be sensitively taken into account in these industrial areas. Recent events, the Hawley Report and the latest round of Government cuts create an entirely new situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "preceding_text": " growing unemployment, especially among the young, must be sensitively taken into account in these industrial areas. Recent events, the Hawley Report and the latest round of Government cuts create an entirely new situation. [ Interruption. ] Confidence in the future and in the country's ability to succeed in overcoming these problems is being questioned. This is one of the causes of fresh tension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (SECURITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I think that we must get this point clear. My officials do not talk with members of illegal organisations in the North. They never have done. The hon. Gentleman has put his finger on the point at issue. They do not negotiate or talk in the sense of Panmunjom and the rest. They do not take place nearly as often as people tend to believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (SECURITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "al acceptance of the UDR to read the article to which I have referred. After I had listened to the speech of the hon. Member for Antrim, South I was not too sure what this debate was about. The closed circuit television tells us that it is about security in Northern Ireland. I have not heard much about that. We had a little history lesson, starting from 1968–69, Sunningdale, the UWC strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "n Keynes, for example. If I were a youngster leaving school in inner London, or in many other parts of London, I should deeply resent the long-standing policy of successive Governments gradually to force manufacturing industry out of London. If London is to remain a great city, and a decent city in which to live, somewhere along the line we must put a stop to the progress to which I have referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman is being altogether fair. I think he will agree that it is very likely that whichever Government had been in power we would have found the impetus towards the GLC overwhelming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "preceding_text": "I continue to refer to the problem of municipalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.189.5", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Clause 14 is an enabling clause which gives Camden power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.189.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "he first year of that phasing-out period has already been completed, albeit totally inadequately. We propose that if the Government produce a new Order—to replace this one—providing for a further £300 million we would not oppose it, because that amount should be sufficient—and considerably more than we proposed in our amendment last year—to complete the phasing-out process over the next two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I do not think we are committed in any way to discuss with the trade unions the way in which we may react to the Government's policies at this moment in time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Name it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "hink that I am overstating the importance of the relationship between the value of the pound and current levels of Government spending, and between the public sector borrowing requirement and inflation, I shall reinforce my argument by quoting from a speech I came across the other day. Because I am in a generous mood tonight, and despite the hour, I shall offer a prize to any hon. Member opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "d I support this form of subsidies is that they have a useful redistributive effect. That is why they are so hated on the Opposition Benches. For the very poor, they provide a benefit of £11 to £13 a year to the individual. Where does the money come from? These subsidies have always been part of a package in which the money has been taken out of the pockets of the richer sections of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgusting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "f the money found to meet these subsidies comes from those earning incomes of over £70 a week. There is no question that the subsidies have a useful redistributive effect. That is why, the Opposition hate them. We can ignore all the Opposition's cant about alternative benefits. These benefits certainly never appear when a Tory Government are in power. Our short experience of this subsidy has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "l nightmare. Just as inflation and the Common Market have caused a prices nightmare, if we go ahead with subsidising those most allegedly in need we shall cause a social nightmare. Those who are at the lowest end of the scale are entitled to more and more benefits. More and more people are finding that it is simply not worth while to work because of the massive tax burden and rising fares to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "preceding_text": "The TUC special congress will meet on Wednesday. We hope that it will deliver the goods and carry through the policy of restraint on personal incomes for a further 12 months. One of our major problems is inflation, and pay restraint is a vital element in the fight against it. The Conservatives tried a statutory incomes policy and it failed miserably. That led to the February 1974 General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.228.5", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "the introduction of the Price Check Scheme—the Opposition oppose it. When we bring forward measures to enable consumers to have better advice about their purchases in the shops so that they know whether they have been getting value for money, the Opposition oppose it. The hon. Member for Gloucester (Mrs. Oppenheim) refused to go to the opening of the consumer advice centre in Gloucester yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.228.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has made clear her opposition to consumer advice centres by her refusal to be present at the opening of the centre in Gloucester, which was reported in the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.245.0", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RASSAU NORTH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ment Protection Act. Also, £12·6 million was given by the Government to the borough council at the time of the Beswick announcement. The Secretary of State has made it plain that, and I quote: The special arrangements made for Ebbw Vale, both financial and administrative, are a prime example of how the Government has taken the lead in the industrial sphere. Ebbw Vale is my greatest problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.245.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.246.5", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RASSAU NORTH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member has made his position clear. Hon. Members must not persist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.246.6", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RASSAU NORTH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "er cent. of those live in the Blaenau-Gwent district. Between 1951 and 1974 the population of Ebbw Vale itself fell by over 5,500. Against this background the loss of 4,500 jobs in the British Steel Corporation between 1975 and 1978 assumes even graver importance and significance. In March this year the number of persons unemployed in the county was 12,400—an increase of 80 per cent over the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.246.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.246.6", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RASSAU NORTH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ackground the loss of 4,500 jobs in the British Steel Corporation between 1975 and 1978 assumes even graver importance and significance. In March this year the number of persons unemployed in the county was 12,400—an increase of 80 per cent over the year. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"] Hon. Members say \"Disgraceful\", but it is a fact that these proposals were initiated by the last Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.246.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RASSAU NORTH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "ing to lose jobs at Ebbw Vale. We had not the assurance of alternative employment on anything like the scale required in the years ahead. In 1975, however, the inquiry took place and it went into these matters in great detail. All the representations were made at that inquiry. I do not comment about the inspector, but many of us in Ebbw Vale were astounded at the outcome of the inspector's report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RASSAU NORTH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "s is a matter of such supreme importance that we can make a decision.\" That is what we are saying to the House today, and that is the conclusion that the Secretary of State for Wales reached after long consideration. I hope very much that the House will think carefully before accepting the advice of those who would try to reject the motion. The House would do itself great injury if it were to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-14", "file": "debates1976-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "b0adf5df42e4f9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.263.2", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RASSAU NORTH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Morris)", "preceding_text": "I have no reason to doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-14a.263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-15", "file": "debates1976-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "46d45ad038fc8b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.303.4", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEWISHAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his invitation. I have always found Lewisham a very happy place, particularly during my courting days many years ago in Labour Party committee rooms during General Elections. To turn to more serious matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.303.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-15", "file": "debates1976-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "46d45ad038fc8b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is the business motion. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.312.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-15", "file": "debates1976-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "46d45ad038fc8b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "To the contrary, \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-15", "file": "debates1976-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "46d45ad038fc8b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.313.2", "colnum": "313", "heading": "ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF MERCENARIES (PROHIBITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make newspaper proprietors liable for prosecution in relation to the publication of advertisements for the recruitment of mercenaries for service outside the United Kingdom. Attempts are sometimes made to portray—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-15", "file": "debates1976-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "46d45ad038fc8b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF MERCENARIES (PROHIBITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths (Bury St. Edmunds)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths (Bury St. Edmunds)", "preceding_text": "t should not advertise activities which, even if his Bill were to be passed, will remain perfectly legitimate under the law of this country. I believe that this technical defect alone would lead the Government to advise the hon. Gentleman that this is a Bill which ought not to pass. Secondly, I believe that the hon. Gentleman totally misconceives the not dishonourable rôle of the mercenary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-15", "file": "debates1976-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "46d45ad038fc8b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF MERCENARIES (PROHIBITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "onal Brigade went off to kill Spanish Falangists. Of course, they were volunteers and they believed in their cause, but I have no doubt that Mr. Jones not only expected but got the going rate for the job at the time. My third objection is to the double standards contained in the hon. Gentleman's proposals, paricularly his description, on the BBC this morning, of the mercenaries as \"hired killers\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-15", "file": "debates1976-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "46d45ad038fc8b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF MERCENARIES (PROHIBITION)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's proposals are founded on double standards. His proposal, like so many others that hon. Members have made, ought to be rejected by the House—for a particular reason. By choosing this day of all days to mount his attack on mercenaries, I believe that the hon. Gentleman may seriously have prejudiced the chances of the dozen or so of our fellow citizens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-15", "file": "debates1976-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "46d45ad038fc8b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENERGY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "preceding_text": " what can be done— may in any case be made subject to conditions framed by reference to the description or origin of the gas, or the quantities to be supplied, used or disposed of, or the manner of supply or use, or otherwise howsoever. In other words, the Secretary of State can say anything he likes and the conditions can be subject to negotiation, in which he brings in whatever terms he pleases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-15a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-16", "file": "debates1976-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "219fe7819c3fc3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.545.2", "colnum": "545", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to abolish the House of Lords. There are many reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.545.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-16", "file": "debates1976-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "219fe7819c3fc3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.550.4", "colnum": "550", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Declare your interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "sort of regime to the whole of the dock labour force. Indeed, I looked up the hon. Gentleman personally in Who's Who, in which he said that he came from \"good working-class mining stock\". That is the hereditary principle. That cannot be the objection which has motivated the hon. Gentleman this afternoon. No, it is his light and subtle touch on the question of constitutional reform which moves him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.550.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-16", "file": "debates1976-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "219fe7819c3fc3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.550.4", "colnum": "550", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Your father has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman personally in Who's Who, in which he said that he came from \"good working-class mining stock\". That is the hereditary principle. That cannot be the objection which has motivated the hon. Gentleman this afternoon. No, it is his light and subtle touch on the question of constitutional reform which moves him—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Declare your interest.\"] I have no interest to declare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.550.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-16", "file": "debates1976-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "219fe7819c3fc3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.567.3", "colnum": "567", "heading": "NEW TOWNS (AMENDMENT) [MONEY] (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "ont Bench, no doubt they will do so. I must tell them, however, that I regarded this as a fair point which I thought should be examined and remedied. It was impossible in the circumstances in Committee to introduce an amendment to exclude the word \"undue\", and I am sure that the hon. and learned Member for Runcorn and my hon. and unlearned Friend the Member for Pontypool will understand the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-16", "file": "debates1976-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "219fe7819c3fc3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.655.15", "colnum": "655", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (recommitted) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Thomas", "preceding_text": "ldiers and airmen by their commanding officers. Therefore, it is concerned with discipline. The discipline that is applied to members of the Armed Forces, just as to those outside, is as much concerned with morale as with having adequate opportunity to deal with the many grievances that in industry we should describe as the disputes that arise. As an ex-member of the Royal Navy, an ex-able seaman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.655.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-16", "file": "debates1976-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "219fe7819c3fc3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.657.8", "colnum": "657", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (recommitted) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I must ask the hon. Gentleman to resume his seat while I rule on the point of order that has been raised by the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hughes). I make it clear at the outset that I shall not allow a general debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.657.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-16", "file": "debates1976-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "219fe7819c3fc3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (recommitted) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin F. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at the evidence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin F. Cook", "preceding_text": "essed to discover from the Select Committee that when a man is detained he loses his pay for the number of days he serves detention. A witness said that men preferred to be detained than fined because when detained they still had their comforts whereas when fined they had to go about normal life with no money. When a Service man is detained and loses his pay, what provision is made for his family?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-16", "file": "debates1976-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "219fe7819c3fc3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (recommitted) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Air Force (Mr. James Wellbeloved)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Air Force (Mr. James Wellbeloved)", "preceding_text": "rom first-hand experience the problems that confront Service men. Everybody will acknowledge that Service men today have certain rights and privileges that are not enjoyed by the private sector of British industry or by the nationalised industries and their employees. Any Service man who feels aggrieved about any matter affecting his Service life is at liberty to write to his Member of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-16", "file": "debates1976-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "219fe7819c3fc3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.671.5", "colnum": "671", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (recommitted) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "rtial in fact already plead guilty, and at least that proportion will be reflected in the cases that can now fall to be dealt with by commanding officers. We believe that there will be real advantages from the point of view of the accused Service man himself, and the Select Committee that considered these proposals most carefully was also persuaded that there was a real preference in the Services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.671.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-16", "file": "debates1976-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "219fe7819c3fc3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (recommitted) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about industrial tribunals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "I do not think it is true that a trade union representative as such can appear before the courts on behalf of one of his members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-16", "file": "debates1976-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "219fe7819c3fc3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.686.2", "colnum": "686", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (recommitted) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "fore I heard the hon. Member for Woking (Mr. Onslow) speak on defence in the House, many hon. Members on this side of the House visited our Armed Forces overseas and at home without the hon. Gentleman knowing anything about it. He should be more careful about making global statements about other hon. Members. He has shown his usual ignorance on the subject, as he has on so many others in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-16a.686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-17", "file": "debates1976-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "79dff7e858e67d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (INTERVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": " tremendous debt this year—in fact, almost double the previous year—and that that person will have a great responsibility on his shoulders? Does he also accept that whoever takes on the job of treasurership of the Labour Party will find his job much easier if those trade unionists who yesterday took the decision to sacrifice their living standards to prevent any further cuts in public expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-17", "file": "debates1976-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "79dff7e858e67d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (INTERVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is a repetition of questions and answers made on many previous occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-17", "file": "debates1976-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "79dff7e858e67d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.743.6", "colnum": "743", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether we will publish it as a paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.743.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-17", "file": "debates1976-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "79dff7e858e67d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "f European unity, and we would be operating against our own best interests. There are, of course, two arguments advanced against Greek membership. The first is that it will cost the existing members money. The second is that it will divert the EEC from its remorseless pursuit of a closely-knit homogenous Europe, with each virtually contiguous State working away to build a common European identity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-17", "file": "debates1976-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "79dff7e858e67d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Kirk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Kirk", "preceding_text": "eve that the Parliament should consist of between 350 and 400 seats to give the necessary representation to all the regions and areas involved. We should be prepared to expedite as fast as possible any legislation that the Government may bring forward on that issue. Indeed, we should be prepared to see the Government drop other issues in order to expedite it even faster than we would otherwise do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-17", "file": "debates1976-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "79dff7e858e67d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "as never been debated. He says that we should create a nuclear regulatory commission exerting control over the siting, construction and operation of power stations. When he speaks of the institutions of the Common Market, he says that recourse to majority voting in the Council should become the normal practice. Mr. Tindemans is saying that we should move much more actively towards a federal State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-17", "file": "debates1976-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "79dff7e858e67d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.821.5", "colnum": "821", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "on. Friend may hold that view but it is not one that I hold. The Common Market is undergoing such stresses and strains that we need to be clear in our minds whether we are prepared to go along with that view. The hon. Member for Cardiff, North had considerable doubts about the accession of Greece to the Common Market. Were I a pro-Marketeer, which I am not, I, too, would have considerable worries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.821.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-17", "file": "debates1976-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "79dff7e858e67d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "rying signs that the Government are still not equipped to get the best bargaining for this country, and for Europe, in the Council of Ministers. A classic example of how not to do it was the present Prime Minister's exercise in applying for a separate seat at the Conference on International Economic Co-operation. It went down well in this House. I remember the cheers he got from below the Gangway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-17a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-18", "file": "debates1976-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8720f40fd5828e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-18a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ember for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East (Mr. Thomas), who is himself a Co-operative-sponsored Member. I question the role that the co-operative movement is playing in this, bearing in mind that so many Co-operative Members are supporting the Bill. As an active co-operator, I should like to have consulted a number of my friends in the co-operative movement, the Co-operative Wholesale Society and so on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-18a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-18", "file": "debates1976-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8720f40fd5828e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-18a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "ill. I was disputing the apparent encouragement given to my hon. Friend in introducing the Bill, according to the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East. Thank God for the honesty of my hon. Friends, who, in speaking up as they have done, have alerted Parliament and the public to the fact that we were in the process of letting slide through a Bill that would permit children under the age of 14—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-18a.1010.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-21", "file": "debates1976-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1dd8d28038dc552b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "tate is just around the corner, and is observed through the swinging door of the Industry Act. It may not be generally recognised by hon. Gentlemen opposite, but the legal departments of the oil and chemical companies know that there is a new vista. There is an opportunity —not a great one, but a small one—to get hold of money through the Government. It is money for nothing, money with no strings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-21", "file": "debates1976-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1dd8d28038dc552b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1274.3", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "Before the Minister finishes his speech, will he tell the House whether cash limits apply in his Department as they apply in the Department of Health and Social Security?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-21", "file": "debates1976-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1dd8d28038dc552b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "I should declare an interest as European marketing director of Commonwealth Holiday Inns of Canada Limited and also as an unpaid member of the National Council of the British Hotels, Restaurants and Caterers Association, to which my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Lamont) referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-21", "file": "debates1976-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1dd8d28038dc552b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That sounds Socialist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has missed the point. I said that this Order was typical of the type of regulation which comes out of Brussels—interfering, busy-bodying legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-21", "file": "debates1976-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1dd8d28038dc552b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": " it comes to a particular quantity of wine, the quality of which one knows not until one drinks it, and the price of which appears on the menu or the wine list. I was training to be a chartered accountant before the war before going into the Royal Air Force. One phrase that I remember is caveat emptor —he buyer beware. Do not the Government trust the British people to know? I know the restaurants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-21", "file": "debates1976-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1dd8d28038dc552b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1299.7", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "First, I should like to disabuse the mind of the hon. Member for Banbury (Mr. Marten). This Order has nothing to do with the European Economic Community. It is a national.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1299.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-21", "file": "debates1976-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1dd8d28038dc552b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Two points made by the Minister should be recalled and noted. First, the Government's policy is that a Minister will not make a statement in support of a resolution because he believes that it should go through unopposed. I regard that as a shocking development in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-21a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1344.4", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "We dealt with this matter very fully in the debate yesterday. We gave categorical assurances that the Government would deal with the problem as urgently as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEED INGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t was well-founded. Indeed, I indicated to her on the first occasion we met that I knew that there was a genuine sense of grievance. As regards the timing of the debate, I think that is a matter for discussion between the two Chief Whips. The question whether it is a full day's debate is something that they can discuss. If the Opposition want a full day, I hope that the Chief Whip will not resist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1364.4", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEED INGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "bate to which the Prime Minister has referred that Mr. Speaker is bound to vote the other way, because the motion is procedurally an amendment to a Government motion, that would not give the House the same opportunity as it had that night. Therefore, I ask that the Prime Minister should declare that, if there is a tie, it would be the view of the Government that Mr. Speaker ought properly to vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1364.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (NEW ZEALAND BUTTER SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "Yes, I accept that. Indeed, the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand publicly stated: The package was the result of very tough negotiations and what had finally been agreed took account of New Zealand's essential interests. He then went on to talk about access after 1980: None the less, a statement read into the Council Minutes\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1371.2", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (NEW ZEALAND BUTTER SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "g explicit provision for a review in 1978.… None the less a statement read into the Council minutes makes it clear that the Commission will submit a further report to the Council before 31st December 1978, and this, taken with the decision made by Heads of Government at Dublin, assures the ongoing nature of the arrangement beyond 1980. We have confirmed that. It was approved by New Zealand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1505.0", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "d attributes of the latter-day Pooh-Bah. Let us say that when that quotation from the right hon. Member for Huyton rang through this Chamber a few moments ago one saw true appreciation of the enormous virtues and values of charitable institutions. He saw—after all, if he saw it, it must have been fairly apparent—that charities can contribute so much more than the monolithic apparatus of the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1510.2", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "pirit, and in time everyone and everything in this ancient country will have to be beholden to the State. If the new clause is not passed, we shall be, in effect, passing judgment on our ancestors and all those who lived and died before us and whose tombs we see in the glorious parish churches of our countryside. We must be able to hand on something infinitely precious to our heirs and successors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1544.6", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "e. In other words, the whole of these proceedings are being conducted for the purpose of bypassing the need for a Second Reading because the Bill is virtually certain to be rewritten in Standing Committee. It is true that this apparently innocuous measure was given an unopposed Second Reading by the House in March, but the Government have a rather high-handed way of conducting business these days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1544.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1544.6", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "hat this apparently innocuous measure was given an unopposed Second Reading by the House in March, but the Government have a rather high-handed way of conducting business these days—[ Interruption. ] The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury is following the tradition set by his predecessor, the right hon. Member for Bermondsey (Mr. Mellish) in making verbal interjections from a seated position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1544.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "The Patronage Secretary addresses me on the subject of threats. An accusation of making threats comes ill from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Les Huckfield)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Les Huckfield)", "preceding_text": "se of the Money Resolution. I intended no discourtesy to the House. In fact, I should prefer to reply to the various points that I am sure hon. Members on both sides of the House wish to make in what I hope will be a short debate. The amendments that are proposed would leave the Bill substantially unchanged in its content. I say that to the right hon. Gentleman specifically, because it was a Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1550.2", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does ago, when I read a book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1550.6", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " Government will make their intentions clear on the sums they are prepared to make available.\"—[ Official Report, 12th March 1976; Vol. 907, c. 870.] In that a sum is named in the resolution, I suppose that that has been done, but in that we have heard no case from the Minister about why that sum has been selected and what it is supposed to cover, we are entitled to hear a little more explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1550.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman could restrain his hon. Friends from their constant nattering and sedentary interventions he might get the Money Resolution through more quickly. A little more of the normal courtesy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ry interventions he might get the Money Resolution through more quickly. A little more of the normal courtesy—[ Interruption. ] There you are, Mr. Deputy Speaker—there they go again. As soon as one tries to meet a request for brevity by saying that it is difficult to be brief under constant barracking, barracking starts again. So it becomes less and less likely that the hon. Member will have time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member will have time—[ Interruption. ] The barracking used only to come from below the Gangway, but tonight it comes from what purport to be some of Her Majesty's Ministers as well. I do not know whether they think that they are helping their hon. Friend to get to the point at which he can make his speech, but if they do they are as wrong in that as they are in most other things they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-22", "file": "debates1976-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "32acf75e99d5d4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1553.7", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "At 1.18 a.m., as you reminded us, Mr. Deputy Speaker, the debate on this matter will end. I hope that we shall be able to hear something from other hon. Members before then. Whether other hon. Members get the opportunity to speak will depend partly on the conduct of hon. Members opposite, and so far their conduct has not been very impressive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-22a.1553.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-23", "file": "debates1976-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "470d8af7f9986e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1574.2", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman, in his slightly prolonged introduction to his supplementary question, was extending a careful invitation to me to address the Conservative Party local government representatives. If he was, I shall consider the matter with care. I shall not dismiss the idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-23", "file": "debates1976-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "470d8af7f9986e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1576.5", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I did not say that there was not a problem, but I remind the House of the great reduction that has taken place in homelessness as a result of evictions, and in the number of people facing eviction from their dwellings. That has to be balanced against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1576.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-23", "file": "debates1976-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "470d8af7f9986e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1666.0", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT LAND TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": " of rate but other things. It would designate the rate for Aylesbury. Apparently it will be 30 per cent. for Aylesbury and 40 per cent. for Wolverhampton, South-West. The hon. and learned Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Mr. Fairbairn) is not in his place. I was going to say that the rate would be 60 per cent. on burgage property in that area. Land in Wales will carry a rate of 30 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-23", "file": "debates1976-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "470d8af7f9986e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1763.2", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT LAND TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the amendment be made. All those in favour say \"Aye\"; to the contrary \"No\". I think the \"Noes\" have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1763.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-23", "file": "debates1976-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "470d8af7f9986e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1764.0", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT LAND TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. You put the Question quite clearly whether the amendment should be accepted, and it was accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1764.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-23", "file": "debates1976-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "470d8af7f9986e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1764.5", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT LAND TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the amendment be made. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\"; to the contrary \"No\". I think the \"Noes\" have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1764.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-23", "file": "debates1976-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "470d8af7f9986e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1767.8", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": ", the work which we now receive through our efficiency will be diverted to much larger yards where there are many more men employed than in South Wales; this will entail a reduction in my earnings and eventually my job will be in danger. Mr. Bulpin also asks to be heard in person or by his counsel by this honourable House. Mr. Colin Scammell, of the Plumbers Trade Union, has similar apprehensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1767.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-23", "file": "debates1976-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "470d8af7f9986e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1770.0", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": " deem meet. He ends by saying that he will pray for us. That is something of which this House may well be in need. Then Mr. Roy Pearce of the Transport and General Workers Union says: I believe that the proposals to nationalise a ship repair industry in South Wales is wrong because many owners will no longer send their ships for repair to South Wales and therefore our national economy will suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-23a.1767.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1799.3", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that we have reached a sorry state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1799.4", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will consider the matter calmly, as I know he mostly does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1799.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1799.4", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "eceived has been very small over the past two years. I agree that the police should exercise restraint in these matters, and that it can be foolish to take such photographs in certain circumstances, but I have no indication of any abuse. Let me assure my hon. Friend that as regards the Brazilian demonstration there was no question of the film passing outside the control of the Metropolitan Police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1799.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1799.4", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I have no indication of any abuse. Let me assure my hon. Friend that as regards the Brazilian demonstration there was no question of the film passing outside the control of the Metropolitan Police. [ Interruption. ] The Metropolitan Police have the right to take a film and to use it for training purposes. I have no statutory power, even if I thought it wise, which I do not, to say that the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1799.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1803.7", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I read my right hon. Friend's speech. I thought it was an extremely good one. It is true that public expenditure has increased faster. I think that the difficulty that now exists arises because there has not been a similar growth in gross national product.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1803.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1803.7", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "[ Interruption. ] Hon. Members are quick on the uptake today. A growth in gross national product has not taken place because of the gross expansion of monetary supply under the policies of the previous Conservative Government, so there is a chain effect here that we have to correct. There were many other things in my right hon. Friend's speech which I thought were extremely good, too. For example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1803.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1804.1", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Before you answer that point of order, perhaps it would help you if you understood that one of the reasons why the supplementary question put by the hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) had to be explained at great length by my right hon. Friend was that it did not really come from the hon. Member at all but came from Conservative Central Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1806.4", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The figures that the right hon. Lady has quoted from columns 90 and 91 of the Official Report of 24th May are undoubtedly correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1806.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1809.6", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is, but obviously the Question was considered to be quite in order. I find it difficult to rule that the use of the expression \"working-class\" is part of the class war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1809.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1810.0", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1810.3", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "r deliberations on Question No. 9 and whether the expression \"working-class\" should be used in a Question, that I also tabled another Question which might help you in your deliberations. In it I asked my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister whether he expected to meet the CBI. I do not want him to do so. I think that he has met the CBI too often as it is. But it is the same use of class Ianguage.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1820.5", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "PRESIDENT OF FRENCH REPUBLIC (VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you coming back on it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. There is no difference between us on this matter. I hope to use Concorde—and I hope the House agrees with this—when I go to Puerto Rico on Saturday with other Heads of Government and Heads of State.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1820.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1840.0", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. While the Leader of the Opposition was speaking earlier, at the end of her remarks I made what I now regard—without pressure from the Whips or anyone else—as an offensive remark. I regret it and I unreservedly withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1839.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1845.0", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question was proposed to the House and it was passed without dissent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1848.1", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which part?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "mbers that many motions which appear to be single motions on the Order Paper have been moved in separate parts? If a motion can be moved in parts, then part of it can be not moved. Anybody who puts down a motion need not move it. Is the motion amendable? If hon. Gentlemen opposite want to stop at 7 o'clock, can they put down an amendment to do so? This Question can be debated as it has been moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1848.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-24", "file": "debates1976-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "22ac715da83bc80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1850.2", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Denzil Davies)", "preceding_text": "e time of 7 o'clock was chosen in equally good faith. There was no intention or desire to impose a guillotine. Since hon. Members have raised these objections, and since it was necessary to change the time from 7 o'clock, we believed it only fair to withdraw the motion, to continue with the Report stage today and to have Third Reading next week. Therefore I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-24a.1850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-25", "file": "debates1976-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3eb426c243ebb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-25a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (SEAT BELTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Perambulators.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "sidered, and so on. But if that were done by way of an amendment it would come under the negative procedure, according to the clause. The right hon. Gentleman could make the wearing of seat belts by motor cyclists compulsory. That is covered by the Bill. It would be a remarkable thing, but it would still go through under the negative procedure. I suppose that there could be an exemption for Sikhs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-25a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-25", "file": "debates1976-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3eb426c243ebb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-25a.2075.1", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (SEAT BELTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fry", "preceding_text": "Mr. Fry : By leave of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-25a.2075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-25", "file": "debates1976-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "a3eb426c243ebb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-25a.2088.2", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (SEAT BELTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "uld be the greatest possible parliamentary scrutiny of subsequent regulations and the operation of the Bill. My enthusiasm for that does not extend to allowing my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Bell) the opportunity to scrutinise this legislation once a year and exercise his personal influence over it. I cannot help thinking that such a scrutiny would not be constructive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-25a.2088.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.15.2", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I find it a matter of sadness that the official spokesman for the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.15.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.15.2", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I find it a matter of sadness that the official spokesman for the Conservative Party—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"]. I shall answer it in my own way. I shall not be beaten over the head verbally or in any other way by the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.15.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.19.4", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not this week.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Garrett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is clearly aware that a major objective of the board was to extend public ownership into profitable manufacturing industry rather than to rescue the lame ducks. When is the expansion of public ownership into profitable manufacturing industry likely to take place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.19.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.19.5", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Gradually. It has already begun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.19.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is talking about a company in which private enterprise was totally unsuccessful and for which a rescue operation had to be conducted. The board has now expanded its holding in order to make that enterprise profitable, as it will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "CABINET DOCUMENTS (DISCLOSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "ents have said that there must be inquiries into it, and that is why recent cases in the courts have illustrated the difficulties and dangers of the operation of the Official Secrets Act. That is why the party to which I belong said in its manifesto that we would be considering how we should deal with the approach to reform of the Official Secrets Act. That is still the position of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "CABINET DOCUMENTS (DISCLOSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I am glad that I touched the right hon. Gentleman on the raw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "CABINET DOCUMENTS (DISCLOSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That does not say much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "e to what the right hon. Gentleman said about political advisers. There have been many unjustified attacks on political advisers by the Opposition over this whole business. Many of us on the Labour Benches believe that the whole point of the debate is to get at political advisers, who I believe have made the Labour Government from 1974 onwards far more effective than the 1966–70 Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "CABINET DOCUMENTS (DISCLOSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "preceding_text": "most vigour, then we have a right to protest about it. The seriousness of this matter can be sceen quite clearly from the speeches of hon. Members opposite. We appreciate the difficulty the Government are in. They have for many years been willing to protect certain Members on the Left of the Labour Party—and I am not making a moral judgment about this—who consider that the end justifies the means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "CABINET DOCUMENTS (DISCLOSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Another leak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "preceding_text": "led to feel that the Government must give us more than they have given us already. The hon. Gentleman said that Sir Douglas Allen had been asked to make a report, he would do so, and sooner or later the Prime Minister would tell the House what the Government were going to do about it. When several suggestions were made to him about possible alternatives if Sir Douglas did not come to a conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.97.2", "colnum": "97", "heading": "CABINET DOCUMENTS (DISCLOSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "at was the first matter on which the right hon. Gentleman agreed with me. The right hon. Member then agreed with the proposition that it was right for Sir Douglas Allen, the Head of the Civil Service, or some very high civil servant, to be put in charge of the process. The right hon. Gentleman did not dissent from that proposition. The right hon. Member also thought that this debate was ill-timed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.97.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "ike to make the position clear, as the TUC's views are of great importance in terms not only of the social contract but of the effective implementation of the second stage of the battle against inflation. There is a great deal of common ground between the Government and the TUC on this as on many other issues. First, the TUC is committed to the full child benefit scheme, and so are the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "#x00F4;le in this working party, and I very much hope that it will come forward with constructive proposals that will enable the Government to implement the full scheme. But of course the Government themselves must decide what they will recommend to Parliament on this. The Opposition have been using tonight's debate for purely party-political purposes. They are playing politics with poor families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.161.8", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have not got it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "atfield (Mrs. Hayman)—that the transfer ought to be made on a straight forward basis and that there would be no difficulty in selling that transfer. On the other hand, they argued that the time to introduce it was when the benefit was introduced for the first child because it would make it easier to sell the scheme. The fact has got to be faced that this scheme, which is a major social revolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.161.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They want to spend less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "t will make the social revolution stick. But to do this we need a net gain for the family as such. That is absolutely crucial. The argument has been used by Pat Healy and other people in the columns of The Times —namely, that all one needs is a straight transfer with no extra public expenditure. Let us remember that Members of the Tory Party have said that they do not want to spend any more money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "rgument has been used by Pat Healy and other people in the columns of The Times —namely, that all one needs is a straight transfer with no extra public expenditure. Let us remember that Members of the Tory Party have said that they do not want to spend any more money—[HON. MEMBERS: \"They want to spend less.\"] They want to spend less and yet they want better benefits. That is a fallacious argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "ne needs is a straight transfer with no extra public expenditure. Let us remember that Members of the Tory Party have said that they do not want to spend any more money—[HON. MEMBERS: \"They want to spend less.\"] They want to spend less and yet they want better benefits. That is a fallacious argument—[ interruption. ] I am embarking on a serious argument that involves implementation of this scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.162.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Vote.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "I assure my hon. Friend that I should like to see an ordered debate in this House, but obviously the Opposition will not give us this opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "The fact that the incomes policy and the public expenditure situation have coincided with the implementation of the scheme has meant that the priorities have to be examined. I know that every section of the people who are deeply involved—the TUC, the Labour Party and the Government—will examine those priorities. We shall want to discuss the issues and to debate them in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-28", "file": "debates1976-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "38471cdb80c509fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "tect the higher earners and that he believed in helping them while, at the same time, introducing the scheme. How are they to pay for that? I say to my right hon. and hon. Friends that the Government's answer to that problem is for the working party to start as early as possible on negotiations with the people in the Labour movement who believe in the scheme, and certainly not with the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-28a.164.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.172.6", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "preceding_text": "Could I tell the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.175.5", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that whatever scheme we brought in, whether for £95 million or for marginally less or more, the take-home pay problem would be precisely the same. Although it has always been the case that there was going to be a transfer from the husband's purse to the wife's handbag—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with my hon. Friend but, alas, I do not think that anything I might say in anyone's ear would be likely to have much effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "HEADS OF GOVERNMENT (PUERTO RICO MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "for 1977–78—and I have been questioned on this many times and have said that we are considering the matter, as we are—I would certainly think that industry, the House and the country should know the changes as soon as possible. If we can complete these discussions by the end of July, that would be helpful. The House would be informed, and I would want to discuss this with my own party, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "HEADS OF GOVERNMENT (PUERTO RICO MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is disappointed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I know that the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "HEADS OF GOVERNMENT (PUERTO RICO MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Concorde?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I know that the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He is disappointed.\"] Maybe he is disappointed, and his energies and capacities are such that they certainly ought to be used in productive ways. I can promise him, however, that if he had been present he would not have used those adjectives to describe the discussion. Although the conference meant a long and tiring journey both ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "MEMBERS (USE OF FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Is it more than a coincidence that the letter on this topic that arrived for me should have come from Cardiff?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ustry will wish to advance that theory. However, that argument highlights the fact that it is the purpose of the Bill to contain provisions by which one company is deliberately excluded. The fact is that this Bill is and always has been a Hybrid Bill. The draftsmen were instructed so to draft it that Marathon was left out. They acted on the best information available to them to hide the hybridity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "preceding_text": "I had no intention of speaking in the debate, but as the Secretary of State cites me I must recall that the requirements which were placed upon the Conservative Government existed because of the total dereliction of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders caused by the right hon. Gentleman's predecessor, the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I do not wish to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "errupt the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down then.\"]—in his Fourth Reading speech on the Bill, but I am puzzled as to which of the motions on the Order Paper he is speaking to. It might be for the convenience of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker, if you would consider ruling now, in order to avoid the possibility of other hon. Members straying out of order, as to the nature of this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "bitually have for his utterances is reinforced at present with the premonition of nostalgic regret at his quitting his great position. He pointed out with that acuteness of observation common to the Parliamentary Liberal Party—at any rate on this matter—that there will be— one major alteration, in that there will be a new Member in the House,\"—[ Official Report, 24th June 1976; Vol. 913, c. 1824.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a pity he did not get more votes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "t. At the moment, I am more concerned with the voting intentions of the new hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. Crowther) than with the future implications for a General Election. I have not had the pleasure of making his acquaintance, and I know only what the newspapers tell me. They say, first of all, that he is well known and very well liked in Rotherham. That is wholly gratifying and to his credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Uncharacteristically, the right hon. Gentleman has misdirected himself. I said that there was no correction to my letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "he Chair. I assume, therefore, that I am in order in doing so now. The speech of the hon. Member for Henley was misleading to the point of being a lie. The charge was that the Government, the draftsmen and the civil servants combined to hide the hybridity of the Bill. As I understand it, no other Opposition Member has made such a charge. Only the hon. Member for Henley has made it, and only today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "he question of unemployment. They say that unless there is a guarantee in respect of employment they cannot support the Bill. On each occasion when the Scottish National Party has said that it opposes the Bill, it has given as its reasons decentralisation and the processes and procedures of this House. On the question of decentralisation, or devolution, the Bill goes a very long way. What it does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Scottish National Party has said that it opposes the Bill, it has given as its reasons decentralisation and the processes and procedures of this House. On the question of decentralisation, or devolution, the Bill goes a very long way. What it does—[ Interruption. ] I wish that the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Taylor) would make up his mind whether he is a Scot Nat or a Unionist, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "g unemployed. The truth is that this measure will maximise employment. Are the 8,000 workers in my constituency who are at risk of losing their jobs entirely to be told that the reason why the SNP rejects the Bill is that it could not save one job and that, therefore, the other 7,999 have to go? I would urge the Scottish National Party to think carefully about the interests of the Scottish people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "his—is that it is only by dint of public money for the airframe industry and in research, particularly military research, and by public money going into the purchase of those planes, that that industry is viable in the first place. If public money is propping up an industry and the equity remains in private hands, there is not the public accountability that we believe necessary, and it is only by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman is misunderstanding the transformations that a small minority of a minority wishes to impose upon this country, in industry, in the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " the House who are extremely interested in the economic prospects of the industry. Concern has been expressed that, notwithstanding the Government's good intentions, the restructuring of the two industries resulting directly from the act of nationalisation will lead to losses of jobs—for example, at Broughton and at Bristol Channel Ship Repairers. I can give the assurance that this will not be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ntions, the restructuring of the two industries resulting directly from the act of nationalisation will lead to losses of jobs—for example, at Broughton and at Bristol Channel Ship Repairers. I can give the assurance that this will not be so. [ Interruption. ] The Organising Committee for British Shipbuilders has already made it clear that it will seek to have as much decentralisation as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "British Shipbuilders has already made it clear that it will seek to have as much decentralisation as possible. [ Interruption ]. This will mean, in particular, for successful companies such as Austin and Pickersgill—and, to take another example, Bristol Channel Ship Repairers—that existing companies will continue after nationalisation to operate as Companies Act companies, keeping their own names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "istol Channel Ship Repairers—that existing companies will continue after nationalisation to operate as Companies Act companies, keeping their own names. [ Interruption. ] The responsibility for the continuing success of such companies will depend in large measure, as it does now, on the local management, which has day-to-day managerial freedom and responsibility for the profitability of its yards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "o operate as Companies Act companies, keeping their own names. [ Interruption. ] The responsibility for the continuing success of such companies will depend in large measure, as it does now, on the local management, which has day-to-day managerial freedom and responsibility for the profitability of its yards. [ Interruption. ] British Shipbuilders will build on the strength of such companies, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Minister should be heard while he is making his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.4", "colnum": "324", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e aim of the Organising Committee to achieve that. Tonight's vote is about this Public Bill and how we are to proceed with it. The Government will, of course, be ready at any stage to discuss possible amendments to achieve the improvements that I have mentioned, and we shall be willing to discuss them with hon. Members and groups of hon. Members. The representatives of the Scottish National Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.324.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "r other in the second vote on 27th May a questionable means was used. In the days which followed that accusation it became apparent that there was a sense of grievance on the Opposition Benches, and in many other places as well. It was certainly necessary that steps should be taken to remove that sense of grievance. I was in favour of taking steps to ensure that the sense of grievance was removed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-29", "file": "debates1976-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "25797a5829aefdb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheat, cheat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "andon our capacity to transform society, we should be betraying the real Parliament. Some of us know how rights had to be fought for in this Parliament. People had to fight to establish a Parliament, and they then fought for the rights of people outside Parliament—the economic rights and individual liberties. That is what Parliament stands for. That is why the Bill should proceed as a Public Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-29a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "If we were dependent upon the support of the SNP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "This is only one factor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.383.5", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "There has not been undue delay, but I accept that within the hon. Gentleman's constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.383.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.388.2", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That all depends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.388.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I certainly accept that there has been concern. We have already said what our position is—that it would be up to 50 miles, and possibly could be 12 miles in some areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.388.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.391.5", "colnum": "391", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (SENIOR OFFICERS' RETIREMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You can say that again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ressures which we have all felt in recent times do not affect Members alone. Very heavy responsibilities are borne by those who serve the House, and I think that we should all recognise that under such conditions the burden shouldered by heads of departments today, whether Clerk of the House, Serjeant-at-Arms or Librarian, are much heavier than those carried by their predecessors in earlier years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.391.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.393.2", "colnum": "393", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (SENIOR OFFICERS' RETIREMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I will call the right hon. Gentleman in a moment if he wishes, but, in view of what has been said, I wonder whether the House would like to keep its tributes until the motion is tabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "SALE OF COUNCIL HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": " it would extend new dimensions of individual freedom to a large number of people—freedom from the petty rules and restrictions imposed by bureaucracy and freedom in ability to move around the country. Thirdly, this approach would be a direct attack on the cycle of poverty in that for the first time we should be giving many poor people that crucial facility that they lack—namely, access to wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "SALE OF COUNCIL HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Labour in contrast believes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "sition is quite different. We want to establish as many links as possible between the independent schools and the maintained sector, and we want to preserve as many hybrid schools as possible, because we do not wish to see the different sections of the education service isolated one from another. It was for that reason that Lord Boyle, whose name is so often upon the lips of Government supporters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.419.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.431.4", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Stokes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.431.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Margaret Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Jackson", "preceding_text": "I propose to reply briefly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "Time-wasting nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "d and without any provocation. Whatever might be said about some of my hon. Friends, certainly the Secretary of State has spoken very quietly and very politely to the hon. Gentleman. The hon. Gentleman is now so accustomed to listening to himself that he is provoked by even the most polite approach and immediately engages in the kind of arrogance we heard in his approach to the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "tary of State has spoken very quietly and very politely to the hon. Gentleman. The hon. Gentleman is now so accustomed to listening to himself that he is provoked by even the most polite approach and immediately engages in the kind of arrogance we heard in his approach to the Secretary of State. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] I shall get on when I want to, and hon. Members will learn to listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.481.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "mation but a great deal of further information in a form in which it is useful to parents—not in the form of a prospectus drawn up according to the detailed requirements of regulations published as a result of an ill-considered addition to an Act of Parliament. It ill behoves the hon. and learned Gentleman—granted the part of the country from which he comes—to intervene in an English-Welsh debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.536.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.536.4", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Am I to understand that there is anything amiss in a Scottish Member taking an interest in the education of British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "hool. Let us examine the situation of a school conforming to the hon. Gentle- man's demands for pristine honesty—and of course we know that they will be honest. A school would have to describe in stark honesty that it was forced to resort to repetitive corporal punishment. It would say, \"We were forced to have detention every night. Fourteen of our fifth-form girls were pregnant at the age of 15.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "at they will be honest. A school would have to describe in stark honesty that it was forced to resort to repetitive corporal punishment. It would say, \"We were forced to have detention every night. Fourteen of our fifth-form girls were pregnant at the age of 15.\" [ Interruption. ] I realise that that will not be the kind of school that will concern the hon. Gentleman, except for salacious reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "This is becoming a very illogical debate, particularly when one is sitting on this side of the House among people who vote against the closure and then vote to go home at 10 o'clock. It is very difficult to understand. As the usual channels have broken down, if either side wants to use me as an intermediary, I would be happy to be that. On balance my hon. Friends and I support this clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "e sex classes will exist in some parts of the school for some time. That is to allay the fears of the parents. One of the greatest local complaints was that the single-sex schools, for which parents have had respect over the years, were being replaced. The co-educational comprehensive document continues: The school will offer a basic course in the first three years of a pupil's stay. The document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ycling. It states that no knives should be brought to school. The rule is that there shall be no trading in school. It states: For minor offences pupils may be detained in school for up to 15 minutes after the end of the school day. It refers to school meals. I shall forbear from commenting on whether the meals produced at the school are an improvement upon the meals produced within this building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.556.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"From the kitchen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, who looks as if he has just come back from safari, has not taken part in our deliberations this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No Closure?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "ther one following in September. Yesterday we had a parents' meeting. The headmaster told us what was in the school, what he hoped to do and how he liked to enlist the support of parents. He gave us a list of the school's activities and the school magazine. He was involving us. We were delighted. As parents and ratepayers not only were we delighted but we felt intitled to that sort of information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": " thing that they should suffer. Why should some of our most deprived children be forced to spend some of their most formative years in establishments of that nature? Anything which can heighten the tone and quality of life in this country should be supported by every hon. Member. We are not talking about elitist schools, about the public school system. We are talking about the State school system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that in the prospectus that the hon. Gentleman wants by law he would state the personal views of members of staff? Does he agree that that has a well-known description—snooping?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "centralised control of teachers and professional educators. There was a desire to decentralise the American school system and to give parents a more direct involvement. Wherever we look this sort of development is taking place. Yet in this country, the party that believes in open government is digging in. 12.30 a.m. Since we have a situation in which there will be little extra by way of resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "lace. Yet in this country, the party that believes in open government is digging in. 12.30 a.m. Since we have a situation in which there will be little extra by way of resources—[ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Luton, West (Mr. Sedgemore) has not been with us for this debate. That is the trouble with Labour Members. They do not come into debates, or if they do they are not worth listening to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.569.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I beg to move. That further consideration of the Bill, as amended, be now adjourned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.591.3", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Typical.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": "The most extraordinary thing about this is that we have a motion in the name of the Leader of the House, yet he sneaked out a moment before the motion was put to the House. This is a discourtesy which is not surprising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.591.3", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": "s a discourtesy which is not surprising. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Typical.\"] No, it is certainly not surprising after some of the extraordinary behaviour we have seen from the Leader of the House in recent weeks. We have learned to expect some very strange things from him. We have had cheating votes put through the House, we have had the rights of petitioners denied by cheating in the pairing arrangements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When is your birthday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Out of courtesy, Sir, I was referring first to the discourtesy done to you. I wish now to refer to the discourtesy shown to Labour Members, notably those below the Gangway. They will be deprived of the opportunity of speaking in Committee on the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.604.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.608.10", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Mr. Tebbit rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.608.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-06-30", "file": "debates1976-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ff5abcc1f1cefbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.610.2", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman endorses my point that the Opposition had tabled no amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-06-30a.610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-01", "file": "debates1976-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18fb084ee43d9c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-01a.669.5", "colnum": "669", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman decides to defer the debate on Monday on the sheepmeat régime, would he seriously consider using the time to try to complete the Road Traffic (Seat Belts) Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-01a.669.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-01", "file": "debates1976-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18fb084ee43d9c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-01a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "A point of order, Mr. Speaker. Does Mr. Speaker consider that it is in accordance with the best traditions of this House that this matter should have been raised without notice being given to the persons under attack, namely, Plaid Cymru? Had they known of it, I am certain that they would have been here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-01a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-01", "file": "debates1976-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18fb084ee43d9c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-01a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "s matter. I was elected to a county council. I am delighted that the hon. Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Wilson), who sat on that county council with me, is present in the Chamber to listen to some of the remarks I intend to make. To make a party point perhaps, I was elected in an area which hitherto had been represented by Socialists for many years. I was the first Tory to be elected there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-01a.758.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-01", "file": "debates1976-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18fb084ee43d9c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-01a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No! No!", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Frederick Mulley)", "preceding_text": "g the present sitting. The discussion has been interesting, but it has at times been characterised more by quantity than by quality. Nevertheless, I am hoping that tonight the hon. Gentleman, in his characteristically concise and clear way, will give his views on this series of new clauses, and we shall have an opportunity to study them and return to them for further consideration at another time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-01a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-01", "file": "debates1976-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18fb084ee43d9c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-01a.778.3", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "It is a most unusual procedure to anticipate intentions in this way. I do not think we can complete the discussion of these clauses at a reasonable hour, and I know that hon. Members on all sides want to catch trains tonight to their constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-01a.778.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-02", "file": "debates1976-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "cfcec0140004a39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-02a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "an always be governed by justice. I am saying that a people can not be governed when there is acknowledged injustice. Under-representation of Northern Ireland is now acknowledged injustice, and as such, I say—in the one place where that statement can be made and not denied—it will not endure. Thirdly, I come to local government. Again, we lack Banquo: the hon. Member for Belfast, West is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-02a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-02", "file": "debates1976-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "cfcec0140004a39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-02a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "ed government again, its task will be much easier if it is able to identify separately the body of legislation for which it is responsible—namely, transferred legislation. The hon. Member for Abingdon spoke about an advisory body system, of which I am not in favour. The advisory body system under the previous Administration was composed of admirable gentlemen. Indeed, I was once invited to attend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-02a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-02", "file": "debates1976-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "cfcec0140004a39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-02a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "blem is that an advisory body wants to spend money, but my responsibility is to the Cabinet and to the House. I gather that the Opposition want to cut public expenditure to a vast degree. If that is so, I should not care to be in the hon. Gentleman's shoes if he meets an advisory body in Northern Ireland. The members of advisory bodies do not come bearing gifts but requests for public expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-02a.875.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-02", "file": "debates1976-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "cfcec0140004a39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-02a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If I may break the rules for a moment, I should like to announce that Mr. Deputy Speaker who will relieve me—the hon. Member for Poole (Mr. Murton)—has this day been sworn in as a Privy Councillor. I thought the House would like to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-02a.879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-05", "file": "debates1976-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "159f009d9c88422c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " could not, and would not, defend either of these two forms of blatent discrimination. I believe that facts about the long-term effect of this concession rely on some exaggeration of the likely continuation of arranged marriages. The propensity to go on with arranged marriages, and, hence potentially marriages to men from overseas, in inherently unlikely to stay at the level of the parent culture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.982.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-05", "file": "debates1976-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "159f009d9c88422c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ranged marriages. The propensity to go on with arranged marriages, and, hence potentially marriages to men from overseas, in inherently unlikely to stay at the level of the parent culture. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I think there is substantial evidence. I am not saying that they will disappear completely. I am saying that as one moves into the second generation it is inherently unlikely that exactly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-05", "file": "debates1976-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "159f009d9c88422c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.982.3", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and learned Gentleman will forgive me I will not give way. It is inherently unlikely that exactly the same pattern will persist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.982.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-05", "file": "debates1976-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "159f009d9c88422c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": "e was not insensitive to the problem of numbers. At least, that was of some comfort to us all. I find the extremes of the argument about immigration equally unattractive and insensible of the realities. I find those who say \"Let them all in\" as repugnant as those who say \"Send them all home\". I was engrossed this afternoon to hear the comments of the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-05", "file": "debates1976-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "159f009d9c88422c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-05", "file": "debates1976-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "159f009d9c88422c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "preceding_text": "I hope to be reasonably brief in supporting the Bill. There is a measure of cross-party agreement on this matter, as indicated by the fact that the hon. Member for Dorset, North (Mr. James) found himself in the uncharacteristic situation of heaping praise on the Government of my party. I think it is right to say that those of us who support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-05", "file": "debates1976-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "159f009d9c88422c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "preceding_text": " Dorset, North (Mr. James) found himself in the uncharacteristic situation of heaping praise on the Government of my party. I think it is right to say that those of us who support—[ Interruption ]. I am told that I have to declare my interest. Technically I have an interest, being one of six or seven joint authors of a book called \"The Socialist Future\", which young Members of the 1966 Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-05", "file": "debates1976-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "159f009d9c88422c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1110.6", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "ely by libraries —a book which no individual wishes to buy, which libraries buy purely because they think it is something they ought to buy, even if they make a misjudgment—because one or two people borrow the book the author will receive a payment under the Bill. Effectively, we are saying that the purpose of the Bill is to pay taxpayers' money to authors of books that no individual wants to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1110.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-05", "file": "debates1976-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "159f009d9c88422c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "nd in not spending it on some of the things on which it is spent. What I am saying at the moment, as I put it in the reasoned amendment which Mr. Speaker saw fit not to select, is that amongst other priorities I think that mothers, for example, particularly mothers without the support of the father of the family, deserve public expenditure rather more than authors who are either prosperous or bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1113.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-05", "file": "debates1976-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "159f009d9c88422c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Jackson", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the debate be now adjourned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-05a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-06", "file": "debates1976-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "dafe6cc32e44bcf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jackson", "preceding_text": "There is no annual report from the inspectors on each school in their arca—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-06", "file": "debates1976-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "dafe6cc32e44bcf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1168.2", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "LONRHO LIMITED (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Although the hon. Member for Lambeth, Central, Mr. Lipton) did not have the courtesy to give me notice of this matter beforehand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-06", "file": "debates1976-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "dafe6cc32e44bcf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1169.2", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "LONRHO LIMITED (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "The company was given just over 24 hours' notice of the intention to publish the report. The company was therefore released from any obligation to keep silence. It must be appropriate for the company to defend itself and to give its view of the matters referred to in the report. That is what I did. I make no apology for doing so. I believe that what I did was perfectly right and proper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-06", "file": "debates1976-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "dafe6cc32e44bcf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1170.4", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "LONRHO LIMITED (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I did not make myself clear in raising the original point of order. It is obvious that this report was made available to Lonrho on the basis of maintaining strict confidentiality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-06", "file": "debates1976-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "dafe6cc32e44bcf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "PAY AND PRICES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "derstand and accept the nation's needs in a crisis but of the response which a British Government can evoke from those to whom they are responsible—provided that the Government can prove that they share their aspirations and are prepared to tell them the truth. The new agreement has, if anything, made even more impact on opinion abroad. If I may pick two tributes out of the many which I have seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-06", "file": "debates1976-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "dafe6cc32e44bcf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "PAY AND PRICES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " unify even her own Party, let alone the nation. That, I fear, is nothing but the truth, and we shall, no doubt, get further evidence of that over the next two days. I hope, despite the coyness with which the right hon. Member for Sidcup disguises his intentions about speaking in the debate, that he will give us and the country and the editor of The Times an opportunity of understanding his views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-06", "file": "debates1976-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "dafe6cc32e44bcf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "PAY AND PRICES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "In a nutshell, if we can keep the money supply consistent with the growth of money GDP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-06", "file": "debates1976-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "dafe6cc32e44bcf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "PAY AND PRICES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "st coming to the point which the hon. Gentleman has raised, but I think that it would be carrying cruelty too far if I tried to inflict on the House and my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Mr. Litterick) an explanation of how M1 differs from M3 and M2. I shall ask him to have a private word with the hon. Member for Blaby, but not to take too seriously what the hon. Gentleman says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-06", "file": "debates1976-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "dafe6cc32e44bcf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "PAY AND PRICES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "te and public sectors. He cannot command the necessary credibility as someone seeking to control the size of the public sector—with all his reputation for intellectual thuggery—when one contemplates some of the legislation that he is allowing his colleagues to push through—and I leave aside nationalisation, about which he has some emotional hang-up. There is the destruction of the grammar schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-06", "file": "debates1976-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "dafe6cc32e44bcf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "PAY AND PRICES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "gaining which has taken place between the Government and trade union leaders is not the sort for which we ought ideally to aim. The real bargain to be struck is the one between the Government in Parliament and representatives of people as a whole. We want to look for wider, more effective and more continuous ways of doing that and a much more continuous method of explaining the connection between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-06", "file": "debates1976-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "dafe6cc32e44bcf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1212.6", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "PAY AND PRICES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "rned Gentleman was saying that the responsibility of the Labour Government is quite different from that of either the West German Government or the American Government, I wanted to dissent from that point of view. There are 24 million unemployed workers, 1 million of whom are British. The other 23 million are in other capitalist countries. Unemployment has nothing to do with the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-06a.1212.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-07", "file": "debates1976-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2822e202815e0680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1360.4", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "It is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1360.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-07", "file": "debates1976-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2822e202815e0680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1360.4", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "It is not. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman's double standards are now showing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1360.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-07", "file": "debates1976-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2822e202815e0680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1367.2", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All will be revealed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that it is a remarkable relevation that the Church does not know how many houses it has demolished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1367.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-07", "file": "debates1976-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2822e202815e0680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER (ABSENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " have been invited to attend a conference of the Presidents of European Parliamentary Assemblies being held in Bonn on Friday and Saturday of this week. This will involve my absence on Friday and the latter half of the Sitting on Thursday. I hope that the House will approve of my decision to accept, so that the Commons may be properly represented by its Speaker, and will grant me leave of absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1368.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-07", "file": "debates1976-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2822e202815e0680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND PRICES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Unemployment was then foremost in people's minds and was said to govern policy. Hon. Members may recall that when we went over the 1 million unemployed mark the proceedings of the House were disrupted by Labour Members and the Sitting had to be suspended. As Prime Minister, I was not allowed to answer Questions. But now we have gone 11 months with unemployment over a million, at 1¼ million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-07", "file": "debates1976-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2822e202815e0680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND PRICES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "preceding_text": "sition more credit if we heard more speeches like that of the right hon. Member. Instead, it seems that all we can hope to hear are the sort of speeches that we heard from the hon. Member for Gloucester (Mrs. Oppenheim), the self-confessed nit-picker. Her speech was characterised by nit-picking of the most unhelpful and carping kind. It was the sort of performance we expect from her in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-07", "file": "debates1976-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2822e202815e0680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1494.3", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND PRICES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down. Mr. Prior: If one looks—", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Mr. Healey rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1494.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-07", "file": "debates1976-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2822e202815e0680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1494.7", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND PRICES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take it back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry, but I checked the figures when the right hon. Gentleman was speaking the other afternoon, when he was again making out that our figures were a lot better than those of other countries. I found that he was totally wrong in his figures and I stick by the figures that I have given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1494.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-07", "file": "debates1976-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2822e202815e0680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1517.3", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (UNITS OF MEASUREMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "e should make it clear that what is involved here is the authorisation or the giving of legal status to all SI units. It authorises them, but I think the word \"binding\" goes too far, I propose to have that part of the directive altered. In Article 2 (2) and (3), the word \"prohibit\" is used. The word \"prohibit\" as it appears is a substitution for the original word \"disappear\" in the 1971 directive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-07", "file": "debates1976-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2822e202815e0680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (UNITS OF MEASUREMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I do not think there is any proposal for amendment which I am going to suggest to the House which I am not going to be able to achieve", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-07a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1587.6", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "It would obviously depend on the rate at which it was rated —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1587.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1592.4", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House appreciates that the Government conducted a wide range of negotiations and put the situation to the country in a referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1592.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "In his statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1599.2", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ies, one of which is partially but not wholly consequential upon the other, means that this must be postponed a little. I am sure that hon. Members will be delighted to know that I expect to see the inflation rate going down again this month—I would have expected some applause for that. My pause there was for applause. I expect to see the rate going steadily down. We shall, on present commitments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1608.4", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I reject the exaggerated language used by the right hon. Gentle-man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1608.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1611.2", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House agree with me that it is not an abuse of the House for Back Benchers to exercise a right to raise questions about business arrangements, even though they may not have anything at all to do with next week's business?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1611.3", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry that I may not have heard the hon. Gentleman correctly. Was he criticising the Chair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1611.4", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With-draw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker. What I am attempting to draw from my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1611.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1620.1", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": " those points into account. As my hon. Friend was a Minister in my Department he will know that the Government have made it plain that planning agreements will be voluntary. I have said over and over again that I am not satisfied with the progress being made in respect of planning agreements. But I think that industry is much more relaxed about planning agreements, and many leading industrialists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to please the Scottish National Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1629.0", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "what race are some of us respectively to be entered by our respective employers? If there is to be discrimination and if there is to be a law against discrimination on grounds of race, it is not only as employers, it is not only under the terms of a clause such as this, that we must know what race is. Is an Englishman of a different race from a Welshman? Are all Welshmen of the same race? Are all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1669.0", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "ot likely to arrive at the right conclusions if we do not correctly assess that. In his melodramatic statements, the right hon. Member for Down, South usually gets it wrong. He puts two and two together and makes four and a half. That is the system of logic he seems to employ. However, I found myself agreeing with some of his remarks and I wanted to intervene in order to help his mental processes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1712.4", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "If it is necessary to clear it up, I gladly do so. I said that, notwithstanding what I saw as blemishes in the Bill, I proposed to vote for the Third Reading, although I would achieve a great deal of popularity if I did not. But that is water under the bridge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1712.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Turn round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "That is a very interesting question, but if I tried to answer it fully I would take up more time than I wish. The answer is that professionalism has penetrated far into all sports. I do not know whether pot-hunting is a profession, but it is deeply established in the riding of ponies, and as far as the Jockey Club is concerned it gives a certification to jockeys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Address the Chair.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "I should have remembered that, but we spent so long on the earlier debates this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1746.0", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Lyons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Lyons", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that his own Front Bench has said that it will vote for the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ment. It brings us into disrepute and it widens still more the gap between what we do and what the public are thinking and feeling. I am appalled and disgusted by what I have heard from the Government side. I know that the Minister himself has no power to alter in any way even a comma in the Bill, but surely he can send for the Home Secretary, who has hardly appeared at all during all these hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1776.3", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I shall not be provoked by observations of that sort. I am endeavouring to be constructive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1791.2", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "the Home Secretary has reasonably said that he will consider the point made by the hon. and learned Member for Runcorn (Mr. Carlisle), who was a Home Office Minister. However, but for the fact that the underlying factor of race is involved—and there are many hon. Members involved in these debates whose attitude on race is not democratic and not what it should be—there could be much more agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1791.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "it in aid when it was not even in the Bill. That is fundamentally a dirty sort of trick, and I am unable to believe it of him. I hope that he has had time to find in his legislation the reference to a history of discrimination. If he cannot, I shall begin to lose faith in him and in The Guardian, Holland Park, the Fabian Society and all those other marks of British society that made Britain great.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ciety and all those other marks of British society that made Britain great. [ Interruption. ] There is nothing permissive in our society now. We are not permitted to decide whom we want to work with and whom we want in our own clubs. Before long, the House of Commons will be the only decent club in London. It will be the only place where people are not foisted on us on the most remarkable grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Darwin did it first.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I accept that, but the fact that it was mentioned is enough to arouse considerable feelings in many people outside the House. The hon. and learned Gentleman cannot get away with that quite so easily. He talked about the survival of the fittest, which is something Hitler talked about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1822.4", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "No. 7—which raises the whole question of the application of the Bill to clubs. Although I know that my hon. Friends will wish to say a great deal, Labour Members may wish to take a more constructive part than they have done hitherto and it would be desirable for the House that as many hon. Members as possible should express their opinion on the two important amendments that will be taken together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1822.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1825.0", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "me Secretary and the Labour Party are seeking to do, it is not what I want. I will readily declare, for the benefit of the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson), that I am one of those who does not wish to see this legislation reach the statute book. I would like to see all race relations legislation removed from the statute book. Race relations can be improved only by education and evolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1830.1", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a little too quick. He forgets that we are not on Greenwich Meantime, but are on British Summer Time. In fact, the time is only a quarter past 3 o'clock. We are at the most critical phase. The hon. Member for East Kilbride (Dr. Miller) has reminded us that he is a doctor of medicine. No doubt he would like to take up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1880.2", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "t backgrounds. They can stimulate, and there can be cross-fertilisation and all the other splendid words that stand for something, but that can be inappropriate when all that one wants to do is to sink back and relax and be at ease in one's inn. In these days that is not always possible, but up until now it has been possible to be at ease in one's club. That is what the busy-bodies do not realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1880.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1893.9", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " enacted by shoving it through overnight in a series of debates in which very few hon. Members have taken part—almost none of them Labour Members—in which Ministers have not bothered to reply to the points made and in which very few hon. Members have voted in Divisions. That is the sort of law which brings the law into contempt. We have enough bad law. There is enough contempt for the law already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1893.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Clause 43", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ning to this Irish solution; he did not try it when he was responsible for affairs in Northern Ireland. Bismarck said that if the Dutch were put in Ireland the most industrious people would be operating on the most fertile land on earth, and that if the Irish were put in Holland they were so lazy they would not mend the dykes and they would all drown and that would be the end of the Irish problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-08", "file": "debates1976-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a338a1efe5dead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1961.2", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "Clause 70", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that. If the hon. Gentleman wishes to make racialist remarks he can rely upon parliamentary privilege to protect him, and no doubt his hon. Friends will have noted that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-08a.1961.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman is aware, it is not normal in the House to give such long-term indications as those for which the right hon. Gentleman asks. I hope that we can make excellent progress. I hope that the Development Land Tax Bill will be concluded by twelve o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "ANGOLA (MERCENARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Cubans?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": " capital punishment, many people on this side of the House and outside as well as myself will have a strong feeling that the Government's and Opposition's reaction to the sentences being carried out is grossly exaggerated and hypocritical. Some of the epithets about barbarism would be better applied to those who condoned the mercenaries' behaviour and those who connived with their going to Angola.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.46.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.47.4", "colnum": "47", "heading": "ANGOLA (MERCENARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Like Russia?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "s none the less sent appeals for clemency to President Neto and we deeply regret the fact that the executions were carried out. Nevertheless, does the Minister of State recognise that there is now a need for action to be taken to prevent the recruitment of mercenaries in this country by freelance individuals? Action should be taken to prevent such people leaving the country in their own interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.47.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.54.4", "colnum": "54", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": " start of the debate on his motion on the problems of Greater London, but I wish to raise with you what I consider to be a serious matter of privilege. It arises from a report on page 2 of the Daily Telegraph of today, which says: Six Labour MPs, sponsored by the National Union of Public Employees, have had their political fitness tested by having to write a 1,000-word thesis on trade union power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.54.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "GREATER LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hunt", "preceding_text": "n of Conservative administrations to restore sound and responsible government to London. It is now more than two years since the House last had the opportunity of debating London affairs. Today, we are debating the grave and growing problems of our capital city only because of my luck in the Ballot. That underlines the total inadequacy of the parliamentary time that is allocated to Greater London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.56.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "GREATER LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Perry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Perry", "preceding_text": "s a Londoner's lament. There is nothing worse for Londoners than to go into the West End or the City to work and be confronted with hundreds and thousands of people from all over the world milling around London on holiday. Good luck to those people, but it makes life very difficult for Londoners. Finally, I feel that we should do something about the amount of rubbish which is left all over London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "GREATER LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "rom the Department of the Environment—the mystery housing section—indicated that quite a few of the nominations made by outer London boroughs were not taken up by the GLC. It is therefore unfair, as my hon. Friend the Member for Ravensbourne said, to try to put too much blame on local authorities such as Bromley and Barnet. Offers were made, but the record shows that they were not always taken up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "his and we try to suggest that some mechanism is in use at Westminster that may have a bearing on the final outcome of the summit meeting in Brussels? To think along those lines is to underestimate the calibre of person with whom we are dealing in the Community. That makes this debate a charade. In fact, it is a post-mortem on the decision to which the Government have already committed themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "I am not in a position to comment on any numbers. There have been all kinds of suggestions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.171.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.173.6", "colnum": "173", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Minister is not giving way. He must be allowed to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT LAND TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Crawford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Crawford", "preceding_text": "ton (Mr. Latham) said that the development land tax will soon have a severe effect on the availability of land on the periphery of the cities of England and Scotland. That applies to land for council housing as well as for private housing, and the bona fide building company will be hit pretty hard in both Scotland and England. We all agree that land speculators must be hammered, and hammered hard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.233.2", "colnum": "233", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "to place upon them. That is why I am a little unhappy about the clause. Who are the non-executive directors? What do they direct, and on whose behalf do they direct it? Do they represent anyone? No. Do they represent share- holders? Are they elected by shareholders? They are personal friends of some clapped-out Cabinet Minister of long ago, who have been placed upon the board in order to adorn it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "d I do not believe that the non-executive directors formed into an audit committee will be able to stem this bleeding. The trouble is that the British Steel Corporation is not losing money by some mischance. It is not losing money because adverse terms of trade have temporarily affected it. It will not start to make money at any stage in the future. It will go on losing ever greater sums of money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.248.5", "colnum": "248", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "by the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York for all major companies. It started in Ontario, Canada, about 10 years ago, and now Price Waterhouse, the well-known firm of accountants, has produced a booklet entitled \"The Audit Committee\" which spells out in some detail its recommendations of how such committees should operate. I am tempted to read this booklet to the House in its entirety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.248.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "Yes, that is an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": " the following: first, a review of the financial statement with the independent accountants prior to recommending approval by the board. Second on the Price Waterhouse list is enquiry into the effectiveness of the company's management, financial and accounting functions through discussion with the independent accountants, external auditors and appropriate officers of the company. Having described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.249.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.261.6", "colnum": "261", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "ses there is reference to the precise way in which Parliament should become involved. There are three principles involved in the clauses and it is for the benefit of the House that we should take the clauses together. The first principle at stake is how Parliament should discharge its obligation to taxpayers to ensure that the moneys we are subventing to the corporation are properly accounted for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.261.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "I am interested to hear that. If we are to discuss this important Bill tonight, towards the middle of July 1976, and we do not yet have the report and accounts for the trading year 1975–76, that shows the need for amendment to the Bill in the way we propose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.265.4", "colnum": "265", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "ure that financial housekeeping within the corporation, as in all nationalised undertakings, is treated as one of the most important criteria of performance by which we may judge its effectiveness. That requirement must apply however large the undertaking may be. The corporation has about 48 subsidiary companies, and it must be able to demonstrate to the House its efficiency and good housekeeping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.265.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "It is a matter for regret that this debate is having to be taken at this hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "preceding_text": " and derision. It would have been helpful to have more constructive thinking from the Government and an indication that they were prepared to look seriously at a review of the target. I understand that the Minister, seeking to keep the proceedings short, has had to take a number of short cuts through his speeches, but that is the Government's problem in bringing business forward at this late hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.290.4", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "of the steel development programme and that productivity and manning levels in the corporation are not making sufficient progress. Are we not entitled to know what progress has been made, whether it is sufficient, whether it matches up to the agreement that the corporation made with the trade unions earlier this year, and whether it justifies some of the assumptions which the Government have made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I find it amazing that Government supporters should find it useful to point to these empty Benches when throughout the Report stage and Third Reading of the Development Land Tax Bill, which is supposed to represent their policy, not one Labour Member was present to support the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are frivolous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "rowing power of the British Steel Corporation by £2,000 million. I represent about a thousandth of the country's voters, which means that we are discussing a debt for my constituents of £2 million. Labour Members who represent urban areas are committing their constituencies to debts of £2 million or £4 million. We should not regard as frivolous the reality of what we are doing to our constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "An extra 12 months. Just an extra £1,000 million. We need to get some order and reality into this matter. What does not impress me about Members on the Government side is that they constantly call for control and for public accountability, and say that the people should own everything. They call for democratic principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.296.4", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "be taken, and out of which this will have to be paid. It is easy for hon. Members opposite to giggle and laugh and to think that it is easy to raise £1,000 million, but it will be coming out of the wage packets of those whom they continually claim are the people who are over-taxed, who are over-burdened, who are over-poor. Yet in one sentence they can ask \"What is £1,000 million for another year?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.296.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "er countries have made, there is no point in this exercise. It is worth reminding ourselves that the extra £1,000 million that the Minister wants to play with looks rather substantial in comparison with one or two of the other matters that we have debated in the past week or two. I remind the House of the £750,000 net that the Government felt they could allocate to the 600,000 one-parent families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-12", "file": "debates1976-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2ec298af6456fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.307.4", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "preceding_text": "since its Second Reading on 26th April. It is customary at this stage of a Bill to thank the Ministers who have guided it through Committee and to this point, and that I do. On several occasions I have referred to the help which they have endeavoured to give us in providing information. We have not been satisfied with the range of information or felt that we have really managed to get down to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-12a.307.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He should have been a mercenary.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "Would not the establishment and the morale of the Army be improved if more consideration were given to the relatives of soldiers? What is the up-to-date position relating to one of my constituents, Private Ogilvie, who was murdered in Germany about six weeks ago? His body has not yet been brought back to his mother for burial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.364.4", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Declare your interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "been allocated more resources for the attraction of foreign visitors, in contradistinction to the attitude of Her Majesty's Government, who constantly seem to be attacking service industries in general and tourism in particular, thus causing, for instance, the Chairman of the English Tourist Board to claim that the development land tax will hamper the development of tourism throughout the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.364.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "MEMBERS' CORRESPONDENCE WITH MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "hand only a moment or two ago. We know that it is your job to protect the interests of Back Benchers and to see that hon. Members are not precluded from carrying out their duties to their constituents. Obviously, you do all you can, Sir, to facilitate hon. Members in carrying out their duties. I wish to raise a serious point which is generally applicable and which affects a number of hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.372.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.373.2", "colnum": "373", "heading": "MEMBERS' CORRESPONDENCE WITH MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "s matter with the present Prime Minister, the former Prime Minister, with Ministers concerned and also with the Leader of the House. I have been able to get no satisfaction on this point whatever. Let me quote an example. I have a letter here that was sent by me on 11th June and today, 13th July, I received a formal acknowledgment from a private secretary saying that the matter will be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (FINANCE BILL)", "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": "I have left my hobnailed boots behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.391.4", "colnum": "391", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (FINANCE BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I thought we were debating the Finance Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.393.5", "colnum": "393", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (FINANCE BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "oint. Faults lie with Governments of both parties and with both parties when in Opposition. We do not handle our affairs well. There is a serious problem, but it does not help when the right hon. and learned Gentle. man produces a series of headline-hunting phrases. I know what he is seeking to do. He has to make party poiltical capital out of the situation, but it is not a party political matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.393.5", "colnum": "393", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (FINANCE BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "n the right hon. and learned Gentle. man produces a series of headline-hunting phrases. I know what he is seeking to do. He has to make party poiltical capital out of the situation, but it is not a party political matter. [ Interruption. ] If the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) had heard what his right hon. and learned Friend said, he would realise that it was put in a very partisan way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (FINANCE BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "My masters are good guys, and so am I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (FINANCE BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I concede at the outset that the way in which we discuss our legislation generally in this House leaves a lot to be desired. Of course, I would have liked a lot more time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crowder", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"12p.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crowder", "preceding_text": "I had the advantage of reading it but, equally, I had the disadvantage of having to pay for it. After all, we are not paying 2d for The Times today: we are paying 2s. 4d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.494.2", "colnum": "494", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Civil servants", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "nearer £3,000. In addition, there has been no increase in the percentage of earnings which can be put aside. That remains at 15 per cent. Thus, although there have been improvements, the provision that the self-employed can make for themselves is still trailing behind in real terms and is inadequate when compared with the financial provision allowed to employees in both public and private sectors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.494.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.525.3", "colnum": "525", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "ave wished to support the strong case in support of the war widows. He continued: Most of us in our constituencies have received representations about this matter and we know the strong feelings that are justifiably felt by war widow pensioners.\"—[ Official Report. Standing Committee H, 23rd May 1973; c. 706.] I ask for support from both sides of the House for this essentially non-partisan matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew (St. Albans)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew (St. Albans)", "preceding_text": "Surely my hon. Friend will take account of the fact that, whatever one may say about logic, the war widow is usually subjected to widowhood at a much earlier age than other widows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.544.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.544.2", "colnum": "544", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Oh, shut up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "This is a speech, not an intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.546.0", "colnum": "546", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "nificant or tremendous cost. If the Financial Secretary is prepared to say that he will do this, I shall reconsider my position on the clause. If he is not, and if we are to wait any longer for this problem to be tackled, I shall vote for something of which I do not approve in the long term but which would help to tackle a desperate problem, rather than sit around and wait for another year or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-13", "file": "debates1976-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b54460f7a0e61832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The Minister has not yet indicated his acceptance of Amendment No. 82—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-13a.573.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.630.7", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I take due note of the importance of this subject, but I understand that the board has decided not to implement the original proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.630.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.633.6", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marks", "preceding_text": "Yes; nearly every country which has not yet gone metric has decided to change. It will scarcely be possible for us to stand out against all that permanently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.633.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.649.6", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "May I warmly congratulate the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.649.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL MEETING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I ask my hon. Friend to await the Gracious Speech which will be unfolded in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "al fair way, takes the point. In fact, the situation is even more irregular than I realised when discussing it in Committee. There is a great variety of ways in which local transfer offices handle these matters. Until now they have had total discretion regarding the rules that they have imposed on individual members of the public. I consider that to be a thoroughly unsatisfactory state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "es carried out statutory licensing and registration duties quite independently and not as agents of the then Ministry of Transport, although they had guidance from the Minister. 5.15 p.m. It might be of assistance to the House if I set out the basic procedure involved in all cases where a cherished transfer is sought. In the first place, the applicant has to submit an application form—namely V317—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "No, not now. The applicant submits a V317 with a fee. The fee is returned if the transaction is not completed. The applicant, under the normal procedure, submits the registration documents for both donor and recipient vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "No. I am in the middle of outlining the basic procedure involved in all these cases. If it is going to take a long time to outline it, so be it. Licences and test insurance certificates are required. The licensing office checks that both vehicles are registered in the name of the applicant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "required. The licensing office checks that both vehicles are registered in the name of the applicant—[ Interruption. ] Opposition Members should realise that these procedures are necessary for the protection of the public. The next stage is for officials to ensure that the object of the transfer is not to make the vehicle that receives the new licence plates appear to be younger than it really is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "es are amended to show the new registration marks and replacement licences are issued showing the new marks. New records are created for the two vehicles under their new registration marks. The hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) asked what sort of abuses had manifested themselves under the existing system. I will give him a couple of examples. I cannot, for obvious reasons, give him every example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": " system. I will give him a couple of examples. I cannot, for obvious reasons, give him every example. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] For the obvious reason that I do not wish to draw attention to the way in which certain malpractices arise. For example, individuals may seek to obtain information improperly from the vehicle record office to trace the keeper of a particular mark with a view to purchase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Clause 24", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "Even if we speak of anyone getting less than £6,000 a year, that figure is no longer way beyond the reach of a skilled electrician earning £120 a week, or of a bus driver or a Post Office worker taking home equivalent amounts —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Clause 24", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "fusing promotion not only because it involved coming back to this country—that is a separate problem—but when it meant merely going to another part of the United Kingdom to take on a more important job. After working out the effect on their net take-home pay, they have decided that the extra responsibilities are simply not worth the candle. This applies in the public as well as the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Clause 29", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member feels that way he can vote against them if he wishes. It will be interesting to see whether he does vote against these reliefs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Clause 29", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "o the Finance Bill this year. The Chief Secretary said that he agreed with the point and would try to meet it. He has now met it, although he has not done so to my total satisfaction. However, the important fact is that he has very largely met the point. I welcome his response to the cause for which the Opposition have been fighting for the past three years. I made a number of points in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Clause 29", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ew system of child benefits. That is not an argument for not acting now.\"—[ Official Report, 13th May 1976, Vol. 911, c. 743.] My goodness, that is not an argument: the whole child benefit switch has been abandoned. However, the Government have, in this matter, acted now. I welcome their action. In Committee I pointed out—the point was also made by my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, South—that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Clause 29", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "ted wife is not treated as investment income. I should explain the two types of income that qualify for either earned income status or investment income status. Earned income status is applicable to wages, salaries and pensions. Investment, or what we used to call unearned income is the rest. That is no condemnation of the second category of income. It just does not fit in with the first category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.806.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-14", "file": "debates1976-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "2915505841f3288e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": " upstairs. We are glad to see those hon. Gentlemen here, even at this late hour. We hope that they, like me, will make their modest contribution. Government supporters were notable by their absence from the Standing Committee. They are now untrammelled by the Whips. With the whole of the night before us, I have no doubt that we shall hear constructive, illuminating and agreeable speeches from the.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-14a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.878.4", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Defeat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I have been asked what I have to say to that. I shall control myself, Mr. Speaker, because I know that you have a deep regard for the proper proprieties of our institutions. The Government face—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.878.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am disturbed by the evidence that my hon. Friend's memory has become defective. My answer on 8th July bore no relation to what he appeared to remember of it, as he will discover if he refreshes his memory. The rate of inflation has been falling steadily. On the last monthly figures, it was only 50 per cent. above the OECD average", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.889.7", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "There will be a serious problem in the next few years if borrowing remains at a very high level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.889.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "rces? What is the mechanism within the capitalist system which switches real economic resources away from education, the social services, and hospitals and into exports and capital investment? The fact is that there is no mechanism. Under the Price Code recently we saw £200 million to £300 million again diverted away from the consumer into increased prices. Does not the reaction of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.894.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.902.3", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister believes the economic diagnosis he gave in his answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Havant and Waterloo (Mr. Lloyd), why did his Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the last General Election, boast that he had already got inflation down to 8·4 per cent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.902.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.903.6", "colnum": "903", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "TUESDAY 20TH JULY—Consideration of three timetable motions on the following Bills: Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries, Dock Work Regulation, Education, Health Services and Rent (Agriculture)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.903.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.904.0", "colnum": "904", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "s the Leader of the House aware that in those circumstances I feel sure that my hon. and right hon. Friends will not wish to pair, least of all to allow Ministers to represent this dictatorial Government overseas? Our place will be here to defend a Parliament in danger from guilty men. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that if he proceeds with these proposals the epitaph of the Government will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.904.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.904.5", "colnum": "904", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reichstag.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We shall not advance the interests of the House by making a noise. There is all the more reason for self-control when there are high feelings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.904.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.904.5", "colnum": "904", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We shall not advance the interests of the House by making a noise. There is all the more reason for self-control when there are high feelings. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reichstag.\"] It will become the Reichstag if we do not allow free expression from both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.904.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.905.6", "colnum": "905", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It will be within your recollection that under Standing Order No. 44 when a timetable motion is tabled with respect to any Bill Mr. Speaker will allow not more than three hours' debate. We are being asked, apparently, to consider five motions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.905.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.906.2", "colnum": "906", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Lord President is on a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. It appears to me that he is producing an argument which would be better advanced in the debate next week, if everything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. It appears to me that he is producing an argument which would be better advanced in the debate next week, if everything—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Order. I want the House to understand that I do not change my mind because hon. Members shout \"No\". I am not here to be intimidated in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.908.2", "colnum": "908", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "The point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Will you advise the House what can be done about a situation in which an hon. Member, who has raised points of order and procedural matters over about 12 years, and has been right on only one of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.909.3", "colnum": "909", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. If I heard the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.909.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.912.4", "colnum": "912", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "y right hon. Friend the Leader of the House aware that, just like the Leader of the Opposition, we, too, will be here until the bitter end and that it is probable that that end will be a little bit longer for us than for the right hon. Lady? Is he aware, also, that both in Opposition and in Government a very large number of hon. Members have sought a reasonable rationalisation of the way in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.912.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-15", "file": "debates1976-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f61cd7d9d6b5a585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.913.4", "colnum": "913", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Is not the allocation of one day for the Dock Work Regulation Bill totally inadequate? Is it not a fact that we had an agreement during the Committee stage to get the Bill out before Whitsun on the understanding that there would be no guillotine on Report?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-15a.913.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-19", "file": "debates1976-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2d890005ee521266", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-19a.1455.3", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KEARNEY AND TRECKER MARWIN LIMITED (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "elf out and has got its management right. It is in the process of increasing its production and exports. All the signs are that, as long as we can avoid stupid strikes, the firm has a great future. As for my hon. Friend's comments about Concorde, I am amazed that he should criticise it. It was my parliamentary colleague, the right hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Mr. Amery), who started it all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-19a.1455.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "CONCLUSION OF PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " be three days for discussion of the Report stage and Third Reading. I believe that that is also a substantial allocation of time. It is slightly more than the time which it was expected would be allocated to Report and Third Reading when we were proceeding to the Report stage originally and when the discussions took place on the matters raised by the hon. Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "CONCLUSION OF PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "g to the Report stage originally and when the discussions took place on the matters raised by the hon. Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop). [ Interruption. ] I believe that that was the general understanding in many quarters. At any rate, at that period it looked as if the likelihood was —I place it no higher—that we should have the Report stage and Third Reading in about two and a half days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1535.6", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "CONCLUSION OF PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "nrith and The Border said Many were the subject of voluntary agreements. These figures suggest that on the whole the present arrangements work satisfactorily; but there is a small minority of Bills on which feelings run so high that without a timetable their consideration would not be completed within a reasonable period. I do not believe that any Member of Parliament would take objection to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1535.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1538.1", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "CONCLUSION OF PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am grateful again for that intervention because I had promised to refer to my own comments on these matters. It is not true that I have opposed all guillotine motions introduced into this House or anything of the sort. Indeed, I have supported quite a number of such motions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "CONCLUSION OF PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ty into which right hon. and hon. Members on the Opposition side have got themselves that when we exercise those ancient rights it is cheating and when they exercise them it is freedom. We on this side are not surprised that the Conservative Opposition should have so little regard for the liberties of the British people in this House, for most of those liberties had to be fought for, against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1548.4", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "CONCLUSION OF PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " by Mr. Speaker. We had the affair of the disputed vote and the long delay of the replay. Finally, late one night, we saw the snuffing out of petitioners' rights, petitioners who live in, of all places, Ebbw Vale. This motion shows the brazen determination of the Government to choke off further discussion and to put the remaining parts of these debates into the morgue. There is no need whatsoever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1554.3", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "CONCLUSION OF PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the Government's fault.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "rime Minister about the incident and he apologised to her. The Leader of the House arranged for a full day's debate to rehearse the incident. I can illustrate the terrible tangle into which the usual channels have now got themselves by telling hon. Members that at least three of my hon. Friends who should not be moved from hospital are being brought to the House today. That is an absolute scandal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1570.4", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "CONCLUSION OF PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "orderly timetable motion at the beginning of discussion of a Bill and having a period of filibustering followed by chop, chop chop. The arrangement we have at present is not conducive to the vigorous presentation of argument or to the respect in which the House is held by people outside. Some people argue that the whole trouble is that Governments try to put too much legislation through the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1570.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1590.3", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "CONCLUSION OF PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way at this moment, but if I have time I will do so because I have much regard for the hon. Member for Southgate (Mr. Berry).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "CONCLUSION OF PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Before the Committee stage began, the hon. Member for Dundee, East wrote to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "C. GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "d one can well imagine why she does not want it to be disinterred. The right hon. Lady did not mention one great difference between 1970 and today. We had a clear majority, whereas the Labour Party does not command a clear and decisive majority. To seek to compare what happens when a party has a clear majority and support for its mandate and what happens when it does not is a considerable fallacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "C. GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Gentleman has now admitted that if he could pick out a figure which was favourable to his party he would do so. That was my argument, and I cannot be more pleased that he has admitted that. By-elections have not shown that the Government are on the up-and-up in public confidence. There are three reasons why I have chosen to contribute to the debate. First, I pay tribute to the Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1639.3", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "C. GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ian purposes. I suggest to Opposition Members, including the right hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Jenkin), who accused us of using dictatorial methods, that it the Labour Party was bent on a malicious perversion of the rules of this House to secure a gag on Parliament it could not count on my support. Indeed, I should expect right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite to take the same line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1639.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1689.0", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why were you not there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": " ensure the passage of the Bill. It may be of interest to the House to know, for the purposes of comparison, that the time devoted to the Bill was more than was devoted to the whole of the Education Act 1944. That Act was 10 times the size of this Education Bill and its Committee stage was concluded in 14 sittings on the Floor of the House. I regretted not having been present during the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1689.0", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I found it necessary to attend. I would have been criticised if I had been a member of the Committee but was not present. It is well known that Cabinet meetings are held and must take priority over Committees. Over and above that, I had two extremely competent Ministers who conducted the proceedings, and I should like to pay tribute to my hon. Friends the Minister of State and the Under-Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Since the tactics of the Opposition seem to have escaped the right hon. Gentleman, I should point out that we voted against the suspension to indicate that we should have preferred to have the discussion at a reasonable hour in the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1691.2", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I had two very good Under-Secretaries of State. It was a great regret that my hon. Friend the Member for Eton and Slough (Miss Lestor) decided to resign. But I assure the hon. Gentleman that it was not because of any differences of view about the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1692.3", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "r one supports it or abhors it, it is entitled to be thoroughly examined and painstakingly assessed and discussed by the House. The first count of indictment against the motion is that when a Bill of such major importance is before us no guillotine should be introduced until it has been thoroughly discussed, unless there is patent filibustering against the Bill. There has been no evidence of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1693.2", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that the National Union of Teachers, which represents the vast majority of teachers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1693.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1693.3", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about parents?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that the National Union of Teachers, which represents the vast majority of teachers—[ Interruption. ] It is typical, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that hon. Gentlemen opposite should abuse the greatest teachers' organisation of all. That organisation is repeatedly on the record as wanting the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1697.8", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "ssue from that of quantity to that of quality. While the Government may be within the letter of the law in so acting, they have utterly changed the spirit of the Standing Order. The resentment which is felt by the Opposition against the Leader of the House is not because he says inconsistent things—everyone in the House has done that—but because he has held himself up consistently as the champion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1697.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1709.2", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "I take note of your remarks, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I also note a growing hostility among Conservatives to any reference to areas north of Acton. I am attempting to trace in some detail the need for the Bill and the guillotine. My constituents are anxiously awaiting the introduction of comprehensive education for the benefit of their children, and the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1709.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "the president of the debating society, he the president of the literary society, he was the was the president of the political society. In every way he was incredibly successful.\"— [ Official Report, Standing Committee, 18th March 1976; c. 595.] I think that the point the hon. Gentleman was trying to make was that that character was not the hon. Member for City of Chester. He went on in that vein.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "race. There is a massive split in the Opposition about comprehensive education. They try to get over it by pretending that grammar schools and comprehensives can exist side by side. They face motions like this guillotine motion with a great deal of shouting, but in Committee and on Report all we had was a great deal of filibustering. One can find as much trivial nonsense on Report as in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "\"HON. MEMBERS:\" Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "eport as in Committee. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"] I appreciate that some Opposition Members want to say something, and I want to leave them a little time. Never since the Second World War has a Bill more deserved guillotining. Never has a Bill been more trivially filibustered than this Education Bill through its Committee stage and on Report. It is all very well for the hon. Member for Chelmsford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1734.1", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "ke. In fact, probably they could be achieved in one evening and a long night, but two days, at most, would be reasonable. The Leader of the House did not even try this; he just came forward with the guillotine, for which there was no justification at all. The timetable motion in this case is a negation of Parliamentary sense, and an incitement to reasonable people to behave in an unreasonable way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1734.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-20", "file": "debates1976-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ed7eda2986d6d795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1738.3", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I refer the right hon. Gentleman to at least 10 Bills that were guillotined by the Conservatives and that had had fewer sittings in a Session than this Bill has had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-20a.1738.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1772.2", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "As I have said, the current scheme is due to end in October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1772.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1788.6", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKenzie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKenzie", "preceding_text": "If we were to withdraw the service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1788.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1824.0", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jackson", "preceding_text": "ools Council as part of their opposition to these examination proposals. If, however, I am incorrect, I am sure that someone will inform me during the course of the debate. The hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam dwelt at some length on the composition of the Schools Council. Of course, that is not something which is preserved in aspic to stay for ever. The composition of the council can be flexible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1842.1", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "on. Employers look on the grades a person has obtained in school as a quick shorthand to his potential worth as an employee. Examinations are being used for very wrong purposes. This belief that specialised examination results have some thing to do with the worth of a person as such fits in perfectly with the heirarchical and class attitude which Conservatives had, and which some still hold today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1889.7", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "like Don Quixote, who was wont to tilt at windmills, hon. Gentlemen opposite knock them down and find bigger windmills behind. Instead of moving to a freer society, they find more repression of the individuals within it. I instance the William Tyndale School. The people who are most concerned about standards are ordinary people outside this place. This is a test to discover who believes in people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1889.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1893.4", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I must get on, or I shall be accused of filibustering. If the bureaucrats, the school administrators en masse, could be relied upon to do the best for each child, we should not need parental choice. The view of human nature held by hon. Members opposite is astonishing. We are offered a new promised land. Apparently we are in a pre-Garden of Eden situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1893.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1895.2", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I shall come to vouchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1895.2", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That would be chaos.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "ren to that school; we shall set up our own school\". That happened in Islington. For two years in succession, 50 parents took their children away from school, and each put £2 in the kitty and employed a retired teacher to teach their children until the ILEA was shamed to put those children into another school. Under the voucher system, another school might be set up. The old school would be empty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1916.0", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "r scheme to be devised and run by a local education authority on an experimental basis for an agreed period at the request of that authority. It is a pity that we should have spent so much time listening to the point being made that we do not know whether a voucher scheme is Conservative Party policy or not. Of course we do not know whether it is Conservative Party policy to have a voucher scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1945.2", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": " and moral values in the schools. This is the moment when the Secretary of State chooses to indulge his obsession with organisation, disregarding issues which are of so much greater concern to parents. We have opposed the Bill by every parliamentary means in our power. It is right that we should, because it is not wanted in the country, and it is not even wanted by the Government's own supporters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1945.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1950.1", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "bridge. We have a system of selection which is obviously necessary if one is to keep maintained grammar schools. As a result of the selection test, the children are divided into academics and nonacademics—in other words, into those who can benefit from an academic education and those who cannot or are said to be unable to benefit. Those passing the test, if I may I would put \"test\" in parentheses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1950.3", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "We have, as a result, academics and non-academics, with the academics divided into three categories, A, B and C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1950.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1950.6", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A, B and C.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "uld remind the House that when I was a teacher, or was learning to be a teacher, I was told that when one has very slow learners, one should speak very slowly to them and, if necessary, repeat oneself, so that they understand. To go back to my borough of Red-bridge, the children are divided into sheep and goats, or into academics and non-academics. The academics are divided into three, A, B and C—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1950.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1951.0", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "of the scale, in category A, will get into the grammar schools, or their choice of comprehensive school. Those in category B will, in the main, also get the chance of getting into the remainder of the comprehensive school places, the grammar schools having been filled. Those in category C, who are supposed to have passed the test, have to wait until those in categories A and B have been satisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1959.0", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I should like to put the record straight. In neither case did I spend a penny on the education of my daughters. They were educated through the ILEA system. They went through the 11-plus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1959.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1960.0", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": " like to put the record straight. In neither case did I spend a penny on the education of my daughters. They were educated through the ILEA system. They went through the 11-plus. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"] I took one away from the direct-grant school to which she had gone on a scholarship at the age of 11 because she failed her O-levels and she got an \"A\" in her A-levels at a comprehensive school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1959.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1964.1", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Fowler", "preceding_text": "haps in educational terms one of the few pieces of legislation in this century that will rank with the 1944 Education Act. When my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford, South (Mr. Shaw) was speaking earlier, he said that the proposition that we should have throughout the country a totally comprehensive system was one which had been advanced for many years by the Labour Party. Of course, he was right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-21", "file": "debates1976-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "acbb18ac21b6785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1971.3", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOLVERHAMPTON DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to have this opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-21a.1971.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.1990.1", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "No. I think that blanket solutions are highly dangerous", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.1990.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.1990.5", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Fascist!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "Why should we not bring back the birch for the young vandals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.1990.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2000.4", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Wherever my right hon. Friend pays an official visit in the near future, will he take the opportunity of attacking the cruelty and stupidity of the parliamentary tactics adopted by the Leader of the Opposition which result in dragging sick Members to the House, including Members with debilitating illnesses and infections such as mumps, in addition to preventing Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2000.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2021.0", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Next week?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "There will no doubt be consultation between the usual channels about a debate. I shall be publishing more information about the details of the cuts in written form in Hansard tomorrow. The detailed figure for the five years will be published in the normal public expenditure White Paper later in the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2021.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2024.1", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": " unemployment to the tune of some 2 million people? Would the Chancellor also accept that his statement means that in the future some 60,000–70,000 men and women will be reduced from the total non-manufacturing public sector work force by next year? If that is the case, he may have won the confidence of international creditors but he has certainly lost the confidence of the Labour movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2024.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2027.1", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "he expects the building societies to honour their undertakings, when clearly in the past they have not filled the gap left from local authority mortgages? Also, how does he expect us to justify these cuts to our supporters when, apart from overseas aid, which all of us accept, there is yet one remaining sacred cow—devolution, which is costly and has nothing whatever to do with national efficiency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2027.3", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "preceding_text": " now, I think, twice as many clerks and administrators per occupied bed as there were 10 years ago. Secondly, what effects will his cuts have on increasing the proportion of effort from the present 40 per cent. which goes into producing marketable goods and services, whether in the public or in the private sector? At the moment, it is 40 per cent. only of our total effort. Thirdly, when he refers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2028.0", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "al authority administration, we face serious problems imposed on us by unwise administrative decisions of the previous Administration. But we shall do our best to cope with them. Of course the reductions which I have announced will mean a fall in the percentage of GDP which is taken by public expenditure and an increase in the percentage taken by the sector producing marketable goods and services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2028.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2033.3", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I feel that it was not compatible with the maintenance of the dignity of the Chair that the last two observations by the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) should be allowed to pass unreproved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2043.1", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "preceding_text": " why hon. Members should feel that in some way the agricultural worker and the industry itself are so isolated from the rest of the community. There is nothing new in the proposals and no new principles are being introduced. The provisions simply establish the proper relationship between landlord and tenant in the agricultural industry in a way which is taken for granted in other rent legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2048.0", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Maynard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Maynard", "preceding_text": "n open-ended commitment, and each time they rehoused they would be liable to rehouse again. The hon. Member for Hornsey talks about the desperate need for a new worker. I suggest that that desperate need could he met in time by paying the rate for the job. We have the strongest objection to our members being put in mobile homes. For too long farm workers have been treated as second-class citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2076.0", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Miss Maynard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Maynard", "preceding_text": "o considers the history of our industry will see that this issue has created great bitterness. Conservative Members have made much of the good relations and co-operation in the industry. That co-operation has come all from the workers' side. The good relations fall flat on their face as soon as a worker becomes too ill to work, has an accident or dies and leaves his widow living in the tied house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2095.1", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "ny categories of worker who need to live in tied cottages to do their job? In the course of replying to that question many agricultural workers answered in the negative and actually volunteered the suggestion that tied cottages should be abolished. The Bill will give farm workers and their families an element of security equivalent to that enjoyed by other workers. It removes the fear of eviction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2198.1", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Miss Maynard", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Lady does not represent the farm workers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Maynard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Hornsey (Mr. Rossi) accuses me of a bitter class attitude. The devotion of the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends to their class is obvious to me. The farmers have fought as bitterly to retain the tied cottage system as our union has fought to get rid of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-22", "file": "debates1976-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "53a4d2575f485714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2201.1", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Whatever we on this side may think about the attitudes adopted by the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Miss Maynard) we must respect the sincerity with which she expresses them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-22a.2201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-23", "file": "debates1976-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d607728c290d8a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2253.1", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a hybrid Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "We are letting some of them have the money and, in order to be able to do so, we have to proceed in this manner, with a strict regard to the legal provisions that are required. If an error has crept into my remarks on this subject, I am sure that it will be corrected later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-23", "file": "debates1976-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d607728c290d8a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2266.1", "colnum": "2266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman's arm to force him to do anything. The right hon. Gentleman has too much experience of twisting the arms of other right hon. and hon. Members. On the subject of innuendos, let us get the matter straight. Not long ago, an issue of privilege was raised in this House and it was a hair's breadth as to whether the trade union leader concerned was brought to the Bar of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-23", "file": "debates1976-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d607728c290d8a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2268.1", "colnum": "2268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " that way? Let us suppose that, for example, my hon. Friend the Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) had no outside interests at all last year, and during the current phase of the pay policy he was approached by a wise editor—perhaps of a good financial magazine or something of the sort—and asked to write an article of 1,000 words or so once a month, at a payment of £10,000 a year or something like that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-23", "file": "debates1976-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d607728c290d8a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2271.1", "colnum": "2271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman puts his point with all the charm to which we are accustomed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-23", "file": "debates1976-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d607728c290d8a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2278.1", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": " also totally wrong. There have been many occasions when trade union sponsored candidates have not been chosen, when trade union delegates have ignored the trade union sponsored candidate, the panel candidate, and chosen somebody else. That has happened time and again. There was a sponsored candidate on the list when I was chosen, but the constituency party decided that I was the person it wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-23", "file": "debates1976-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d607728c290d8a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2312.5", "colnum": "2312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "I shall tell the hon. Gentleman why. The best reason for accepting his amendment is that it gets over the difficulty of the two-tier system. That I accept. But what I find objectionable and wrong about it is that we should lose a complete year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-23", "file": "debates1976-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d607728c290d8a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2313.3", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " me as odd is that those who approach Members of Parliament with the maximum bitterness are those who are either trying to find a seat for themselves or have given up hope. Those such as Mr. Woodrow Wyatt, I may say, treat us with even greater bitterness when they have lost two safe seats, so we do not pay too much attention to them. However, I suspect that Mr. Andrew Alexander of the Daily Mail —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-23", "file": "debates1976-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d607728c290d8a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2379.1", "colnum": "2379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " is a tendency in some Government Departments to overlook the elected representative. The local representatives should be told when a vast scheme of reorganisation is to take place—and certainly in a case when a whole town centre is involved. Those are some of the matters that disturb us. This will probably be the last debate in which Northern Ireland Members will be taking part before the recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-23", "file": "debates1976-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d607728c290d8a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2394.1", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wm. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wm. Ross", "preceding_text": "country at vast cost. One such sports complex has been built on the west side of Londonderry and the only people I can see who will benefit from it will be the citizens of the Irish Republic. Certainly they will benefit a lot more than my constituents who live on the east bank of the Foyle. Indeed, my constituents cannot go there because if they did they would come back with a hole in their heads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-23", "file": "debates1976-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d607728c290d8a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2430.1", "colnum": "2430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (CIVIL SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ubt assails one. The head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service is not to be the head of the Department of the Civil Service but a distinct person altogether. He is to be a sort of factotum to the Secretary of State. He will advise him on all sorts of matters and co-ordinate all sorts of things, but does he have a Department? I believe that he has a Department, too, so there are three Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-23a.2430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-26", "file": "debates1976-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "da779b5f6732e555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.8.6", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I saw the letter from Dr. Kay. I am sorry that I cannot agree with him, particularly in view of his past interest in the matter. The hon. Member had best have regard to what he himself asked for in the debate on 20th February 1973, when he said that all he wanted was an assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.8.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-26", "file": "debates1976-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "da779b5f6732e555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Liar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "I was informed by the shop stewards that not only had they spoken to the Minister but that they had sent their views in writing and therefore were surprised that there was no result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-26", "file": "debates1976-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "da779b5f6732e555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "g the TUC, the CBI, and local interests. This having been done, there will be proper public notice given before any recommendation is made. The recommendation will come to the Secretary of State, and an order will be brought before the House. I see no reason at all to inject into that machinery any further delaying mechanism. Already some of us are expressing anxiety about the time scale involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-26", "file": "debates1976-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "da779b5f6732e555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "listened, for example, to the hon. Member for Shoreham (Mr. Luce), who spoke about the dockers of Shoreham. He gave the impression that those dockers are not in favour of being included in and others working in non-scheme ports the scheme. In fact, the dockers in all the non-scheme ports throughout the country have clearly stated that they are in favour of the Bill and in favour of being included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.135.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-26", "file": "debates1976-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "da779b5f6732e555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I ask the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson) to reconsider his position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-26", "file": "debates1976-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "da779b5f6732e555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.136.3", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "There has been a great deal of hypocrisy from the Opposition side of the House, and the more I listen to it the more hypocritical the speeches seem to become. While I am not prepared to name any particular individual as a hypocrite, Opposition Members have been hypocritical because they know full well that wages and conditions in the non-scheme ports are worse than those in the scheme ports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-26", "file": "debates1976-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "da779b5f6732e555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.136.5", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "it they do not want them to have proper pensions. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Lancaster (Mrs. Kellett-Bowman) is not here. I do not think that the dockers of Merseyside are likely to be marching to Lancaster. Apart from anything else, if they met the hon. Lady on the road it would be enough to frighten them. One look at the hon. Lady, and they would turn round and march back to Merseyside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.136.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-26", "file": "debates1976-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "da779b5f6732e555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.136.5", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "oper pensions. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Lancaster (Mrs. Kellett-Bowman) is not here. I do not think that the dockers of Merseyside are likely to be marching to Lancaster. Apart from anything else, if they met the hon. Lady on the road it would be enough to frighten them. One look at the hon. Lady, and they would turn round and march back to Merseyside. [ Interruption. ] That was a joke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.136.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-26", "file": "debates1976-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "da779b5f6732e555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "t them. Dover is not only the premier Cinque Port—I speak with some diffidence in the presence of my hon. Friend the Member for Folk-stone and Hythe, but I, too, represent another Cinque Port—Sandwich—but the premier passenger port of the kingdom. With its roll-on/roll-off business, it ranks third or four in fright traffic. What will the Bill do for the harmony and efficiency of the port of Dover?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-26", "file": "debates1976-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "da779b5f6732e555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ight will not be affected and that those who drive the trailers on or off the boats will not be regarded as carrying on dock work. Study the Bill as I can, I cannot see that it will be good for Dover, for port users, or for all but a small fraction of those who work there. The Bill has been introduced by a Government blinded by prejudice and dogma. At the end of the day the country will recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-26", "file": "debates1976-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "da779b5f6732e555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.176.6", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "p in any way in solving our problems There must be many Labour Members who voted for the Government's amendments and who will vote for Third Reading with a very heavy heart. We are bringing forward the Bill at a time when in Australia and elsewhere, the trend is to get rid of dock labour schemes and replace them with an employer-employee situation within a framework of good employment legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.176.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-26", "file": "debates1976-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "da779b5f6732e555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Throw it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "s. That has been reiterated many times since. The Bill has been criticised as increasing costs, preventing flexible use of labour, making for poorer industrial relations and involving unnecessary bureaucratic control. Yet with all that criticism by the Opposition, during all our long debates in Committee, there has been a void. What has been missing is any alternative strategy from the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-26a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERIAL BROADCASTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Thank heavens for that. I thought that one of my past misdeeds as Chancellor of the Exchequer was coming out. I shall wait with bated breath to hear who said it, and then I shall know what value to place upon it. The Chancellor put forward the proposal because he thought that it was the best way of meeting the objective that has been pressed upon us by the Opposition, namely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.247.4", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERIAL BROADCASTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady is too young to be living in the past like this. It is all very well for me to reminisce, but it is not for the right hon. Lady to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.247.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.249.5", "colnum": "249", "heading": "BRADFORD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the whole, do not think that Question Time is a fruitful time in which to attack the Opposition. It is their job to attack me. This afternoon in Question Time I listened to demands for additional expenditure on at least three different objects. The child benefit scheme was one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.249.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.251.4", "colnum": "251", "heading": "SECONDARY EDUCATION (TAMESIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Surely there have been occasions within your memory, and within those of all Members of Parliament, when an hon. Member has been allowed at least to make a submission and state his case in general terms before the Chair made the decision whether he was allowed to make a submission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.251.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.255.2", "colnum": "255", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "I hope that the interruption will not be counted against my 10 minutes. The Government must stop playing the rôle of father figure, overlord and provider. This not only undermines the work ethic but robs the young of their independence and sense of initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "before that, because I could not find him, I informed his Whips that I would raise the issue. I pointed out that he had six weeks in which to present any one of those three Bills. I have had letters from constituents—as, no doubt, have other hon. Members—asking where the hon. Member's Bills are. These constituents believe that the Bills exist because leave was given by the House to introduce them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.257.6", "colnum": "257", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I simply say that last week I raised a point of order on a Ten-Minute Bill and was shot down about three times in quick succession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.257.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.258.7", "colnum": "258", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "l speak with great brevity, especially since the hon. Member's remarks, though abbreviated, were still much too long for common sense. He spent the first few minutes of his introduction to the Bill on a general and, in terms of the rules of order of this House, over which you preside, Mr. Speaker, highly objectionable use of the Ten-Minutes Rule Bill procedure for the purpose of a partisan attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.258.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, prima facie.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "all wrong. This is the upshot of what we now all too clearly understand. As a consequence of the diligence of my hop. Friend the Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop) and, frankly, the carelessness of ministerial instructions, the Bill turned out to be a hybrid Bill. The first reaction was to pretend that this was not the case, but Mr. Speaker's ruling was that it was prima facie a hybrid Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.267.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Industry (Mr. Gerald Kaufman)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may care to know that this morning, within an hour of a request reaching me, I saw Mr. John Sorotos of C. H. Bailey and, once again, put to him my very strong wish to go to Cardiff, to Bristol Channel Ship Repairers, to meet the work force and to discuss with it the Government's proposal for the company. Mr. Sorotos did not accede to my request.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "w is for the Ulster Unionists to rise to their feet in hostility to the Bill and the Minister of State will be offering all kinds of deals to try to buy his way back into power on Thursday night. With this kind of pressure, who knows what concessions will be offered? The more that the voice of opposition is raised from the Opposition Benches, the more the Minister will have to review his position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.300.4", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "o get on with the job of producing public plans that will result in viable industries. They are also very interested in the proposals in the Bill for industrial democracy. This is the first time that the workers within the industries will have not only a say in them but also a chance to evolve their own thoughts on industrial democracy. This is bound to make for a new spirit within the industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.300.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "is from being a genuinely fair, competition, non-discrimination clause. This should be a wider ranging protection covering all the operations of these corporations. The other safeguard relates to pricing. In respect of pricing we have an answer from the hon. Member for Kelvingrove to say that the corporations could not discriminate by unfair pricing because they would be required by the Treasury —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "n the shipbuilding industry, would be protected? What is the logic in the Government's thinking of protecting one industry, but not the other? Did they not appreciate that somebody else might want to manufacture in this country? Do they not want anybody else to come into aircraft manufacture? It is becoming generally known that it is the intention of the Organising Committee for British Aerospace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "mmon Market path because if I were to do so I am sure that I should be out of order. We must not have too firmly in our minds the subject of possible unfairness because that will only prevent us from achieving what we want. I appreciate that no Japanese owner is allowed to buy a ship that is not made in Japan. I see no reason why we should not have a similar approach on the part of our Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.363.3", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "ere have been closures by private enterprise all through my lifetime. The yard in my constituency was closed not because it was not viable but because Vickers decided to get out of heavy industry. If it was not viable then, Swan Hunter Shipbuilders has found it to be viable since, because when that company took over it made the yard a going concern, and Swan Hunter is not that much more efficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member says that I have made damaging remarks about the shipbuilding industry by saying that certain companies are on the verge of disaster he should know that as I have gone around the country—\"rushed\" around the country, as the hon. Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop) has called it—visiting shipyards, wherever I have gone, I have been grabbed hold of by workers and management alike", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member wants the name, he should approach the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Mr. Wilson) and ask him. The Scottish National Party knows very well that this British Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "he tribunal is to take account of all relevant factors in determining the notional share quotation of an unlisted company. The inclusion of Clause 38(5) ensures that the quote of a parent is not excluded from the considerations when it is strictly relevant. The application of Clause 38(5) is strictly limited. It applies only where an acquire company represents a substantial part of a quoted group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " loss. The £60 million is to cover losses in Harland and Wolff. This is what we were doing at that time, and it was because of this that we took the yard into public ownership. The yard was taken into public ownership, and the point I make is that it was without any opposition at all from any part of this House. The House may vote against the public ownership of shipbuilding in Great Britain, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "LICENSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the wee frees.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "mendments and the second and leave the Bill as it is. Having said that, I hope that the Government will find an in-between fall-back position on public nuisance. I do not believe that it can be covered in the way proposed today. This debate has naturally caused a great deal of public comment and passionate argument by those who sincerely believe that it is a retrograde step to open pubs on Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "LICENSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "olish if, for other than spiritual or altruistic reasons, he suggested a change which would mean his making less profit and having more expense. Yet that is the suggestion. I wonder why. Are such people acting out of pure decency because they want to encourage less drinking? If so, why are they spending fortunes advertising on television to persuade people to drink more of their particular brands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "LICENSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Probably taking them for a drink.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ociety has been having Sunday as a day not necessarily for religion but for people visiting their families—their grannies. That is a good thing. It is not something to be laughed at. It should be encouraged. Sunday is a day for people visiting their grannies, uncles, and other relatives. If one goes into any public park in Glasgow on a Sunday, one will see fathers taking their families for a walk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "LICENSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And more freedom.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "icult to assert the negative—that licensing has not helped—and then to assert that the nature of the licensing laws has contributed to a greater incidence of drunkenness and alcoholism in Scotland. That is not true. 3.0 a.m. The liberalisers—I must include myself among them—must face up to the fact that if we extend drinking hours there will be more deaths and serious injuries and more alcoholism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.525.10", "colnum": "525", "heading": "LICENSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.525.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-27", "file": "debates1976-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "466573c7e55eae84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "LICENSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are your clubs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": " the Selkirk Conservative Club and the Innerleithen Unionist Club. My hon. Friend the Member for Inverness (Mr. Johnston) chastised the Church earlier for having written to him on only one matter. The only correspondence I have had with those two clubs has been over the matter of drinking. No doubt they are interested in other matters, and I do not blame them for expressing concern on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-27a.557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-28", "file": "debates1976-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "da0b94722577a4b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that more than 80,000 tons of home-produced food is now being withheld from the open market under EEC rules, including 30,000 tons of butter, that the British beef mountain reached 14,000 tons by the end of June, and that stored beef is accumulating faster than it is being sold?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-28", "file": "debates1976-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "da0b94722577a4b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five Bills.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ad to announce that, alone of all the Nine, Britain and Denmark were incapable of doing anything so practical and democratic as moving to direct elections by 1978 and that we would still have to nominate? Is he aware that the reason that was given was lack of parliamentary time, and that that was on the day before we were asked to approve a guillotine on four Bills to be passed within a fortnight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-28", "file": "debates1976-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "da0b94722577a4b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.651.3", "colnum": "651", "heading": "SUB JUDICE RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Leader of the House will have heard the point of order. Will he make arrangements to have a debate on this exceedingly extraordinary and important matter in Government time? Meanwhile, the House should not use up any further time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.651.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-28", "file": "debates1976-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "da0b94722577a4b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.657.3", "colnum": "657", "heading": "RAIL TRANSPORT OF PIGEONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edmund Marshall", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the British Railways Board to continue to accept unaccompanied racing pigeons for freight carriage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-28", "file": "debates1976-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "da0b94722577a4b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "ecause the company honestly believes and is convinced—I accept its arguments—that the future for its employees will be bleak if it is nationalised. The hon. Gentleman asked how much money had been spent on lunches. Perhaps he would care to tell the House that he had lunch provided by that company. Indeed, he went back a second time to find out exactly what the situation was regarding that company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.669.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-28", "file": "debates1976-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "da0b94722577a4b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.678.5", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "On this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.678.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-28", "file": "debates1976-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "da0b94722577a4b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "stminster and lobbies Members of Parliament, or who writes letters on a large scale to Members of Parliament. Similarly, there is no criticism of any manager who argues his case in the normal political way. This being the case, why is Bristol Channel Ship Repairers Ltd. being criticised? It is not a question of what the company has done, but simply the fact that it disagrees with the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-28", "file": "debates1976-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "da0b94722577a4b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I have a very clear concept of what it means in the context of the Bill, but I have not the time to tell hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-28", "file": "debates1976-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "da0b94722577a4b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.764.2", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": ", and one which this Bill will promote. I would hope that if and when industrial democracy really reaches this country it will bring about a change of attitude on the part of both unions and management. Unions particularly should recognise the vital importance of profits in industry. It is important to work towards making a company profitable so that everyone can share the fruits of those profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-28", "file": "debates1976-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "da0b94722577a4b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.801.4", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The amendment in the name of the right hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Willey) which I supported was to bring about some co-ordination of the European aspects of policy, and I thought it important that that should be in the Minister's mind. But it is also important to look at this amendment. It appears innocuous enough, but, in reality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-28a.801.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It was indicative of the Opposition's attitude that they jeered through that recital. It is in the national interest that there should now be substantial new investment in a particularly favourable combination of circumstances. There has never been a better opportunity for export-led growth than we have at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.869.2", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "An announcement will shortly be made about the business for next week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or his trawler.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Member for Banff (Mr. Watt) continues to paddle his own canoe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "DIVISION (SICK MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I have your assistance concerning the arrangements which might be made today in respect of three Labour Members who are seriously ill and who are travelling to the House and will be in the House this evening, although—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "DIVISION (SICK MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "DIVISION (SICK MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. [ Interruption. ] There are three Members who might die in this House tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.875.5", "colnum": "875", "heading": "DIVISION (SICK MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "These three Members will be in the House tonight", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.875.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.875.5", "colnum": "875", "heading": "DIVISION (SICK MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "These three Members will be in the House tonight[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] They will be in the House tonight because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.875.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.875.6", "colnum": "875", "heading": "DIVISION (SICK MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I appeal to hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.875.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "DIVISION (SICK MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "The three hon. Members will be in House tonight because they have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.876.6", "colnum": "876", "heading": "DIVISION (SICK MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "The position is that there are three Members who are seriously ill and who have been refused facilities, as a result of the decision of the Leader of the Opposition. Something serious may happen tonight as a result of that decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.876.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.876.10", "colnum": "876", "heading": "DIVISION (SICK MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the Government's fault.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "preceding_text": " Christian Members of the House, although you are not of my persuasion. I am sure that you will accept my point of order when you realise that a number of hon. Members, who could be put into very serious medical conditions, are being brought in today from very long distances. What powers do you have, for instance, to convene an urgent meeting of Mr. Speaker's Conference, to deal with this problem?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.876.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.877.3", "colnum": "877", "heading": "DIVISION (SICK MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blame the Government Chief Whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member had a good innings a little while ago. I have listened to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heller) with great sympathy as, I am sure, have many hon. Members on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.877.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.879.9", "colnum": "879", "heading": "MEMBER (TELEPHONE CALL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.879.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.879.12", "colnum": "879", "heading": "MEMBER (TELEPHONE CALL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wish you, Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the House, formally to take note of the fact that yesterday afternoon a telephone call that I made from one of the corridor telephones of this building to a member of the public was intercepted by a third party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.879.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I expected a vote of thanks from the right hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware of the genuine distress on both sides of the house about the problem of sick Members coming in. Without getting involved in the argument, is my right hon. Friend prepared to consider putting down a motion, perhaps next week, for a free vote, when the House would be asked to allow those who are sick to vote by proxy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "Every company in bankruptcy which is taken over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "the steel that we require at the prices at which it can be bought internationally. That will be the fault of the Labour Party which created the uncertainty. It now intends to do it to two more industries. In the process of doing it, it is building up an expectation among the workers in those industries that simply by moving from the private to the public sector there will be a sort of cosy option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be a hybrid ship.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Evans", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member badly quoted me. If the day ever dawns when we build a ship in the Newton constituency it will be the most peculiar ship anyone has ever seen because Newton happens to be 25 miles from the sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": " not simply as a management and sales effort, important though that is, but as a joint effort by all those who work in the enterprise, on the basis of employee participation and full trade union opportunities. The hon. Member for Henley referred in a disparaging way in this connection to the TUC. Does he not understand that in this country TUC affiliation is the hallmark of genuine trade unionism?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Every right hon. and hon. Member knows that this House is about to make a momentous decision. Every vote cast in favour of the Third Reading of the Bill will be a vote to give hope and opportunity to the British aircraft industry and the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Every right hon. and hon. Member knows that this House is about to make a momentous decision. Every vote cast in favour of the Third Reading of the Bill will be a vote to give hope and opportunity to the British aircraft industry and the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Every vote cast against the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " the lack of initiative of the aircraft industry under private ownership is that not a single new significant project has been launched by it during the whole of this decade. The only new project has been the SD330, launched by the nationalised Short Brothers in Northern Ireland, whose Unionist Members plan tonight to vote to deny the benefits of public ownership to the rest of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I am making an announcement of vital importance", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The debate has not long to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The debate has not long to go—[ Interruption. ] Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1024.11", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (STEEL WORKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I shall put the Question on the European Communities motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1024.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1024.12", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (STEEL WORKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1024.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-07-29", "file": "debates1976-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0af0cd30b0bc1327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1024.14", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (STEEL WORKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I shall put the Question again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-29a.1024.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-30", "file": "debates1976-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "538e7a171f057c2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-30a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "CHILD BENEFIT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " unless they did something pretty dramatic, they would not reach the level of benefit which children were getting under the Conservative Government. I do not complain that the Government are taking refuge in their much publicised working party. I do not complain about the fact that the Government, when confronted with the enormity of their retreat, should seek to pacify their revolting supporters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-30a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-07-30", "file": "debates1976-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "538e7a171f057c2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-30a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "CHILD BENEFIT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "and which led to the scheme being abandoned. What do we do now that the Government, having postponed the scheme, have produced another device to refer it to a joint working party? They are seeking to satisfy us that this course of action is adequate. Of course we welcome the efforts of the joint working party, but most of us realise that this was a way of trying to fob off parliamentary criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-07-30a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1183.4", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "he task of monitoring the performance of British Leyland, and at the end of the day we have to rely to a great extent on the board's advice. The hon. Gentleman should know—I know that the House takes it into account— that the board of the NEB contains very experienced men, not only those whom we have been successful in obtaining from the British trade union movement but also senior industrialists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1186.4", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "The question of discussions was not for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1203.4", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend bear in mind not only that this aircraft will provide jobs for the men on Humberside at the Hawker Siddeley works but that it is a winner in the Third World? Does he not agree that it is an ideal plane for landing in the bush and open spaces all over Africa?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "e Paper was put to the House, 40 of his hon. Friends refused to support the Government. On the following day the Government scrambled back to security by bringing a vote of confidence before the House, thereby giving a totally new meaning to the word \"confidence\". Within a day or two thereafter the then Prime Minister, not uncharacteristically, chose that moment of glory to resign his high office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I asked—and the Chancellor has proved curiously reluctant to say—how much of that standby credit had been spent. Then within six weeks of that we had the announcement of this fresh round of cuts which we are debating today, and the pound remains unchanged. Meantime, it is worth looking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1222.5", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More unemployment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "ly out of balance in imposing far too large a share of the burden which has to be borne not upon the public sector but upon the private sector. They do not do what should be done and they will do a great deal of damage which ought not to be done. Above all, they cannot be regarded as part of a coherent long-term strategy. I want to tell the Chancellor of the Exchequer what that strategy should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1222.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "nto existence? What is the Labour Party doing to make them come into existence, to generate the capital that will create new investment so that new jobs can happen? The Labour Party does not know or understand the answer to that question. Half of its members, on their good days, at least mouth a commitment to the creation of vigorous, profitable private industry. They do not do very much about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1228.3", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "l their lives denouncing investors and industry for lack of patriotism, pointing to investment overseas and talking with foolish phrases about an investment strike. The question that they ought to ask themselves is why companies that have the opportunity of investing in this country or overseas choose to invest overseas rather than here. They do not choose, of course, to invest in the Soviet Union", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1228.3", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Re did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "the rest of the world, now means that unemployment in Britain is higher than it is in other European countries. Unemployment in Britain has increased more than in any other country in the European Community. On the Chancellor's own statement, it will go on rising until the end of this year and, on the statement of Mr. Posner to the Expenditure Committee, it will go on rising until the end of 1977.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1253.3", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Trivia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "d, which it is understood put forward proposals for public expenditure cuts of £2,000 million and £3,000 million. But we understand that no precise figure is likely to appear in the document to be presented before conference this autumn. I wonder why. I noticed that when the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East, the pale shadow of the read Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, was interviewed by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": " process of getting back into balance is so painful, the real moral of the story is—do not let it happen again. Unless one is brave enough—and I do not think that many people here are—to advocate risking South American inflation, one must be honest enough to admit that the real cause of present unemployment was the unprecedented pay increases in 1974 and 1975. I believe that to be the basic truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "hat was predicted, one is told by the propagandists that we have also got into deficit with the rest of the world, and that it is nothing to do with the EEC. The truth is very different. Let us omit food, the figures for which I have already given, and oil, which would distort the picture. Let us then see how our trade balance in other goods, mainly manufactures, has moved since we joined the EEC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ing selectivity is a much doubted concept within the industrial world. May I quote a letter which has been sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by a company, whose name I cannot give because figures which I now intend to quote could, if made public and associated with the company, be damaging to the best interests of that company. In fact, the letter has gone to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is involved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is remarkable. He spent the whole of his time saying nothing and then intervenes to do the same. It is absurd. The hon. Gentleman tells us constantly of his contact with industry, but he does not seem to talk to those who are really involved in industry", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unemployment forecasts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "king about are not in this year, when unemployment is sadly rising, but in 1977–78—that is, they will come when the economy will have been moving out of the recession for some time. There are, as ever, conflicting forecasts from many economists who help us—if that is the right word—with their advice. I always envy the certainty some hon. Members have about one set of forecasts over another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "arching for an alternative that they hope will avoid the necessity of making cuts that we all find unpleasant. I recognise their alternative as a serious strategy. As my hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) was quoted in The Times today as saying, One thing is absolutely clear: neither the left nor the right can promise jam, either today or tomorrow. I turn to the Opposition motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1343.4", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer Barbara.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I am extremely surprised that the Opposition do not want to hear a little about their motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1343.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1343.5", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I am extremely surprised that the Opposition do not want to hear a little about their motion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer Barbara.\"] I should like to deal briefly with what the Opposition would have done. I understand that they want larger public expenditure cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1343.7", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East was asked on the programme to which I have referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1343.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1358.2", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "CROMARTY PETROLEUM ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "My constituent Mr. Nightingale has taken considerable steps, as I have already said, to maintain the amenity of the area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1358.12", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "CROMARTY PETROLEUM ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "My constituent has taken very many steps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1358.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1359.5", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "CROMARTY PETROLEUM ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": " that the Parliamentary Commissioners held their hearing in Edinburgh. In addition, on the point made by the hon. Lady the Member for Dunbartonshire, East, I believe that my constituent would have been willing to give a lease as long as there were clauses in it providing that a refinery really would be built. If no refinery were built, my constituent would want to retain the ownership of his land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1359.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-02", "file": "debates1976-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "10783a7700da6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1391.3", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "CROMARTY PETROLEUM ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "tion the repetition of the previous procedure and a rehearsing of the case unless conditions such as I have indicated were satisfied.\"—[ Official Report, 20th July 1950; Vol. 477, c. 2562.] It is for the House to make a decision on this matter but I am not aware that tonight there has been raised an important constitutional issue or the question of a material miscarriage of justice. The last time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-02a.1391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I accept that the statistical evidence is not easy to interpret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CROYDON", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ate to which the right hon. Lady refers. That was why I made the comments I did. His speech was in marked contrast in moderation and nature to the supplementary question that he put today. That is why I am trying to be fair to him. It is important for us all that there should be well-understood conditions of entry and that the numbers who enter should be limited to those who meet those conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1429.3", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CROYDON", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is nothing party political about that. I am sure that the hon. Member for Thanet, East is well able to look after himself, but no doubt he will be happy to have the maternal protection of the Leader of the Opposition. There is nothing objectionable about answering a question on numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TAMESIDE (SECONDARY EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": ". As to the dispute between the teachers, it was declared official, I think, in the middle of May, and a great many of the problems arose from the decision of the council unilaterally to cancel the conciliation arrangements. I would imagine that if the parties got together now they could probably resolve their difficulties. It is essentially a matter for the parties concerned. As to the resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TAMESIDE (SECONDARY EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "It would be wrong for me to comment on the reasons for the decisions in the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1447.2", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "YOUTH EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1460.3", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "udice of my hon. Friend, and that is the reason why his opinion is so little shared, for example, among trade unionists in Scotland, who have approved in almost every particular the kind of proposals which we are putting forward. I therefore repudiate entirely what my hon. Friend says in that respect. Moreover, far from believing that when these Assemblies are established in Scotland and in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "a proper report. That would have been an alternative before me. But I put my questions to the Secretary of State for Industry in a letter which is nearly as long as the original summary which he published to Parliament, which he made available to me today and a copy of which is in the Library. He dealt in considerable detail with some of the points that I raised, and I thank him publicly for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1610.1", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about subsidies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I do not want to run away from the question, but I am dealing with areas where public accountability—because taxpayers' resources are deployed—is at stake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1611.0", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ause my questions were lengthy and he wanted to deal with them properly. But the reason for releasing my questions and —I hoped coincidentally—the Secretary of State's replies was precisely that I wanted my questions and his replies to be scrutinised in public by the informed, opinion-making Press of this country, so that there should be an informed debate in public in anticipation of this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1613.1", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "e to what he has said. Who, with any experience at all of manufacturing industry, would put down a question in all seriousness, given a company as diverse and of the size and complexity of British Leyland, asking the Secretary of State why the target return of 19·6 per cent. in 1981–2 had become 19·1 per cent. in 1983? How fatuously irrelevant can one get by way of a question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker", "preceding_text": "have to move in and do the job himself. Lord Ryder's reputation hangs on the success of British Leyland, and that would be a sure-fire way of getting action, because he would not want his reputation to be torn to shreds. The workers want British Leyland to be a success and my hon. Friends want it to be a success, but there is every indication that Opposition Members do not want it to be a success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1631.1", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "t to which the hon. Member for Bridgwater (Mr. King) has referred—but we know that this will be the first occasion when the Opposition do not vote against further money going to British Leyland. It seems that they are reformed characters. I could quote certain Opposition Members chapter and verse, but it would be rather embarrassing if I were to do so. What was said at that time was very powerful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1671.1", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Privy Council Office (Mr. William Price)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Defamation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Privy Council Office (Mr. William Price)", "preceding_text": "d I have taken expert advice on this—create quite unnecessary levels of inconvenience. I do not think that is a possibility. I am satisfied that it was not possible for the Joint Committee to make a full report in time for a decision before the recess. There are important points to be considered as has been mentioned—privilege, copyright, financing, accommodation, the parliamentary unit, and so on", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paid experts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "o me. I have asked for the figures to be broken down to the last pound. I have read the figures to the House, and I shall be happy to give the hon. Gentleman a copy if he wants it before he decides how to vote. It is a substantial sum of money. It seems an awful lot for what is a comparatively small job. I can only say that these are figures produced by experts, and I am a layman in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-03", "file": "debates1976-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "7e69c6bb4185677f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1675.2", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "I am not absolutely sure of the constitutional position. That was a matter for the Select Committee, and it made the recommendation, not the Government. I went to the Select Committee and argued the case for the other box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-03a.1675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1717.0", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT WITH SPAIN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House will welcome that prompt statement by the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT WITH SPAIN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "We did not know about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1719.3", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT WITH SPAIN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1720.1", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT WITH SPAIN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he will get all the evidence when I have amassed it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1720.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1721.3", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT WITH SPAIN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "One.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "To return to the specific Private Notice Question which you allowed, Mr. Speaker, may I put to the Secretary of State three short questions, which arose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1721.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1722.3", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT WITH SPAIN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He had no choice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend agree that it does not serve the House of Commons or the country if any hon. Member misuses or misrepresents our welfare and social services? He has therefore been of signal service this afternoon in coming here quickly after the irresponsible report in the Press this morning and clearing the matter up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1722.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1732.3", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETINGS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "ght not be the same for all Community countries but which implied that it was a Europassport of some sort? Will he make it absolutely plain that it will be purely optional for those who want it, and that any British person can continue to have a British passport—as I have now, and always hope to have—and will not have to have one of these cosmetic lobs of which the right hon. Gentleman is talking?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1734.3", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETINGS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I clearly cannot give my hon. Friend that assurance. I can assure him that the Government must fulfil their obligations to the electorate and to the position they adopted during the referendum campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1734.3", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETINGS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not direct elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I clearly cannot give my hon. Friend that assurance. I can assure him that the Government must fulfil their obligations to the electorate and to the position they adopted during the referendum campaign. [ Interruption. ] I remember very well the slogan over the platform at my party's conference, that the Labour Party would recommend and the people would decide. The people did decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1734.3", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MEETINGS OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "opted during the referendum campaign. [ Interruption. ] I remember very well the slogan over the platform at my party's conference, that the Labour Party would recommend and the people would decide. The people did decide. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Not direct elections.\"] The decision they took and the many answers I gave in the House made it absolutely clear that direct elections were part of the package.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1977.2", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (IDENTITY CARDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": " persistence at a high level of disorder and violence, murder and destruction, first in one part of the Province and then in another, my hon. Friends and I maintain that we ought no longer to leave the security forces without the powerful assistance which they would derive from a system of personal identification. At the moment the forms of identification are as diverse as they are unsatisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.1977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.2049.4", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONRHO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "It is not I who prescribed the subject of this debate, and it is not unreasonable, I think, permission having been given, that I should do my best to reply to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.2049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-04", "file": "debates1976-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1737f8c4178ad16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.2059.3", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONRHO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is not adding to his reputation by that sort of remark. My hon. Friends are bitterly angry about the fact that there has been a deliberate campaign by officers of the company to camouflage and distort the seriousness of these criticisms. We were told before publication, in breach of the confidentiality imposed on them, which the company accepted at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-04a.2059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-05", "file": "debates1976-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "65e2f1319709cf43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-05a.2183.1", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": " the people at Swansea have failed to send them a log book and a registration number. A serious matter of principle is involved. It does not affect me because I do not have one of these numbers, so do not let hon. Members opposite imagine that I have an interest in it. I do not want one of these numbers: I do not wish people to know where I am all the time. Let us be clear about the reasons given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-05a.2183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-08-05", "file": "debates1976-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "65e2f1319709cf43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-05a.2194.1", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ss frequently found to be dishonest. If the circumstances in which confessions were made were less open to criticism, more of those who were guilty would plead guilty, cases would be shorter to try, trials would take place earlier after arrest, the memory of witnesses would have less time to fail, and their evidence would be more reliable. Occasionally the innocent would not be wrongly convicted.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-05a.2194.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-08-05", "file": "debates1976-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "65e2f1319709cf43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-05a.2282.3", "colnum": "2282", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "To the contrary, \"No\". I think the Ayes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-08-05a.2282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.15.2", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Success?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "tion because it does not seem to us that the circumstances will come about which would allow such policies to be put into operation. Two things are clear. The first is that there would be an enormous increase in the cost of living. The second is that such policies would destroy the social contract, on which the success of the last two years has been built and without which I believe this country.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.15.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.20.2", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "As is not infrequently the case, the hon. Lady is wrong in her facts. The inflation rate which I quoted was 12·9 per cent. as against the average annual inflation rate of 7·9 per cent. in the other OECD countries listed. The picture is a good deal better than it was at the same time in the previous year. The hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.20.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I confess that, although that subject occupied a good deal of my thoughts recently, I did not have the tenant farmers of the hon. Gentleman's constituency in mind. I shall certainly reflect upon the likely consequences to his agricultural constituents. Frankly, I would think that they would not be of very great importance to the agricultural community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.27.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you going to do about next year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " basis of this broad stance of policy that I announced nearly a fortnight ago that I would be applying to the IMF for the remaining tranches of credit available to us. The Government believe that it is prudent to make this application in order to ensure that their drawings on the June standby can be repaid and their external deficit financed in the coming year without undue strain on the reserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " laid the foundations for this kind of inflation and this level of unemployment. There is no escape from that whichever way we go. The present Government, by neglecting our advice, by failing to reduce public spending sooner, as every other Western Government have done, are themselves now destroying more jobs by higher taxes on the private sector and by higher interest rates on private investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "cue_text": "Several HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "preceding_text": "of drama and finality—with the fact that we have to regenerate our industry, that we must make it more efficient, and that we must change the balance of the use of our manpower. I do not want to speak for too long, but I wish to emphasise that many of my Labour colleagues below the Gangway, with one or two honourable exceptions, tend to resort to the usual solutions each time we get into a crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "talist system, and this crisis is one of the failure of the capitalist system, in Britain and indeed in Western Europe. The quicker that fact is understood in this country the better. It is no good the right hon. Lady looking for Reds under the bed. It is no good her trying to blame this crisis on the left wing of the Labour Party. The left wing of the Labour Party does not control the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A very good speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady is making a fascinating speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady is making a fascinating speech. [HON. MEMBERS: \"A very good speech.\"] The other day she wrote an introduction to a pamphlet by Lord Blake in which he pointed out that the last Conservative Administration, of which she was a member, saddled the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.153.5", "colnum": "153", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that both the Chancellor and his supporters are saying that they do not like the increases in staff. Therefore, they cannot object to any reductions that take place through natural wastage. If they think that the increases should never have taken place, they cannot object to reducing the present numbers in that way, which is a very good way of cutting public spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.153.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ut we are on the wrong road. The further we go down that road—15 per cent. is no incentive for economic recovery—the worse it will be for sterling and the worse it will be for Britain. This Chancellor has presided over the worst economic decline we have seen in the post-war period. Because of these strategies there is only decline ahead and that is why we shall vote against the Government tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "nditure. Is that really so? Is that really the diagnosis of the Conservative Party? Does it think that all our troubles are due to public expenditure? If that is its view, I beg Opposition Members to read what their own document says about our present difficulties. Until about a quarter to nine tonight it was a very good debate, but since then we have seen the arrival of a great many other people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Lady in disagreeing with the hon Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe). This is certainly not a terminal illness, but we must pursue policies very steadily. I shall enumerate them although Opposition hon. Members may not like them. We must pursue the social contract. We must pursue an incomes policy. We must build up manufacturing industry. We must keep public expenditure in bounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about unemployment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "second quarter, the home orders rose by 2½ per cent. and export orders rose by 10½ per cent. Those are some of the things that are going right for Britain today, and this is why there is no reason to depart from the overall objectives that the Government have set. Unlike 1973–74, the indicators today are all pointing in the right direction. We have got to move along that path.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-11", "file": "debates1976-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "9b709778b8c01e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.199.3", "colnum": "199", "heading": "PRICE CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "hat to go further than the Government have gone is not only unnecessary for most firms—which could not get more out of the market in any case over the next year—but would risk damaging the pay policy which is one of the cornerstones of our strategy. Similarly—and it was demonstrated again tonight—the Opposition appear unwilling to say whether they think there should be a total removal of the Code.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-11a.199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.224.5", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin F. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin F. Cook", "preceding_text": "o only last night were stamping up and down the Chamber demanding cuts of £4,000 million, £6,000 million and £10,000 million in public expenditure now to be demanding that there should be no cuts in public expenditure? Can my right hon. Friend name a single country which has slashed expenditure on social and welfare services and maintained expenditure on defence, other than military dictatorships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.224.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The most important thing still for the Government to stick at is overcoming inflation. That, I think, will undoubtedly improve the desire of companies to invest, just as it will improve the objective of securing more jobs. According to the latest views and proposals, I understand that companies will invest about 15 per cent. to 20 per cent. more next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "The proposals that were accepted were what Mr. Smith set out in his six proposals. Dr. Kissinger has made it clear, and I have now made it clear, that these are in our view a useful basis of discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "dest hit. I have two examples of what is happening and which illustrate why morale is so low. Yesterday I heard that the West Middlesex Hospital is currently closing 20 per cent. of surgical beds by removing the appropriate number of beds from each surgical ward. In the St. Mary's group of hospitals there is to be a withdrawal of all student nurses from 11 acute general medical and surgical wards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Of course, it was commissioned by the Campaign for Independence in Medicine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "em. There is a way of dealing with it apart from rushing to the Press and saying \"This is disgraceful\". There are instances when people have to wait two years for a hip operation. It is often necessary to wait that long for what are described as non-acute operations, although they probably are acute when people cannot sleep because of the pain. However, it is possible for a Member to do something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What is your majority?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": " detective agencies and even private fire brigades, of which obviously he has never heard in his whole experience. I do not go along with the Conservative Party's political strategy as expressed in terms of the economic debate on Monday. Where I was last night was no accident. I do not go along with trying to force a General Election for political ends and selling the country short in the process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "t least one Labour Member today as to whether one can assess need in terms of the NHS. However, I have always felt that the service should be available on the basis of medical need. Incidentally, I also take the view, which should not be overlooked, that members of schemes like BUPA which have been attacked—I am not a member of any private health schemes at all—pay their NHS contributions as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Richardson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Freedom-loving.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Richardson", "preceding_text": "f medicine which are not operated by the National Health Service and which, therefore, are not the subject of the Bill. As I understand it, there are some 29 private hospitals for which planning permission has been given and that a similar number in the pipeline have not yet reached that stage. The hon. and learned Member for Solihull (Mr. Grieve) says that all good doctors would flee the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boscawen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the cuts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boscawen", "preceding_text": "nnot get treatment within the National Health Service for another six months. During this period she will be under the care of an anaesthetist. Her family relationships are harmed, her work is impaired, and she and the family are going through the most miserable period they have ever known in their lives. That, I am afraid, is the NHS of 1976. We ought to be talking of what can be done about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.334.4", "colnum": "334", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "vice while that kind of attitude prevails. In my 15 weeks in a public ward I did not hear one voice raised by a doctor, a nurse or a fellow patient in support of this scheme to phase out pay beds. When the right hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn was dismissed from her post as Secretary of State for Social Services and it was announced in my ward there were cheers from the patients and the nurses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.334.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "ssed. In continuing roaring inflation, he will be expected to take a cut in salary. The Government take no responsibility for that although it is directly their responsibility. A young woman doctor said: I do not want to be forced into general practice or to emigrate. I still want to become a consultant—but I can predict nothing with a Government which makes a promise today and breaks it tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "e a cut in salary. The Government take no responsibility for that although it is directly their responsibility. A young woman doctor said: I do not want to be forced into general practice or to emigrate. I still want to become a consultant—but I can predict nothing with a Government which makes a promise today and breaks it tomorrow. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"] Those are not my words. Those are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "That is the very part I dislike so much. While I can go along with the right hon. Gentleman in saying that we must preserve the National Health Service, it must not be done at the diktat of even the Secretary of State. That is not the way I want the country run. That is the worst form of comporate State, the worst form of soviet State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "It is accusations of that kind about dictatorship, again from a member of a regional health authority, which I find so disturbing. We have decided to establish—it is in the Bill—an independent board with an independent chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-12", "file": "debates1976-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "6e387b3dd829877d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has he a head?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "I have given way to the Secretary of State several times, and this is a good debate. The right hon. Gentleman has been rising to his feet, speaking without a note and from his heart and his head on this matter. We are learning a lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-12a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-13", "file": "debates1976-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "ebd71983dc90d6a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.403.3", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Wilson", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend will not listen to advice given by the Scottish National Party in relation to English interference. Will he also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-13", "file": "debates1976-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "ebd71983dc90d6a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I assure my hon. Friend that there will be no reduction in the safety requirements for the fishing industry. Earnings of white fish trawlers over 80 ft. in the first eight months of 1976 were 28 per cent. up on 1975. Average earnings per day at sea were 48 per cent. up on 1975. The earnings of the industry as a whole were 42 per cent. up on 1975.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.408.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-13", "file": "debates1976-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "ebd71983dc90d6a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.415.6", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackenzie", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that it was this Government who saved the line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-13", "file": "debates1976-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "ebd71983dc90d6a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "On the first point, it is not possible to give a precise figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.419.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-13", "file": "debates1976-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "ebd71983dc90d6a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wrong Question.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "I have regular meetings with the Lord President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.426.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-13", "file": "debates1976-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "ebd71983dc90d6a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.518.3", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "and for no reason other than that the Secretary of State's hands are tied completely by this arbitrary figure of 1,000. I hope, therefore, that when the Bill reaches another place, perhaps their Lordships will consider it right to look at these matters again—that is for them to decide and not for us—to see whether it can conceivably be consistent with the intentions of the 15th December proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-13", "file": "debates1976-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "ebd71983dc90d6a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Amendment No. 108 is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "e. The hon. Member for Reading, South said that we were talking now only about small numbers. Because of the need to make progress I shall only ask my hon. Friend the Minister to assure me that there is nothing wrong with my arithmetic but something wrong with Mr. Speaker's provisional selection of amendments. It suggests that Amendment No. 109 is a Government amendment. I do not think that it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-13", "file": "debates1976-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "ebd71983dc90d6a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.579.5", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "I was not one of those fortunate enough to serve on the Standing Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.579.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-13", "file": "debates1976-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "ebd71983dc90d6a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.579.5", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course they pay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "s for consultants working with their private patients. We have evidence of the junior hospital doctors' time which is wasted. We have evidence of the time and resources of pathology laboratories in hospitals being devoted to testing the samples of private patients. We have evidence about the use of out-patient departments. This is all without charge to the private patients but a burden on the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.579.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-13", "file": "debates1976-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "ebd71983dc90d6a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "Does not the hon. Gentleman accept that it is the considered view of the National Health Service unions and of the Royal College of Nursing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-13a.585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.603.3", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Apart from the damage that they do to the community, are not these cuts bound to increase the numbers of unemployed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.603.4", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am not quite clear whether my hon. Friend is referring to the cuts already made by the Government. They will increase unemployment, as I told the House in my statement on 22nd July. As for the cuts proposed by the Opposition, which would be six times as high, they would lead to six times as much unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.603.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.613.6", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I am sure the hon. Gentleman appreciates that that is an impossible question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.613.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at careful consideration to be undertaken. As regards the expectations of our people, I remind my hon. Friend and the House of what I said, among other things, in my first broadcast as Prime Minister. I looked it up because I thought that there might be some reference to it today. I said that despite the measures of the last 12 months, we are still not earning the standard of life we are enjoying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.623.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are you doing about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am quoting: There's no soft option. I don't promise you any real easement for some time to come. There can be no lasting improvement in your living standards until we can achieve it without going deeper and deeper into debt as a nation. That is what I said in my very first broadcast, and I have continued to say it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "More mileage and column inches have been given to a speech I have not yet made than were given to many speeches I have made. That should be a lesson to all us publicists. Unfortunately, I did not have the wit to start this one. I think that there is a case for opening a national debate on these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. There have been a number of references to Question Time and to an \"experimental period\". I understand that this is based on Mr. Speaker's Report. But it seems to me that, before we go ahead with this, there should at least be a brief explanation so that hon. Members can be fully aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (FINANCIAL) PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "l, it is pertinent to ask the Minister what that money will be used for. Will it be used at Craigroyston and when? As I was saying before the Minister got to his feet, the decision to go ahead with Craigroyston could have an effect on the overall capacity of the electricity industry in Scotland and, indeed, on the capacity of Babcock and Wilcox mentioned by the hon. Member for Renfrew-shire, West.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (DISSOLUTION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "of the deceased, have spoken, and the Chair has been very tolerant as the debate has strayed perhaps from the narrowest interpretation of the Bill. I am sorry, as I think a number of people outside this House will be, that there has not been a word said on behalf of the residents of Eton and Slough, of Feltham and Heston, of Ealing, North, of Southall and of either of the two Luton constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (DISSOLUTION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "nstituencies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"] They are all constituencies very much affected by the demise of the Maplin project. They are affected by the problems of aircraft noise and of airport development. Nothing has been said from those constituencies. I have no wish to make a partisan point by drawing attention to which party has the allegiance of those hon. Members who have not turned up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (DISSOLUTION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "nhabitants and the vehicles round the airport. It is a curious fact that some of the measurements now show that there is more noise on Sunday afternoons in the summer quite close to major airfields from lawnmowers than from aeroplanes. It may be that we should think about how many lawnmowers there are likely to be operating rather than thinking all the time about how many aeroplanes there will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am afraid the hon. and gallant Gentleman is straying beyond the terms of the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.761.4", "colnum": "761", "heading": "PUBLIC LENDING RIGHTS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "preceding_text": "I should continue. I was saying that the administrative cost of these proposals clearly is enormous. The scheme would involve a total of 72 and a central administrative staff of 35 or 40. The Government estimated earlier that the administrative cost would be £400,000 a year, but that was many months ago. Has one ever known a Government to underestimate administrative costs in any of their schemes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.761.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.783.10", "colnum": "783", "heading": "PUBLIC LENDING RIGHTS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Conway (Mr. Roberts) that by his remarks and his behaviour a few moments ago he has demonstrated the eternal truth of what is said to fob people off: \"I shall render all sorts of assistance, short of actually doing anything to help\". We are here tonight faced with trying, after 25 years—and nobody can say that we have hurried over this matter—to establish and settle a principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.783.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "PUBLIC LENDING RIGHTS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will not worry us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "n was chosen because anything less would have been derisory and anything more would have been impossible. As the Bill stands, however, that sum will be increased from £1 million to £2 million to £5 million and possibly more. Even my hon. Friends, possibly, when we are the Government, will not want to be considered Philistines by authors who write letters to the Guardian saying that PLR is too low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.795.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-14", "file": "debates1976-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0d6288ae5abeec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "PUBLIC LENDING RIGHTS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "It is good stuff.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "lise that I am coming between the House and her performance, or rather between the House and the performance of my hon. Friend for Bristol, West (Mr. Cooke) who will wind up the debate for the Opposition. That is a more acceptable situation to be in. I know that hon. Members are waiting to savour the delights from the Front Beinches when I resume my seat, so I shall not stand for very much longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-14a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-15", "file": "debates1976-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "82f6c1e6922e3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-15a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEXUAL OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "xceptional cases, such as those of juveniles, which are governed by a different concept of law, in which the principle of anonymity is rightly applied to defendants, convicted or otherwise, and in which the procedures are much more in secreto, for social reasons. But when the person concerned is an adult, taking the oath and giving evidence as an adult, and he is disbelieved, it seems to me right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-15a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-18", "file": "debates1976-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6dc962d72d69476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-18a.918.6", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "I think that in view of that answer from my right hon. Friend I ought to have asked \"what is his policy on imports, if any\". I submit to him that the situation in which we wring our hands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-18a.918.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-18", "file": "debates1976-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6dc962d72d69476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-18a.953.2", "colnum": "953", "heading": "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES &c. (No. 2) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ards. Much of this metrication has not directly affected the ordinary consumer—for example the agricultural steel, engineering, construction and shipbuilding industries—unless the consumer in question happens to work in one of those industries. But now increasingly metrication is directly affecting the consumer. His children are taught the metric system and little or nothing about the other system", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-18a.953.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-18", "file": "debates1976-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6dc962d72d69476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-18a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES &c. (No. 2) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I now understand that the hon. Gentleman will refer to it. I have here a letter from the CBI. Perhaps the CBI no longer corresponds with the Opposition, so I had better tell them what the CBI says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-18a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-18", "file": "debates1976-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6dc962d72d69476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-18a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES &c. (No. 2) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " for Gloucester in a debate on metrication. On BBC radio this morning the hon. Lady said that eventually we should have to go metric. I agree with her judgment about the inevitability of the situation. We have a common view that the principle of metrication is not in doubt. We have an agreed view that metrication should be used as far as possible to achieve standardisation of weights and products—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-18a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-18", "file": "debates1976-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6dc962d72d69476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-18a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES &c. (No. 2) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ation, the feeling that they can cope with the problem of the change to metrication. The power to make orders is an essential precondition and nobody who examines the matter seriously can avoid that conclusion. The hon. Lady instanced the question of imports of prepacked goods. The Conservative Government, when signing the Treaty of Accession, committed this country to open access to metric packs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-18a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-18", "file": "debates1976-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6dc962d72d69476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-18a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES &c. (No. 2) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which nationalised industry?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "xist. The White Paper continued: None of the countries which has changed to the metric system, or decided to do so in recent years, has made an estimate of the total cost of change… If we examine some of the individual costs of change we note that the nationalised industries calculate the cost of metrication to be about 0·07 per cent. of turnover per year for a period of three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-18a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-19", "file": "debates1976-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "96eee873c5faec7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "In making these appointments my right hon. Friend must work within the statutory framework laid down in 1971. The Secretary of State was then required by statute to consult with organisations representing employers and employees. The TUC speaks for 90 per cent. of the trade unionists in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-19", "file": "debates1976-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "96eee873c5faec7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Lady is right—and of course I take it that she is—I certainly am out of date on that score.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-19", "file": "debates1976-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "96eee873c5faec7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "What the House knows in its heart is that these levels of unemployment are not good enough for the British nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-19", "file": "debates1976-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "96eee873c5faec7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "What the House knows in its heart is that these levels of unemployment are not good enough for the British nation—[ Interruption. ] Furthermore, the House and the country know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-19", "file": "debates1976-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "96eee873c5faec7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1181.2", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "and his wife treating him as \"one of the family\"—a phrase which Ministers have constantly used. I can well see that this would be an open door for an older tenant without children, whereby he and his wife could, for a cash consideration, take in a child before that child was 18 years old. It could cause tremendous abuse and provide a very profitable sideline for tenants who wish to make use of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-19", "file": "debates1976-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "96eee873c5faec7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has sat down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will allow me, before he sits down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-19", "file": "debates1976-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "96eee873c5faec7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will allow me, before he sits down—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He has sat down.\"] The hon. Gentleman has made a slashing attack on the amendment. I should be interested to know whether he will explain why four Liberals in the other place voted for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-19", "file": "debates1976-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "96eee873c5faec7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1221.2", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "r Brecon and Radnor (Mr. Roderick), supported as he was by the hon. Member for Durham, that in recent years the number of farms becoming available for rent has dried up dramatically because of capital taxation and security of tenure legislation. This legislation we are now debating will dry up the availability even more—and that view is supported by the National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-19", "file": "debates1976-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "96eee873c5faec7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES (No. 2) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Morrison", "preceding_text": "vant. The Minister made a Freudian slip in Committee in referring to the further \"burden\" which would be forced upon smaller businesses. The weight of bureaucracy—and the clause is trying to relieve some of the weight—is enormous. I am sorry that the Under-Secretary with responsibility for small businesses has not seen fit to stay for the remainder of the debate, especially since I had warned him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-19a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "As it is the policy of the main parties in this House to move towards economic and monetary union and the full integration of our country into the European Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1447.0", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (HONOURABLE MEMBERS AND THE LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "er alleged that three of our colleagues had been guilty of conduct which, had they been councillors, local authority officials or civil servants, would have rendered them liable to prosecution on charges of corruption? That assertion is either correct or incorrect, and nothing that the Attorney-General said yesterday in his Written Answer led one to believe that it was anything other than correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (HONOURABLE MEMBERS AND THE LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": " Skinner) of a cover up and consequently an opinion being formed outside of possible complicity on the part of the Government or Ministers, is it not important to stress that any immunity is confined to Back Benchers and that, as the Salmon Commission emphasised, Ministers of the Crown can be prosecuted and proceeded against for a common law offence on indictment for misbehaviour in public places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (FISHERIES POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "re wholly unacceptable to us, but the negotiations between us and the other member States of the Community have not got to the point yet where we are discussing a 50-mile approach, which is the British Government's approach. We are discussing precisely what the mileage should be here and there and in some other places around the coast. I repeat that the negotiations have not got to that point yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "and travelled on the railway line from Newport to Swansea. That route covers a solid steel industry band where, without the alloys that Southern Africa provides, there would be massive unemployment. If the Soviet Union, whether through puppet Governments or surrogates, put their hands on those supplies and either denied them to us or controlled their prices, the consequences could be catastrophic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "both these undertakings terrorism and sanctions. In the light of previous experience there will be some understandable scepticism regarding the undertaking that terrorism will cease, but on this occasion the assurance is given not only on the authority of the United States Government but of the British Government as well. The right hon. Gentleman is now telling me that no such assurance was given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1543.0", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is not in prison.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I believe that there are those of us on the Government side who have visited the illegal regime. The hon. Member for St. Albans could have gone to the concentration camps where the future leaders of Africa are to be found. He could have asked to visit Bishop Lamont, a Catholic, in prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1543.0", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I believe that there are those of us on the Government side who have visited the illegal regime. The hon. Member for St. Albans could have gone to the concentration camps where the future leaders of Africa are to be found. He could have asked to visit Bishop Lamont, a Catholic, in prison. [Hon. Members: \"He is not in prison.\"] He has been threatened with imprisonment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " a threat to every independent country and is directly counter to the spirit of Helsinki. One must ask why, in opening the debate and referring to the various factors in shifting the balance of power in Central and Southern Africa in recent months, the Foreign Secretary studiously avoided making any reference to the Soviet Union, to its intervention in Angola with an invading Army of 8,000 Cubans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "a clear task to limit their responsibilities in Africa to the co-operation in which they are engaged at present, and the co-operation with the United States of America is effective to the extent that, as Dr. Kissinger pointed out, he is following agreed policies in the interests of the furtherance of United Nations policy. We have heard very little from Opposition Members about the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ember for Pavilion mentioned my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the policy of the British Cabinet. One of the merits of Dr. Kissinger's conduct in these affairs is that he co-operates closely with the British Government, and I value that greatly. But Dr. Kissinger has also stressed prominently that what he is doing is based upon the decisions of the Security Council of the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": " the Foreign Secretary, who deserves well of this House and the country for his conduct of the affairs which have led to the setting up of this conference. It has been a major success of Her Majesty's Government, and I wish to put on record the profound approval of it which is felt by Government supporters in this House, of all members of the party and of many other people up and down the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "preceding_text": "ken from this side of the House. We want it to succeed because we believe that it presents a unique opportunity—perhaps the last—for a peaceful settlement, and the alternative to such a settlement is more killing, more chaos, and probably a totalitarian regime in Rhodesia. It is unique because I believe that Mr. Smith has genuinely changed his mind. He has made a mental leap of seismic dimensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "preceding_text": "hat it was necessary to renew Section 2 of the Act in order to allow the Government to pass the necessary legislation giving affect to the interim government. Does this mean that the legislation will be in the form of an Order in Council? Shall we be able to amend it? I hope that my hon. Friends will not allow themselves to be provoked by the speech of the Foreign Secretary and some of his answers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-20", "file": "debates1976-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1e327c33dd80d766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "preceding_text": "nd why those of all races who live there feel so strongly about it. It is a magnificent country. It has a beautiful climate. It has a fertile land which is capable of producing two crops a year. It is an exporter of food in a continent which badly needs it. It is rich in minerals. It is developing a broad industrial base. The relations between the races, despite everything, are relatively relaxed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-20a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1648.3", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept from me that on the Government Benches we feel that there is a gross indignity in having to be filmed by the police on these occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1648.3", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept from me that on the Government Benches we feel that there is a gross indignity in having to be filmed by the police on these occasions—[ Interruption. ]—and that it is symptomatic that the laughter about this comes from Opposition Members, who never demonstrate on any occasion, except on the odd occasion with the National Front", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1648.3", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " me that on the Government Benches we feel that there is a gross indignity in having to be filmed by the police on these occasions—[ Interruption. ]—and that it is symptomatic that the laughter about this comes from Opposition Members, who never demonstrate on any occasion, except on the odd occasion with the National Front[ Interruption. ]—and that on the occasions when demonstrations take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1648.5", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "On the occasions when these demonstrations take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1648.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1649.2", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Accusations thrown at anyone in the House are always to be discouraged. The hon. Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Mr. Flannery) may care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1649.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Yes of course, Mr. Speaker, and I was about to add, if you had not interrupted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1650.5", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1650.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1650.7", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. What is against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1650.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1650.10", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "A responsibility is laid upon me to ensure that if remarks are offensive and likely to upset our arrangements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1650.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1651.3", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Government will continue to pursue the policies on which we fought and won the last General Election; that is to say, to conquer inflation, as our first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1651.5", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed, I have stated the basis upon which I am Leader of this party, and will continue to remain Leader of this party. On no other basis do I remain here. In respect to Scotland's GDP it is true that this is reflected in a number of ways. I understand that for the first time the average earnings of manual wage earners in Scotland are now exceeding those of England, which is a very satisfying feature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1651.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ir controversialist, will not relate the number of jobs in shipbuilding to the act of nationalisation, because he knows, as everyone in the House does, that it is only through Government support that a great many jobs are now being safeguarded in the shipbuilding industry. The act of either dropping the Bill or passing it will not affect the economic prospects of the world's shipbuilding industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " of the burden of taxes. [HON. GENTLEMEN: \"Why?\"] Because I am told that the tax burden in this country amounted to 40·9 per cent. of GDP in the fiscal year 1975–76. It is estimated to be much the same for the current year. As a proportion of GDP, the tax burdens in the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden, for example, are appreciably higher, and in West Germany the burden is comparable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n, for example, are appreciably higher, and in West Germany the burden is comparable. [ Interruption. ] I do not know whether hon. Gentlemen opposite want the facts or whether they want to live with their prejudices. If this can be demonstrated it seems to me important that people should not be labouring under a misapprehension. If the tax burden is too high, clearly, in order to encourage effort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "oo high, clearly, in order to encourage effort—[ Interruption. ] Sedentary interruptions do not add to the course of easy debate. If it is too high, clearly we should consider the matter, but as far as I am concerned there is no indication yet that we are much out of line in respect of taxation. With regard to cutting public expenditure, it ought to be reduced over a period as a proportion of GDP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1693.3", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENERGY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend's intervention, though I am sorry that he did not say anything about the Government's plans. Perhaps I may briefly terminate what I have to say by pointing out that miners in Britain are treated in a uniquely bad way in terms of their retirement age, compared with miners in other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1729.7", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "We are being extremely cooperative in hastening on with the busi- ness, and the Government might accept our amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1729.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CROMARTY PETROLEUM ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": "s or 900 jobs? As far as I know, that is the first time that anybody has ever mentioned the extra 450 at the marine terminal. Incidentally, I suppose that they would be dock jobs and, as such, subject to the Dock Work Regulation Bill, being taken over by Transport and General Workers' Union men surplus from London. I do not see what benefit that would be to the Scottish economy. But let that pass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1772.0", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CROMARTY PETROLEUM ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "preceding_text": "is the investment of public money. I will deal with them in that order. I can see no objection to the acquisition of 47 acres when 850 acres have already been acquired. What is happening is that the land is being acquired from one absentee proprietor by a multi-national which in a sense will also be an absentee proprietor but at least one that is prepared to provide jobs and to invest in the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1803.5", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "preceding_text": "er and catch a rash of offenders in a fairly short time. That can be done by officers sitting in a patrol car only a few miles from their base. I know for certain that any police officer who is experienced in these matters would agree. It is no good passing legislation that the average members of our population will not willingly obey. Certainly they will not willingly obey the 50-mph speed limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1803.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1807.0", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am intent on responding to the speeches in the debate and some of the wild allegations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1807.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-21", "file": "debates1976-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "a52eee12450d2665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1807.2", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way? Surely he will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-21a.1807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-22", "file": "debates1976-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "4ca3229cd26c36c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-22a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "ducers at a competitive disadvantage with producers across the Channel. As it happens, our producers can, for a time, stand that because of their efficiency, higher productivity and structural strength. But it is not an arrangement that can endure, nor is it fair. When the agricultural world gave its support to entry into Europe, it was on the basis of fair competition after a transitional period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-22a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-22", "file": "debates1976-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "4ca3229cd26c36c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-22a.1899.1", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that intervention, because later in my remarks I shall come to the misuse of money and I shall criticise the failure to take certain action. The House must congratulate my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture on his approach to this subject. His was one of the most refreshing speeches we have ever heard from a Minister of Agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-22a.1899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-22", "file": "debates1976-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "4ca3229cd26c36c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-22a.1899.1", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "ee has taken almost the reverse view in every respect. Perhaps any hon. Member who can say something to the contrary will speak up. I see that the hon. Member for Derbyshire, West disagrees again. It could be that on any of these matters the European Assembly will take a different view. Our connection with the Council is through the Minister. He is the only link between this House and the Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-22a.1899.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-22", "file": "debates1976-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "4ca3229cd26c36c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-22a.1933.3", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That during the proceedings on the Public Lending Right Bill [ Lords ], Standing Committee A have leave to sit twice on Tuesday 26th October.—[ Mr. Walter Harrison. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-22a.1933.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-25", "file": "debates1976-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "e87e60545d91078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.17.3", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "On the first part, yes. It is my job daily to urge on the different companies which come to see us about these matters our anxiety to give confidence to the industry by their bringing forward the orders, or at least bringing forward the announcement of orders. That is almost as important. I do not think that having stock platforms is a realistic proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.17.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-25", "file": "debates1976-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "e87e60545d91078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the productivity rate in the United Kingdom mining industry is, on the whole, very much higher than the rates of our competitors in the Common Market? Does he also accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-25", "file": "debates1976-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "e87e60545d91078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I thought that it was about time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.28.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-25", "file": "debates1976-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "e87e60545d91078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.34.4", "colnum": "34", "heading": "£ STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandelson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Sandelson rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-25", "file": "debates1976-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "e87e60545d91078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "£ STERLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that this House is sick and tired of hearing him blame everyone but himself—including the Press and the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-25", "file": "debates1976-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "e87e60545d91078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "And the hon. Member for Ross and Cromarty is important in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-25", "file": "debates1976-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "e87e60545d91078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.43.4", "colnum": "43", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "If we do not get to Scottish sex by 10 o'clock, do we have to drop it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.43.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-25", "file": "debates1976-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "e87e60545d91078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT OF TEACHERS (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clark Hutchison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clark Hutchison", "preceding_text": " thinking out methods of getting people into the profession and, once in, keeping them there. Now the picture is entirely changed and we are engaged in discouraging teachers and inducing them to retire early. Why has there been this complete reversal in a comparatively short time? What has gone wrong with the forecasts and calculations in the Government Departments? Can the Minister explain to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-25", "file": "debates1976-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "e87e60545d91078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "VALUATION AND RATING (EXEMPTED CLASSES) (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "preceding_text": "t point—the financial non-implications of this Bill. Secondly, my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Taylor), with his characteristic lucidity, pounced on the point, as is his wont, that if the Scottish Assembly were to be set up, it would be possible for it to reverse what we are doing here and say that instead of the money coming to Westminster it should go to a Scottish Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-25", "file": "debates1976-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "e87e60545d91078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "VALUATION AND RATING (EXEMPTED CLASSES) (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Taylor), with his characteristic lucidity, pounced on the point, as is his wont, that if the Scottish Assembly were to be set up, it would be possible for it to reverse what we are doing here and say that instead of the money coming to Westminster it should go to a Scottish Assembly. [ Interruption. ] There we have the voice of confusion speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.126.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-25", "file": "debates1976-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "e87e60545d91078b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "CROMARTY PETROLEUM ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"With taxpayers' money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "alance seemed to have been somewhat overdrawn in another direction. One aspect of the Cromarty Petroleum Company which has not been much referred to is that without any doubt it is something of a buccaneering outfit. I do not thing that that is in any sense a pejorative description. But is there not a role for a buccaneer in an industry which is very much dominated by the trans-national companies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-25a.206.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-26", "file": "debates1976-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbf0fcca14fcbff9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-26a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister realise that the announcement made by his right hon. Friend led tens of thousands of disabled people to believe that their mobility would be restricted? Is it not now clear that a policy of equal misery for all is not at all satisfactory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-26a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-26", "file": "debates1976-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbf0fcca14fcbff9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-26a.263.8", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "Blanket assertions like these do a great deal of harm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-26a.263.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-26", "file": "debates1976-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbf0fcca14fcbff9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-26a.272.5", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CITY OF LONDON", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that my hon. Friend's figures for March and July are correct, but it is true that the cuts in public expenditure have not, as the Opposition said they would, had the effect of restoring confidence in sterling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-26a.272.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-26", "file": "debates1976-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbf0fcca14fcbff9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-26a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "NATIONAL FREIGHT CORPORATION (DENATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin F. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin F. Cook", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Gow) made great play of the fact that last year the National Freight Corporation suffered a deficit of £31 million. He follows these matters closely, and he must be aware that in the current year it has taken substantial strides towards reducing the deficit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-26a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-26", "file": "debates1976-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbf0fcca14fcbff9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-26a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": "by a member of a housing association. In giving our support to housing associations we must at all times be aware of the personnel involved. We must be convinced that they are anxious from the social standpoint to try to create houses. Will housing associations make a profit? The order does not make it clear. Local authorities make no profit, and the Housing Executive has not been making a profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-26a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-26", "file": "debates1976-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbf0fcca14fcbff9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-26a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "lear communities in the rural areas where services exist. That is only a general approach of mine at the moment. I cannot guarantee what outcome will flow from what I shall now say. Where small nuclear communities exist, such as hamlets and villages, I cannot for the life of me see any reason—given that the services are available—why we cannot extend those communities in a planned and orderly way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-26a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-27", "file": "debates1976-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1a3e36151d3730da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "British Rail was halted midway in its decision. In view of representations made, it is now formulating a view which may or may not be different from the one which it held hitherto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-27", "file": "debates1976-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1a3e36151d3730da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.476.6", "colnum": "476", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is cheaper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": ". Friend ensure that when the Energy Ministers meet they will have a look at a question that I have raised with his predecessor on occasions such as this, namely, the large stocks of coal in Britain and the fact that many of our so-called partners in the Common Market are buying their coal from third countries, which I should have thought was not in accordance with the spirit of the Common Market?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.476.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-27", "file": "debates1976-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1a3e36151d3730da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "to take up his grievance with the union through his branch or with the full-time officer. It would then be a matter for the union to decise how to press the grievance and how to deal with the steward. This would be more in the interests of the individual complainant and of good race and industrial relations than to invoke the law against a shop steward, who will be the complainant's fellow worker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-27", "file": "debates1976-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1a3e36151d3730da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "th, but not to see them in a Coronation Streetesque way, with people who are not very intelligent and understand only the sort of argument that he puts forward—in other words, that the matter is rather simple. I do not object to the hon. and learned Gentleman's having a different view—there are different views on this matter—but I found the way in which he couched his argument curiously offensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-27", "file": "debates1976-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1a3e36151d3730da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Clause 65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "—or whether he wishes to show his ignorance from a sedentary position. Of course this is allowable, and there is no great innovation about it. It is simply a question whether this Bill is to be made effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-27", "file": "debates1976-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1a3e36151d3730da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.612.4", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Clause 65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "o because that course of action is taken and because it has a solid foundation. It is rare that interrogatories are given until after the defence, until after there has been proper discovery, both documentary and otherwise. This is merely a branch of the law of discovery which enables someone to obtain early by interrogatory what in the ordinary course of events is discoverable from the documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.612.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-27", "file": "debates1976-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1a3e36151d3730da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Clause 65", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew (St. Albans)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew (St. Albans)", "preceding_text": "who has people come to see him on these subjects, to give the Minister the answer. I can tell the hon. Gentleman that of all the people who have come to me and made representations believing that they have been discriminated against, I have not had one who on application to the Race Relations Commission has been successful in establishing that he has been discriminated against. For him now to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-27", "file": "debates1976-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1a3e36151d3730da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.637.4", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Clause 70", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " we are trying, in this Bill, to stop. We are doing our best to stop it, against the arguments of the Opposition, who are trotting out exactly the racialist argument which we knew would come, and which the other place gave the opportunity to discuss. The attempt to help the House of Lords in what it is doing here is a reactionary and backward attempt to try to keep racialism going in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-27a.637.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.685.8", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "aught red-handed. The greater efficiency of the security forces and the people's revulsion from violence are closing the net on terrorists. They know they cannot win. The police and the Army perform their difficult and onerous duties with skill, bravery, tact and compassion that could not be equalled by forces anywhere else in the world. I know that they have the full-hearted support of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.685.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "ith Stalin and therefore is an accessory to the slaughter of millions of his countrymen, that he played a prominent part in organising the invasion of Czechoslovakia and that his present objective is to mastermind the destruction of our own liberty, they will find it difficult to understand why he was invited here by the Labour Party and particularly why he has been received by the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not started yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I wanted to give hon. Members opposite the chance to have their demonstration before I answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.695.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.695.6", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.695.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.695.9", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.695.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady not only misrepresents what I said about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.697.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has no experience of ministerial life at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.698.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.698.4", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister forgotten the words of the late Aneurin Bevan when, in a memorandum to the national executive of the Prime Minister's own party, he said: The Communist Party \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.699.5", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "So am I, Mr. Speaker. However, in view of the deep opposition, and its sincerity, to these discussions with Mr. Ponomarev, I should like to remind the House that when the hon. Member for Stretford (Mr. Churchill) in May 1975 had lunch—not even just met, but had lunch with, believe it or not—a senior adviser to Mr. Brezhnev, he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.699.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.699.5", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "er, in view of the deep opposition, and its sincerity, to these discussions with Mr. Ponomarev, I should like to remind the House that when the hon. Member for Stretford (Mr. Churchill) in May 1975 had lunch—not even just met, but had lunch with, believe it or not—a senior adviser to Mr. Brezhnev, he said—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I should not like to read what he said, but I want to inform the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.699.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.699.5", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BLACKPOOL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d lunch—not even just met, but had lunch with, believe it or not—a senior adviser to Mr. Brezhnev, he said—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I should not like to read what he said, but I want to inform the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"]. Because it would be out of order. The hon. Gentleman's opinion at the time was that it was very important that there should be contact with people such as a senior adviser—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.699.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": " Government by handing over the total State gold reserves of the sovereign independent republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—which had been deposited with the Bank of England for safe keeping against the eventuality of these countries being invaded by Soviet Russia—do not the Government's threats to withdraw the British Army of the Rhine, coincident with another Russian visit to this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "With regard to the last point, it strikes some of us on the Government side that in the days of the last Conservative Administration, when money supply was being built up, and when EEC legislation was being passed, there was not a word from the House of Lords. That is what exercises us on the Government side. In our view, Conservative Governments put through poor legislation as much as we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Gow) cannot have been here earlier in our proceedings when it was pointed out forcefully from the Conservative Front Bench that the Bill enables more money to be injected into the National Enterprise Board. That is why I still maintain that it would be crippling to the National Enterprise Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.776.2", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Wainwright) said, it may be reasonable to pursue the option which the hon. Member seeks to exclude. The hon. Member for Macclesfield spoke of inward investment. We welcome inward investment. Indeed, 20 per cent. of our manufacturing industry is overseas-owned. I spend a large part of my time trying to persuade foreign business men to invest further in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.776.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does my hon. Friends an injustice. It is quite legitimate to say, as the OECD has said, that while multinationals can be desirable as international guests in a country, they also bring problems, and consequently controls are needed. It is for that reason that the United Nations is now working—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " the economy. Workers throughout the country who need this money urgently are being laid off because their firms in private enterprise, as well as in the public sector, cannot compete in world markets due, to the failure to invest in our economy. The Opposition talk about patriotism. Yet they invest money abroad where they can get the maximum profit. That is the reality of what has been happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-10-28", "file": "debates1976-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "707c7e8ee38f2914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I did not know that the hon. Member for Basingstoke was interested in playing silly games—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-10-28a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-01", "file": "debates1976-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "41a101cba4b4767a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-01a.941.7", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "preceding_text": "I was the only Back-Bench Member who was present to hear the speech of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister at Oxford. I would say that what the Prime Minister was trying to point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-01a.941.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-01", "file": "debates1976-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "41a101cba4b4767a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-01a.989.3", "colnum": "989", "heading": "CONDUCT OF MEMBERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "In the proposed terms of reference the Prime Minister has asked the Committee to make recommendations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-01a.989.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-01", "file": "debates1976-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "41a101cba4b4767a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-01a.1109.7", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL WALES BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-01a.1109.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-02", "file": "debates1976-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d9e119092cbf43ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1187.6", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "The point was made by the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1187.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-02", "file": "debates1976-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d9e119092cbf43ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael McGuire", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am very sorry that his programme for today will not allow him to make a visit to my constituency, especially to Skelmersdale? Is he aware of the black despair that has settled over the town following the announcement by Courtaulds that it is shortly to close? If we say in the Labour Party that Socialism is the language of priorities, when my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-02", "file": "debates1976-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d9e119092cbf43ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady really must wait upon the discussions that are taking place at this moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-02", "file": "debates1976-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d9e119092cbf43ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1201.2", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LTD. (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Hendon, North (Mr. Gorst) in the usual courteous manner. Is the Minister also aware that the history of this dispute goes back over many years, and that the company is intransigent and sends rude letters to me and to my right hon. Friend? We get no proper response to our letters. It is the only firm in the whole of my constituency which treats its workers in this deplorable fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-02", "file": "debates1976-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d9e119092cbf43ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "MARRIAGE (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "preceding_text": "remely difficult to get other dependants into this country. Those hon. Members who have intervened in cases in which, for example, there is a desire to bring aged relatives into the country know how difficult it is to do that. I can only conclude that, whatever the apparent merits of the hon. Lady's proposals, she is using this opportunity as a peg on which to hang certain anti-immigrant feelings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-02", "file": "debates1976-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d9e119092cbf43ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "MARRIAGE (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "preceding_text": "rar could not marry them because the man was married already. In short, I find these proposals, at the least, very partial. They do not meet the real problems that a serious reform of marriage law would have to face. Most important, I believe that they are not put forward as a serious attempt to reform marriage law, which needs reforming, but as an opportunity to fuel prejudice against immigrants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-02", "file": "debates1976-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d9e119092cbf43ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POULTRY MEAT HYGIENE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "nor am I a scientist, and one can be baffled by science. Nevertheless, a good case was made by British Veterinary Association members that some cases of salmonella poisoning cannot be detected by the eye and need proper investigation. Presumably that would explain the need for microscopic and bacteriological knowledge which understandably the ordinary environmental health officer does not possess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-02a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-03", "file": "debates1976-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "51758cb96834e51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "crease in staff? Will my right hon. Friend give some indication of the growth since reorganisation in the number of those who administer the services as opposed to those who deliver them? Will my right hon. Friend confirm that standards will not be allowed to deteriorate because of synthetic attacks by the Opposition on staffing levels, and that it is most important to maintain public expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-03", "file": "debates1976-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "51758cb96834e51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1406.2", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "One of the troubles with orchestrating the kind of programme of questions that we have had today from the Liberal Bench is that one turns out to be a little precipitate in some of the observations. As I understand it, the houses in question in Liverpool have not yet been built, so one can hardly be happy about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-03", "file": "debates1976-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "51758cb96834e51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1406.2", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "One of the troubles with orchestrating the kind of programme of questions that we have had today from the Liberal Bench is that one turns out to be a little precipitate in some of the observations. As I understand it, the houses in question in Liverpool have not yet been built, so one can hardly be happy about it. [ Interruption. ] Secondly, I would consider it far more important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-03", "file": "debates1976-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "51758cb96834e51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1406.3", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "e by the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Smith) is utter nonsense? There are 25,000 people on the housing register in Liverpool who need houses to rent. They cannot afford to buy houses. They require those houses because they are living in very serious circumstances. Does my right hon. Friend agree that in Liverpool we need houses to rent rather than houses for sale, and that Liverpool City Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-03", "file": "debates1976-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "51758cb96834e51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1409.2", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "MAIL SERVICES (GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LTD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I wonder, Mr. Speaker, whether you would look into the situation when your predecessor dealt with the matter of the last postal strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1409.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-03", "file": "debates1976-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "51758cb96834e51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1409.9", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "MAIL SERVICES (GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LTD.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "What I want to do, Mr. Speaker, is to draw to the attention of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1409.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-03", "file": "debates1976-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "51758cb96834e51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "rs to appoint or retire their teachers as they and the teaching association feel correct. The SSTA, so ably led by Mr. Docherty, has brought to the notice of the House the apparently incompatible terms of the letter sent by the Scottish Education Department to Mr. Docherty. It grieves me to know that that splendid Department has fallen so rapidly on to the rocks under the guidance of the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-03a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1609.2", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "preceding_text": "I am just wondering whether the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1609.4", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1609.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1617.2", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that the necessary process we are going through at present, of regenerating British industry and controlling public expenditure after the profligate extravagance of the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1617.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1627.5", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A rotten Bill\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman recall the example of the Industrial Relations Bill? The Lords amendments were given no fewer than five days by the Conservative Government for consideration in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1627.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1629.4", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "bility the most powerful economist on the face of the earth, the principal economic adviser to the President-elect of the United States? That is a matter which in my view is slightly more important than a procedural motion in the House of Commons. It would be desirable if this legislature of a small State could express its opinions upon the options he has posed before a decision is made upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1634.0", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " us how this House or its representatives will agree on the grounds we shall give to the House of Lords for rejecting its amendments if this House has not been able to discuss the amendments? Secondly, will the Leader of the House tell me whether it was on his authorisation that somebody briefed the Press on Tuesday night about the precise details of next Monday's business, or whether it was done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1635.0", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Surely there must come a time in this House when you, Mr. Speaker, must assert your authority over a Government who are deliberately seeking", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1635.0", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Surely there must come a time in this House when you, Mr. Speaker, must assert your authority over a Government who are deliberately seeking [ Interruption. ]—to stifle debate on crucial issues. Can you advise when, if ever, that time will come?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1635.3", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "CABLE & WIRELESS LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "preceding_text": "e action of the executive directors has put a question mark over the control of the company, and particularly the manner in which the Secretary of State for Industry exercises his powers of appointment to nationalised boards. The appointment of Mr. Edward Short as a part-time chairman of the company at a salary of £9,080 a year, compared with the £10,330 for the executive directors of the company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1635.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1639.5", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "preceding_text": "o make is that the hon. Gentleman read the relevant section in relation to which he says the law has been broken. However, will he take it from me that the words are .… wilfully misspends his time so as to retard the progress or delay the arrival of a mail bag\"? The essence of the matter is the word \"wilfully\". How can the hon. Gentleman say, if an action is authorised by the union, that— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1639.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1643.0", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "e to point out that when an hon. Member raises an Adjournment debate at night he is entitled to say which Department he hopes will answer him. What is unfortunate today is that my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North (Mr. Gorst) addressed the point to the Department of Industry and now we have to suffer an answer from the Secretary of State for Employment who has nothing to do with the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1648.5", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "—in the following terms —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1648.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1648.7", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "anvass. It has also agreed to bind itself to the result of that inquiry. It is likely, therefore, that the recognition question can be settled by the end of next week. In the circumstances, our union has discussed this matter with APEX and as a result our members have now been instructed to withdraw from the sympathetic action which began on Monday and normal service will be resumed immediately.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1648.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1648.7", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "gnition question can be settled by the end of next week. In the circumstances, our union has discussed this matter with APEX and as a result our members have now been instructed to withdraw from the sympathetic action which began on Monday and normal service will be resumed immediately.\"—[ Interruption. ]—\"It is a matter of regret that our union should have been forced to take the action it did.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1648.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1649.4", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "ces, our union has discussed this matter with APEX and as a result our members have now been instructed to withdraw from the sympathetic action which began on Monday and normal service will be resumed immediately. It is a matter of regret that our union should have been forced to take the action it did. But this conclusion could have been reached at any time during the past 10 weeks had the firm\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1649.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "I reiterate the statement of the General Secretary. Had Grunwick responded to ACAS or APEX approaches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1650.4", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "er of focussing the attention of the House and country on one aspect of one dispute when what we need to make clear to the world is that we are resolving our industrial relation problems and that the conciliation services are doing their job well. The workers of this country, those who work in the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service, are meeting with success in their efforts to overcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1650.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1650.5", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "ntry on one aspect of one dispute when what we need to make clear to the world is that we are resolving our industrial relation problems and that the conciliation services are doing their job well. The workers of this country, those who work in the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service, are meeting with success in their efforts to overcome—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"]—our industrial problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1663.2", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What have you achieved, then? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": " than three years ago, when the mostly Asian workers sought some form of recognition. It was ruthlessly crushed by the management. I am trying to show the House that this is not something which was blown up by the hon. Member for Hendon, North suddenly getting a brainwave in the middle of this week. It has been hanging over my right hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East and myself for many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1671.4", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "At the end of the day there are three questions which still remain to be answered at the end of this dispute. The first question is this. The Government say that it is legitimate for the Post Office workers to take selective \"blacking\" actions to support other industrial disputes. Indeed, some Government supporters have said that it is legitimate to do so and indeed highly praiseworthy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1671.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Urwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Urwin", "preceding_text": "ost moderate of trade union leaders, Tom Jackson, has responded in the way he has done in order to try to reach a satisfactory conclusion to this dispute. It is tragic, to say the least, that a man of his calibre and make-up should put himself in this position. I have the highest respect for law and order, as does any other hon. Member. It should be upheld at all costs in every section of society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1687.1", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "thin line between a national strike and a strike which applies to one particular company. They took action again in 1973. The matter was not raised then, and it is being raised now only because the Opposition thought that this was one more stick with which to beat the Government. They thought that this was a chance to prove that we are a bunch of Red raving lunatics who do not believe in the law —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1694.1", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": " Shrewsbury pickets. We have been told throughout to use words of condemnation in respect of the action of the postal workers' union. The hon. and learned Member for Runcorn (Mr. Carlisle) is nodding his head. We have been asked to say that in our view the action was illegal. I rest on what I said on Tuesday, namely, that it is not for me and not for this House to usurp the function of the courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1694.1", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": " of the action of the postal workers' union. The hon. and learned Member for Runcorn (Mr. Carlisle) is nodding his head. We have been asked to say that in our view the action was illegal. I rest on what I said on Tuesday, namely, that it is not for me and not for this House to usurp the function of the courts—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The wisdom of the course on which my right hon. Friend and I have —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1695.1", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The House will be interested to learn that this court action has been initiated by an organisation called the National Association for Freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-04", "file": "debates1976-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "d439b6ddc56f7aad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1696.5", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "POST OFFICE ACT 1953 (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I ask the House whether the timing of this debate is purely fortuitous or coincidental or whether it has something to do with events outside the House. I think it has a lot to do with such events. The underlying reasons for the debate initiated by the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-04a.1696.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-05", "file": "debates1976-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7a84d1f9c0f492cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-05a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Thomas", "preceding_text": "sual barn-storming speech of the kind that we have come to expect from him. When he was not being offensive, he was being hysterical, and, when he was being neither offensive nor hysterical, he was inaccurate and full of sound and fury. I remind the hon. Gentleman that Wales is not an island unto itself. It is not cocooned, cushioned and buttressed from national and international economic affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-05a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-05", "file": "debates1976-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7a84d1f9c0f492cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-05a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Thomas", "preceding_text": "ll allow for 1·5 million square feet of space and eventually—eventually—will provide between 3,000 and 4,000 jobs. We shall need every one of them and more. This represents a major step forward and is the best news that we have heard in North Gwent for many a long year. We are grateful, too, for the assistance which the Welsh Development Agency has given in terms of the job creation scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-05a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-05", "file": "debates1976-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7a84d1f9c0f492cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-05a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Thomas", "preceding_text": "tter co-ordination of their efforts. The situation is so grave that I believe that we need a job supremo for Wales and a development corporation for the Heads of the Valleys. The unemployment figures speak for themselves: in Abertillery 840 unemployed; in Brynmawr 438; in Ebbw Vale 1,010; in Tredegar 700—representing an average of 9·8 per cent. In Newbridge there are 499 people out of work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-05a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-05", "file": "debates1976-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7a84d1f9c0f492cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-05a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Thomas", "preceding_text": "s in the last financial year. Miners at Oakdale, Markham, Bargoed, Britannia and North Celynen collieries produced a combined total of 1·2 million tons, the highest group total in the South Wales coalfield. No one underestimates the difficulties facing us in Gwent, and no one, save, unhappily, so it seems, the hon. Member for Pembroke, believes that these problems can be overcome overnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-05a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-05", "file": "debates1976-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7a84d1f9c0f492cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-05a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Alec Jones)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Alec Jones)", "preceding_text": "ctions of the present Government. If he tempered his criticism with a little modesty and accepted, on behalf of his party, some of the blame and recognised the facts there would be a reduction in the quantity and volume of his criticism but a considerable improvement in its quality. The question of advance factories has been referred to briefly. I am willing to give figures, but time is a problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-05a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I take my hon. Friend's point, but I should like to reiterate that we would not wish to comment on the particular allegations, since they are entirely allegations and no evidence has been provided so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.4.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.13.2", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Did you vote last time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not inviting the House to look a little more carefully at the record of absenteeism on his Benches. As I have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.13.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has the unique capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has the unique capacity—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".] I repeat, the hon. Gentleman has the unique capacity for taking hold of trivial questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "idently are not to be touched upon here? During the overspill, the House of Lords will have dealt with more than 200 Government amendments to the torrent of legislation which it has before it. I think that this House will agree that it would be hard to find a more eloquent condemnation by the Government of the poor quality of their own legislative product. In The Daily Telegraph, Mr. Paul Johnson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "hronism, that undemocratic body to which the Opposition look when they want undemocratic procedures carried out. The House of Lords will always be the obedient puppet of the Tory Party. It carries out the Opposition's behests and does everything that they want done. The immense propaganda machine at their disposal, because of the riches possessed by them, pumps it home as though it were democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL AND EDUCATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "preceding_text": " I cannot anticipate the results of Report stage in another place but I should be surprised if further substantial changes were made. The situation therefore is that six hours are being allocated in which time we shall be considering technical changes which are not contentious, and five or so issues which have already been subject to careful scrutiny and examination both here and in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.64.10", "colnum": "64", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES BILL AND DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "After the resounding success of the victory on the last motion, it is essential that this one should be carried if the declared will of the House is to be fulfilled, Their Lordships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.64.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES BILL AND DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eddie Loyden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blackmail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eddie Loyden", "preceding_text": "the situation since the board has been in existence for 30 years. The new task must be seen against the changes in the industry, bear- ing in mind security of employment for dock workers. If the House of Lords persists in its attitude of making the decisions of the House of Commons abortive, it may compel people in the docks industry outside to take action against the decisions of the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES BILL AND DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": " necessary information in order to debate the timetable. But in regard to the Dock Work Regulation Bill and the National Health Services Bill the situation is different. We are concerned with whether we can give proper consideration to these proposals within a debating time of only six hours. In the case of the Dock Work Regulation Bill the other place has not yet even concluded its consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES BILL AND DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "rgument against the Government's present policy and conduct is the attitude of the Leader of the House himself, who, when he sat on these Benches, and even when he had another position on the Government side, constantly opposed the use of the guillotine to curtail debate. Until he assumed his present office, he was the embodiment of debate in the House. He was one of the greatest parliamentarians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES BILL AND DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": " The Government believe that it is essential to deal with the underlying industrial relations problems of the industry. If the record of this Government is compared with the record of the last Conservative Administration, our success and our judgment in these matters speak for themselves. We judge the Bill to be essential for industrial peace on the docks, and on that basis I call upon my Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.85.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.99.2", "colnum": "99", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ed over this legislation. On Second Reading, the Government had a majority of five; on Third Reading, a majority of three; and on this motion, on the basis of the current strengths of the parties, the best they could hope for is a majority of one. Does anyone really believe that this gives the Government a case for nationalising two significant industries at a cost of £400 million to £500 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.99.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "ciple of the measure. We know the Opposition's attitude and the power struggle that is going on in this House. I do not think it is any secret that many hon. Members are unhappy about some of the measures that are being forced through tonight. If I had a free vote, I should vote 100 per cent. for the pay beds Bill, completely for the Education Bill and on the whole for the Rent (Agriculture) Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "now all the items to which they are subscribing when they stand for election. The Dock Work Regulation Bill is one of these items. Individual Members may have grave doubts about certain measures, but we take them on that understanding. What I find depressing and worrying is that the party lines that were drawn up in 1974 are not relaxing at all with the economic crisis. Indeed, they are hardening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.107.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.118.3", "colnum": "118", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members will have to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-08", "file": "debates1976-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "80dbfae49db3cdb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-08a.125.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.187.16", "colnum": "187", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rder to proceed with that Bill, if they think fit, in the next Session of Parliament, provided that the Agents for the Bill give notice to the Clerks in the Private Bill Office of their intention to suspend further proceedings not later than Five o'clock on the day before the close of the present Session and that all Fees due on the Bill up to that date be paid.—[ The Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.187.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.208.5", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You lost.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did study the statistics rather carefully and came to the conclusion that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am aware that forecasts are liable to turn out wildly wrong\"— that is another quotation from \"The Right Approach\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "elistic in her misdescription on the radio last Friday, when she said that we always left a financial mess. Let us look at the record. In 1970 the Conservatives were left with a balance of payments surplus on current account. In 1973 they left us with a large deficit. In 1970 the Labour Government were repaying debts. In 1973 the Conservatives left us with a deficit of £4½ billion. In 1973—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Not to a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I notice that the right hon. Lady does not have the decency to admit that she was totally misleading people on the radio last Friday morning. Even in the euphoria of victory she should have some respect for the truth. I demand that the right hon. Lady withdraw her remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "orning. Even in the euphoria of victory she should have some respect for the truth. I demand that the right hon. Lady withdraw her remarks. [ Interruption. ] If she will not do so, now that the facts have been pointed out, we shall all know what value to place on her future utterances on these matters. As to the existing situation, the British people are sceptical of short-term instant solutions\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister realise that the constitutional support of the House of Lords is a great deal less dishonourable than the support of the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Mr. Maguire)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [ Interruption. ] Order. Hon. Gentlemen must give me a chance. The hon. Gentleman will withdraw, I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "ve to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration; namely, the charge of conspiracy between the Opposition Front Bench and the House of Lords and the constitutional position of the House of Lords. The Prime Minister made this charge in relation to legislation before the other House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is incorrect. A fixed number of places were provided in grammar schools and they were not in any way geared to the number of children who passed the 11-plus who were or were not able to benefit from grammar school education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "ol education. The number of places provided in grammar schools varied immensely from one local authority to another. There was no kind of national standard, whatever Opposition hon. Members may say. I shall explain why I believe so strongly that, in practice, for those concerned with parental choice—and there has been much lip service to that concept—comprehensives widen choice very substantially.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.228.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not the parents?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Hall", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the parents have the right to have their child considered for entry to any school in the area of their local authority, and that the local authority then has the right to choose the school best suited to the child's talents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now apologise, Martin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I speak as one of the few Members of this House who started at a comprehensive school at age 11.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is going.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "nts of moderation in Government policy. There was a time when the so-called moderates in the Labour Party were prepared to stand up behind their leader and agree with him that the grammar schools would be abolished only over his dead body. But the right hon. Member for Huyton (Sir H. Wilson) has gone from the Government. Alas, the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Jenkins) has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend agree that the Government, in proceeding in this way, are acting totally contrary to the Prime Minister's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend agree that the Government, in proceeding in this way, are acting totally contrary to the Prime Minister's speech—[ Interruption. ]—at Oxford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "children and teachers alike. Opposition Members know how they had their crammers in which education as we know it did not go on. In them, they specialised only in the 11-plus which consisted of an intelligence test, arithmetic and a test in English. That was all that was crammed into their pupils. General education was excluded simply to provide pupils with an advantage in the forthcoming 11-plus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-09", "file": "debates1976-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ae9d62d3788da53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.340.4", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "I am gently rebuked by you, Mr. Speaker, as every hon. Member is from time to time, with your wit, wisdom, eloquence and knowledge of what has made this country great through its educational system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-09a.340.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.385.7", "colnum": "385", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "shall be heard before the Committee on the Bill, unless their Petition has been presented within the time limited within the present Session, and their locus standi has not been disallowed; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.385.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" And falling off all of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "As usual, the Scottish National Party is riding about three horses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.414.4", "colnum": "414", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LORDS AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "When this House disagrees with amendments made in another place to Bills sent there by this House it is the convention to appoint a Committee to draw up reasons for such disagreement. The Bill is then sent back to the other place with the House of Commons reasons for disagreeing with the Lords amendments. The appointment of such a Committee has always been treated by the House as a formality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LORDS AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "which is designed to give reasons. I can think of few collections of people whom I would regard as less fitted than right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite to formulate reasons for anything. We therefore seek to amend the motion to allow discussions of the later motions which will come up tonight. We recognise that the rather peremptory conduct of the Government is very convenient to the Left wing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LORDS AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "t that bad habit from observing the right hon. Member for Huyton (Sir H. Wilson) when he was Prime Minister, whom I never copy in any other respect. I had hoped that, during the course of my remarks, I might pick up a bite from the odd minnow, but I never thought to get a whale such as the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Lewis). When I was interrupted just now, I was endeavouring to waste—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.421.2", "colnum": "421", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LORDS AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "vernment have not so far shown any willingness to meet us on the point at issue, although I suspect that in their deeper councils they are aware that there is a point of fairness to be granted. They have not shown any willingness so far to meet us, and in those circumstances I do not see how I can encourage my hon. Friends to vote in such a way as to preclude any debate on the merits of the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LORDS AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order for the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) to call the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) a Tory stooge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LORDS AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Treachery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "om the three by-elections at Woolwich, Walsall, North and Workington. Surely that means that the other place along the corridor has every right to take account of the current support in the country for these controversial Socialist measures, particularly when the Government depend for their existence on the support of a man who was interned in Belfast for three years for being a member of the IRA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LORDS AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "North and Workington. Surely that means that the other place along the corridor has every right to take account of the current support in the country for these controversial Socialist measures, particularly when the Government depend for their existence on the support of a man who was interned in Belfast for three years for being a member of the IRA. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Treachery.\"] It seems even now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LORDS AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that I want to listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LORDS AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am very' anxious for us to get back to the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LORDS AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "e public are observing our going through this ridiculous and childish charade. If parliamentary democracy ever gets the boot in this country, it will be because of the kind of thing we have seen this afternoon. We have an obligation to conduct our affairs at least as reasonably intelligently as moderately advanced children. It is high time that more hon. Members were prepared to expose themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.451.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LORDS AMENDMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "May I ask for the permission of the House to speak a second time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.471.6", "colnum": "471", "heading": "SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "yer—unless one goes to a bookshop which is open on a Sunday; the only bookshops allowed to be open on a Sunday are those at an approved station. There is in the law nothing to tell one how to approve or disapprove of a station. In view of the rail cuts I disapprove of all stations, except for one or two which have remained open on a Sunday. With regard to take-away food, almost any take-away food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.471.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.471.6", "colnum": "471", "heading": "SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "on a Sunday; the only bookshops allowed to be open on a Sunday are those at an approved station. There is in the law nothing to tell one how to approve or disapprove of a station. In view of the rail cuts I disapprove of all stations, except for one or two which have remained open on a Sunday. With regard to take-away food, almost any take-away food—[ Interruption. ] In the case of take-away food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.471.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "es, the chassis, the engine and the windscreen wipers. The only thing one cannot buy is the whole car, the whole motor cycle or the whole cycle. I do not think that I need to give any further instances of the fact that this is a plumb bad law. It is, of course, a law which is very hard to enforce, because I think that all of us, I say with respect, at some time have broken the Sunday trading laws.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barney Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barney Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "were no inquiry at all. The Government are seeking to push on one side the public inquiry concept in relation to the dock labour scheme. 8.15 p.m. If they followed the logic of their argument, it would not be long before they would be trying to do away with public inquiries about roads, planning applications or many other matters. This is a slippery slope and we should resist being pushed down it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "r. Jack Jones got them on to, because that is the simple reality of the situation. The truth is, as has been said on both sides of the House, that the workers in the country are very much divided about the Bill, including some dock workers and including members of the T & GWU. This is one of those occasions when the Lords are on the side of the workers and the workers are on the side of the Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "great sluice which divides the salt-water section from the fresh-water section of the river; and five miles from that sluice takes us to the little country town of St. Ives. After I spoke about this matter in the House before, I had representations from workers at St. Ives saying \"Thank goodness you made that point. We do not want a lot of dockers coming into St. Ives and taking the work from us\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.546.4", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "hat custom there has been honoured because things are working very well. I wonder whether he really wants this legislation. Those remarks apply to other ports, such as Southampton. If the Government win the Division and this question goes back to the Lords, I suggest that their Lordships will be within their rights to put it back. I have no doubt that the country would be on the side of the Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.546.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.552.2", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ker comes and takes your job, what will you do?\" The lorry driver replied in no uncertain terms what he would do if that were to happen. The legislation does not provide for dockers to take over people's jobs in that manner. My hon. Friend the Member for Garston has made the point over and over again, but it seems that it has to be made once more. The five-mile limit is the first preliminary step—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "ill in order to protect the interests of the workers in the small ports. But it is not to protect the interests of workers in the small ports that they are to be brought within the Bill, despite the efforts of the other place to keep them out of it. What is more, it is no good the Government saying that the other place is unrepresentative. I think that that argument has been exploded convincingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.570.4", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "tion (2D)( b ) defines a small port—this is one of the alternatives—by the gross registered tonnage of the vessels which can go in and be accommodated at mean high water. Lords Amendment No. 14 would give the Secretary of State power to change that tonnage. In answer to the hon. Member for Perth and East Perthshire (Mr. Crawford), I say that, while I cannot run round the coast of Scotland tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.570.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.572.5", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "It is not possible to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.572.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.574.5", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "That is certainly the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.574.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-10", "file": "debates1976-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e957c9be462d3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.576.2", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORK REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "ssary to safeguard the position. That we have done. Let the House consider how seriously we can now take the hon. Member for St. Marylebone when he says that the Bill will give dockers a legal right to take other men's jobs. In Committee, he and his Front Bench colleagues made similar suggestions, saying that the people who needed protection were not dockers but others whose jobs were in jeopardy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-10a.576.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.631.8", "colnum": "631", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be considered upon Monday next.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "—[ The Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.631.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.633.6", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I have seen the motion signed by my hon. Friend and others of my hon. Friends, and I am pleased to note that they have reverted to a selective import control policy rather than one of general import controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.633.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.645.5", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that whatever future measures have to be announced they are the prerogative of the elected Government in consultation with the party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.645.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "is questions according to his own sense of propriety and taste, but I do not believe that the people of the United Kingdom will accept that the ceremony at the Cenotaph should be made a matter for party dispute. A request was made by the Scottish National Party early this week for representation at the Cenotaph. There are other minority parties in the House which might also wish to be represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.654.2", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have made clear our attitude to the Dock Work Regulation Bill and I hope that the House of Lords will not add to the potential dangers that exist there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "What makes the Bill nonsense is the Secretary of State's failure to adjust—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER (CASTING VOTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ve Speakers have not invariably been consistent\"— but the principles emerge, and they are two. The second— that, where no further discussion is possible, decisions should not be taken except by a majority\"— does not arise in this case, but the first, and I believe the most important, is that the Speaker should always vote for further discussion, where this is possible\". My points of order are two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "—by both parties, appointed to the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.674.5", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ed to aviation and shipbuilding are worried. They are made aware before they invest in that activity or create a new activity that they could become liable to these powers of the Secretary of State. When they become aware, too, that if the Secretary of State's eye lights on them they could be exposed to the same sort of terms of confiscation as are posed in the Bill, there is a major disincentive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.674.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "cally, there is the industry itself, then the sponsoring Department, and beyond that the little institution called the Treasury. If any major expenditure or capital investment comes up, the Treasury quickly takes an interest. I told the chairmen whom I appointed that I would interfere with them as little as possible, but within hours of their appointment I was interfering because various policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Bridgwater (Mr. King) said that we should devote more time to the \"considered\" Lords amendments. These Lords amendments were not considered at all. They are amendments deliberately designed to wreck the Bill, to take the guts out of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ect of giving equal rights to organisations of which only a small part were directly involved in the industries. The case that I have just made for adopting our approach and rejecting that reflected in these amendments is one that has been put at every stage of this Bill. The arguments that I have advanced are now very familiar ones. Hon. Members have accepted them before, and on the same grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " have accepted them in their votes. The Standing Committee accepted these arguments whenever it had to make decisions upon them. The House, on Report, accepted them when they were put to it. I obviously do not suggest that every Member accepts the arguments, but I do not think that any individual Member, however distinguished he may be, would arrogate to himself the right to be called \"the House\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.702.2", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "That is not relevant to my point. I am saying that Governments of both parties within the last decade came to the conclusion that it was necessary to introduce a comprehensive legislative framework within which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.714.7", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "preceding_text": "dustrial democracy. He might have gone on to say that he wished that when the Conservatives nationalised Rolls-Royce they had implemented in the necessary legislation some of their industrial charter and their concept of industrial democracy. Industrial democracy can be achieved only if, for elections involving a substantial amount of control, every employee has a vote. Local industrial democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.714.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "e overriding body which determines and interprets the rules. The association is not compelled to hold a delegate conference of lay members, except at the behest of the national council. In addition, the national council takes all decisions. The national council cannot be removed from office. All that seems to me to be far from democratic. That, however, is what the Opposition want us to recognise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "ons. The national council cannot be removed from office. All that seems to me to be far from democratic. That, however, is what the Opposition want us to recognise. [ Interruption. ] Of course, the Conservatives do not want these associations to be able to negotiate collectively because they might be able to secure better bargains. They want the associations to be complete creatures of management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The answer is that BALPA happen to be a very well run, efficient, democratically organised union, and there was no need for any other union. But in many of these organisations there is a crying need for a union which does better for its members than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.720.4", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I hope, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that you are listening to me. I do not imagine that you would want to join a sweetheart union, but these are the pitfalls that would befall you if you did. With regard to the finances of BASA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.720.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sing the 'Red Flag'\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman talks about integrity, but I have the Mace just in front of me to remind me how he regards our institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman speaks as though this gentleman were some kind of vestal priest. The gentleman in question gave his legal opinion for a fee. He did not come forward as a public-spirited citizen to state his view but was invited by a ship-repairing company to provide a legal opinion for a large fee, and that was what he did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.750.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.750.3", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "on, who had a professional responsibility and who works under a professional code of conduct, sold shoddy goods and distorted those goods so as not properly to discharge his professional function. The Minister has made a very grave charge. If he made it outside this House, he would lay himself open to grace and serious damages. It is a gross abuse of the privilege of Parliament to act in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.750.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-11", "file": "debates1976-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f27e3821164edc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.757.15", "colnum": "757", "heading": "DRIVER AND VEHICLE LICENSING CENTRE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "Mr. Giles Shaw (Pudsey) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-11a.757.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-15", "file": "debates1976-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "de63d7376556b784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.904.4", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell that to the pensioners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Is is unfortunate that the hon. Gentleman seeks to peddle rubbish in the House. The figures that I gave relating to expenditure on food show that the resources of pensioners, far from being eroded, have been more than maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.904.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-15", "file": "debates1976-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "de63d7376556b784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The fall that has occurred over the last two and a half years does not, in fact, beat the record of Sir Stafford Cripps. It just beats the record of Lord Barber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-15", "file": "debates1976-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "de63d7376556b784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "I shall endeavour to answer the question as nicely as I can, in both senses of the word. Part of the trouble stems from the wages free-for-all which took place when threshold payments awarded under stage 3 of the previous Government's pay policy were incorporated in basic rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-15", "file": "debates1976-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "de63d7376556b784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "I shall endeavour to answer the question as nicely as I can, in both senses of the word. Part of the trouble stems from the wages free-for-all which took place when threshold payments awarded under stage 3 of the previous Government's pay policy were incorporated in basic rates. [ Interruption. ] Part of the trouble", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.913.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-15", "file": "debates1976-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "de63d7376556b784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.921.8", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "The companies themselves have responded reasonably to a reasonable report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.921.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-15", "file": "debates1976-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "de63d7376556b784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.922.4", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt whatsoever that, taken overall, the advantage that we now get from green pound arrangements means that we are now in benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.922.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-15", "file": "debates1976-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "de63d7376556b784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "CHURCH OF ENGLAND (ENDOW MENTS AND GLEBE MEASURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And unpaid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "fter an earnest and lively debate on these Measures where there has been a definite balance of opinion in the debating Chamber, that when the Division bells ring the result is determined by what is called the pay-roll vote. I am not using that expression in any dispraise, far from it, but let me say this to and through the Second Church Commissioner who is an appointee of Her Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-15", "file": "debates1976-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "de63d7376556b784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "CHURCH OF ENGLAND (ENDOW MENTS AND GLEBE MEASURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "cue_text": "Hors. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "preceding_text": "by an Act of Parliament, though a serious matter, can be done by this House. However, when it conies to interfering with sections of the community not for that purpose, it is a different matter altogether. If a man works hard and saves some money, when he has paid his taxes and when the due legislators, such as we, have passed the enactments, he should be allowed to spend that money as he pleases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-15", "file": "debates1976-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "de63d7376556b784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "CHURCH OF ENGLAND (ENDOW MENTS AND GLEBE MEASURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "laces itself—and it is a shame for a Tory Member to have to say this—in an awkward and difficult position when it comes before us with a Measure which has the full support of the Synod but which we know does not have the support of many ordinary people in the news. I am sorry that, as a loyal churchman, I must once again, as I did over the virtual abolition of the use of the Book of Common Prayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-15", "file": "debates1976-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "de63d7376556b784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "COAL RESERVES (VALE OF BELVOIR)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "I do not have time to reply to that. The matter is a little complicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-15a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "preceding_text": "I am very pleased that the Government have at last recognised the need to tax all short-term benefits, or at least investigate the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Again, I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he will state the Opposition's position on the closed shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1108.4", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tantial anomalies and, I think, considerable grievances, but it is far easier to state the grievance than it is to consider the remedy, which would require not only legislation but a substantial increase in the number of civil servants. Although the Opposition make noises about it, they are committed to reducing that, too. Nobody wants to deny that there is a problem here which must be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1108.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1110.3", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \" Rubbish \".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister meets the TUC, will he tell it of the profound delight which workers in the largest cold store in Europe, which is in my constituency, have expressed about the part that the House of Lords has played in amending the Dock Work Regulation Bill? Will he further tell the TUC that on this occasion, as on others, it is a case of the Lords being on the side of the workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "WATER RESOURCES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Mr. Denis Ho well)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There has been rain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Mr. Denis Ho well)", "preceding_text": "d is largely due to three major factors—the programme of emergency works carried out by the water authorities, involving improved inter-linkages within regions; the response by the public and by industry to our appeal for economy in water use; and the wide use made of the new powers conferred on water authorities by the Drought Act. It is worth noting that since the Act became law in early August—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1112.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "LOBBYING OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "ly get in tomorrow. The unions estimate that there might be 20,000 in the mass demonstration, which means that 17,000 will be frustrated. Moreover, they will think that if they put in a Green Card when they actually reached the Central Lobby, somehow or other their Member will have got it, whereas the officials quite frequently take the Green Cards and put them straight into the wastepaper basket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": ", at a meeting of London Scottish Conservative graduates, Chelsea, London … at 1.30 on Monday 15th November 1976\". A number of Press reports based on this document have appeared today, but my complaint concerns the whole document, which had a fairly wide distribution within the Lobby and the Gallery of the House last night. I shall not burden you and the House by reading the whole document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "but my complaint concerns the whole document, which had a fairly wide distribution within the Lobby and the Gallery of the House last night. I shall not burden you and the House by reading the whole document—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] I shall indeed read enough to satisfy and possibly to incriminate some Tory Members. It says: The Labour Party has clearly been infiltrated to a terrifying degree \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "y to incriminate some Tory Members. It says: The Labour Party has clearly been infiltrated to a terrifying degree \"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I counsel hon. Gentlemen opposite to watch their cheers because this moves from the banal to the scurrilous, as they will learn— by fifth columnists who call themselves Labour, but who in fact hold views totally alien to the democratic Labour tradition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "trated to a terrifying degree \"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I counsel hon. Gentlemen opposite to watch their cheers because this moves from the banal to the scurrilous, as they will learn— by fifth columnists who call themselves Labour, but who in fact hold views totally alien to the democratic Labour tradition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It goes on: They have tricked decent Labour voters \".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1127.4", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Paddington (Mr. Latham) is raising this matter on a point of order. I ask the hon. Member to confine himself to the notes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "it that this document comes clearly within that classification. On page 153, in the chapter headed Acts or Conduct Constituting Contempt\". \"Erskine May\" lists Reflections on the motives of a Member or a group of Members \". An interesting point arises in that there is a complaint by the 10 who are named, but there is also a complaint properly to be examined in respect of the remaining 20 of the 30—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1131.2", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "CABLE AND WIRELESS, LTD. (DENATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow (Eastbourne)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow (Eastbourne)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to restore Cable and Wireless Ltd. to private ownership. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1131.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Miss Margaret Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Jackson", "preceding_text": "Indeed, the hon. Member for Faversham went into the matter of defining an author. The main point is simply that it is the general rule that a word which is not specially defined in statutes is construed as bearing its original meaning. We do not define such a word unless there is some wish either to enlarge or restrict its meaning, as the case might be, or include or exclude some shade of meaning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jackson", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but the hon. Gentleman is mistaken. The technical investigation group did not consider \"works\". It considered other matters such as reference books.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1186.2", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "relieved to hear the hon. Lady say at least that she intends to go beyond the single solitary author and go perhaps further and include the multi-author, as she rather inelegantly described him or her, in due course. I should like to hear more. I do not know whether she described it when I was out of the Chamber, in which case I apologise for not being here to hear it, but it seems rather strange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1186.2", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ber for Chelmsford (Mr. St. John-Stevas) is muttering from a sedentary position, I would say that one form of interest that I do not have to declare is a typing interest. Why is it impossible to include right from the start, if the hon. Lady were having a proper scheme, books written by two authors? 7.15 p.m. I have another past interest to declare, and this is something which concerns me greatly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "ndments. She is a junior Minister. Only a Cabinet Minister can give such assurances. We assumed that on Report the Secretary of State, the sponsor of the Bill, would have the grace to turn up. Is she ill? Is there some good reason for her not turning up? I take it that there is not. The Secretary of State has a great reputation, and she preserves it by keeping out of trouble when there is trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1227.0", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "iend the Member for Clitheroe (Mr. Walder) made a very good point in asking just what was a reference book. A book might be a reference book in one library but not in another. In one library such books might be put in the reference department while in others they could be lent out quite freely. I shall not repeat all that my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Mr. St. John-Stevas) said earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1230.2", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The question is, That the amendment be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-16", "file": "debates1976-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ef475938ddac4eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "nts again delivered by the hon. Lady in those mellifluous tones which have, if not persuaded us, occasionally soothed the irritation we feel at hearing arguments which have already been demolished by the Opposition put forward once again by the Minister in a departmentalise, with which we have become all too familiar. I hope that, as the night wears on, the hon. Lady will become more co-operative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-16a.1233.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1337.4", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": "hear.\"]— Mr. Eric Heffer, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Mrs. Audrey Wise, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Mr. Julius Silverman, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Mrs. Lena Jeger, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Mr. Denis Skinner, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Millie Miller, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Neil Kinnock, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Harry Selby, MP\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1337.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": "John Mendelson, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"]— William Wilson, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Tom Swain, MP\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": "John Mendelson, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"]— William Wilson, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Tom Swain, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Tom Litterick, MP\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": "John Mendelson, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"]— William Wilson, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Tom Swain, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Tom Litterick, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— James Lamond, MP\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": "I will continue: Richard Kelley, MP\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": "I will continue: Richard Kelley, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Dan Jones, MP\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": "I will continue: Richard Kelley, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Dan Jones, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Alec Jones, MP\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": "I will continue: Richard Kelley, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Dan Jones, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Alec Jones, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Eddie Loyden, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Gwilym Roberts, MP\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": "I will continue: Richard Kelley, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Dan Jones, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Alec Jones, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Eddie Loyden, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Gwilym Roberts, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Ian Mikardo, MP\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": "I will continue: Richard Kelley, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Dan Jones, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Alec Jones, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Eddie Loyden, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Gwilym Roberts, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Ian Mikardo, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Michael Foot, MP\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": "I will continue: Richard Kelley, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Dan Jones, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Alec Jones, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Eddie Loyden, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Gwilym Roberts, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Ian Mikardo, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Michael Foot, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Stan Orme, MP\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bryan", "preceding_text": "lley, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Dan Jones, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Alec Jones, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Eddie Loyden, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Gwilym Roberts, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Ian Mikardo, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Michael Foot, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Stan Orme, MP\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— Tony Benn, MP\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1342.4", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Perhaps I may intervene, by courtesy of the House, for one moment. I hope that the House will bear in mind that there is a long programme of business before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1342.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1346.4", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "l that my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, South did was to suggest that there are in the Labour Party people of political views or colours totally different from the right or left of the Labour Party. That is well known to be the case. What I find so extraordinary is that the hon. Member for Paddington should feel so sensitive about it. Surely, he is proud of his extreme Left-wing tendencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1346.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1349.2", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "To bring my remarks to a conclusion—[HON. MEMBERS \"No\".]—I would like to respond to the hon. Member for Harlow (Mr. Newens). I must confess a terrible weakness, that I had not read my hon. Friend's list. I do not know whether the hon. Member for Harlow was on it, but I presume he was from his point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1349.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I draw your attention to two aspects of this problem which do not seem to be receiving quite the attention they should from the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I draw your attention to two aspects of this problem which do not seem to be receiving quite the attention they should from the Chair—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—if I may say so with respect? First, you have clearly ruled that this is a prima facie breach of privilege—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1354.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1358.3", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "only hon. Member serving on that Committee; all the others are right hon. Members. That being so, and as I am included in the list mentioned by the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South, I rise to express to you, Sir, and to the House the hope that the House will forgive me if I absent myself from the proceedings of the Committee while this matter is under discussion, if it is referred to the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1368.5", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "tumble of politics. The hon. Member for Walton is part of that rough and tumble. We sometimes use picturesque phrases, and somewhat heated expressions. The question whether that sort of expression should go to the Committee of Privileges is a serious matter because privilege is serious, but otherwise it is not serious. There has been no imputation against the moral character of the Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1368.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Gavin Strang)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Gavin Strang)", "preceding_text": "o the agricultural community. It will give farm workers and their families a security of tenure and a protection against eviction which is long overdue. Therefore, we are in no doubt that this is a very basic and radical reform, and one of which the present Government are proud. Secondly, the right hon. Gentleman took the opportunity to attack my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House. I rebut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1391.2", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Gavin Strang)", "preceding_text": "tunity to attack my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House. I rebut—[HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he? \"] My right hon. Friend has had a great many demands put on his time, coming very shortly after an illness and caused to a large extent by the confrontation that has taken place between the Conservative-dominated second Chamber and the House of Commons. That is what today's proceedings are all about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-17", "file": "debates1976-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "53d4d6f59703f2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1391.4", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (AGRICULTURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" For how long? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "d it—that the right hon. Gentleman expected this debate to take place tomorrow but it is taking place today. I am glad that he acknowledges that. Let me make our position clear. We recognise that there is an element of genuine inconvenience here, but I think that all hon. Members have been aware that we are not in a position to predict precisely what will be the business in the Commons at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-17a.1391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1540.0", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "eported 11 years ago, recommended that the 1876 legislation should be revised? Does she recall that Little-wood recommended that in the meantime there should be no tinkering? Is it not the case that in those 11 years there has been a lot of tinkering but no legislation? Therefore, will not my hon. Friend agree and accept that this large amount of experimentation on animals is totally unacceptable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1565.3", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "CONDUCT OF DEBATES (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ssions are exchanged across the Floor, from either side of the House. It is hardly necessary for me to remind the House that any Member who is ordered to withdraw will not be able to participate in the rest of this day's proceedings. May I say in conclusion that I find it slightly offensive to the Chair that, when hon. Members are asked to withdraw a statement, they do so in a half-hearted manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1568.0", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "MR. HOSENBALL AND MR. AGEE (DEPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "retary to his conclusions. Finally, will the Home Secretary be prepared privately—one appreciates that he cannot, on a question affecting the security of the State, be public about these matters—to give to Mr. Agee, before the advisory panel hearing, information about \"the regular contacts\" which are named in the letter to him and indicate whether these were clandestine or perfectly open contacts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1571.6", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "MR. HOSENBALL AND MR. AGEE (DEPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wish to draw your attention to the fact that the original Question put by my right hon. Friend the Member for Lanark (Mrs. Hart)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1571.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1583.0", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Mellish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Mellish", "preceding_text": "I am glad to follow the hon. Member for Horncastle (Mr. Tapsell) and to say that I support him entirely. Yesterday I listened to the debate and I felt thoroughly ashamed. I thought that the House did itself a great disservice, Which resulted in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1584.0", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "preceding_text": "ttee of Privileges. That was decided only yesterday, and it was very much a congruent matter. The circumstances were the same, although I admit that there was the difference yesterday that it was a complaint against one of my hon. Friends, whereas today it is a complaint against an organisation within the Labour Party. But, apart from that, it is the same complaint. There is a congruence of names—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1588.0", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "to the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Sproat) and I hope that he takes note of the need to behave accordingly. The hon. Member for Aberdeen, South has not only made wild imputations that other Members are elected by fraud but has descended to the politics of the gutter by poking his runny nose into everyone else's constituency, seeking to raise disruption and disunity amongst the population—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1588.2", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "aker. It has been argued that the two matters are equivalent, and in trying to make a case that they are not equivalent it is necessary to refer to the points made earlier. I am trying to make the case that the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South has been disruptive and causing division in the population by seeking to play off the unemployed and the sick against those fortunate enough to be employed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1630.2", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "l. The whole of that is without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (i) above,\". That sub-paragraph says that they can determine how the management of the activities of the Corporation\"— not of the ship repairing industry but of the whole Corporation— and those subsidiaries can most efficiently be organised,\". Therefore, what the Minister of State claims, doubtless misled by his advisers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1649.1", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "differently from those in the private sector. They realised that once they were in the public sector it did not matter whether they made money or even worked, they would be bailed out. It was discovered that a number of overtime workers had adopted the practice of leaving the yard at 5.30 pm while a few of their mates remained to clock off at 7.30 pm. That is the British Leyland style of overtime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "to support the Government the next time Mr. Bailey is there with his tame poodles. The hon. Member for Caernarvon has been sadly misled. Whenever the workers in Bristol Channel Ship Repairers have dared to resent the victimisation from which they suffer from Mr. Bailey and his colleagues, and the kind of filthy vilification to which the hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit) so aptly lent himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1654.3", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "in about the way in which shipbuilding yards were to operate and asked whether ship repairing yards were to operate in the same way. The answer is that under the provision in Clause 5, which I have read out, they will be treated identically. I shall read out the relevant provision once again—and certainly read the words which the hon. Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop) claims that I omitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1658.0", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neville Trotter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Well, do not do so, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neville Trotter", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to intervene in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "e aircraft and shipbuilding industries are nationalised. Nothing could be further from the truth. 7.45 p.m. We have fought the Bill every inch of the way. We have been determined to prevent the nationalisation of these industries. But we have to accept that in the case of aircraft and shipbuilding we have failed in our efforts. It lies within the Government's power to nationalise those industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-18", "file": "debates1976-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "f53eb585c0341ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1687.13", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael McGuire", "preceding_text": "I am indeed pleased that through good fortune—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-18a.1687.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-19", "file": "debates1976-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e4ce69b63e1285a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1716.2", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "said that it is important that the House should reach a conclusion upon the amendments Many of them are hotly contested, and it would be right that we should express our views in the Division Lobbies—and there will be a number of Divisions. The time for debate must be accordingly curtailed because of the guillotine. The hon. Gentleman is inviting me to let through the amendments without Divisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-19", "file": "debates1976-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e4ce69b63e1285a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1721.1", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I have heard the right hon. Gentleman say things that he regretted later. I at least give credit to my hon. and noble Friend for, immediately after it was drawn to his attention —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-19", "file": "debates1976-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e4ce69b63e1285a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1721.1", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": " other place to challenge the views of the elected Members of this House. It is only on this amendment that I wish to pick up these few points. After that, I shall co-operate totally by simply proposing reasons why we should reject the Lords amendment. This is a measure which has been carefully considered by this House in Committee and on Report. We are determined that the Bill will pass into law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-19", "file": "debates1976-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e4ce69b63e1285a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1727.0", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "arantee against detriment, they will go private. We fear that a future Labour Government will abolish the private sector and that the consultants, therefore, will go abroad, and that yet another future Labour Government will abolish the right to practise and the right to have private treatment abroad. That is the direction in which we are heading. This amendment goes to the root of that objection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-19", "file": "debates1976-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e4ce69b63e1285a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1729.5", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "he Bill. It is the part-time consultants whom the Opposition should take steps to protect. The decision whether to continue part-time or to go whole-time places those consultants in a dilemma. Whole-time consultants will not suffer detriment, but those who have been fiddling the system should suffer some sort of detriment. On that point, I should imagine that I have the support of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-19", "file": "debates1976-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e4ce69b63e1285a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That this House doth disagree with the Lords in the said amendment. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-19", "file": "debates1976-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e4ce69b63e1285a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That this House doth disagree with the Lords in the said amendment. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\". [HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye.\"] To the contrary \"No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-19", "file": "debates1976-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e4ce69b63e1285a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That this House doth disagree with the Lords in the said amendment. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\". [HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye.\"] To the contrary \"No.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think that the \"Ayes\" have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1780.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-19", "file": "debates1976-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e4ce69b63e1285a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1780.3", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The next amendment is Lords Amendment No. 48.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1780.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-19", "file": "debates1976-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e4ce69b63e1285a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1781.0", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "nds. My hon. Friend the Member for Edgbaston suggested that it would include even geriatric homes. All sorts of premises would be swept into the net for the purposes of the notification procedure. This seemed to be totally unnecessary and a gross infringement. But then it turned out that it was the Government's intention to collect a comprehensive list of premises available in the private sector —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-19", "file": "debates1976-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e4ce69b63e1285a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1793.4", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "I beg to move an amendment to insert, after the name of Dr. Vaughan, the name of Mr. Dunlop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-19a.1793.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-22", "file": "debates1976-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8848b8090e1c5531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-22a.1851.7", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "CROMARTY PETROLEUM ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "at the Bill is the same, in every respect, as the Bill which was presented in the present Session: That as soon as a certificate by one of the Clerks in the Public Bill Office that such a declaration had been so deposited has been laid upon the Table of the House, the Bill shall be deemed to have been read the Second time: That this Order be a Standing Order of the House.—[ Mr. Gregor MacKenzie. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-22a.1851.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-22", "file": "debates1976-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8848b8090e1c5531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-22a.1891.3", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "Ship repairing was included—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-22a.1891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-22", "file": "debates1976-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8848b8090e1c5531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-22a.1893.0", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "e particularly nasty brand of vitriol that has been injected into the arguments about Bristol Channel Ship Repairers. I feel that the attitude of the Government and the incredible decision today to continue the battle over the Bill are motivated almost more than anything else on the Labour Benches by a personal sense of resentment that one company has had the nerve to fight against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-22a.1893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-22", "file": "debates1976-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8848b8090e1c5531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-22a.1903.4", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The withdrawal by the hon. Member for Christchurch and Lymington, in my respectful submission to you, was not broad enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-22a.1903.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-22", "file": "debates1976-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8848b8090e1c5531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-22a.1905.3", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hurry up.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "It is always wrong to give way to Opposition Members, with one or two exceptions. In the main, they make no contribution whatever to intelligent discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-22a.1905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-22", "file": "debates1976-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8848b8090e1c5531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-22a.1922.1", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman well knows that this is a wrecking amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-22a.1922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ll not resist any proposal of that sort. I hope that my right hon. Friend will not rebuke me when we leave the Chamber. The Gracious Speech begins very properly with a reference to the 25th anniversary of Her Majesty's accession to the Throne, which is to be celebrated next year. This will give the nation the opportunity to express its thanks for a quarter of a century of devotion and public duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " legislative cover than is now provided. Until that can be provided, I ask them to continue to take the prime responsibility that they have already undertaken on our behalf. We should also like to introduce a Bill on occupational pensions but more consultations will be needed. Again, much will depend on the time that is available. We intend in 1977–78—that is, not this Session—to legislate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This is a matter of serious concern. Against this sombre world background we must consider how we determine our economic affairs and policies. The doctrine of interdependence of world trade is being spread more widely, is becoming more generally accepted, and is being proved more conclusively every day. Domestically against that background we have achieved noteworthy successes in certain respects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "gainst a disastrous failure of regulating industrial relations in the courts as though they were criminal matters. Does anybody claim that there has not been noteworthy success in that area of activity? We have relied on voluntary consent and co-operation. Nowhere has voluntary co-operation been more crucial or effective than in the attack on inflation. There has been real success in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed to destroy this country. That is what I said and that is what I stand by. That is a singular success, which even Conservative Members should be ready to welcome in the interests of their own country. The voluntary pay guidelines for which the TUC made itself responsible were achieved through the social contract. It is a living agreement based on a social strategy, yes, and an economic strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hear some time from the Opposition what their attitude is—the need for a further voluntary agreement on income levels for 1977–78. I wonder whether we shall have the support of the Opposition for that. On prices, there have been steep increases for gas, coal, electricity and travel. All of these have borne very hardly on families, but these industries cannot live for ever on borrowed money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "se industries —the Opposition Front Bench knows this even if Opposition Back Benchers care to forget it—were financed by substantial increases in public sector borrowing. That is the way they did it. They allowed public sector expenditure to rise by borrowing and they increased the supply of money to do it. We were the heirs of that profligacy. We have now brought public expenditure under control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "mprovement in our strike record. The number of days lost in industrial disputes is only one-fifth of the level of two years ago. These factors among others—they are not the only ones—have helped to make exports more profitable and have encouraged industry to increase new investment, despite high interest rates. I am glad to say that interest rates have declined slightly, just by a touch, recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course we would not\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "es—have helped to make exports more profitable and have encouraged industry to increase new investment, despite high interest rates. I am glad to say that interest rates have declined slightly, just by a touch, recently—[ Laughter .] I know that the hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) would much prefer us to fail than to succeed, but as we continue he may find that they will come down even further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, it is because they are party politicians. However, it is still expected that industrial investment will increase sharply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n with these words: We greet the Chancellor of the Exchequer. We wish to inform him that there will be a deficit on the balance of payments of nearly £800 million during the current year. I remember very well that that was why —because the right hon. Lady's Government, even in those days, did not have the courage to take the necessary action —I had to go to the IMF within a month of taking office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I was not aware that the right hon. Lady would misuse history in this way I have not come prepared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "uation which required action. Everyone knew in 1964, including the Conservative Government Front Bench—although I do not think that the right hon. Lady was a member of that Cabinet —that action was needed. But they waited until after the General Election. Perhaps they hoped they would win and take action or perhaps they were leaving it to us. The Tory Government's record is nothing to be proud of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knox", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knox", "preceding_text": "noon would have rid the country of an unpopular divisive measure. That would have been a real step towards national unity, and I regret that the right hon. Gentleman did not take it, although I hope that he may yet do so. There are concessions to be made from this side as well. I recognise that, although apparently some Labour Members do not recognise that they have a contribution to make as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-24", "file": "debates1976-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd1c86fd0473c161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knox", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has gone away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knox", "preceding_text": " discussion to take place in England. Of course it is not surprising that there has not been much interest in this subject in England, because England is not directly affected. But it will be indirectly affected. For the English as much as for the Scots we must get devolution right. There is no point in pretending that Scottish nationalism does not exist or that if it does it will somehow go away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-24a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-25", "file": "debates1976-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8de99527f0babba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-25a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "ourse, the policy decisions must be kept private. We accept that. However, there is no reason why we should not see the preparatory work. In view of what the Prime Minister said about wanting an open debate on education, we must have the material to carry it through. Despite the right hon. Lady's soothing words, we do not detect a great deal of urgency in the Government's approach to this problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-25a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-25", "file": "debates1976-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8de99527f0babba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-25a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "eth House, just as I view the consequential announcement that, within the hierarchy of the Department of Education, a deputy secretary is to be charged with responsibilities both for science and libraries and for the arts. Taking those steps together with the culpability of the Government in failing to support the Public Lending Right Bill, we are forced to the conclusion that a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-25a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-25", "file": "debates1976-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8de99527f0babba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-25a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Lee Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Lee Williams", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend, but I did not mean it in any personal way. As a former Parliamentary Private Secretary of his. I know of his immense qualities. I believe that he was one of the most successful Secretaries of State for Defence since Winston Churchill. However, I also believe that his period as Chancellor is open to some legitimate intellectual criticism, but I do not put that in any personal way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-25a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-25", "file": "debates1976-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8de99527f0babba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-25a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "preceding_text": "rett) said about education. It ties in with what I have said about democracy and the nationalised industries. I do not think that we shall ever achieve full industrial recovery until our education system sheds its class bias. Why, for example, should a doctor— or for that matter, a lawyer—be accorded higher social status than an engineer? Britain is the only country where such a situation obtains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-25a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-25", "file": "debates1976-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8de99527f0babba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-25a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "t is money. A third is the fact that we need, after all the reorganisation of the National Health Service and other upheavals, a period of consolidation. My hon. Friend the Member for Lichfield and Tamworth (Mr. Grocott), who has sent me a note explaining his absence, referred to some of the difficulties of reorganisation. I must say that I agreed with him. The cost to the National Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-25a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-25", "file": "debates1976-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8de99527f0babba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-25a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "ought to be a complete reshaping of our social security system. Those who think that we need a complete overhaul should remember that this is precisely what the Government have done in respect of contributory benefits. The introduction in 1978 of the new pension scheme will, I believe, be a historic reform which will go down as one of this Government's greatest achievements. It was a major reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-25a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman accept that the Scottish National Party also realises the benefit of human and material resources, and that is why we want them put to the service of Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Forced labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "I do not have quite so low an opinion of my constituents as the hon. Gentleman does, but I agree that there may be a problem on the margin. I am quite prepared to face that challenge when it comes. I shall tell the Government exactly what they should do. They should reduce the level of unemployment benefit for those who will not work and substantially increase the remuneration for those who will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It certainly would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "taxes above 50 per cent., which is pretty crazy and virtually confiscatory. I am not asking the Government to move in one step to the abolition of all taxes over 50 per cent.—I only wish they would—but if they brought in a scheme under which anyone could put a top slice of his income into a new company for the development of new products—the phrase \"new company\" would have to be carefully defined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": " and commerce. In this coming year, I ask the Government to listen to the people and to serve them. There are vast groups of law-abiding individuals out there, whether in business or in private affairs, who wonder what kind of society we are now living in. The self-employed and small businesses, for example, are hedged in with an almost mind-bending myriad of ever-increasing rules and regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "f the small man—the Conservative Party—first introduced such a concept. These rules and regulations, this red tape and bureacracy, are holding this country back. An example is the new safety at sea regulations for fishermen. At heavy expense, a mass of relatively trivial and impractical rules and regulations are being forced on the fishermen, and they are making my local fishermen extremely angry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.575.5", "colnum": "575", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ll be terribly confused when they find that they have to elect the community council—which the Tory Party has created—the district council, the county council, a council for the whole of Wales, and the House of Commons. In addition, this year we shall be considering a Bill directly electing people to the EEC. In Europe we can see a great growth in bureaucracy. Socialism wants to avoid bureaucracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.575.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "context, I include the self-employed. Shops are standing empty all over the place and the centres of some towns are indeed depressing sights. The Government should make a real contribution towards helping the self-employed. They deserve support. But instead of help they are now getting high taxation, high rates, high interest rates, high national insurance contributions and monumental bureaucracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.601.0", "colnum": "601", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "preceding_text": "ployment in manufacturing industry is highly questionable. If the right hon. Gentleman will allow me one more moment, may I say that between 1971 and 1973 production in manufacturing industry in Britain increased by 11 per cent., which is a very good record. Productivity increased by 14 per cent. Would the right hon. Gentleman care to comment on what the OECD said in its report on Sweden for 1975—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "read the Press day by day and find out what is happening. We know that the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster telephones the editors, and that the Prime Minister sniffs the wind and Roes where the numbers are. We read in the Sun this morning that the Prime Minister is not certain whether he will support the Chancellor of the Exchequer because he is drawn towards the other members of the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "hip. But I have a feeling that, even if the Tories were to take over, the civil aircraft industry, the merchant shipbuilders and some of the ship repairers in assisted areas would remain in public ownership. I suppose what would happen is that the Tories would quickly hand over guided missiles and would hand back to private industry the building of warships because they are the profitable sectors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reply to the debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "e the profitable sectors—[ Interruption .] The hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) should remember that he is a Whip and should not interrupt. Whips are appointed to sit quietly in the corner, and that is exactly what should happen. I was interested the other day to read a pamphlet written by the hon. Member for Oswestry. It was based on a speech he made to the Tory Party conference on 6th October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.610.2", "colnum": "610", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman clearly did not check what I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "VALUE ADDED TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "rets, the best that we know in the House is what is set out in paragraph 9 of the Explanatory Memorandum—namely that \"there is likely to be no obligation on the United Kingdom to require returns from small traders in this country whose annual turnover does not exceed £5,000\". In the course of an exchange between the two Front Benches, if I understood it correctly, that figure was raised to £6,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.634.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-11-29", "file": "debates1976-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d67d0d75773c0946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.651.8", "colnum": "651", "heading": "BROADCASTING (JOINT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Lords Message of 25th November relating to the Joint Committee of both Houses to consider the implementation of the Resolutions of both Houses in favour of the establishment of a permanent system of sound broadcasting of their proceedings, be now considered.—[ Mr. Walter Harrison. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-29a.651.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.679.4", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "That is what I am attempting to do. The average amount paid in an exceptional needs payment was, as I said, about £18, and one cannot buy many television sets, black and white or colour, for that sum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.679.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.699.3", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "The third assurance is this. I take this, too, from the Prime Minister's speech. There must be proper rewards for skill and for responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.699.3", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "The third assurance is this. I take this, too, from the Prime Minister's speech. There must be proper rewards for skill and for responsibility. [Interruption.] I add to that proper rewards for hard work and enterprise. Last night my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Withington (Mr. Silvester) quite rightly spoke of a widespread feeling of depression—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) must know this very well. I was on Merseyside only last weekend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "t he reads in Labour Weekly. As so often happens in that publication, the report is a complete fabrication. Let me deal with the merits of the hon. Member's argument. What has been happening to employment on Merseyside? Unemployment has doubled and more than doubled on Merseyside under this Government. What prospects are there of any further growth in employment on Merseyside under their policies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.713.2", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " the unprecedented uncertainties of the coming year. That is particularly true of the countries which I mentioned earlier to which the rest of the world must look if we are to ensure that the world recovery does not spend its force even before it is properly under way. I speak of the United States, Germany and Japan. We have, however, some special problems and I would like to mention some of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "David Holmes: We've been through cuts before. Don't you remember the last Labour Chancellor that put on cuts, Roy Jenkins? They didn't hurt that much. Let me tell the right hon. Lady to take the advice of the right hon. Member for Sidcup, who pointed out to her at Brighton that cuts do hurt, that civil servants have wives and families, too. To pretend in public on television that the sort of cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS>: \"Shame\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "Government and Opposition Benches must accept some of the blame. The fact is that the Government and the Opposition will not extend pairing facilities to Members who do not take their Whips. Last week, for example, my hon. Friend the Member for Inverness (Mr. Johnston) and the hon. Member for Moray and Nairn (Mrs. Ewing) had to leave their places in the European Assembly to come back here to vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "ccept part of the blame for this. This continued last night at the summit meeting in the Hague when an argument took place between our Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of France about the possible devaluation of the green pound. For the EEC it does not make economic sense that such a massive amount A Community taxpayers' money should be used in supporting cheap food imports into this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr.J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ut this much can be said already, and ought to be said; and perhaps I am personally entitled to say it against the background of the experience to which I have referred. Never, in my judgment, since the war has the control of public expenditure been exercised with the courage, the determination and the consistency which has been shown in recent months by this Administration and this Treasury team.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman opposite who would not be ashamed to say that that was the public expenditure that he meant. Nor does he mean that it is public expenditure that will be financed by money created out of nothing in order to secure a transfer of resources from the rest of the community on the most unjust and unreasonable system possible, that of inflation. There is no hon. Gentleman opposite who would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will await what I shall say in due course, he will know what we shall do. But the Bill will not be considered until a fortnight's time. That is true. I could devote the whole of my speech to describing our policy, but I shall not do so. But it is only fair to the House, since a number of hon. Members have mentioned the subject, that I make some comments about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It is a matter for the people of the United Kingdom as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.830.3", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Chipping Barnet (Mr. Maudling) made a very good speech if I may say so without losing the support of the right hon. Member for Down, South. The right hon. Lady said that the only matter over which her Government—which she frequently now disowns—quarrelled with the trade unions was statutory incomes policy. But if I remember rightly there was a little trouble over the Industrial Relations Act 1971.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.841.4", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE SURCHARGE", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Sheldon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Sheldon)", "preceding_text": "a surcharge— ( a ) payable together with the contribution by every person who pays or is liable to pay such a contribution; and ( b ) equal in every case to 2 per cent. of the amount of the earnings in respect of which the contribution is paid or payable. The House will recall that the Chancellor's statement on 22nd July dealt with a number of reductions in public expenditure and the introduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.841.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE SURCHARGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "We must also bear in mind the higher prosperity in many of the countries that I have mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-11-30", "file": "debates1976-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "a31278a3cb44a511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE SURCHARGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "t agree with them. My hon. Friend the Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Sillars) and many others are concerned about the employment effects of any tax. All I say about the employment effects is that calculations are not easy to conclude with any degree of certainty. I cannot bring myself to restate some of the estimates that I have seen, including the 10,000 jobs figure which has been quoted tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-11-30a.867.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (THE HAGUE MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ss, security of sources and that sort of question. But we have not reached that point yet. Third, on the question of further large loans from the Community, they were neither asked for nor offered and there is no question—certainly on yesterday's discussions—of the Community being involved in any direct sense. As for the right hon. Lady's rather cheap point about saving ourselves by our exertions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (THE HAGUE MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Prime Minister on his quick reading of an empty communiqué. It was brilliant. As I always take an objective view about the Common Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.928.3", "colnum": "928", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (THE HAGUE MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at they wished to raise. As we all know, the Press is not necessarily disinterested on these occasions. The attack was made not on the British green pound policy but on the system of monetary compensatory arrangements. At the present time, eight out of the Nine are affected by these compensatory payments in one way or another, either as net givers or net receivers. Only one country—Denmark—is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.928.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "hip owner, are in the business of maintaining our own ships. I am just writing to you to ensure that the record is straight and I would like to confirm that during the financial year ended 29th September, 1973, the situation was as laid out in our letter to you of 29th September, 1976. Back came a letter from the Government in which they claim the right to conceal the facts and mislead Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.970.2", "colnum": "970", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have lost it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might get on with my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.970.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.970.2", "colnum": "970", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were hushed up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might get on with my argument. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You have lost it.\"] The argument is not lost. As Sydney Smith said, we are obviously arguing from different premises. We are on different sides of the House if not on different sides of the street. These facts were known by people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.970.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "his Bill. To advance the argument that the Lords have exceeded their constitutional duties, coming from him, is hardly honest and is not in keeping with his understanding of the constitutional position of the other place. Yet he dared to come here and sneer at the Lords because they gave the Commons, the Press and the public the opportunity to rethink the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.990.5", "colnum": "990", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "ay—that the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill should be reported upon by the Examiners—is a clear statement, and it would have been helpful if the Leader of the House had been so forthcoming when he opened the debate. It did not need the skilful arguments of my right hon. and learned Friend and my hon. Friend to establish that this was a hybrid Bill, because it was already stated to be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.990.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.990.5", "colnum": "990", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "should receive as a hybrid Bill. Certain procedures and institutions of the House have been dispensed with. It is a remarkable day in the House of Commons when we are told to rush a Bill through, and dispense with all the recognised institutions of the House. I protest most strongly that we should be asked at this stage to do this just because the Government are determined to get the Bill through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.990.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Had\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont", "preceding_text": "ill which, by any logic, should be inside the Bill. We are opposed to nationalisation and we are not saying that any more companies should be included. I do not want to get them in the Bill. All we are saying is that at present the Bill is imperfect. It is unfair, arbitrary and not in accordance with the traditions of the House. The Leader of the House has a reputation as a defender of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "It has taken the right hon. Gentleman a good deal longer to get to his semi-colon and give way to me than it took for me to get to mine and to give way to him. The right hon. Gentleman is wrong about this matter, which is perhaps not unsual, though regrettable. This is a hybrid Bill. The fact that the Examiners have got it under their jurisdiction makes it a hybrid Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same hybrid Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "wered in great detail. I think that certain noble Lords professed not to be satisfied. But the Bill was not referred to the Examiners in another place, and no move was made to do so. This is the same Bill generally and in particular as regards the ship repair definition as was introduced into this House a year ago and as was introduced into another place in the summer. It is the same Bill as fell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was hushed up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " able to defend their individual interests. Of course they have. There have been more opportunities in this than in any Bill presented to the House since the war. If hon. Members opposite did not raise some of the questions for more than a year, it is their fault and not ours. When the question of hybridity was raised last time by the hon. Member for Tiverton we were faced with a unique situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Canterbury has not got the facts correct. The authorities of the House have not pronounced that the Bill is hybrid. They have said that, in their view, it should be regarded as a prima facie case of hybridity. They apply the rule as they have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "eferring the Bill to the Committee, we said that the case for doing that was that it was a unique situation. For the first time in our history the matter was being raised after the whole Committee stage had been completed. Far from that being an attack on or an invasion into the rights of the House, what we propose and what we proposed last time amounted to a protection of the rights of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "bish.\"] I know that hon. Members opposite do not care much about the protection of the House, particularly when their property interests are involved. They do not care about protection at all. I know that they do not care about the protection of the rights of majorities in this House. But I say that when a Bill, for the first time in our history, has been through such long procedures as this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1005.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1005.5", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Lord President.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1005.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Gladstone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "d deal under the Parliament Act with matters that come from the other place. The hon. Member for Colne Valley said that it was improper to truncate debate as is proposed in the motion. He criticised me for citing the case of Lord Salisbury. I cited that case because it was apposite. He explained how the House of Lords should deal with measures that had been put to the country in party manifestoes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "at about Gladstone?\"] I will not go back to Gladstone, but let us look at Asquith. They were great defenders of parliamentary liberty, but the Conservatives did not defend liberties then, nor are they doing so today. They are defending their property interests. I hope that the Liberal Party will save themselves from the humiliation of siding with those who shouted down Mr. Asquith in the old days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1055.4", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Evans", "preceding_text": "I was saying before the Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1055.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "preceding_text": " it is being squeezed out of existence. During the past two years, its labour force has dropped by 50 per cent., from 2,600 to 1,300. This small unit on the periphery of the British aerospace industry will fail if it is not nationalised. I speak tonight on behalf of the management and the workers—the shop stewards' committee—of Scottish Aviation, because I can tell my Scottish nationalist Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Industry (Mr. Gerald Kaufman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Industry (Mr. Gerald Kaufman)", "preceding_text": "rom the workers' representatives that this Bill should be urgently enacted. My hon. Friend the Member for Westhoughton (Mr. Stott) has given me a letter from the workers' representatives at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics at Lostock. That far from revolutionary publication Lloyds List yesterday devoted much of its front page to such demands. Workers' representatives on Tyneside, Merseyside and Clydeside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I know what the hon. Gentleman wishes to intervene about, and I shall come to that. Mr. James Ramsey, the boilermakers' Clyde delegate-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1087.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1088.7", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "y) accuses me of telling a deliberate lie. On my word of honour. I have told the truth. The shop stewards may have wrongly informed me. I am not saying that they have wrongly informed me but that they may have done so. However, the statement that I have made to the House tonight is absolutely true. The shop stewards told me that neither of the Members for Sunderland had ever asked for their views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1088.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grylls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grylls", "preceding_text": "e and rather expensive address which it shares with the National Enterprise Board. If the members of the committee are nesting in Lord Ryder's office, how much rent are they paying him? We do not know that, but we do know that a great deal of this money is being spent on salaries. Certainly these salaries are not chicken feed. The Chairman, Admiral Sir Anthony Griffin, is receiving £23,300 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1101.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "ant question when he replies to the debate. Why did he not make honest men of these retired admirals and others? Why did not the Government take the 95 per cent. of the loaf in their grasp and then introduce a short, sharp Bill to add ship repairing afterwards? Was it because they knew that trouble was coming in the shipbuilding industry and they wanted to pin the fault for that on the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1107.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1121.7", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "PROCEDURE (SESSIONAL COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the matters of the calling of second amendments, the method of raising points of order during divisions, voting on Opposition motions on Supply days and motions relating to the Business of the House which direct the Chair to bring specified business to a conclusion at certain times, be referred to the Sessional Committee on Procedure.—[ Mr. Walter Harrison .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1121.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-01", "file": "debates1976-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a2063a2199fba6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1121.11", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "SOUND BROADCASTING (JOINT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Lords Message of 25th November relating to the Joint Committee of both Houses to consider the implementation of the Resolutions of both Houses in favour of the establishment of a permanent system of sound broadcasting of their proceedings, be now considered.—[ Mr. Walter Harrison .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-01a.1121.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is giving only a partial account of the liquidity and taxation position of industry. As I pointed out in my rather long, and perhaps, boring speech in reply to the Queen's Speech last Wednesday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1158.2", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "from speeches must be looked at against their background. I feel that strongly because I sympathised so much with the right hon. Lady when the accent was drawn on the difference between, as I understand it, \"I will never speak to the right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath) again,\" and, \"I will not speak to that man ever again.\" Of course there is a distinction when one considers these quotations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1165.2", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I remind the Lord President that unless he changes the rules Christmas Day will fall as usual on 25th December. Therefore, does he think it possible to look a little further ahead than he usually does and tell us when the House will go into recess and when we shall return after Christmas? That would be for the convenience of all Members of the House. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1167.1", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Of course it is necessary and right that organisations throughout the country should have an opportunity of making their representations, but this is a very short Bill, and we offered a rearrangement of business that could have assisted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1167.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Speaker, for expressing myself so maladroitly. I was seeking to put it to you that it would be for the convenience of the House, which is, I think, possibly a matter in which you are interested, if we could secure some understanding as to how this matter is proceeded with. At the moment, next week's business is in a state of indecision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1172.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "ite. In fact, I am surprised that the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Sproat) is not here with some of his proposals to deal with the situation. I am dealing with people who can afford to face whatever difficulties may follow from this legislation. I ask the House to treat this matter very seriously. I honestly believe that there are times when things like this bring the House into disrepute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1186.3", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hospital porters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "hat about 70,000 may be registered as unemployed in 1977. Of these about 40,000 are likely to be receiving unemployment benefit. We estimate that about 16,000, or 40 per cent., are likely to be affected by the provisions in the Bill because their occupational pensions exceed £25. That means that 16,000 will be affected, out of a total of 2·7 million over 60. Who will these 16,000 people be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1190.3", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "nt benefit was intended to do, there was an overlap between the two. That was the unanimous view of the National Insurance Advisory Committee, with one honourable exception—Lord Collison. The Committee also drew attention, even then, to several instances in the national insurance scheme where payments of unemployment benefit were already affected by payments made by an employer or former employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INSURANCE OFFICER'S DECISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "AN HON MEMBER: \"You will need more than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "who have joined the Tory Right Wing movement in the universities in the last six months. We shall tell them that the Tories had an opportunity to defeat the Bill but that they did not take it. I telephoned Cambridge at lunchtime and urged the Liberal candidate to put a leaflet out to the students of Cambridge this afternoon telling them how the Tories in this House were supporting us on this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INSURANCE OFFICER'S DECISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "n our reasoned amendment this evening—as they certainly would be if the Tories were here in numbers—there would be nothing at all, as the hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Mr. Mikardo) said, to prevent the Government bringing in a new Bill without these clauses and putting it through on the nod within weeks. Such a Bill could go through the House without a great deal of opposition and effort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1294.1", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INSURANCE OFFICER'S DECISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "In a sense I am trying to meet the will of the House. I have not conceded the principle of Clause 4. I have said that we shall discuss the principle. We are proceeding with the Bill because it is a Government Bill to which we are committed. In consequence, what I am trying to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1301.6", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "preceding_text": "It is necessary to consider the Money Resolution with care because within it there is a provision that there should be a payment out of money provided by Parliament for administrative expenses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1301.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MARKETING STRUCTURES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for coming to the House to explain the contents of these four regulations, but I became extremely concerned when, at the end of his speech, I heard him talking about the future of the marketing boards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-02", "file": "debates1976-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d496534b689072b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MARKETING STRUCTURES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "nted. Once we start to give way over the matter of statutory marketing boards within the Community, I believe that it will put the rest of the system of statutory marketing boards in jeopardy and, in particular, we shall put that magnificent organisation the Milk Marketing Board in danger. The Milk Marketing Board does more good to producers and consumers in Britain than any other statutory board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-02a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-06", "file": "debates1976-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "8731d2b9d5ac118a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-06a.147.6", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE SURCHARGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "set in terms of the cost of public expenditure. Secondly, social security benefits which are linked to prices will be increased because of the small price effect of the tax. Unemployment pay will also rise because of the increase in unemployment, although this will be very small because, as the hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell) conceded, the increase in unemployment will be about 10,000 jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-06a.147.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-06", "file": "debates1976-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "8731d2b9d5ac118a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-06a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE SURCHARGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "t over the past 10 or 20 years the profitability of industry has not been as high as it should have been. The concern expressed in the debate, is that next year when the tax is introduced it will have a very adverse effect on the profitability of industry. My point was that the profitability of industry next year will show a healthy increase as a result of many measures which have been introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-06a.150.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-06", "file": "debates1976-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "8731d2b9d5ac118a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-06a.156.4", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE SURCHARGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, I must say to the Minister of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-06a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, I have stood up exactly 10 times during this Question Time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.225.9", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady help the House to understand the examination system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.225.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.232.9", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may tell the hon. Gentleman and the House again that the word \"deceive\" when applied to any right hon. or hon. Member is an unparliamentary expression, because it implies a deliberate act of deceit. The hon. Gentleman will know that the English language is rich enough for him to be able to express himself equally colourfully and yet to be in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.232.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "I am sure, Mr. Speaker, that the Prime Minister wished only to mislead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (BUSINESS MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I am disturbed about the principle raised by the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (BUSINESS MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman is a typical lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (BUSINESS MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman is a typical lawyer. [ Interruption. ] He said that we did wrong and that they did wrong. But we did wrong once and they did wrong twice. We remember what happened to the Industial Relations Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL (BUSINESS MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should notice that there are matters other than ship repairing. We should like to discuss the position of guided weapons manufacturers, because that issue has not yet been discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, his second speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "preceding_text": "It is my pleasure to congratulate the hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Hodgson) on his maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ut ship repairing only as a sideline. For example, the ship-repairing companies of British United Trawlers Group were mainly engaged in carrying out repairs to the group's own trawler fleet and their facilities consisted of slipways used for this purpose. It was decided that public ownership of these companies would not be relevant to the Government's plan for a coherent strategy for the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "ease over the next few years by from 20,000 to 24,000. Of the 24,000 jobs, about 18,000 are expected to be in development areas. I hope that the next time the hon. Gentleman comes along with a prepared speech he will at least have it prepared by someone apart from himself. I am informed that there are in the House tonight expert preparers of speeches. We could even send them to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.375.4", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "al and important benefits. It will contribute to the well-being of those who work in the industries by allowing them to make their full contribution to their success. In turn, the performance of each industry will improve immeasurably if the skills, energies and enthusiasm of those who work in it are fully harnessed. As a result, our industrial wealth will be increased. Efficiency follows consent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ruling on hybridity has offered this House a chance of making that correction. It was the judgment of the Leader of the House, supported by his right hon. Friends, that the House should be deprived of that opportunity. We would be foolish to suppose that the story can rest there. I believe that the Leader of the House will bear a fairly heavy responsibility when the full story of the Bill is told.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I think we would all feel that this debate would be elevated if those who make such accusations from a sedentary position, and in the security of the House, would say who was doing the bribing and who was in receipt of such bribes. Having said this inside the House, they should say it outside as well, as this would lead to a better level of public debate. I quote from an editorial in The Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ast Friday I met the same group, but I made it plain that I was not having consultations. I said that I called only to inquire what was going on and whether they wanted a meeting with my hon. Friend and myself. They said that they did, and I assured them that I would put their request through the trade union usual channels. In fact we discussed many matters, but we did not discuss nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.389.2", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": " their heads and addressed meetings of the workers at the yards. The main arguments—again I warn my hon. Friend the Minister of State—were about decentralisation and participation. Again I warn my hon. Friend that these are real issues now. They are real issues because under the present yard agreements the workers at Austin and Pickersgill are far and away the highest paid workers in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.389.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am protecting the industry. I will show this to the Minister later on. The document continues: \"(i) The British Government (and a Labour one at that) breaking its word … about continuing support, particularly military, for the Gulf States. (ii) A fear of unions and of their increasing hold over the British Government, leading to genuine fear for the latter's stability.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "'s stability.\" [ Interruption ]. I do not know whether this was the way in which democratic industrial consultations were conducted at Austin and Pickersgill Ltd., but perhaps that was why it was so difficult for a Member of Parliament to hear anything except a jabber. I continue my quotation: (iii) A limited understanding of democratic processes and of the changes that are taking place in the UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.394.5", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "s: (iii) A limited understanding of democratic processes and of the changes that are taking place in the UK, especially since the demise of the British Empire—\". The Under-Secretary is giggling, but this is an assessment of why sales are lost. The hon. Gentleman is giggling about the loss of an order which will mean the loss of jobs. He may go down well at an idiotic Left-wing rally, but not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.394.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ce being attached to the news and views purveyed by the Press and the BBC Arabic Services. (v) Disillusionment with British economic policies—as witnessed by the fall in the value of the pound (which realy hurts) and the excessive inflation. (vi) A naive acceptance of American views that the UK is a 'write-off ' and that all new and worthwhile inventions/innovations/developments stem from the USA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"How do we know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "mber for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) before the irrelevant and time-wasting intervention of the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Leadbitter), the remainder of the memorandum concerns a complex series of comparisons between the products of the company concerned and those of rivals. That is why I do not wish to quote the memorandum in full. Those comparisons are not relevant to this argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " in full. Those comparisons are not relevant to this argument. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"How do we know?\"] The hon. Gentleman will be able to discover that from Ministers when I have given them the references to the memorandum and told them whence it came. Ministers can make their inquiries of the company and tell their hon. Friends if they think it is fit for them to hand out such commercial information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.396.4", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " same technique whether their noses are being rubbed in unpalatable facts by me or by the hon. Member for Rochdale. These are the same yah-boo tactics which preceded the takeover by nasty people in other countries in Europe in the past. The Bill has been defective in its technical form ever since it was first brought to the House. It clearly does not have the support of the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-07", "file": "debates1976-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "75d8da147c12cb1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Suggested Amendments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "preceding_text": "We can make a judgment of what happens in another place. I see that the hon. Member for Rochdale is back in his place. He said of my right hon. Friend for Sunderland, North \"Who is he?\". I ask the hon. Member to come to Sunderland, not in secret as he did before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-07a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-08", "file": "debates1976-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "aa2dd2c1d6a1efd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "intain a strong public sector programme in 1977, and the figures have already been given. With regard to interest rates, here again one would imagine from the question that interest rates had never gone up before. When the hon. Gentleman's party came to office in 1970, interest rates, as I recall, were at 6 per cent. When the Conservative Government left office, interest rates were at 11 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-08", "file": "debates1976-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "aa2dd2c1d6a1efd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "The Minister's reply is not good enough. It is now a long time since the House of Lords' decision in Vandyk v. Oliver. It is seven weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-08", "file": "debates1976-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "aa2dd2c1d6a1efd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "The Minister's reply is not good enough. It is now a long time since the House of Lords' decision in Vandyk v. Oliver. It is seven weeks—[HON. MEMBERS : \"Ask a question.\"] It is seven weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-08", "file": "debates1976-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "aa2dd2c1d6a1efd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.440.5", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "May I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that he should avoid rhetoric in this matter? This is a highly legalistic and complex matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.440.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-08", "file": "debates1976-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "aa2dd2c1d6a1efd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker", "preceding_text": "From what has been said by the hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. van Straubenzee), anyone would think that hon. Members have had only since the Second Reading to table amendments. That is not so. Amendments could have been tabled from the time of the publication of the Bill. There was a motion on the Order Paper to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-08", "file": "debates1976-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "aa2dd2c1d6a1efd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "pt that an increase in VAT would probably have had far more impact on unemployment than will this measure. I would have preferred the Government to find a less blunt instrument that would not hit employment across the whole country irrespective of the needs and handicaps of specific regions such as Merseyside. I did not vote against the Bill on Monday night and I shall not vote against it tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-08", "file": "debates1976-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "aa2dd2c1d6a1efd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "nd Reading. They oppose this Bill and have voted against it. The Bill does not comprise their kind of cut. The Conservatives have put forward alternatives—and they are alternatives which I would not tolerate in any circumstances from a Labour Government. The Government will bring forward a measure to increase charges in the National Health Service. and in no circumstances will I support that move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-08a.576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-09", "file": "debates1976-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b4488f55176885a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman provides any help for my right hon. Friend when he talks about the massive charity that we are getting from Brussels. My right hon. Friend has made it very clear that in many ways we are having to pay higher costs for food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-09", "file": "debates1976-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b4488f55176885a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.619.3", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Getting back to the subject of devolution, as the Prime Minister has a comparatively light day will he send an answer to the Shetland Islands Council in response to its excellent letter on this subject? Will he let us know what his answer will be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.619.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-09", "file": "debates1976-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b4488f55176885a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.619.4", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In reply to shouted comments from the Opposition that I should know the figure for the loan, of course I know it. But I am afraid that hon. Members opposite will have to contain their impatience. I always thought that there was a tradition of individual hon. Members asking questions, and not a Greek chorus. Of course they would much prefer it to be a Greek tragedy.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.619.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-09", "file": "debates1976-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b4488f55176885a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend should not be in any confusion about this. He was present when I read a statement to the National Executive Committee at Blackpool. He commented on it at the time, so he knows exactly what the position is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-09", "file": "debates1976-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b4488f55176885a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "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 do not know whether that is a Roland for an Oliver, or a Skinner for a Taylor. I thank my hon. Friend for his helpful question, which I am sure has given a great deal of comfort elsewhere. I suggest that we have some talks about this privately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-09", "file": "debates1976-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b4488f55176885a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "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 do not know whether that is a Roland for an Oliver, or a Skinner for a Taylor. I thank my hon. Friend for his helpful question, which I am sure has given a great deal of comfort elsewhere. I suggest that we have some talks about this privately. [ Interruption. ] We will not meet in a bedsitters, but in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-09", "file": "debates1976-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b4488f55176885a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "an Oliver, or a Skinner for a Taylor. I thank my hon. Friend for his helpful question, which I am sure has given a great deal of comfort elsewhere. I suggest that we have some talks about this privately. [ Interruption. ] We will not meet in a bedsitters, but in the House of Commons—[ Interruption. ] We will not meet in the House of Lords. I do not think that my hon. Friend would go there anyway.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-09", "file": "debates1976-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b4488f55176885a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.625.3", "colnum": "625", "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 take note of my hon. Friend's views. The Cabinet has reached its conclusion on the matter and it will be published in due course. What my hon. Friend said has been the subject of considerable discussion. One reason why I have not hurried these discussions to a conclusion is that they are of great importance. They go beyond even our own party interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.625.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-09", "file": "debates1976-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b4488f55176885a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "MR. J. GRAHAM DAY (RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "preceding_text": "he future of the industry saw its future safeguarded only by public ownership. Their experience of private ownership in the shipbuilding and ship repairing industry has included a situation of a work force of 24,000 being reduced to 3,000 on Merseyside alone. Will he take it from me that all workers in the ship repairing and shipbuilding industry are behind him on the question of public ownership?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-09a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-13", "file": "debates1976-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "95941d06a4069c49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-13a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Graham Day, before the Tory Party and the House of Lords forced him out of his job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-13a.952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-13", "file": "debates1976-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "95941d06a4069c49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-13a.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This is one of the problems engaging the Government's mind at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-13a.982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-13", "file": "debates1976-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "95941d06a4069c49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-13a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ment would vote on such an issue. If, representing the same constituency, there were two Members of a Scottish Assembly and one Member of the Parliament here and they had to veto what the Scottish Assembly had done, it would be a very difficult matter. Even though we have gone to Clause 45 we are not at the end of the conflict surrounding the subordination, the supervision or the veto. Clause 107—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-13a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-13", "file": "debates1976-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "95941d06a4069c49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-13a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " basis of conflict and will urge that more and more powers should be devolved. But always he will have to say, to make devolution meaningful, \"We must have more.\" One would finish with a structure that was totally different. There would be a far-reaching effect on the United Kingdom as a whole and on the authority of this legislature. One would have an entirely different legislature. We also find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-13a.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-13", "file": "debates1976-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "95941d06a4069c49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-13a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that hypothesis, for this reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-13a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-13", "file": "debates1976-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "95941d06a4069c49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-13a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "sis of the two centuries in which France led Europe. Bismark, for good or ill, created a powerful Germany. Abraham Lincoln waded through blood to produce the United States which is today the guardian of Western security. It may be said that our course is run, that if the Empire and the Commonwealth are dissolved, why should we not let the kingdom dissolve as well and opt out of any responsibility?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-13a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1165.5", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "It is not intended just for a defensive rôle, as the hon. Gentleman will know. But if a decision were taken not to proceed with the MRCA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have never found it difficult to agree with my hon. Friend the Member for West Stirlingshire (Mr. Canavan) on a great many problems, although not on absolutely every one. As for the contribution made yesterday by the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition, I am sure that she was satisfied with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1182.3", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I welcome the right hon. Lady's interest in the affairs of our National Executive Committee and the document published—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect to the right hon. Lady, the affairs of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tatcher", "preceding_text": "I know that the Prime Minister is no good at answering questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1184.2", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister none the less take this opportunity to make it clear that no British agents whatsoever have been involved in covert intelligence operations designed to influence the outcome of the Jamaican general elections?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1184.3", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not know why the Opposition find that so amusing. I do not think they would relish it if they thought that foreign agents were in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for her extremely well merited tribute to Ivor Richard, whose rôle in all this has, in my view, been decisive and conducted with great skill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1206.0", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1976–77", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I accept that this applies to the rest of the world. I have made that absolutely clear. The 46 of us who signed the amendment do not want today to agree to increase defence expenditure by more than £500 million and then have my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer deduct £100 million from that total tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1976–77", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": " the extent to which, and the effectiveness with which, the House has carried out is function of invigilating Supply has declined over the last two or three decades. There could be a number of reasons. Perhaps one is that we have a lot more to do today. There must be good causes and some bad causes for that. Whatever the reason, in the period since I first came here, rather more than 30 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1237.9", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1976–77", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ously run down. Secondly, I believe that the threat to our country is great and growing. Thirdly, I believe that if there are any further cuts we shall put at risk the Alliance, including our relationships with the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. The whole House knows that our forces—whether it be the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy or the Army—are now at a perilously low level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1237.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "That is what we are implementing in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "That is what we are implementing in this Bill. [ Interruption. ] That was in the party programme and election manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "at it has undoubtedly achieved a great deal, and even if what comes out at the end is far short of the independence that it seeks—and which it is entitled to seek and to continue to seek—it is nevertheless in its interest to show restraint and co-operation, because it is in the interest of us all that the new Assembly should work. From this Liberal Bench we will continue to argue the federal case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1332.1", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "preceding_text": "ncillors' names indicates that there are many of Scottish and Irish origin. The name of Keir Hardie has been mentioned from the Government Benches. Keir Hardie had to go to London to get to the House of Commons. When he lost his seat in London, he went to Aberdare and became the first Labour Member to represent the constituency that I now represent. If we are to consider the Kilbrandon Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1338.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made his point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1342.4", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": " mixed up with the emotional, nationalistic argument. The SNP, with its 11 Members, has prompted the great Labour Party to produce this ridiculous Bill. The hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) said that if we look at the reasons for discontent—oil and national identity—we see that there are many other parts of the United Kingdom which have greater cause to be discontented than Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1342.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1358.0", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "imply something soothing to spout at the hustings?—are under pressure from their constituents in Merseyside and Tyneside. People are saying\" The Scots are at it again\". There is a polarisation of attitudes in the House and the media, especially among cartoons. Labour Members who a year ago were lambasting the SNP are now criticising the Scots in general. That polarisation is profoundly depressing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": " one was \"the defeat of Japan\", and the second objective \"the establishment of a Scottish Parliament\". They have been a long time about it. I do not want to dwell on the number of about-turns and constant chopping and changing on the devolution issue which have characterised the Labour Party in recent years. Its mass conversion reminds me of the Chinese general who baptised his troops with a hose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-14", "file": "debates1976-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ca26a15ad19ff7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "I hope to see some amendments accepted in Committee, but I think that the Government have it just about right and that the Assembly, with some minor amendments, will be acceptable to the Scottish people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-14a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Incomes Policy", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who made it too heavy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "in the next Budget. If at the time I settle my Budget for 1977–78 I judge that without increasing the PSBR above £8middot;7 billion there is scope for tax reliefs and if, as I expect, a satisfactory agreement has been reached with the TUC and the CBI on the next pay round, then I propose to use the available margin to reduce the present burden of income tax, which I believe to be too heavy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1535.3", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "International Monetary Fund", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He must be mad.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "Dr. Witteveen, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, has told me that he supports both the economic strategy which I have described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1541.0", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Economic Prospects", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I shall respond to the rather tremulous attempt by the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1541.0", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Economic Prospects", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I shall respond to the rather tremulous attempt by the right hon. and learned Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I shall be able to answer when the right hon. and learned Gentleman tells us why he refused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1546.2", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Economic Prospects", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " poor proxy for the rate of domestic credit expansion, which we have chosen to adopt instead. However, in either case it is possible to have a rate of increase in money supply lower than the rate of increase in money GDP without necessarily increasing inflation. In final reply to the hon. Gentleman's point, the measures that I have announced this afternoon will generate more jobs than they remove.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1546.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1550.2", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Economic Prospects", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I hope that the right hon. Gentleman, who, I believe, at some point in his career was Secretary of State for Defence, is not seriously suggesting that any Minister should retail to the House views put to Ministers by the Chiefs of Staff. That would be a most extraordinary suggestion, and totally contrary to the practice of the House and the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Economic Prospects", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "reation schemes, this package will mean higher unemployment? How we can talk about continuing the support of working people when we are putting more and more of them on the dole, especially construction workers, I do not understand. Is my right hon. Friend aware that many of us on this side will regard this as a very depressing day for the Labour movement? He really ought to consider his position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I have already given way more than a dozen times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1572.3", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be able to make his own point in his own way in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1572.3", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "t of the United Kingdom. Whatever difficulty the economy of the United Kingdom faces, it will have its effects on Wales and Scotland in due course. An important feature of our scheme is that, following devolution, the offices of Secretaries of State for Wales and Scotland will remain in being. If there is unanimity on anything in Wales, it is on the need to retain the office of Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1578.1", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "al authorities for these matters. Indeed, that that is intended is implicit in any suggestion that one tier of local government will have to be eliminated if an Assembly comes into being. That proposal, freely advocated by the Secretary of State—as it was again this afternoon—must involve the removal of some powers from where they lie at present, with the county council, to an Assembly in Cardiff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-15", "file": "debates1976-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2489750bf2c23b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1671.1", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (SPEED LIMITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Whitehead", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Whitehead", "preceding_text": "ns. Therefore, to that degree the argument for the measure is diminished. If we are looking for a pattern of fuel consumption and also have in mind the shrinking supply of fossil fuels, we should consider very seriously indeed energy conservation in respect of motor vehicles. We should be considering the fact that eventually we shall have to deal with a form of petrol rationing for motor vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-15a.1671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1722.6", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I understand that yesterday the CBI had a Press conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1722.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1723.4", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady should not attach all that importance to forecasts which are bound to be inaccurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1723.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I admire the hon. Gentleman's ingenuity, but it has very little to do with my official engagements for today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "th respect, I shall make my own answer, and it is simply that I have no responsibility to the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Renton), either as Prime Minister or as First Lord of the Treasury, for these matters which concern the Labour Party—none at all. But I shall go on to say if I am pressed that certainly Conservatives will be able to recognise any Trotskyist—certainly Right-wing Trotskyites—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1740.5", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "rabia and Senegal. I say that not just because tests of opinion taken in Scotland indicate an aversion to separatism. I say it as a Scot myself, representing a Scottish constituency, born and brought up in Scotland, living and wishing to continue to live in Scotland, a member of a Scots profession, with children at Scottish schools, and having roots too deep in Scotland ever to wish to sever them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1740.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1743.1", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "r many hon. Members on both sides pressed for exact delineation of the devolved powers, to keep argument and uncertainty to a minimum. The right hon. Lady herself called for a legal basis and effective boundaries. That, I am sure, is the right objective. The United Kingdom is a complex, highly-developed, highly-integrated modern society, and public activity and law range over it in a host of ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1752.1", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "If ever I heard a Committee point, that is one. It would be better if the hon. Gentleman would come to the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1765.0", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "First, let me correct the hon. Gentleman on a matter of fact. This is not a question relating to the powers that Parliament has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is absurd.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "Of course it is a question whether it affects something on which Parliament alone has the power to legis- late, but my example was absolutely precise. This Parliament has the power to legislate in respect of time for England. That is a power which only this Parliament has. Therefore, if the Scottish Assembly chooses to legislate about time in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1773.4", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "embers of Parliament. Does the hon. Gentleman appreciate that there have been 17 years of Tory rule since the war, since I have been a Member here? For most of these years, Labour Members for Scotland have been in the majority, and yet we were in the minority in the Scottish Grand Committee and in the Scottish Standing Committee. Did we try to block legislation in a way that made a nonsense of it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1773.4", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ve to accept the limitations in order to get from this House the right to act in spheres in which at present the Secretary of State has the responsibility. It is not a new tier of government. The administration is already there. It is a new set of legislators. The administration, instead of being responsible to this House, will be responsible to an Assembly, but it is not a new tier of government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1812.1", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "We are all districts nowadays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1815.0", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the right hon. Gentleman has interrupted me. Allies as always—I am sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1821.3", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "ave them to other people. At present, I do not think these macroeconomic questions are within the control of this House. We have recently had IMF representatives over here helping us to sort these matters out. Therefore, let us put these things on one side when considering the issues of local significance. People have always had a desire to run their own affairs according to their own traditions.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1838.1", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Henderson", "preceding_text": " perspective of this situation in the international scene since the decision has now been taken to remain in the EEC. Many people in Scotland would ask how it could be argued that Scotland should be denied a direct voice and the power of veto in the EEC, when countries which are smaller than Scotland, such as Denmark, Luxembourg and Eire, have that right. Therefore, many of the previous arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1852.1", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, we are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "preceding_text": " Government was upon the question whether this House agreed in principle that Britain should join the EEC. On that occasion the Labour Party, in Opposition, had a three-line Whip. On Second Reading, both parties had a three-line Whip. I would not say that all the circumstances are the same, but certainly there are many similarities. We are not actually debating tonight the principle of devolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": " the people of Scotland, want that. We believe that Scotland is also vitally important to the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom needs Scotland and Wales and England and Northern Ireland. Almost the entire House, and certainly my party, finds it almost impossible to contemplate a United Kingdom without all its constituent parts. That is why the Conservative Party has been at pains for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "believe that Scotland is also vitally important to the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom needs Scotland and Wales and England and Northern Ireland. Almost the entire House, and certainly my party, finds it almost impossible to contemplate a United Kingdom without all its constituent parts. That is why the Conservative Party has been at pains for a long time—[ Interruption. ]—to find the best way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1859.1", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I am explaining what my party will do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1861.3", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "ament with the Bill and over the duration of this Government because of the political difficulties that they are getting into. We have a fluid and evolving situation in Scotland. In such circumstances and on a matter of such fundamental importance to the United Kingdom, it would be impossible and it would be irresponsible to detail at this stage exactly what would happen on a change of Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1862.1", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in one moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1865.1", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Let me say to my hon. Friend at once that if he thought there was anything misjudged or offensive in what I said, I apologise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1865.3", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I fully accept what my hon. Friend said. I shall come to his speech in a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1865.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Transkei.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend name any country in the world today which fits the description he has just given, that is, a country which is a nation but which has not proceeded to separate status as a State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1887.1", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT PRODUCTS (HEALTH REQUIREMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "ll turn away from the tremendous opportunities in the Community in this respect. The Association has told me that it believes it to be wrong to frame regulations for meat processing factories on the same basis as slaughterhouses and primary boning and cutting rooms under British meat regulations which we have already dealt with. I do not know who will deal with these matters in Brussels next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-16", "file": "debates1976-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b292a86f9ed51373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1895.3", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT PRODUCTS (HEALTH REQUIREMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "There is a strange humming noise in the House tonight which might attract the attention of the local environmental health officer if there is one on duty at such a late hour. The noise cannot be due to the hubbub of the assembled masses in the House. I rise only partly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-16a.1895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-17", "file": "debates1976-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "373d8f1a7d5f3e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-17a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "ties. That action by the Member for Antrim, North was not designed to instil confidence into the UDR. I listened carefully when the hon. Member for Antrim, North invited the right hon. Member for Bermondsey to go on tour with him to North Antrim. I can tell my right hon. Friend that it is a wild and mountainous part of the country and that it is not too safe even for Ministers to travel around in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-17a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-20", "file": "debates1976-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7651cc7fb6b68f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-20a.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Neither I nor any member of my Department ever promised an 8p or 8½p reduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-20a.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-20", "file": "debates1976-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7651cc7fb6b68f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-20a.4.1", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "on. Lady that I have some pleasure in knowing that, even according to the evidence supplied by her hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Montgomery), what I said last Monday is true. As a result of decisions which the Government took, in some shops bread will be cheaper than it would otherwise be. That seems to be absolutely my duty, and I am glad that I have continued to perform it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-20a.4.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-20", "file": "debates1976-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7651cc7fb6b68f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-20a.18.8", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "od it well. At a time when there needed to be substantial reductions in public expenditure, I took the view that there were many other candidates for cuts which I could justify much less easily than I could reduce in subsidy terms. I took that decision for two reasons. The first was that subsidies made only a marginal effect on the RPI, and I think that they now stand at about 0·4 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-20a.18.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-20", "file": "debates1976-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7651cc7fb6b68f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-20a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "No Conservative Government have applied for such a loan.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "etrays an innocence on the part of the hon. Member which he displays over a wide range of topics. These are the usual terms of loan from the IMF, and they have been applied to Governments of the hon. Member's own political complexion. An IMF loan either is or is not a begging bowl operation. If it is a begging bowl operation, it applies to Conservative Governments as well as to Labour Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-20a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-20", "file": "debates1976-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7651cc7fb6b68f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-20a.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "The keeping of massive numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-20a.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-20", "file": "debates1976-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7651cc7fb6b68f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-20a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that he does not live in the past. It is of little use coming to a debate as this and having all sorts of emotional—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-20a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-21", "file": "debates1976-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b48c8316bebbe06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I read the letter with very great interest. The Mole Valley Farmers rehearse a number of reasons for thinking that a National Government, led by me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.456.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1976-12-21", "file": "debates1976-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b48c8316bebbe06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "CIA.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-21", "file": "debates1976-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b48c8316bebbe06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Is not one of the problems of Prime Minister's Questions at the moment the poverty of intervention of the Leader of the Opposition, in that somewhat comic treble of hers, and would it not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-21", "file": "debates1976-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b48c8316bebbe06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": "I am sure that we must accept this delightful, sophisticated argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-21", "file": "debates1976-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b48c8316bebbe06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-21", "file": "debates1976-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b48c8316bebbe06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about private enterprise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "ans of which the Chancellor spoke last year for the ferrous foundry, the machine tools and the clothing industries, a total of £80 million was made available in August 1975. The final date for application is just about to pass by, and so far only £18 million out of the £80 million has been taken up. Less than £500,000 of the £20 million made available to the clothing industry has been applied for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-21", "file": "debates1976-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b48c8316bebbe06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "estraint. We need to get the good will and understanding of the people that work in this country whether they are trade unionists or not. We should not underestimate the reserve of good will and patriotism among the people at work in this country. If necessary, we should say to the leaders of the trade unions that we expect them to appeal over the heads of the militants in the district committees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-21", "file": "debates1976-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b48c8316bebbe06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "de unionists or not. We should not underestimate the reserve of good will and patriotism among the people at work in this country. If necessary, we should say to the leaders of the trade unions that we expect them to appeal over the heads of the militants in the district committees—[ Interruption. ]—to the general rank and file at work. If the leaders of the unions will not do it, we should do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-21", "file": "debates1976-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b48c8316bebbe06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "te the hon. Member for Cambridge (Mr. Rhodes James) on his maiden speech. It is perhaps ridiculous and superfluous to congratulate him, because it was no more and no less excellent than would have been expected from the author of one of the best books on modern British politics—not quite the best, because I think that the best was written by one of his hon. Friends on the Conservative Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-21", "file": "debates1976-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b48c8316bebbe06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Eric G. Varley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Eric G. Varley)", "preceding_text": "ane, who was highly respected on both sides of the House. The hon. Gentleman has taken on a difficult ask, and we wish him well. We also heard another interesting speech, which was repeatedly commented on by hon. Members on both sides of the House—that of my right hon. Friend the Member for Newham, North-East (Mr. Prentice). If I get time towards the end of the debate I may say something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-21", "file": "debates1976-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b48c8316bebbe06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.621.2", "colnum": "621", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": " situation has been transformed. Under the investment programme, there have been 80 major projects to provide over half the 42 million tons of the new capacity under the plan. These projects are financed up to the level of £750 million. The National Coal Board investment programme is running at more than £300 million over the next few years, and is providing jobs in British manufacturing industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-21a.621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-22", "file": "debates1976-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "664c5759823b5af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-22a.708.3", "colnum": "708", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "the European Parliament hardly qualify that institution for being called a parliament at all. However, it must be added that these may be regarded as early days and that, since the advent of the British delegation to it, especially of the Conservative and Labour Members who have been part of that delegation, a massive improvement has been brought about, and I have no doubt that this will continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-22a.708.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-22", "file": "debates1976-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "664c5759823b5af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-22a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "will provide for the same degree of inflation for which we have provided in the cash limit and will draw about £175 million from balances. I entirely accept, however, that there may be cases of individual authorities where, for example, there are no balances or where, as a result of the distribution proposals, the share of grant is reduced. In such cases increases in rates are likely to be higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-22a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-22", "file": "debates1976-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "664c5759823b5af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-22a.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "ious to make the system more sensitive than was the first model. The machinery of regression analysis, which has been used ever since the passing of the Conservative Government's Act, has been used again for very good reasons. For all its faults, it produces a pattern of distribution linked to expenditure needs. To what extent authorities of a particular political persuasion benefit is irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-22a.749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-22", "file": "debates1976-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "664c5759823b5af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-22a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "t deal of the point that authorities that have exceeded the base line for expenditure in the previous year are not in this rate support grant being specially penalised. I know the resentment that that causes to some people, but I wish that he and others who make this point would recognise the practical difficulties that any Minister from any party would face in attempting to impose such a penalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-22a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-23", "file": "debates1976-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "46286e90fae51543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-23a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It may be too long for the hon. Gentleman, but it is not too long for the British people to hear a little good news—and, as hon. Members will be aware, the CBI survey shows that the trends in terms of orders for exports in manufacturing industry and our domestic production are up. Whilst we look at the bad news, let us remember the rifts in the clouds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-23a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1976-12-23", "file": "debates1976-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "46286e90fae51543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-23a.905.3", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is true that the figure of unemployment is, sadly, higher than at any time for many years, but the right hon. Gentleman, even in the spirit of good will, cannot escape his share of responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1976-12-23a.905.3"}